It’s a familiar scenario in the Barstool universe, in which fans of the company lob attacks on perceived critics, often at Portnoy’s signal. “These have included death threats, doxing, online harassment, and targeting of people’s families, friends, and workplaces,” Black wrote in the Insider exposé. A 2019 profile by the Daily Beast reported that female journalists have been a particular target of ire for Barstool fans. “My female colleagues shouldn’t have to deal with harassment from thousands of Dave Portnoy stans because they do their jobs,” a fellow Insider reporter, Kat Tenbarge, wrote on Twitter Thursday.