Online harassment is turning into a larger and larger global issue. It is no longer that of children being too harsh to their peers, or celebrities being attacking for some tid-bit they said off handedly. Though both of these still occur, the scale has broadened to a point where it is felt laws must be enacted to combat this. Like the world around us, the online assault of these people is personal, using images and degrading comments based from gender and race, arbitrary and unchangeable characteristics
includes everything from emotional attachment to performers to obsessive collecting” (Cavicchi, 2014). Since we entered the Internet age, fandom has seen a change. What was previously considered to be obsessive and abnormal has become an accepted common practice that is continually reinforced by niche marketing and new technologies. Whether fandom of sports, media artifacts, or celebrities, it is easy to lurk through each’s unique language, culture, and community. In one corner we find participants sharing