Lillee Jean Primink Doxxing Controversy

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Overview

The Lillee Jean Primink Doxxing Controversy took place in May 2024, four years after YouTuber Primink first made a video about "fake" influencer Lillee Jean. Primink's video about Jean faking her fame by posting photoshopped magazine covers and gala appearances allegedly led to Lillee Jean repeatedly sending copyright strikes to creators who make videos about her. This escalated to Jean purportedly doxxing multiple YouTubers through her copyright strikes, and doxxing Primink themselves to a journalist attempting to investigate the issue.

Background

On December 18th, 2017, a thread on the /r/delusionalartists^[3] subreddit discussed Lillee Jean's internet presence, with many commenters receiving a threatening response from Jean's mother, as documented in a post on /r/subredditdrama/.^[4]

On July 4th, 2019, Redditor^[2] /u/throwawayyvictory made a post on /r/BeautyGuruChatter discussing the internet history of Instagram influencer Lillee Jean. The post delved into Jean's suspicious rise in followers despite low engagement on her posts and the ecosystem of fake accounts and fan pages created to sustain the illusion of her fame.

On February 13th, 2020, YouTuber^[1] Primink posted a video titled, "The Instagram Model Who Fabricated Her Entire Life | Lillee Jean: The Beauty Community Fraud." The video discussed internet creator "Lillee Jean," an influencer with over 1 million followers on Instagram. Primink asserted that many of Lillee Jean's posts, which show her on the cover of magazines like Teen Vogue and on the red carpet at events like the Met Gala, are entirely photoshopped and fabricated.

Primink's video also discussed Jean's ecosystem of seemingly fake internet friends, including an account named @Shaniqua4769 that appeared to be a racist caricature of a Black woman. Other internet friends in Jean's circles included a Muslim girl coming to terms with her religion, a trans boy who uses they/them pronouns and a gay married stylist.

Primink's video gathered over 10 million views in four years and inspired other YouTubers to make videos about Lillee Jean as well (seen below).

Developments

On May 17th, 2024, Primink posted a thread to X^[5] showing how Lillee Jean and her mother have allegedly been abusing YouTube's copyright strike mechanisms to dox various YouTubers and threaten legal action against Primink, calling him a child predator among other accusations. The thread gathered over 2,000 likes in five days (seen below).

Also on May 17th, Primink posted an update to his Lillee Jean video to YouTube,^[8] which gathered over 600,000 views in four days (seen below).

On May 20th and May 21st, 2024, Primink posted about Lillee Jean and her mother's repeated attempts to purportedly dox him, first by posting his full name to the YouTube Wiki, and then by revealing it to a journalist investigating her story (seen below).^[6]^[7]