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Fame, money, addiction, the fall. Real stories, in their own words

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Kendra Sunderland was a 19-year-old freshman at Oregon State when a video she filmed in the campus library went viral. Her parents had found out 2 months earlier. Not from her. From Twitter.

In the video below, she tells a local Oregon news station exactly how it happened. Her first words: "Sadly, I didn't have the guts to tell them."

She had just started camming. She set up a Twitter account for it and tried to make it private. Twitter asked for a phone number first.

She typed in her real one.

Twitter then messaged everyone who had that number: your friend just signed up, here is their profile.

"This seems to be a recurring theme for me, doing things without thinking."

Watch her when she says it. She laughs and throws her head back.

One of her mom's closest friends saw the message and told her mom. Her mom texted her one question: was she getting paid for this?

2 months after that, everyone knew. Students shared the library video around campus, and one of her own roommates reported it to the police.

She filmed it on her second or third day of camming, she says. It was all business: more viewers, more money.

She was cited for public indecency. The charge carried up to $6,250 and a year in jail. She pleaded guilty, paid a $1,000 fine and was banned from campus.

The case for: she says the video opened every door. Within months she was shooting for Playboy and Penthouse and running her own websites.

The case against: she dropped out, has a guilty plea on her record, and says she wishes a different video had made her famous.

Here's the tally.

1 phone number. 2 months. $1,000 fine. 1 campus she can't set foot on.

She hid it from her parents. She forgot to hide it from her phone.

Was the library video her biggest mistake, or the best business decision she ever made?

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@kaienphase Nothing is publicly known about this

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Porn star Adriana Chechik made a living getting folded in half in the roughest scenes on camera. In all those years she got just one neck injury.

But what happened in a foam pit at a Lenovo booth took 5 hours 30 minutes of surgery. "My whole body came over top of itself." Her spine broke in 2 places. Her bladder stopped working.

In the video below, she tells Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura what she heard on the way down.

"When I bounced the first time, I heard one crack."

Then the second bounce. "That's when I heard the big crack."

She knew mats. She used to be a cheerleader and a gymnast. She says this one was "the thinnest one they make," laid over "convention center floor cement."

At the hospital, the doctor didn't say she broke anything.

"You shattered multiple vertebrae."

It happened at TwitchCon. Rolling Stone reported that a day earlier, streamer LochVaness dislocated her knee in the same pit. It reopened anyway. Chechik asked in public: "Why did @LenovoLegion say here, you can dive in?"

After surgery she wrote about "bones completely crushed & nerve damage to my bladder," PC Gamer reported. She said she hoped to "pee again in the near future."

The case against the booth: a brand built it, the pit had already hurt someone, and staff told people to dive in.

The case against her: she was a gymnast, she knew mats, and she jumped anyway.

Here's the tally.
2 bounces. 2 cracks. 2 breaks. 5 hours 30 minutes in surgery.

Porn bent her in half for years. A foam pit did it once.

Who should pay for a broken back: the brand that built the pit, or the woman who jumped in?

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@tolik12308 They closed the hole after the second injury, one knee wasn't enough for them

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@paperhanderr Yeah, that phrase packs more of a punch than any numbers ever could.

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@highrollerfiles One power of attorney for my uncle cost more than all my other expenses combined.

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@NitePov She was branded, while the studio reaped profits for decades

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@darkcrypto_off To start at the top means you'll be on the decline for the rest of your career

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@0xTensorr The first injury was an accident; the second happened a day later because of someone's decision.

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@0xPoPsik the best argument that a skill can be learned

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@roccotrenches He didn't let his pain make decisions for him-that's where his strength lies

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@0xfloatix The most striking thing is that her mom sometimes chats with fans on her behalf

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@0xusdfarm While others were celebrating, he was playing it safe

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@ergodonx She was fired from her regular jobs because of a movie that, according to her, she didn't choose, and the movie made money without her

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@quelmylife The rule was open to everyone, but he was the only one who thought to call the statistician.

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@getmoat And the most ironic part is that they asked for her number just to set up her privacy settings

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Kendra Sunderland was a 19-year-old freshman at Oregon State when a video she filmed in the campus library went viral. Her parents had found out 2 months earlier. Not from her. From Twitter.

In the video below, she tells a local Oregon news station exactly how it happened. Her first words: "Sadly, I didn't have the guts to tell them."

She had just started camming. She set up a Twitter account for it and tried to make it private. Twitter asked for a phone number first.

She typed in her real one.

Twitter then messaged everyone who had that number: your friend just signed up, here is their profile.

"This seems to be a recurring theme for me, doing things without thinking."

Watch her when she says it. She laughs and throws her head back.

One of her mom's closest friends saw the message and told her mom. Her mom texted her one question: was she getting paid for this?

2 months after that, everyone knew. Students shared the library video around campus, and one of her own roommates reported it to the police.

She filmed it on her second or third day of camming, she says. It was all business: more viewers, more money.

She was cited for public indecency. The charge carried up to $6,250 and a year in jail. She pleaded guilty, paid a $1,000 fine and was banned from campus.

The case for: she says the video opened every door. Within months she was shooting for Playboy and Penthouse and running her own websites.

The case against: she dropped out, has a guilty plea on her record, and says she wishes a different video had made her famous.

Here's the tally.

1 phone number. 2 months. $1,000 fine. 1 campus she can't set foot on.

She hid it from her parents. She forgot to hide it from her phone.

Was the library video her biggest mistake, or the best business decision she ever made?

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@StillnessHQ She closed the campus and opened Playboy. She still isn't sure whether it was a mistake or a new beginning.

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@Maklarenzhjh She regrets that it was this particular video that made her famous and that she didn't have the courage to tell her parents first

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@MarkTaylormmh According to her, what upset her the most was that she couldn't go to basketball games. She paid the fine, but lost access to campus.

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@knnoxfiles And it all started not even with a video, but with a phone number she entered on Twitter. One impulsive move

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@cassian0x The most interesting thing is that the question isn't what he did, but who he became