“They were so evil … they got really personal with Heather,” blogger Jill Smokler said of GOMIblog.com forum community, which continued trashing blogger Heather “Dooce”…
are quick to say that her suicide was a long time coming and was the direct result of mental health struggles.online, was open about her years struggling with alcoholism and clinical depression so intense that she underwent drastic experiments on her brain to try to alleviate the suffering.
The site came up with the rise of mommy bloggers and gave haters a place to anonymously and viciously mock every aspect of these women’s lives. Today, there are forums dedicated to ripping apart social media influencers and royals as well as bloggers in the worlds of food, fashion, and even fundamentalist religions.
“They were relentless with her,” Smokler added. “They knew she was fragile and depressed. It’s not easy to be bombarded with messages that you’re a terrible mother and shouldn’t be alive. It cuts to the core of who you are. I wonder how the people at GOMI feel now.”Upper East Side blogger Alice Wright, 48, has run the GOMI “anti-fan” hate site since 2008. Commenters in the site’s forums trashed Armstrong for years.
GOMI creator Alice Wright, who goes by the handle “nycaw,” and other commenters wasted no time in posting about Armstrong’s suicide.
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