What I’ve Seen in This New Landscape …Harassment has changed shape. It no longer shouts from the street or knocks on the door. it creeps in and It slips into the digital spaces where we work, create, and try to build a life.

I’ve learned this firsthand. There is a new kind of loiterer now—the digital saboteur—someone who watches not to support, but to unsettle. Someone who treats a working person’s livelihood as entertainment. They hover at the edges of your shop, your listings, your home, your peace. They don’t see the human being behind the work. They see a target, a stage, a place to project their own dissatisfaction.

What Experience Has Taught Me About Their Pattern

My work has never been “just work.” It’s been survival, legacy, and a way of keeping my heart open in a world that often rewards the opposite. And because of that, I’ve learned how predators operate. They mistake openness for weakness. They mistake kindness for permission. They mistake resilience for something they can chip away at.

Their tactics are predictable:- Interfering with visibility—hovering over listings with no intention to buy, trying to distort the algorithms that keep a small business alive. – Watching without purpose—a kind of digital loitering that feeds their hollow sense of power. – Trying to isolate—making your spaces feel monitored, hoping you’ll shrink yourself to make them comfortable. These are not the actions of strong people. They are the habits of those who cannot build anything of their own that have solid spiritual substance. Financially privileged, socially applauded.

What I Know About Surveillance Now

People talk about surveillance as if it’s always used to protect the vulnerable. My experience says otherwise. Surveillance can be used to create the vulnerable. It takes money, ego, and a deep bitterness to build systems designed to unsettle someone who is simply trying to live their life. Why? It’s what they call fun in their own empty vessels.

I’ve seen how dissatisfaction masquerades as curiosity. How ego dresses itself up as “concern.” How bitterness pretends to be “interest.”And wealth—when it’s in the hands of someone with no conscience—becomes a tool for intrusion. It rewards the watchers. It funds the spies. It emboldens people who believe they are untouchable. They hack into what they would never allow touched in their own world.

They cross boundaries they guard fiercely for themselves.

They do unto others what their own money would never allow done to them. And there is nothing more vulgar than a coward who hides behind the very weapons he throws.

The Courage I Choose Instead

What I’ve learned is this: the strongest counter-force isn’t rage or retaliation. It’s decency. Not the soft kind—the disciplined kind. The kind that refuses to collapse. The kind that refuses to become what it despises. Decency is not a weakness. Decency is a boundary. Decency is a refusal to hand your character over to someone who has none. But decency is not silence. And it is not surrender.

We become cowards ourselves if we refuse to develop the ethical, principled ways to expose manipulation, protect our spaces, and stand in our own truth. Naming the pattern is courage.

To Anyone Walking a Path Alone

If you feel targeted because you stand alone, I understand that feeling. But standing alone does not mean you are weak.

It means you have not bent.

It means you have not broken.

It means you have not joined the crowd of cowards who hide behind screens and money.

The laws are slowly catching up—The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and The Online Safety Act finally acknowledge that digital and economic interference are not “drama.” They are violations. You are not being punished. You are being tested by people who fear your resilience.

Starve them of your energy.

Guard your digital doors.

Keep your heart open for the good ones, and closed to the cowards.

We are moving toward somewhere warm—somewhere honest—and we are going there with our dignity intact.

Tiffy Belle ❤️