Tonight I was recording The Gazebo on The Go with my friends and we were doing it live. During the live stream a strange guy came into the chat room and started trolling me personally. I kicked him from the chat room, he just returns in another account so I had to do a ban. I immediate start getting @replies saying “YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID IN THE CHAT ROOM!” so I block the guy on Twitter and then realize he’s also threatening my life. Then I realize I fucking know this guy.
The cause for attack? On a podcast I said something that made him feel not cool. The solution? Kill me or I take down the podcast. Apparently the problem is with me vaguely mentioning his girlfriend, who I used to be friends with, on a podcast. Typical boyfriend who, for some fucking reason, thinks that if someone says something negative about his girl behind his back has the right to kill.
This is fucking retarded.
A similar incident occurred when I was fourteen. When I was in high school I had a blog where I would write about my friends. Some kids at school called me a ‘fagget’, even though I dated chicks exclusively, came to my site and threatened to kill me. I did an IP address look up and saw it came from the school. So I took it to the principal and the school decided that I should either take the entire site down or they would seize my computers. This was before Twitter, so I had no place to alert the media. I had to take down the site. So this whole issue was taken to where I was the bad guy. I later left the school after a bus driver said “If anyone wants to kill you, I’ll fucking let them.” (This was in a small redneck town, you know, in the real America that Sarah Palin wants to protect.)
I’m twenty years old now. I will not be bullied. When you’re fourteen kids are stupid and say things, when you’re an adult you have to be fucking retarded to threaten to kill someone on Twitter. The lesson this guy and people like him need to learn is: people say things. You can not police individuals and their thoughts. You know what can be policed? Crazies who threaten to kill.
I think the situation is safe now. Thanks to all my friends for helping me out and their continued support. I really hope this post doesn’t provoke them, but if they think they can threaten my life and I won’t hold this to an open forum for discussion, you have no idea how I live.
And I will live.