Anna Cramling

Swedish WFM, content-creator

“I on a constant basis have stalkers — I have people that are obsessed with me. Gosh, I even have people that feel entitled to me. I have those who messaged me, who threatened me.

There are many times that something like that happened, but I don’t talk about it because I don’t want to give this person a platform. I don’t want to encourage more people to do this by speaking about it. I mean, if I pretend that nothing is wrong — then nothing is wrong.

But this is… Reality! For example, when I was in the Chess Olympiad 2024, I had a man who kept on messaging me and telling me that he knew my hotel, he knew where I was staying and he was going to come and kill me! And this guy was messaging me all the time, even to the point where I had to go to the reception and say: ‘Please! If someone with this name checks in — don’t let them!’

I was terrified by that. I was even considering dropping out of the Olympiad because of this…

And that happens way more often than you might think. This happens quite often… And that’s really upsetting. I feel really bad after such things.”