[Music] i'm a bartender and to me bartending is about so much more than just serving drinks it's about community so you can only imagine how heartbroken i was when the pandemic hit and we were basically forced to just close our doors indefinitely i tried to find other sources of income i even tried running a cocktail delivery service for a while i did okay but just not nearly enough to live comfortably i was looking at having to sell my car upon a guitar or two but the final straw came when it looked like i might have
to put my dog up for adoption i can put up with a lot of nonsense man but the idea of having to take ripper to the pound never i just couldn't that's when i got desperate desperate enough to consider something pretty drastic to make it clear i'm a guy in my late twenties not completely awful looking but definitely not brad pitt so i'm sure it'll come as no surprise to many of you when i say that my financial salvation came when i started uh yep you sure could guess it and only fans account it all
started when i heard two of my friends talking about dad bots dad bods i remember saying you'd for real prefer a beer cut to a six-pack okay not like a beer gut she said with a giggle but like i don't know like the slightly out of shape look it just feels real and besides gym rats just don't seem fun you know dad bots are like chill that was probably some bad phrasing on my part but you get the picture the whole dad bought thing had been around for a while but when i told the girl
she must have something of a niche interest she just laughed nope it's way more popular than you think and she brings up this only fans profile of some nick offerman looking dude who had like a ton of posts up all with a butt load of likes and comments this guy makes thousands of dollars a month his profile is free to sub too but he does a bunch of request stuff too watch i'm like no no no no thinking she's about to show me this guy's junk or whatever but no apparently the guy did like tuck
you in videos or good morning sweetie videos where he pretends to wake up next to you before offering you breakfast and stuff it was the tamest adult content imaginable legitimately pg-13 stuff and he was charging upwards of fifty dollars for a personalized video the whole rest of my shift i kept thinking about that guy thinking how happy he must be to get all this money and his following was so wholesome too what's not to like about a setup like that sure i bet there was some steamier stuff behind a paywall somewhere but come on a
few thousand bucks a month just to tell some girl to sleep well why couldn't i get a piece of that sweet sweet only fans money but nah i'm not that guy or at least i wasn't i had all the confidence of two-day-old fawn back then but then again i suppose desperation drives us to do stuff out of the ordinary it was pretty surreal setting up the account like i had to come up with a fake name and attractive username i had to take a display picture selfie and banner picture it was a whole thing i
was doubting myself the entire time but i still went and did it and since all the pictures were as anonymous as i could make them those masks helped to protect more than just my breathing i suppose i wasn't all that concerned about getting found out besides that would pretty much be the end of the whole thing it wasn't like i was going to actually get any followers or anything right right well wrong because maybe three days after just when i was starting to forget about the whole thing i get an email notification from only fans
that says like user 7876 is now following you just to be as generic as possible i'd set up my sub feed of 4.99 then when i checked the payout section boom like four dollars was headed into my bank account at the end of the month as an upfront charge i also had a direct message that just read loving your pictures can't wait to see more x i couldn't tell who the person was there was no bio on their account nothing to even clue me into if they were male or female but still i just replied
thank you so much if you know anyone who might enjoy my content please share my profile with them i get a will do and return then that's that a few days later i get another sub then another and by the end of the week i have a grand total of ten loyal but totally anonymous subscribers the extra forty dollars a month was paying for most of ripper's dog food by that point not the good stuff but i didn't have to consider giving him up anymore and that meant you can bet your butt i carried on
posting if the only way was up then up i was going by the end of my sixth week of only fans i just short of 50 followers and was making just under 200 bucks a month and i put that down to solely me opening myself up to special requests a lot of them came in the form of daddy stuff which is undeniably kinky but still mostly just sweet and affectionate i didn't have a problem with it at all and once i got a little confidence under my belt i'd go so far as to say that
i got pretty good at it but as it turned out the real money was in a kind of domination that was considerably less wholesome some people didn't want me to just be nice to them they wanted me to be really really mean i remember the first time i started to feel really disillusioned with the whole thing one special request wanted me to make a video where i basically just downright was abusive then when i read that they wanted me to call them all kinds of slurs i just felt gross it was the first time i'd
had actual confirmation that some of my subscribers were gay guys but that wasn't really it it was the things they wanted me to call them they're what made me feel deeply uncomfortable i replied to the dm saying sorry i can't do that is there anything else i can work in for you but no the reply was almost instant and it consisted of them just doubling the dollar amount they were offering the first time they did that i actually got a little offended did they honestly think that i just caved because they flashed some cash it
was about principle not making money so you can guess how straight up gross i felt when they threw a figure amount at me and i i feel gross just typing this but yeah i accept it i called them some of the most despicable things that have ever come out of my mouth and you know i did a pretty good job of it too i wanted that money and it's honestly shameful how quickly i abandoned my principles i felt bad really bad for like a few days but when another offer came in from a different user
asking the same thing for the same price i just couldn't say no the bar wasn't even paying us any sort of unemployment anymore we were like three months into lockdown and the money just sort of dried up so by then whether i liked it or not i was almost entirely dependent on only fans for my income and when the requests got worse i had little choice but to fulfill them looking back i shouldn't have let it escalate i could have kept things at the level they were at and still live pretty comfortably until the new
york city bar scene opened up again but no my greed took over and at one point i bought an entire pack of wet italian sausage just so a guy could imagine what his junk would look like after i stamped on it and steel-toed work boots i thought this was as bad as things would get i was wrong the redline event for me was getting a follower from another user 827484 style account the anonymous kind you always get the weirdest dms or requests from the guy threw an obscene dollar amount at me but also mentioned that
some of that money was for procuring materials as he put it long story short this person wanted me to head down to an apartment building where a hispanic lady was selling puppies i was to go down there pick one up then bring it back to my apartment i asked why but they wouldn't tell me they just gave me some spiel about being genuine and being a huge source of potential income in the future but this was a puppy nothing good could have come out of mixing only fans and baby animals and what do you know
i was right i won't go into too much detail about what this user wanted me to do but it was some of the most evil heinous stuff i'd ever heard they wanted me to hurt the puppy not just kill it heard it over the course of days maybe even weeks from some of the stuff that they were dming me when i outright denied the request the threats began whenever i blocked an account another one would pop up and pay the sub fee knowing it would be returned when i inevitably blocked them by the time i
started getting scared that this person or group of people i could never tell will get a hold of my contact details i had to be brave enough to just click that little delete profile button and face the music so i'm currently living with my mom and her boyfriend out here in new jersey i can't actually describe how much it sucks to be living in a garage with my 30th birthday fast approaching but i also know my life could be so much worse every time i miss williamsburg every time i miss having my bank account being
padded for next to no work at all i just look over at ripper give them a pat and think yeah covet has sucked it's ruined a lot of lives including mine but at least i have my pupper [Music] i started an only fan's account a few years back now and i've been recognized a grand total of three times because of my tattoos i keep them covered up in my job because it's the kind that really doesn't like you showing off ink like that let alone how badly they freak if they knew i had an only
fans the point is i'd like to be discreet and my subs for the most part seem to understand that the first time was about a week after my birthday i told my subs that it was my birthday month to be discreet whilst still raking in the birthday tips so although they didn't know exactly when i was born they knew it was like roughly that time of the year i had one guy give me a few looks on the subway which isn't totally out of the ordinary if i'm honest but just before he got off he
barely even looked at me as he said happy birthday and call me by my username like i said he didn't make it obvious who he was talking to he just ghosted immediately after and there was no other interaction i mean if you're going to get recognized for only fans you could do way way worse than that second time was by a guy who literally screeched to stop on his bike pedaled back to look at me and turned bright red and said oh my god and literally zoomed away like i was going to attack him or
something granted he could have been just having a moment but trust me when you have an only fans you just sort of know where people recognize you from anyway now for the third time and by far the worst time i don't show my face on my only fans but i did used to show my tattoos though not anymore god bless those cute arm sleeve things so this one time a guy stops visibly starts checking out my tattoos before he kind of gasps and looks up at me i just play it cool like there had been
some kind of mistake there blatantly hadn't and just ignore him while i carry on reading and drinking my coffee i half expected him to keep moving but he didn't he sat down next to me and started calling me by my username i'd never been confronted like that and it didn't exactly put me in the mood to be like oh hi yeah it's me so i continued to deny it while also shooting him this look that tried to say dude stop it's me sure but please just shut up but then he reacts in such a horrid
violent way like what you think i'm dumb huh you'll take my money the money i work my butt off for and you won't even acknowledge me in the street that was his cue to just go off and this guy just tore into me while an entire coffee shop and passersby looked on i'd rather not give him the satisfaction of repeating what he said or go into detail about how much it hurt my feelings but i'll put it this way i spent almost 90 dollars on arm sleeves to cover up my tats and i haven't been
recognized since it really did mess with me for a while though like the reoccurring thought was you were lucky he found you in the day if that had been the night on some dark street somewhere i might not have been nearly as lucky and i might not have walked away at all [Music] first of all let me say this is not an indictment of only fans if someone wants to profit from sharing pictures of themselves of their body that's totally their right and i respect that i'm not casting judgments on anyone who chooses to do
so but let me be clear only fans just about ruined my life and i've never even set up a profile it all kicked off not long after i broke up with a guy i'd been dating for about three to four months as a single mom it's way harder to get dates than i'd like it to be but at the same time i totally understand why someone wouldn't want to raise a child that isn't theirs i mean i wish more guys would be open to it it's not like i'd never have a kid with them too
but it's just a sad fact that it puts guys off when you've got a child from a prior relationship so you can imagine how excited i was when i met richard it's not his real name but i'd rather not attract his attention thank you very much having a six-year-old son didn't seem to bother him in the least bit and he even asked a lot of questions about him i found the whole thing so refreshing and mature that by the time richard asked me out i just about bit his arm off accepting the invite but then
the first red flag appeared when he started making comments about my son calling him daddy that wasn't the red flag in and of itself it was more his reactions when i told him no my son has a dad and i don't want him confused as he grows up richard didn't seem to respect that position whatsoever and actually said some quite personal things regarding my tastes in men as well as the integrity of my son's father it's a complicated situation i'll concede that but richard's take on the whole thing was frankly disgusting and misogynistic but given
that it was a very unusual setup i didn't want to give up on him so quickly not since guys like him seem to be so hard to come by but then after two months of clashing not often i should add i had to face the music and accept that if there was a guy out there for me it certainly wasn't him i've dated guys for 18 months who took the breakup better than richard they're always rough but i think if i actually told you what richard did you'd think that i was making this all up
needless to say his reaction totally justified my decisions to end things end things and that's exactly how i phrased it too but that breakup was far from the end of my ordeal with richard and you know what it's kind of my fault too in fact it's mostly my fault because if i hadn't been so trusting i wouldn't even be writing this right now the one big mistake i made was trusting richard to keep private certain pictures i'd sent him i think i trusted him because well he sent me pictures of him too i think that's
why there's a lot less nude leaks than there are nudes it's like americans and the russians in the 80s mutually assure destruction you release mine well i'll release yours but after we broke up i deleted all of his intimate pictures and i was foolish enough to think that he'd also done the same because the next thing i know i got a message from a friend of mine saying something like oh you have an only fans you go girl i had to ask her what only fans was i literally had no idea at the time she
replies like you're joking right was this supposed to be a secret immediately i start googling only fans and as you can imagine i'm pretty shocked at what i see the whole website is basically homemade loot images and for those that aren't familiar and from what i could gather the girls in question make quite a lot of money too i mean i wouldn't say no to an extra two grand a month but i hadn't set up a profile had i i asked my friend to send me anything she's found with my name on it then what
do you know there's a freaking only fans profile set up in my name and the whole preview picture in the banner was a raunchy picture that i'd sent to richard the profile said like free to subscribe so i made a dummy user account to sign up only to discover that richard must have uploaded about 10 different pictures i'd sent to him all these disgusting captions that i'd rather not repeat here i was angry so angry but i didn't get scared until i saw that he'd put up my home address my actual home address apartment number
postcode everything it kicked in how much danger i was in and i just burst into tears thinking that my own selfish actions had exposed my only son to danger i know it was all richard and i know if he was just normal then yeah it wouldn't have happened but i'm a mother i should know better i'm not some attention seeking teenager anymore i just wanted to feel wanted though surely people can understand that in the end i managed to get the profile taken down and i think only fans and other sites like that now make
you verify your identity so stuff like that can't happen again but what if you managed to get a hold of a girl's id or something the system they have doesn't completely eliminate the chance of fake profiles being set up like i said at the start i don't mean to judge anyone who wants to do that kind of thing i just hope they have their safety and security in mind because as i think we all know there are some serious psychos out there [Music] in late 2016 the father of british entrepreneur tim stokley gave him a
loan of 10 000 pounds it wasn't the first time tim had received a business loan and as much as he assured his father that he'd return every penny of it guy stokely was skeptical out of the handful of loans he'd already given his son tim had failed to pay any of them back in full this is going to be the last one guy reportedly told him it was tim's last best chance and he was determined not to screw it up so in november of 2016 tim founded the website one designed for use by artists performers
and content creators of all varieties to provide video clips and photographs to monthly subscribers tim's brother thomas became the company's operating officer while guy occupied the rather fitting position of chief finance officer all that was left to do was come up with a name for the company and together they decided to call it only fans initially only fans catered to a small but fairly lucrative clientele it didn't exactly make tim stokely an overnight millionaire but it was definitely more successful than any of his previous ventures however many of his fellow entrepreneurs noticed the untapped potential
of such a business noting low overhead costs and boundless availability and it wasn't long before one of them made their move two years after the company's founding ukrainian american business magnate leonid redvinsky contacted the stokley family with an offer they couldn't refuse for an undisclosed sum red vinsky acquired a 75 stake in only fan's parent company effectively gaining complete control of the business although the exact amount isn't readily available online the fact that tim now lives in a gated mansion with a cinema in sauna and bishop stortford hertfordshire we can safely assume it was an
obscene amount of money but radvinsky didn't just recognize the company's potential he had a vision for it you see previous to purchasing only fans radvinsky had owned and operated the adult oriented webcam site my free cams and given that he understood how lucrative such an industry was he knew that if he pushed only fans into the explicit direction he had in mind he had a potential billion dollar business idea on his hands by mid-2019 only fans had become one of the primary sources of amateur adult themed content on the internet charging just a 20 fee
for all transactions only fans seemingly took all the selling power out of the hands of the adult industry and put it right into the hands of its users and as a result one news outlet noted that only fans has gained a pop culture reputation for being a hive of adult themed content yet it wasn't until april 2020 that the website truly exploded when beyonce knowles released a remix of the megan the stallion song savage the remix included the lyric hips tick-tock when i dance on that demon time she might start and only fans listeners rushed
to find out what beyonce was referencing and what followed was a boom in popularity that no social media site had ever experienced before ceo tim stokley claimed only fans was seeing about 200 000 new users every 24 hours and 7 000 to 8 000 new creators joining every day by august american actress bella thorne reportedly earned 1 million dollars in 24 hours after opening a profile on the site a watershed moment in what had become a burgeoning industry of guerrilla adult content as of today only fans has over 2 million content creators and more than
130 million users and one of those users is named kathleen west 42 year old kathleen kat west met her husband jeff west at a 2004 super bowl party jeff was working as a recruiter for the us army at the time and after chatting and swapping contact information at the party the pair began dating it seems they must have fallen in love pretty quickly because it only took four months for jeff to propose marriage cat accepted and the couple tied the knot after traveling from their humble alabama home to the bright lights of las vegas their
relationship continued to move at a rapid pace with their first child arriving in 2005 and although jeff's job took him all over the deep south their nomadic lifestyle didn't seem to dampen their romance and for a long long time kat and jeff were still very much in love in 2014 the west moved to a small alabama city of about fifteen thousand known as calera jeff had retired from the army by this point but soon found work as a campus police officer at the nearby birmingham southern college the only trouble was the job didn't bring in
nearly as much income as his recruiter's position did leaving the young family's finances with a sizable hole in it but around 18 months after the move kat had an idea to bring in a second income for the family after hearing of a little website known as only fans she started up a profile under the username kittycatwest and over the weeks and months that followed found herself garnering a few hundred subscribers from the risque photos she posted but without doubt the most lucrative part of her new modeling gig was the special requests she'd received from followers
if cat dressed posed or behaved in a specific way certain subscribers would tip her double sometimes even triple their subscription amount it seems at first jeff was more than happy to help her bring in that second income and even took some of the more revealing photos himself which makes what happened next and the ultimate explanation for it make very little sense at all cut in the night of january 12 2018 jeff and cat were out on a date something they did regularly as a way of keeping their marriage fresh and healthy while the couple's 12
year old daughter logan was spending the night at jeff's parents place like most of their date nights the couple attended a fancy dinner at an upmarket restaurant drinking multiple bottles of wine in the process at around 8 45 pm cat and jeff stopped by a liquor store and were filmed by the establishment's security cameras purchasing additional bottles of alcohol when they arrive back home they are carried on drinking for a while with cat changing into some lingerie before asking jeff to take her picture what happened between then and the following morning had been hotly disputed
by both professional and amateur sleuths alike but the fact remains that as the sun rose on the 13th of january a neighbor discovered cat's lifeless body lying on the sidewalk opposite the west's abode lying next to her was a half-empty bottle of liquor as well as her cell phone the cause of death was later determined to be an acute skull fracture caused by a single heavy blow from a blunt object there was no sign of any lewd interference with her body although a closer examination revealed that she had recently made love her blood alcohol content
was 0.23 which is just shy of three times the legal drunk driving limit so there's no doubt that she was highly intoxicated at the time of her death as you can imagine one of the first people the police suspected of being the murderer was cat's husband jeff he was taken for an interview in the local police precinct that supposedly lasted over five hours and after his release those that interviewed him announced that he was cooperating with their investigation but the police also investigated a number of suspects they believe cat had come in contact with via
her only fan site or the several social media pages connected with it given the nature of her content police began to theorize that an obsessive or disgruntled fan might be to blame and that cat's work had earned her a stalker that would eventually work up to taking her life investigators found very little evidence of any interactions with a homicidal stalker but an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and there's little doubt that cat had several extremely devoted fans whose interest in her verged into the unhealthy regardless the police decided that jeff was their
best bet and shortly after he was arrested on suspicion of murder during his arraignment the prosecution offered jeff what's commonly known as an alfred plea this is when a defendant maintains their innocence but also while admitting that the prosecutor has enough evidence to convict him of the crime in question had jeff accepted he would have done time served than just a two-year probationary sentence essentially absolving him of his wife's murder and what the prosecution assumed was a classic crime of passion this is just about the sweetest deal that any spousal murderer could possibly find in
front of them yet the idea of allowing the legal system to brand him a man that murdered his wife that was simply unacceptable to jeff and he decided to take the case to trial in order to completely clear his name this means that either jeff was arrogant to the point of delusion or jeff really was innocent of cat's murder before his murder trial was due to begin jeff was offered yet another plea deal by the prosecution but again this was flatly rejected by a man who was steadfast in his declarations of innocence jeff was being
advised by his defense attorney that the prosecution's case was flimsy and that they barely had enough for a conviction but the prosecution had a trick up their sleeve they asked the judge if an additional last minute charge could be added to jeff's rap sheet one known as reckless manslaughter that carried a sentence of up to 20 years in prison they knew that if all the details of the case came out that would be almost impossible to convince the jury that what happened that night was outright murder but paint the killing is a crime of passion
and charge him with a lesser crime and the jury might concur enough for them to land a guilty verdict it worked and jeff was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison but the question remains was jeff west actually responsible for the death of his wife well not only did jeff have ample opportunity to commit the crime but it's difficult to argue against the idea that cat was doing things both online or offline that could have made jeff angry possessive or overtly jealous on top of that the bottle of liquor found near cat's corpse had
jeff's fingerprints on it that might well be expected given it was the same one they had purchased just a few hours previously but as the prosecution pointed out jeff's fingerprints appeared in an inverted pattern indicating that he had held the bottle upside down at some point possibly during the act of hitting cat over the head with it the prosecution also pointed out that the bottle had a sliver of glass missing from it but this could have just easily been incurred if cat had tripped and fallen at any point however the positioning of the bottle leaning
perfectly at cat's cell phone was deeply suspicious and the prosecution argued that it had been deliberately placed there by jeff after he'd struck her with it there was also jeff's apparent lack of emotion as one witness put it upon discovering that his wife's corpse had been found he didn't ask for any updates or details on her condition and this is very inconsistent with commonly agreed upon innocent behavior there were also several inconsistencies in jeff's version of events firstly he told the police that he went to bed alone at around 10 30 that evening however a
health-related application on his cell phone showed that he was up and moving around just past 11 p.m jess falso says that the next time he awoke was the following morning when his dogs began to bark at the attending police officers in the street outside yet a neighbor testified that she saw jeff pacing back and forth much earlier than the cops showed up almost as if though he was worried about something here's what the police claimed had happened they claimed text messages showed that an argument was unfolding on the same night of the murder jeff was
unhappy with cat's ever increasing drinking habits as well as her increased interactions with her only fans followers kat's phone was cracked when her body was found and while jeff claims this is from where she fell homicide detectives assert that it occurred when he tossed her phone out into the street in an act of rage as she went to retrieve the phone she took the bottle of alcohol with her in a drunken rage jeff followed her out into the street grabbed the bottle from her and hit her over the head with it while jeff insisted that
cat had simply fallen police argued that such an impact would have knocked her out cold but if that was the case why were there two pools of blood at the crime scene sure it was feasible that cat fell hit her head stood up then fell over again but the prosecution argued this was highly unlikely not only that but the damage done to her skull would have been impossible to achieve through an accidental fall alone especially when cat's height was factored into the equation therefore it stands to reason that jeff had hit her over the head
with the bottle and that this was the blunt force trauma that ended her life it's a sad reality that many spouses or partners of only fans users have reacted badly to their online presence and we can understand why irrational possessiveness or jealousy might cause jeff to act in a violent or controlling manner but jeff had absolutely no history of violence by all accounts he was an exemplary soldier with a pristine disciplinary record police also failed to find any blood on jeff's clothes or any other incriminating tissue for that matter which amounts to a solid example
of what we'd call reasonable doubt cat also had a history of falling over whilst intoxicated an inevitable result of her love for hard liquor and six inch heels and while it's not certain that a fall killed her it's not an overly outrageous explanation it's also very possible that cat may have picked up one or two obsessive fans as a result of her online presence she was posting pictures on only fans for years and engaged with scores of users to fulfill personal requests or one-to-one it seems much more likely that one of these users could be
overwhelmed with jealousy given cat's marital status especially since jeff was apparently just fine with cat's online activity so much so that he participated in the creation of it is it possible that some maniacal online stalker managed to catch cats standing drunk in the street then managed to kill her in a way that a completely innocent man could be implicated the horrifying thing about this case is that's very very possible so no matter how you look at it and as unjust and tragic as it may be having an only fan's account may well have been a
direct contributor to a woman's brutal and untimely murder [Music] based in richmond texas 33 year old instagram influencer and freelance model janae gagne had the kind of lifestyle that many can only dream of having having amassed over 2 million followers on her various social media profiles gagne reportedly netted a six-figure income as a result of her many sponsorship and endorsement deals using the pseudonym mercedes more gagne's social media followers included the likes of cardi b megan the stallion snoop dogg and meek mill meaning that by august of 2020 she was arguably one of the most
famous social media influencers on the planet like many of her peers being introduced to the website only fans presented gagne with a lucrative opportunity interact even more intimately with her gargantuan online following whilst also opening up a potentially massive new revenue stream but according to janae's father mark the titanic amount of attention she received brought just as many problems as it did benefits we kept her real private not even some of her friends knew her real name they just called her mercedes i moved my daughter into new apartments three times because of my insecurities he
said late last year the sheer number of people following her online had scared me he continued some of them followed her because they admired her loved her even but some were crazy and obsessed it was just obviously unhealthy so at around 4pm on sunday august 29th of 2020 when mark gagne hadn't heard from his daughter for almost 48 hours he decided to stop by her home in cortland apartments to check on her they pulled up knocked on the door but no one answered mark gagne then pulled out his cell phone and gave his daughter a
call swearing he could almost hear it vibrating from somewhere inside that's when he heard movement coming from inside the house he hadn't heard from his daughter in days and no one was answering the door to her apartment so who was moving around inside mark gagne said that he began to suspect something was horribly horribly wrong so in the next instant he reeled back and sent his foot flying into the lock kicking it open in one furious attempt the sight that greeted him inside instantly broke his heart there was his beloved daughter lying lifeless at the
bottom of the stairs her apartment had been completely trashed and there appeared to be lipstick graffiti all over the walls of the apartment yet before he had a chance to read any of it mark gagne heard a noise coming from upstairs mark says that in the heat of the moment he thought his daughter might have fallen down the stairs and broken her neck but hearing something coming from upstairs had him bolting up to that floor as fast as his legs could carry him only then did he see a man lying in a pool of his
own blood gurgling and choking with a knife stuck in his throat as the life slipped away from him mark demanded answers from the dying man but it was too late he passed away just moments after janae's father had broken into her home yet in a disturbing twist of fate mark gagne wouldn't be plagued by questions for very long because after he called 9-1-1 he began to read some of the lipstick graffiti that had been scrawled on the walls i was used for money read one piece i should have stayed in florida read another the final
piece mark read was i wish i never loved her sorry to the landlord and the family he couldn't bring himself to read anymore although it appeared that his daughter's murderer had been scrawling over the walls for days he'd summed up his feeling and motive in just a few short sentences and to mark it only confirmed that his worst nightmares had come to life janae's killer turned out to be a 34 year old florida man by the name of kevin acorto a man with such unhealthy obsession with janae that he somehow managed to track her down
and kill her all before taking his own life he did not have any kind of prior arrest record in his home state but during the subsequent investigation police tried to establish that he'd had any prior history of mental health issues i don't even know how he found her mark gagne later said i guarded my daughter i wouldn't even let her friends know where she lived police still don't know how or when he got to texas there's so much that stole a mystery the news of her death was broke by a canadian rapper tory lanez who
paid tribute to her with a post that read rest in peace queen but few of the tributes seemed to address the causes for death she was very cautious about her surroundings janae's mother janetta grover said but unfortunately someone basically was stalking and killed my baby it's irrefutably horrific and abhorrent that kevin acorto was able to track down and kill such an innocent young woman but it's clear that mark gagne's fears were justified no matter how much he tried to keep his daughter safe the determination her stalkers showed in locating her significantly outweighed their efforts and
somehow a man who wasn't exceptionally computer literate was about to somehow track down her home address some have speculated that the cortos somehow got hold of janae's billing information and discovered her real name and address in that way in which case only fans has a long way to go before it can truly secure its content creators privacy and security so maybe until then the risks of having an alluring online presence will outweigh any potential financial reward [Music] in september of 2020 a 20 year old australian university student posted a harrowing personal account to the popular
social media site reddit in it she detailed the terrifying ordeal she'd been subjected to after posting intimate pictures of herself on a social media page known as only fans one involving obsessive stalking internet loopholes and ultimately a clear and present threat to her life only through a completely anonymous throwaway account did she feel safe enough to share her story adding that her local police force had finally taken action against the person responsible but even then the girl made it clear that her complaints should have been taken seriously long before she was in any imminent danger
according to the girl the incidents all started after she moved back with her parents during the summer break the girl was particularly excited to be home as the family had just bought a new puppy by all accounts the girl was having a ball getting to know her new furry friend but as anyone who's ever had a puppy will tell you to say they can be erratic would be the understatement of the century one night the girl awoke to hear her puppy yelping at the back door they were in the middle of potty training but the
pup didn't quite have the hang of it yet so she climbed out of bed put on her slippers and went downstairs to let the dog out she says it was as late as 2am and there didn't seem to be another soul around as she stepped down into the night but she soon found that she wasn't entirely alone i saw this figure in a car she said i could tell they were looking at me but it was pitch black outside and i couldn't make out their face i felt a bit uneasy but i didn't really think
anything of it only when i go back inside the car started up and followed me up my driveway the terror of such an experience is undeniable and even though the girl was so close to home there's no denying that being out alone in the middle of the night made her very vulnerable indeed i was terrified the girl added i sprinted back inside and locked the door and kept an eye out for them in case they tried to break in but as far as i know they just backed out of our driveway and left when she
woke up the following morning after a terrible night of restless sleep and deep concern the girl found an envelope inside her parents letterbox the envelope contained not only 20 australian dollars in cash but also her only fan's username i thought long and hard about how he could have found my parents address the girl said and i worked out that the problems didn't start until i shared my amazon wish list only fans in amazon were both adamant that their security systems prevent leaks like that from taking place however it appeared that wasn't the issue as third-party
sellers are not bound to the same data protection laws as large multinational companies although she doesn't know for certain how her stalker got her address the girl is 90 sure that they got in touch with a third-party seller and obtained her home address in that way whether it was money coercion or intimidation that caused the seller to give up the info is another question entirely but the fact remains that it's the most likely of all explanations after that when i moved back to the college town where i was studying i stopped posting content the girl
goes on to explain but somehow my stalkers still managed to track me down the girl said she basically closed down her only fan's account then started a youtube account because of how unsafe the former felt her first big blogging project was due to be a shopping trip to a local mall but when she got to her car to depart for the day she found it had been ransacked the vlogging camera was missing too she said i know it's my fault for leaving in the car but i was using it the night before and since i
lived in a gated area i didn't think i would be unsafe yet she added that the camera was inside of her glove box and contained an sd card with unreleased photos and videos on it it was almost like someone knew it was there but as bad as that was it only got weirder from there she eventually contacted her building security personnel asking if they could review security camera footage from the previous few nights and it was through this that not only did she see a man break into her car and ignore other cars in the
parking lot but she also had proof she was being deliberately singled out for targeted harassment after they got the camera they walked around the duplex until stopping near my window the girl wrote my bedroom faces an outside street and the blinds are broken so it's very easy to see in i have a curtain but it doesn't cover my window all the way look what i'm trying to say is this person watched me sleep for an hour or so i have no idea why they didn't try to break in but thank god they didn't the woman
explained her camera was later recovered at a nearby second-hand store suggesting whoever is stalking her has a prior history of criminality however she added that the camera's memory card was missing i know he kept it as some kind of trophy i just know it she added and has since moved and hopes her stalker hasn't followed i believe the police are still trying to track them down but i've broken my lease and moved to a new place so hopefully this will keep me safe but what's so scary about the girl's story is that it seems like
only a matter of time before the stalker decides to take things further unless they're caught stalkers will only ever escalate their activities until their obsession reaches a deadly and permanent end [Music] this might not be directly related to only fans membership but it definitely scared me so here goes i'm a 45 year old overweight guy from philly never in a million years would anyone want to see me naked maybe they'd pay me to keep my clothes on but definitely not the other way around i also work with a revolving door of different offices from all
over the east coast meaning that there's not really a set team i work with and sometimes i can be working with total strangers from day to day so at one point we're in a group email talking about how we've been handling our projects over the weekend i said that i've been a little busy responding to my only fans followers and that i'd only found the time to get a little of it finished just throwaway comment obviously sarcastic especially if you know me but then one of the cc's chimes in like what in god's name is
only fans someone explains to her what it is and why it's funny and that i might be popular on it but our co-worker just doesn't seem to get the joke and at one point she asked me do you really make homemade smut like that the way she asked me caught me off guard and yes i'd be lying if i said a little bit of laughter didn't creep out in that moment just from the shock of her asking i tell her no that really was just a joke and i think that's the end of the issue
but the following week my boss gets in touch to ask if i can take part in a zoom call with some members of upper management i think this is promotion related so of course i accept but as it turned out they basically tricked me into a disciplinary call that involved them asking a whole bunch of probing questions about you guessed it my non-existent only fans account i tried to explain that it was just a joke but they didn't seem interested at all only that it was damaging to the company that i might have an account
once i assured them that i didn't they basically called me a liar and they claimed the only reason that they dragged me up was because the cops had been in touch turns out our humorless little friend had tried to make me out to be some sick freak even predatorizing children and i just told the cops to search his name on fans only to find out what a sick freak i was i was never all that worried about getting fired since i didn't have an account but rumors that i was a kitty diddler going around town
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