Social Media
•Anonymous Story•2 min readSomeone made an anonymous meme page about me and I don't know who it is or how to make it stop
Someone at my school made an anonymous page about three weeks ago and has been posting edits of me every few days. At first it was just people at my school seeing it. Then it started spreading. People I don't know started following the page and some of the posts have thousands of views now from people who have no idea who I am. My friends think it's hilarious and keep sending me the new ones like I'm supposed to find it funny too. Some people come up to me in the hallways about it like it's something we share. I don't know how to explain that it doesn't feel that way from where I'm standing. I've reported the account twice and nothing has happened. The page is still up and the posts keep coming.
I started thinking about what was actually bothering me most. It wasn't really the posts themselves. It was that someone who knows me, someone I probably see every single day, has been spending real time making content about me without ever saying anything to my face. And I have no idea who it is. I also thought about why the not knowing was so unsettling. Every interaction I have at school now I'm somewhere in the back of my head wondering if it's them. It's changed how I move through the day in a way I didn't expect.
I realized that waiting for the account to get taken down wasn't a plan. Reporting it twice had done nothing and the page was only growing. I needed to either find another way to get it removed or figure out how to stop letting it affect how I showed up every day. Both felt hard but doing nothing felt worse.
The account getting taken down wasn't something I could force. But I could control how much space I gave it. We agreed the best next step was two things. First stop engaging entirely....no more looking at the posts, no more reacting when people brought it up, no more checking the page. Second talk to a school counselor, not to make it a formal complaint but just to have an adult aware of it in case it escalated into something worse. Those two steps felt manageable. I haven't solved it completely but I have a plan and that's more than I had before.
Amigos’ Advice
- Not knowing who's behind something like this is often worse than the thing itself
- You can't always control what other people do but you can control how much space you give it
- Talking to an adult doesn't have to mean making it a formal situation, just having someone aware matters
- Removing your reaction removes a lot of the power something like this has over you