Essentially a history lesson, the documentary tells the story of IsAnyoneUp.com, a site that for two years revelled in posting intimate pictures of women, almost always submitted without their consent by spurned ex-lovers. Photograph: NetflixOver the past few years, revenge porn has become endemic. Keep an eye on the news and you’ll see it’s peppered with stories about people who have been caught posting naked pictures of their exes on the internet.
Making The Most Hated Man on the Internet came with its own unique set of challenges. Photograph: Netflix And he was gratuitously cruel, too. The site didn’t just post naked pictures of its victims. It posted them alongside their real names, professions and social media handles, so its community could actively seek them out. One particularly harrowing segment revolves around a woman whose nude photos were accompanied by a Facebook profile photo of her children.
“She’s an amazing woman,” says Miller. “If you tell Charlotte she can’t do something, she’ll just want to do it even more. She obviously cares about justice and accountability, and believes people who do bad things should be punished for those bad things. Sometimes you can have an important story, but if you don’t have the contributors, then you don’t really have a series. We were very fortunate with all our contributors.
Nevertheless, the show is called The Most Hated Man on the Internet, so you might expect Moore himself to participate. Sadly, that isn’t the case. “He did initially agree to participate,” says Miller. “But then over Christmas, he changed his mind and decided he didn’t want to take part.”