Yes. Obviously.

You come online as a woman and produce content of any kind and it will not be long before the trolls show up.

This is beyond the usual heckling and incivility you're worried about.

It will be the same group of guys. Always the same. If you block them, they'll create a new profile. They exhibit pack behavior. They cluster. They bully and peck. They target. They coordinate.

The strategy has been to block, ignore, and don't engage.

But it never ends. They just become a plague and the vitriol escalates.

I've been trying out some sifferent strategies in my time here. This is juvenile playground behavior, attention seeking. We all know what happens if you ignore a bully. They bully more and harder. They will continue until they get what they want, which is attention.

But it's your choice whether or not that attention is reactive, appeasing, or a hockey check.

If you hockey check, they'll respect you and you break the pack dynamic.

The bad part is, because most men are oblivious to the harassment women get in real life and online, when they stumble upon a woman protecting herself from one of these guys or standing up to him they perceive it as an attack all men or misandry, etc.