Cyberbullying
What it is
Sustained online harassment: pile-on comments, fake accounts, coordinated groups going after someone's reputation or stability. Not isolated criticism — an organized attack that turns the internet into a hostile place you can't leave without disappearing.
Does this sound familiar?
How it gets justified
“If it bothers you, get off social media.”
Social media isn't optional space — it's where work, friendships, and information live. Asking the target to disappear so the harassment stops shifts the cost onto her. Being pushed out of public space because the attackers stay is displacement, not a fix.
“It's just an opinion, get over it.”
An opinion is a single voice. Harassment is repetition and a crowd. When several accounts converge on you for weeks, the body enters sustained social threat — the same biological state that activates under repeated in-person attacks.
Often escalates toward
When a behavior stays unnamed, the nervous system stops registering it as alarm — and the door opens to what comes next.
Related patterns
Something feels off but you can't name it?
An exercise to listen to what the body already knows.