4chan Murderer Posts Victim’s Photos Online, To The Cheers Of Internet Scumbags

4chan murderer david kalac facebookContent note: violence against women, rape, misogyny, and literally some of the worst things you will ever read.

If you are a woman, there are parts of the Internet that hate you for that reason alone. There can be no better proof of that than the fact that one man felt comfortable posting pictures of his girlfriend, who he says he murdered, to Internet message board 4chan – expecting to be not just tolerated, but praised for his actions. He got what he was looking for, of course, at least until he disappointed his fellow 4chan users by failing to commit police-assisted suicide. This is sick, this is terroristic, and this is the reason no one cares if not ALL men are murderers. It’s enough that a few are, and that there are people out there willing to cheer them on for it.

David Kalac of Port Orchard, Washington, strangled his live-in girlfriend Amber Coplin to death, posted naked pictures of her corpse to 4chan, and left her body for her son to find when he got home from school. Despite some 4chan users condemning his actions, and several more accusing him of faking his photos, most of their response to this psychotic monster’s actions were exactly what you’d expect from the poop-smeared asshole of the Internet. When I put on my biohazard to see what 4chan was saying about the crime, about the first thing I found was a thread called “Why isn’t anyone repos[t]ing David Kalac’s pics?” (Warning: do not click that link unless you hate yourself as much as I apparently do.)

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Oh, and in case you were wondering, someone did, of course, repost a link to the pictures. But it gets worse, because this is 4chan we’re talking about. If this story is already squicking you out, you might not want to click to the next page to see what 4chan users actually said about Kalac’s actions.

If you’re joining me on page 2, well, sorry for ruining your day. I wish I had something useful  to say about how horrible this is, but mostly I’m just soul-crushingly angry about it. all. Kalac’s posting was greeted with skepticism, anticipation, and just about as much vile, slavering misogyny as you would expect from the people who manufactured #GamerGate in order to give themselves an excuse to harass women they disagree with, and who have a habit of stealing and publicly posting nude photos.

4chan david kalac 1 4chan david kalac 2 4chan david kalac 34chan david kalac 5Before the #notallmen, or at least #notall4channers, brigade leaps to anyone’s defense, let me say: I don’t give a damn. A non-zero portion of the population is chortling at images of a murdered woman and asking for more sexual violence to be perpetrated against her. It doesn’t matter one iota if not all men are psychotic murderers, some are, and some of the rest are going to high-five them for it. Women can’t tell, when we’re walking down the street and someone says “nice tits”, whether that guy is going to follow us if we don’t acknowledge him – or if we do. We don’t know if the guy who keeps sending us Facebook messages demanding a date is just persistent, or violently persistent. We don’t know whether if we leave an abusive boyfriend, we’re going to end up dead and with pictures of our grisly murder plastered over the Internet.

#GamerGate has been scary enough, but at least with ‘only’ threats and harassment, it was possibly to distance yourself emotionally and pretend that the people who use boards like 4chan are just creepy Internet goblins and not the people we work with, befriend, and even date. The murder of Amber Coplin should make this all too real for anyone who’d like to stick their heads in the proverbial sand: this is terrorism against women. And if you don’t think so, if you think this is just an isolated incident that can be dismissed or ignored, or if your first instinct is to defend yourself as a man who would never murder rather than to say, “What can I do to help?” … then you are part of the problem.

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