The pain is no doubt intensified by the knowledge that by now, almost two million people have logged onto video-sharing site, YouTube, to view the rage. It was spawned by a prank pulled by internet prankster 4Chan, which spread the girl's various contact details across the internet in a viral fashion.
This isn't the only prank 4Chan has pulled in recent times. They also made headlines across the web when a petition was launched to send teen sensation Justin Bieber to North Korea.
Phone calls have been received widely within the household of the girl - who has been nicknamed Jessie Slaughter - including some that were centered around death threats toward her and her family.
Although nothing violent has yet eventuated as a result of such threats, it was enough for the police to place her under a protection initiative usually reserved for witnesses in a murder trial.
All of this talk, however, doesn't mean that the girl is innocent - despite being pranked at the tender age of twelve. All of the harassment seen here was sparked, according to other blogs, by a profanity ridden, hate-spewing video (embedded above) created by the girl attacking people whom she referred to as 'internet haters'.
Suggestions to 'suck my non-existant penis' and 'get AIDS and die' were among those hurled at the video's target audience. How classy?
