[masklinn]

> I think men have no idea that girls and women experience this.

Definitely. It's hard to fathom pretty much any "deluge of interactions" and their destructiveness at scale without having going through.

An other common case is online pileups e.g. a random tweet gets retweeted and is controversial enough that people now viewing it want to reply. For them it's just a reply, for the rando it's thousands of by and large useless repetitive and unoriginal message.

It's fundamentally a DDOS, and the skeeviness or even maliciousness of the interactions you experienced only serve to make things workse.