An attack is an attack. It can be verbal, or written. If you are being laid into or punched the effect us basically the same, you've been attacked. And being attacked by sound is definitely a thing.
With typed letters and symbols and emotes.
Really, they were telling kids all kinds of things about $3xuality and I said it wasn't their place, these aren't their kids, and they got all pissy with me.
And another time someone came after me for eating bunnies. But that was actually really funny...