In Cyber Space, there are many rooms made for people like me to chat. Among those rooms are the fight rooms. Now let me explain. When I got into this five years ago, there was only one fight room. In that room there was a group of people who just wanted to let off some steam. Back then it wasn’t serious, we all did it for fun and everyone that came in knew this about the fight room (we’d tell them this of course). So how or why did it have to come to this?
Sources point to the history of our roots, the roots of fight room that is. Most of the Fight Room “veterans” came from Yahoo. Yes, a little messenger started this whole (excuse my French) shit and caboodle. There was a fight room in yahoo chat room option where people could spend countless hours releasing their frustrations. But it soon became tiresome to “raise your hand” and wait in line, plus people were dropping packets that would kick us off yahoo. I’ll get to packets in a minute. So most of us decided to venture further out into the great world of cyber space.
What? You want to know where on earth did we go, right? We went to Stickam; a social bug website we thought was cool and free from hackers -- or so we thought. A fight room was created named simply “Fightroom 18+” with simple rules like: mute your microphone when you are not talking, no pedophilia talk or bringing a child on cam in the fight room and no spamming. I trust you know what spamming is; in case you don’t see the footnote.
This is where I came in. Five years ago I joined Stickam. I ventured into the fight room and found a group of people to talk to: Beast, Mofo, Mystek, Grim, Crow, Raw, Ben, Randy, Conky, Mung, Rage, Rippa, Chevy, PoPo, Mangusu, London, Bubba, Syn and Boogie were all my friends. Then came the idea for Crews and quicker then you can blink there were at least two main crews: The Zodiacs (The crew I was a member of) and The xXxtreme. This may seem like gang activity, but we were all cool with each other. We all gathered in the same room and fought with one another. Until The Zodiacs started to Claim a “win” by kicking their competitors out of the room. This marked the beginning of a Crew War. The xXxtreme team made a new room for themselves. This is also the time I finally could be recruited into the Zodiacs; only to watch them helplessly abandon me. They all went in different directions. The Crew was handed over to Ben and quickly floundered.
After that I abandoned Stickam for a month and came back. The Zodiacs were returning, this time ran by Beast, Raw and Ben. I was offered my tag back, but I politely refused. I stayed in contact with Beast more frequently and Raw some of the time. I would come in to “font fuck “ once in a while. Being called a “font fucker” is supposed to be an insult. But in some cases, if you are as good as I was, it was a compliment.
Years went by and I made no effort to join a crew. But I watched as the fight room went from our fun loving stress relief to a quickly growing serious problem.
WARNING: if you are squeamish or easily angered to the point of your blood pressure shooting through the roof, I strongly urg you not to read the next portion of this article. Proceed with caution.
Meet April: The leader of this new crew called the Mvps. This, folks, is where the crews on Stickam begin to crash and burn into nothing more than online gangs. The Mvps are a new group of older people who want to be like the original Fight Room Society. But they lack the common sense to uphold the rules and they cannot figure out the difference between Cyber Space and Reality.
Sure it seems real when I come at you with an insult like: You’re a Cam Hoe! But there is no need to bring real people like family into the situation or even worse, bring Internet issues into real life. Here is a prime example.
(April’s posts are highlighted in green. Other’s names were erased to protect identity.)
Meet the Co-Owner of the Mvp room; Weedman or more commonly know by his name Matt. He is April’s “booty call.” They are both supposedly married, yet they cheat on their spouses with each other. But that’s not as serious as what I’ve heard about this character. He has bragged about getting a woman drunk and pulling her pants down; jizzing on her back side. My friend has told me of the time he grabbed a drunken guy off the streets and took him in his house and beat him within an inch of his life.
About a year ago my friend, Synfully Wicked, was threatened by Matt via the Fight Room. After Syn dropped her tag, April and Matt were enraged to the point that Matt had threatened to send a “nigger ” to her house to rape and kill her child. Later. Syn had purchased a ticket to a concert and while she was gone, an African American man had tried to break into her home while her daughter was there. Only to meet the family dog and had be chased away by the dog.
Precisely six months ago, Syn and Artsy (another of my friends) were threatened again, this time targeting Artsy. When her microphone was open in the room, she received a call from an unknown person. The person threatened her on the telephone. From that point on the shrills and screams I heard from Artsy are and will always be the most horrible sounds I ever heard. She wasn’t hurt or anything, she was angered that they were threatening to hurt her family. So much that after hanging up the phone, she punched a hole in the door and broke a knuckle.
As well as my friends, I have had my fair share of threats in the past. When a person named FM was running for student body, I left a message on a site that informed the people how he had been nude on camera and how he always brags about punching people with his fist and knocking them out. I wrote that I thought it wouldn’t be a good idea for this person to be around children. The next day I received a threat in my inbox about my comment.
I chose not to respond to this threat or report it because it wasn’t worth the hassle. After all it was just the Internet, right? This character followed me around on the web. But nothing more came from the threat.
Recently a long time “friend” who used to be named Mystek and is now Black Velvet has finally shown her true colors. I say “finally” because I had been expecting it from her for quite some time. I had been told many times that she was two-faced and a liar. As expected she followed the crowd and turned on me. After making a sexual comment about me, I replied she was a pedophile because I was so much younger then her and that it was just plain sick. After posting this message, I received this pm in which I have screen capped the beginning of her message to me. Where she has clearly stated that I am some sort of target. I stated later in the conversation that I had screen capped the beginning of the conversation and was more then willing to press charges. Later that night I talked with my friends about the happenings (they are much older and wiser then me) and we agreed that this threat was just a bluff due to the character considered in the situation.
Although the Fight Rooms are generally and strictly eighteen and older rooms, what commonly floods the room are people who get nude on camera. Here, let me give you an example for making in this far in my article! Did you really think I would show you profanity in an article? Get real! But yes, there are a lot of people who get naked and those who do more then just getting naked, if you get my drift.
Also among these are -- yep, you guessed it! -- those famous hackers from Yahoo. They journeyed their way to Stickam to do just what they’re capable of doing: planting packets in the rooms to make them crash. A “packet” is a group of text that “adjusts” the Stickam chat rooms. Some packets can continuously remove everyone from a room, change the text, freeze or lag you out of a room and make a window pop up with anything you want. Some of these people are not real hackers. We call them Script Kitties because they can script a packet.
Again a new “Fight Room” has been created in the great world of Sticki. This time the rules have been carelessly thrown out the window. When I had asked why a lady had her kid on cam in the fight room, one person said, “We are not the mvp room.” And another stated, “ We are not the losers room.”
I replied that no rules would lead to hectic situations just like the mvp room. I told them that that room would only fail because of its lack of authority. Also that the rules had been passed down from the original fight room and that if the original fight room is a “loser” room then we must all be losers as well because we are a fourth or fifth generation fight room group and they paved the path we walk on. I was removed from the room for that comment and have no intentions of going into anymore fight rooms again.
So let’s recap: The fight room originated on Yahoo, Moved to Stickam, was a fun stress reliever, started a war, turned into a serious problem, created two virtual “Bonnie and Clyde” stooges, is now a stress filled environment that includes sexual content, threats that turn into real life altercations, script kitties and to top it all off, some times under aged people are not noticed in this room.
You thought wrong when you thought that the only thing you had to worry about was sexual predators on the Internet or that a simple chat room on a website was absolutely safe for your child to hang out in. I’m twenty-two. My friends are older then you and me read what happened to them. This is just the Internet, right? If I’m not safe, your child certainly isn’t safe.
I leave you with a strict warning. Stay away from the fight rooms, any fight room. Too many people take these meant to be “shits and giggles” insults to heart, they become too personal and can’t tell the difference between real life and the computer.
I urge you to at least talk to your child or young adult about these situations and reassure them that they can come to you if they are threatened. For your safety, I recommend you learn to screen cap and record. An even better choice would be to avoid fight rooms. These are dangerous places filled with cyber bullies.
No comments:
Post a Comment