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Janet Lunde

TRUTH

A Lys Lindheim

"It's the internet. Always assume the worst." THIS is the line I need on a shirt.

Creepy Cat Lady

This EXACTLY.

Alex

No, she's not wrong. (and I hate to bring up real world worries considering) The other concern is Swatting or Doxxing, as being a gamer can attract a-holes like that for any signs 'rejection' she might show.

Daryl Sawyer

All she really needed to say was, "remember when you first met Clinton? Now imagine having to deal with that every day. "

Miyaa

And thus that is how the Burger Oni was grilled!

Ben Russell-Gough

On the other side of her face to the one shown in this strip, yes.

Doesn’t she have moles?

prettydragoon

Marigold knows from the internets.

David Durant

Agree with everyone else but just wanted to say - wow Jeph that close-up is a hella good piece of art

Comics Ladybird

Even if the scenario here is… oddly specific, I don’t think it’s a bad illustration of what can happen with a sufficiently large, unmediated audience.

Yeah she's being completely 100% rational when it comes to protecting your identity online from fucking weirdo creeps.

Randall Norman Pick

This is an entirely sane level of precautions

Dean Reilly

Marigold has 200K followers. If as few as 0.05% are potentially violent obsessives, that's still 100 dangerous nutcases.

Dean Reilly

She didn't even mention the inevitable flood of rape and death threats.

Chris Crowther

Yeah. Marigold is 100% correct in this assumption.

Joseph Bonnar

Marigold is right, sad to say. She's 100% correct.

Stephen Wells

I would think Marigold was overthinking this, if this didn't literally happen to people :(

Patrick Mac Manus

And you're telling Hanners this???????

Nick Hodgson

Yeah, that's realistic for sure.

Ben Russell-Gough

Marigold speaks Jeph's angst about the on-line 'rando', I think. Still, you can't say that this is wrong. There are far too many freaks out there who can't control themselves and are very dangerous when they develop an obsession, positive or negative.

Shane Wegner

Like I said in my last post about my streamer friend entering the witness protection program variant, this kind of thing happens. That one streamer doxxed my friend down to her street, and _despite not living in her part of the country, was seen in her neighborhood and was looking in her house's windows and stuff._ Even I don't know the full story, but I assume to get into the protection program there needs to be threats of violence too. So, yeah. A medium percentage will do the creepy things like saying they "love" streamers and the nudes requests and f knows what else, but a small percentage will take it even more inappropriately IRL. Brain cells can just go haywire and think "But this makes sense! We're in love! We're fated to be together, this is my birthright!! I'll kill anyone who gets in the way of my noble quest!!" People thinking they are right when they are not is a fascinating phenomenon. The depths of the internet is a scary phenomenon.

Bagge

She's more surprised than anyone

SilverbackRon

Marigold is right to be hyper concerned. Any woman who gains a following on the internet is bound to get a lot of weird shit in her life. And if she got doxxed? This is no minor worry.

Captain Button

She told her one friend who must know something about coping with wealth and avoiding public notice, since she is a daughter of billionaires who walks the public streets under her real name.

Chris Driggers

Hanners as the voice of reason. 🤣😬

darklion

Man, if I was as concerned as Marigold seems to be, I wouldn't have even told my friends.

Pejo

Hanners merely adopted the Internet; Marigold was born in it, molded by it. She didn't see the real world until she was already a woman. By then, it was nothing to her but blinding.

I'm still a little bummed I missed out on getting an "Everything is Ruined Forever" shirt.

Yeah, the assumptions are a little low key, tbh.

Absentia

She's not wrong tho...

Todd Perkins

Have you guys seen the message boards about Jeph? OMG.

Carin Maja Brooks

It's not paranoia if they're actually out to get you... And honestly, that was the biggest thing I've learned with transitioning. Being a woman is dangerous in this world, and right now the best hope is that someone else is an easier target

Jeff Hartley

Nice conversation along with the death head

Cole Blackblood

Sadly accurate for anyone putting themselves out in the world like that. Fans can get crazy

Mad Marie

Also, Jeph: really fantastic work with the gradual zoom in to enhance the emotional dimension of her words. Nailed it!

Mad Marie

This. (Sadly)

Yeah, it sucks to say it but that scenario is all too plausible

Jason Zions

This is depressingly and maddeningly accurate.

Yohannon

NO LIES DETECTED.

Hugh Eckert

Marigold is wise.

Yonatan Zunger

Sorry, Hanners. Marigold is not just right about this, she's right in detail to the level a professional in the field would be. Source: am a professional in the field, alas.

VGreenGoblinV

I hate that Marigold is not wrong. Because that means that’s her paranoia is justified and she has to be scared now and that’s just not fair to women in general. Goddamnit...☹️

melloncollic

And another quote- and very shirt-worthy saying from Marigold.

Carrie

↑

Todd Ellner

Actually pretty optimistic. The doxing, vicious sexual harassment, SWATTing, fake nudes, targeted insults and physical violence are all probable for a prominent woman on the Internet

Miyaa

Andy Warhol was wrong about everyone being famous for 15 minutes. It’s more like various degrees, strata, and caste of famous.

Eric Lusby

Normally these scenarios are spiraling anxiety thoughts (I know from experience). But on the internet, especially for a woman? Marigold is being totally sensible.

Isaac Rivers

This is the anxiety I have from streaming, and I haven't fully even set up a channel yet.

ducksauz

It's terrible that being a woman on the internet is rife with peril.

David Johnson

Marigold has seen enough to know what's possible.

Darnel D Cooper

Note to self: read comments before commenting.

Darnel D Cooper

oboy. well,... she is not wrong,......

RIP my first reddit account before I learned about infosec. Marigold's got the right idea, unfortunately.

Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson

The internet found that psycho cat and person killer from background information. And that was them using their powers for GOOD! Many people know what can happen in cases of doxxing and it's not pretty. Trust your instincts, Marigold.

Nicole Hands

Pintsize might *be* one of the assholes. Although, if he isn't, this would certainly be within his wheelhouse. Not sure it fixes anything, but retribution feels good sometimes.

Vilinda

And it doesn't take long. Once the first name is figured out, it's game over.

Brooks Moses

Also the time Tom Scott challenged people to figure out where he'd watched a recent eclipse from, based on some _very_ generic photos of midwest-U.S. surroundings with essentially no other data, was quite impressive. He had to reconstruct his location to centimeter accuracy to rank the top dozen or so entries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqEBvlmFAQ.

Grace Kieser

I mean, someone tracked down Selena and murdered her in 1995. That's before the internet as we know it!

Alternately--is it still paranoia if they really *are* out to get you?

Simon Green

Rule 34.

Mindi Young

+1 for gorram!

kaitou

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."

Yelling Bird

JUST WAIT TILL 4CHAN HEARS ABOUT THIS SHIT!

Morgan

Yeah, the internet can figure things out uncomfortably well when properly motivated, and horniness is sadly really good at motivating people.

Alcaria Swain

Senpai?

Lyzz

It's a terrifyingly plausible scenario tbh

Wednesday

This is *underplaying it.*

mooviies

I beg to differ... it's the internet after all

Grace Kieser

Marigold has lived on the internet her entire life. This is not a scenario, it's a gorram recounting of actual events!

Being friends with somebody who got doxxed and faced extensive harassment, this is a big freaking oof

Scotty

Marigold it's wrong. But she needs to relax and breathe.

Giant Speck

If anything, her scenario doesn't even actually assume the worst.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

She's totes not wrong.

MikeT

She ain't wrong

Seidmadr

Fun to see Hanners as the rational one in a scenario!

Stéphane Lapie

The sad thing is, it's not even THAT far-fetched; it ain't paranoia when you're right

I'm sad about how right she is

Michael Boettger

To be fair, Marigold, you're not wrong.

Max D S

Pintsize can force airdrop goatse to all the assholes phones

Erinnyes

The internet at large figured out where a flag was that could have been anywhere in the world by using the stars and aircraft contrails. Never underestimate the power of a large number of smart people with time.

Terry Parry

I mean, she's not wrong....

Chris Weigert

She is absolutely not wrong…