What I'm about to say here I should preface by stressing that this in no way makes them less of a very serious threat, but I'm perpetually stunned by how this particular group of obsessive stalkers manages to be so profoundly pathetic and incompetent in everything they attempt.
Case in point, I've been seeing them come at Yonah all day long shouting the bog standard slurs scumbags love shouting at trans women, and I don't see how those can be expected to have any real impact on someone who is not transfeminine.
Which Yonah is very plainly not.
Which is something you would really expect these people would know, as they have been maintaining a massive stalking database on Yonah since before they came out as non-binary, and if you look at their feed today, or really any time in like, the past 3 years or so at least, you will see quite a lot of discussion of problems that are only relevant to people whose anatomy does not match up with those efforts to say hurtful things. I also see a lot of the classic "you'll never be a woman!" shouted towards someone who, again, finds that assertion quite affirming. And it's not even just whatever combination of sloppiness and lacking even a 12 year old's understanding of biology causing them to pair up the wrong slurs with the wrong targets. Basic entry level intuitive stuff about stalking and harassing people that would apply to anyone, these people consistently manage to drop the ball on.
Like the most common thing they ever try to pull? They try to find trans people's dead names and old photos, then set up fake twitter accounts with the best they think they've got, again, plenty of examples of this on Yonah's feed today. And the only thing they ever seem to do with those accounts and the associated information is just... hurl insults at that person.
Like, I'm not going to sit here and list off all the more effective ways one could weaponize that sort of thing, because I'm not trying to give these losers useful feedback, and I don't assume anyone else reading this is stupid enough not to think of a dozen things on their own, but wow is that a lot of effort to go through to deliver an attack with all the strength of just sending someone an anonymous message of like, "you eat boogers!" or something.
Oh and half the time they send their targets links directly to the forum threads on them too, which is just the saddest damn thing in the world. Like what the hell do they expect to get out of that? Do they think their targets will be so proud of all the stalking homework they've done and pin it on the refrigerator or something? It's shockingly impotent.
And again, while I am absolutely making fun of these idiots, I'm not making light of them. Like, people from that website have taken guns, gone out into public places, and fatally shot multiple people. That needs to be taken very seriously, and if we had functional law enforcement in this country, I'd be badgering them non-stop to start making arrests on all the co-conspirators. But at the same time, I'm not at all shocked that people from that site have the lack of morality and strength of conviction needed to commit mass murder, but I'm kind of surprised they managed to successfully work out which end of the gun the bullets come out of.
Rare exceptions like that aside, most of what makes that site dangerous isn't the regulars, it's actually competent people finding the site when running searches on targets and finding ready-made deposits of fuel for attacks that they can use and claim they "learned all this from someone else, feel free to look it up on your own." And it's not like you can even make the argument that these losers are contributing by "doing solid detective work" because nearly all the "dirt" they have on any of their targets is just fan fiction the most sad and miserable losers on the planet wrote about random strangers. The most damage it can ever do is with people who just believe anything you tell them and don't know the first thing about the targets to begin with.
Weirdly enough though, the total lack of competence and basic reasoning skills actually makes them more frightening than they would be otherwise? Like someone who sits outside your front door holding a knife and shouting about how the second you set foot outside they're going to gut you like a fish is a whole lot more intimidating than someone standing there holding a rubber chicken and shouting "baked potato!" at you, but if the baked potato guy is literally out there rain or shine every single day for 5 damn years, that is really damn disquieting.
And like, this is a site full of people who've been on porches for shouting potato for a hell of a lot longer than that. And completely vomiting all over the internet with SEO exploits so that if you do a search for anything related to their targets, you just get page after page of results just saying potato and like, photos of people's garbage cans.
It's less of a "this person is going to try to harm me" fear and more of a this person is wasting so much time and energy on an all-consuming obsession without any clue what they're even doing that just the act of trying to get into their head and work out why they don't spend their time on literally anything else is just impossible.
Like even someone just huffing paint in a garage and asphyxiating is going to leave this world more accomplished, fulfilled, and and fondly remembered than than any of these losers who can't even stalk people properly. It really is chilling to imagine anyone managing to so completely waste a life.
