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
it sure is a vibe to be able to say "well at least this one wasn't a pedophile"
don't speak too soon, the unearthed email accounts were pretty sus
I'm sure pretty_girl_1 through pretty_girl_15 were already taken, nothing suspicious