The Targeted Individual Community

A stylized woman holds a banner at the center of a diverse, serious crowd; several people carry blank signs and some watch through binoculars.

I really had to talk about the Targeted Individual community. I think I discovered the concept in 2022 or 2023, while I was searching online for information about what was happening to me: having “neighbors” who would target me as a group, day and night, and try to make me lose it.

And even though, after a few years, I realized that the solution isn’t to complain online and hope to take the “gangstalkers” or “perps,” as they like to call them, to court, I have to admit that people in this community do a pretty good job of describing what we experience, even if they blame it on a secret organization.

A nerdy-looking conspiracy theorist is trapped in an animal cage with a baby bottle and licks the metal ball to drink. The base reads “Faraday Cage for Targeted Individual.”

Most people in the TI community still believe that what is happening to us is technological. Depending on where they are in that process, some think they can solve what is happening by turning to cybersecurity experts to protect their electronic devices. I know because I’ve been through it myself. At first, the people experiencing the phenomenon played along when I thought I was dealing with French expats in Rio, mafia types who had hacked all my devices. That really was the impression I got.

Others believe gangstalkers are illegal groups of people with access to advanced technologies most people don’t know exist. They talk about tools such as RNM (Remote Neural Monitoring), which would let people know remotely exactly what is going on in someone’s mind: all their thoughts, images, words, everything going through the target’s mind. They also talk about V2K (Voice to Skull), another tool that would let gangstalkers send voices into targets’ heads, so only the target can hear them, not the people around them. It sounds completely delusional to someone who doesn’t experience the phenomenon, but for someone like me, who was searching for information about what was happening to me a few years ago, it really matches what’s happening to me. You really can believe it, unfortunately.

Anyway, I generated this image because I find it funny when I see people who say they’re victims of gangstalking and call themselves Targeted Individuals, and who think the solution is to build a Faraday cage around their bed so they can sleep peacefully at night.

A three-panel comic showing a man in a crowd: first he says he is a victim of gang stalking, then explains that things improve when he changes how he thinks and behaves. In the last panel, two people call him a gangstalker and a perp.

It’s funny because when I decided to create this site, I’d completely overlooked how hard it would be to convince members of the Targeted Individual community, or rather, people going through what I’m going through. Every day I see them complaining online, hoping to find a solution so they can finally live normally. So I was sure my web book would be a hit. Well, honestly, it’s because I’m not very good at selling myself, I admit it. My web book is still really confusing, and the solution I offer (which isn’t really mine) is surprising, even counterintuitive.

But I’m realizing that Targeted Individuals tend to follow a self-sealing doctrine: they identify so strongly with the theories they’ve read that nothing, absolutely nothing, can pull them away from them. And I’m realizing that this makes it hard to help them, because as soon as someone starts doing better and decides to share a solution that goes against what their group believes, they immediately label that person as ill-intentioned, or even as a gangstalker.

It’s really not easy. Even now, I keep wondering how it might be possible to convince people who think they belong to a group that is more conscious or awakened than the general public, when within that group all they do is share and repeat the same information they’ve read, information that isn’t based on much. A bit like most people, actually.

Well, honestly, I still think this community is pretty cool because there’s a desire to unite and come together to find a solution and get better. But unfortunately, I feel like most Targeted Individuals have lost sight of the goal along the way and have just become hooked on constantly complaining online and blaming the government, and so on.

Another pretty interesting thing is that people experiencing the phenomenon don’t like being accused of things they had nothing to do with. They don’t like being blamed for the negative things that happen to us. I don’t know if it’s because they have a pretty developed sense of humor, but most people who complain about being victims of gangstalking, group harassment, having their privacy violated, and so on, often end up becoming the biggest stalkers and the ones harassing groups of people themselves! Funny, right? I really want to start making reaction videos. When I scroll through my X timeline, I see Targeted Individuals sharing videos and/or photos of complete strangers every day.

Anyway, all this is to say that it’s really sad, because there’s a genuine desire to come together and get better. But the way this community is built means that by getting attached to the things shared there, people going through what I’m going through will never get better. On the contrary, they only talk about negative things like remote torture, the neuro-prison, and so on. And as I said elsewhere in the web book, people experiencing the phenomenon adapt and play along with what the person in contact thinks of them. So, to get better, you have to think positively and accept that the people experiencing the phenomenon are good and decent people who sometimes say things that aren’t pleasant to hear, for example. But they do it to show us that we humans are limited and don’t manage to realize it.

The Targeted Individual Community

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