Model (Claudia Boerner) Commits Suicide After Internet Trolls Attack

Bullying: it’s not just for kids. Claudia Boerner, 32, British model from a competitive cooking TV show, committed suicide recently, apparently because she being viciously attacked by Internet trolls. Trolls trashed Claudia’s appearance, ridiculed her “fake boobs,” and accused her of being an attention-seeking show-off on “The Perfect Dinner,” a cooking competition that airs in Germany. A message on show’s website said they were shocked by her death and said Claudia Boerner “struck us as a friendly, open-minded young woman.”

It just goes to show all of us that no matter how someone presents herself or himself to the world, there is more going on underneath. You never know how a person may take your hurtful words. And, yes, writing nasty comments about people on the Internet — even absolute strangers — is bullying. [Daily Mail UK]

Why do people troll others online? Do they do it offline too? To the point of bullying.

Or do they just think it's okay to hurl abuse about people online, because they're hidden behind a screen? :confused:
 

Will E Worm

Conspiracy...
Why do people troll others online? Do they do it offline too? To the point of bullying.

Because they believe they are anonymous. You're not as anonymous as you think you are.
This site lets it go on.

Another one who was bullied on and offline. Suicide of Phoebe Prince Link
 

Ari Dee

Official Checked Star Member
In my experience people seem to believe that any public figure, model, or porn star is somehow, "asking for it". That we should all just EXPECT the abuse & rudeness.
Just suck it up and get over it, right? It's really sad that people have that mentality.

I am honestly not capable of being cruel to even my worst enemy.
 

jinxypie

Official Checked Star Member
Why do people troll others online? Do they do it offline too? To the point of bullying.

Or do they just think it's okay to hurl abuse about people online, because they're hidden behind a screen? :confused:

I've received hate mail to my PO Box before, as well as via email and comments online, etc. Like I said in one of my recent blog posts, what's the point of spewing your hate around like that? You're free to have your opinions, just as I'm free to have mine - and we both are free to live our lives the way we see fit.

It's not like their words changed me any. :rolleyes:
 
Trolls are assholes who have nothing better t do with their lives than bashing people.
BUT, when you decide to apply to a real-TV show, you must be prepared to face trolls. If you're not, just don't go !
 

Ari Dee

Official Checked Star Member
Sometimes you can't really understand something like that until you've been through it yourself.

I have a VERY thick skin when it comes to internet bullies, and there are still days where I feel totally drained because of them.
If anything though, I pity them.. not myself. It takes a truly pathetic creature, to spew hate for the sake of self gratification.

I even once had a PAYING customer tell me to kill myself, after they got off in one of my cam shows. People are really disturbed. That's their loss, not mine.
 

jinxypie

Official Checked Star Member
I even once had a PAYING customer tell me to kill myself, after they got off in one of my cam shows.

Aren't those the worst?! :facepalm:
In the moment they're all about you and saying nice things... the second they're done, it's a total 180 and you wonder what the heck they were doing there in the first place!
 

Briana Lee

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Wow there are some real creeps on the Internet. They grow big Internet balls and think they can say what they want to who ever they want without any consequences.
There's a couple of people that have been hassling me that I would love to meet in real life just to see if they can keep it up when we're face to face.

And we all know the reason behind Nikki Nova not posting on the board anymore....so it just goes to show that it even goes on here.
 
Natural selection. If you're so weak that words you read on the internet caused you to kill yourself, you were probably going to die from something equally ridiculous eventually, and therefore not pass on your genes. I wonder if alexpnz had anything to do with it. He's told me to kill myself several times. Well, he's told me several times, I'm not sure it's possible to kill oneself several times.
 

Shifty

O.G.
Firstly: RIP - a very beautiful woman.

Secondly: The cause of death in this article is 100% speculation.

Quote:

It is still unclear how she died ...

Not saying that it was not suicide, only that it has not been proven yet.

Don't let the rags get the best of you.
 
I find that she had serious problems if she got to the state where she is ready to commit suicide over internet trolling. Kids doing such things is different as they see the internet in a different light to how adults see it. She was an adult, not a kid. So the internet should be taken for what it is. A means to communicate with others nothing else. Those who bad mouth you don't know you. They never will. I've been called an ass hole and woman hater (through disliking the overused final girl cliche that horror movies use) and many other things over the years. None of it is taken seriously because I get called those things from others because the truth tends to have that sort off effect on some. I will always be the ass hole to the ones that get told how it is through them having the inability to handle the truth. This woman had problems before the trolling started if she let it lead to her ending her life. It's sad when someone feels like that's the only way left. But internet trolling is only a part of what caused her to go off the edge. I don't see it as the sole reason.
 
After seeing the pics of her, I'm surprised that shes actually a model - I'm sorry, but not pretty at all.

However.

I never understood how people can take the opinion of a faceless coward seriously. This is someone after all who hides behind a computer screen and targets a person because of a simple dislike (for whatever reason) and subjects them to baseless insults. Yet if confronted would squirm, wriggle and lay excuse after excuse why they did it and make themselves the victim.
 

Shifty

O.G.
Once again, there is no definitive proof in this article that this person commited suicide. It is pure speculation.
 
the phoebe prince suicide still bothers me.

there should be stricter laws against cyber bullying

What? People kill themselves all the time. How many people off themselves during or after a rough divorce or breakup? Should we make divorce illegal too? There don't need to be any special laws. Parents just need to stop raising weak ass kids.
 
What? People kill themselves all the time. How many people off themselves during or after a rough divorce or breakup? Should we make divorce illegal too? There don't need to be any special laws. Parents just need to stop raising weak ass kids.

thats different. if youre stupid enough to get married, you deserve the consequences. most times, marriage is more of a punishment than death anyway.

about 1000 people a year off themselves during autoerotic asphyxiation too.
 

SabrinaDeep

Official Checked Star Member
...friendly, open-minded young woman...

Sorry, but obviously she wasn't much open minded if at 32 yo she killed herself because of Internet trolls. There must have been a lot of things going on beneath the surface of her sould, brain, past etc.

I wouldn't want that now those who know "better" than us the way we should live our lives started also a campaign to "educate" us on what to say and how to say it.

Life is hard. To be honest life was harder in the past than it is today and ppl had to cope with much harder and hurting things than internet trolls. And they did.

If any time that someone feels hurt we have to bring the bullying thing over the table it's gonna become messy, i tell you, because there is not and there will never be a standard about hurting.
It's something personal and instead of justifying any insane gesture we make as something that has been forced by someone else's behavior, it would be better to work on having ppl dealing again with
the following: life can be tough.

Please leave me free to send someone to fuck off, even if i was wrong, without being arrested for bullism.
 
thats different. if youre stupid enough to get married, you deserve the consequences. most times, marriage is more of a punishment than death anyway.

about 1000 people a year off themselves during autoerotic asphyxiation too.

I guess you could say.................(puts on sunglasses).........They were dying to get off. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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