Hi.
My name is Jason Russell. Some of you might remember me from the KONY 2012 video. Some of you probably only remember the part after—the breakdown, the media, the jokes. I get it. I became a meme. A punchline.
But what none of you ever heard—because no one ever wanted to hear it—is why I broke down.
It wasn’t just stress or burnout. It wasn’t just media pressure. It was what I learned when that video went viral. The people who contacted me. The files that were sent. The things I was shown—things I wasn’t supposed to see.
Back then, I thought we were just exposing a warlord. But the deeper I went, the more I saw patterns—child trafficking routes masked as NGOs, strange symbols on UN transport crates, a network of people who were very interested in silencing anything that reached too many eyes.
I’m not here to redeem myself. That ship has sailed. I’ve pissed in the streets of San Diego in broad daylight—I know what I look like to the world. But I need to speak the truth, and this seems like the only place left where that’s still allowed.
What if Kony was never the real target? What if the point was to get me in front of the world, just to discredit me later? What if the naked meltdown wasn’t a failure—it was a message?
I’ve kept quiet for years. I’ve stayed offline. But lately, I’ve been feeling it again. That same tension in the air. That same darkness just beneath the surface. And this time, I don’t want to stay quiet.
If you’re reading this, and you still believe in digging for truth—then I’m here. Ask me anything. I’ll answer. No scripts. No handlers. No pants.
—Jason