A mechanism or tactic · 2013 · Gaming
Swatting
Sending a false emergency report to a real address to provoke an armed police response, because of a grievance about a streamer.
The final boundary. A parasocial grievance aimed at a public figure lands on an innocent third party with a weapon, and no amount of the bond being sincere changes the outcome for the person who is shot.
Where it sits
2010 2010+ · 2013 2026
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- retrievableThe term was coined in 2011 and the practice escalated from pranks to lethal: a 60-year-old man was killed in a swatting in California in 2013, after which California enacted specific anti-swattiing legislation. Armed police are dispatched as a joke with someone else's address attachedSwatting (Wikipedia). ↗
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The character is not the personcites · 2005 · A term or conceptSasaeng culturecites · 2000 · A term or conceptThe character is not the personcites · 2005 · A term or concept
Reported as a story
Kai Cenat ended nine months of silence with a million people watchingStreamer University 2026, dual-platform, 120 creators, and the 'I Quit' pivot before it.A fan was convicted of stalking Jungkook. Twenty-two visits. One hundred and thirty-three doorbell ringsSomewhere between the anniversary counter and this doorbell there is a line, and it is not blurry for the person on the other side of it.
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