In case you’ve been living under a rock and are aware of the absolute mess Billy Santoro has been in the past couple of weeks, here’s a quick refresher:
First, he took to Facebook to encourage Americans to shoot Black protesters. Then that horrific post got him kicked off of JustFor.fans. After that, he supposedly attempted suicide – but like we said before, we’re still not really sure what the fuck happened there. Then Santoro was called out for promoting fake sponsorship deals, lying about his JustFor.fans account being reinstated, and supposedly buying followers.
Whew… okay. I think that’s everything.
Now Santoro, who has been thoroughly (for the lack of a better word) canceled, is attempting to rebrand himself and prove he still has a large online following. Santoro seems to have changed his Twitter handle to @AlphaBerlinX and wiped or hidden all of his old tweets on the account. Twitter says @AlphaBerlinX has over 65,000 tweets, but only 20-30 tweets actually show up on the profile, so he’s probably using some service to delete his tweets and it’s just taking a while for Twitter to catch up.
So far, there is no original content from the account. All of the visible tweets seem to be retweets, with many featuring content about Santoro. The new bio reads “Berlin Alpha- Posting things I need” and features a Tom of Finland-style illustration as the profile photo and cover image. (Update: A reader has informed us that the illustration is by artist Kevin Wada.)
There is a tiny, tiny chance that this isn’t Santoro and is actually just someone who bought his Twitter account from him. And while that may true, it seems very unlikely. People usually only buy accounts that have a strong following and Santoro… doesn’t have that! He’s been previously called out for buying followers, so it makes no sense why someone would want to buy an account that’s full of fake followers. So our guess is that he’s running this account.
Speaking of followers – @AlphaBerlinX currently has over 187,000 followers. That is an extreme amount for an account with 20ish visible posts and no original tweets. Earlier this week, Blue Bailey called out Santoro for his sudden jump in followers and Sean Harding did the same thing a couple days later as his follower count kept increasing.
This all comes after it was announced that Santoro’s personal site Leaked & Loaded would be taken offline. Both OLB Media, the website’s hosting company, and Segpay, the site’s payment processor, announced that they will be ending their relationship with the website.
“We are no longer accepting new memberships [to Leaked And Loaded], but we are obligated to give existing members their purchased time, so that in 30 days, once that obligation is fulfilled, we will be taking the site offline,” said OLB Media in a statement to Str8UpGayPorn.
What do you think of Santoro’s new Twitter account? Will he be able to successfully rebrand himself or should he just exit the industry? Sound off in the comments below.
He’s just an average Joe, don’t know how he’s made it in porn ..????????????
I’m crawling back under that rock I was living under… this crazy bat shit is just ridiculous. Rebranding is one thing but rebranding the same shit and thinking you’re fooling people is delusional. Perhaps a year or longer hiatus would be more appropriate.
I understand and agree with your and everyone’s comments about his actions lately and his implied mental instability inferred from your article. But that said, as a community, don’t we have a moral responsibility to trying to reach out and help (or encourage them to get help) them get the assistance they need?
In general, we hear too often about folks in the adult community who have killed themselves, harmed themselves and others, cycled down in overwhelming depression, anxiety, substance abuse, etc. — and as a community when those things happen, we always say, “why does this keep happening” and “we have to do more to try and help so this stops happening”.
But then, when we see an approaching train wreck right in front of us, we don’t do anything as a community to try and step in and stop it from happening again!
Instead, like the Gay community always does, we have short memories and we just revert back to being typically petty, shady, judgmental, demonizing and ostracizing. The post from one of the actors starting with “Oh honey…” is all I need to hear to understand that there’s 110% complete insensitivity.
We always say that the General Public are the ones hurting us the most. But that’s not true – the Gay Community loves to eat its own and then right articles about it and invite others to jump on the train to win readers/followers/likes at someone who’s clearly suffering’s expense.
I’m not saying he’s actions are moral, upstanding, to be commended, etc. I’m also not saying I know he’s mentally unstable or at true risk of harming himself or others (since I’m not a Doctor and don’t claim to know his true medical history or his Doctors), but what I am saying is that WE AS THE GAY COMMUNITY CAN DO BETTER.
We can see his behavior for what it is AND still step in and try and help BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. And that person unforunately become another statistic that we all say “WE WISH WASN’T HAPPENING”.
We demonize him and others in our community because WE DON’T LOVE OURSELVES. So when we don’t love ourselves, how could you possibly love others or want to step in and try and help when it’s clear those people are suffering.
We can love Gay Life, Gay Porn, Gay Pornstars, AND still remember that THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS WITH REAL EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, MENTAL/EMOTIONAL/PHYSICAL DISORDERS that we should be treating with love and compassion instead of HATE/DEMONIZATION.
Don’t expect the General Public to love us as an entire community UNTIL WE LOVE OURSELVES AND STOP EATING OUR OWN. LET’S HELP EACH OTHER, BUILD EACH OTHER UP, STEP IN AND HELP EACH OTHER IN TIMES OF NEED OR CLEAR CRISIS. Let’s not allow the past to define our future.
Instead of writing caddy comments about him or other folks here, how about everyone think of a way to help the situation? So it doesn’t get worse for him, and so we set an example for our community that we’ll build each other up rather than getting sick pleasure out of tearing each other down.
Discouraged in Denver ‘2020
You are correct that we, as a community, should be making more of a proactive effort to help and support each other. We’ve all known people, either casually or intimately, that we should have made a greater effort to reach out to when we saw them spinning out of control. Going after someone struggling with physical, mental, emotional issues, or even financial distress, shows a lack of basic decency and respect we all deserve.
However, you failed to mention the only think that truly matters in this type of situation. Thinking of ways to help improve someone’s situation, reaching out to someone and offer them assistance, or providing them monetary of physical assistance is a wasted effort if only one of you sees there’s a problem. If someone isn’t willing to help change their own situation, there is nothing you can say or do to fix it for them. People who act like this are very intelligent and exactly how to act to manipulate others into helping them get out of their current situation before disappearing and moving on to benefit off their next mark.
Hating on someone isn’t the alternative when someone doesn’t want help or accept responsibility for their actions. Sometimes the best thing you can do take a deep breath, turn your back on them, and walk away. It’s not best for them, but it is for you. When someone acts like that and repeatedly shows you what little care or interest they have for themselves, just how much consideration do you think they’re going to waste on you – a person who wants to change them? And the reality is there are some people who just can not be helped!
Tables are turned. I will never forget one time he was doing a live answering questions from fans. One of the fans asked if he would like to do a scene with a certain performer. He then pulled the Mariah Carey bitch mood and said: “I don’t know this person. If I don’t know this person it means he is not that famous; because I only work with the best performers.” Now look at him at his best! Karma…
https://str8upgayporn.com/just-for-fans-dominic-ford-sexual-assault-tannor-reed/ Are you gonna post about this? Billy is sitting up here laughing at this
Anybody who burns down other people’s property because they are on some psycho rampage should be jailed and made to pay for the damage they caused.
You try to destroy anyone who disagrees with you. That is purely selfish, inconsiderate, unfair, and vindictive. Get your head out of your half-baked ass.
There are lots and lots of Black people who do NOT do such nasty, destructive things because someone disagrees with them. Two wrongs do not make a right.
You are full of it!
I hope the illustrator, Kevin Wada, finds a way to stop him from using his art.
He is nothing more than a bigoted washed up has been. He should take his puny dick and donate it to science.
He has bigger balls than you do.
The testicles are implants.
His 15 minutes are over: just a generic porn guy who never stood out. Nothing special about him.
His 15 minutes are over. There was never anything special about him: a generic porn guy who never stood out.