Life was not kind to Damien in the following years. Not long after the video, they were placed into foster care. In all that time, the harassment never totally stopped. But when people are actively seeking your stuff out to send you hateful messages and harass you, that's scarier to me. Six years later, Damien has some perspective on what happened. They have an active Tumblr, where despite occasional trolling, they have found a positive community. They get Tumblr messages from people asking for advice and help dealing with harassment.
The internet is a very different place now that it was in Somehow, in the years in between, it has become something of a more compassionate place. The way we understand patterns of harassment has completely changed. Nobody was concerned for me, my mental health, my safety, nothing. It still feels that way. Everyone is quick to talk about my videos and the storm that happened afterwards but not about the effects years later.
Not about me. Just about Jessi Slaughter. D: I wouldn't even call what happened to me cyber-bullying, it was straight up harassment and stalking. It started out as cyber-bullying but it quickly evolved. As for a less messed up place, no-ish? People are still awful but there is a greater awareness, like you said, and so there are more people who are at the ready to stand up to stuff and support people who are victims of internet buttholes.
But that is only if it gets to a giant scale, on smaller scales like a small blog or YouTube getting harassed people don't get the support they need or anybody reaching out to them.
D: Horribly, all of them abandoned me. One of them poured chocolate milk on me, another threw a biscuit at me once. Middle school was hell. But Torres rejoined his touring bandmates a few days after the arrest, Griffis told Insider. That's the only time Torres is known to have been taken into police custody. An unverified police report that appears to refer to the Colorado incident was also circulating online in , when Leonhardt's classmate first posted about Jessi Slaughter having sex with Torres, Leonhardt said.
A representative for the Colorado Bureau of Investigations told Insider that the bureau could not verify the police report and did not confirm whether the bureau had any arrest records in Torres' name, because sealed records are not available to the public. But the fan who alleged that Torres assaulted her in Colorado discussed the allegations and the police report in an interview with Hansen in April.
That woman, identified only as Torein, told Hansen that Torres forced her to perform oral sex on him before the concert but that doctors told her there was not enough evidence for a rape kit because she rinsed her mouth out with soda right afterward.
Honestly, my best guess would be lack of evidence. As YouTubers including Hansen, Pastel Belle , and Repzilla interviewed more of Torres' accusers, some obtained screenshots appearing to document interactions Torres had with minors as recently as April.
Through his lawyer, Torres said that "there is nothing in [the screenshots] to suggest any solicitation. She was then directed to speak with a Florida FBI agent who specializes in crimes against children. That agent's contact information was then disseminated to multiple accusers, including Leonhardt, and the FBI has since requested statements and begun investigating their claims, Levy said.
She said she believes she is the accuser who has been most involved in the FBI investigation. Levy provided Insider a screenshot of her statement that she gave the FBI special agent in an email. She said she also filed a police report in Florida, in the jurisdiction where she alleged the assault happened, after appearing on Hansen's YouTube channel in April. Levy told the FBI that Torres forced her to perform oral sex on him and then raped her one night in or around August , which would have been soon after she turned Another woman, Ashlee Lillie, spoke with Insider and provided screenshots showing that she had been in communication with the same FBI special agent since April.
Lillie has also shared her allegations against Torres on YouTube, both with Hansen and on other channels. Lillie told the FBI that Torres molested her at her home when she was 13 and that Torres forced her to perform oral sex on him later that year.
Lillie provided screenshots showing that she emailed her statement to the FBI special agent leading the Torres investigation in May, and she said she filed a police report in her childhood home's jurisdiction in June. Lillie and Leonhardt have alleged that their assaults occurred within weeks of each other in Florida, and though the two didn't meet until they began sharing the allegations publicly this year, Lillie said the "You done goofed" incident in motivated her to stop communicating with Torres, who she said would have phone conversations with her throughout and into That's actually what kind of made me think, 'OK, this guy is not good news,'" Lillie told Insider.
Leonhardt verified for Insider the original forum posts and the initial Jessi Slaughter accusations as they exist on the archived version of the gossip forum StickyDrama , along with a screenshot of their old Facebook profile, which includes a picture of Leonhardt with Torres, and the chat in which they said Torres "molested" them.
He was apparently having a 'friend with benefits' type of relationship with self-proclamed 'scene queen' Jessi Slaughter who is only 11!
I have also talked to other people who say that they did f last sumer when she was It added: "I lurked her twitter and facebook and youtube a little bit and she is annoying! If dahvie were a pedophile, why would he pick her! Other than the fact she's a slut! She's a lolcow fail at life and so is he! Within hours of the post going up, Torres denied the accusations on Twitter, Leonhardt said. Records of his tweets on the Wayback Machine appear to show him encouraging fans to mob Leonhardt, writing "take out the enemy" and "we will spam and annihilate any haters of our fans and our music.
Immediately, Blood on the Dance Floor fans began harassing Leonhardt online and calling the allegations fake — but the internet hellfire had barely just begun. Leonhardt posted a rebuke on the same forum two days later in the signature cringe internet-speak of the time:.
This Post Ruined Muh Life It Was Funnah To Meh! We Are Just Friends! But the post didn't stop the onslaught, so Leonhardt fired up their webcam. The first video of Leonhardt that went viral features them wearing a bright yellow T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Blood on the Dance Floor" in bubble font, the same kind that was sold at Hot Topic at the peak of the band's popularity. They added: "If you can't, like, realize that and stop hating, then you know what?
I'll pop a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushie, OK? Archived forum posts , old Tumblr blogs , and the preserved comments from the original posts about Jessi Slaughter give a taste of the cyberbullying Leonhardt encountered in July One Jessi Slaughter hate blog on Tumblr described its mission as getting Leonhardt off Tumblr for good, while the "Jessi Slaughter" tag on Tumblr remains full of posts reminiscing on how fun it was to ruin Leonhardt's life.
Many of the posters harassing Leonhardt appeared to be Blood on the Dance Floor fans angry about Leonhardt's allegations against Torres, while others read Leonhardt's explicit sexual posts and sought to "put her in her place. Following the online mobbing, Leonhardt posted a video where they can be seen sobbing in a zebra-patterned top.
Leonhardt's father, Gene, enters the room. If you ain't got somethin' nice to say about my daughter, then keep your mouth shut. And any more of your comments you put on there, I'm recording them all, and they are being sent to the police department," he said, head out of frame, with only his khaki shorts fully visible.
Your emails will be caught and will be found. And who said you're going to beat my daughter up, you will have to deal with the police. Because you done goofed! We invited them to sit down with us and recap everything from the early days of Schmoyoho to the present day, as well as getting to the bottom of which Gregory Brother was truly the master of memes among them.
Know Your Meme is an advertising supported site and we noticed that you're using an ad-blocking solution. Read Edit History. I have also talked to other people who say that they did fuck last sumer when she was It Was Funnah To Meh! We Are Just Friends! Jessi's Father's Rant Following the relentless waves of harassment carried out by the trolls , Jessi posted a tearful response video on YouTube, in which her father Gene Leonhardt suddenly comes into the shot and delivers an angry rant.
YouTube Parodies On YouTube, viewers followed up with their own remixes , re-enactments and other commentaries on Jessi and her father's rant. Police Investigation According to Jessi's mom, Dianne Leonheardt, in addition to the prank calls placed after her phone number was spread on the internet, the family began receiving death threats.
Top entries this week. Jessi's Mother Speaks On July 20th, Momlogic [28] interviewed Jessi's mother; revealing her own lack of parental supervision. Excerpt: ml: Were you aware that your daughter had been making and posting these videos online? DL: Jessica has a webcam and a computer. All of her friends have webcams, too, so they video chat with each other.
I knew she'd made a video to apply for "America's Got Talent. I had no idea she was making other videos. I have seen her chatting with her friends, but not making videos. DL: The officers had said there were videos, but Jess denied making them. Then my mother-in-law called and said there were videos. But I haven't watched them. We tried to talk to Jess last night, but she got very upset all over again. I am trying to get her back to normal. It's taken a very emotional toll on her. I don't know if she made these videos or not, but she says she didn't.
Right now, I am trying to figure out what's real and what's not. This has been very difficult to deal with. Jessi on Good Morning America On July 22nd Jessi appeared on Good Morning America to discuss how the reaction to her videos has changed her life and revealed she would begin counseling.
Death of Jessi's Father On August 14th, , Jessi's mother posted a status update on her Facebook account claiming that her husband Gene Leonhardt passed away on August 11th, the same day her apology video was uploaded, due to a massive heart attack: A screenshot of the Facebook post was posted to Funny Junk [18] on August 15th.
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