Kat Tenbarge is on Bluesky
@kattenbarge · Brooklyn, NY · joined 06 Dec 2011
Independent journalist covering internet culture, politics, and media in Spitfire News.
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I will also exercise significantly greater caution when engaging with biased sources or people who have been shown to victimize others.
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I will independently verify claims made by anonymous accounts, approach sources’ biases with greater sensitivity, and exercise skepticism around these types of sources.
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I regret any interactions I had with these accounts or any misplaced trust in content they posted or otherwise engaged with. To rely on or engage with these accounts causes real-world harm, and for that I apologize, too.
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I regret any other lapses in judgment that may have occurred throughout this process and will do better moving forward.
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To do so, Alexa compiled extensive documentation. As part of my reporting, I asked Alexa about allegations this individual has made against her in response. I recognize that these questions were harmful to Alexa’s wellbeing and I apologize for asking them.
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I will exercise greater judgment with regards to engaging with and trusting anonymous accounts in the future. Finally, Alexa has taken out and renewed a restraining order against an individual she has accused of stalking, on behalf of herself and her young child.
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These accounts made various false, unsubstantiated, and unverified comments about Alexa and Eat Predators. They were clearly biased against Alexa. I did not independently verify or vet their claims.
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Furthermore, “Abuse of Power” engaged in behavior like cyberharassment, cyberstalking, and nonconsensual intimate image sharing. I expressly denounce such content.
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In the process of learning about these conflicts, I encountered information posted by accounts on
X called “Exposing Rich” and “Abuse of Power.”
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I now understand that Alexa was solely responsible for the creation of Eat Predators and that she did not co-opt other members’ ideas. She did not represent the group solely as an ambassador, but rather led the group.
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People voluntarily joined Eat Predators, and some members later left the group for various reasons. Some people left because they wanted to monetize Eat Predators or otherwise gain something to the detriment of Eat Predators.
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Conflicts that broke out afterward were not started by Alexa, but rather by other individuals. Notably, there was never any evidence Alexa defrauded members of Eat Predators, including through the group’s Patreon account.
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As part of her activism, Alexa started a group called Eat Predators. In my reporting process, I asked Alexa questions about conflicts regarding this group.
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I do not stand by these comments or any third-party content relying on these comments as evidence of Nikolas sending me sealed documents. Any videos restating the claims in these comments should be removed. I apologize to Alexa for any harm my comments caused her.
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I understand that my comments caused Nikolas distress and may have impacted her reputation. I also understand that my comments were included in videos created by third parties, including my friend Adam McIntyre and Ophie Dokie.
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Eventually, in September 2024, I responded to posts and a livestream Nikolas made on X and YouTube about me and this proposed article with a series of comments of my own.
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They are public records and all personal identifying information was redacted. I regret this error and am committed to exercising greater caution in the future. Since making these comments online, I have learned the true nature of these documents and how Nikolas obtained them.
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In these comments, I erroneously stated that the Bell documents Nikolas shared with me were sealed records and released personal identifying information on the victim. However, these documents are not sealed and did not contain personal identifying information on the victim.
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Taylor obtained these documents via a records request. The documents were not obtained from Bell or his attorneys.
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In response to those questions, Nikolas provided me with the redacted Ohio court and police records concerning Mr. Bell.
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Over a month later, Nikolas shared these documents with me as part of her response to a series of questions I sent her for a proposed article, which was never published.
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On March 9, 2024, days before Quiet on Set aired, series producer and Business Insider journalist Kate Taylor sent Nikolas a number of redacted Ohio court and police records concerning her fellow documentary participant Drake Bell.
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Alexa Nikolas is an activist and actress known for her role in the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and her appearance in the documentary series Quiet on Set.
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Daysia is hands down one of the most talented people I’ve ever worked with. Her expertise is so vital in this cultural era. Hire and commission her!!
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I haven’t posted here in a while, but I wanted to let people who aren’t on Bluesky know something very exciting: I’m going independent.
Spitfire News launches later this month, where I’ll continue to cover internet culture, politics, and media.
https://t.co/EWJwEBIRyJ
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I’m seeing a massive swell of rage from women and girls in response to the very real threats they’re facing—including threats of violence from men and boys, online and in real life. Remember: solidarity with the weakest among you. You have to help others to help yourself.
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The persistent idea that social media content is inherently authentic is a dangerous one. For example, trad wife content — where ultra wealthy women construct sets worth millions of dollars to cosplay farm life, while their domestic laborers do the real work off camera
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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What the audience does
Likes75.3%1 991 in total
Reposts9.5%250 in total
Replies3.7%98 in total
Quotes2.4%64 in total
Bookmarks9.1%241 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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