Compared with that "doxing," Forrest's more recent critics on Reason's website made what appear to be only idle threats.

Doxing involves researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual, often with the intention of harming that person.

Images and video of sexual acts are often combined with doxing of a person's private details, such as their home addresses and workplaces.

Doxing is therefore a standard tactic of online harassment, and has been used by people associated with the Gamergate movement and anti-vaccine activists.

While Jim had stated that he believe Romine on this case, the suspicion of the community on the second Doxing incident still persist.

In March 2015, former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Curt Schilling used doxing to identify several people responsible for "Twitter troll" posts with obscene, sexually explicit comments about his teenage daughter.

Such discussions included claims that doxing was necessary to draw attention to objectionable content so it could be removed and claims that it impedes the ability for people to exercise their right to legal free speech online due to fear of public retribution.

Another Tumblr Doxing attack was launch, using images of Jim's past videos showing his home (including the Halloween 2015 episode) and threatening to make sure that developers would google his general area in order to have it identified by using the images as reference.

Both human flesh search engine and doxing have generally been stigmatized as being for the purpose of identifying and exposing individuals to public humiliation, sometimes out of vigilantism, nationalist or patriotic sentiments, or to break the Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China.

In April 2013, the subreddit was threatened with a shutdown by the Reddit admins after /r/mensrights users gathered personal information on a supposed blogger of feminist issues, and the subreddit's moderators advised members of the subreddit on how to proceed with this 'doxing' without running afoul of site rules.