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Until recently, I ran a personal blog on the website Tumblr, but now I've had to password protect and abandon that blog after I've been driven off the site by harassment.
Before I password protected the blog, somebody I do not know archived 26 pages from it on a website called XXXX, and they are now spreading links to those archived pages to other users on Tumblr as a way of spreading hate and harassment aimed specifically at me, even though I've already left the website and want nothing to do with it or these people anymore.
This is a VERY personal issue that has gotten way out of hand, and I am now experiencing extreme psychological distress over the fact that likely hundreds of people are viewing these archived pages and using it all to publicly shame me.
I contacted the email provided on XXXXXX about 2 hours ago, but there's no way for me to know when or even if I'll get an appropriate response. I can't even find any kind of terms of service denouncing the use of this particular archive for the purpose of harassing people and spreading their private information, so I don't know how they handle such things. I've googled just about everything I can think of to try and find a better way to contact the website, but there's only extremely scarce information, it appears very sketchy, and I'm simply afraid that I'll never get the right help.
I no longer care about how people are publicly shaming me on Tumblr (although, if Tumblr itself could do something about the multiple posts with hundreds of notes going around with screenshots of "bad" things I've said, that would be great too). At this point, my primary concern is removing the archived content that's being used to spread hatred and defamation aimed towards me.
While the primary issue is just getting these pages taken down from XXXX, what's making this more complicated is the nature of the original issue. The reason hundreds of people are now harassing and spreading (often times completely false) information about me is because I'm a 21-year-old and I developed a romantic interest for a person who initially claimed to be 18, but later informed me that they're actually still 17. Incredibly long story short, this has snowballed into a situation where most people in the community I was originally a part of on Tumblr are now referring to me as a "pedophile" and a "rapist", despite my desperate insistence that I'm only interested in carefully exploring the romantic aspects of this relationship and have no interest in even thinking about sexual contact with this person until they're at least 18.
Now, the fact that I'm having such an impossible time finding a comfortable way to try and get help has led me to start thinking that maybe I should just contact the police or FBI or something. I don't want to press charges for the harassment or anything like that. Again, literally the ONLY thing I'm concerned with right now is removing my content that somebody else put in an online archive.
So, here's my question:
How do I go about getting appropriate help for this situation without potentially sparking the authorities' interest in the fact that I'm romantically involved with a legal minor? Would they even care, since I've only just recently met this person, we've NEVER had sexual contact of any kind, and we've NEVER discussed sexual contact of any kind?
This is just causing me a massive amount of distress, and it's hugely affecting my emotional state and ability to function. Any help at all would be very much appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Until recently, I ran a personal blog on the website Tumblr, but now I've had to password protect and abandon that blog after I've been driven off the site by harassment.
Before I password protected the blog, somebody I do not know archived 26 pages from it on a website called XXXX, and they are now spreading links to those archived pages to other users on Tumblr as a way of spreading hate and harassment aimed specifically at me, even though I've already left the website and want nothing to do with it or these people anymore.
This is a VERY personal issue that has gotten way out of hand, and I am now experiencing extreme psychological distress over the fact that likely hundreds of people are viewing these archived pages and using it all to publicly shame me.
I contacted the email provided on XXXXXX about 2 hours ago, but there's no way for me to know when or even if I'll get an appropriate response. I can't even find any kind of terms of service denouncing the use of this particular archive for the purpose of harassing people and spreading their private information, so I don't know how they handle such things. I've googled just about everything I can think of to try and find a better way to contact the website, but there's only extremely scarce information, it appears very sketchy, and I'm simply afraid that I'll never get the right help.
I no longer care about how people are publicly shaming me on Tumblr (although, if Tumblr itself could do something about the multiple posts with hundreds of notes going around with screenshots of "bad" things I've said, that would be great too). At this point, my primary concern is removing the archived content that's being used to spread hatred and defamation aimed towards me.
While the primary issue is just getting these pages taken down from XXXX, what's making this more complicated is the nature of the original issue. The reason hundreds of people are now harassing and spreading (often times completely false) information about me is because I'm a 21-year-old and I developed a romantic interest for a person who initially claimed to be 18, but later informed me that they're actually still 17. Incredibly long story short, this has snowballed into a situation where most people in the community I was originally a part of on Tumblr are now referring to me as a "pedophile" and a "rapist", despite my desperate insistence that I'm only interested in carefully exploring the romantic aspects of this relationship and have no interest in even thinking about sexual contact with this person until they're at least 18.
Now, the fact that I'm having such an impossible time finding a comfortable way to try and get help has led me to start thinking that maybe I should just contact the police or FBI or something. I don't want to press charges for the harassment or anything like that. Again, literally the ONLY thing I'm concerned with right now is removing my content that somebody else put in an online archive.
So, here's my question:
How do I go about getting appropriate help for this situation without potentially sparking the authorities' interest in the fact that I'm romantically involved with a legal minor? Would they even care, since I've only just recently met this person, we've NEVER had sexual contact of any kind, and we've NEVER discussed sexual contact of any kind?
This is just causing me a massive amount of distress, and it's hugely affecting my emotional state and ability to function. Any help at all would be very much appreciated. Thank you for your time.
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