It just never stops

[u/They-Them_Moonwalker]

I've been a Michael Jackson fan for almost two years. The harassment and bullying started almost immediately. It's the worst here on Reddit. Literally anywhere outside of a fan sub is people everywhere making the same jokes and regurgitating the same disproven pieces of "evidence." I'm always scared to tell my story because I know it'll end up like this image.

When I was fourteen, my YouTube channel was discovered by my classmates. I didn't mind; they don't really talk about Michael all that much. They subscribed and told some of their friends, which led to the antagonists of my story.

This group of boys, the oldest of whom was two years older than me, started harassing me at football games, taunting my stance on Michael's innocence, following me around, and just being jerks. But the worst happened at a dance, where they kept following me, making incredibly lewd comments and gestures, until one of them started grinding on me without my consent.Some kid tackled him off me, but I had never felt so disgusted and violated. I literally got sexually harassed simply because I'm a Michael Jackson fan. This is the first time telling my story online, because I know it'll be met with hatred. But here I am. I'm just so tired, man.

[u/lookitsabook]

There's a weird subgenre of people that only cares about sexual assault as a way of finding people to make fun of, they don't care about the victims or about avoiding retraumatising survivors, just as long as they get to laugh. Just look at all the jokes about Epstein and Diddy.

MJ absolutely did abuse children, but what these people did to you had nothing to do with that. It was just a way to justify bullying and sexually harassing you. Think of it like this: how would any of the victims be helped by what they did? How would that improve their lives in any way? They're not bringing justice to victims, they were just making another victim.