This happens kind of a lot. It's the problem with joking around with folks who don't know you well enough to tell if you're being serious or not. It's compounded when you're joking around with someone who is under attack from completely absurd people.
This whole nightmare would be asinine and hilarious if it didn't cause so much damage to so many people. The absurdity is interwoven with legitimate horribleness, which sucks because it masks the horribleness to the untrained eye. People will see anime hitler avatars shouting memes at someone and go "wow online harassment is ridiculous how could anyone take this seriously" instead of looking deeper and seeing the threats, domestic violence, hacking, and so on.
It's one more reason not to punch down with your jokes. While all you can control is how you personally act, you might inadvertently be a part of something bigger outside of that.
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