A mob attack occurring within a specific online server or community space (such as
Discord, Slack, Minecraft, or forum communities), where members of that server collectively target an individual. Server gang
ups are particularly intimate and destructive because they occur within spaces that may have felt like community, among
people who may have been considered
friends or allies. The target experiences not just attack but betrayal—the community they belonged to turning on them, often with the active participation of moderators or administrators who should provide safety. Server gang ups reveal that community itself can become a weapon, that belonging can be revoked with devastating speed, and that the spaces we
trust can become the sites of our destruction.
Example: "He'd been in the
Discord for two years, thought they were
friends—then one misunderstood comment triggered a Server Gang Up, and he watched
people he'd gamed with for years join the mob against him."
