Just a few days after the video was posted online, Funke started receiving taunting and nasty messages on Facebook and Twitter, especially from her former peers at Stillwater High School in Minnesota.
Funke seemed to have brushed off the hateful messages as she took to twitter to say “Famous for dayzzzzzzz,” and “P0rnstar Status.”
But it seems like the taunts from former classmates started getting to her and on April 16, she drove out to Big Carnelia Lake and took her own life with a shotgun she bought.
According to her family who said she had long suffered from depression, the online harassment contributed to her deciding to commit suic!de.
On a fundraiser page they started to fight cyberbullying, they wrote, “Alyssa like so many other teens was a victim of bully and sadly the bullying lead to her death. Social media has revolutionized the way people bully each other now days. Now you can say whatever you want and not have to look the person in the face while doing it.”
Meanwhile, the Washington County (Minn.) Sheriff’s Office is investigating the circumstances of Funke’s death.
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