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.
WesternKabuki: Mark Kern led a double life as a pornographer who wrote, produced, commissioned, filmed, and directed fetish porn for over two decades
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
The expose mentions that the crowdfunding money and some of firefall budget went to fund his pornografy
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
Ah so he’s the reason firefall died… loved that game…
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
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