Cosplayer Liz Katz reveals ongoing dilemma with \u201cdelusional cyberstalker\u201d Freepik \/ Liz Katz InstagramPopular cosplayer Liz Katz revealed an ongoing issue with a cyberstalker, who has forced her to increase her \u201chome and office security\u201d due to his unwelcome advances. Katz is a huge figure in the cosplaying scene with a following of over 200 thousand on Twitter and over 1 million on Instagram \u2013 but a recurring issue with one of these followers has forced her to bring an issue to the public about a \u201cdelusional\u201d fan. In a detailed Twitter thread, she revealed how an enamored man has been taking steps to get closer to her, even though she has repeatedly denied his fantasies of a romantic relationship. \u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with a delusional cyberstalker for nearly a year,\u201d she admitted in a Tweet on January 23. \u201cI do not know this person and they do not know me. Yet they are convinced we are in a relationship and that I had been sending them secret messages through my content.\u201d She mentioned how the unnamed person would have lengthy conversations with himself in her public message inbox. There, she found photos evidently showing he was prepared to make a life-changing move to California \u201cin an effort to be closer to me for our \u2018relationship.’\u201d Katz claimed that she eventually responded to him, talking him down and pointing out that her posts held no hidden subtext for him or anyone else. I had been sending them secret messages through my content. (My photos and videos) This terrified me. When scrolling through my public inbox one day last year I just so happened upon a fairly disturbing one way conversation that this person had been having towards me. \u2014 Liz Katz (@LizKatzOfficial) January 23, 2020 \u201cI offered the idea that maybe he had been catfished?\u201d the cosplayer explained. \u201cAnd I assured we had never spoken or written. He seemed to understand. He said he sometimes gets the wrong ideas about things.\u201d A mental health advocate herself, Katz suggested he seek a professional for help, and that \u201cthings cooled off for a while\u201d following the encounter. After a period of silence, he reappeared as a normal fan again, but the messages quickly turned to their previous, concerning tone. Once again, she expressed her discomfort to him. He apologized, and another period of silence ensued. informed the police, and have been limiting my time outside. Which sucks that I feel the need to do this. Weighing my options now and still feeling really uneasy. They have courses on all sorts of things. How to take better Instagram photos, how to grow your audience, \u2014 Liz Katz (@LizKatzOfficial) January 23, 2020 Some time passed before he reappeared once again, this time flooding her, \u201ccomments and inbox, eventually writing every day again\u2026 about how we were together again, as if we were together.\u201d Since he\u2019d already pitched the idea of moving to California to be with her, she believes he was further encouraged by a January 12 Instagram post in which the cosplayer is dancing in a Harley Quinn-inspired costume to the tune of \u201cFreak\u201d by Lana Del Rey. \u201cBaby, if you wanna leave \/ Come to California, be a freak like me, too,\u201d the lyrics say. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7PvqGIB5pY\/ This ended up being the tipping point for Katz, who has informed authorities about the man and has been confining herself to her home by \u201climiting my time outside.\u201d These disturbing details have her community rallying in support for Katz as she is \u201cweighing [her] options now and is still feeling really uneasy.\u201d Among her closing thoughts, she hopes the \u201cindividual can get the help they need,\u201d but has largely remained quiet on social media after shedding light on her continuing predicament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cosplayer Liz Katz reveals ongoing dilemma with \u201cdelusional cyberstalker\u201d Freepik \/ Liz Katz InstagramPopular cosplayer Liz Katz revealed an ongoing issue with a cyberstalker, who has forced her to increase her \u201chome and office security\u201d due to his unwelcome advances. Katz is a huge figure in the cosplaying scene with a following of over 200 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}