NASCAR content creator NASCARSky recently opened up about a disturbing online harassment incident that left her shaken. The creator revealed that a Reddit community had used her personal photos for sexual and degrading comments. While the community was eventually removed, the experience has forced NASCARSky to rethink how much of her personal life she shares online.
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“Nobody wants to feel that violated, I felt like. I mean, they were posting pictures from years ago. They were posting pictures that I just put on like a story that should be gone in 24 hours. Now I understand whatever you post on the internet stays on the internet. I’m not dumb. But again, that’s just coming back to the victim blaming. The main reason I want to come on here is I want to give all of my fellow female content creators kind of a heads up. Don’t be like me.”
NASCARSky’s warning via an Instagram post came after she learned that a Reddit community had been created around her content in an inappropriate manner.
According to her, the subreddit was created in early July and used photographs taken from her personal Instagram, personal TikTok, and NASCARSky accounts. Users then posted the images alongside sexual and harassing comments about her.
The creator said the community had already been active for roughly a month before someone brought it to her attention. She was particularly disturbed by the fact that some of the images were several years old. Others had recently appeared on temporary Instagram stories.
The situation quickly became overwhelming. NASCARSky said she cried extensively and eventually had to make her social media accounts private. She also spent days going through her followers and removing people she did not know.
Fortunately, her friends and family stepped in. They helped report the posts and the subreddit was eventually taken down by Reddit.
But the incident left NASCARSky with a larger concern than just her own experience. She wanted other women entering NASCAR’s growing digital space to understand that online harassment can become a very real part of being publicly visible.
That distinction, she argued, has been lost when people tell women that such treatment is simply something they should expect after posting certain photographs.
The problem extends beyond content creators, too. Female NASCAR drivers have faced similar unwanted attention (on-track as well as off-track). Katherine Legge, Danica Patrick, Toni Breidinger, Hailee Deegan, and others have experienced intense scrutiny and harassment during their careers. The incidents highlight the additional pressure women can face in a heavily male-dominated motorsports environment.
What’s surprising is that even those women who are not NASCAR racers but just happen to be closely connected to NASCAR drivers are also not immune to such behavior.
Trazia Rae, the wife of NASCAR driver Josh Williams, also shared her own experience of harassment recently this year. Writing about what she had witnessed, Rae posted on X:
“I cannot imagine harassing a drivers wife constantly because you don’t like him. Are we 10?”
The response now is about protection rather than disappearing for NASCARSky. She plans to change what she shares online and make her personal accounts more private. But she also made it clear that NASCAR remains something she loves.
Her message was ultimately simple: supporting the sport should never require women to sacrifice their personal safety.