I went into chat rooms and people were berating me, actually screaming at me. I didn’t prompt any of it, I was just existing in that space. But the bad stuff kept coming so thick and fast. I was conscious we needed balance, so I found myself desperately trying to find good things to latch on to. It got to the point that I was really starting to worry how bad it was making our documentary look. And it all happened in a room I was able to access despite using a profile that I’d listed as being 13 years old. I’m talking extreme racism – hate speech, listing the kinds of people he hated, the kinds of people he wanted to kill.
I came across one user who was spewing the most disgusting language I’ve ever heard in my life, to the point where we couldn’t even broadcast what he was saying.
