So, since discovering these were still up on Facebook in mid-February and that Buzzfeed was still up I went to work fighting them and trying to take them down. Some did not like my threatening legal action for defamation, harassment, bullying, and unauthorized use of my likeness.
Again, they didn't like my methods but it did get results. Admittedly I was a fusion of sadness and anger, feeling suicidal yet emboldened with a purpose.
I figured out how to contact Buzzfeed and they sent me this reply.
Shortly after it was taken down and replaced with this! It was a big win for me.
This page had 16 of the individual ones up. I was glad they responded and took them down. Wins were starting to pile up.
This was the first one to apologize too. Another big win. Sometimes you just have to keep at it, and it took me a year to get to the point I'm at now fighting back.
This was a small victory with a big win. Somebody had made a new version of the meme and posted it in the comments of one of the pages still up. He took it down and apologized.
Then tonight one of the last 3 pages finally saw my comments and messages and took it down! Now I'm down to the last two pages, hearing back more from Reddit and Imgur.
This is all proof that you can fight back against bullies and win. You do have the power to stop it, but only if you're alive to do so. This wasn't easy. It took me a year of therapy and help from friends to be able to do this. My friends say I'm strong. I'm not. I'm still broken inside, I still have anxiety and it takes everything I have not to kill myself and it takes all that just to do everyday tasks in public.
Facebook not taking down the posts when reported was a huge blow to me, but that page taking it down tonight helped immensely. I don't know when I'll feel good though.
Depression makes even a win a bit sour.
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