It's been awhile but I found a mervert who has a full blown underwater girl fetish on one of my friend Facebook page. I did let her know about him as soon as I read his profile and saw what his intentions are. Here the information of him asking for specific info relating to his fetish.
Name: David Lucas
Link to page: https://www.facebook.com/scubasutra
Proof of screenshots:
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Nicely done Slim! :thumbs-up:
well, at least he does us the courtesy of directly calling himself a fetish guy hahaha
again, nothing at all wrong with having a fetish. it's when people project it onto non-consenting others that it becomes a problem.
Yup, his honesty is... refreshing.
I feel like his "method of holding your breath longer" is some sexual innuendo of like holding your breath longer during a BJ. Not to bring sexual R-rated ness to this thread, but that is the creepy sexual vibe I'm getting from that guy -.-Quote:
Originally Posted by MermaidCelesteFL
As referenced by Slim: https://www.facebook.com/gary.dygert...62776580494878, dude has many photos of people reposted. Not too bothered except for his awful editing. Seems like a collector, also I ran into this lovely man today:
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https://www.instagram.com/kevinavants/
He was apologetic but I'm like naaaah leave your filth! #blocked
Name: Prahlad Singh
Why: He’ll message on Facebook and instantly go overboard with the “I love you” crap and insist to want pictures. He doesn’t take no for an answer. He already messaged Sabrina and I.
Here what he sent to Sabrina
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Here what he sent to me
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Sadly, this idiot doesn't need your 'permisan' to download and share any pic put on the public Internet :(
Report him to Facebook if you like, but both of you block him asap so he won't cause any more trouble.
Btw, I recommend adding watermarks showing your copyright -- that should discourage unwanted sharing.
I'm glad this thread exists! I've run into creeps before and it's always annoying to deal with them. It's nice to have a list all mers can rely on to stay safe from these creeps. Below is a list of the Instagram accounts I've encountered and blocked.
dastardlydrefulton
Reason: He started commenting on a photo of me in a monofin (without a tail) complaining about how I had legs? I answered professionally and he continued trying to get me to pity him for deceiving him??? I removed his comments and he was instantly blocked.
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markanthony2907
Reason: He straight up called me "sexy" and could see me to "spicing up a party". I've never blocked someone so fast in my life.
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johnparker1667
(no surprise here just thought I'd confirm another one of his instagram accounts)
Reason: I don't think I need one. With his comment and his past in harassment, the screenshot says it all.
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jettra81875
Reason: Left a suspiciously fetish-like comment on one of my old instagram posts referring to one of my youtube videos. I wasn't sure how I felt about it so I blocked them. Has anyone else run into this person?
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nate998721
Reason: I can't find my screenshot for why I blocked this person but I'm adding them to this comment anyway. I don't block people without a good reason so I'm sure did something unsettling. Has anyone had a problem with this account?
triton_kevin
Reason: I personally haven't had any problems with him but I noticed the name mentioned a few times in this thread so I blocked him. Plus, he's following 3,000+ other mermaid pages but doesn't have a single photo posted on his profile. Seems kinda fishy...
Thanks Everybody for being on my side [emoji5]
DolphinQueenSabrina
Yup! Unfortunately, merverts are an unavoidable part of the activity on social media.Quote:
Originally Posted by DolphinQueenSabrina
Least we can do is have each others' backs, share what works and plan for when we encounter them.
Hi guys, erm just wondering if I can get a word of advice about someone, I'd got a friend request to my personal Facebook (haven't got a separate one for mer stuff yet) from a guy who was mutuals with a lot of folks from the UK Merpod page so I figured at the time he was just a fellow mer or enthusiast and was like "why not?" but when I spoke to him to try and see why he added me, he wouldn't say a word to me. It took a little bit of prompting to even get a thumbs up? :confused: I'll put a little screenshot of that below and tbh he still DOES seem harmless, but it made me a little uneasy. I'd then noticed him sharing a lot of evidently collected pictures of mermaids without context, and appeared to be ignoring one comment I found asking for one to be taken down. I think he's a collector? So I searched Paul Parr on google in relation to mermaids and lo and behold, this thread came up.
All I'd love to know since I can't find the right page is if I should worry at all, and whether it's harmless to keep him added, I should block him, or keep him on only to make sure he doesn't upload anything of mine without permission?
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Block him. As soon as you message him to remove contents, he’ll block you. Don’t give him the chance to save photos.Quote:
Originally Posted by NorthSeaAlaria
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I can't recall anything but we can keep an eye out. from looking at his profile he looks like a fairly standard "collector" of mermaids
Thanks guys, I'll do that right away. And if anyone ever happens to see stuff of me on (gods forbid) any collector's page, I'd massively appreciate knowing. Can't be great for a just starting business :/
Does anyone know if this is a collector or mervert? He followed me on insta and his feed is nothing but stolen photos of mermaids and women in bikinishttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...bfc4a131c4.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4fabef9239.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...e07af6150b.jpg
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He seems like he a collector
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Originally Posted by Mermaid Momo
Here a question that creeps me out but I'm going to ask. I noticed one night that someone was logged in on this site for 2 hours who never posted before. The person was just looking at attachments everytime once I started checking the profile 1 hour after I noticed the name still on when scrolling to the bottom of the site. This person has a deviantart page under the SAME name he has on this site and his blog on there has a fetish scoring system of what he on too. It clearly states that mermaids are a plus 5 points in it. Should I mention his name on here or should I message an admin and provide a link to his deviantart page with his username so they can block him from here? I'm concern saying the name will make him active and start harassing mers on here as he already has an account for 2 years.
I think you should alert admin with links to his DA page, blog, and MN profile and let them handle it.
Thank you.
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That's disgusting...Quote:
Originally Posted by Slim
Wow, thanks for the alert Slim. Hopefully the admins can sort it out.
GROSS.
Thought I wouldn't have to post here... I was going through my fb mer page and found a like from Gordon Shagene. Is there a way to remove it?
Nvm. Figured it out. Banned him instead!
Holy crap, I just finished reading through all of this, because it's one of my main concerns for when I start to set up. Now, I know that I am in need of a mertender to assist me (and to never do one on one gigs that sound fishy as hell), but it didn't occur to me that mertenders would need more of an emphasis of mermaid bodyguard than I originally thought. I thought their main job would be to help me whilst in the tail where I would obviously be restricted. It was an afterthought that they would be around to keep people from being handsy/creepy.
My question is, is there a thread floating around as a quick guide to finding/picking the right mertenders? I thought i could just have one other assistant with me and that it didn't matter if it was a man or woman, but now i'm thinking having a woman helping wouldn't be as intimidating to these sexist freaks. The thought occurred to get my boyfriend in on it, but I don't see that working out as a good business relationship. And I guess the only way to protect my online presence would be just to delete, block, and delete some more... reading the story about the one guy coming up and holding one girl at an event and then the other where the guy was trying to book a mermaid with her just going to a private location by herself... freaks me out completely. If I found another girl that wanted to do this with me (which I would love to have in the future) I feel like that ads to the seriousness of safety with two women effectively helpless in tails...
Forewarned is forearmed. This thread serves its purpose every time someone finds out here rather than by experience :) Sadly, these people can't be dodged entirely, and social media makes you easier to find -- it doesn't care by whom.
I don't think you need to aim to be intimidating, though your tender does need to be assertive, observant and able to defuse tough situations gracefully. You don't want to be looking over your shoulder all the time.
I thought I was alone I get "mermaid beautiful" a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashton
I just got "mermaid beautiful" too today, yikes.
Hopefully he's just an innocent fan and not a creep. His account is private but he has a decent following and plenty of posts, so it doesn't seem like a spam account created for harassment. Then again, I didn't follow him to see what said posts are of, so I can't be sure.
He's a fan, I believe he does have a tail. I believe he's basically harmless, it depends on what you are comfortable with.
I get saying adults are beautiful, but as a teacher it gets very suspicious when you comment the same things on images of children.Quote:
Originally Posted by MermaidAiera
He comments on children?
Yeah, there are a few photos of kids in tails and he has commented "beautiful".
My hope is that he is commenting on how it is beautiful world we live in that these children have the opportunity of learning how to swim as a mermaid. Rather than commenting on their looks and possibly saying something that could be seen as inappropriate.
You never know, though.
I'll have to review his page and reconsider not blocking..
Hey, do the names Josh Commee or @dailyscreener mean anything to anyone?
I blocked Dailyscreener
DolphinQueen
Did you have issue with that person or did their profile make you uncomfortable?
The profile made me uncomfortable
DolphinQueen
I posted this in the drama thread, but I’ll say this again. I dated this guy name Shawn Fan back in 2013 and it turns out he is a mervert and collector. I broke up with because I didn’t appreciate him flirting with other girls behind my back and he only cares about my mersona and not the person behind it. Ever since I dumped him he proceeds to target any mermaid performer in DFW and recently Oklahoma. He would send creepy and stalkerish messages. In 2016 he got banned for harassing the mermaids at their medieval fest.
These are the screenshots from Merfolks of Foxmoon Production’s facebook page. I know they are talking about my ex because my friend Ashley was there when it happened:
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My friend Davina can confirm Shawn got banned at the medieval fest too. He tried to plead innocent with herhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ac511c4846.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0bdaf340b0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b0e9a543c0.jpg
Next set is my friend Ashley’s messages. She cut off contact with him due to his behavior at the medieval fest in Oklahoma and for the creepy messages he sent her. These are the screenshots of the messages she sent me: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...873580ee25.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4c6fcb8a9b.jpg
These are the messages Shawn sent her. He offered to ship her his Shirahoshi figurine (a sexualized mermaid character) to her. It made her uncomfortable. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...236921244f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3eb00872e3.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4cad3500e1.jpg
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Continued...
I found out he is a collector through his facebook page called Didi Cosplay and Photograph.
https://m.facebook.com/pg/didicospla...94733820684665
He posted these images sometime after Ashley Wolf cut him off around 2016. She wants nothing to do with him, but he’s posting images of her and him on his page still. He tried to post images of me and him too despite me cutting him off ages ago. I ended up getting those images of me and him on his page taken down by griping at him and reporting him. He have yet to remove photos of him and Ashley. He stole some of the photos of him and Ashley from Ashley’s instagram page.
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https://m.facebook.com/pg/didicospla...94733820684665
If you look through his albums he not only has a mermaid fetish, but he also has Hula Girl fetish. I remember during our relationship he stated he had fantasies of me doing a Hula Girl photoshoot with him and him worshipping me. It was so creepy! I’m glad I never did the Hula Girl shoot with him. Now he got 3 girls to do the shoot with him. The two who cosplayed Elsa and Anna as Hula Girls looks really young in my opinion. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0e4380d7ab.jpg
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