For five years, Danesh Noshirvan used TikTok to target individuals, publishing personal information and harassment campaigns.
He picked targets, doxxed them, and deployed automated systems that created the illusion of mass outrage.
Some targets lost employment, families were harassed, and one man died by suicide. Several attempted suicide. People were arrested based on his reporting.
TikTok permanently banned him on January 28. X had banned him earlier for doxxing Supreme Court justices.
The Method
He laughs when he hurts others.
Noshirvan sought out moments when people were caught on someone’s cell phone. He carefully removed everything that might explain them.
His operation was to find a video of someone’s worst moment—a parking lot argument, a frustrated outburst, an indiscreet word—and edit it to a narrative in which the subject was the sole aggressor.
The Synthetic Mob
He was a bully with the synthetic mob, a manufactured outrage. It was not a crowd. It appeared as a crowd.
Auto-dialers with spoofed caller IDs flooded employers with calls demanding terminations. Or calling the police, demanding arrests. AI-generated voices left threatening voicemails. Hundreds of sock puppet accounts. Fake one-star reviews destroyed businesses. Emails swamped HR departments. Machines made the calls. Machines delivered his threats. Machines pretended to be people. Online, hundreds of identical strangers appeared, making accusations, posting reviews, and sending the same letters. The phones rang. The emails poured in.
The reviews appeared. The targets believed thousands of people wanted them dead.
In one forensic analysis, 90% of the “outrage” was automated. It was one man with software. He called it “accountability culture.” He even sang a “Consequences Song” when announcing the destruction of his targets—a fiendish howl of self-righteous triumph. An anthem to consequences always meant for someone else.
The Victims
The number of individuals affected by Noshirvan’s campaigns is in the hundreds, maybe a thousand people who experienced harm.
Jennifer Couture received 728 abusive messages after a parking lot incident where no one was injured. Strangers showed up at her mother’s home. She was arrested on charges later reduced to misdemeanors—the arrest driven by what her lawyer called manufactured public pressure.
Someone reportedly paid Danesh $5,000 to target her. He created a fake account, “Erica Sabonis,” to befriend her—then mocked her replies on video.
Evan Berryhill
Evan Berryhill, a woman alone in a dark parking lot, confronted by two men who warned her, “this will not end well for you,” was charged with a hate crime after she called her stalkers names.
Danesh’s campaign generated 500 fake one-star reviews in two hours on her business and a flood of rape threats. The charges were eventually dropped. Her business suffered lasting damage.
Dr. Poneh Rahimi, an Iranian immigrant and gastroenterologist, asked masked men filming her at a post office to speak English as they taunted her in Spanish. Danesh labeled her a racist, doxxed her, and ended his video with a fart noise.
“I have spent my entire life in education and in service to my fellow humankind,” she said. “When I’m dead, I don’t want that stupid Danesh video out there saying ‘she was a racist.'” When she Googles her own name, that lie appears before her medical credentials.
Now his video of her is gone.
Jen Welch attempted suicide on December 31, 2021, after weeks of his bot-driven attacks. Danesh called it a hoax.
Danesh attacked Rebecca Martin relentlessly with his bot army.
Rebecca Martin went under a Danesh attack, where he accused her, without evidence, of lying about her military rape. His bots repeatedly encouraged her to take her life. She tried to hang herself.
The Body Count
Danesh Norshirvan (front) made TikTok videos of Aaron de la Torres of Texas, who subsequently took his own life.
Aaron De La Torre, a Texas high school football coach, took his life ten days after Danesh’s campaign began. Police had investigated the incident that Danesh publicized in a distorted fashion.
Police found no probable cause for arrest. The school declined to fire him. Danesh responded by intensifying the attacks. When De La Torre died, Danesh blamed the school for not firing him faster, and the police for not arresting him sooner—as if destroying the man’s career and freedom quickly would have spared his life.
A Denton County grand jury is reportedly investigating whether Danesh bears legal responsibility for De La Torre’s death.
Lisa Waddell got into Danesh’s orbit. He groomed her. She attacked his enemies. When they fought back, she took her life.
Those Who Fought Back
Danesh on a TikTok video
Some refused to comply.
Dr. Ralph Garramone and Jennifer Couture sued in federal court. A judge sanctioned Danesh $62,320 for misconduct, finding he acted in “subjective bad faith” and made communications “intentionally designed to incite harassment and intimidation.”
Rebecca Martin, a Navy veteran and military rape survivor, fought back by documenting his tactics and alerting authorities. Hours after her story was published in the Frank Report, she sent Judge Steele’s sanctions ruling to TikTok’s US administration. The next morning, Danesh woke up permanently banned.
Jeremy Wilson, another victim suing Danesh, claimed his username @ThatDaneshGuy the moment it became available.
When the federal judge sanctioned Danesh $62,320, he launched a GoFundMe, raising over $45,000 by portraying himself as a marginalized victim. He did not tell donors that, as his lawyer later disclosed, he receives income from a trust fund established by his late father. He doesn’t work. He lives off inherited wealth and his wife’s income as a schoolteacher while sitting at home making attack videos.
“Oppressed brown man” was the brand. Trust fund heir was the reality.
By January 26, defense attorneys revealed Danesh still hadn’t paid a dime. When pressed why, Noshirvan went silent.
The Meltdown
After TikTok banned his account, Noshirvan publicly rejected responsibility and intensified his rhetoric.
Danesh claimed TikTok deplatformed him because “the Jews and the IDF” objected to his Charlie Kirk video—in which he portrayed Kirk being killed, arguing that Kirk’s words were a metaphorical “gun” pointed at his audience, and therefore his literal death was justified.
Sources revealed that TikTok’s legal department received Judge Steele’s sanctions ruling and recognized the associated liability risk.
Section 230 does not provide blanket immunity to social media platforms that knowingly host or facilitate such conduct. Once a platform is on notice—especially through a federal court order—it cannot claim ignorance. Faced with that reality, TikTok may have made a legal decision.
Reckoning
Danesh built his empire on a reported two million TikTok followers—the overwhelming majority of which were bots. He built his engagement on automated harassment. He built his reputation on the destruction of humans. The crowd was artificial. The harm was not.
Everything about Danesh Noshirvan was fake. The followers? Bought. The outrage? Automated. The mob? Software. The race? A con. The poverty? A lie. The accountability? A shakedown.
Everything was fake except the suffering.
The $62,320 federal court sanction remains unpaid. His case faces dismissal.
Danesh Noshirvan spent years singing his “Consequences” song to people whose lives he destroyed.
A scourge has been lifted. The consequences have arrived. The song is playing for him now.
