Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
The Woman Who Shot Up Youtube - The Nasim Aghdam story
14 Feb 2025
This is the story of Nasim Aghdam and her personal rivalry with Youtube
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So this influencer, her name's Nassim. And Nassim loves YouTube. So she's 39. She lives with her parents and she's been making YouTube videos for years. She mostly posts weird performance art stuff about veganism and bodybuilding and comedy. And with that, she's doing pretty well. Tens of thousands of subscribers over several different channels. And some of her videos are just strange.
A lot of them are pro-vegan and very graphic and showing like slaughtered animals and stuff like that. Regardless, one day Nassim's whole life changes because YouTube changes their monetization policies across the whole platform. And the algorithm starts favoring more family-friendly content.
And suddenly Nassim's videos are not only getting demonetized, but she starts getting a fraction of the viewership she used to get. So let me start this over. So this influencer, her name's Nassim and Nassim hates YouTube. I mean, they cut off her revenue and her viewership and this really pisses her off. And she starts believing that people who work at YouTube are out to get her.
Like they're specifically targeting her and her content and trying to suppress her free speech. I'm being discriminated and filtered on YouTube So she's got all this pent up anger and frustration and it starts to spill over into other areas of her life. And at some point she gets into it with her parents. So she moves out of their house and in with her grandmother. And this sucks.
And to her, this is clearly all YouTube's fault. So Naseem comes up with a plan. She's going to retaliate against the biggest video platform in the world. So she packs a bag, and in that bag, she includes a pew-pew. So she leaves her grandmother's house in San Diego, and she starts driving north towards San Bruno, California, where YouTube headquarters is.
Two days after she leaves, Nassim's dad, who we'll just call Dad, Dad learns that Nassim is missing. Like she hasn't been at her grandmother's house for a while. And dad remembers how much she's been hating YouTube lately and how she feels they've been discriminating against her. And he gets worried Nassim is about to do something crazy.
So he calls the police in San Diego to file a missing persons report. And he also tells them, like, I think my daughter is really mad at YouTube. So then police, they go out looking for her. And three days after Nassim has left her grandmother's house, police actually find her in Mountain View, which just happens to be near YouTube headquarters in San Bruno.
And they find her asleep in her car in a Walmart parking lot. And they question her. And she's not doing anything illegal. She's just asleep. So they let her go. So then police call her dad to be like, we found Nassim. She's fine. So we let her go. And dad's like, okay, but just a heads up, she's super pissed at YouTube.
And then later that morning, Nassim drives to San Bruno and she stops at a local gun range. And there she spends a little time firing at targets and practicing her pew pew. Once she's done practicing, she gets back in her car and drives straight to YouTube headquarters. And then she gets there and she parks and she walks onto the company campus.
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