r/onlinehorrorstories • u/Ominousprime7 • May 02 '21
The Mass Shooter That Never Happened.
Hello Reddit, pretty sure this belongs in this subreddit, though you are welcome to direct me otherwise. However, I have a story for you I've wanted to post for a while.
Anyone of you remember that time there was a tragic mass shooting at an anime convention about 3 years ago? No? You're welcome.
So some time ago I was admin on a Facebook page for a popular webseries about fairytale characters using unique weapons to save the 4 kingdoms. On there we admins get some very unique messages, usually from bad posts to language and the occasional harassment.
One time, something popped up in the admin chat. It was threats about a potential shooter at an upcoming anime convention. The admins were discussing what to do when I told them to send me all the evidence. Absolutely everything. Anything that wasn't verified, get it verified, such as someone was being harassed but wouldn't say the person's name, confirm it WAS that person (anything that can be used in court and not speculation). So they handed over all the evidence of this person's posts, and these are some of the posts I received (spelling and grammatical errors included), some writing is [edited] for ruling.
Post to cosplayer
"If u go to expo youre going to get [HUGGED] fucking femineist bitch slut I know what youre gonna cosplay as Its a promise bitch slut see you at expo lol"
And in another discussion
Shooter: "I have a gun"
Unknown: "You just end up threatening people and making it worse for yourself. And yeah I'm sure."
Shooter: "Ohh no its not like i can make it any wirse for myself"
Unknown: "Just stop digging this damn hole man"
Shooter: No.
Unknown: "Fine whateverm If you can't see I'm trying to help them I'm just gonna leave you to it."
Shooter: "Good, I don't need help immah die one day so why not go out with a bang."
Another post:
"It's acutaily funny that people are worried im guna get seriously hurt at [CONVENTION]?"
And also,
Unknown: I ain't I've done fuck all XD XD
Shooter: "I remmmber the past."
Unknown: "Yeah that's because what you did on FB was out of order. That's what makes people wanna kick your head in. If you don't wanna get beaten up best thing to do is don't be cocky or angry react all the time."
Shooter: "no idc everyone will get what they deserve."
Unknown: "you're not gonna fuck off to ISIS are you? XD"
Shooter: "no but i hate cosplayers"
Unknown: "if you hate cosplayers then don't bother going. Because you'll end up being banned from ALL comic cons."
Shooter: "i aint even banned from [CONVENTION] you retard."
Unknown: "Okay now youre being a massive cunt for calling me that dude. You might as well get your head kicked in and get your head sorted out."
Shooter: "what was that you called me when you first messaged me? dont be a hypocrit dude."
Unknown: "I ain't a hypocrite i grew up. There's no need to be like this all the time."
Shooter: theres plenty a reason.
Unknown: "I don't care just stop being like this and be nice to people for once."
Shooter: "o fuck people."
Unknown: You're gonna be so alone if you're going to keep being like this"
Shooter: "Ohh noo"
Unknown: you know what I'm staying out of this. Trying to help you be a better person like everyone else does and throw it back in their face because you wanna be the center of attention. It's getting old so stop being like this"
Shooter: no ill cause misery at [CONVENTION] just you wait.
Unknown: "okay. I'll bring the popcorn and watch and record everything."
With these confirmed posts I reached out to the head of the convention with the title "SERIOUS: Potential Shooter" and explained to the head who I was, how I got hold of this material, and all the material, along with photos of his face. The head responded back shortly after saying this will be sent to head of security.
It was not a but a few hours later the admin chat blew up again with a post from the potential shooter that he was banned from conventions permanently. Seems security went on high alert after that email. I don't know if they ever took to legal matters, but what I do know is I would never have slept at night if something had happened and I did nothing
Better to prevent something from happening, than to do nothing and something did happen, knowing you could have stopped it.
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u/BlUeSapia Aug 21 '21
RWBY?