On April 8, the DamienAkuma Twitter account was created. The account included a description hinting that Jessica would be changing their name to "Damien. On April 27, , a video titled "Lovely — MorningStar [A work in progress]" was uploaded to the channel, which included a song written by Damien accompanied by several photographs. On May 28, , a thread was created on GuruGossip Forums, which linked to the Shinigamikilla channel and claimed that Damien came out as a transgender. On June 3, Leonhardt uploaded a video announcing they would be answering questions from viewers but warned not to ask questions about Gene.
On June 5, , the Internet culture news blog The Daily Dot published an article titled "Controversial Cyberbully Victim Jessica Leonhardt returns to YouTube, remarking that Leonhardt appeared to be surprisingly happy in many of the new videos. They decided to quit YouTube once again later on, although the videos were archived on numerous other channels. On their Tumblr blog, they revealed that the allegations of rape were not a lie and that they were raped by Dahvie.
Around the same time, Dahvie was reported to have had sex with over 21 underage girls between and Damien did an interview with Chris Hansen on the 25th March , and a month later created another YouTube channel after nearly 8 years of inactivity. Wikitubia Explore. Discord staff Approved bots. YouTube Wikis. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. This article or section requires a cleanup in order to meet Wikitubia's quality standards. Jessi's father's infamous rant, which became an Internet meme. It quickly found its way onto blogs and won the hearts — and laughs — of the internet. In the end, it resulted in Slaughter being turned into a meme, with dozens of images and remix videos being created, and their family appearing on Good Morning America. Consequences will never be the same sic.
Ironically, the video went on to attract the same type of cyber-bullies their father was so keen to scare off. Six years later, Leonhardt is using the experience to help others in similar situations and spoke to The Independent about how life had changed. I remember small weird details of things but entire days are missing and memories of feelings and other stuff get wiped too.
It's weird. Nobody actually wanted to help. 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.
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! Gene Leonhardt then kneels, addresses the camera, and delivers memeable words and phrases — including "cyberpolice," "backtraced," and "consequences will never be the same" — that viewers would go on to use against him. Leonhardt's mother, Dianne, told the blog Momlogic in July that the mob-induced terrorizing of their household included spam callers ordering pizzas in Leonhardt's name, along with callers who impersonated police officers.
He's in a band, and people are jealous because she knows him and they became friends," she said. Dianne Leonhardt didn't respond to Insider's multiple requests for comment. She never referred to Torres by name in any interviews or alleged that he took part in the harassment the Leonhardt family experienced. Through his lawyer, Torres denied ever speaking to her. Torres also capitalized on the firestorm against Leonhardt and their family with a song titled "You Done Goofed" that can still be found in the depths of YouTube, accompanied by neon green lyrics in a swirly, nostalgic font.
It's unclear when exactly "You Done Goofed" was released, but Leonhardt said they heard it for the first time on July 27, , their 12th birthday.
In a tweet on July 23, , Torres appeared to preview the song, writing, "What goes around comes around. In his letter to Insider, Altman, Torres' attorney, wrote that Leonhardt had already admitted that their accusations against Torres were false, citing a YouTube video.
Slaughter is a troubled person, and that anything she may have said in the past about Mr. Torres is, by her own words, a complete fabrication," Altman wrote. That video was uploaded to YouTube by Leonhardt's classmate on August 11, , when Leonhardt was Leonhardt told Insider it had been filmed months earlier, when they were still 12, and posted after their father died, which renewed interest in the story.
It was one of many videos and written statements that Leonhardt said classmates and friends often encouraged them to make to apologize to Blood on the Dance Floor members. Those were the only people who even wanted to talk to me," Leonhardt told Insider. They made me record videos like that. I wouldn't be surprised if more eventually surfaced. They always told me to apologize for lying.
In the minute-long video, which has more than 1. I know that all didn't happen," Leonhardt says in the video. Leonhardt wouldn't publicly accuse Torres of rape until Veronique Valliere, a clinical and forensic psychologist, told Insider that victims of child sex abuse may recant accusations or lie about the abuse in childhood only to make the accusations later, once they're older.
So people do that all the time. Even adults do it when they say something or do something and there are unintended consequences, and they say, 'Oh, I was just joking. It's only later that both psychologically and emotionally they identify what they've been through as abuse.
Leonhardt said it took them until about the age of 15 or 16 to finally recognize Torres' grooming and abuse as rape, not consensual sex. In , when Leonhardt was 15, they said on Tumblr that "Dahvie is a rapist. I don't care anymore," Leonhardt wrote on November 2, When Leonhardt decided last New Year's Eve that it was time to resurface their story, they reached out to a member of a Facebook group that investigated Torres and pressured venues — often successfully — to cancel Blood on the Dance Floor shows in light of the accusations.
The group members also kept tabs on Leonhardt over the years, supporting them and sending them information about Torres that may have pertained to their experiences with him, including old clips from his YouTube vlogs.
On January 1, Leonhardt emailed a member of the group, who in turn reached out to YouTubers and other online investigators who might be interested in Leonhardt's accusations. Hansen launched his own investigation into Torres in March, interviewing Leonhardt for the first time about their allegations. Leonhardt said it felt like the internet and how it had treated them over the years was a reflection of society at large and how the perception of sexual-assault survivors had changed in the past decade.
It's made by people," Leonhardt told Insider. Leonhardt said they never pursued legal action before in part because they had endured years of being told they were a liar and their brain had "really adopted that internet mentality.
World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Kat Tenbarge. At age 11, Damien Leonhardt became a meme to a generation of internet users who remember when the "You done goofed" YouTube video went viral in July Leonhardt, better known by the online persona Jessi Slaughter, was a Myspace-era preteen rumored at the time to be faking a sexual relationship with Dahvie Vanity, the lead singer of the band Blood on the Dance Floor.
In , HuffPost reported that Dahvie Vanity, whose real name is Jesus David Torres, had been accused of sexual assault by more than 21 women, many of whom said they were minors at the time. Leonhardt, 21, who now identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them, is coming forward with more allegations, telling Insider that Torres began molesting them in April , when Leonhardt was 10 and Torres was Two other women, who have since provided statements to their local law-enforcement agencies and the FBI, also told Insider that Torres sexually assaulted them when they were underage.
Torres, who sources said was being investigated by the FBI, denied all the accusations against him in this article, which his lawyer described as "inflammatory and libelous. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Over 3 Million people read Morning Brew, you should too. Loading Something is loading.
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