“It’s been my experience that nothing triggers this type of toxic masculinity culture more than a gay man who isn’t afraid,” Lynn says, “and I can’t think of anything I am less afraid of than a bunch of fragile dudes who can’t deal with my existence.”

Read the full story in People Magazine HERE, or click on the screenshot below.

…and here’s some backstory:

Back when all of this super intense homophobic trolling started up again a few months ago, it was worse than ever before. Since my time on TV back in the early days of Logo I’ve been a target of this disturbing trash, but I’ve always found ways of using it as a motivator, and it has fueled my queer activism.

A lot of it has turned scarier than usual since the last election when I put out that Satanic puppet video where I put Donald Trump in jail (where he belongs), but this past January I finally made a deal with myself (and my mom) that I was just never going to look at what poison strangers are saying about me ever again — not even for the sake of comedy or advocacy — and I haven’t.

Anyone who follows me has watched me spend years taking screenshots and mocking the truly endless hate I get as a punchline, but I’m fucking tired and homophobia has completely lost its charm. Even with a team of people working with me on managing it all, the bigotry is still painful, and the content of the trolling is so twisted and personally triggering, it can be really hard to find a punchline.

Whether you are a 24 year old comic in Portland attempting to make a name for yourself by publicly dragging mine through the mud, or you don’t like someone famous that I’m connected to, or you are an Evangelical murderer who wants to burn my house down because you hate gay people, or you are one of the 26,000 MAGA dudes who listen to the Opie and Anthony Radio show and insist on creating and distributing violent memes about me, or you are just mad because you think my songs suck, I really, truly have stopped caring. I literally CAN’T care, and haven’t cared for some time.

This is what wellness looks like in 2019: Blocking your own name on the internet.

So we made it official and my team took over my public accounts (I still write the content for my website and social posts, but other people shield me from the rest). They had me turn off all of my Google alerts, and we stopped doing ALL Facebook and Instagram ads (thus killing traffic on those public pages, which has really sucked for business, but whatever! It worked for peace of mind.)

There is surprisingly nothing I can do legally because apparently I’m just low-level famous enough to have lost all of my privacy rights, and the press is afraid to touch this shit because no one wants to be the target of this trolling group’s next attack, so my team has just been collecting a mountain of evidence, we continue to send everything to the FBI, and I continue to look all the way away and plug my ears if I see my face or name pop up.

I believe there will come a time when the laws about this stuff change for public figures and private citizens, and the multimillion dollar corporations that profit from Reddit’s Wild West policies allowing this type of digital bullying (and actual widespread fake news) to go unpoliced, will be held accountable. (This is the same company that owns Vogue, Pitchfork, and several other prestigious media outlets, for Christ’s sake.)

And when that time comes, dearest corporate overlord darlings, I’ll be right here waiting. You can just put the money right into the Gucci bag, tech nerds. 💰

In the meantime, in addition to everything that’s been happening to Amy Schumer, or with Elizabeth Warren and other politicians by way of dangerous, false content on this platform, here’s a fascinating story about how this same exact Opie and Anthony subReddit group has been working to systematically destroy a comedian’s reputation like this recently, too. I’m apparently in a really weird club now! 🤷‍♂️

We did finally receive a response from an official Reddit admin — the only one of its kind — after months of reporting over 3,000 individual posts of targeted harassment, implied violence, outright threats of violence, homophobic hate, mountains of false statements, and personal misinformation on their site alone. They were just letting us know that, unlike at Wikipedia and Twitter, whose safety teams jumped in immediately to manage their portion of this mess, no action has or will be taken by Reddit to step in or help whatsoever. No contact has been made except to have their lawyers attempt to kill this story about the abuse that I was interviewed for at People Magazine and to send us 3 sentences about why they won’t remove any user-generated content on their platform without a court order, in response to a reported post where someone had photoshopped my face into graphic pornography and linked me to the debunked Pizzagate scandal.

AMERICA!

From People Magazine: (3/23/19)

How a Naked Video of Actor Jay Mohr Led to the Online Bullying of His Friend, Singer Logan Lynn

The 39-year-old singer tells PEOPLE he has been the victim of targeted online bullying

By STEVE HELLING 

For nearly two decades, Oregon-based songwriter Logan Lynn has quietly produced indie music to critical accolades.

With nine studio albums under his belt, he developed a niche following. He also worked on TV, hosting the weekly music video countdown cable television show NewNowNext Music on Logo.

But now Lynn, 39, is getting more attention than he ever imagined — and he tells PEOPLE that it is destroying his reputation.

In 2018, he partnered with his friend, Jerry Maguire actor Jay Mohr, on a multimedia project titled My Movie Star, a short film accompanied by a double album that includes collaborations with the Dandy Warhols and Tiffany. The video included full frontal nudity of Mohr, who had never appeared naked on film before.

The eye-grabbing video received notice from critics and fans — but soon garnered some unwanted attention, as well. Shortly after the release of My Movie Star, the online bullying started — especially on a particular Reddit subgroup, where fans of the shock jocks Opie and Anthony began weighing in.

Anonymous users began making wild accusations that Lynn says have no basis in truth. They alleged that he had molested children, was a serial rapist and other unprintable allegations. They photoshopped his face onto pornographic images, created memes with racist sayings that they falsely attributed to Lynn, and even alleged that he was a member of a prominent pro-pedophilia organization.

As the bullying intensified and the unfounded allegations grew more sinister, Lynn worried that his reputation would suffer. He spent hours blocking and reporting abusive posts, to no avail. Confused how so many people could bully him with seemingly no repercussions, Lynn reached out to Reddit — who he says declined to take action. (Reddit did not return PEOPLE’s messages for comment.)

“I usually try to lampoon this type of bigotry,” Lynn, who is openly gay, tells PEOPLE, “and I’ve been doing that here as much as I can. But it’s hard to find a punchline in what most of these people are saying and doing. It’s really sick and I’m shocked that Reddit would allow such a large group of people to organize homophobic bullying on their site.”

Mohr, 48, soon entered into the fray, denouncing the bullying on Twitter.

“Wow.@OpieRadio took a twitter bat to the ribs by a card carrying gay guy @loganlynn. Maybe his homophobic, angry and fearful fan base will desert him for getting reverse cyber fag bashed. #speakoutagainstthemOpie,” wrote Mohr.

Reps for Opie and Anthony did not return PEOPLE’s requests for comment.

Lynn says that the online bullying has had some real-life effects. One of the bands that was planning to tour with Lynn this year has dropped out, telling him that they don’t want to be tied to the allegations, even peripherally.

As a mental health advocate, Lynn knew that the overwhelming world of online bullying was unhealthy. He stopped Googling himself and often steps away from his computer screen.

But Lynn wants to make one thing clear: he’s not afraid of the trolls.

“It’s been my experience that nothing triggers this type of toxic masculinity culture more than a gay man who isn’t afraid,” Lynn says, “and I can’t think of anything I am less afraid of than a bunch of fragile dudes who can’t deal with my existence.”