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Hunter Moore rose to notoriety during social media's most vulnerable era. The self-proclaimed "King of Revenge Porn" thrived off of exploitation and rampant internet trolling culture, later making a profit off of the trauma he inflicted on others.
In 2010, Moore founded the now-defunct porn website Is Anyone Up? which allowed users to submit nude and sexually explicit photos of people without their consent. The posts were oftentimes created by the victims' closest acquaintances, be it friends looking to pull a sick prank or hateful exes. Each post was also accompanied by the victims' personal information, including their full names, home addresses and links to their social media profiles.
It didn't take long till Moore and his site became the subjects of international controversy. Moore was targeted by the FBI, attorneys and, even, the hacktivist collective Anonymous. But his main opponent was one determined mother, who worked tirelessly to see Moore's undoing after her daughter fell victim to his ploys.
From the producers of "The Tinder Swindler" and "Don't F**k with Cats," comes "The Most Hated Man on the Internet," a three-part docuseries that follows Moore's dangerous rise and subsequent fall. Netflix's latest release spotlights the webmaster's victims and their families along with the agents, journalists and lawyers who investigated the high-profile case.
Moore's mass of online fans were formally known as The Family. Members of The Family revered Moore, referring to him as their "Father" and "God," and did whatever he said, no matter how ludicrous the request was.
Some lit their genitals on fire or stuck firecrackers up their anus. Others took videos of themselves urinating and defecating, sometimes in the comfort of their own bathrooms and sometimes out in public spaces. Members willingly filmed themselves punching strangers, attacking innocent bystanders and harming themselves.
"There was no doubt that Hunter Moore was a master of manipulation," said Mike, a former scene kid and Moore follower who appeared in the series' pilot episode. "And I think the most extreme example of that was Butthole Girl."
Destiny Benedict first learned about Is Anyone Up? through a close friend. The then-19-year-old was working as a cam girl in order to move out from home and support her two children financially. Benedict said she sent her nudes to Moore in hopes of attracting more people to her webcam sites, acquiring fame and making boat loads of cash.
During a webcam chat with her friends, Benedict was dared to insert a bottle of hair mousse inside her anus, which she did. One of her friends secretly took a screenshot of Benedict and submitted it to Is Anyone Up? The following day, Benedict's new post was on the site, along with a screenshot of her Facebook profile which included a cover photo of her two children.
Benedict said Moore was not willing to remove the screenshot of her children off his site. So, she offered to take more pictures of foreign objects inside her buttocks, hoping he would then satisfy her request.
A post titled, "Pick what you want her to put in her butt," soon appeared on the site and encouraged users to name obscure objects for Benedict to insert. Moore himself suggested a cell phone, saying it would be funny to then call the cell phone and have it vibrate inside Benedict.
Once Benedict's photo went public, Moore took down her cover photo from the site. The famous Butthole Girl became an overnight internet sensation, with members of The Family asking for her hand in marriage and social media influencers, like Jeffree Star, praising her work on Twitter.
In 2012, Alex Morris, a Rolling Stone journalist, joined Moore, who was working as a DJ and professional partier at the time, on one of his East Coast tours. Morris had been assigned to write a profile piece on Moore titled, "Hunter Moore: The Most Hated Man on the Internet."
Hard drugs, hard liquor and wild, unabashed sex were common happenings at Moore's late-night shindigs. Moore described his shows as "pretty gangster," saying in an old interview, "It's literally mayhem . . . we've had girls poop phones out on stage."
"I mean, first of all, he was doing coke. He's drinking a lot. But women were just lining up outside the green room to sleep with him. It wasn't just about having sex. It was about what he could do for shock value to post online. So, he was having women do lines of coke off of his penis. He was drinking vodka out of their vaginas. It was like Howard Stern meets 'Jackass' every single night."
Following an elaborate hacking scheme and a lengthy FBI investigation led by Special Agent Jeff Kirkpatrick, Is Anyone Up? was successfully shut down on April 19, 2012. Moore was also stripped of all his electronics, devices and USB cables . . . but that only motivated him to create a more harmful platform than before.
Moore's new website was called HunterMoore.tv and followed a similar concept, wherein users could freely submit (and re-upload) explicit photos of others along with their names and social media profiles. But unlike Is Anyone Up?, HunterMoore.tv contained a new address field, allowing users to provide driving directions to the victims' places of residence and violently target them.
Her tweet was met with a flood of hate-filled comments, from both Moore and his warped followers. "By the way, when you and your daughter get my d*ck out of your mouths, you will realize how hard I can troll you," read one response from Moore. In a subsequent tweet, he wrote, "Posting your daughter's nudes tonight. I am the Internet genius and will ruin your life and your daughter's the fun way."
A separate tweet from a member of The Family simply asked, "How about we shoot you in the head?" Another read, "What a worthless c*nt, hope you and your slutty daughter die choking on a big fat c*ck."
For more than two years, Laws worked relentlessly to defeat Moore and seek justice for her daughter and countless other victims. In February 2015, Moore pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft charges and aiding and abetting in the unauthorized access of a computer. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
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Identity Evropa joined other groups within the white supremacist movement in Charlottesville, Virginia, for the now-infamous \"Unite The Right\" rally on Aug. 12, 2017. On that day, 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed and nearly three dozen others were injured after rally-goer James Alex Fields Jr. barreled his car into a group of counterprotesters. Earlier this year, Fields was sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.
Samantha said she wasn't at the rally, but that's when she realized that it was time to get out. By the time she had left Identity Evropa, she said \"there was a promotion of a peaceful ethnic cleansing.\"
While in Identity Evropa, Samantha said she attended a few white supremacy events, including one held in Washington, D.C. in spring 2017 during which alt-right leader Richard Spencer was a speaker.Around that same time, Samantha said she also attended a rally in Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
\"There was always at least a woman at every party that I had gone to, other than me, but it was a handful,\" she said. \"Most of the women that were in there were tied to someone who was already in there.\"
\"I remember I was at a party, it was at some group's house, and, you know, in walks one of the leaders of movement and someone shouted for everyone to be quiet,\" she said. \"He said 'Sieg.' Pretty much everyone raised their hand and said 'Heil.' It happened one or two times, and then, by the third time, I did it.\"
Samantha said she worked as a volunteer for former President Barack Obama's campaign before she was old enough to vote. Then, in 2014, she met someone and fell in love. But, she said everything changed one day when her boyfriend started acting differently.
The Day of the Rope, as it is written in the 1978 novel \"The Turner Diaries,\" Samantha said, is \"where white people, as a race, take people that they have deemed degenerates, unworthy, people of color, people of disabilities, people that are gay or whatever, whatever it deemed un-pure, unfit for the white race, and they drag them out of their houses and they hang them by lampposts.\"
A lot of the videos she watched online were not violent, Samantha said. One, she said, involved a baking show that featured a white woman in traditional prairie garb. Another one was of a white woman talking about the fact that it was OK to be white and \"that it was the general public's fault for making white people feel bad about themselves.\"
Soon after, Samantha joined Identity Evropa, a group that in 2018 was responsible for nearly half of that year's distribution of white supremacist propaganda, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
\"Anyone that's in there doesn't think they're racist,\" she continued. \"No one thinks that they're anti-Semitic. I think the term that was used, or that started to be used, was 'counter-Semitic' or something, which is also bulls---. ... I didn't think that I was doing anything wrong.\"
On its website, the American Identity Movement describes itself as an organization that displays \"defiance against mass immigration and globalism.\" It says it prohibits \"the advocacy of or participation in supremacy, violence or illegal activity\" and that \"allegations to the contrary originate from left wing individuals and organizations.\"
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