When Anonymity goes wrong (4ChanC)
Hello, Ants, today I come to this website to share a story that I still have trouble believing.
Last night I was browsing 4chan, an online imageboard that has garnered some major-media attention being a home for internet delinquents and hackers. While part of this is true, most 4chan users are normal people like you and me.
4chan is an imageboard that doesn't use avatars or user names to set users apart but, rather ID's that let you see who the OP is. For example, OP will make a thread and get a number like this: 'EoMcky/89' next to their post. Each subsequent post OP makes in the thread will contain the same numbers, therefore establishing the ID.
On to the story...
Last night I was browsing around on /b/ (the largest and most infamous of all 4chan sub-boards) and I saw a picture of a young woman in a bikini. Let's call this girl 'M'. At this moment I clicked on the image and said to myself "wow that girl really looks familiar" I then got on facebook and typed in 'M's actual name. I'm not friends with her and her profile was blocked and I couldnt make a connection so I said forget it. I still got the feeling I knew her though so I continued to look through the other pictures that were in the thread (the thread was about 75 posts by this time) There were between 30 and 40 pictures of 'M' posted by a single 4 chan user. Let's call the OP, and center of our story, 'Bob'.
WARNING: This story gets very odd. Proceed with caution.
I go back to the top of the thread to the first post with 'M' in a bikini and the caption Bob wrote when he uploaded the first picture was 'My sister has glorious tits'. Wow, well, looks like Bob and M are brother and sister. I look through post by post and it looks like Bob has uploaded A LOT of pictures of his sister, M, on to 4chan. Many of these uploaded pictures contain captions that deal with Bob wanting to have sex with his sister and perform other sexual acts on her. One other 4chan user commented and said something along the lines of "Wow I would love to fuck the shit out of her". Bob responds by saying "Yea, it looks like she could take a beating".
Here's where shit gets real. I click on a picture uploaded by Bob and see there are other people in the picture. At this point I have a very sneaking suspicion that I actually know who the OP is in real life. The picture I click on is one of 'M' in a bikini with an older man (50+) on her right side and a younger man (19) on her left. I take a closer look at the younger man on her left.
I know him. I know 'Bob'. I know the OP. I graduated high school with 'Bob'. I played recreational sports with 'Bob' throughout my childhood. I'm catching 'Bob' on 4chan posting pictures of his sister and saying how badly he wants to have sex with her. I also go to college with his sister. I see her on campus all the time.
I commented on the thread and said "I know her. I know you OP. Weather in HarCo has been great lately, hasn't it?" He didn't come back to the thread and then Bob deleted his original post.
Too bad for Bob, I screen capped the entire thread and can connect the dots pretty easily.
What do I do, Ants?
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