Somehow I think I’ve managed to avoid getting death threats, beyond the “kill yourself” kind. If we count the “kys” bit, I got those whenever I played games online, but now it’s normally when I talk about communism with right-wingers.
Somehow I have made it this long on the internet without death threats
Right? Who gets death threats?
Minorities…
Honestly, you can get them for anything. My partner got multiple death threats for a post she made about soda one time. My best friend got tens of them for making a joke post on reddit about being able to fight a blackbear. Granted the common denominator for both of these was Reddit so maybe it’s just that.
Not liking a certain show viral in early 2010s
Which show which show?!
I’m gonna guess Game of Thrones
Last season was total ass fr fr
For OPSEC reasons can’t say
You could just tell us it was Octonauts.
This is probably the most obvious answer, but I beat them over and over in a videogame lmao
This is the only way to truly win a video game: the complete psychological destruction of your opponent
My husband worked on a GPLv3 project as a hobby and they blamed him for not addressing their concerns (because they didn’t pay him or anyone else on the project) and it was impacting their crypto-currency launch.
Yeah, literally everyone else was more reasonable than crypto-bros and it is why my husband gave up on that project entirely.
Completely fucking unhinged are all the people in the crypto-currency community. They never fund anything and go apeshit if everyone doesn’t do shitloads of free work for them.
I briefly made my Reddit profile picture one of my drawings of a coyote. I’m not a furry, I just like drawing animals. But apparently someone didn’t see it that way and messaged me suggesting that my face get intimate with their shotgun.
I reported their message, but all they got was a warning.
Like 10-15 years ago I took a screenshot from my pokemon game. I named my ditto “children” and then put it in the daycare center, so that when I went to pick him up the daycare lady says “If you want your children back, it will be $5000”.
As someone who had never watched the movie “Taken”, it was kind of unsettling to login to reddit the next day to find like five messages in my inbox saying some form of “I don’t know who you are but I will find you and I will kill you”.
Probably doesn’t fit the intent but thankfully those are the only examples I have.
I think you think these are more common than they are.
it’s only happened once to me that i recall, but the reason was pretty ridiculous. i told him i wasn’t allowed to mislabel his hot sandwich as a cold sandwich so that he could buy it with food stamps. he didn’t send me death threats, but he did shout them right there in the deli.
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I’m unsure because it was ages ago, but probably a mix of me being undiagnosed autistic them being undiagnosed something and telling them no I can’t give them free stuff at the job I was at.
They left when the manager came out. Manager asked if I needed a break because they heard the shouting.
I was mostly baffled.
Calling someone online by their IRL name.
Not sent, but I had an old guy follow me 5 minutes down the road and threaten to kill me to my face because I apparently bumped into him in a busy station.
