Vindictive/violent lolcows? -

[PurpleSquirrel]

Anyone ever hear of a lolcow who responded to trolling with vengeful counter-trolling (i.e., trying to get trolls fired from their jobs, or break up their relationships)? Or who actually flew off the handle and violently confronted their tormentors?

I'm just curious, because it seems like certain lolcows we follow here are just crafty and crazy enough to be potentially dangerous to anyone they doxed. What do you think?

 

[The I Scream Man]

Most of them don't seem to have the intelligence to know how to do that, and (in theory) if they did they probably wouldn't be lolcows. I just can't see The Iconoclast or Raven Sparks being bright enough to cause serious damage to anyone, ever.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

I've read stories where 4chan has found an idiots workplace, contacted them about the dumb thing they did online and the person was fired.

Last year, this girl thought it would be hilarious to pose next to these two guys at a Halloween party who were dressed up like Zimmerman and trayvon Martin. Enough people were disgusted by the photo they found the girl and it got her fired. The guys who wore the costumes had long rap sheets I think.

There's some other Internet asses 4chan/etc found and they got fired or were insanely harassed.

 

[PurpleSquirrel]

Well, 4chan seems to fall under the heading of "trolls", rather than "vindictive lolcows who took their butthurt out on their tormentors."

 

[Heretics on Holiday]

Columbine happened. So there's that.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Not necessarily from recognised/documented lolcows, but...

http://www.eater.com/2012/7/31/6559...-two-year-harassment-campaign-over-bad-online
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01...rt-lashed-out-at-woman-after-bad-yelp-review/

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Most lolcows are all talk when it comes to actually taking physical revenge on their trolls. Usually they don't have the smarts to track the trolls down, and in most cases they're too wimpy to actually commit acts of violence. Impotent rage is one of the defining characteristics of a lolcow - anyone intelligent enough to actually carry out such severe retribution would be unlikely to become a lolcow in the first place, and would most likely have the maturity and common sense not to blow up.

 

[BT 075]

Chris vindictively and violently attacked my eyesight.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

Romeo Rose was attempting to contact people's employers and apparently succeeded at least once - that guy legit scares me.

 

[StallChaser]

The Amy's Baking Company couple sound like they're that class of lolcow, especially her husband. It's pretty much undisputed that they're lolcows, and I don't think they'd hesitate for a second to really fuck someone over if they had the chance.

 

[Cure Quanta]

I dunno, somehow I think a lolcow that crosses that line ceases being a lolcow. It's part of the name, isn't it? "Lol," implying we can look at their antics no matter how fucked up they are and elicit a laugh from them. I daresay violence, even not counting deaths, kind of blunts the ability to do that.

Of course, when nobody actually gets hurt and the attempt blows up spectacularly in their faces like Chris and his car or pretty much all of Tyce, Jace and Eli's antics, it swings right back to being funny again, so maybe I'm just blowing smoke outta my ass...

 

[Lucky Wildcard]

I'm not sure if this counts, but...

Spoiler

He's basically like this with anyone who disagrees with him on youtube and any news site that has comment sections. I'm not sure if he's a lolcow or a troll, but I did some recon on him and apparently he was trolled in the past, partly due to his autism and as a result he's paranoid and untrustworthy. I'll let you be the judge.