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Last week, I was notified that true crime Tiktok creators bratnorton (aka Sydney Norton), lunanoir (aka Alyssa McGrath), and samanthatherese6 (aka Samantha Aquilina) were bashing my looks during a Live. While Brat and Luna didn’t explicitly mock my looks, Samantha spent 45 minutes going off on them while the other two women encouraged her.
Samantha, who was obviously under the influence of some substance, had never hosted a Live before. Brat had hosted many. She knew how common it was for viewers to screen record so they could discuss (or criticize) the content elsewhere. She knows this because she’s had several of her own Lives posted on other’s pages and different platforms calling her out for her questionable theories. (All three creators have posted content implicating or casting suspicion on the surviving roommates of the Idaho 4 case.)
At one point in the video, Brat even tells Samantha someone was probably recording and warns viewers not to tell me what was being said. At no time did she or Luna sincerely suggest Samantha stop popping off. Instead, they laughed whenever she called me fugly, hideous, and fat.
“You can say things I can’t, Samantha,” said Brat.
Translation: I agree with everything you say but am not stupid enough to say it publicly.
Now, I often create content calling out for being man-babies who don’t know how to express their feelings healthily. I’m used to attacks on my looks. That’s not what disturbed me.
What disturbed me was how Brat and Luna sat back as Samantha - who, again, was clearly high or drunk - repeatedly and with malice said she thought I was fat and ugly. (All because I blocked her on Tiktok.) Based on their personal experiences, Brat and Luna knew her words would come back to haunt her, and they never suggested she stop or offered a genuine warning what she was doing could bite her in the ass. Instead, they watched her throw herself under the bus and cackled as she did it.
When I say that I believe misogyny is the reason why so many viciously attack or cast suspicion on survivors Dylan and Bethany, this is why.
