Hi,

I’m going through an extremely distressing situation, and I just wanted to reach out here in the hope that someone might have advice. For background, I (M20) cut ties over a year ago with a group of people I met online through gaming. We initially connected on Instagram and became close over the span of two years, sharing typical interests. Since we were all from around the same area, I became close with a few of them and hung out with them in real life. However, over time, I became uncomfortable with their increasingly “edgy” and discriminatory behavior. They often made offensive jokes, bullied others, and seemed to find humor in things I found inappropriate and not in line with my values at all. I realized that this wasn’t a good environment and decided I didn’t want to be associated with it. So, I chose to cut ties with this group and cut off contact permanently.

When I told them how I felt and that I didn’t want to be involved with them anymore, I was pretty blunt. I know it might sound pretty cliche but long story short I told them that their behavior was immature and getting out of hand for me, and that I no longer wanted to be friends with them. They didn’t take it well and seemed to view it as a personal attack, as they thought they were only “joking” and that it was just their sense of humor. Shortly after this happened, I noticed that there were some fake accounts of me popping up on Instagram, and I quickly realized was some sort of targeted response from them. They created fake Instagram accounts using my name and photos that I hadn’t publicly posted before, and began impersonating me in really harmful ways. They made multiple social media accounts, tagging my university and even mutual contacts. They also made “memes” with my face on them, using all sorts of discriminatory and offensive language since they found it amusing.

I was extremely panicked and overwhelmed by this, so I reached out to them and tried my best to get them to stop. In my messages, I made it clear how much their actions were hurting me and begged them to leave me alone. I realize now that they probably found this amusing and that it was not the right way to approach it. Eventually, after pleading with them, it did stop. As soon as I felt there were no more issues, I walked away and cut ties with them permanently.

However, recently, more than a year after cutting ties, I discovered they posted a new video. I haven’t watched it myself for my own mental health, but I’ve been told it includes my face, my full name, and even screenshots of messages I sent a year ago when I was begging them to stop. Reportedly, the video also contains discriminatory language and racial slurs, which I’m concerned could be seriously damaging. I feel humiliated and powerless, and knowing they’re still targeting me has brought back all the panic I felt last year.

I’m feeling trapped and don’t know how to move forward. I’m afraid that if I report the video or try to address it directly, they’ll see I’m aware of it and escalate their harassment even more. I know that reaching out is not an option since that would only add fuel to the fire. I also worry that reporting the post may escalate things by notifying them that I saw it. I feel extremely stuck and don’t know what to do, especially since this video might be out there for anyone to see and misrepresents me in a completely false way.

If anyone has been in a similar situation or has advice on how to handle this in the most appropriate way, I’d really appreciate any guidance. I’m feeling incredibly stressed, and this has started to impact my mental health and daily life.

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to read this and offer advice. I just want to be left alone.

Long story short, my wife supports a single mom who has been going through a very hard time. She attempts to raise money through CA, battles, etc, and HAD a large following of supporters such as my wife that have literally become very close with her and her kids. As such, she learned that there is essentially a hate group that not only stalks this poor woman here on Reddit, but coordinates attacks, phone calls, doxing, home drive by's, emails, texts, and etc. If you mod, view, or support her, they come after you. They are pure evil and hate and we can't understand why they are threatening, intimidating, and doxing now-not just my wife, but me, my kids, and our lives. Has anyone dealt with such evil? It's so sad, we know exactly who some of them are and are in touch with law enforcement. But there is essentially nothing they can do. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here is the link to the petition!: https://chng.it/87qymFMtyz

Hello, everyone.

I’m reaching out to all of you amazing teachers for some support on something really close to my heart—cyberbullying intervention laws. We all know how damaging bullying can be. Unfortunately, Massachusetts needs stronger laws to protect our students from it.

The data speaks for itself: cases of online harassment are on the rise, and current policies just don’t cut it anymore. We see it in our classrooms every day – the anxiety, the sleepless nights, the distraction. And let’s be real: students can’t thrive in an environment where they don’t feel safe. It’s not just a school problem; it’s a community problem.

That’s where this petition comes in. A group of us is working to get new legislation passed to strengthen intervention protocols and make schools more accountable for stopping cyberbullying before it takes a deeper toll. Whether you're a teacher, parent, or someone who cares about our kids’ futures, your support can push this issue to the front of the agenda at the statehouse.

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on a student project at university aimed at understanding the challenges parents face in ensuring a safe online experience for their children. With so many risks and the frequent changes in technology, we’re hoping to learn directly from parents and experts about what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to protecting kids online.

If you’re a parent, educator, or someone with experience in this area, we’d love to connect for a quick chat. Your insights would be invaluable in helping us understand how we can improve digital safety for young internet users. 

Please feel free to reach out if you’d be open to sharing your experiences or feel free to share your thoughts below!

Hi everyone,

I just found out something that broke my heart as a mom. My 12-year-old has been dealing with cyberbullying for over a year … and I had no idea. I thought I could see the signs. But it turns out this was happening right under my nose, through group chats, direct messages, and subtle, hurtful comments that left lasting scars.

My child kept it hidden for so long—I can only imagine how lonely they must have felt, feeling like they couldn’t tell anyone.

I’m not sure if anyone else here has gone through something similar, but if you have, I’d be so grateful to hear your experience. Also when and how did you find out about it? I keep wondering whether I could have noticed it earlier.

Do you actively do something to prevent this from happening, like going through the chats regularly. I have also heard about many using parental control apps to keep an eye on your child's conversations detecting harmful content.

I’m also searching for ways to prevent this from happening again. Are there tools out there that can detect these kinds of conversations? It feels like monitoring chats is a gray area, but if there’s something out there that could catch harmful words or signs, I’d want to know. I never want them to feel like this again.

Thank you so much to anyone who reads this and shares their thoughts and ideas to tackle cyberbullying. 🙏

I’m looking to interview a former cyberbullying who wants to open up about their thoughts and feelings at the time - I think it’s important we consider the psychological causes of cyberbullying and progress made since. I’m a student journalist and can assure that this will be conducted with the up most professionalism.

I'm gutted. I had personal photos on there. The last pictures of my dad and me before he passed. I had nude photos. And other videos I just didn't think would get shared. She said things about ruining my life. I feel like there is more crap out there. I'm sure she's using my number and signing up for random spam texts I'm at my wits end. She highlighted all my flaws and after knowing my pictures have all been shared. I'm about to end it. She only wanted a situationship, and still always took my phone. She hit me while I was sleeping with something big and honestly I felt like it. Would have killed me. I was under the blanket so I don't know what it was. This is just insane. She must have changed all my photo settings months ago.

Hello. My underage sister has been relentlessly cyberbullied on Instagram by a semi-popular page in our town. We have reported every story, called the police, made a 100 different reports to different organizations but no one can take that account down. Behind the account is a 21 year old man who now decided to start photoshopping conversations and I'm scared what comes after that. Instagram is not taking down the account. Please can somebody give me a page or we can mass report the account I really don't know what to do

There are soooo many more absolutely horrendous things said too. I’m so upset can someone give advice or a hug, lol 😭💔 ?

So this is not about me, but my friend, he is Japanese and the same age as me, a minor and a teenager. I met him through Discord, and he is a crossdresser; he is doing this secretly so his parents, friends, and other people close to him don't know, only his friends online, also Japanese, knows. Due to a turn of events, he sent quite an explicit photo of him to his "friend" Who also knows his real name and address due to being trusted, they also know his other socials like in LINE too, now this is where the problem starts, the "friend" Now uses that photo, which he secretly downloaded, to blackmail my friend into taking dr█gss and overdosing while wearing crossdress, he also brags about it to his other friends while he is in a voice call with my friend (the victim). My friend is quite emotionally weak and down, so he can't resist them when they tell him to take Dr█gs and send them more explicit photos of him in crossdress. I can't help him directly due to bring from another country, miles away, but I still try to advise him and Dox the abuser.

PLEASE HELP ME HELP MY FRIEND, I AM BEGGING YOU, ANYONE.

Hi, I’m a 22yo female. About a month ago, someone under a false name started commenting hateful things onto all of my tik toks. Started off as trolling, things like “you thought you ate with that makeup, you look like an unpassing trans man”, etc, while throwing blows at my previous addictions and traumas. At first I just thought it was a random, picking specific ideas from my content, but quickly realized that this person knew more than they were letting on. They quickly escalated the hate by making multiple accounts, with my name in the title, with some sort of spin on it, in a malicious way. They started posting pictures of me with hateful, mean comments, and sending me direct messages. They began by telling me intimate details about my one and only past relationship, intimate details about my personal life, as well as details about my friends and workplace. It very quickly became clear that they wanted me to feel pain, and inevitably kill myself. The messages became more and more threatening, saying things like “if you want us to stop, you know you need to kill yourself”, telling me to slit my wrists, telling me they know where I work & live. Saying they hope I wake up with four tires. Some of the most disgusting words I’ve ever heard, with homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, and overall just horrible hateful ideals intertwined in their messages. Every time I private my accounts, they stop, to which, I had thought maybe they’d be over it, and I could unprivate. In less than 24 hours, after unprivating, they made a new account to harass me on. This person or people are weaponizing my greatest insecurities and traumas. I filed a police report, as well as state against hate report, but nothing can be done since we do not know who the person is. I have no idea how to find these people, and I am mostly concerned as to who would want to hurt me this way? Every single clue I have, a new twist happens and I’m stumped again. I just moved to a new city, so I feel safer, but I’m exhausted of hiding from people to keep myself safe. Any ideas?

Hey , i put a cringy video 2 years ago on youtube, and now people are laughing at my school about my video. I feel bad and in the same way completely desintersested of the fact that people laugh and are macking mockery of me.

It feels like everyone hates everything I post. When I posted a genuine vent to r/norules, someone sent me that one picture of emo spongebob. I said that I disagreed with someone, and in the same comment, I told myself that whenever someone disagrees with me, I threatened them with death. I was exaggerating because I was depressed and I felt like I wasn't good enough. However, everything I post has slowly been becoming more and more malicious. I told someone they needed therapy because they said Mr Zamboni's content was mid. I was already sad when I wrote that because I was coming to realize that Mr Zamboni is probably never coming back. A lot of sad things have been happening to me lately. Some of them are my fault, but some of you need to be more supporting. Oh, and emo spongebob guy, send me that picture again if it means you're sorry.

Being accused of stalking someone online

i am tired of people talking shit about me on social media, how can I end this crap?

I really need help, there is this girl I went to college with and it’s been over four years and she is still telling people on her Twitter feed that I am a stalker. Now she is saying that I am signing her up for different emails. I’ve told her I did not and adviced her to delete this and she won’t. I even threatened litigation against her and no I did not sign her up for anything. She’s purposely doing this and she waits every once in a while to say something about me. I’ve consulted different people at different sites and each one for example lawyer.com has said that this case does not meet the requirements or is not worth looking into. I reallly need help she’s either gonna make me take action against her, say something I might regret later or do something I will rue and regret. I have a gun to and I am really about to use it on myself or do something regretful.

Please don't downvote. This is a throwaway account because I'm concerned for my own safety.

This somewhat unhinged person has gotten extremely hateful over a disagreement about career paths in a post and started insulting me everywhere and is now attempting to doxx me by posting public comments with my usernames. This person's history reveals they are a liar and they also bullied other people by calling them "trash", "loser", and other names, and they called entire races "rude uncivilized people". The mods of Reddit don't seem to be doing anything about this, but I am genuinely concerned because I need this to stop.

How do I go about having their doxxing-adjacent but also their overall hateful content removed? It doesn't seem like reporting is leading anywhere.

Please feel free to DM me if need. This is an actual serious situation.

I am going to speak to police and my local domestic abuse services on Monday but getting through this weekend will be hell. I just want to kill myself I think about it all the time. I made the mistake of dating an abusive narcissist, I ended it after only 3 months but it's been months since and he won't leave me alone. He's now writing posts about me on social media, mixing fact and fiction to make ridiculous claims intended to humiliate me (I can't believe people even mindlessly believe everything he says) and he has a large online following. I've had women go behind my back too by messaging him about me, even pretending to be my friend so they could do this. I thought I was able to vent in safety and now me speaking about what I went through is being described as 'talking shit'. The police told me I'm allowed to speak to people privately about my experiences. Anyway I've had to see dozens of screenshots of people I don't know bullying the fuck out of me and calling me all sorts of names because they can't see through his lies. ONE person called him out, said what he was doing was cruel and unnecessary. I messaged her privately to say thank you. Everyone else has jumped on the bandwagon of making me a laughing stock... He knows I'm suicidal and attempted not long back. I do wonder if this would still be so funny if I actually killed myself. We're like 30 years old and parents, I'm 29 he's 34. This isn't a group of teenagers everyone involved is very much grown with their own children etc. A part of me wants to kill myself just so I can show them what they did. Maybe that's fucked up, but I have had a lifetime of trauma and mental abuse and a person can only take so much. I have a method planned, it should be as peaceful as a suicide can be.

I have a friend who has been berated with insults, harassments and incitements of harm by other people online. I won’t go into detail, but we do know what states the perpetrators currently live in and I am looking for places where I can report this anonymously. The only sites I’m finding so far are specific to my country.

If this isn’t the best subreddit, I’d appreciate being redirected to a better one. If you need the states and are able to recommend reliable services, I can DM them to you, but I won’t put them here for the sake of privacy.

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Today I want to address a serious issue that has been going on in the discord community involving five users: Assistant_Omega/Alpha, Spookygirly001 (also known as Lil Miss Horror), Kuma, Retro, and Pancakes. These users have been involved in bullying and harassment towards me, as well as bringing up past drama that I have moved on from. It all started with a joking around about a sexual topic in my Five Nights at Freddy's amino. It was all in good fun, but things took a turn when Assistant_Omega/Alpha made a title that gave it to Spookygirly001. This caused her to falsely accuse me of bringing up past drama, when in reality, I had moved on from it. Spookygirly001 also inserted herself into a drama between myself and Assistant_Omega/Alpha that had nothing to do with her. Her actions ultimately led to the end of my friendship with Assistant_Omega/Alpha.What's even more concerning is that Spookygirly001 has a tendency to show her body in a sexual manner, almost like an exhibitionist. This type of behavior is not only inappropriate, but it also adds fuel to the fire of drama and harassment. I want to take a moment to address the issue of bullying and harassment in online communities. It is never okay to bully or harass someone, whether it is in person or online. Behind the safety of a screen, people often feel more emboldened to say hurtful or harmful things. But we must remember that there is a real person on the other end, with real feelings. We should always practice respect and kindness towards others, even in online interactions.Moreover, bringing up past drama is also not acceptable. We should all strive to move on from past conflicts and focus on building positive and healthy relationships. Constantly bringing up the past only creates unnecessary tension and negativity. I hope that by sharing my experience with these users on discord, it will bring awareness to the issue of bullying and harassment in online communities. Let's all make an effort to be kind and respectful towards one another, and to leave the past in the past. Together, we can create a more positive and welcoming environment for everyone. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope that we can all work towards making the discord community a better place for everyone. Remember, kindness costs nothing. Sincerely, Angel out for revenge

I am bieng cyberbullied for the first time, and i dont know what to do.

A group of people, or one person, are targeting me, they stole my istagram pictures and they are posting horrible things about me online.they created fake accounts, and they are posting extremely personal and sexual details about me while attaching my pictures (those information are of course all wrong).
i was able to ban their LinkedIn accounts from reporting, but I could not do anything about their fake facebook, X, and Instagram profiles, even tho i reported it many times.

Is there anyone who can help ? or do you know any groups that provide support or help regarding this matter please ?

I'm willing to provide anything. thank you

Hello. I just wanted to say that I never experienced cyberbullying. I was bullied back in my school years because I was saying what I think and was direct in what I thought was right. I came off as wierd and even the teachers disliked me. I didn‘t experience this for years.

Now on reddit I was on a meme subreddit and talked about the importance of art and its analysis after someone said art is boring. I talked about the joy of art and recommended some.

Then many people responded calling me an elitist, asking if I think I‘m better than „them“ (who is them? Why do always people feel that they belong to a group?) That I am being disliked and I was even being called son of a bitch.

This straight up reminded me of my school time. I felt like people with pitchforks circled me. Consequently I tried to defend myself but I ended up deleting my comment and everything that followed after being laughed at, being insulted and other stuff.

Why does this exist? Why do I get treated like this if I never insulted someone or started a fight and was polite? I did not deserve this.

When people can anonymously be part of a group and just join it by being also a bad person it can bring out the worst in people. The majority of people were like this irl and it can be even easier online.

Context, I posted in the chronic illness one about feeling really bad today because I was so tired and couldn’t manage to do as much with my GF as I wanted. I’m so upset. I have a lot of health problems, I live in constant pain, and I’m trying so hard to be the best for everyone. So why do I get this? I feel genuinely heartbroken. I love my GF so much, I want to marry her, but it really kills me inside when someone says this just because I’m chronically ill and disabled.

For clarity about the last part: I don’t want anyone to get bullied. I’m numb through trauma and felt nihilistic when I wrote this.

someone who now attends college is bullying me just because I posted cp on my thumbnails, like bruh, I would never trust CP! And Rule 34 is different than that!

I’m fairly certain that my ex girlfriend sent herself text messages from my phone to make it appear that I sent her racist texts. Now she is posting screenshots all over social media, dragging my name through the mud. It’s causing me a lot of anxiety, and I want to know if there’s anything I can do about it. Here’s what I think happened (and please don’t judge) - I would often leave my phone unlocked so we could film ourselves having sex. I remember one instance I got up afterwards, put my phone on the nightstand, and went to go pee. This is when I think she grabbed my phone and sent herself racist text messages from it. I think she knew I was going to break up with her. Next thing I know, people are alerting me to posts of these screenshots all over social media. People are avoiding me at clubs that we hung out at together. A friend of mine told me that a bartender told him to avoid me because I’m a racist. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thank You.

So I'm a middle school girl and I got bullied by the phone I was using. For context the school I go to where you have to be out of school grounds to use your phone.

So when I was out of school grounds I used my phone (a Samsung M31) and this dude said "don't use your phone while walking" I laughed and then he told another person and said that I think, because I just choose to ignore him but then that boy just said your phone is useless. I know he was saying it to me because my phone is a mess scene I chuck it alot by accident, so yeah boy just said that and then said "do you think that you're wearing your earphones makes you a badass?" So I just said "your life is badass" and he said "bla bla bla, talk in chinese, no one can understand you" (keep in mind that I did talk in chinese and it was visible) I just ignored it and left. I wanted to see what number he had on his shirt but i couldn't see it properly (the uniform we have is pink for girls, blue for boys and we have tags on it like 120613 or 111006 YY/CC/NN the [y]ear you were here the [c]lass and the [n]umber you were look it up in chinese schools) anyways I just went to my mom scene it was end of the school and told her, I also told my online friends and people who didn't even know me (discord btw) and rant because it counted as cyber bulling I think😅

And also he wasn't in my class he was literally another person ... I honestly don't know how people can stoop so low

I live in Taiwan so Chinese and a bit of Taiwanese is spoken more here.