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.
I got them twice in reddit. One was some wildly racist whackjob who really got off on calling me stuff while making up some weird story about who I was in his head. Report and block and move on. Another was a Freemason candidate who was SUPER upset after he acted like a douche and got called on it by his own people. He blamed me for his actions. Lots of people will blame other folks for their own actions.
I was gonna say the same thing. Never had a death threat sent to me, but I have had guns pointed at me a couple of times, so I guess that is a death threat of sorts. Been threatened with violence a few times, and even an attempted carjacking once. Not a damn one of them was conscientious enough to put it in writing though.
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.
I was a trainee in Japan at the time and had spoken in an IRC channel about how I was going home to Sweden for Christmas.
Then I ended up in a disagreement with some Norwegian guy about affirmative action. I felt that in the computer science field it could be a good idea for a time to "jumpstart" female participation in the field, and once prejudice had been torn down you wouldn't need affirmative action anymore.
He vehemently disagreed and said he would drive down to Stockholm's airport to kill me with his rifle. There weren't that many flights from Japan to Sweden so based on what I had said earlier he was able to figure out what flight I would be arriving with. But, well, I'm still alive. It taught me to be more careful with what information I volunteer on the Internet.
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.
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.
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 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.
I used to have a not well known webcomic and would get death threats/"kill yourself" messages pretty regularly, so yeah for drawing a cartoon would be mine I guess! They never used to bother me especially though, I thought they were funny. I used to have a page up where I'd post the dumbest ones lol.
Yeah, I don't see getting worked up about artistic taste. No one is forcing g them to read their stuff, and if someone actually is, their problem should be with whoever is forcing them to.
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.
31 Comments
destiper@lemmy.ml · 35 pts · 333d
This is probably the most obvious answer, but I beat them over and over in a videogame lmao
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 333d
This is the only way to truly win a video game: the complete psychological destruction of your opponent
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 333d
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 333d
Somehow I have made it this long on the internet without death threats
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 333d
Kill yourself
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 332d
TheSambassador@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 332d
That's not a threat, that's a mean suggestion.
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 333d
Right? Who gets death threats?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 333d
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.
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 333d
I got them twice in reddit. One was some wildly racist whackjob who really got off on calling me stuff while making up some weird story about who I was in his head. Report and block and move on. Another was a Freemason candidate who was SUPER upset after he acted like a douche and got called on it by his own people. He blamed me for his actions. Lots of people will blame other folks for their own actions.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 333d
Minorities...
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 333d
I was gonna say the same thing. Never had a death threat sent to me, but I have had guns pointed at me a couple of times, so I guess that is a death threat of sorts. Been threatened with violence a few times, and even an attempted carjacking once. Not a damn one of them was conscientious enough to put it in writing though.
mondoman712@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 333d
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.
Oberyn@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 333d
Not liking a certain show viral in early 2010s
snoons@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 333d
Which show which show?!
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d
I'm gonna guess Game of Thrones
snoons@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 333d
Last season was total ass fr fr
Oberyn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
For OPSEC reasons can't say
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 333d
You could just tell us it was Octonauts.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 333d
I was a trainee in Japan at the time and had spoken in an IRC channel about how I was going home to Sweden for Christmas.
Then I ended up in a disagreement with some Norwegian guy about affirmative action. I felt that in the computer science field it could be a good idea for a time to "jumpstart" female participation in the field, and once prejudice had been torn down you wouldn't need affirmative action anymore.
He vehemently disagreed and said he would drive down to Stockholm's airport to kill me with his rifle. There weren't that many flights from Japan to Sweden so based on what I had said earlier he was able to figure out what flight I would be arriving with. But, well, I'm still alive. It taught me to be more careful with what information I volunteer on the Internet.
christian@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 333d
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.
juliebean@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 333d
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.
otp@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 333d
Sometimes it's nothing except being a different skin colour. Or riding a bicycle.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 333d
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.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 333d
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.
stemy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 332d
Even if you were a furry, you wouldn't deserve death threats. I'll never understand why furries attract so much hate.
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 333d
exists
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 332d
I used to have a not well known webcomic and would get death threats/"kill yourself" messages pretty regularly, so yeah for drawing a cartoon would be mine I guess! They never used to bother me especially though, I thought they were funny. I used to have a page up where I'd post the dumbest ones lol.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 332d
Yeah, I don't see getting worked up about artistic taste. No one is forcing g them to read their stuff, and if someone actually is, their problem should be with whoever is forcing them to.
Let people enjoy their shit and move on.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 333d
I think you think these are more common than they are.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 332d
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.
Horsey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 332d
Calling someone online by their IRL name.
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 331d
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 331d