My Cyberbullying Story

TRIGGER WARNING: cyberbullying, mentions of rape threats, death threats, manipulation (including a person threatening to kill themselves to manipulate another person), self-worth issues (thinking you deserve when people treat you badly)

Updates on my account and stories below first line break.

Fanfiction- the website

fanfiction- the writing of fanfiction

This isn't a fanfiction like I would usually write. This is my story of when I was cyber bullied on Fanfiction.

I used to write a lot on Fanfiction, but in the past couple of years, I have barely written anything on Fanfiction. I decided to write this to explain why. I will also admit this is a project for a college class, but I think it was time for me to finally share my story and explain to the people who have loved reading my stories why I don't write on anymore. I also wanted to talk about how common cyberbullying is on Fanficton.

I first joined in April 2015 when I was twelve. I loved writing fanfiction. I had been writing fanfiction for a long time, but I finally decided to post it on a website. It was fun. I could improve my writing and practice my writing. I could also meet people who liked the same fandoms as me.

I started writing prompts, which were ideas for stories messaged to me by other people on Fanfiction. I liked writing prompts because I could write about things I didn't write a lot about.

A person gave me a prompt one day for one of my Oneshot collections. I wrote it, and they started giving me more prompts. We were friends. They liked my stories. We messaged each other a lot, and I liked talking to them.

One day, they started giving me prompts I wasn't comforting writing. Very sexual prompts. When I tried to tell them I wasn't comfortable writing those prompts, they went off at me. They sent me horrible messages. That's when the cyberbullying started.

For months, they would send me prompts, and if I didn't write them fast enough or if I tried to say no to writing them, they would send me horrible messages. Death threats. Rape threats. They threatened to kill themselves. They would lie to me to the point where the lies weren't even believable anymore.

I know a lot of people are probably wondering why I didn't just block them or report them.

I wasn't in a good headspace at the time. I had depression and anxiety and severe undiagnosed OCD. As "Perks Of Being A Wallflower" said, "we accept the love we think we deserve." I thought I deserved it. I thought I had done something wrong. I had always been taught to be nice and forgiving, and I didn't always know where the line was. I couldn't say no to people, and by saying no to this person, I thought I had done something wrong. I thought I deserved it.

Eventually, as my mind began to heal, I realized I didn't deserve it. I tried to block them, but they kept creating new accounts to contact me.

I tried to report them. I emailed Fanfiction. They didn't even reply. I wrote a songfic once, and someone reviewed to tell me the rules of Fanfiction, which include rules against songfics, within a couple of days of me having the story up. Yet I was being badly cyber bullied on their platform, and they didn't even reply.

Eventually, the person got bored, I guess, and stopped messaging me.

A while later, I saw a person post to their story an authors note that mentioned how they, a teenager, had gotten inappropriate messages from someone on Fanfiction. Another said that someone had posted a really mean comment, mean enough to make them cry. It made me realize how unmonitored Fanfiction is. I've always known to an extent how unmonitored the Internet is, but this really made me realize it.

Cyberbullying has been talked about a lot. But it's been talked about more with popular platforms, like Instagram and Snapchat. Cyberbullying happens everywhere on the Internet, including relatively less popular platforms like Fanfiction.

We so often hear 'oh, everyone deals with trolls' or 'everyone gets an inappropriate comment or two.' We shouldn't have to accept this as normal when there are things we can do.

We so often hear 'people should just be safer on the Internet,' and that is part of it, yes, but it shouldn't give the platform a get out of jail free card. Platforms should still be responsible for monitoring their users and dealing with issues of Cyberbullying appropriately.

A part of the reason I write this is to let other people who have been cyber bullied or even just experienced bad or scary experiences online to know that they're not alone. When I was cyberbullied, I felt so alone, and I wanted others to know that they're not alone.

Continue below the line break to read about updates on my account and stories.


I have moved to a more monitored platform that I feel safer on. I will not be sharing the username or the platform because I don't want any bad memories to follow from this account. While the Cyberbullying was my worst experience on , it wasn't the only bad experience. I feel safer on this other platform, and I want to keep it that way, which is why I'm choosing not to share the username or the platform.

As for this account, it is abandoned, as are the stories, including prompts. The stories are up for adoption. I will still be reading reviews, and I will be checking my Private Message Inbox. This is mainly for any questions about adopting my stories, but if anyone wants to talk about their Cyberbullying experiences, I am open to listen. Everyone stay safe and know that you are amazing and do not deserve any bad treatment that you might've experienced. You're not alone.