The concept is bone-chillingly simple. An anonymous user, claiming to have committed sexual assault without facing legal consequences, would post a thread titled: "I am a rapist. AMA (Ask Me Anything)."
One survivor, who goes by the username u/StillHere444, posted an open letter in response to an "Ask A Rapist" thread that went viral (at least within Reddit's ecosystem). She wrote: Ask A Rapist Thread Reddit
Proponents—usually libertarian-leaning Redditors or true-crime researchers—offer several justifications: The concept is bone-chillingly simple
The thread’s cultural impact was so significant that it eventually became the subject of a formal research study by Georgia State University, published in the journal Psychology of Violence . Researchers analyzed a subset of 68 first-hand accounts to identify how perpetrators justify sexual violence. who goes by the username u/StillHere444