Netflix's The Most Hated Man on the Internet Is the Next Tinder Swindler

glamour.com:

Don't F**k With Cats, built the site IsAnyoneUp.com from the ground up in the late-2000s—and what began as a niche gag on the “scene” circuit rapidly mutated into something all the more insidious.Like The Tinder Swindler, The Most Hated Man on the Internet chronicles from start to finish the rise and spectacularly satisfying fall of Moore, who ended up behind bars after an unlikely band of allies came together to end his terrible misdeeds.

Nude photos of hundreds of women, often privately shared and leaked or stolen by hackers, were shared on Moore's site circa 2010, with the comment sections a cesspit of anonymous depravity—not unlike the sort of shit you'll find on 4chan and Reddit today.

Indeed, if “incel" was a part of the common lexicon a decade ago, IsAnyoneUp might be considered a breeding ground.Per the official logline, the series follows one story in particular: that of a “persistent mother…determined to remove her daughter's photos [from the site],” launching a vociferous online campaign to take down IsAnyoneUp for good.The official synopsis promises “poignant, exclusive interviews with multiple women and men who fought to have their images taken down, law enforcement agents who worked the case and the crusaders who fought to take Moore down,” documenting his “comeuppance at the hands of the only force more fearsome than an army of internet trolls: a mother protecting her daughter.”Consider this your reminder that men as bad as a.k.a.

The Tinder Swindler (a.k.a. Simon Leviev)—if not worse—are very much out there.The Most Hated Man on the Internet hits Netflix on July 27.