Ever gotten a death/violent threat online?

[Random berk]

Hey, so today I learned that a picture I posted a few months ago online kind of caught on and had a bit of popularity. In fact, I originally posted the picture here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.311163-Pokemon-The-Christian-Playthrough?page=4#13481307] on this site. The thing is though that it might have been a teeny bit offensive to Christians, and while I was browsing the flame war it started on reddit, some guy was saying whoever made the picture needs a shotgun bullet to the head.

Has something like this ever happened to you? When it did, were you offended, scared, apathetic, or just laughing your ass off? Honestly, it's kind of a strange feeling, but overall, I had a good laugh. What about you?

Not that I can remember. Honestly, any internet death threats would be more hilarious than frightening. Unless I pissed off a gang boss what could the person do besides rage at their computer.

More importantly, I notice that you actually succeeded in posting something on Memebase. Can I ask how? Because I've tried posting several pictures on Very Demotivational, part of the same site, and it never shows them.

 

[Mersadeon]

Well, I got one, yeah. What was so bad about it? That guy knew who I am and I had to endure him in school on a daily basis. The good thing: In the end, I threatend to show that mail to the police and that scared him off. The best thing: The mail was HILARIOUS! He had so many mistakes in it, it was just funny. Honestly, in the end, it was more a humiliation for him than something that scared me.

Why did I get it? Eh... long story short, a girl tried to beat me up, I stopped her from doing that (didn't really hurt her, also, gender equality ^^) and through rumors that guy thought I had beaten her up.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Mostly in fighting games. I receive 1 or 2 every time I play UMvC3.

On a related note, my friend received this one after a match in BF3:

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Wow! That's a bit excessive isn't it?

Back in the days before Facebook, when everyone was on Bebo and Myspace, my Bebo wall was just a complete page after page of death threats... Half of them from wannabe rap artists, the other half from Irish separatists (claiming to be IRA). My crime...? Having a union flag as my profile picture, and listing Rap and R+B as disliked music! Wow! Those were the days!

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

Quite often actually. I regularly get them while playing Team Fortress 2 and Modern Warfare 2, although once someone starts complaining about me being noob for using any gun in any situation then I kind of encourage them to go into rage mode with some tactical trolling. If they are busy writing long hate speeches their team is one player less for a while!

I also receive a lot of threats while playing LoL. Funnily they are all from my allies. Strangely all the praise I get is from the enemy team congratulating me for being a good tank, making a good juke or successfully carrying a team.

 

[Retal19]

My main weapon in Modern Warfare is the Riot Shield. I just don't die. I've survived AC-130s and everything. But of course, my success online because of it has warranted many threats. They just bounce off me, but one day my friend was down while I was playing, saw one of the threats and retorted. And oh god did he retort. Needless to say, I wasn't bothered by that guy again.

Oh, and in Black Ops, when I make an apparently shit weapon like the M16, M14, Dragunov or Python (My Four Main Weapons) Work, and work WELL? Well, there be a shitstorm a-brewin. Especially when you spend an entire Array match atop a tower one-shotting everyone with a Dragunov because you take time to line up a shot and have drank enough Lucozade to slow time temporarily. Oh? Why no, I would not like to catch AIDs from a Dog and die in a Fire. Do you kiss your mother with that Mouth sir?

 

[Fasckira]

Someone told me in a game of Vampire Redemption that he knew where I lived and that he was going to hunt me through my house then gut me like an animal.

The reason?

He was being an ass and running around with a modded character (generation 0, max points in everything, all powers etc) and killing PCs and NPCs alike. My response was to reset his character to the base newbie level.

 

[mysecondlife]

Out of all people, I received a death threat from John Mayer fan boy. His latest album sucks, everyone knows that.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

When a "friend" of mine found out I was gay, he completely cut me off. Then he somehow discovered my dad's email address, and sent a death threat to my entire family saying how disgusting I was and that they should fix me or he'll call the police.

That was a fun day.

Holy shit; I hope things got better for you. Damn.

I've, somehow, never had someone threaten me over the internet. I once had someone insult me over my clinginess, and I've been told to "stop spouting transphobic bullshit" at one point--I was advocating for transrights while still saying I think it'll be a while--but that's about it. Guess I'm lucky.

YOU THINK THEY'LL TAKE A WHILE??! YOU TRANSPHOBIC BASTAARD

...yeah, no, that's pretty lucky. I don't actually count threats from idiots or people who've missed the point. They aren't worth paying attention to.

 

[DannyJBeckett]

Once, I commented on a Coal Chamber video on YouTube where I said "It's a shame Dez Fafara is a prick", to which someone responded "Fuck you I'll get my buddies and we'll settle this in the pit."

I didn't even dignify that with a response.

 

[t3h br0th3r]

Death threats, if your trolling correctly, you will get them.

once in WoW a guy whose character i killed multiple times in a Battle Ground crated a Horde toon just to threaten me with death and my mother with sexual assault.

I laughed so hard i /ignored him without reporting.

 

[Autumnflame]

online no.
in real life yes

 

[Mawdern]

I got a few playing some online games, and on XBOX live, too. I don't take them seriously. Some people just make no sense whatsoever.

 

[Bvenged]

They said I should crawl in a ditch and die,

I didn't even let them crawl.

 

[Bvenged]

Death threats, if your trolling correctly, you will get them.

once in WoW a guy whose character i killed multiple times in a Battle Ground crated a Horde toon just to threaten me with death and my mother with sexual assault.

I laughed so hard i /ignored him without reporting.

I've done almost the opposite; I'd just started WoW back up and I was in STV where some horde kept spawn killing me for an hour straight, seriously I couldn't get away. So I made a horde, insulted him with everything short of a death threat (not sexual insults or family insults, personal ones but no death threats), then I calmed down and explained how he ruined the game for me and that now because of him I didn't want to play it ever again - that he'd wasted an hour of my time and now my money as I was early in the subscription of 2 months.

I quit out, and played it again at the weekend where I had a full apology and some gold. It wasn't even sarcastic. I understand PvP but a line has to be drawn with spawn killing for no honour. At least he had some morality, I was just lucky. Anybody else on WoW would've shunned me. Cunts.

 

[MassiveGeek]

Uhmmm, don't think so. Probably though.

I just think it's a worthless threat. They're not going to actually do it, unless they're absolute shittarding psycopaths and you're stupid enough to leave personal information without realising what could happen. *Shrug*

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I got a violent threat from some little kid on Call of Duty I killed him like 5 times in a row and obviously he had a little tantrum about it. He sent me a message along the lines of "I'm going to find where you live and put you in the fucking hospital" so I messaged him back my address and told him to try it.

He's still never came to visit me, I felt like we were really bonding as well

 

[Colour Scientist]

Nope.
Death threat free and feeling good.

I don't play online though, so that's probably a big part of it.
Forever alone gaming, yay!

 

[JoJo]

This nugget was left on my YouTube account in response to my video "Pikachu dies", I'll let it speak for itself:

ur a pussy ****** im a black belt in 15 different marshel arts and ill rape ur ****** ass and ill fuck your mom and rape your cat your videos are shit i rape u at halo ****** black kid u suck fat gcock because ur a smelly ghetto shit poor fatty jewish cocksucker wtf is your problem oooh im jojodeathhunter im sooo scared ill take u on any day and ill smash you because ill rape your ass 15 times harder than anyone ahs ever fucked you before coz i raped your mom and your sister

 

[AngloDoom]

Of course?

I mean, really, if you haven't received a death-threat at some point in your life you're doing it wrong, especially so for internet.

Hell, there was a video of me my friends took when I first went ice-skating where I fell-over and almost took out three of my other friends. The only comment on it, besides ones from my friends, was: "Pussy, I hope he died". In typical internet fashion, when someone asked "Don't you think that's uncalled for?" he responded with "ACTUALLY THAT WAS FROM MY AUTISTIC BROTHER WHO HAS CANCER SO FUCK OFF!"

I've also been told someone will kill me, as a result of asking someone to stop shouting abuse at their own team-mates during Team Fortress, as well as one time I asked someone to explain to expand upon why they held such a strong stance about gun-laws.

I've been threatened in real-life for making eye-contact with a girl while glancing around, looking for a friend, for having sex with a single and consenting girl when we were both drunk, for being dumped and not caring, and for asking someone to calm down when they were trying to get in a fight with my friend.

Seriously, maybe I just have a particularly killable-looking face, but I thought it was pretty common to get death-threats.

EDIT -

This nugget was left on my YouTube account in response to my video "Pikachu dies", I'll let it speak for itself:

ur a pussy ****** im a black belt in 15 different marshel arts and ill rape ur ****** ass and ill fuck your mom and rape your cat your videos are shit i rape u at halo ****** black kid u suck fat gcock because ur a smelly ghetto shit poor fatty jewish cocksucker wtf is your problem oooh im jojodeathhunter im sooo scared ill take u on any day and ill smash you because ill rape your ass 15 times harder than anyone ahs ever fucked you before coz i raped your mom and your sister

I read that out to myself in one breath, spelling-mistakes and lack-of-punctuation in-tact. I think that was possibly the proudest moment of my life.

 

[Ampersand]

A couple of times, pretty much always from religious people.......funny that.