Harassment and abuse in FF14

[WoW]

Good creative writing.
In case this is real. Go to therapy and talk to some people. The level of paranoia is worrying.

You're the person they're talking about!! It all makes sense now!

[Awha]

You're the person they're talking about!! It all makes sense now!

Fellow hairstyle acquaintance, let us not go down such a slanderous route we are above that.

[WoW]

Fellow hairstyle acquaintance, let us not go down such a slanderous route we are above that.

Look at the evidence, fellow hairstyle acquaintance. They are a purple haired Miqote. And you know what they say about purple haired Miqotes.

[Chonkusdonkus]

No it has nothing to do with that. Look, I understand people finding themselves upset and feeling manipulated but it is a hard pill to swallow that there's an organised group of people consistantly gaslighting and actively hunting someone down for weeks on end. And, if you are online, and in a bad situation, you can block people. If you are cognitive enough you can stop things. Block and move on. I've met many manipulative people online. You move on, you let yourself come to terms with that some people are shitty and drop it.

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch.

And one that's easy to avoid. Block. And if it did end up hurting you this bad. Go to therapy and recover.

Why is going to therapy a bad suggestion when someone is stressed and hurt?

[Vinupra-Rosa]

No it has nothing to do with that. Look, I understand people finding themselves upset and feeling manipulated but it is a hard pill to swallow that there's an organised group of people consistantly gaslighting and actively hunting someone down for weeks on end. And, if you are online, and in a bad situation, you can block people. If you are cognitive enough you can stop things. Block and move on. I've met many manipulative people online. You move on, you let yourself come to terms with that some people are shitty and drop it.

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch.

And one that's easy to avoid. Block. And if it did end up hurting you this bad. Go to therapy and recover.

Why is going to therapy a bad suggestion when someone is stressed and hurt?

Sad thing is that I am -vaguely- aware of certain individuals who have huge sway in their friend groups, and have people willing to help them carry out vendettas. While I never looked too much into it, they have acted on digging dirt on someone and... doing things until the offending person leaves. I also know someone who has more than enough money to burn, has people backing them on twitch, and is persistent in targetted harrassment to the point where bans will just have them buying new accounts.

It's a doozy, but they exist so there is the possibility OP's situation is real.

In which case, I too would advocate therapy and/or protective services.

[WilhelmWhite]

Sad thing is that I am -vaguely- aware of certain individuals who have huge sway in their friend groups, and have people willing to help them carry out vendettas. While I never looked too much into it, they have acted on digging dirt on someone and... doing things until the offending person leaves. I also know someone who has more than enough money to burn, has people backing them on twitch, and is persistent in targetted harrassment to the point where bans will just have them buying new accounts.

It's a doozy, but they exist so there is the possibility OP's situation is real.

In which case, I too would advocate therapy and/or protective services.

^This, unfortunately. Sometimes getting to the point of "I'm literally calling the police right now" is the only way it stops.

[Rinhi]

No it has nothing to do with that. Look, I understand people finding themselves upset and feeling manipulated but it is a hard pill to swallow that there's an organised group of people consistantly gaslighting and actively hunting someone down for weeks on end. And, if you are online, and in a bad situation, you can block people. If you are cognitive enough you can stop things. Block and move on. I've met many manipulative people online. You move on, you let yourself come to terms with that some people are shitty and drop it.

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch.

And one that's easy to avoid. Block. And if it did end up hurting you this bad. Go to therapy and recover.

Why is going to therapy a bad suggestion when someone is stressed and hurt?

there are plenty of google docs about similar things happening in XIV with documentation and plenty of screens online, it's not far fetched at all

[Theodric]

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch.

You don't believe that people in this community could band together on, say, Discord to organise the harassment of someone they've decided to target? It does happen.

[LittleImp]

You don't believe that people in this community could band together on, say, Discord to organise the harassment of someone they've decided to target? It does happen.

They're claiming that gang-stalkers were able to predict and manipulate the decline of their physical health over a period of years, culminating in an episode of temporary blindness instigated through special signal words and phrases.

Group harassment happens, but this particular case has a lot of bizzare red flags.

[SturmChurro]