online harassment
Internet-based intimidation tactics
Online harassment is hostile behavior directed at someone through digital platforms—social media, email, forums, or messaging apps.
It includes threats, insults, doxxing (publishing private information), coordinated pile-ons, and sustained campaigns to intimidate or silence.
She quit Twitter after months of online harassment.
The term covers a spectrum from isolated nasty comments to organized abuse that disrupts someone's life offline.
- doxxingPublishing personal information maliciously
- cyberbullyingDigital intimidation of others
- trollingProvoking reactions online
- reply guysPersistent unwanted social media commenters
- pile-onMass criticism or tackle
hate mob · hate speech · dog whistles · death threats · impersonation · defamation · dogpiling · privacy violation · brigading · mass reporting · swatting · anxiety · libel · trauma · stalking · revenge porn · burner accounts · isolation
- digital culturesocial media, memes, hashtags, viral content, influencers
- intimidationthreats, threatening, menacing, intimidate, bullying
- cyber conflictstrolling, cyberbullying, flame war, doxing, doxxing
- gaming problemsbugs, glitches, lag, crashes, cheaters
- LGBTQ discriminationhomophobia, transphobia, biphobia, hate crimes, prejudice
- Online Scandalscancel culture, doxxing, cyberbullying, viral outrage, trolling
online harassmentstreet harassment
Unwanted public verbal intrusion
workplace bullying · workplace harassment · physical assault