Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - The Woman Who Shot Up Youtube - The Nasim Aghdam story

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

This is the story of Nasim Aghdam and her personal rivalry with Youtube

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She mostly posts weird performance art stuff about veganism and bodybuilding and comedy. And with that, she's doing pretty well. Tens of thousands of subscribers over several different channels. And some of her videos are just strange. A lot of them are pro-vegan and very graphic and showing like slaughtered animals and stuff like that. Regardless, one day, Naseem's whole life changes because YouTube changes their monetization policies across the whole platform. And the algorithm starts favoring more family-friendly content.

And suddenly, Nassim's videos are not only getting demonetized, but she starts getting a fraction of the viewership she used to get. So let me start this over. So this influencer, her name's Nassim. And Nassim hates YouTube. I mean, they cut off her revenue and her viewership, and this really pisses her off. And she starts believing that people who work at YouTube are out to get her. Like they're specifically targeting her and her content

and trying to suppress her free speech. I'm being discriminated and filtered on YouTube. So she's got all this pent-up anger and frustration and it starts to spill over into other areas of her life. And at some point she gets into it with her parents. So she moves out of their house and in with her grandmother. And this sucks and to her this is clearly all YouTube's fault. So Nassim comes up with a plan. She's going to retaliate against the biggest video platform in the world. So she packs a bag and in that bag she includes a pew-poo. So she leaves her grandmother's house in San Diego and she starts driving north towards San Bruno California where YouTube headquarters is. Two days after she leaves, Nassim's dad, who will just call, dad, dad learns that

Nassim is missing, like she hasn't been at her grandmother's house for a while. And dad remembers how much she's been hating YouTube lately and how she feels they've been discriminating against her. And he gets worried, Nassim is about to do something crazy. So he calls the police in San Diego. to file a missing person's report. And he also tells them like, I think my daughter's really mad at YouTube. So then police, they go out looking for her. And three days after Naseema's left her grandmother's house,

police actually find her in Mountain View, which just happens to be near YouTube headquarters in San Bruno. And they find her asleep in her car in a Walmart parking lot. And they question her, and she's not doing anything illegal. She's just asleep. So they let her go. So then police call her dad to be like, we found Nassim, she's fine, so we let her go.

And dad's like, okay, but just, Just a heads up, she's super pissed at YouTube. And then later that morning, Nassim drives to San Bruno. And she stops at a local gun range. And there, she spends a little time firing at targets and practicing her Pugh-Pew. Once she's done practicing, she gets back in her car and drives straight to YouTube headquarters. And then she gets there and she parks and she walks onto the company campus. And then she steps into a patio area full of YouTube employees, probably on their lunch break.

And that is where Nassim pulls out her Piu-Pew and she just starts blasts. Blam, blam! And people panic and they scream and they run away. I mean, it is absolute chaos. And then a bullet hits a YouTube employee, and they fall to the ground. And then another employee is hit. And then another. Meanwhile, upstairs, other employees are looking out the window. And they see that there's an insane person outside shooting people.

So they all hide in a conference room and they call 911. But Nassim, she just keeps shooting. And eventually she's out of ammo. So she reloads and she starts firing again. Now, I'm not sure if she realizes, that there's no getting out of this, or if maybe she's just satisfied with the destruction she's caused. But eventually, she turns the pew-poo on herself,

and she pulls the trigger and unalives herself, right there at YouTube headquarters. And by the time police show up, the chaos is over. Paramedics come, and they take the three shooting victims away to the hospital, and one of them is in critical condition. But luckily, all three of the shooting victims survive, and they eventually made a full recovery. Well, shout out to family-friendly content.