A mechanism or tactic · 2005 · Internet
Doxxing the person, not the character
The jump from disliking a fictional portrayal to locating and publishing a real person's address. The word had to be invented for a grievance that used to be settled by writing a letter.
The escalation everyone predicted and nobody predicted the timing of. Note what the parasocial frame does here: the audience is not attached to the person being targeted, they are attached to somebody playing them. The harm lands on a human who did not choose to be a character.
Manipulation. One-sided attachment engineered for somebody else's benefit. Paid intimacy, parasocial persuasion, sasaeng, grief extraction, the streak. The lane that pays the bills and the lane that causes the most harm, frequently at the same time.
Where it sits
2000 2000-2009 · 2005 2009
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- retrievableOrganised exposure of personal information used as a campaign tactic rather than incidental doxxing, documented as a distinct practice and separately criminalised in a number of jurisdictionsDoxxing (Wikipedia). ↗
Connected · 2 out, 1 in
Reported as a story
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