New York Times — About 24 hours after joining Tinder, Ashley Brincefield, 31, a customs inspector in Port Tobacco, Md., began getting creepy messages. Married men propositioned her for sex. Guys lashed out if they didn’t get a reply in a timely fashion. Various men sent naked selfies.
Ms. Brincefield tried blocking them and reporting them to Tinder, but the harassers would just surface under a new screen name, she said. So she decided to take matters into her own hands.
She took screen shots of the offending messages, superimposed them with remarks like “Tinder is not the solution to your marital problems” and uploaded them to her profile as a warning to future matches.
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Alexandra Tweten ’09, 27, an operations coordinator for Live Nation in Los Angeles, received abusive messages from men on OKCupid and other sites. So in October, she started compiling them on her Instagram account, Bye Felipe. (The name is based on the urban slang term “Bye Felicia,” which is used to dismiss someone insignificant.)
Soon after, she invited other women to submit screen shots to call out “dudes who turn hostile when rejected or ignored.” Bye Felipe currently has 318,000 followers and 4,000 submissions, including text messages that quickly devolve into misogynistic outbursts, explicit photographs and tirades like, “You deserve something worse than death.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/style/women-turn-tables-on-online-harassers.html
