He ran a revenge-porn website that published nude pictures of nonconsensual victims. Until one woman took him down ...
This is the story of the most hated man on the internet.
This is the story of the most hated man on the internet.
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00:00This is Hunter Moore from isanyoneup.com.
00:03F**k all your girlfriends.
00:05I felt violated.
00:06That site was about destroying lives.
00:11He thought of himself as the king of revenge porn.
00:14There it was.
00:15Topless.
00:16Multiple photos.
00:18Hunter Moore is the moral equivalent of a bed bug infestation.
00:22I really felt I was going to have to take this wall of hatred apart brick by brick.
00:40Has there been any individual you just felt sorry for to the point that you take something down?
00:45No.
00:46It's just too much fun.
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01:17My friends would just post a bunch of girly pants.
01:19I was like, yo, I can make money.
01:20I'll f**k people over.
01:21There were so many pictures of so many people who were involuntary, involuntary porn stars
01:27as far as I was concerned.
01:29It really was not about nude pictures.
01:31It was about misogyny.
01:32It was about hatred of women.
01:34It was about embarrassing and shaming other people.
01:48One of the comments I remember for one victim said, someone call Greenpeace and get her
02:02out of the water.
02:04And many of the individuals on the side who followed that site seemed to be pushing to
02:10get people to kill themselves.
02:12That was a big goal.
02:30You do know what you're doing is sleazy, right?
02:34I don't feel it's sleazy at all.
02:36Really?
02:37The people that they're trusting are the ones that are submitting it, so why isn't the blame
02:40pointed at them?
02:41Dude, without bullying, I don't know what I'd do.
02:47She came home from work.
02:50She was devastated.
02:51She locked herself in her room.
02:53She shut down her social media, she was getting comments, you know, like phone calls from
03:00strangers.
03:01In fact, a well-known porn star contacted her about talking business.
03:07He came after my daughter.
03:09She needed to be brought down.
03:11Victims are just kind of, they're in a fetal position, essentially.
03:15Most of them cannot fight for themselves.
03:32I figured there was probably a hacking scheme.
03:35So I started conducting basically a survey by contacting victims on the site.
03:42I had spoken to 40 victims who were posted within the two-week period that Kayla had
03:47been posted, and I had learned that 40% of them had never sent their pictures to anybody.
03:54That meant anybody could become a target.
03:57There was nowhere to hide.
03:59He didn't want people who said, hey, post my picture.
04:02He wanted executives.
04:03He wanted teachers.
04:04He wanted people who literally had never been exposed in that way.
04:19I said sarcastically to the operator, I said, oh, I see, you help Scarlett Johansson when
04:25she gets hacked, but you don't help the average person.
04:29And the operator just sighed, okay, let me transfer you to a detective.
04:43I had gone to Facebook.
04:44Facebook had sent a cease and desist to Hunter Moore, telling him he could not come on their
04:50platform, and he responded to that legal letter with a copy of his penis.
04:56Hunter Moore would sneak on Facebook.
04:58He would spend a whole bunch of time getting all of these friends, and I'd just make a
05:04phone call after he went to all this trouble and say, ah, he's back on, and this is the
05:08name he's using, and then poof, it would disappear literally within five minutes.
05:13It was just this minor joy that the victims would have.
05:18Hunter didn't know who was doing it.
05:20He thought that they had algorithms.
05:28I was just so angered when I saw what he was doing that he became my number one target.
05:42My plan was to socially engineer him.
05:45I wanted to do whatever I could to gain his trust and to have him think that I was his
05:49friend.
05:50Lots of calls back and forth, a lot of emails back and forth, but I would say about a month
05:56into it, I felt pretty confident that I had his trust, and then we could move on to plan
06:01B.
06:02I had one goal, get this site taken down.
06:14It was definitely less than what has been reported out in the media, which was $12,000.
06:26Hunter said he was going to come after me, he was going to ruin my online reputation,
06:33he would spend all day doing that.
06:36His followers were calling me on the phone, they were calling me, they're trying to hack
06:39into my landline.
06:40I could tell because there'd be like little beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
06:43It's going to get a lot worse.
06:45He was planning something even more dangerous.
06:48He didn't expect any accountability.
06:51He started turning against me, but it wasn't just me.
06:54He was going after my wife and my children, and I think any man would say, any good husband
07:01would say, if you fuck with my wife, I'm going to fuck with your life.
07:24One thing about these revenge porn perpetrators is they're very afraid of law enforcement,
07:39including Hunter Moore.
07:42They're not afraid of civil suits.
07:43People can sue them for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they can end up with all these
07:48judgments against them, but they don't care because they don't have assets, because mostly
07:53the perps are like guys in their 20s or 30s, often living at home with their parents in
07:59the parents' basement, but they don't want to go to jail.