Somehow I have made it this long on the internet without death threats

Not sent, but I had an old guy follow me 5 minutes down the road and threaten to kill me to my face because I apparently bumped into him in a busy station.

This is probably the most obvious answer, but I beat them over and over in a videogame lmao

I was a trainee in Japan at the time and had spoken in an IRC channel about how I was going home to Sweden for Christmas.

Then I ended up in a disagreement with some Norwegian guy about affirmative action. I felt that in the computer science field it could be a good idea for a time to "jumpstart" female participation in the field, and once prejudice had been torn down you wouldn't need affirmative action anymore.

He vehemently disagreed and said he would drive down to Stockholm's airport to kill me with his rifle. There weren't that many flights from Japan to Sweden so based on what I had said earlier he was able to figure out what flight I would be arriving with. But, well, I'm still alive. It taught me to be more careful with what information I volunteer on the Internet.

Not liking a certain show viral in early 2010s

Like 10-15 years ago I took a screenshot from my pokemon game. I named my ditto "children" and then put it in the daycare center, so that when I went to pick him up the daycare lady says "If you want your children back, it will be $5000".

As someone who had never watched the movie "Taken", it was kind of unsettling to login to reddit the next day to find like five messages in my inbox saying some form of "I don't know who you are but I will find you and I will kill you".

Probably doesn't fit the intent but thankfully those are the only examples I have.

it's only happened once to me that i recall, but the reason was pretty ridiculous. i told him i wasn't allowed to mislabel his hot sandwich as a cold sandwich so that he could buy it with food stamps. he didn't send me death threats, but he did shout them right there in the deli.

Sometimes it's nothing except being a different skin colour. Or riding a bicycle.

I'm unsure because it was ages ago, but probably a mix of me being undiagnosed autistic them being undiagnosed something and telling them no I can't give them free stuff at the job I was at.

They left when the manager came out. Manager asked if I needed a break because they heard the shouting.

I was mostly baffled.

I briefly made my Reddit profile picture one of my drawings of a coyote. I'm not a furry, I just like drawing animals. But apparently someone didn't see it that way and messaged me suggesting that my face get intimate with their shotgun.

I reported their message, but all they got was a warning.

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I think you think these are more common than they are.

I used to have a not well known webcomic and would get death threats/"kill yourself" messages pretty regularly, so yeah for drawing a cartoon would be mine I guess! They never used to bother me especially though, I thought they were funny. I used to have a page up where I'd post the dumbest ones lol.

Somehow I think I've managed to avoid getting death threats, beyond the "kill yourself" kind. If we count the "kys" bit, I got those whenever I played games online, but now it's normally when I talk about communism with right-wingers.

Calling someone online by their IRL name.