Eliza Bleu, Eliza Siep, Eliza Is aware of, Eliza Cuts – no matter identify you realize her by, Eliza Morthland has propositioned herself as a human trafficking survivor and advocate for the previous a number of years.
Her op-ed in The Day by day Wire in 2020 first propelled her into the right-wing media house. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than she gained a big social media following and appeared on well-liked right-leaning YouTube channels like The Michael Malice present and TimCast IRL.
Lately, she’s even demonstrated that she’s been personally working with Elon Musk supposedly to take away inappropriate little one exploitation from Twitter – one thing she says that the previous Twitter management did not do.
Nevertheless, Bleu is now caught in a whirlwind of controversy after many public figures have had their Twitter account’s suspended merely for sharing public photographs and movies of her and sharing threads elevating questions in regards to the authenticity of her trafficking story. Strap in as a result of it’s a bumpy experience.
The Thread That Began It All
Manuel Defango, who claims to have frolicked with Bleu within the early web days of Myspace, together with Jeffree Star, took to Twitter to watch that Bleu had blocked him. His tweet learn, “Oh lastly obtained blocked by the mendacity grifter Eliza bleu. In honor of this we are going to absolutely debunk her lie of being a intercourse trafficking survivor together with her personal phrases”.
He offered a screenshot displaying he was blocked, adopted by tweets containing photograph and video proof contradicting her statements over time. These ranged from her supposed actual identify, her age, the trafficking timeline, and her many makes an attempt to get well-known. Defango detailed the varied persona adjustments he noticed in Bleu over time. The thread has been eliminated and obtained Defango suspended, however has been archived.
First, she was a straight edge farm woman, a band groupie, then supposedly engaged to Gerard Approach of My Chemical Romance, and appeared on actuality reveals like Blind Date and American Idol, then a hip-hop music video woman, and most lately, a intercourse trafficking advocate.
By this timeline, there are a number of points. For one, Bleu appears to have a knack for resurging beneath totally different identities, therefore the 5 totally different names she’s passed by that we all know of. In interviews and on-line, she’s additionally publicly said to be inconsistent ages.
If she claimed to be 21 years outdated when she appeared on Blind Date in 2006 and was hanging out with My Chemical Romance in 2007, AND she’s claiming she was intercourse trafficked 15 years in the past at 17 years outdated, this means she was being intercourse trafficked throughout her MySpace fame days – when she was additionally hanging out with Jeffree Star and well-known bands.
The one drawback is, how may she be 17 in 2007 if she was 21 in 2006? Numerous examples had been offered of a number of totally different conflicting age timelines. An article about her auditioning for American Idol in 2010 claimed she was 28, so none of those ages add up. He additionally alleged that she was once a camgirl on an internet site referred to as Chat Star. Outdated photographs exist of her account.
Bleu struggles with having a constant timeline. She vehemently denied being the daughter of Republican Consultant Richard Morthland, regardless of her actual identify being Eliza Morthland and photographs of the 2 along with different members of the family. The Day by day Beast additionally reported that Bleu’s cosmetology license lists Richard Morthland’s farm as her deal with, and they’re linked collectively in newspaper articles.
The “Non-consensual” Photograph
Different public figures took discover of Defango’s thread and commenced sharing it. Fellow content material creator Brittany Venti tweeted to Bleu, asking her to make clear some issues within the thread “There are claims & movies on this thread that battle with the timelines you gave and will distract out of your anti-trafficking messaging.”
Hey @elizableu
it is a delicate subject -you haven’t got to enter element about being trafficked howeverI am hoping you may make clear this thread. There’s claims & movies on this thread that battle with the timelines you gave and will distract out of your anti-trafficking messaging. https://t.co/oCVS2EJPNJ
— Brittany Venti ♡⋆˙⊹ (@BrittanyVenti) January 19, 2023
Venti additionally tweeted, “I feel it begins to blur the road about what’s trafficking vs what was voluntary. I feel it’s honest to ask questions when issues like this distract from the anti-trafficking messaging when it’s not clarified.” Venti offered a screenshot of Bleu showing in a World Star Hip Hop music video as a video vixen (Bleu’s personal description). A video vixen is a feminine mannequin that seems in hip-hop music movies dressed scantily clad and handled as eye sweet, normally within the background.
Hey @TwitterSupport @elonmusk
So @BrittanyVenti was locked out of her account for merely asking questions on an current video that is been on YouTube for years.That does not appear proper!#FreeVenti #FreetheBimbo https://t.co/cKgTQCBn6Q pic.twitter.com/z1zXs5U384
— Nina Infinity (@Nina7Infinity) January 20, 2023
This explicit photograph vastly upset Bleu, who rapidly shut it down. Venti’s tweet was promptly eliminated and her account suspended. Bleu took to Twitter claiming the photograph posted of her was non-consensual and has been eliminated. She continued, “the supply of the photograph has additionally been contacted and I’m getting ready to escalate to the total extent of the regulation.”
In a follow-up tweet, Bleu mentioned, “Twitter did an excellent job, and they are going to be excluded from authorized motion. There received’t be anybody else concerned spared. I take issues all the best way and I’ve no chill. I’m a survivor advocate and that doesn’t cease with advocating for myself as a survivor.” Content material creators are actually claiming that their YouTube channels are getting falsely flagged by Bleu, together with The Quartering, Chrissie Mayr, Brittany Venti, and ThatStarWarsGirl.
Was The Photograph Truly Non-consensual?
The controversy across the mass-censorship marketing campaign towards accounts that shared these photographs of Bleu on Twitter and even simply shared different folks’s tweets is that the photograph in query is a public video by World Star Hip Hop’s on YouTube, posted in 2016.
Relating to consent, World Star Hip Hop launched a assertion saying that Bleu had been paid for the video and that they personal the rights to it. Additional complicating her claims that the photographs of the video had been non-consensual are the damning movies of Bleu boasting about how she was in a position to get within the video by networking and pitching the concept herself.
The Quartering posted movies of Eliza Bleu after starring within the video, the place she talks about how proud and blessed she was to “work with one of many dopest administrators within the sport.” “The thought of eager to do one thing of that caliber was so… humbling,” Bleu mentioned in one other video.
Bleu describes how she orchestrated her place within the video by considering to herself one night time about what would take her to the “subsequent stage” that she wished to succeed in, which introduced her to World Star Hip Hop.
Maybe suggesting that she wished to realize fame and notoriety, she added, “I’m by no means going to be on E Leisure tv, I’m by no means going to be on TMZ… except I do one thing loopy or silly.” One other video by Bleu in 2016 reveals her saying, “I’m actually joyful that the World Star video obtained launched” and that it was a “piece to the puzzle.”
If it was Bleu who went out of her method to get solid on this music video and she or he’s demonstrated a number of instances that she’s happy with it and was “blessed” to star in it, that she obtained paid for her time, and that it wasn’t beneath duress or coercion, then what are content material creators Brittany Venti, The Quartering, and YellowFlashGuy violating by sharing this on Twitter?
So far as legality is worried, it’s unsure what is unlawful or non-consensual about these photos or this music video, regardless of her repeated threats to take authorized motion. A group be aware was later added to her authentic tweet, offering context that the screenshot in query seems to have originated from a music video publicly accessible on YouTube for a number of years.
Whenever you try to observe the hyperlink, it now takes you to a web page that claims warning: this hyperlink could also be unsafe.
Bleu hasn’t been shy about her connections at Twitter. She has been open about being in shut communication with Musk after criticizing former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for not doing sufficient to take away inappropriate content material of kids on the platform.
On a current Twitter house, Musk instructed Bleu she “has a direct line to him on this situation.” Twitter appears to have doubled down in its assist for Bleu. Ella Irwin, VP of Belief and Security at Twitter, tweeted that their resolution to droop and limit content material from customers induced confusion for customers however that they will’t remark about particular particulars or reply to questions in regards to the restrictions.
Up to now 2 weeks, we’ve suspended a number of accounts and/or restricted content material, inflicting confusion for customers. Sadly, we are able to’t reply questions or share particulars about particular customers and account actions, however listed below are some issues that may result in these kinds of actions:
— Ella Irwin (@ellagirwin) January 29, 2023
As a substitute, she offered context that Twitter will droop accounts for threats or incitement of violence, together with declaring battle on a person. Irwin adopted up, “Experiences of non-consensual nudity, copyright violations, unlawful content material, and many others. don’t get processed by all platforms at precisely the identical time; nonetheless, if correctly filed, the content material is often faraway from different platforms as effectively.
Experiences of non-consensual nudity, copyright violations, unlawful content material, and many others. don’t get processed by all platforms at precisely the identical time, nonetheless if correctly filed, the content material is often faraway from different platforms as effectively
— Ella Irwin (@ellagirwin) January 29, 2023
Has Her Story Been Verified?
Bleu has gained a notable quantity of followers over the previous two months due to her affiliation with and promotion by Musk. Nevertheless, not many individuals observed the thread poking holes in her story till accounts began to get banned for sharing public photographs or sharing the thread, asking her to make clear the confusion. On this sense, Bleu appears to have Streisand Impact-ed herself.
These are cheap inquiries to ask a spokesperson for human trafficking survivors who has been extremely obscure about her personal story. Again when she appeared on the Michael Malice present final 12 months, Bleu was requested about her private expertise with human trafficking. As she shared her story, it grew to become clear that what she was describing wasn’t human trafficking in any sense of the time period.
Somewhat, she described a state of affairs the place her photos or public likeness had been getting used on-line to entice folks to ‘do enterprise,’ and this may be digital identification theft. At no level does she talk about being personally human trafficked in actual life. This doesn’t imply that she was not a sufferer of human trafficking, after all, however it does warrant clarification – not censorship.
Bleu has not named her abusers, citing that she fears for her and her household’s security. Nevertheless, once you dive just a little deeper, issues develop into just a little murkier. In one other clip posted to Twitter, Bleu has a dialog with one other lady, the place she appears to equate pimps and human traffickers.
When the lady she’s talking with says she at first referred to herself as an ex-prostitute with a pimp as a substitute of a trafficking survivor, Bleu chimes in, “we didn’t have a phrase to place to it.” It’s unclear if Bleu is categorizing consenting intercourse employees and human trafficking victims as the identical.
She additionally talked about that she turned down a $150k “reserving” for a person to have intercourse together with her. What does she imply by reserving, on this context – reserving by way of a modeling company, a camgirl web site, or one thing else?
Bleu’s Mannequin Mayhem profile mentions for bookings and inquiries you possibly can contact administration at Helen Troy Bookings electronic mail. There’s additionally a Helen Troy Modeling hyperlink which takes you to a sketchy-looking web site that appears like an escort or camgirl service.
Bleu has claimed that respected folks have vetted her survivor story. She claims that in 2013 she emailed Eve’s Angels, a Christian nonprofit that helps victims of trafficking. The main points of how she got here to get involved with this group have additionally modified.
Initially, she claimed she was being held hostage by her traffickers in an house and, in her desperation to flee, got here throughout founder Anny Donewald on YouTube. Nevertheless, in a Dec 11 tweet, she says she discovered their web site on the again of a Bible she obtained at a strip membership.
Donewald got here to Bleu’s protection on Twitter, insisting that her story is actual and that she got here to Eve’s Angels for assist.
Whereas a few of you might be hatefully making an attempt to discredit and destroy @elizableu , there are actual folks much more clever who honor her work and accomplishments within the struggle towards rape trafficking. Tremendous happy with her. She’s the true deal. https://t.co/TuG4KkhPh4
— Anny Donewald (@EvesAngels) January 27, 2023
The one drawback is, Donewald was sued by her personal dad and mom for falsely accusing them of intercourse trafficking youngsters – a case that she misplaced.
She was ordered to pay $47,000, not together with authorized charges. Donewald’s personal daughter knowledgeable the plaintiffs that her mom had instructed her to verify the accusations in an try to get a pay-off from the grandparents.
Bleu additionally posted to Twitter many instances about opening a protected home for trans victims of human trafficking and claimed to have completed it in 2020, however nobody has heard about or seen it since. Outdated movies of Bleu exist on YouTube beneath the identify Eliza Siep, the place she discusses being a video vixen for an outdated weblog.
In a single video, she calls her mother to ask her what she thinks about her being a video vixen in music movies and is stunned that her mother doesn’t assume she appears to be like too attractive in them. And there’s a whole YouTube playlist that seems to have been created by Bleu herself, itemizing the varied hip-hop movies she has starred in.
The Day by day Beast additionally reported that she marketed a now-defunct camgirl account, the place males would pay cash to speak to her. They interviewed a former buddy of Bleu’s who claims that she has caught her in lots of lies over time and has been exaggerating her experiences for consideration.
Add to this the newly resurfaced movies of her making weird feedback like making a case for youngsters with the ability to consent to sexual relationships with adults so long as they’re mature sufficient.
Closing Ideas
Simply because Bleu was once a video vixen and doubtlessly engaged in intercourse work prior to now doesn’t imply we are able to know for certain she has by no means been a sufferer of human trafficking.
Nevertheless, the holes in her story do elevate suspicions and warrant readability from Bleu herself. As a substitute, she has solely shut down conversations and silenced well-meaning individuals who respectfully requested her to clarify these inconsistencies.
It’s unclear why so many individuals are getting suspended, and their tweets taken down over publicly accessible movies and photographs that she clearly consented to, however now could remorse. Earlier than propping up so-called advocates of causes, we must always do our due diligence in ensuring their claims are true.
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