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Whos To Blame For IsAnyoneUp

A website that I hope you have never visited called isanyoneup.com was shut down last week. The premise of the site was to let disgruntled ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends post explicit photos their significant others sent them alongside a screenshot of their Facebook or Twitter account. After two years of public outcry and disgust and over 500 million pageviews later, founder Hunter Moore put an end to the site, now tens of thousands of dollars richer thanks to advertising, event appearances and merchandise sale.
You might be wondering why I’m telling you this. You might be wondering why knowing about Hunter Moore, possibly the slimiest of all slimy entrepeneurs, deserves any attention and anything other than our anger and judgement. Well, it’s because maybe Moore wasn’t so slimy afterall, and maybe, just maybe, our anger and disgust should be pointed at someone else — ourselves.
Just to give you a sense of how ostracized Moore is, try sending a Facebook chat that includes the name isanyoneup.com in it. You can’t. The message simply won’t send, because Facebook hates Hunter Moore so much that they won’t let him on their site or let you talk about him on their site. Moore also received a harsh critique from Anderson Cooper when he appeared on Anderson last November. Moore cites the backlash from that interview as part of why the site no longer exists. And then of course he’s hated by the men and women whose photos are submitted, one of whom was so upset that she stabbed Hunter in the shoulder with a pen, landing him in the emergency room getting stiches.
Now, according to a letter he posted online on the last day of the site’s existence, he is so “burnt out” and has received so much hatred that he can’t continue with the site. It was thousands against one, and as wrong as that one may have been, his opponents didn’t handle the battle right.
Isanyoneup.com was no doubt a grimy site, but the fact is, Hunter Moore is not to blame. Moore simply was a middle man.
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