THE ORIGINAL POST FROM 3/11/23
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We use the internet every day. We think we're safe, and actually, stalkers who live far away from us can't pose a threat to us. But that's just a fallacy. Stalking can suit you at any time. Be it on the street, the country, or the internet, actually even on social media. And that is exactly what this post is about. Social media stalking. When I saw the first signs that someone was stalking me, I decided to start this social project. I'm going to show you the aggressive ways I've been stalked, spammed, harassed, threatened, and psychologically assaulted. The evidence used is the screenshots collected over the past six months. The stalker also tried to infiltrate my circle of friends, manipulate them, woo them, make himself available to them, and even message them directly. This is pure "madness" that just happened to me for the past 18 months.
IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS (UST)
What is the definition of social media stalking?
Cyberstalking is a crime in which someone harasses or stalks a victim using electronic or digital means, such as social media, email, instant messaging (IM), or messages posted to a discussion group or forum.
The terms cyberstalking and cyberbullying are often used interchangeably. Cyberstalking, however, is actually a form of cyberbullying, which -- along with cybersquatting and cyberterrorism -- is among the growing number of computer- and internet-related crimes collectively referred to as cybercrime.
Although cyberstalking is a general term for online harassment, it can take many forms, including slander, defamation, false accusations, trolling, and even outright threats. In many cases, especially when both the harasser and victim are individuals, the motive may be the following:
monitor the victim's online -- and, in some cases, offline -- activities;
track the victim's locations and follow them online or offline;
annoy the victim;
intimidate, frighten, control, or blackmail the victim;
reveal private information about the victim, a practice known as doxing; or
Gather more information about the victim to steal their identity or perpetrate other real-world crimes, like theft or harassment.
Cyberstalkers often start small. In the beginning, they may send a few strange or somewhat unpleasant messages to their intended victim. Then, later, they may brush off these messages as funny, annoying, or mildly weird and ignore them without taking any action.
Over time, the messages may become systematic, sustained, and repetitive, taking on an increasingly intimidating or frightening tone.
Direct and indirect cyberstalking
Cyberstalking can be direct or indirect.
Perpetrators may directly email their victims or flood their inboxes with emails. Or they may harass them through IM, voicemail, texting, or other forms of electronic communication. They may use technologies to surveil or follow their victims or continuously view their pages -- often without their knowledge.
Sometimes, cyberstalkers may send obscene, vulgar, or offensive comments, social media follower or friend requests, or even outright threats. The stalkers may either attack the victims, which may distress them or cause them to fear for their safety and well-being. They may also attack their victims' families or friends to expand their sphere of stalking influence.
In indirect cyberstalking attacks, perpetrators may damage the victim's device. They may do this by infecting it with ransomware to lock their files and then forcing them to pay a ransom for unlocking them. Or they may install a virus or keystroke logger that monitors the victim's digital behavior and/or steals data from the device.
Cyberstalking: Victims and criminals
Often, cyberstalkers pursue their victims over a sustained period. An overwhelming majority of cyber stalkers are men, while victims are usually women. However, cyberstalking cases where women were the perpetrators are not unheard of. For instance, following the 2006 Megan Meier suicide case in Missouri, a female cyberstalker was indicted and convicted in 2008 of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Occasionally, men have been victims in some cyberstalking cases.
Victims of cyberstalking could be individuals -- mature adults, young adults, and children are all susceptible -- or groups, organizations, or even governments. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, children and adults are particularly vulnerable to one particular type of cyberstalking: sextortion.
This is when stalkers threaten a victim with the release of private or sensitive information unless the latter can meet the former's demands for sexual favors, nude photos, etc.
Consequences of cyberstalking
As part of a cyberstalking campaign, a stalker may harass a victim with simply annoying or inappropriate content and more of a nuisance than anything else. In more serious cases, victims may have to contend with disturbing, traumatizing, or threatening content. They may face severe forms of online harassment, including sexual harassment and physical threats.
In almost every cyberstalking case, victims feel annoyed at best and fearful at worst. Confusion, anger, and anxiety are common among victims. Some may also experience insomnia or suffer from physical ailments, like headaches, acid reflux, or stomach ulcers, or mental ailments, like depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. In extreme cases, they may become suicidal.
Is cyberstalking a crime?
Cyberstalking is a crime in many countries.
This is the theory behind it. You would wonder what my motivation was to keep on interacting with my stalker and why didn't I just stop the conversation and block the account?
My motivation for this project was actually something that I have on TV. There is a series currently running here in the Philippines. Also, World Women's Day gave me a lot of motivation because during my research and conversations, I had with victims and friends, I realized that this topic is way more present than we could imagine. I want to raise awareness and create a secure environment for my friends and myself by showing the following images and background information. This is very essential to me as well because this topic and what I had to face what I had to go through, meaning being a victim of cyberstalking, was part of the reasons why I was not able to get out of depression, and yes, cyberstalking is a reason for having depression. It is testified and confirmed by local government and law enforcement agencies and experts and specialists dealing with people and victims of cyberstalking.
How it started?
I met this seemingly harmless person on Twitch. The channel and streamer I was watching back then were Adriana Chechik. I've since left the channel and for a good reason, too, because I have to live with the daily fear that I could run into my stalker again at any time. It's not an easy feeling as I loved Adriana from the bottom of my heart, and she's an outstanding streamer. The first indication that this might be stalking happened in 2022. At that point, I've been in regular contact with the person in the chat, and it's not my way to communicate with someone I do not know online and with whom I have no personal relationship.
It then turns out that this person is also a big fan of Adriana's. I didn't pay any attention to this person until the moment I realized that he had a conspicuous big heart. That would be a big mistake after only 3 months. He started following me on Twitter and kept asking me in stream chat why I never talked or texted him. That was about four months after we met. And so began a journey into the abyss that I have never met before from a human being.
We followed each other on Twitter. I stopped following each other again after two months, and then the actual stalking started, which I will now show with screenshots and examples, and translated messages in the course of this report and article. I would like to reiterate at this point that this person is a dangerous person who has ruthlessly and disrespectfully driven me into insanity and deep depression with suicidal thoughts. Everything you will see in the following pictures is nothing more than one big lie, and I will also show that he also does with other people on the tracks and dies brutally and mercilessly.
After I unfollowed my stalker, who was impersonating Danny with his real name, which later turned out to be false thanks to a police investigation, he terrorized me over and over again for 8 days with the exact words.
“Lovely, what did I do wrong to make you unfollow me?”
“Lovely, please let's talk about everything. I love you more than anything, and I can't live without you. My life without you just doesn't make sense.”
“I need you so much. I love you, my beautiful unicorn. Please come back to me.”
“Lovely, why don't you talk to me anymore. What have I done wrong?”
The answer is simple: because you're a mad stalker who loves a person you've never met and obviously doesn't want to talk to you. Of course, he didn't know that this was part of the social project.
Professor Wu of the University Hospital St. Thomas said: “These are the typical behaviors of a stalker. He realizes that he can't have you and will become more and more aggressive and intrusive in his language towards you.” Thanks to the cooperation, I was somewhat prepared for what might await me over time. But to be honest, I had thought that a human would go much further. The following messages that were sent to me will show that attempts were also made to manipulate friends and to use my sex work and
As you can see, Danny speaks German, he is 38 years old and also living in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia. His hobbies are soccer, comics, music with a depressive and love addiction tendency, and cyberstalking other people.
Professor Wu: “This is a typical behavior of a stalker. He cannot get what he was looking for, he noticed that he had reached a point, where all the efforts became useless. Normally, stalkers do move on to the next step once they have noticed and realized this. They would send things to your house, send your letter, move away from the online presence and move forward to become physical, may that be with gifts or other things. Afterward, there is the physical attack, where the stalker just believes that it is his right to take you away from everything that he thinks you love, just to be yours.”
Since he was not able to become physical, he decided to mass message me, a clear violation of Twitter's TOS, and also started to use hate speech against me.
Translation of the last two screenshots (unedited)
therealdarthvader1980 @therealdarthva6 - December 9, 2022 ...
Response to @therealdarthva6 and @amomentoflovely
please let's write tonight. We can also write DM! I
love you, my little mouse
therealdarthvader1980 @therealdarthva6 - December 9, 2022 ...
Response to @therealdarthva6 and @amomentoflovely
I need you so much! Ich liebe dich!!! Darling, I am so happy
when it's January, and all this shit is over!! My darling, I
feel like I lost you, and it just feels so damn
sore!
therealdarthvader1980 @therealdarthva6 - December 9, 2022
Response to @therealdarthva6 and @amomentoflovely
and happy people!!! I feel so lonely; yes, I have my
mother, but not the person I love above all else is not with me
and is not by my side! I keep thinking about you, what you are doing, and where you are right now. You are everything to me.
therealdarthvader1980 @therealdarthva6 - December 9, 2022
Response to @therealdarthva6 and @amomentoflovely
you used to always get in touch with me about what did I do my
Treasure? I do not get it!!! it's a shitty time I hate
Christmas and New Year you know you see this shit everywhere
lights and everywhere you see people in love and laughing on the street
therealdarthvader1980 @therealdarthva6 - December 9, 2022 ...
Response to @therealdarthva6 and @amomentoflovely
write my time I ask you then write me back please
tell me tonight what about you! please don't text me if I
not at home! wait for me!!! do you know my darling I wonder
all the time what happened? what happened between us
therealdarthvader1980 @therealdarthva6 - Dec 10, 2022 ...
Replying to @therealdarthva6 and @amomentoflovely
I hate it when you're not feeling well I would do anything for you
so that everything goes well for you!!! I would give up my life for you!!! I
pray for you every day that you will get well again and I will
write get well wishes every day
therealdarthvader1980 @therealdarthva6 - Dec 10, 2022 ...
Replying to @amomentoflovely
Hey, Lovely my sweet little mouse first of all I wish you
keep getting better!!! of course, I understand your top one
Priority is your health and that you do everything to get well
I am with you in my heart and support you! I hate it when you
suffer
Professor Wu: “Of course, he is telling you that he feels alone. It is a fact. Trying to bring in his family is a sign of being helpless because he cannot have you and get what he desires. That method is called passive emotion building. He is trying to remind you of your experiences you might have had with your family. That is the edge stalker do make use of in case of being helpless and being unable to reach out to you further.”
At this point, I haven't responded in over a month. What follows next are examples of how people can go nuts!
Professor Wu: “Prepare them for the fact that you will not be let go, that from the moment there is silence between you, the real terror only begins.”
Wu was right, and I got the following stuff in December is insane! Reminder: I have already told him in October and November not to contact me anymore.
I will let the pictures speak for me, and yes, the following messages are pure madness. I am disgusted by these messages to this day.