Bullying has plague many parts of the internet. A study looking into Facebook memorials analysed the usage and commentation of these pages for the deceased. It discussed the differences between public and private memorials and the types of comments the pages received. With each comment was a reaction from the audience that ranged from personal loved ones and friends to strangers and tourists/strangers as the article liked to call them. The authors of this article used many methods to find Facebook memorial pages to use for the study like searching for RIP in the Facebook search bar, searching google and looking at 4chan. 4chan was the most notable site mentioned in this article when looking for information concerning bullying or trolls. As
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First was to help find more information on her whereabouts then once the information was known that she was murdered it was turned into a Facebook memorial page with thousands of fans. These pages were not safe from the trolls and it seems their targets are the grief tourist, who are people who have no direct connection towards the person the memorial is dedicated to. There was even a Facebook page made to make fun of Chelsea King’s page titled “I Bet This Pickle Can Get More Fans Than Chelsea King.” Chelsea wasn’t the only person that was victimized: A whale trainer was killed with a comment reading, “Killed the bitch cos she didn’t bring fishs.” along with images of Rule 34 (If it exists there IS porn of it) as well as turning the tragic event into a meme. When a death murder occurred in Australia the trolls of that region swarmed the Facebook memorials. They would exchange resources with American trolls and both sides would swarm the Facebook memorial regardless of where the murder took …show more content…
“To describe the Feminist extravagant invective, the sexualized threats of violence, and the recreational nastiness that have come to constitute a dominant tenor of Internet discourse.” (Jane, 532) She describes the e-bile used towards females as one that insults their beauty, intelligence, and depicting rape, violent acts or threat. While males insult their masculinity, sexuality and whether they have micropenile disorder. “E-bile episodes may be triggered by disagreements over divisive subjects such as politics, religion, or sexual preference, but participants rarely engage substantively with each other’s positions.” (Jane, 533). An example of the comments females would receive are “What you need is a good [insert graphic sexual act] to put you right.” Depicting how volatile these situations can get and the extremes of how far people will go to insult
First was to help find more information on her whereabouts then once the information was known that she was murdered it was turned into a Facebook memorial page with thousands of fans. These pages were not safe from the trolls and it seems their targets are the grief tourist, who are people who have no direct connection towards the person the memorial is dedicated to. There was even a Facebook page made to make fun of Chelsea King’s page titled “I Bet This Pickle Can Get More Fans Than Chelsea King.” Chelsea wasn’t the only person that was victimized: A whale trainer was killed with a comment reading, “Killed the bitch cos she didn’t bring fishs.” along with images of Rule 34 (If it exists there IS porn of it) as well as turning the tragic event into a meme. When a death murder occurred in Australia the trolls of that region swarmed the Facebook memorials. They would exchange resources with American trolls and both sides would swarm the Facebook memorial regardless of where the murder took …show more content…
“To describe the Feminist extravagant invective, the sexualized threats of violence, and the recreational nastiness that have come to constitute a dominant tenor of Internet discourse.” (Jane, 532) She describes the e-bile used towards females as one that insults their beauty, intelligence, and depicting rape, violent acts or threat. While males insult their masculinity, sexuality and whether they have micropenile disorder. “E-bile episodes may be triggered by disagreements over divisive subjects such as politics, religion, or sexual preference, but participants rarely engage substantively with each other’s positions.” (Jane, 533). An example of the comments females would receive are “What you need is a good [insert graphic sexual act] to put you right.” Depicting how volatile these situations can get and the extremes of how far people will go to insult