That Time Libs of Tik Tok Sent People to My House
My first run in with the vileness of Libs of Tik Tok
I could never forget what day it was. Because my daughter was celebrating her eleventh birthday by running her third 5K with Girls on the Run. We had driven north of St. Augustine and spent the night so she could be ready for her early race start.
It began with a couple comments. Weird ones on a tongue in cheek video I had made earlier in the week making fun of the newest outlandish pro-life argument online that of course the evil liberals were encouraging abortion so that they could burn the embryos for power.
Yes. You read that correctly. LifeNews or whatever that shithole “pro-life news” source is had run a story earlier in the week with something along those lines. In a moment of wtf I had to make fun of it. They just make it too easy sometimes, if we are being honest.
This was also at a point in time that I had no worry about losing my Tik Tok account. I had a good following, but nowhere near where it is now.
Channeling my favorite movie of all time, Forrest Gump I launched into the most ridiculous impersonation of Bubba. Bbq fetus, fricasseed fetus, boiled, broiled, and a laundry list of fictional recipes. With the most absolute tongue in cheek, and clear comedy of it all.
Never having heard of Libs of Tik Tok back then, I had no idea where the giant influx of trolls came from on my page. Given anything that has to do with abortion really brings out the most horrible humans on the internet I wasn’t exactly surprised.
That wasn’t until I started getting emails with pictures of my home. Messages threatening my life. Saying I should be raped and murdered because I am a horrible woman. Most of the graphic messages came from men threatening to sexually assault me in some form or another.
I then found that that page had shared my video with the sole intent of targeted harassment. Additionally, fake news right wing propaganda pages picked up the “story” of the Tik Toker calling for babies to be burned for power. How they equated that story to what I said was completely beyond me.
This all played out while I was trying to keep myself together for my daughter on this day of a huge accomplishment while also wondering if someone was going to do something to my home before I was able to actually GET back home and protect my house with more than just a ring doorbell.
This was long before this dumb cunt started making national headlines targeting trans people and other marginalized communities. And the fact that all of these social media platforms continue to let this page thrive is everything wrong with the internet today. Like our communities we walk among, we need a level of basic human decency which the world now lacks. The damage has been done.
Thankfully these threats only fuel me. The rage that the harassment inspires within my soul would have impressed the witches they burned before me in my family tree. Each time some MAGA Chad bro threatens to show up at my house. I wish a bitch would. I won’t live in fear of incels that are scared of their own shadow living in their mothers basement.
I’ll make an example of what Stand Your Ground really means here in Florida if these motherfuckers want to come at me.
But I can tell you there is one thing for certain that I will never do.
And that is live in fear for doing what I love to do.
And that is speak truth to power.
You and BTC is where I get all my current political event info.
You are a badass, Oz. I’ve learned more about the way our government works from you in a year, than I have in my whole life. And I’m 59. Thank you!