Franchesca Ramsey

Franchesca Ramsey (born November 29, 1983), also known as Chescaleigh, is an American comedian, activist, television and YouTube personality, and actress, who has appeared on MTV and MSNBC. 2Career 3YouTube Ramsey's YouTube channel contains topical and socially conscious comedy sketches and song parodies among other videos. Her chescalocs channel is about natural hair. In 2015, Ramsey became the host of the MTV web series Decoded where she discusses racism and cultural issues. Several of Ramsey's videos have appeared on MTV, The Huffington Post, CollegeHumor, Jezebel, and Glamour Magazine. 4Online harassment Ramsey has been a target of online harassment, trolling and doxing. Emma Cueto of Bustle counted Ramsey among five women who receive "mountains of daily abuse" of the kind that is "disproportionately leveled against women as well as LGBT people and people of color, prompted by nothing at all". The typical campaigns of harassment against individuals like Ramsey are not organic, or spontaneous, but are orchestrated and coordinated attacks involving many participants, starting on both fringe white supremacist websites, and on alt-right, establishment-connected media like Breitbart News.After Ramsey gained large numbers of YouTube views from winning the People/YouTube Red Carpet Reporter contest, she became the target of racist harassment, beginning with comment thread stalkers posting racial epithets. This escalated to harassing emails sent to Ramsey's work email address, and then malware attacks on her employer's email server. The stalker then began posting personal details meant to imply that he was physically tracking and watching her.Ramsey said she had a good relationship with YouTube personnel in attempting to prevent the harassment, and was selected to participate in a survey of YouTube creators about changes they would like. She said she wanted the ability to block users by IP address, and limit comments to channel subscriber