The Most Hated Man on the Internet

No mother wants to see her daughter's nude photo on the Internet.

A photo taken in private, posted for everyone to see.

When it happened to us, it changed our lives

forever.

It's being called revenge porn.

IsAnyoneUp.

- IsAnyoneUp. - IsAnyoneUp.

Everyone was talking about it. Everyone was posting about it.

A site that's fueled by sexting pictures and Facebook information.

The most shocking, the most graphic, the most horrible.

You love it. Once you're on it, it's a different story.

You had the power to ruin someone's life with just one click.

I felt completely violated, in shock.

There were comments and comments

of people just mocking me.

"She's a whore. She's a slut."

And I wasn't worthy of being around my children.

All my links to social media, my phone number.

There's no hiding behind the Internet. You were fully on display.

That site was about destroying lives.

Who would create a website like this?

If you like the drama, I mean, it's gonna get a lot worse.

This guy is the Internet's most hated man.

- Hunter Moore. - Hunter Moore.

- Hunter Moore. - Hunter Moore.

He thought of himself as the king of revenge porn.

He didn't give a fuck if you hated him or not.

- But, so you have no empathy? - No.

He was out of control.

fucking all your girlfriends.

He had thousands of followers willing to do his bidding.

I had to stop him.

But I didn't know what they were capable of.

If he feels threatened by somebody,

he won't let it go.

I never thought it was gonna come to this. I never thought it would go this far.

I win. I always win. That's what happens. You're not gonna stop me.

This mother was gonna prove him wrong.

My name is Charlotte Laws.

In January 2012, I was living in the suburbs of Los Angeles

with my husband, Charles,

a California lawyer, and my daughter, Kayla,

who was 24 years old at the time.

It was a very happy life. I was extremely fulfilled.

I've always been really close with my mom. I mean,

we kind of have had, like, a sisterly relationship a lot of times.

My stepdad came into the picture when I was maybe seven.

He's fun. He's a great guy.

And he's British. Even better.

Kayla wanted to be an actress

and had been in college taking acting classes.

And then she had a side job as a waitress

trying to save up money so she could move out.

Life in the suburbs, generally speaking, was a peaceful life.

Normal, quiet. You know, we lived like millions of other people.

To and fro. To and fro.

Do nothing in LA without your motorcar, and that was the kind of life we led.

Life was fairly predictable...

...until one day, I'm at home

and I get a call from Kayla.

I was at work.

I was told there was a phone call for me,

and it was the hostess that wasn't working that night.

She says, "Hey, I'm really sorry,

but... you're on this website."

She said,

It was basically a website, um,

of nude photos.

I was racking my brain, like, "What? What photos could they have?"

"How could I be on this website?"

"I don't understand."

She says, "Look it up."

"You're on page two."

And there I was

right there, topless, nude,

um, multiple photos,

and my heart dropped.

It was embarrassing.

I never intended to show anyone the pictures.

So I decide to call my mom...

...because she's the one that I go to right away.

She was in tears.

She had, like, lots of layers of panic.

Like, "Oh my God, this is gonna destroy everything. It's gonna destroy my life."

She told me not to tell Charles. She was so embarrassed about it.

This is Kayla.

Gives you a lot of pain, as a mom, to feel your child in pain.

And I had to get that picture down as quickly as possible.

The type of person that I know my mom is,

is that she won't just sit on her hands.

I think right in that moment she got to work.

I got off the phone with Kayla.

I went to my computer.

and the website came up.

I started scrolling through...

and found my daughter

and found her photos.

There were some clothed pictures and one topless picture as well

that were posted next to her name.

It was a jolt. It was kind of shocking.

And I felt like it just needs to be removed immediately.

Like, you know, two seconds is too long for it to be there any longer.

I started scrolling through the rest of the website

and seeing other women's pictures,

and it was just everything you can imagine.

It was from very young up to 70-year-old women.

It was people who were 300 pounds. It was people who were incapacitated.

You know, a blind paraplegic was on there.

Under the photos,

people were allowed to leave comments.

They'd be called whores, fat cows,

creature with nasty teeth,

slut, you know, just hate-filled comments.

It was very clear that site was about humiliating people as much as possible.

I was thinking, "Who would create a website like this?"

But he was plastered all over the site.

It was very clear that the man who owned that website and ran that site...

...was Hunter Moore.

This was not someone hiding in the shadows.

This was not someone who wanted to be anonymous.

This was someone who was enjoying being

"Internet famous" is what I guess people call it.

Why are you in love with me?

- Because you're hard to get. - Ooh.

Did you come here tonight to find your significant other?

Hell no.

- Did you come to have a one-night stand? - Yes!

fucking all your girlfriends.

You know, I felt like I needed to find out who this guy was

and how he could feel comfortable harming people in this way.

I'm Kirra Hughes,

and I was Hunter Moore's girlfriend.

I was 18 years old when I moved to San Francisco for fashion design.

I had one friend

who wanted to bring me out, celebrate,

to a party

that Hunter Moore was throwing.

As we were leaving,

Hunter grabbed me by the shoulder

and said,

"You don't wanna go out there."

It was such, like, a paused moment in time.

Even though it happened for, like, five seconds,

it seemed a lot longer.

There was an immediate attraction.

I think he asked me to be his girlfriend the next day.

I would say Hunter was ambitious,

but he is extremely impatient.

I feel like I could see his mind,

like, constructing all these things in his head.

One day, he tells me about a website he set up called IsAnyoneUp.

Well, it all started with, um, you know, me hating some dumb bitch who

broke my heart, really.

And that's how it started, dude.

Me and my friends would post a bunch of girls on IsAnyoneUp.

And, uh, we just got a bunch of traffic one day, and I was like,

"Yo, I can make money off titties and fucking people over."

I just thought it was bizarre.

I just never fully grasped what was going on.

But then he started posting nude photos

of popular bands, popular scene bands,

which grabbed a lot more attention.

The site went from 0 to 100 overnight.

I was a vocalist for a scene band called We Are Defiance.

We were based in Central Florida.

The music was very aggressive and had lots of screaming.

And, you know, that was my job was to, you know, scream into a mic for a living.

Scene was a subculture.

This was definitely the primordial ooze from which Hunter Moore came out of.

We had the brooding energy of the emos, the "fuck you" attitude of the punks.

It was all about the tight jeans, tight T-shirt,

as many tattoos as you could get, and the big hair.

The whole experience was wild.

Girls, partying, drugs.

Oh my God! Oh my gosh!

IsAnyoneUp took off at a time where smartphones first appeared.

And the Sidekick was a smartphone that everyone on the scene was using.

What do you do with a phone with a camera?

Take pictures of your dick and send it to people on social media.

It was a common thing for people to send dick pics,

or, you know, girls to send pictures of their boobs to people.

It was a way of flirting.

But at that point in time, the Internet just felt like this kind of fun festival.

Hunter Moore, he showed the world that the Internet is fucking permanent.

And it has the power to ruin your life.

I'm a scene kid at heart, so if you like to view boobs and penises

of your favorite bands or whatever,

I mean, it's gonna get a lot worse.

IsAnyoneUp was a super shocking thing.

Everyone was talking about it. Everyone was posting about it.

It was, like, viral in our scene before viral was viral.

My favorite thing

is "No Butthole No Care." Where'd you come up with that?

I was hella pissed 'cause, like, girls were just sending me titty shots,

and I was like, "Where the fuck is your asshole?"

I just put "No Butthole No Care" on a post, and it just fucking took off.

Hunter was very much, like, controlling the drama.

He was the, you know, ringleader.

"Are we gonna make fun of this person or are we gonna praise them

for these pictures?" And that would just snowball.