This is called the dark side of social media. Anonymous people who allow themselves to insult, mock or even threaten with death people they do not know with complete impunity. At the worst right now after several defeats in the first round of the tournaments in which he participates, Benoit Pair is the victim of this harassment on social networks. He has decided to reveal some very harsh messages he may have received in recent weeks. While he had started the season very well at the Australian Open, the 32-year-old Frenchman seems to be marking the blow physically and especially morally lately.
The wave of hatred that is pouring over him on social networks could be one of the reasons for this blow that Benoit Paire is feeling at the moment. Beaten at the Estoril tournament in Portugal yesterday, Julie Bertin’s companion was whistled by the public when he left and he then replied by lowering his shorts and showing his underwear. An attitude that caused a new burst of messages of rare violence, as he later revealed on his Twitter account. Messages from anonymous people from all over the world since they are in French, English and Spanish.
Death threats and insults
Words of rare violence with many very crude insults and even death threats. On the message in Spanish that he receives, it is clearly a death threat from the Internet user, who ends his diatribe with: “We are going to kill you”. The other messages are no less hateful, however, and one wonders how anyone can react to so much hate.