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== Is Anyone Up? ==
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Moore started the website Is Anyone Up? in 2010. Moore stated that the site was originally intended to be a [[nightlife]] website, but after he and some friends received sexually explicit pictures from women they were hooking upinvolved with at the time, the site was changed, featuring revealing photos and videos of people who were not professional [[Model (person)|models]], linked to their social networking profiles on [[Facebook]] or [[Twitter]].<ref name=":3" /> Many of the subjects were outraged by inclusion on the site,; claimingin themany explicitcases the photos had been hackedstolen from their hacked personal computers or shared withwithout consent by former boyfriends or girlfriends, and that the photos had been posted as a form of revenge. Because of this, the site's content became known as "[[revenge porn]]". Moore reportedly responded to multiple [[Cease and desist|cease-and-desist letters]] with simply "[[LOL]]" and would regularly argue that the law protected his activities.<ref name=":0" />
 
Moore claimed that the website attracted 30 million page views monthly as well as yielding $8,000 to $13,000 a month in ad revenue.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=awe>{{cite web|last=Gold|first=Danny|title=The Man Who Makes Money Publishing Your Nude Pics|url=http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/the-man-who-makes-money-publishing-your-nude-pics|work=The Awe|date=November 10, 2011|access-date=December 18, 2011}}</ref> In response to public bragging by Moore about the website, [[BBC News]] named Moore "the Net's most hated man" and ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called him "the most hated man on the Internet".<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5" /> Due to the site, Moore was banned from [[Facebook]].<ref name="ej">{{cite web |last=Dickson |first=EJ |date=January 23, 2014 |title=The history of revenge porn that led to Hunter Moore's arrest |url=http://www.dailydot.com/crime/hunter-moore-arrested-indicted-california/ |access-date=April 28, 2014 |website=[[Daily Dot]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Morris |first=Alex |date=November 13, 2012 |title=Hunter Moore: IsAnyoneUp Founder Could Be the Most Hated Man on the Internet |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-most-hated-man-on-the-internet-20121113 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref>