What I’ve learned during these post-website years might be more severe than the revelations during my five-year tenure.
Now, nearly six years later, it’s 2024 and I’m almost thirty-three years old. When I was let go in 2019 after FOSTA was passed, I assumed the jig was up and the site would be shut down. I was wrong. As of this printing, it still exists. I’ve heard whispers that The CEO is a billionaire.
“Back in April of 2021, news of a scandal broke. A sitting US Congressman and his tax collector buddy allegedly involved in traveling paid adult activities of people who were not adults who they met on the website. I was contacted for comment by both a legacy crime documentary show and the most noteworthy newspaper in New York. I worked with them respectively, flew across the country to interview and gave them everything I had.
I felt seen. They understood that The CEO and questionable morals of the website are but smoke and mirrors for what’s really happening: an underground agency for being mean to vulnerable populations, including minors, at an alarming rate. Confident that the information had reached the right hands and justice would be served, I decided to write my story, not sure anyone would care to read it.
That was over three years ago. You might be wondering why you never saw those news articles or segments and why the website is still around. Great questions, and I’ve got a few guesses...”
Keep reading in my book, this is the first few paragraphs of the Epilogue.