Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Netflix’s "Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich" and Haley Robson: The Teen Ghislaine Maxwell

Stuart Pivar, co-founder of the New York Academy of Art, author of Lifecode: The Theory of Biological Self-Organization, industrialist, and who acted "[...] as a sort of art consultant to [Jeffrey] Epstein", opined, in reference to Epstein’s teen masseuses, in an interview with Leland Nally for Mother Jones

For years, they went, came there time and time and time again. 

He did stuff with underage girls who knew what the hell they were doing. By the hundreds [...] What Jeffrey did in comparison with the kind of stuff which gets exposed every day of people who are abusing children left and right and all kinds of institutions? Jeffrey never did anything like that. Everything he had to do with these girls was complicit.

In the Netflix documentary, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (e01), Haley Robson shared that when she was 16, after refusing to be Epstein's masseuse, she agreed to recruit teen masseuses for Epstein for which she agreed to be paid $200 per massage. Over an, approximately, one-year period, Haley recruited almost 30 teen masseuses for Epstein. 

Haley, "I probably recruited maybe 24 [underage] girls."

(Haley related that she “didn’t feel comfortable” being touched in “inappropriate places” (i.e., “below the belt”). She said, “I refused to do that.” But after Epstein acquiesced to her refusal, she did not refuse Epstein's offer to recruit her classmates.)

Interestingly, Haley was recruited by a high school classmate at Royal Palm Beach Community High School. The schoolgirl informed Haley, “I know this guy, and he would give me $200 just to give him a massage.” 

Haley Robson: Competitive Equestrian (Netflix)

Haley's response was, “This is my ticket out of West Palm. This is my way out.” Haley’s response implied that she was underprivileged, but we know from the documentary that she was a competitive equestrian, her mother was a banker, and her father was a police officer.

Haley confessed to detectives that, before going to Epstein’s house, her recruits “knew everything” (i.e., Epstein would be nude, and they would be fondled by hand and/or by a vibrator.)

Detective, “The girl that was going knew she would have to massage him?”

Haley, “She knew everything.”

Detective, “How long have you been working for him?”

Haley, “I probably worked for him for a year.”

Haley even informed the detectives that her underage recruits recruited underage recruits! 

Haley, “Those girls brought other girls, too.”

Detective, “Okay.”

Robson, “So, it's like a train.”

Detective, “Who else was underage?”

Robson, “Under 18? All of them.” 

Haley Robson's Yearbook Photo (Netflix)

And Haley recruited strategically by targeting friend groups whom she would drive to Epstein’s home, escort them directly to Epstein, and then wait by the pool to be paid. 

Haley, "I would recruit girls that were friends. I would just casually bring it up. And we would drive together to his house. I would take them to the room, and then I would walk out. Sometimes I would wait out by the pool. When the girls would leave, Jeffery would come outside to pay me [...]"

Somehow, unlike Ghislaine Maxwell, Haley was never charged with a crime. This is despite the fact that a detective informed Haley that she clearly implicated herself in [teen] prostitution - a second-degree felony:

Detective, "At this point, you've clearly implicated yourself in a crime. Okay? You've taken girls to somebody's house for the purposes of [teen] prostitution [...] Now that's a pretty significant second-degree felony."

Haley said that she doesn’t feel guilty about being a (teen) madam, because she was 16 at the time. Does that mean that Haley feels that all self-implicated 16-year-olds should be free of being charged with felonies? What about 16-years-olds who live in New Jersey where the age of consent is 16? 

But Haley’s freedom raises some additional (rhetorical) questions:

Unlike Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, why was Haley never charged with a crime as well?

Why does it appear that, unlike Stuart Pivar, most people (openly) opine that Epstein's masseuses were not complicit?

Why did the documentary give streamers the impression that Epstein's masseuses were impoverished when they were clearly not underprivileged schoolgirls? 

Or were Epstein’s masseuses like the schoolgirl prostitutes from the wealthy district of Parioli, Rome in Netflix’s Baby whom simply did it for “easy money”?

Monday, November 4, 2024

Famous Age-Gap Romance: Keke Palmer (15) and Her First Love (20)



Janine Rubenstein related in her post for People that Keke Palmer had an age-gap affair when she was a teen Nickelodeon star: “Keke Palmer on ‘Inappropriate’ Relationship with Older Man While Filming Nickelodeon Show: ‘Nothing Makes It Right’ (Exclusive)” (October 30, 2024)

Rubenstein’s subtitle related that the older man was Keke’s first love: “The former child star and award-winning actress opens up to PEOPLE about her first love and why she now knows the relationship was deeply problematic”

In the piece, Keke shared that when she was 15, her first love was 20, but that if, at the time, she thought the relationship was inappropriate, she would not have gotten romantically involved.

Palmer fell in love for the first time amid her rise to fame as the star of Nickelodeon's hit sitcom True Jackson VP

She began dating an older man. "I was 15, he was 20," Palmer says of the partner she doesn't name. “I was trying to balance between being really young, but also feeling quite mature. If I thought it was inappropriate, then I wouldn't have done it."

However, in hindsight, Keke implied that her first love should have been unrequited.

Adds Palmer, "Obviously I shouldn’t have been 15 dating no 20-year-old," she says, "but in my mind it was like ‘I got a full-time job. . . . Can’t nobody understand me but a grown man.’ [...]"

Interestingly, the age-gap relationship lasted five years. 


Rhetorical question: Why did Keke wait all these years to talk about her five-year age-gap relationship? Answer: To boost sales of her book Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative. 

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Famous Age-Gap Romances: Teleiophile Noor Alfallah (20s) and Mick Jagger (74), Nicolas Berggruen (60), and Al Pacino (81)

In an AirMail post, Ashley Baker referred to Noor Alfallah as an “AARP-Breaker”. The post’s title went on to imply that Noor had (age-gap) sex with Al Pacino, Mick Jagger, and Bill Maher: “Al Pacino, Mick Jagger, and Bill Maher have all become notches on the bedpost of the glamorous, 30-year-old film producer Noor Alfallah”

Baker described Noor as “raven-haired, [and] poreless” and as “the most discussed woman in Hollywood”, because Noor: “[...] dated Al Pacino (84), Mick Jagger (81), the billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen (63), and maybe even Clint Eastwood (94), all before she turned 30.”

Mick Jagger (74) & Noor Alfallah (23) 

After relating that Noor earned her undergraduate degree from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a graduate degree in film production from UCLA, Baker related that in 2017 then-22-year-old Noor “took up” with then-74-year-old Mick Jagger. 

Noor Alfallah (23) and Clint Eastwood (88)

After Noor and Jagger’s relationship “fizzled”, then-23-year-old Noor was spotted in the backseat of Clint Eastwood's car while leaving West Hollywood's Craig's. Eastwood was 88 at the time. However, Josh Boswell and Heidi Parker related in the Daily Mail piece “Mick Jagger's former fling Noor Alfallah, 23, denies she's dating Clint Eastwood, 88” (29 January 2019) that Noor denied dating Eastwood. 

Noor and Nicolas Berggruen (60)

After being photographed in the backseat of Eastwood’s car, per Baker, then 24-year-old Noor began dating then-60-year-old Nicolas Berggruen - a billionaire philanthropist. 

Al Pacino (81) & Noor Alfallah (28)

After Noor and Berggruen’s relationship fizzled, then-28-year-old Noor started dating then-81-year-old Al Pacino. Per Baker, Noor shared with Vogue Arabia that the affair began after Noor spent “every day” at Pacino’s place.

“Al lives down the street from my house and we started spending every day together, playing chess and watching movies. It was like film school with Al Pacino,” she said. “I guess it just became something more.”

The age-gap couple had a baby in 2023 but subsequently separated. Per Baker: “Alfallah has full custody, and Pacino pays [a whopping] $30,000 a month in child support.”

Noor (30) and Bill Maher (68)

Most recently, 30-year-old Noor has been seen with 68-year-old Bill Maher. For example, Newsweek posted “Bill Maher, 68, Caught Leaving Iconic [Chateau Marmont] Hotel With Al Pacino's [ex] 30-Year-Old Girlfriend” (Oct 07, 2024) 

Noor (30) and Bill Maher (68)

Newsweek related that prior to spending time at the Chateau Marmont, Noor and Maher: “[...] were spotted dining together at Chez Mia in West Hollywood.” And Nicki Cox posted on Page Six that “Bill Maher, 68, and Al Pacino’s ex Noor Alfallah, 30, have gone on several dates: report” (Oct. 9, 2024) [Emphasis added]

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Famous Age-Gap Romance: The Bachelor Nick Viall (38) and Natalie Joy (20)

Natalie Joy and Nick Viall

Nick Viall is a reality TV star and podcaster who began his career by appearing on two consecutive seasons of The Bachelorette (2014-2015) before he was The Bachelor (2016). In 2020, Natalie Joy, a then-20-year-old brunette, initiated an age-gap relationship with then-38-year-old Viall by sending him an Instagram DM.


However, Natalie’s love was unrequited. On Taylor Lautner and Tay Dome's podcast The Squeeze (2023), Vaill shared that he (initially) rejected Natalie’s advances “many times” and, in an attempt to verify Natalie’s age, he even “carded her”.


Nick, “When she, like, first said she had feelings for me. [She] said she wanted to be in a relationship, and I turned her down.”

Tay, “Did you really?”

Nick, “Oh, yeah.”

Natalie, “Oh my God. So many times.”

Nick, “I carded her.”

Natalie, “He was like, I wanna see your ID.”


However, despite their 18-year age-gap, Natalie would not take no for a final answer.


Natalie, “I was like, I’m gonna spend the rest of my life with this man. And I knew it, and he didn't. So I was like, I'm just gonna hang on, because, I know, he'll come around.”


Natalie’s persistence paid off, because Nick proposed to her in January of 2023, and they wed in April of 2024. Consequently, she received some DMs from (some of) her followers whom called her a “child bride”. (Interestingly, the age-gap wedding was profiled in the New York Times’ “Style” section.)


On the “What’s the Snark on Nick Viall?” episode of the Snark Bait podcast (September 25, 2024), co-hosts Sophie Ross and Christy, maligned Nick for being in an age-gap relationship with Natalie. Sophie implied that Natalie was a child. Christy implied that Natalie didn’t have any self-confidence and that Natalie lacked “frontal lobe development”, which meant that Natalie lacked the ability to “actually see” Nick for who he was. And despite the fact that Natalie initiated the relationship, which Nick initially rebuffed repeatedly, "So many times," Sophie and Christy, more than once, accused Nick of “predatory behavior”.


Sophie, “I think about myself at that age, like, and I was a child. It makes me upset. Like, it actually makes me upset. [...] It’s the same when, like, when Leonardo DiCaprio or [...] Tobey Maguire. Like is with a 20-year-old woman. Like, it makes me upset. Because I think about myself at that age. And, like, I was a child.”


Christy, “You just want someone that you can manipulate. That is not stupid [sic] enough to stand up for herself. That doesn’t have the self-confidence or, like, that frontal lobe development to where she can actually see you for who you are. It’s actually scary. It’s predatory behavior.”


Natalie Joy and Nick Viall

However, Sophie appeared to change her stance when she implied that Natalie did have her “own free will”, but that Natalie set herself up to be easily manipulated by Nick. 


Sophie, “It’s such a huge red flag [...] And I’m not saying that, you know, oh my God, this isn't, like, a person that has their own free will. Like, they have their own free will. I just think that it’s clear that when someone who’s significantly older chooses to date someone [...] this younger person choosing to date them as well. They’re just so much easier to manipulate [...]”


Based on statements that Sophie and Christy made on the “What’s the Snark on Shannon Ford (and Lames)” podcast (October 3, 2024), one can safely say that they’re pro sex work. This raises the (rhetorical) question: If Natalie had an OnlyFans account, like a number of teens and women in their twenties (e.g., Sami Sheen), would Sophie and Christy (openly) say that Natalie should not be allowed to have an OnlyFans, because she’s a child and that she didn’t know what she was doing because her frontal lobe wasn’t developed. 

Friday, October 4, 2024

Netflix's & Holly Jackson’s A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER: Teen Andie Has Sex with Janitor and Teacher!

IMDb’s Storyline:

Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day.


In Netflix’s A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024), Andie was involved in two age-gap relationships -  with Dan Da Silva, a “handsome” police officer, and with The Secret Older Guy, Mr. Elliot Ward, the Head of English at Fairview High. (Note that Pip, a teen investigating Andie’s murder for a school project, referred to Officer Da Silva as “handsome” in s01e01.)


Pip Discovers that Mr. Ward is Andie's Secret Older Guy

In s01e05, Officer Da Silva informed Pip that he and Andie “had a thing”. Pip was able to deduce that the thing between Officer Da Silva and Andie occurred when Andie was illegally 15. However, Officer Da Silva implied that Andie claimed that she was 16 when they had sex. (Note that 16 is the age-of-consent in the United Kingdom where the Netflix series was set.)


Officer Da Silva, “Andie and I had a thing, but it was two years before she went missing.” 

Pip, “How old was she? That’s statutory rape. She was 15!”

Officer Da Silva, “Yeah. Not a good look if you want to become a police officer. I could tell you she lied about her age, said she was 16, but I’m not sure you’d believe me, would you? 


Later in the same episode, Mr. Ward shared with Pip that when Andie was 17, he and Andie “grew close and started a relationship”, but they only had age-gap sex three times before Andie started dating Sal - her teen boyfriend with whom she did not have sex. 


Mr. Ward, “[...] her grades had started slipping. She came to me for help - just tutoring. This was not long after [my wife] Isabel had died and I was in a dark place. Andie and I grew close and started a relationship.”


Andie's Ivy House Hotel Selfie

Unsurprisingly, it was Andie’s idea to have Mr. Ward take her to the “posh’ Ivy House Hotel where they checked into the hotel under Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. To commemorate the occasion, before sex with her teacher for the first time, Andie took a selfie in a pink lingerie set in the hotel’s bathroom. 


They went to the Ivy House three times before Andie ended the age-gap relationship and started dating Sal  - a teen classmate. 


Mr. Ward, “It only happened a few times, and then she started seeing Sal. We limped on for a bit, but then she called it off. She said she was in love with him.”


However, after Andie started dating Sal, she asked Mr. Ward to see her again at the Ivy House, but that time it wasn’t for sex. It was for money.


Pip, “You were at the Ivy House Hotel with her just days before she went missing.”

Mr. Ward, “You’re right, I was. She said she wanted to see me. At first, I thought she’d had a change of heart, but she wanted money.”

Pip, “Why?”


Mr. Ward didn’t know why Andie needed the money, and he didn’t give her the £5,000 that she requested. Consequently, a few days later at Mr. Ward’s house, Andie threatened to (falsely) accuse Mr. Ward of having a non-consual age-gap relationship with her, but Mr. Ward refused to be blackmailed. 


Mr. Ward, “I don’t know, but I said, ‘No.’ Then she left, but a few days later, she came to my house. She told me if I didn’t give her £5,000, she would tell the world that I’d taken advantage of her. Again, I said, ’No, I wouldn’t be blackmailed.’ 


Consequently, Andie, “[...] went wild, screaming and slapping [Mr. Ward]”. In an effort to defend himself, he pushed Andie who, “Hit her head on the countertop. It was bad. There was blood everywhere.” But after Mr. Ward went to get his phone to call an ambulance, Andie was gone - never to be seen by him again. 


Naturally, Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder novel, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, provided more details about Andie. For example, we learned from the novel that 17-year-old Andrea “Andie” Bell was described as “[...] white, five feet six inches tall, with long blond hair and [“sparking pale”] blue eyes” and “plump pale lips” - the  “[...] prettiest, most popular girl in the grade”.


Mr. Elliot Ward was described as the Fairview High history teacher and former Yale professor with “wisps of gray hair in his brown hair and [...] thick-rimmed glasses.” Mr. Ward taught Andie AP US History during her sophomore year, but per Mr. Ward, Andie initiated their student-teacher affair when she started “paying attention” to him at school during her senior year. For example, Andie followed Mr. Ward in the halls where she asked about his day, and she even asked for his phone number.


“It was late February. Andie started . . . paying attention to me at school. I wasn’t teaching her; she didn’t take his history. But she’d follow me in the halls and ask me about my day. And, I don’t know, I guess the attention felt . . . nice. [...] And then Andie starts asking to have my phone number. Nothing had happened at this point, we hadn’t kissed or anything, but she kept asking.”


Not being able to resist the allure of a nymphet, Mr. Ward (somewhat) reluctantly gave Andie his phone number. Subsequently, Andie suggested that they, “[...] meet somewhere outside of school. Like a hotel” where they had sex for the first time. 


“I told her absolutely not. But in a moment of madness, a moment of weakness, I found myself booking one. She could be very persuasive. [...] And I booked the [The Ivy House] hotel for the next week [...] That’s when it happened the first time.’ His voice was quiet with shame. ‘We didn’t stay the night; [...] We stayed just a couple of hours.”


Mr. Ward tried to end the age-gap affair, but Andie blackmailed him into returning to The Ivy House for sex by planting her nude selfie in his classroom, which Max, to his delight, discovered in the back of the classroom.


“I said it couldn’t happen again and tried to call it off. Andie wouldn’t let me. She started threatening to turn me in. She interrupted one of my lessons, came over and whispered to me that she’d left a naked picture of herself hidden in the classroom somewhere and that I should find it before someone else did. Trying to scare me. So, I went back to the Ivy House the next week, because I didn’t know what she’d do if I didn’t. I thought she would tire of whatever this was soon enough.”


Subsequently, Mr. Ward tried to end the affair again, but that only caused an “irate” Andie to go to Mr. Ward’s home where she screamed, she said that she “only touched” him because she wanted him to help her get into Yale, and she destroyed his deceased wife’s paintings. 


There are some notable differences between the Netflix series and the novel:


Andie’s selfie that Pip found in Max’s bedroom and that Max found in Mr. Ward’s classroom was different in the book than in the series. In the series' selfie, Andie was wearing a pink bra and pantie set, but in the book, the schoolgirl was nude except for a pair of black underwear. Jackson wrote:


A photo she’d taken of herself in a mirror. Standing on a red and white tiled floor, her right hand raised and clutched round the phone. Her mouth was pushed out in a pout and her eyes looked straight out of the page; she was wearing nothing but a pair of black underwear.


(Note: In the ebook that I referenced, which was published by Electric Monkey - an imprint of Egmont UK (2019), instead of black underwear, topless teen Andie wore black pants.)


In the series and the novel, 15-year-old Andie had sex with Daniel “Dan” Da Silva. In the series, Daniel implied that Andie lied about her age. In the novel, it was clarified that they had sex while Dan was Fairview High’s janitor. 


In the series, Nat Da Silva’s nudes were leaked “all over the school”. Consequently, Nat was nicknamed “‘Nude-gate’ Nat.” In the novel, we learned that Nat was a freshman at the time (i.e., ≈14-years-old) and that Andie was the leaker`of Nat’s topless video. 


In the series, after Mr. Ward and Andie ended their student-teacher affair, Andie attempted to blackmail Mr. Ward by demanding £5,000 or she would “tell the world” that he took advantage of her, but after Mr. Ward refused, Andie “[...] went wild, screaming and slapping [Mr. Ward]”. In the novel, Andie blackmailed Mr. Ward into returning to The Ivy House for sex by planting a nude selfie in his classroom. But after Mr. Ward tried to end the age-gap affair again, Andie became “irate” and went to Mr. Ward’s home where she screamed, she said that she “only touched” him because she wanted him to help her get into Yale, and she destroyed his deceased wife’s paintings. 


Alan Sepinwall opined in his review of the series for Rolling Stone (August 1, 2024): 


Once again, the idea is to contrast the seemingly sweet, wide-eyed, innocent exterior of these girls with the dark secrets they’re trying to uncover... "Good Girl’s Guide" is a reasonably well made version of that [...]


Sunday, September 29, 2024

Famous Age-Gap Affair: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (70) and Olivia Nuzzi (30) | Age-Gap FaceTime Sex

Olivia Nuzzi and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Dylan Byers aggregated in the Puck post, “We Need to Talk About Olivia & Ryan” (September 20, 2024), that: “[...] Olivia Nuzzi [31], the magazine’s star political reporter, had been suspended from New York [Magazine] due to a “personal relationship” with her former profile subject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [70] [...]”

Per New York: “Nuzzi’s relationship with Kennedy was “a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures”.

What standards were violated? Corbin Bolies posted on The Daily Beast that “Married RFK Jr., 70, Bragged He Had ‘Intimate’ Photos of Reporter Olivia Nuzzi, 31” (09.21.24) That’s correct. Nuzzi sexted RFK Jr..



And The Daily Beast and Oli Coleman posted that: “RFK Jr. and star journalist Olivia Nuzzi had 'incredible' FaceTime sex, said they loved each other [...]” (Page Six | September 27, 2024)


In the post, Coleman related that 30-year-old Nuzzi quickly fell madly in love with the married 70-year-old RFK Jr.! Subsequently, the age-gap couple sexted and had “incredible” FaceTime sex - for almost a year. Nuzzi even shared with friends that 70-year-old RFK Jr had “impressive [virtual] sexual stamina”.


[...] Page Six has learned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and New York Magazine scribe Olivia Nuzzi had “incredible” FaceTime sex.


But — after they began talking over text — he “love bombed” her, and she quickly fell so madly in love with him that she lived a double life for nearly a year, sharing long calls, endless texts and virtual sex with the former presidential candidate, all while engaged to her partner of almost a decade.


They had “incredible” sex over FaceTime, according to another source, with Nuzzi noting to pals that the 70-year-old had impressive sexual stamina.


Surprisingly, RFK Jr. remains married to Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame, but, unsurprisingly, Nuzzi is no longer engaged to Ryan Lizza - Politico’s chief Washington correspondent. 

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Honor Levy’s MY FIRST BOOK: A Nude Teen "Internet Girl" Wins The Omegle Game

Per Penguin Random House, Honor Levy’s My First Book was: “A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Good Morning America, W, Nylon, SheReads, and LitHub”. Here’s the publisher’s synopsis:

Walking the wire between imagination and confession, My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy’s uniquely riveting voice emerges from the chaos of coming of age in Generation Z. Never far from a digital interface, her characters grapple with formative political, existential, and romantic experiences in a web-drenched society on the brink of collapse.

Inventive, ambitious, and frequently surreal, the stories of My First Book are a mirrorball onto the world as it is. Levy illuminates what it is to be at once adorable, special, heavily medicated, consistently panicked, and completely sincere. [...] 

Speaking of “walking the wire between imagination and confession”, Levy’s “Internet Girl” opens with the 11-year-old narrator alone in her bedroom “on a safari on the internet”. She described herself as “little” but “hungry” and “free” yet “empty”; thus, she breaks past the MacBook’s “parental controls”.  

I’m eleven. I’m on Safari on a safari on the internet after school in my bedroom on my computer, my 2006 Apple MacBook Intel Core Duo 2.0 White 2 Ghz/2GB Memory Laptop Computer. I’m alone. I get past the parental controls. I am so hungry to know what’s out there. It’s 2008 and I am so little and so free and so empty and there are 186,727,854 websites on the internet.

Suddenly, she’s viewing porn - the “Two Girls and One Cup” video, then she’s smiling into a webcam at: “a man and a boy and a love and a stranger”, and she browses to Deviant Art where she learns about sex. 

The pre-teen narrator shared:

In Shadow Kiss, the third installment of the Vampire Academy series, the protagonist, [≈17-year-old] Lissa Dragomir, breaks all the rules and ends up naked in bed with the gorgeous [≈24-year-old] Dimitri Belikov. I wonder what exactly it is that they do in bed. I wonder when it will happen to me. When I have a question I Google it.

Consequently, among other inquiries, she Googled: “How many calories in cum?” And another consequence of reading vampire books is that she wanted to be “wanted” and “BE BEST”. 

Subsequently, after middle school and alone, she safaried to, what could only be, Omegle, a website that allowed users to video chat, without registering, with randomly chosen strangers. 

I’m chatting with strangers, random strangers, bad scary men in the blue light. But I’m not afraid because they are in their blue light and I am in mine. It’s after school and I’m alone. I give them my age, sex, location. They give me theirs. 

After exchanging pleasantries, she volunteered to play the [Omegle] game, where a (pre-teen) contestant could earn points by being salacious. For example:

Level 1: Smile 

Level 2: Show Tongue 

Level 3: Suck a Finger 

Level 4: Show Panties 

Level 5: Take Top Off 

Level 6: Show Boobs 

Level 7: Take Off Panties 

Level 8: Insert 1 Finger 

Level 9: Insert More Fingers 

The narrator started playing by showing her tongue and ended the game, a winner, in the nude.

We play a game. It’s a game you may have played too. One point for showing my tongue. Another for showing my bare feet. Flash the camera for five points. Take off our shirts for more. Twirl around the room and so on and so on until I am naked and I have won. 

Like so many schoolgirls who have volunteered over the years to play The Omegle Game, the narrator knew that men found pleasure in seeing her nude body, and she found pleasure in winning - being the best. 

I do not feel dirty or guilty or embarrassed or cheated. I read the vampire books. I knew that the stranger found pleasure in seeing me naked. I played the dress-up games and the dress-down games. I was happy to be his paper doll. I wondered if he knew. I wondered if he understood that I found pleasure in winning, that I was the best. It was a fair trade, like Ritz for Oreos [...] like the time before parental controls for the time after.

Interestingly, The Paris Review referred to Levy as “the voice of a generation”. In the “Encounter” section of The Cut (May 3, 2024),  Brock Colyar shared: “I was sent an advance copy [of Levy’s My First Book] and found it often quite adept at capturing our generation [...]” And, as for Levy’s “Internet Girl”, NPR related: [In “Internet Girl”] Levy’s portrayal of her narrator’s interiority is both compellingly satirical and frighteningly plausible [...]”

Plausible is correct, as thousands of girls have won on Omegle. For example, David Alm related in The Big Feature on Mother Jones (November 4, 2022) that Alauna, an “olive-skinned” 12-year-old with “blond hair and blue eyes”, shared “dozens of images and a video [...] sometimes naked in provocative positions” “with up to 30 men, most of whom she’d met on a chat platform called Omegle.” After her phone was taken away: “Alauna was furious.” And, “She freaked out.” Consequently, Alauna snuck into her mother’s bedroom: “[...] found an old cell phone, and got back on Omegle.”