No, that video was really about par for the course. Videos and memes aren't my thing, but whatever popped up seemed about that milquetoast. No one was calling for bodily harm or death to come to Frank. There were memes mocking the idea that he could run a marathon as fast as he claimed, but that's no surprise when the distance between the claims and the overwhelming evidence disproving them had become astronomical.
Go back and read the thread again. Try to find posts that could legitimately be called bullying. There are very, very few, and none of it was organized and nearly all of it got pushed back on.
What kept the thread going was not the memes in any case. They would only show up when things went quiet and there was no news. If it were just memes, the thread would have died months ago. What kept the thread going was
- new evidence coming to light showing Frank had cheated, because there was a lot of evidence from a lot of races
- a lack of action from the RD's despite the massive accumulating evidence
- the repeated denials from Frank's supporters that he had cheated and their demands for more evidence.
All along the way, the pressure kept rising, but Frank wasn't the only target. The goal was to raise pressure on the RDs to do their job. The LAM eventually did, but PHX and LBM still haven't and probably never will. At least one of Frank's friends seems to have recognized the weight of the evidence, but we still have the same people who continue to deny what their eyes tell them.
Because there is absolutely no excuse for any runner to be caught on film re-entering a marathon course a half mile from the finish line two years in a row. None whatsoever. Or for a 2:50 marathoner to be caught on film jogging around off course as the elites run by. There is no imaginable excuse for the evidence except that Frank was blatantly cheating. These weren't just grainy pictures. You could follow the full sequence from distant-blur to Frank in full size. I'd be happy to refer anyone interested to the pages in the original thread where those facts were established.
Was it worth it in the end? Consider the counter-factual. You have the choice between revealing information that will cause a man to commit suicide. If you don't, you will leave a suicidal, decade-long deceiver and cheater in place as a doctor and coach with unknown consequences. Are you absolutely certain that saying nothing is the better option?