okay welcome back and in today's video I'd like to start off with a disclaimer
what you're about to watch is very graphic it's very difficult video for me
to make it's very challenging but I still feel like these types of videos
need to be made to promote awareness of situations so once again this video
contains sexual violence is very graphic and could trigger PTSD so if you are
easily disturbed do not watch this video at all I do feel like it's very
important for content creators to spread awareness of these important topics and
I know that a lot of content creators would not bring you content like this
because it is very emotional it's distressing not only to make but to
listen to but these topics are important the awareness of these topics need to be
spread to prevent further violence the spread of more attacking and the
awareness of just internet predators alike that being said I want you to know
the serious importance of this topic it is about a young woman who recently
committed suicide but unable to handle the pressures of internet fame and the
things that came with it Kate yogev and her online persona as Anne Frank first
went viral when she made the video about MacBooks where she was asking people to
donate
and she has one for leaving messages on same she had a very big online following
as people gravitated toward her because she was very nice and very kind to
everyone but when you establish an online presence not everyone that you
attract to you has your best intentions in mind this was supposed to by somebody
named excel crucial it's a story about the Anne Frank passing I'm gonna read it
to you from a sleepy Seattle suburb just outside a Discovery Park she turns on
the webcam wearing pink ruffled dress and flanked by the stack of MacBooks she
waves shyly at the cameras softly saying the words that would soon come to define
her life hey guys Anne Frank here she just wanted to make a fun video
something for people to laugh at in the wake of vine culture where internet
stardom become a brisk few seconds of fame it was quick it was silly and it
was absurd a girl asking for donations for a broken MacBook explaining that she
used for other ones for express and individual purpose of leaving messages
sending messages and blocking messages posted to Facebook in early 2016 the
two-minute video tag please donate was met with reactionary shares ranging from
the vitriolic to admiring a contagion of Internet become viral in subculture of
the meta ironic and absurd and was famous known and beloved for her comedic
caricature of Internet youth celebrity and privileged fan signs reaction videos
and admirers watched and messaged beautifully hoping for more content more
MacBooks and more Anne Frank but Anne was fiction a funhouse reflection of a
teenage girl searching for identity in the digital age in
corvette thomas mahoney picked up and driven to meet face to face after a few
months of messages bonding over the strange nature of the shared status of
facebook famous meme posters thomas was more than a foot taller than her as you
can see in this picture pic taking them on their so-called first date clearly
this man it looks like could be her father to be completely honest with you
it's disturbing and it's hard for me to make this video as i'm having to stop
quite a bit and come back and pick back up on it in a scant few weeks he
manipulated her and began threatening her verbally abusing her and severing
all ties between her and her male friends obsessed with the image of anne
frank while trying to destroy the real person beneath it breaking down to her
family thomas was eventually arrested but with the arrest came true terror
the firestorm of the internet now embroiled in her personal life because
of her fox persona two fans who had always had an ironic admiration the
jokes became real she was a loli she was bait images of her in mahoney at the
aquarium became mehmet in a viral within themselves so when this became public
that this mahoney this pedophile was abusing her in these pictures of her on
their dates went around they began memeing and trolling her which seemed to
emotionally isolate her and she found it very difficult to deal with on may 22nd
of 2018 long after deleting her official facebook account as an she posted a more
personal account that she was done that her life was over and that all the rest
was rust and stardust at 15 her final words were this I don't
want to be alive just for people to laugh at that's rough that's rough so
when I went to search more about Thomas Mahoney I did find a article here that
I'll post in the description below it says a Bothell man indicted for six
crimes involving 14-year old child and I read this
Thomas Mahoney faces mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison if
convicted Mahoney was arrested on state charges in October of 2017 and was
transferred to federal custody last month the victim was 12 years old when
Mahoney friended the victim on Facebook and was 14 years old when Mahoney
initiated sex Mahoney allegedly made videos of sexual contact thereby
producing child pornography so she was actually 12 years old when they first
made contact it's pretty rough this man was obviously out to get and knew
exactly what he was trying to get used his age and knowledge to manipulate her
and began began abusing her knew it was wrong right off the bat as I have
provided here after he was arrested she went to explain I was defending him so I
know it's really confusing but I wish people would understand how scary it is
you know he told me from day one that if anyone found out about us to say I
initiated contact and stuff and defend him I didn't know if people would even
believe me since he made so many comments about what really happened but
I still tried to make it seem like it was my fault
here is a public statement of her lying for Thomas Thomas Mahoney isn't a child
rapist I'm the one who went after him because I liked him he never went after
me everyone on here thoughts thinks I'm a lot older than I am so when we first
met he assumed I was older you can see that this seems pretty scripted maybe
even Thomas had wrote this in advance this is definitely something that was
premeditated I will put the screenshot of this in the description for you to
look up this is a message of mr. Mahoney talking to Anne I still need to call you
this is actually I can't believe it so I guess I'm never gonna have a happy life
and marry you and do anything clearly this is manipulation she says I'm so sad
he says I thought I was gonna be okay this can't be real Katie this can't be
real this is clearly sad a sad individual clearly he knows exactly what
he's doing here's a screenshot of him talking about when they met but
previously he was saying that he did not know her age this clearly indicates that
during the time they were meeting or around her after he knew that she was
underage he says the only reason I hung out with her in real life is because I
was blocked on all my accounts for over a year and I found her on my Tommy
personal account and I commented hey I'm in Seattle driving a Corvette wanna hang
out and I got a reply of an address and we hung out and now we're best buds
see you don't be a 25 year old man and be best friends with a 12 year old
female that's not what you do he then goes on to say she's pure man it's
pretty messed up to say in the least the abuse kept getting worse and worse and
worse from Thomas and he's began to get jealous of her hanging out with older
men I'm gonna play an audio clip here also very graphic keep that in mind yeah
I think you are yes you are I think I actually want to kill myself tonight
okay I'm actually want to talk to
there's there's no reason you should ever consider calling in I don't want
them knowing I don't like them causes drama no no seriously please
we I think it's just harmless better ticket violence literally a sick violent
pedophile want to call you did you hear that he says you can't talk to these dis
pedophile and she responds with he's younger than you
the manipulation and abuse from Thomas Mahoney paired with the online trolling
from people on the internet pushed and pushed Kate until she released this
video here and this is also equally disturbing very emotional very sad hard
to hard to make it hard to make a video so when I was 13 I was very into acting
creating characters I like to making personas I was in there I think classes
I had a Facebook account where I posted funny videos and one of my videos went
viral and everybody hates me for that video and the things I'm in for the
jokes I posted on that account when I was entertaining personas and all that
after I went viral a guy named Thomas Moon message to me he found me because I
went viral and can you start an eight-way to me
and I don't need to try to prove anything to anyone about what happened
because the police are gonna do that but you're very abusive to me 15 years I'm
15 now and these are not things that you want to say this you don't want to know
this stuff's going on but it is the stuffs happening every day and we lit
we'd like to live our lives and in like this comfortable bubble where
everything's just all peaches and cream but in stuff like this we don't have to
deal with but since I've become a content creator on the internet I am
faced with these things on the daily and for a long time I did not want to speak
up about things like this and these stories that the that kids would come to
me with but I do feel like it is important to spread awareness because
the importance of knowing these things exist Ray Ray's within you as a human
being care you you know you're not in this
comfortable bubble and this stuff is going on that's why I'm making this
video I only hope that while I edit this video
if it comes out across in a way that can reach you the audience this is our last
post the last post that she ever she made after the constant pressure of
internet fame with this situation that was coming on to her she had no control
over it she finally says I'm hanging myself after this post I can't handle
the bullying and it seems like no matter what I do it'll follow me forever and
everyone hates me and constantly reminds me I should be suffering with these
things they post I can't handle seeing pictures of someone who raped me as a
kid being posted everywhere because it's funny my see PTSD is horrible and every
time I get on the internet I see a meme about me in him or jokes about me
getting raped it's a day of pentacles and then twelve hours of intense
nightmares and sleep paralysis I don't know why people want me to be
sad but I'm not going to let people win and keep hurting me
everyday and threatening my life and unfortunate situations as a joke for
everyone's entertainment so I'm done no I don't want to be alive just for people
to laugh at and I shouldn't have to suffer with a mental illness that I have
no hope in recovering from since I'm bombarded with reminders it's rough it's
rough definitely anyways so you can see this
girl had a rough go and I think it's important for us to keep in mind that
this is not just something that's subjected to Kate only there's many of
people that have went through this are going through this currently and it's
important that you speak out I do have on the RIP Zilla discord a channel
dedicated to the me to movement which is sexual violence yeah it's got everything
you need in there about it it's got resources a text and call on I
got a suicide prevention line that gives you the risk assessments and a number to
call the 24-hour number I'm fixing to post the one for UK on there as well
it's important to stay strong and situations like this because you're not
alone
and it's not ever over and we should become stronger but for the ones that
have passed and use it as fuel for our fire to continue to progress progress
for the ones that can no longer do that continue to do because they cannot move
on for them
because it's never over myself have battled a you know depression and
thoughts of suicide myself and people tell me every day that my videos helped
them and what if I wasn't here to have ever made those videos at all what if
what if what is gonna have to do in your future will significantly impact
people's lives and make such a positive impact you never know I'm better than
that you got good stuff in your future but
I'm going to end that video right here the hardest video I've ever made I'll
put all the links to all these things in the description below if you need to
talk the it's free to join the discord
channel I'll put the link to the discord in the description below and my
community the rep squad we call ourselves we are very supportive we will
talk to you if I'm not there mods and staff are there sponsors are there the
rest of the reps community is there and we are there for you and at least in my
neck of the woods you got a place here and you can talk that reach out
completely anonymously that'll be just fine
but I'm really wanting hear what you guys think about this so why don't you
leave your creative and/or interesting responses in the comment box below
thumbs up for awareness and I'll see you in the next video
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