People on social media are just really weird.
First off Riley is 3-years-old, I know kids start young these days with their social media, but not at 3.
Even if it was an account her parents set up for her, that still doesn’t excuse some of the vile stuff tweeted towards the account. The adult Riley Curry told his story to FTW.
Before 2015, he hardly ever got mentions or messages on either Twitter or Instagram. But one day in late May of last year, all of that changed.
“All of a sudden, I was being tagged in pictures of Steph Curry on Instagram,” Curry said. “And I didn’t really know what his wife or daughter even looked like, but there I was, getting tagged.”
“Some were sweet,” Curry said. “And some of them were bad, but not all that bad —telling her there’s no Santa, her dad sucks, blah blah blah.”
But then things took a turn.
“Since then it’s been stuff like, ‘You should tell your parents to kill themselves,’” Curry said. “All this stuff that is just awful. The problem isn’t about me being bothered or offended or getting my feelings hurt. It’s the fact that on social media, people say whatever they want without there being any accountability or consequences. People say these awful things potentially to a three-year-old little girl. It’s alarming and kind of sad.”
Just terrible, but not unexpected these days.
He might just have to change his username, which sucks, but best way to keep the trolls away from him.