Twitter 'sleuths' outing the woman stalker based on from Netflixs' 'Baby Reindeer'

[BindySoo]

What are they hoping to achieve? The woman is clearly mentally ill.
I've seen several posts now mentioning the woman's name and a link to her account.
A few people have said 'why are you doing this, she's obviously mentally ill and a dangerous person'

The replies are 'well look at her FB page she's a racist and homophobe, she deserves it'.
She's not a full shilling! People who have multiple convictions of stalking aren't going to be Mary Poppins are they?

I hope this doesn't prompt her to go after Gadd again.

Even a person without MH issues would struggle with the influx of interest

I'm not posting her name or anything.
Half the threads on MN are 'about someone' without details.

I just don't see how someone can watch that series then think it's a good idea to go to this woman's personal page and start putting laughing emojis on everything.

Quite a few threads in the TV section already about this program and covering this topic.

Also it's an article in the Daily Mail so it's hardly secretive information.

The viewers have become the stalkers, we are in fact "Martha" - it's very Black Mirror-ish!

Well the type of people looking for this woman are probably the type of people who themselves suffer from MH issues.
I would say it was a bit naive to not expect people to look for this person in this day and age. I mean look at the whole kates’s missing thing. People love to think there’s something to uncover.

I actually think it’s quite poor of Richard Gadd to have made her so identifiable. He’s said in all the interviews oh she wouldn’t recognise herself yet she’s so identifiable. He’s used some of her tweets verbatim.

Yes she looks the same. Talks the same.

Alot of her correspondence to him is still available. The lies she told are the same ones, her profession etc.

I actually wonder if the show should have been made at all considering how volatile she is.

I think he's not quite telling the truth there! She wouldn't recognise herself ???

www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/baby-reindeer-police-investigation-false-accusations-richard-gadd-abuser-b1153263.html. It's a bit late now !

Sorry that link isn't working.

It was naive to think that she wouldn't be identified given that his narrative follows what happened in real life so closely.

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I was only thinking this morning how this could have been a Black Mirror episode. The fact that the stalker may now become the stalk-ee via a social media frenzy only makes it more fitting. Was never going to end great was it.

if we watch say "24 hours in police custody" we could track down any of those people on it and follow their social media (assuming a short sentence, not life)

this is no different really.

Have they put the same effort into identifying the rapist?

Yes. Someone was falsely outed as the rapist and Richard issued a statement asking for the speculation to stop

My concerns are definitely around people identifying the wrong person. With the recent shootings in Sydney some poor random guy initially got labeled as the offender by social media very quickly after the incident. He had nothing to do with it and was just some random member of the public. Definitely trial by media.

Sadly it was bound to happen 😕