How Public Figures Cope With Online Harassment and Threats
Showing 5 Online Harassment videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Candace Owens recounts how her early years of digital activism, responding to hashtag campaigns and online outrage cycles, eventually contributed to an eating disorder that took her roughly five years to work through, framing it as a case study in the psychological cost of building an identity around constant online engagement. In a separate campus conversation, Charlie Kirk and Owens describe their approach to internet death threats and hostile commenters, with Owens saying she never reads her comments and views anonymous trolls as people who would never confront her in person, while Kirk argues that comment sections are disproportionately shaped by people who lack meaningful lives offline. Owens and Kirk both note that online hostility can occasionally escalate into real-world danger, citing a past case in which online radicalization contributed to an actual plot against Kirk's life that resulted in a prison sentence, underscoring why both take the line between venting online and genuine threats seriously even while largely tuning out routine harassment.