DMs Threats dont exist

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I've lately become extremely skeptical of the "Social Media DM Threat of Harm" claim that nearly EVERY public figure uses.
My reasoning isnt that there aren't a VERY small amount of crazed individuals doing it, but that the content of those messages is misinterpreted, and the amount exagerated.
Why? because its a great tool of avoiding acountability, and self-victimizing, suddenly whatever the criticism this figure faced, becomes sidelined.

It goes from "X person did Y bad thing, how evil!" to "Oh no, X's is receiving hatred for their actions in an unprompted manner", which then leads to dividing the once united narrative, leading to infighting amongst the enraged crowd, with the figure then fading into the background

This isnt about the amy situation specifically, its about all the public figures, globally, regardless of nationality or ethnicity, i keep seeing this pattern, and it annoys me.
A threat is a real promise of danger, not some idiot saying "you should be X-ed", "i hope Y happens to you", "this person deserves W happening to them", those are sentiments, takes, opinions, not Threats. but they are used as padding on the "im being threatened claim".

I now do not believe and do not take these claims into account when judging any nothing burger drama regardless of side, its too vague, too unverifiable.
If you truly were receiving such threats you wouldnt be bitching about it on social media, you wouldnt be using it to gather simpathy or to restructure narratives or to do image control, you would be reporting it to the authorities.

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yea, ive always been skeptical of this, obviously im not them but i dont think(example) brazillians will send you death threats for saying aspas is the 2nd best duelist itw

I am a relatively small account on twitter and i get at the least two death threats a day

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People who complain about death threats, especially pros, are corny. They deadass experience 1% of the hate a pro athlete faces. Not to mention you can just ignore them lol. The only actual bad thing these people face is doxxing

i kinda agree with you in the sense that most of the time is just people venting out and trying to hurt someone with words but i still think this should not happen. people get way too comfortable on social media to go after someone they don't know and talk shit outside of common banter. its also unhealthy exposition of your own feelings instead of learning how to deal with them in a proper way that might become a problem later on offline situations

that said, i think it will happen anyway and will not change, so public figures might as well just learn to deal with it. part of making it is having haters after all

Kinda sucks to say but you are right, whatever threat is made by the average person while vile really hold little to no weight and if there was legitmate concern then they definitely would to authorities first (granted for some reason people love settling beef online, I didn't have to hear about how much of a freak florescent was at 15)

everyone who said they receive death threat should be double checked on the credibility of whatever they claims.

death threat is a serious stuff and shouldnt be thrown around just to upsell your sad victim story.

But anyway i had the exact same opinion during a really long long SEA drama years ago and these westerner cant accept this lmao