TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida-based livestreamer and YouTube character referred to as “Future” was accused of sharing sexual content material of a girl with out her consent or data.
A federal lawsuit filed within the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday alleged Future, whose actual identify is Steven Okay. Bonnell II, despatched a sexual video to a “random fan,” who then unfold them to numerous web sites.
The plaintiff, a Jane Doe recognized within the lawsuit solely by her influencer username, Pxie, had a sexual encounter with Bonnell in 2020, in keeping with the grievance. The lawsuit mentioned that Pxie was a smaller content material creator, with 15,000 followers on X and 10,000 followers on the livestreaming platform Twitch, in comparison with Bonnell’s 840,000 YouTube subscribers and the over 700,000 followers he gathered on Twitch earlier than his account was banned. Each Pxie and Future create politically-oriented on-line content material.
Bonnell was accused of sending the sexual video to a fan recognized as “Rose” in 2022. Two years later, the video appeared on the net message board Kiwi Farms and unfold to different websites, whose captions listed the video’s topics as Pxie and Future, and garnered tens of 1000’s of views, in keeping with the grievance. Attorneys for Pxie claimed the leaked video “went viral” throughout social media.
The lawsuit alleged Bonnell admitted to sharing the video in a Discord message when confronted by Pxie in November 2024.
“Ughhhh there shouldn’t be no,” Bonnell mentioned when requested if he shared further movies of Pxie, in keeping with the grievance. “I’m so sorry there’s actually no excuse, I’d had telephone convos and stuff with this individual they had been pretty near me, it’s nugatory to say it at this level however
I’m tremendous sorry, there’s actually no excuse.”
The plaintiff’s attorneys alleged she acquired “a whole bunch of insulting and harassing messages” on account of the leak and claimed Bonnell’s followers “discussing the leaks on the completely different accounts falsely declare that Plaintiff exchanged intercourse for skilled progress and favors from Bonnell,” court docket paperwork mentioned. The lawsuit claimed Bonnell additionally made disparaging feedback about Pxie, together with claims that she was “simply after his cash.”
The lawsuit laid out further complaints in opposition to Bonnell, together with allegations that “roughly fifteen girls reached out to Plaintiff to inform her that they’d acquired sexually specific pictures from Bonnell of different girls with out the opposite girls’s consent” within the wake of the video leak. Final month, Bonnell reportedly informed his followers that his solely crime was being “an excessive amount of of” a slang time period for “somebody who’s deeply engaged in extreme grownup X-rated content material consumption, typically in a compulsive or obsessive method,” in keeping with the grievance.
“The Movies disclosed by Bonnell had been of a non-public nature and had been by no means supposed
for public distribution. Defendant’s actions have brought about Plaintiff extreme emotional misery,
humiliation, and reputational hurt,” the lawsuit alleged. “Plaintiff’s profession as a political streamer has been adversely affected and her aspirations of being elected for workplace have been tremendously diminished.”
Attorneys for Pxie alleged Bonnell violated a federal “revenge porn” legislation and a Florida cyber sexual harassment legislation. Additionally they claimed Bonnell deliberately inflicted emotional misery upon her and violated her privateness.
The lawsuit referred to as for a jury trial to find out the financial quantity, if any, wanted to compensate Pxie, in addition to potential injunctive reduction in opposition to Bonnell, compensation for lawyer’s charges, “and additional reduction to which Plaintiff could also be entitled.”
WFLA.com reached out to Bonnell for touch upon the lawsuit, however didn’t instantly hear again.
