Aoife Dooley abused online after her article appeared in Junior Cert paper!

freshpopcorn

Aoife Dooley's article appeared in one of the Junior Cert papers Yesterday. It was about people's behavior on public transport.
Since the article appeared she'd received death threats, threats of people throwing brick throw her windows, rape threats, dick pics,etc.

She has closed her Instagram account and contacted Gardai.

Whilst we had social media when I did my Junior Cert. I don't think it was as popular. Most of us dumped our papers instead of going researching who wrote articles in it and contacting them.
I wonder how many people actually contacted her. Or could it be one person with several troll accounts.

What do After Hours think?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/comedian-who-appeared-on-junior-cert-paper-subject-to-online-rape-threats-1.3917233


PS I apologise for my English. I did Ordinary level!

Allinall

Hope they all fail.

Pintman Paddy Losty

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Aoife Dooley's article appeared in one of the Junior Cert papers Yesterday. It was about people's behavior on public transport.
Since the article appeared she'd received death threats, threats of people throwing brick throw her windows, rape threats, dick pics,etc.

She has closed her Instagram account and contacted Gardai.

Whilst we had social media when I did my Junior Cert. I don't think it was as popular. Most of us dumped our papers instead of going researching who wrote articles in it and contacting them.
I wonder how many people actually contacted her. Or could it be one person with several troll accounts.

What do After Hours think?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/comedian-who-appeared-on-junior-cert-paper-subject-to-online-rape-threats-1.3917233


PS I apologise for my English. I did Ordinary level!

I sent a shoebox full of sh1te to whoever the **** William Shakespeare was who appeared on the 1992 ordinary level English paper. Couldn't understand a word of it. The cnut.

Trigger Happy

She does seem to get bullied a lot online.

Odhinn

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

I sent a shoebox full of sh1te to whoever the **** William Shakespeare was who appeared on the 1992 ordinary level English paper. Couldn't understand a word of it. The cnut.

That, along with parcels of shite to Patrick Kavanagh for being a miserable bollix, sort of missed the window, timewise.

Your Face

She just wants attention.

mdk_kdm

Rape threats? Really?

JupiterKid

Thank God social media and the internet did not exist when I did my Inter Cert ...29 years ago now. Sheesh! :O

Honestly why do people bother with harrassing someone?

BENDYBINN

She said she got 15yr old dick pics.....who the hell keeps pics of their dicks for fifteen yrs?

odyssey06

We should really be taking advantage of the opportunity presented by social media to track down these muppets before they do any real harm...

Hurrache

Your Face wrote: »

She just wants attention.

Bit like yourself so with such comments.

Sonny noggs

Sounds like attention seeking

TheDiceMan2020

I'd like to see proof.

She probably got a handful of messages and this is all a stunt.

Harry Palmr

Who is feck is Aoife Dooley is mainly what came to mind.

Odhinn

JupiterKid wrote: »

Thank God social media and the internet did not exist when I did my Inter Cert ...29 years ago now. Sheesh! :O

...............

35 years for me. Still went to see Blackfoot at the TV club despite maths the next day. Neck was crooked at a wrong angle due to youthfully enthusiastic head bangin.

so if a non autistic man wrote such a piece referencing his disgust of same passengers, using the same terminology, we'd be having a discussion about how the leaving cert is now printing bully type hate speech!!

BUT...because she's autistic and female perhaps, it's ok, it;s just a form of cultural satire then maybe ...:rolleyes:

yes she is attention seeking..why do the press know about it..building her public profile.

On the actual event/threats themselves...are you really surprised at some of these little *****?? 13 year old mutilating a 14 yr old girl??? saying satan drove them to it.. in that regard, little scumbags alright..

I wouldn't be fan of Dooley or any such snowflakes but nobody has the right to interfere with someones mood or feelings unless actually invited to do so.

Your Face

Hurrache wrote: »

Bit like yourself so with such comments.

More like yourself tbh

bigpink

Trigger Happy wrote: »

She does seem to get bullied a lot online.

Who is she?

hatrickpatrick

Am I in the minority when I say that trolling by random strangers I've never and will never meet has just never phased me online? It's one thing to be cyberbullied by people you know in real life because that usually has horrible real-life consequences which extend after one puts down the phone or laptop - I'd imagine very few people who are cyberbullied by people they know in real life are not also bullied in person by those same people. But threatening, abusive or trolling messages from random strangers? Honestly it always just made me laugh.

I'm not excusing douchebags for being douchebags, I just find it strange that the separation between screen persona and physical persona has apparently shrunk to non-existent. In my life, there's Hatrickpatrick and there's Paddy, and someone sending Hatrickpatrick sh!t over the internet doesn't hurt Paddy emotionally in real life. Now, Paddy has all of the main social networks, and of those, his Twitter is publicly available while his Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram etc are "real-life friends only" - if a real life friend was to start being a piece of sh!t on any of these platforms, that'd probably upset Paddy a lot, and has in the past. If a random stranger starts being a piece of sh!t to hatrickpatrick (or to Paddy on his Twitter account), Paddy just reads the messages and either closes them or if appropriate, tries to conjure an amusing rebuttal one-liner. If some stranger makes a threat against Paddy or hatrickpatrick on any of these platforms, his reaction is just "Good luck finding out where I live, and even if you do, my dog isn't nearly as cute as she looks if you piss her off, good luck attacking me with several dozen kilos of labrador chewing on your ass"

My point is, am I in the minority in taking this view? I regard the concept of 'cyberbullying' as bullying by real-life contacts who also make one's life a misery in the physical realm (for example, school or college people starting rumours or whatever which results in social isolation or embarrassment in person, in the physical world). But I literally don't understand how anyone can be truly upset by the ramblings of random rabble rousers on the internet - surely if you don't know someone in real life and you've never met them, you have no real emotional connection to that person or desire to be liked by them? The poster directly above my post at the time of writing this is the user Odyssey06. I do not know this individual in real life, only as someone who posts on AH. If the next post from Odyssey06 were to say something like "hatrickpatrick is a fat, creepy little bollocks and I'm going to go to his house and kick the sh!te out of him", I'd just be like "...ok then? Good luck finding me sir/madam, and I may be a little rotund but I'm stronger than I look "

It's in that context that I tend to be dismissive of this stuff. When did we start taking words written by random strangers we'll never meet as something to be emotionally invested in? There are seven billion people on this planet and I'll probably never meet more than a few hundred or thousand of them at best. If one of the few hundred of them I know and like were to threaten violence against me, that'd upset me and it might scare me. If one of the other 6.99 billion of them that I don't know threatens violence against me, they're just... Irrelevant strangers. Move message to spam folder and move on.

Look, I'm not defending the behaviour or suggesting that I have no sympathy for those who are actually emotionally hurt by the writings of strangers, I'm empathetic towards it insofar as I can be, I just don't understand it. They're strangers. You'll never meet. Who cares what brain farts they fire in your direction? You can't smell farts over the internet, like.

James Brown

For better or worse social media amplifies what we already had in society. We need accept that. We've moved from thinking or saying what we don't like about someone and being able to contact them directly, anonymously if we want.

Two rules of thumb:

Don't put yourself out in public if you don't want the public to criticise you.

Don't open messages from unknown randomers.

_Whimsical_

What sort of dullards would even be arsed googling who wrote the article for their English paper not to mention taking time out to harass the person. What happened to watching the telly or taking a million selfies of yourself etc.

Bring back generation snowflake.
The current generation of teens make me shudder.

hatrickpatrick

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

What sort of dullards would even be arsed googling who wrote the article for their English paper not to mention taking time out to harass the person.

People who really should be studying for Maths and Irish instead Leigh anois go curamach, ar do scrúdphápear...

she was on the brendan o'connor show earlier in the year and musta had feck all to say because she recited that musing verbatim on the show like it was ad hoc comedy gold!!

BUT reading that, other than it not being even cleverly written or witty in construction, how could it be really offensive?? it's just like a stupid rant, WTF was this of all things doing on a paper and why would it be a test to agree or disagree?? bizarre lefty lets include everyone shyte!

_Brian

Our society is gone to hell if this has happened.

I’ve no idea who she is nor what she writes about but it’s absurd that she would get abuse over poetry or whatever she writes.

I hope these barbarians are found and dealt with (not that I really beleive it will happen)

dhaughton99

BENDYBINN wrote: »

She said she got 15yr old dick pics.....who the hell keeps pics of their dicks for fifteen yrs?

Wouldn’t that be classed as kiddie porn?

odyssey06

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

My point is, am I in the minority in taking this view? I regard the concept of 'cyberbullying' as bullying by real-life contacts who also make one's life a misery in the physical realm (for example, school or college people starting rumours or whatever which results in social isolation or embarrassment in person, in the physical world). But I literally don't understand how anyone can be truly upset by the ramblings of random rabble rousers on the internet - surely if you don't know someone in real life and you've never met them, you have no real emotional connection to that person or desire to be liked by them? The poster directly above my post at the time of writing this is the user Odyssey06. I do not know this individual in real life, only as someone who posts on AH. If the next post from Odyssey06 were to say something like "hatrickpatrick is a fat, creepy little bollocks and I'm going to go to his house and kick the sh!te out of him", I'd just be like "...ok then? Good luck finding me sir/madam, and I may be a little rotund but I'm stronger than I look "

Well you are in fairness

I would half agree with you - its water off a duck's back when you hiding behind an anonymous account.

But for someone like Aoife Dooley who I can google online and get a picture of... she's in a more difficult position. For her chosen career she needs a public profile. So for her there is potential for this to be cyberbullying instead of just random crap online that doesn't connect to the real world.

sinead burke get leapfrogged in town by two retards and then she's all over the airwaves calling it a hate crime... now aoife dooley is getting naked pics and death threats on her youtube, instagram and twitter accounts so it's reading similar too.. WTF
So just block, delete or put them up in the public domain to show them up!!

what's she telling everyone about if for, so what, like she says, she's got a public profile and she's boosting it i'd say. Why say most of it is from young men..so how much is from women?? they're all offenders so why single out the man/woman ratio??

what happened to pick an essay anyway.. an accident..my summer holiday...the zoo... FFS, now we have to discuss the ramblings of a badly written rant and call it english literature.. wtf!! I'd say her ego hit the roof!

hatrickpatrick

odyssey06 wrote: »

Well you are in fairness

I would half agree with you - its water off a duck's back when you hiding behind an anonymous account.

But for someone like Aoife Dooley who I can google online and get a picture of... she's in a more difficult position. For her chosen career she needs a public profile. So for her there is potential for this to be cyberbullying instead of just random crap online that doesn't connect to the real world.

I mean I know I am, but I'm working on the fat part, so soon I'll just be an out and out creepy little bollocks. Baby steps!

As someone who hopes to one day make it as a musician, I'd argue that if your chosen career path inevitably puts you into the public spotlight in that way, then such comments from random strangers are just part of the package and again, are something it's not worth one's time taking seriously. I mean how exactly can what's happening to Aoife Dooley affect her in real life? Will journalistic outlets shy away from publishing her work because of it? Will she likely lose business? I mean again, at the end of the day, these are just internet idiots with nothing better to do. The chances of any of them actually following through on a threat are so ridiculously minuscule that it just doesn't seem like anything other than "the internet is not serious business, turn off your push notifications for a couple of days and if you can think of one, fire an epic rebuttal back at these people to make them cringe a bit". Beyond that... It's the internet. As ever thus.

Obviously this is just my opinion. I've gotten abuse under my real name on Twitter in the past, and I usually just take it as a sign that I've successfully rattled a few cages with whatever the abuse was in response to. Maybe I'm just a more confident person than most (I really, really doubt that ) but I honestly don't see how this kind of sh!te could ever bother someone more than just "dammit, my phone won't stop beeping and I'm trying to listen to a song here".

Sonny noggs

Hundreds of death threats? Who is she kidding?

freshpopcorn

Sonny noggs wrote: »

Hundreds of death threats? Who is she kidding?

I suspect it could be somebody creating several accounts just trying to wind her up!

suicide_circus

not nice but great for her profile