The Most Hated Man on the Internet: Where is Hunter Moore now?
A Netflix series investigates the origins of revenge porn website Is Anyone Up!? and the life of its infamous owner and creator.
The makers of Netflix sensations The Tinder Swindler and Don’t Fuck With Cats are back with another true crime series that looks at the crimes of Hunter Moore, also known as The Most Hated Man on the Internet.
That moniker was given to Moore in a Rolling Stone article in 2012 that studies the origins of his revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp.com. Moore set up the site in 2010 and allowed users to share sexually explicit pictures of other people without their consent. Victims often had their personal information, such as names and addresses, circulated alongside their images.
The Rolling Stone articles claims that between 15 and 30 explicit images were posted per day during the 16 months that the site remained operational for. In April 2012 Moore sold the group to an anti-bullying group, who quickly shut it down.
However Moore and an associate Charles Evens were arrested on charges of conspiracy and unauthorised access to a protected computer. They were found guilty of hacking victims’ phones to obtain private images.
An FBI statement outlining the case read: “To obtain more photos to populate the site, Moore allegedly instructed Evens to gain unauthorised access to – in other words, to hack into – victims’ email accounts.”
What is Hunter Moore doing now?
Moore pleaded guilty in February 2015 and was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by an additional three years on supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $2,000 and $145.70 in restitution fees.
He was released in May 2017 and has popped up with a few media projects, despite generally keeping a fairly low profile. The same year as his release his released an EDM single titled ‘Make The Internet Great Again.’
One year later he published a booked called ‘Is Anyone Up!? The Story Behind Revenge Porn. The book purports to tell the story of the origins of the website and his own younger years.
What next for Hunter Moore?
At points since his release from prison, Moore has been active on Twitter and declared that he was “living my life peacefully now.”
“Look guys, I did my time behind bars,” Moore wrote. “Living my life peacefully now, it’s been a decade about what happened, some of you loves me and most of you hates me, if you want me to apologise well I wouldn’t. I don’t owe anyone anything.”
Initially Moore was going to be a part of the Netflix series about him, but he later pulled out. Recently Moore claimed he had no regrets about his creation and admitted that he was proud of it.