Hunter Moorealso known as The most hated man on the internet really has no regrets, and has claimed that his “only regret” was that he “didn’t go ten times harder.”
After tracking Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com being taken down, in Netflix’s latest real crime series, viewers have been slamming ‘the king of revenge porn’.
The 36-year-old founded IsAnyoneUp.com, a controversial ‘revenge porn’ website which allows users to submit photos and videos, mainly nudes or sexually explicit photos.
From allegedly underage girls to members of bands, hundreds of people were violated when their images were shared online and along with the images were links to the social media accounts of those photographed.
Moore previously shared that he was actually ‘proud’ of his creationand in a new interview, has further stated that he has no regrets despite paying time behind bars.
Answering questions from viewers, Moore replied to Youtuber Daniel Wise asking if he “repented”: “If there was any regret, it’s that I didn’t go ten times harder, that’s probably my only regret.
“If I’m being very honest, I’m not here to cry a river, I’ve done my time, it’s clear these people were affected by the site and I feel sorry for them, and they clearly need to voice their grievances , but in the end I did my time.’
He added: “I had a great time, I don’t regret anything, I wish I had gone ten times harder because the result would have been the same.”
Later in the interview, Moore, now 36, claimed he had “changed” and continued, “Do I regret everything? No. But of course I am very sorry and wish I had done it differently. Wish I had never started on the site? Of course I don’t regret it because it was great, but I made some decisions that were absolutely not worth it in the end.
“I was drunk with this internet fame and I wasn’t prepared for that. I was under terrible leadership and had no one to help me.’
He added, “I’ve been given this God complex,” continuing that “every aspect of… [his] life got out of hand.’
Elsewhere during the interview, Moore criticized “misconceptions” about him and his site that were exposed during the docuseries.
One of them was “Butthole girl” that viewers may know as one of the interviewees on the docuseries, one of IsAnyoneUp.com‘s victims.
As evidenced by old clips in the docuseries, “Butthole Girl” earned her name and reputation by inserting household objects into her “butthole,” often while in front of the camera, and in one clip during a recorded video call with Moore.
In the docuseries, “Butthole girl,” whose real name is Destiny Benedict, claimed that Moore’s site actually showed pictures of her children above some of those videos, along with her social media handles.
However, Moore has labeled this as a “blatant lie”, claiming she was “lying” about her children being featured on the site. “Everything she said was a blatant lie,” Moore said during the interview.
Elsewhere, Moore claimed he was never “hacked” by Anonymous, despite clips during the docuseries showing that the hacker group gained access to his bank account and helped take him down, even pronounced him dead and mailed sex toys to his home address.
A clip showed an anonymous speaker saying: ‘We will protect anyone who is a victim of abuse of our internet, we will prevent the stalking, rape and possible murders as a byproduct of his sites…Operation Anti-Bullying. Operation Hunting Hunter engaged. We’re Anonymous, we’re legion, we don’t forgive, we don’t forget, Hunter Moore, expect us.’
Moore eventually sold the site’s domain name to the anti-bullying group Bullyville.com, was jailed for two years and released under surveillance, and was sentenced to pay a fine after his trial in 2015. He was charged federally with aggravated identity theft and hacking, after he hacked into his victims’ social media accounts to access their photos and then published them on his site.
Moore’s side of the story was never shown during the series, as it followed his removal by his victims, and one of his victims’ mothers, Charlotte Laws.
However, Moore was originally supposed to be part of the series. Producers revealed: “When we were developing it, he initially agreed to participate, but then he decided not to.”
Moore said of his choice: “Initially I worked with them and everything went well, but when they started asking for more details, I started to realize where it was going and what the story was that they were going to push. ‘
“They were very eager to keep me working,” he added, claiming that Netflix “was doing their very best” to let him watch the trailer in advance.
Moore continued, “I was already over that, so I didn’t want to relive it. My life has moved on, everything is going great with me, and this was three years ago when I first spoke to them, and I just saw no reason to do it. What will it do for me?’
The most hated man on the internet can be seen on Netflix.
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