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deletedover 8 years

hi i've got a friend who really likes asmrdarling on youtube so he used a snapchat picture she made of her eating chick fil a and google earth to find the chick fil a she was eating at so that he knew what city she lived in and then he used another snapchat picture she made of her standing next to her pool at her house to find her house and now he knows her name and address and everything he spent like five hours on it i don't know what he's gonna do with this information but i'm sort of worried that whatever he's gonna do could get him in trouble with the police or fbi or something how would you guys deal with this situation if you had a friend who did this

groundhogday
over 8 years
he isn't that bad in general, those are a couple instances over the past few years

he does tend to sleep in 13 hour intervals and talk about borderline pedophilic tendencies though
deletedover 8 years
I'll move in with Ian too, we'll make a situation comedy together.
JimSpermWorm
over 8 years

groundhogday says


Discordia says

Your friend probably has something going on dude


he's probably moving in with me next year so i guess we'll know at some point


Yikes.
deletedover 8 years

groundhogday says


Discordia says

Your friend probably has something going on dude


he's probably moving in with me next year so i guess we'll know at some point


if he does get him to see a psych tbh.
groundhogday
over 8 years

Discordia says

Your friend probably has something going on dude


he's probably moving in with me next year so i guess we'll know at some point
groundhogday
over 8 years

Discordia says

Relevant events playing out in main lobby chat.

I like the guy trying to scare me with geolocation, amazing.


You can use a 3rd party program

You can also use command prompt
deletedover 8 years
Your friend probably has something going on dude
deletedover 8 years
Relevant events playing out in main lobby chat.

I like the guy trying to scare me with geolocation, amazing.
groundhogday
over 8 years
not as in an illness i don't think

he used to get headaches and tell me/hope that he had a brain tumor, and he'd say that the tumor is the reason he can't get his life together

he also at one point gave 500 student loan dollars to a twitch girl and told me he didn't know why he did it

maybe he does have something going on. i don't know
Edark
over 8 years

groundhogday says

i told him to stop at first but i don't want to discourage him now. this is the most productive he's been in his whole life. stalking an internet celebrity off the internet is the first substantial thing i can remember him ever doing.

i appreciate the legal take, thanks


Does he have some mental issue? I just wanna be sure before I insult him any further.
deletedover 8 years
groundhogday
over 8 years
i'll have him do that when he gets off work
groundhogday
over 8 years
i told him to stop at first but i don't want to discourage him now. this is the most productive he's been in his whole life. stalking an internet celebrity off the internet is the first substantial thing i can remember him ever doing.

i appreciate the legal take, thanks
deletedover 8 years
Like idk I'm trying my best to be good, and turn my obsessiveness towards more positive pursuits, but that's a level of obsessiveness beyond even me.

I'm not even joking when I say make your friend take this, I'm rather curious how he rates in comparison to me: https://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/
deletedover 8 years

groundhogday says

i would like to hear eris's take on the situation


Not a legal expert, but AFAIK except in one or two states the act of collecting the info is not illegal, addresses and phone numbers being public record, despite your friends rather uh, obsessive means of obtaining them.

What your friend did in terms of the pms... Might be illegal, but I doubt he's crossed the line yet.

47 U.S. Code § 223


(a) Prohibited acts generally Whoever—

(1) in interstate or foreign communications—

(C) makes a telephone call or utilizes a telecommunications device, whether or not conversation or communication ensues, without disclosing his identity and with intent to abuse, threaten, or harass any specific person;
shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.


That's a specific subsection of a larger federal anti-stalking law. I don't think the federal attorney would be able to make a case of harassment just yet, your friends messages don't sound substantial enough. But like I said, not a legal expert, an attorney would have a better idea.

As well, various state laws are potentially applicable. In most states he'd either have to have made credible threats or violated a court order barring contact before he could be hit with criminal charges.

Also even I can't believe he spent hours searching google maps like that. Tell him to stop, lmao.
groundhogday
over 8 years
i don't think there's any reason to take it down except for maybe the skype picture

you guys can delete the skype picture post if you want
Neon129
over 8 years
how is this thread not down yet

1+1=2
groundhogday
over 8 years
i would like to hear eris's take on the situation
Edark
over 8 years
what a creep
groundhogday
over 8 years
=/
Zhuorb
over 8 years
what the
groundhogday
over 8 years
apparently he also messaged her her address
groundhogday
over 8 years
i wanted to come back to share that with u guys
groundhogday
over 8 years
UPDATE: he sent her an anonymous tip that her personal old youtube account with high school videos had personal information on it and should be made private, and in response asmrdarling has shut down her main youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCikebqFWoT3QC9axUbXCPYw/featured

he fcked up
deletedover 8 years
RIP Ian, I always thought your friend was you.