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I had this crazy idea for a YouTube show but I would probably get sued

What would happen if I had a YouTube webseries where I just ...
stimulating coffee pot
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galvanic masturbator trailer park
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100% legal
domesticated odious senate dysfunction
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French House
  08/10/26
Are you sure? Not criminal but I could face civil liability?...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
100% legal so long as it's not defamatory or threatening. Fi...
gunneratttt
  08/10/26
There's a lot of shit I couldn't prove though. Didn't the YL...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
Anyone can sue anyone. She would not have been successful if...
gunneratttt
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I think those chicks won something though. One guy paid out ...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
Lol
big glassy ticket booth
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Translucent Newt
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The suit was voluntarily dismiss by her. Meritless suits aim...
gunneratttt
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stimulating coffee pot
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gunneratttt
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why would you include their full names, making doxxing 17394...
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
And then he could embellish the details, make up stories eve...
irradiated ocher becky
  08/10/26
OP would be great at this. his memories are probably largely...
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
There's something inherently fun about calling out people by...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
180. i hoap he is wgwaging with a tall skinny boring white g...
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
I have long wondered what his moniker is.
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
cq. for the names, it would be fun to come up with names th...
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
We're dealing with potentially hundreds of characters from m...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
sure but you'd come up with the names as you covered the ind...
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
Can I use their yearbook photo or do I have to describe thei...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
not a lawyer so idk if you CAN, but the photo wouldn't pose ...
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
Most of these Millennial hos have 5 million pics up on Faceb...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
if they have the yearbook pic on their page maybe. i haven't...
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
Look up right of publicity statute in your state. Might also...
Low-t Dashing Orchestra Pit
  08/10/26
State of current residence or state where this all took plac...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
The state of residence of the people in the yearbook, whose ...
Low-t Dashing Orchestra Pit
  08/10/26
They all moved all over the country I have no idea where the...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
what if someone wanted to do this in a European country?
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
  08/10/26
Spain has some law where you can delete your identity prior ...
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
180
harsh aquamarine affirmative action
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do they even have yearbooks? that's an invasion of privacy r...
Low-t Dashing Orchestra Pit
  08/10/26
Tcq
stimulating coffee pot
  08/10/26
You r definitely fine, both legally and ethically. As long a...
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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:12 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

What would happen if I had a YouTube webseries where I just went through my high school yearbook one by one putting up a picture with the full legal name of the person and just described in great detail everything I remember about them from start to finish. I mean don't we all have like 12 years of memories about these people? What if I just dished my personal opinion and every wild story about hundreds of people with no explanation as to why I was doing it. I could just put up a pic and go this was Brian Chan, he played the piccolo. I remember when we were 14 he had a crush on Susie Silverstein but she thought he was invisible.

I probably have dozens of hours of content I could fill about all the people I grew up with and random shit like Bobby's dad died randomly one night. I had one friend whose dad lost a bunch of fingers in an accident and we all thought it was mob related.

Is any of this legal to speak about publicly on the internet with their picture and full legal name or will I just get sued to shit over it? Could I talk shit about some chick who never developed? Could I say this guy ultimately died of an overdose at 25? Really need a legal opinion on this before I go live looking directly into a camera and air out decades of intimate personal details about all these people. Is this legal if I just rely on memory?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50057929)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:13 PM
Author: galvanic masturbator trailer park



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50057933)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:30 PM
Author: domesticated odious senate dysfunction

100% legal

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50057974)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:33 PM
Author: French House



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50057978)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:43 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

Are you sure? Not criminal but I could face civil liability?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50057994)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:50 PM
Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)

100% legal so long as it's not defamatory or threatening. First Amendment rights are pretty broad. Defamation requires a false statement of fact, so if you're just talking shit and giving your opinion of them from HS that wouldn't count.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058018)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:51 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

There's a lot of shit I couldn't prove though. Didn't the YLS lolsuit chicks sue poasters for saying they had big cans?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058026)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:55 PM
Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)

Anyone can sue anyone. She would not have been successful if the suit proceeded against people saying she had big cans.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058042)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:56 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

I think those chicks won something though. One guy paid out from his homeowners insurance somehow lol

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058045)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: big glassy ticket booth

Lol

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058056)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: Translucent Newt



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058057)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 2:04 PM
Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)

The suit was voluntarily dismiss by her. Meritless suits aimed at extracted settlements are common. Some make their entire living off of it!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058082)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 2:09 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

🤔🧐

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058093)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:46 PM
Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058003)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 2:18 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

why would you include their full names, making doxxing 17394949x easier? at least cover up the last name. would be better to change the names completely

also, i envy not only your storytelling ability but also your memory. i do not remember anything from high school or earlier

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058118)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 2:26 PM
Author: irradiated ocher becky

And then he could embellish the details, make up stories even. Hell he could just write a script about a random person and make a movie out of it.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058144)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 2:30 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

OP would be great at this. his memories are probably largely embellished by his own imagination anyways

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058149)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:02 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

There's something inherently fun about calling out people by their full name the way everyone does in high school when talking about anybody. Remember when you had a crush on Lisa so and so? But there were three Lisa's in that class so you had to call her by her full name for differentiation?

I remember my sister had a friend with the same name as my gf so we always called them by their name plus initial. Like Sarah D and Sarah M to avoid confusion. Of course you could change the names and embellish the stories but there's something less satisfying about a roman-à-clef. I want to present this all as eyewitness testimony. And banging around with the full legal names just adds to the humor irl.

Because of your kind words I will leave you with this little snippet of memory. One time in the 8th grade we had a sleepover at my house and this Japanese kid, we'll call him Hideki Fujimori (name edited for anonymity), who ironically, and I cannot make this up, now works in biglol, we were all playing The Sims and he recreated this domestic life with him and this skinny white girl he had a massive crush on. We'll call her Bridget Covington. She was this incredibly dull tall blonde white girl of seemingly pure blood Anglo ancestry. And anyway we stayed up all night while this extremely naturally Adderalled out fobby Jap sperged out building this romantic life with Bridget Covington in a virtual world while eating pizza and drinking Mountain Dew.

The irony is that of all of my loser friends I was the only one who had ever spoken to her. We were on a group project together about the Civil War and the teach put us together as partners. This is 100% not flame but the way we tackled the project was I delivered a lengthy sermon about the detailed history of the event while she passed out slices of some kind of period correct cake. We got an A. But what was a really big deal at the time is that in order to conspire on our project I had to call her home phone. I had to call her landline and talk to her dad and explain who I was and why I was calling Bridget Covington. And anyways to my dumb friends this was an exceptional breach into the realm of the feminine and they all thought I was a living diety especially Hideki Fujimori who was absolutely rife with jealousy but would never Act on his own accord. I hope he's enjoying biglaw wherever he is. I never had a crush on Bridget Covington.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058221)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:04 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

180. i hoap he is wgwaging with a tall skinny boring white girl as we speak. but in reality he is probably misogynypoasting on xo or similar

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058230)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

I have long wondered what his moniker is.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058232)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

cq.

for the names, it would be fun to come up with names that had the same vibe as the originals but weren't exactly the same. again this is just so that if it blew up, freaks couldn't easily find these people's addresses and shit

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058236)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:09 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

We're dealing with potentially hundreds of characters from my early youth alone. The total number of people I can recall in my life who I could do a ten minute bit on is in the tens of thousands.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058242)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:11 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

sure but you'd come up with the names as you covered the individuals, not up front. ten-minute bit, two-minute name brainstorming session

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058247)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:12 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

Can I use their yearbook photo or do I have to describe their look from memory?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058253)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

not a lawyer so idk if you CAN, but the photo wouldn't pose the problem im talking about. it's trivially easy to find someone's address and number with their full name.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058255)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:15 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

Most of these Millennial hos have 5 million pics up on Facebook. Wouldn't Google reverse image search snag em?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058259)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:17 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

if they have the yearbook pic on their page maybe. i haven't tried stalking people from photos before, though. maybe there is some easy way to do it. but it can't be as easy as looking them up by their full name

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058267)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:06 PM
Author: Low-t Dashing Orchestra Pit

Look up right of publicity statute in your state. Might also depend on if you plan to monetize. (Not legal advice)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058234)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:08 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

State of current residence or state where this all took place? Different statues for teachers because they're public employees? I assume I can speak publicly on anything I experienced with regards to a government employee, no?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058239)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:21 PM
Author: Low-t Dashing Orchestra Pit

The state of residence of the people in the yearbook, whose rights you are potentially infringing upon. Xo 2026 jfc.

You can speak publicly in the US as long as it's truthful but there are limitations on how you can use someone's photo (image/likeness) without permission.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50059736)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:23 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

They all moved all over the country I have no idea where they are. No one stays in high CoL area. My graduating class probably live in no less than 30 states right now.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50059741)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:09 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

what if someone wanted to do this in a European country?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058244)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:10 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

Spain has some law where you can delete your identity prior to 18 and start over as someone completely different iirc

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058245)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:11 PM
Author: harsh aquamarine affirmative action

180

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058250)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:18 PM
Author: Low-t Dashing Orchestra Pit

do they even have yearbooks? that's an invasion of privacy right there.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50059729)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:23 PM
Author: stimulating coffee pot

Tcq

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50059743)



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Date: August 10th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: gold bisexual institution selfie

You r definitely fine, both legally and ethically. As long as you are telling the truth (as long as you think its true), you should be fine.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891403&forum_id=2#50058288)