The following has come about because I started a subreddit opposed to a famous streamer called Vaush. He has a subreddit called r/VaushV, which has multiple sister subreddits such as r/tankiejerk and r/okbuddyvowsh. These are where most of this harassment originates. . I will detail 2 of the worst examples below:
There was a threat to rape me live for over 5 days. Both that subreddit’s moderators and the Reddit admins ignored my reports. That subreddit now openly blames me for making the threat with an ‘alt’ (another account belonging to me) to make them look bad. Both their moderators and the admins allow this. I am now known as a user who fakes rape threats.
A single user was allowed to make well over 200 posts and comments harassing me. They became so obsessed with me that their behaviour escalated to the point they faked three fake death threats (and blamed me publicly for them). I have documented, in detail, proof that these were faked. The admins know they were fake and finally suspended this user (as well as eventually removing that users posts about the ‘threats’). Despite this the admins, and many subreddit moderators, now allow other users to publicly blame me for sending these death threats (in huge numbers) so I am now known on Reddit as a user who sends death threats. Additionally a post documenting how the threats were faked was removed by admins on my subreddit. Meanwhile the admins allow post after post claiming I faked the rape threat mentioned above.
I have a word document 60 pages long filled with harassment I have documented.
The last message I had from the admins blamed me for this harassment, saying “(my) activity instigates drama.” The admins ignore 90%+ of my reports.
I know that the admins consider the content I’m reporting harassment based on admin actions in subreddits I moderate (subreddit mods can see admin actions). I have seen similar content removed (and been told by users that they have received warning/suspensions).
I suffer from a number of diagnosed mental health issues. These harassers found an old comment where I discussed them. A significant chunk of this harassment revolves around abusing me for this (calling me mentally ill etc).
I have made multiple posts in r/modsupport (a place for moderators to discuss issues like this with Reddit’s admins. The admins remove these posts within minutes every time
In desperation I recently made a post publishing all the harassment I have documented. This has made me acutely suicidal, and I stated as much on this post. One of my harassers screenshotted this part of the post and turned it into a meme to mock me. They posted it to multiple subreddits. Both these subreddits’ moderators and the Reddit admins ignored my reports. I was then permanently suspended from Reddit for ‘harassment’ for making this post. You can find an archived version here: https://archive.is/M8Byc
As you might imagine I'm feeling utterly exhausted by this experience, and incredibly angry. Reddit admins have actually wiped my account of all posts to try and cover this up (this is nto something they don’t typically do when suspending users). It's particularly upsetting to see those who have been harassing me incessantly for months celebrating my suspension today.
I can't speak for Screamo but my experience is that users engaging in this activity over on reddit lie to fuck and back. They are willing to misrepresent, spin, play bad faith games, and outright mislead. Every single word anyone ever says has to be thoroughly investigated because absolutely none of it can be taken on merit.
They thrive on the extremely reddit behaviour of taking the word of whatever they see upvoted as fact without investigating further. They use and abuse this as much as they possibly can. They create hordes of people who repeat the comments/posts they've seen upvoted previously which further compounds the issue, creating a mob that all says the same completely incorrect thing. They build a mob. They weaponise the crowd's naivity and point it as a weapon at a target.
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this behavior is older than the internet, ackshually