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An online creator who anonymously built the ‘most toxic place on the internet’ has been exposed as being a vegan influencer.
The gossip website known as Tattle Life first launched in 2018 and became a way for people to criticize influencers and celebrities.
Since then, the forum has become infamous for being a place where haters would mock and even dox content creators they didn’t like.
Numerous creators have spoken out about how Tattle Life has impacted their mental health including West End star Carrie Hope Fletcher and TikTokers Cory (@corysworldd) and Lea (@leacharlottexx).
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The identity of the man behind the gossip site was revealed after the platform was sued by Irish couple Neil and Donna Sands, who argued that the page has ‘profited as a space where users could defame, harass, stalk and attack others online’.
The couple found a 45-page thread about them on the website, where they were being trolled by ‘Tattlers’.
After initially asking the website to take the page down in 2021, Neil and Donna sued Tattle Life and earlier this month, the pair were awarded £300,000 ($408,168) by the Northern Ireland High Court.
Speaking about Tattle Life after awarding the damages, Justice McAlinden said: “It is the exercise of extreme cynicism – the calculated exercise of extreme cynicism.
“Which in reality constitutes behaviour solely aimed at making profit out of people’s misery.
“People facilitating this are making money out of it… protecting their income streams by protecting the identity of the individual posters.”
It has been revealed that the previously anonymous owner of the site is Sebastian Bond who, according to his profile on Nest & Glow, is ‘a former office worker that quit long days in London to move to the countryside and share natural recipes and lifestyle tips’.
Bond sells a cookbook on Amazon where his author page describes him as having a ‘passion for sharing healthy recipes to inspire everyone to eat natural food full of nutrients and vitamins’.
Sharing a post about their victory on Instagram, Donna and Neil wrote: “As a couple we never wanted or expected to undertake this work, however when we discovered the hate site Tattle.Life we were forced to take action.
“We are very grateful for your support, and hope that this serves as a reminder to those who want to attack others from behind a screen - that the internet is not an anonymous place.
“We will share more soon, but for today, we hope that this news will provide some peace to those affected by online hate and harassment, and that the internet can be a safer space for us all.”
