True crime fans have described feeling "horrified" by the trailer for Netflix's latest real-life docu-series, detailing the life of a man who dubbed himself "the king of revenge porn" after setting up the world's largest database of non-consensual images.
Created by RawTV, The Most Hated Man on the Internet (MHMI) documents the fight of men and women to have their images, and their purveyor, taken down.
If MHMI's creators previous real-life docuseries are anything to go by, Don't F**K With Cats and The Tinder Swindler, true crime fans can expect a twisted tale told from the perspective of the victims, rather than the perpetrator. In this case, purveyor of revenge porn, Hunter Moore.
It is set to stream next week, this is everything we know so far.
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What is the show about and who is Hunter Moore?
MHMI explores the profile of self-proclaimed "professional life ruiner" Hunter Moore, who became famous in the early 2010s for setting up IsAnyoneUp.com, a website that actively solicited nude images of others without their permission. Even going so far as to employ hackers to gain access to people's emails and their private photographs.
Moore built a cult of personality among certain darker regions of the internet, where people would compete to post nude images they had received of men and women, regardless of their consent. MHMI follows the struggle of men and women to have their images taken off the site, as well as law enforcements eventual successful prosecution and imprisonment of Moore in 2015.
Moore received two and a half years in prison for his crimes, while paying a $2000 fine and paying $145 in victim restitution. He was released in 2017.
When is The Most Hated Man released and why did they make it?
True Crime fans can look forward to all three parts of the docuseries landing on Netflix UK July 27 . You can watch the trailer here.
Similar series have faced criticism in the past for sensationalising criminality and its victims, but thee show's Executive Producer Alex Marengo said this was not so. He said: “I immediately saw that this story could make an utterly compelling series: a crusade for justice against all the odds wrapped up in a world of real-life and online depravity. Some reveled in it, others had their lives ruined.
"I am so proud of our uniquely talented team who turned the lens onto Hunter Moore and turned his victims into the ultimate winners by giving them their voices, silenced until now. It’s incredibly exciting to know that this important story for our times will reach a global audience when it debuts on Netflix.”
