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Article title: Grummz: Odious Pervert, Failed Pornographer

All the information for this story is publicly available, at least it was until Grummz panicked and began trying to purge following a post from friends of the site, Western Kabuki.

Unfortunately for Grummz, the Internet never forgets. You can view the entire timeline here.

Video Title: Goonernomicon: Grummz | Part 1

The first domino in this was from a historical password dump, which lead to an archive search, followed by a trawl through historical WHO.IS data, which is a permanent record on the internet of who runs a website - If you have an email address and phone number listed, this is recorded for what is effectively eternity. This one datapoint allowed us to connect the dots of a particular persons online activity and business dealings.

Since 2001 Grummz has maintained a secret persona called Debbi Chan / Foxyfighter to write, commission, host, and film lesbian wrestling "catfights"

He was the original owner of a fetish forum, freecatfights.com, as well as several other niche fetish femmefight sites; at least two of which were taken down due in 2005 due to anticipated pornography law changes.

He boasted that he used a very expensive RED camera to film pornography in the 2010s, suspiciously the same model used at Red 5 / Studio 5 where he was an executive working on Firefall. Still Images from these sites explicitly outline Mark Kern as the creator/editor of the files being posted to Debbi's account.

He has caught wind that we have been digging through this and has since been purging/deleting accounts that we've already seen and thus know he's deleting them.

From Twitter:

WesternKabuki: Mark Kern led a double life as a pornographer who wrote, produced, commissioned, filmed, and directed fetish porn for over two decades

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So some guy named Grummz I've never heard of used to make corn and now he's going to destroy the entirety of all left ideologies which he totally could have done before but didn't want to? I don't know who this dude is.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He is an elon reply guy mostly and got really into the assasins creed drama

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, we're doomed then. No more leftism

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Volcel autocorrect. Tech dystopia

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

can't make corn anymore because of woke smdh

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I first heard about him today. Apparently he worked with Blizzard on, like, old-school World of Warcraft I think?

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

He was like a blizzard manager who was so shit he got fired like shortly after the original wow release.
He then took over or made some studio that started to dev a game called FireFall and he fucking cratered it with mismanagement and blowing millions on a giant modified bus as advertising at conventions which was then too fucked up to run/drive.
After he got fired from that, I believe he did fuck all other than crowdfunding for a remake of firefall or some other gooner-ass mmo or some shit that only ever showed off barely playable alpha builds where some cubes bounced around in an engine with stock textures.

He then devoted all of his time to being a gamergater elon reply guy, and with the general trajectory of twitter, gamergaters and youtube, this somehow made him a powerposter

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The expose mentions that the crowdfunding money and some of firefall budget went to fund his pornografy

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

yeah, and something about his porno sites bragging that they were filming on primo RED cameras - that were also coincidentally advertised as being used by he firefall team

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Ah so he's the reason firefall died.. loved that game..

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Sucks he's a gamergator and all that cause he'd be a really funny dude otherwise. Like still a piece of shit but the kind I'd feel fine laughing at

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

The funniest part is he never bothered trademarking or copyrighting his new game's name and someone trolled him by naming their porn shovelware Em8er so now he can't use it

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

That's social damage enough to warrant death right there