How terrible is online violence?
The following Japanese funny artist, who has been scolded for 10 years for no reason, said that he could not be clearer, and he even published a book "Suddenly, I was treated as a murderer", reviewing the experience of the past but thinking about it, and deeply analyzing his own suffering.
His name is Satoshi Kikuchi, and his stage name is スマイリーキクチ. I think that at the beginning, when the Korean Wave struck, the Pei Yongjun he imitated was also popular for a while.
As a funny artist, Kikuchi is undoubtedly excellent, he is conscientious, a serious amusing audience, the stage name also has a smile (スマイリーキ), it is reasonable to say that the audience will not be bad.
However, in fact, when Kikuchi first entered the show business circle in 1999, an incredible rumor caused an uproar, which was also the fundamental reason for the development of Kikuchi's career.
Ten years ago, in late 1989, in a horrific case in Tokyo's Adachi district of Japan, in which the flower girl was imprisoned for 41 days by four underage men, tortured to death and even sealed in an oil drum with cement by the murderers.
However, the extremely vicious criminals involved were not publicly named because they were not yet minors, and after a few years of detention, they were released to the mountains according to Japanese law.
And the unfortunate Kikuchi was irresponsibly fabricated by netizens as a juvenile offender at that time just because of his similar place of birth and age.
- Even the agent finds it a little funny
Although Kikuchi felt strange, he still couldn't sit still and learned to search the Internet under the guidance of his girlfriend.
- The characters here are all actors
As a result, after entering his name, rows of death threats jumped on the screen, shocking.
"Accomplices in vicious crimes, you ghost beast, go and die."
"Think back to the past of killing people and turn yourself in for relief."
Because you can reply anonymously in the forum, everyone's comments are unscrupulous. The most frequent message about myself turned out to be "Hurry up and die!" Kikuchi wondered what he had done wrong in this incident.
Many people look at the hilarity is not a big deal, deliberately with rhythm, carefully list the list of suspects, of which Kikuchi's name is impressive.
What's more, he even pretended to be Kikuchi himself and apologized falsely: "The matter has passed, forgive me." The reverse "sat down" Kikuchi is a prisoner of this nonsense rumor.
Kikuchi's firm did not sit still, but quickly issued a clarification statement.
The enthusiastic head of the firm also submitted a deletion request to the forum.
Kikuchi was relieved, however, he underestimated the power of the online mob. The people in the forum jumped the wall, and they began to question the firm's harboring of criminals.
The Internet mob thinks that there is no wind and no waves, but it is clear that this crooked wind is blown by themselves.
The forum even more rightfully rejected Kikuchi's application to delete the post, shouting that Kikuchi came up with evidence that he was not a criminal. What is this? Do I prove that I am myself?
The inaction of the forum side has led to a worsening of the situation. Even Kikuchi's live performance was affected, and in the face of the audience's whispers, he plucked up the courage to compress the performance time and make a self-defense.
But the effect was minimal, netizens did not give up attacking Kikuchi, but also shouted to kill Kikuchi and his family to avenge the death of the girl.
In the case that personal safety can not be guaranteed, Kikuchi chose to call the police. But in 2000, the Japanese police station did not even popularize the Internet, so how could it be possible to find out the rumor-mongers hidden behind anonymous nicknames?
Faced with the perfunctory police, Kikuchi had no choice but to leave.
However, things will not end so simply, and the intensified comments make Kikuchi start to be afraid to contact others, after all, the people who make killing threats on the Internet may be passers-by, will they really kill themselves? Will the beloved girlfriend be implicated?
A tight-forward fear envelops Kikuchi, who suffers from neurogastritis under heavy pressure and always uncontrollable vomiting.
In order to get rid of the pressure, Kikuchi simply said goodbye to the Internet and kept himself as away from the distractions of the outside world as much as possible.
Out of sight, not upset, Kikuchi spent a stable time, just as mentioned at the beginning of this article, he also in 2004 Korean drama "Winter Love Song" burst into flames, with the lead actor Pei Yongjun's light xiaohong.
One by one, advertisements and TV show invitations returned.
But cyberbullying is back.
The Internet has a memory, right or wrong.
As long as kikuchi is on a show, complaint calls will come one after another, which has led to a sharp decline in his work.
Escaping reality does not solve the problem.
In 2008, Kikuchi plucked up the courage to return to the Internet and opened his own personal blog, where he found that a person's name appeared many times on the message board.
A search revealed that the man claimed to have been a police officer and had appeared on a variety show, and that he had published a book documenting juvenile homicides that year. It also revealed a "clue" in the book - one of the prisoners debuted after he was released from prison by forming a funny artist group.
Although there is no name, this unclear "clue" refers directly to Kikuchi.
The firm contacted the publisher unsuccessfully, simply because kikuchi Daimyo's name was not written in the book.
Kikuchi made several police calls in anger and went directly to the police station, but this time the police officer did the same as in the past, blindly asking him to contact the publishing house, and said that this is the "celebrity tax" that the star should bear.
As the three become tigers and rumors spread, the artist's friends also begin to suspect Kikuchi, and even his brother's children will suffer gossip in kindergarten.
Kikuchi's life was in a mess, and at the request of the firm, he closed his blog, but everyone began to say that it was because he was weak-minded.
For the sake of his cherished family, Kikuchi did not swallow his anger this time, he studied legal documents and sorted out his case experience in the past ten years. While preparing for the civil lawsuit, he did not give up on finding reliable police.
Even if you are blinded by the police station, it does not matter, under kikuchi's unremitting efforts, finally a criminal police officer stepped forward, he first called up the vicious case of many years ago, there is no doubt that Kikuchi is not on the list at all.
Next, he and the police developed a plan of resistance, sending out a clarifying blog feed as "bait."
If there is still slander and slander, never sit still.
He collected 18 accounts, and the people behind these accounts kept sending extremely vicious messages, and Kikuchi found the IP address of the comment according to the network tracking method given by the criminal police.
After the police came to the door one by one, they quickly confessed guilt.
What was shocking was that among the people who were full of dirty words and dead mouths were about the faculty and staff of a well-known national university in the west, including the company's elite president, and a young pregnant woman.
These people do not have any grudges with Kikuchi in real life, and indiscriminately abuse online, just because they want to vent the pressure of life and promote their so-called justice. Although they have pleaded guilty, they have all pushed the blame to the network and have not yet apologized to Kikuchi.
However, Kikuchi's rebellion has made this incident noticed by the media and society, and the "police" who made up stories and books were no longer sought after and discredited.
Kikuchi's book on this history has also become a textbook for some private schools, and he uses his actions to tell people who have also suffered malicious slander on the Internet how to solve the problem.
In an era when online defamation is difficult to cure, Kikuchi uses his own personal experience to remind everyone to re-evaluate the oppression of a person by online violence, and also reminds some people with wrong minds that the Internet is not an extralegal place.
For Kikuchi, a decade of fear is over.
However, for Cui Shirley and Qiao Renliang, they finally had no strength to resist in the face of stormy online violence, and their lives were always stuck at the best age.
Hopefully, there will be fewer cyber mobs in the world, and there will be no more "Shirley" and "KIMI."