The Ashley Madison hack of 2015 resulted in the leaked names and email addresses of 37 million aspiring cheaters around the world. In this episode, Jon unravels PornHub’s relationship to Ashley Madison, and the catastrophic effects the leak had on some users. Jon visits Louisiana, where he meets a community profoundly impacted by one outed user – their pastor.
The butterfly effect includes some sexually explicit material, and so it's not suitable for everyone.
Would you like me to get closer to the microphone?
How is this?
Thank you so much.
I'm, like, literally making love to the mic now.
So there you go.
It's gonna be a love making session.
This is Amiko Bronson.
He's an Internet marketer.
These days he works at bitcoin.
But in 2014, he got a job in affiliate marketing at a Toronto business called Avid Life Media.
Affiliate marketing, that's all about getting your company into partnership with other companies?
That's correct.
So other high traffic sites where there was a lot of males visiting.
Avid Life Media was very popular with men.
And so Amiko was always trying to partner with sites that attracted a lot of men.
It's all about trying to get our offers in front of those eyeballs, so to speak.
So if someone came through that portal, clicked onto the site and did register for a membership, then we would engage in a rev share with that portal.
What you got for your membership with Avid life Media was the chance to have an affair.
This was the company that owned Ashley Madison.