If the incidence rate is only 1/10th of 1 percent, that’s 300+ thousand in the US, alone. If an article is published on the web and is Google searchable, it wouldn’t be at all surprising for a couple dozen of those people to find it by googling and post a response. It would look like a lot of people, but that’s only because the way it was published, with a comment section for them to post to, tends to concentrate the crazy, big time. The contents of that article’s comments are exactly what one should expect from the modern internet, even with a very low incidence rate.
I think the incidence is more like 1%. Here’s a cite:
You’ll have to scroll down but this site seems well sourced.
The First Amendment protects no-one from plaque build-up either. It’s equally ineffective against mental illness.
My point was that if you can get 1/1000 you’re going to get a metric shitload. If the rate is an order of magnitude higher, then you’re going to get an order of magnitude even higher than “metric shitload”. If you go the other way, you can still count on a couple dozen fruitcakes replying. The nutters are going to respond. The response was not at all remarkable. Even if the rate is an order of magnitude lower, you’re still going to get a couple dozen nutters posting replies. That wasn’t at all remarkable.
The only actual organization I can think of that does this sort of thing is the Church of Scientology. But people who are targeted by them know why they’re being harassed. It’s not a mystery.
The occasional fly-by of a patrol aircraft, a navy ship shadowing the vessel for a few hours, maybe a submarine surfacing nearby and then submerging again or running with their periscope easily visible.
So much potential fun to be had. 
Sadly many famous people are cyberstalked by hundreds of fans.
Yes, I understand your point and I agree, but I thought it would be useful to know the actual number. There are a lot of people suffering from mental illness.
But we are not talking about a celebrity. The fellow in the OP is Just Some Guy. Not a lot of cases of Just Some Guys being cyberstalked by hundreds of people.
The site in the OP is flagged as suspicious and dangerous by my anti-malware protection. I stayed long enough to read this gem, however:
“Organized gang stalking can involve a group in the hundreds to thousands harassing a single person or family 24/7. The victim is stalked en masse by car, foot, bike, and air in order to alienate and isolate the victim.”
Look, if thousands of people are stalking you by car, foot, bike, and air, the LAST thing you are is isolated.
Yes, thousands of people were recruited to stalk this one average Joe. Thousands. 24/7. It’s interesting that with thousands of people being recruited for stalking missions, I have never been asked to stalk someone, nor have any of my friends mentioned that they have been recruited, nor has anyone gone to a news organization or the police with reports of men in black trying to recruit them for some strange stalking mission… You would think that with so many people stalking the targeted individuals the big story would be how thousands of people are being pestered or pressured to join in the gang stalking of a group of unremarkable Average Citizens. And according to the link in the OP, the purpose of the stalking is “To make the target individual believe they are insane and to make them seem mentally ill…” So, interestingly, if the gang stalking is true, it is quite successful!
The price of fame.
Making a Youtube video which gets >1M views can happen to anyone.
It may be success or a disaster.
Is fame worth this price? Yes and Yes and No.
I saw something like this on “20/20” a few months ago. This couple claimed that people in town, that they didn’t even know, always honked their horns while driving by their house, because IIRC they complained about a zoning ordinance, and that law enforcement steadfastly refused to do anything about it.
I think they made it up. It reminds me of the women (and my mother was one of them for a while when I was growing up) who believe that crowds of people follow them around grocery stores and other public places, and laugh at them. 
I worked at a grocery store for 3 years, and Target for 4 years before that, and NEVER saw anything like that, not even once. I do remember having to call the manager once at the grocery store when some kids told me that some other youngsters were following them around the store and threatening them (the manager accosted the bullies and screamed at them, “GET OFF OUR PROPERTY!”) and another time at Target when I had an ugly falling out with a girl I thought was my best friend, and an elderly couple who went to our church came into the store, went through my lane, and stuck around to ask me questions about it. For that, I also called the manager and asked him to escort them out of the store, which he did.
If their publicist is doing her job.
Actually, the “gang stalking” victim I was referring to posted on an obscure thread that at most a dozen people were following.
Maybe I was wrong and the “gang stalking” websites are actually helping some people cope. Based on testimonials on this site, loony solutions can be effective.
I was once asked to check the attic of a FOAF. She was sure the neighborhood kids were sneaking into her attic and spying on her. She thought they were watching her outside as well. I showed her there was no evidence of anyone ever being up there.
Don’t know if she believed me, or if she still thinks the kids are up there, or if she thinks I am “one of them”. She was an otherwise normal woman. And a Mensa member.
A couple days ago I was driving to work when I saw an odd object in the road some distance ahead. It looked like part of a branch that for some reason was propped up vertically.
I started to swerve to avoid it, then it moved. :smack:
It was a squirrel standing on its hind legs with its back to me, peering intently into the distance.
Now I realize it was part of a team, gang-stalking some poor slob.
I can only hope that now I’ve exposed its game, it doesn’t turn on me. :eek:
Like the urban legend about the girl who masturbated with a frozen hot dog, and it broke off in her vagina and she was relentlessly harassed by crowds of kids to the point where the family had to move out of town, and even though they didn’t tell anyone where they were going, found a crowd of teenagers waiting for them when the moving truck pulled up to the new house?