A British student came up with a pretty novel way to harmlessly tell random Internet perverts who tell her to ‘send nudes’ to piss off—just keep sending them an error message.
Rhiannon Simpson was losing her patience with a man who kept harassing her for nude pictures on Instagram.
“This man on my Instagram kept messaging me and started off by saying I have a nice body and he’d like to see more and I declined and then he asked if I’d do it if he paid me and I declined again, which is when he started asking the bra question and it started to annoy me so I gave the response which has now gone viral,” she told UNILAD.
Even after literally getting nine error messages, this guy was still not getting the message—so Rhiannon decided to publicly shame him on Twitter.
“After he realised I’d published it online he started to claim he’d got a lawyer and was going to send me to court for slander and then within a sheer ten minutes he’d told me he’d obtained a restraining order against me and all my followers, so it was clearly fake.”
“I have now blocked him,” she added.
After seeing his screencapped messages posted to Twitter, the guy reached out to Simpson yet again, saying that what she was doing was “definitely slander” and that he planned on getting his lawyer and the police involved.
That’s not how it works, dude!
Simpson said she received more positive reactions to her “message not received” method than negative. “My boyfriend just laughed and couldn’t believe it got this big,” she said. “I’ve had people message me like this before so he’s used to it, we just laugh about it.”