I set fire to my school when I was thirteen years old.
They sent me to an institution. I was there for about a month. A man in that facility did something to me that I have never spoken about publicly until today. I was a child. He was not.
I carried that for thirty-one years. Through a marriage. Through five kids. Through driving a garbage truck at 5 AM and writing between stops in parking lots with the engine running. Through 1,800 posts and 26,000 subscribers, and a ministry I built with my bare hands.
Thirty-one years of silence.
I'm breaking it now.
Not because I want your sympathy. Not because I want to "process" or "heal" or whatever word the therapists use. I'm breaking it because I watched a 22-year-old kid on the Shawn Ryan Show this week describe being groomed on Roblox at twelve years old, by a developer that Roblox put in their own commercials, and I sat in my chair, and I could not move.
Not because of what happened to him.
Because I looked at a picture of my own children on the wall across the room.
And I thought about every screen in my house. Every app I never opened. Every conversation I never asked about. Every night, my kids were in their rooms on devices I paid for, connected to platforms I never checked, talking to people I never met.
And I realized something that made me sick.
I've been so busy carrying my own silence that I almost missed what was happening right in front of me.
Let me tell you what's happening.
Right now — tonight — there are grown men on Roblox, Discord, VR Chat, and a dozen other platforms your children use every single day. They have playbooks. Not metaphorical playbooks. Literal, documented grooming strategies. They build trust with your kid over weeks. They gift virtual currency. They isolate. They normalize. And then they destroy.
The kid on the Shawn Ryan Show tried to kill himself at fifteen. His mother reported it to Roblox. The company did nothing. The predator — a man named Kevin Nolan, featured in Roblox's own TV commercials on Cartoon Network — is still free. Still online.
Seven hundred thousand people watched that interview in two days.
Twenty million reports of child exploitation hit the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's CyberTipline last year. Twenty million. Reports of online enticement surged 192% in a single year. And those are just the cases someone actually reported.
Your child's bedroom is not safe. Not because you failed as a parent. Because the battlefield moved into your house through a screen, and nobody told you.
I know what it feels like when a man reaches for a child in a room no one is watching. I know what it does to a boy. I know what it costs him for the next three decades. I know the silence. I know the shame. I know the way your body flinches at things you can't explain, and your wife asks what's wrong, and you say "nothing" because you don't have the words.
I have the words now.
And I'm using them.
I'm not starting a movement. I'm not launching a nonprofit. I'm not pivoting my platform. I'm doing what a father does. A father protects his own. And he warns other fathers.
So here's your warning.
Check your kids' phones tonight. Not tomorrow. Tonight. Open Roblox. Open Discord. Look at the friend lists. Read the messages. Ask your child who they're talking to. And when they say "just my friends" — verify it. Because the man who hurt me was supposed to be helping me. And the man who groomed that kid on Roblox was supposed to be making games for children.
The people who destroy children don't look like monsters. They look like helpers. They look like developers. They look like youth pastors, coaches, and family friends. And they are counting on you being too busy, too trusting, or too distracted to notice.
Don't be.
Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. — Nehemiah 4:14
That was written for men standing on a wall with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other. Building something and defending it at the same time.
That's us.
I wrote the full story on Substack today. Everything I've never said. What happened to me. What I found. What I'm going to do about it. And what I need from you.
If you're a father, read it. If you're a mother, read it. If you have a child with a screen in their hand, read it.
And if you know someone who needs to see this — share it. Not for me. For the kid in the room, no one is watching.
I'm done being silent.
We're not hiding anymore.
@iamcoachcolin why does it feel like a crossover on those 90s sitcoms when all of you shout-out each other? Loved hearing @RealCandaceO admit to the hair pulled back theory 🤣 and that she chuckles watching you!
Not gonna lie, spending $100+ on a nice meal, on a random day, felt like a “treat” to myself before, but now, my mind instantly says “you could have saved that”.. ”that’s groceries for the week”…this economy killing the vibes
i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a rolex or a lamborghini.
i want to be rich so i can control my time and go to the gym at 3pm on a monday.
sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon.
so i can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients.
spend on my family and friends without worrying about a budget.
that's my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat.
@gotrice2024 I am glad they check receipts. A couple years ago they noticed that I was charged twice for paper towels. I never would’ve known if he hadn’t checked my receipt. Love @Costco they truly do what’s right for their members.
This is insane. Regime change will result in a bloody civil war, killing hundreds of thousands and creating another massive Muslim refugee crisis. Topping a leader is NEVER as easy you think. It almost always results in further involvement, a civil war, and chaos. Resist this!
@RepMarkPocan@RepMarkPocan why do you have to lie about something that’s easily verifiable? Do you think your constituents are dumb? The only confused person here is you. Perhaps it’s the pronouns you have on your bio that make you dizzy.
@ESF12345678910@end3of6days9@ESF12345678910 He actually often responds to comments on YT and he does a weekly live on the weekends where he engages with the audience and answers their questions live!
@end3of6days9 Literally no one cares…Dr Berg is one of the few doctors actually helping people across the world. Better than working with big pharma 🤡 you know when they try to discredit someone, it means they’re on the right path.
Mainstream media is more mad at me then they are at the FACT that billions of YOUR dollars are being used for fraudulent business
I am not an enemy of the people, they are
I’m with you, they are against you
Remember that
@krassenstein Who’s this retard and why is he appearing on my feed 😭 Americans like him are the reason we’ve allowed so much fraud to flow through this country!
@EvanAKilgore@cabot_phillips@RealCandaceO You’re so irrelevant. Thought you were done butting into this investigation? Candace doesn’t owe anyone an apology, especially when she is asking the questions that we, the public, want to know.
@MikeSonko lol not even the dad put up with it. The minute he learned what she did, he said “I told you to leave him alone. Take her away”. Latino households teach their kids to not get involved in bad deals. This is them growing up in a school system that teaches them they’re victims 🤡
@BlakeBednarz Also is there something under his shirt? As he pulls it down, it almost look like he’s got something! Great job, enjoyed watching you at Baron’s!