The first time I posted on GW I made the mistake of posting a photo in which my mouth and chin were visible. Somebody who knew me recognized me by my smile and addressed me by name in the comments as well as by PM.

Well my SECOND mistake was to have even engaged with this person to begin with, because they then proceeded to harass and taunt me, threatening to post the photos along with my personal information and links to my social media accounts. They also claimed that they had already shown these photos to people I know, which terrified me at the time because I was actually really involved in the church community back then, and all of my friends and peers were mainly church-going, conservative people as well as my family. Nobody would have guessed that I was posting things like that in a million years.

I never found out who it was, but I had/have a feeling it was somebody I knew through church. It really freaked me out at the time and I stopped associating with pretty much everybody I knew in the church community. I also never returned to church out of paranoia, among other reasons. It was all just very surreal and terrible and I wish it never happened.