[disclaimer: do not go looking for the social media accounts discussed in this post and do not attempt to contact the individual discussed]

The above image is a screenshot of a user named ‘Owbid Catob’ or sometimes ‘Tobi Bowdac’. This is the profile on Pinterest of a user who has, for the last few weeks, harassed the Lemmy.world Shitposts community. Below are two photos he has used as profile pics on Lemmy (he claims the above one is him younger, and the below one is presumably older)

However, this isn’t even his most disturbing behaviour.

I first came across Owbid Catob’s account on Pinterest (I’ve been following this case longer than the Jennifer Merrill case I previously posted about) about a month or two ago. Since then, I’ve been following the account due to the bizarre and disturbing content he initially posted, and watched as he linked his various social media accounts to create some sort of weird AI fetish web of social media accounts fixated on boys in dresses, and girls in cakes. He even generates fake AI images of real life children such as the British Royal Family kids, and child actors in tv shows such as one called Coronation Street, fabricating elaborate stories about how he was some sort of TV extra, which clearly isn’t true.

Some time ago, he announced on his BlueSky account that he had joined Lemmy and linked to his account (now banned). For weeks, it’s been observed that Owbid Catob routinely harasses the shitposts community by posting AI slop in massive amounts, floods other posts comments with harassment, and spits vitriol towards those who interact with him.

Tonight, about an hour ago, there was another attack, and I’ve collected a few screenshots as evidence of this user’s disturbed behaviour.

Here are two screenshots of some of his posts (they’re the account named ‘Tobs Bowdy’ and I’ve purposely made the images unclear due to the distressing nature of the content, but the titles say it all).

And here is a snippet of what he said when I tried to reach out to him.

This user has been repeatedly banned off Lemmy, but using AI or some other weird trick, he can somehow get back on almost instantly.

In addition to this, this week alone, he has mass-flooded his Pinterest account with literally hundreds of AI generated children (boys and girls) with some even going as far as to explicitly show child abuse/children with bruises and text explicitly saying they are being abused. This is a major escalation to the point that I can’t even look at his crap anymore. Additionally, in tonight’s Lemmy attack, he posted images depicting children in implicit-bordering-explicit sexual scenario (boys in questionable clothing in explicit positions, no further details unless you saw it). Up until now, all of his attacks on Lemmy were just general AI slop, but the fact that he is now explicitly showing borderline AI CP is yet another major escalation in this case, and partly why I’m posting about this now.

I was just wondering if any anti-AI members could offer any advice on what to do/who to discuss with. Everyone says ‘just ban and ignore’ but the user is persistent and constantly harasses these communities, spitting disgustingly vitriolic comments about everyone, even somehow circumventing individual user bans. Is there a way to possibly use AI or something to get the user unable to re-register/permanently banned?