Taylor Lorenz

I get calls because I'm like a very well-known woman that's dealt with harassment online.

Anytime someone's like in the midst of, you know, some sort of horrific campaign, I feel like I get a phone call.

And I was talking to this one woman in media also the other day.

And she's like, they're tweeting out my address.

They're putting this.

And I was like, girl, they're not going to do a thing.

Trust me.

They're not going to do a thing.

Like people don't even swat anyone anymore.

You know, they're not going to... Nothing happens.

Like...

they don't even send a pizza you know so i think there was this moment maybe in the 2010s where like the worst thing that could happen is you get swatted and let me tell you somebody that's had my family swatted the first time my parents were like what is going on and it's like you know somewhat traumatic i guess but then after that they're like okay yeah you tell the police department now there's articles about it no one gives a

Oh, they sent the police to your house.

And it's horrible.

Like somebody can, you know, people have been shot and died.

But I just think there's so much awareness of it now.

And because it's a federal crime, people don't do it anymore.

So that was always like the one thing that they had that was scary, right?

Like, you know, for instance, if you got doxxed and the 4chan people were coming at you, like swatting was this like one thing that they had.

They don't really have that anymore.