Macklemore Quotes

To hide behind a computer and an anonymous persona to spew hate at another person is despicable.

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

For all of the incredible messages I've received about how my visibility is helping people, those people who I follow on social media still receive daily death threats and the most derogatory, inhumane vitriol.

I get trolled. The usual stuff - sometimes it's homophobic, like gay hate.

Online hate needs to be taken as seriously as offline hate - but it isn't.

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of abuse and negativity online.

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.

Anyone can go to 8chan, a website entirely for Gamergaters. You can read what they post about me and other women. It's not just casual sexism, it's angry, violent sexism.

People feel they can say nasty things and have anonymity behind the net - as they did with all the nasty comments about me - without fear of recrimination.

I've had to deal with terrible things being said about me.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

My name is Brian and I am a troll. An internet troll.

Criticism is for real. The amount of hate that I get is.

I don't give a damn about trolls.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

I get really negative comments all the time, but the comments that really bother me are the ones that question my character.

Trolls live in their own pathetic bubble, and it's called Twitter.

I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'

I am being savagely bullied online.

If Man United and Liverpool fans feel better by calling me a black monkey in my messages... feel free to carry on if it makes your day better.

I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.

I could go through my Twitter account right now and there would be 10 horrible messages.