1:05 pm - 04/05/2012
26-year-old Hunter Moore is creator of revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp, that allows people to submit nude photos of celebrities & normal people.
The Village Voice has an excellent cover story about 26-year-old Hunter Moore, creator of the gross NSFW revenge porn site Is Anyone Up, which offers a venue for spurned lovers and hackers to dump people's private nude pictures, which he posts along with their full name and a screenshot of their Facebook profile.
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TL;DR version: He is a sociopathic asshole.
IsAnyoneUp Creator: If You're Cyberbullied, Just Kill Yourself
26-year-old Hunter Moore is creator of revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp, that allows people to submit nude photos of celebrities & normal people.
The Village Voice has an excellent cover story about 26-year-old Hunter Moore, creator of the gross NSFW revenge porn site Is Anyone Up, which offers a venue for spurned lovers and hackers to dump people's private nude pictures, which he posts along with their full name and a screenshot of their Facebook profile.
"People are probably going to want to fucking kill me after I say this. But if you are quote-unquote being cyber-bullied, you should just fucking kill yourself."
"I do not want anybody to ever be hurt by my site-physically. I don't give a fuck about emotionally. Deal with it. Obviously, I'd get a ton of heat for it. But-I'm gonna sound like the most evil motherfucker-let's be real for a second: If somebody killed themselves over that? Do you know how much money I'd make? At the end of the day, I do not want anybody to hurt themselves. But if they do? Thank you for the money."
The more traffic I'd have that day, I'm going to get paid for. So if someone fucking killed themselves? Do you know how much hate I'd get? All the Googling, all the redirects, all, like, the press I'd get paid for, for that day. And whatever."
"But these kids...who are getting called a 'faggot' from a couple bullies at school? They're just weak-minded people. The shit I went through? Fucking 10,000 times worse than these fucking kids—the kid who made that video who went viral?"—he's talking about Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14-year-old Lady Gaga fan from Buffalo who made an It Gets Better video but then took his own life—"Are you fucking kidding me? He's, like, a good-looking kid. Who got called a fag every day? There's something wrong, I feel."
TL;DR version: He is a sociopathic asshole.
Probably. Don't care right now.
No words.
wishing ontd was more like anon rn if only so we could block his site and bring more attention to how fucking crazy this guy is. and that one stickyam guy from the kiki kannibal story.
Edited at 2012-04-05 07:31 am (UTC)
I ask what he went through that was so much worse. "Dude, I got jumped all the time," he says. "I got made fun of all the time. For me, I got made fun of for my nose forever. I have a very ethnic nose. You know what I fucking did? I don't give a fuck, I still got my dick sucked with it. But I hated my nose. I felt insecure about my nose. And all it did was make me want to be even better-looking. So I made a bunch of money, and I got my nose done."
Like obviously every bit of this is so gross and problematic and misogynistic and I can't pick one thing to call the worst. But what the actual fuck is this? Making these comments about an actual kid, reducing the society-wide oppression a gay teen faces to getting name called a couple of times, and then saying that he had it ~so much worse~ because of his nose and the kid should have bucked up because he was good looking? I feel like this should be quoted under an encyclopedia entry titled "straight white male privilege."
Which explains why he apparently has no sense of shame or sympathy for the girls on his site - he can't (and doesn't want to) imagine what it means to be slut-shamed as a woman. Or the sense of violation, knowing that millions of people are able to peruse and comment on her body.
Ooh, poor baby, you had an "ethnic" nose. I'm sure that's the same as being degraded every day for who and what you are, the same being called names that you hate but know there's some truth behind, the same as society outright marking you as a "lesser" being. Guess what? I have a huge nose too, I'm not attractive at all, I was teased for years because I wasn't "pretty." And, yeah, that sucked, but I CANNOT FUCKING SYMPATHIZE YOU because, hey, douchebag, "the shit I went through" because of my sexuality and gender identity was "fucking 10,000 times worse" than that. Try being afraid to leave the house because you're afraid that someone will realize that you weren't born the gender you appear to be and beat you to death or rape you because of it. Try having to keep your mouth shut every time someone calls you a f*g or a "shemale" or "it" because speaking up or fighting back would only make it worse. Try not being able to walk out in public holding hands with your partner for fear of what people will say. Try lying to your parents every goddamn day and having to grin and bear it when they use a name and pronouns that aren't yours and being terrified that if you ever tell them the truth they won't love you any more.
Hunter Moore, you would not survive a day as one of "these fucking kids."
it's only karma.
i can't even read the full article, it's making me too sick. even the title made me feel like someone just slugged me in the stomach.
Oh wait, I'm not a heterosexual white male. I guess I can't afford the luxury of ignorance.