Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story
Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story
匿名男性将网络骚扰变成了一项集体运动——听听一位受害女性的讲述
Last year, Maddie Kowalski was a regular sophomore attending the University of Florida. Then a series of burner accounts on X started proliferating explicit, nonconsensual videos of her. This week, Zoë Schiffer sits down with WIRED senior writer EJ Dickson to discuss the burnerverse, a sprawling, loosely organized network of anonymous accounts that have turned the sexual humiliation of young women into an online participatory sport.
去年，Maddie Kowalski 还是佛罗里达大学的一名普通大二学生。随后，X 平台上一系列匿名小号开始大量传播未经她本人同意的私密视频。本周，Zoë Schiffer 与《连线》（WIRED）资深撰稿人 EJ Dickson 坐下来探讨了“小号宇宙”（burnerverse）——这是一个庞大且组织松散的匿名账号网络，他们将对年轻女性的性羞辱变成了一种在线参与式运动。
Zoë Schiffer: A quick content warning before we dive in. This conversation includes descriptions of nonconsensual sexual content and references to self-harm. Please take care while listening.
Zoë Schiffer：在深入探讨之前，先做一个简短的内容预警。本次对话包含对非自愿性内容的描述以及关于自残的提及。请在收听时注意心理调节。
Maddie Kowalski: When I heard that someone had sent a nude photograph of me to his friends at FSU, and in this picture I was heavily intoxicated.
Maddie Kowalski：当我听说有人把我的一张裸照发给了他在佛罗里达州立大学（FSU）的朋友时，照片里的我处于严重醉酒状态。
Zoë Schiffer: This is Maddie Kowalski.
Zoë Schiffer：这就是 Maddie Kowalski。
Maddie Kowalski: So right after this, I started getting flooded with messages that I was being talked about all over my school’s Yik Yak.
Maddie Kowalski：在那之后，我开始收到海量信息，说我成了学校 Yik Yak 论坛上的讨论焦点。
Zoë Schiffer: Yik Yak is a platform popular among college students where you can post anonymously if you’re within a specific geographic radius.
Zoë Schiffer：Yik Yak 是一个在大学生中很受欢迎的平台，只要你在特定的地理范围内，就可以匿名发帖。
Maddie Kowalski: Everything was just happening really fast, and I couldn’t comprehend any of it.
Maddie Kowalski：一切发生得太快了，我根本无法理解这一切。
Zoë Schiffer: What Maddie had heard about was a single photo, but there were a series of videos in which she was visibly out of it, naked, and performing sexual acts. Maddie remembers, well, she was really drunk that night.
Zoë Schiffer：Maddie 当时听说的只是一张照片，但实际上还有一系列视频，视频中的她明显神志不清、赤身裸体，并正在进行性行为。Maddie 回忆说，那天晚上她确实喝得很醉。
Maddie Kowalski: I felt really detached from the girl in the videos because I had so little memory of the events.
Maddie Kowalski：我感觉视频里的那个女孩和我完全脱节，因为我对当时发生的事情几乎没有记忆。
Zoë Schiffer: Obviously, she hadn’t consented to any of this, not to being filmed, and certainly not to those films being posted online. But now, it was all over X.
Zoë Schiffer：显然，她从未同意过这一切——无论是被拍摄，还是这些视频被发布到网上。但现在，这些内容已经传遍了 X 平台。
Maddie Kowalski: And at this moment, I just felt my whole world collapse. Everything was being shared and reposted so fast, and I couldn’t do anything to stop it.
Maddie Kowalski：那一刻，我感觉整个世界都崩塌了。所有东西被疯狂分享和转发，我却无力阻止。
Zoë Schiffer: The videos had officially gone viral. #MaddieKowalski was trending on X nationwide, and it was viewed more than 8.5 million times. For the next 24 hours, Maddie sat paralyzed on her couch while anonymous internet people harassed her. They posted old photos from before the night the videos were taken. They called and texted her parents all throughout the night. One anonymous man told her father that he’d had sex with her and had since tested positive for HIV. People on X were placing bets on whether by the end of the week she would either start an OnlyFans or kill herself.
Zoë Schiffer：这些视频正式疯传开来。#MaddieKowalski 标签在 X 上全国趋势榜上名列前茅，浏览量超过 850 万次。在接下来的 24 小时里，Maddie 瘫坐在沙发上，任由匿名网民骚扰。他们翻出视频拍摄前她以前的照片发布出来。他们整晚给她的父母打电话、发短信。一名匿名男子甚至告诉她父亲，说他与她发生过性关系，并且后来被检测出 HIV 阳性。X 上的网民甚至在打赌，赌她到周末时是会去开 OnlyFans 账号，还是会自杀。
Here’s the thing. The people behind this weren’t strangers in some far-off corner of the internet. In many cases, they were her literal classmates hiding behind anonymous burner accounts, mostly used to celebrate college sports.
事实是，幕后黑手并非互联网遥远角落里的陌生人。在很多情况下，他们就是她的同学，躲在主要用于讨论大学体育赛事的匿名小号背后。
From WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, I’m Zoë Schiffer, contributing editor. WIRED senior writer EJ Dickson spent months following Maddie’s story and what’s become known as the burnerverse, a sprawling, loosely organized network of anonymous accounts that has turned the sexual humiliation of young women into a kind of participatory sport. EJ, thank you so much for coming on.
我是《连线》“恐怖谷”（Uncanny Valley）栏目的特约编辑 Zoë Schiffer。《连线》资深撰稿人 EJ Dickson 花了数月时间追踪 Maddie 的故事，以及所谓的“小号宇宙”——这是一个庞大且组织松散的匿名账号网络，他们将对年轻女性的性羞辱变成了一种参与式运动。EJ，非常感谢你来到节目。
EJ Dickson: Thank you for having me.
EJ Dickson：谢谢邀请。
Zoë Schiffer: Can you talk us through what exactly is the burnerverse? How is it organized? Who exactly is part of it?
Zoë Schiffer：你能为我们详细解释一下什么是“小号宇宙”吗？它是如何组织的？具体有哪些人参与其中？
EJ Dickson: So, the burnerverse is a very loosely organized network. It’s unfair to even say network because it’s just kind of an amorphous community of college sports fan burner accounts. So, they’re all anonymous or mostly anonymous accounts. And I think it’s important to note that a lot of them are pretty innocuous, but there is a segment of this community that has emerged that is pretty violently racist and misogynistic and antisemitic. And this is the corner of the subculture that has sort of made a sport out of systemically doxing women.
EJ Dickson：“小号宇宙”是一个组织非常松散的网络。说它是“网络”甚至都不准确，它更像是一个由大学体育迷小号组成的无定形社区。它们都是匿名或半匿名的账号。我认为需要指出的是，其中许多账号其实并无恶意，但该社区中出现了一部分群体，他们表现出极其暴力的种族主义、厌女症和反犹太主义倾向。正是这部分亚文化群体，将系统性地人肉搜索（doxing）女性变成了一种“运动”。