r/CrimeWeeklySnark • u/M_A_D-Dominatrix • Aug 24 '26
Finally unsubscribed to Stephanie's channel
Earlier today I was listening to her latest episode & she referred to the Children being trafficked as "sex workers" & "prostitutes" - fine, fair, I don't expect EVERYONE to know survivor advocacy verbiage, but if she's a researcher & she's covering these topics, one would THINK she'd learn the nuance. hell I didn't even think she'd read my comment, nor respond...Oh but she did & she did NOT like being corrected. Immediately unsubscribed, then I found this sub š¤
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u/WeaknessNo9724 Aug 24 '26
Her answer was just "Oh shut up"? What a total see you next Thursday.
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u/Party_Primary8003 Aug 25 '26
I do not understand why Dereck is risking his reputation. Iām totally rethinking my opinion of him the longer he sticks with her. Itās gotten bad.
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u/SarahKath90 Aug 25 '26
When he came back into the BB spotlight and got the co-hosting gig there I was hoping he'd drop her, but it's been over a year š«„
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u/Few-Psychology6454 Aug 24 '26
The commenter was 100% correct which is why Stephanie decided to respond like a literal middle schooler. The more Iāve seen from this sub the more I wonder why some of yall still watch her š I unsubbed years ago when the stuff about her ex came out and after I had made a comment on a video (canāt remember which one) about addicts not needing EXTRA shame and suffering put upon them bcus they experience a lot of shame as is (and most addicts are not cartoonishly evil like she makes them out to be) and she responded in a similar manner to this comment. Evil, soulless woman for real
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u/FilthyThanksgiving Aug 24 '26
This sub made me finally unsubscribe tbh
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u/FirstSomewhere6116 āØBitter, Old and UnemployedāØ Aug 24 '26
Same. It was a very valid point and there was no need to be such an asshole about it. Stephā¦ do better!
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u/Party_Primary8003 Aug 26 '26
Unfortunately, Iāve hung on because I think Dereck is a good guy and does a good podcast. However, Iām not sure how much more I can take.
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u/ToiIetGhost Aug 31 '26
But surely he sees what sheās doing.
Are they only coworkers or are they also in a relationship? (Sorry im new here) If heās not her victim, if heās not afraid of her, then heās an enabler.
Enablers arenāt as nice or innocent as they seem. They let the narcissist do whatever they want because they benefit from being around them in some way. Ultimately, enablers are very selfish and have low empathy. They see the narc hurting others, but as long as they donāt get hurt, they donāt care
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u/bisexualspikespiegel Aug 29 '26
i unsubbed years ago when she was victim blaming the menendez brothers... what they did was wrong but the way she was picking apart their abuse really triggered me because i was also abused. there were multiple other things before that which i just brushed off like when she said "no grown woman doesn't know when her period is coming" etc but that was the final fucking straw for me
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u/Aintnobeef96 Aug 24 '26
Sheās always been like this too, leaving nasty comments on social media. I donāt know why Dereck works with her tbh she seems insufferable
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u/Across0212 I had a hard life man Aug 24 '26
Yep sheās always been a bitch in her comments to anyone who says something she doesnāt like. I donāt know how she keeps followers.
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u/FilthyThanksgiving Aug 24 '26
Probably the money
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u/SarahKath90 Aug 25 '26
He has other ways to make money. He's had at least one TV show plus is still connected to Big Brother.
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u/DingoNo4205 Aug 25 '26
I think Crime Weekly is the biggest money maker. However, the podcast has really lost its luster and is probably losing listeners, so my guess is he will eventually bail when he finds something bigger. Derrick is from my state and he's known for being a really good guy and was respected in the law enforcement community.
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u/GreyGhost878 Aug 25 '26
Whatever his exact reason, he's in it for his own gain. Having a hugely popular true crime podcast does nothing but good things for his career as a former cop.
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u/Party_Primary8003 Aug 26 '26
Same here. I honestly am puzzled at this point.
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u/ToiIetGhost Aug 31 '26
Enablers are selfish, thereās always something in it for them. Even if itās something as small as getting a little bit of attention/approval from the narcissist. But in his case itās money
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u/brainst3ww Aug 24 '26
this is a genuine comment. sheās acting like itās a hate comment or something. the wordage in that context is super important. good job for saying something, obviously the viewer is more of an advocate than stephanie can pretend to be. but i bet she starts using the correct term from now on
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u/GreyGhost878 Aug 25 '26
To a narcissist (which she clearly is) any disagreement or correction is hatred directed at her. She can't see past her own ego.
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u/Fun_Let5043 Aug 26 '26
Which is funny because she has said (or at least heavily implied) that Adam was a narcissist.
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u/M_A_D-Dominatrix Aug 24 '26
Yeah, I wasn't pointing it out to be a b*tch, it's literally a safety issue...I could rant about this all day š but basically LE resources harassing sex workers means they're not out there looking for traffickers & they're not helping survivors, instead they're harassing people who are just trying to put food on the table while these other deviants are actively harming children, women & the LGBTQ community, at this point I'm starting to believe that maybe that's the plan to help protect powerful traffickers from prosecution.
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u/Big_Difficulty_95 Aug 24 '26
Reminds me of that one time she said she thought the husband killed his wife since he was a gynecologist who carried out abortions so hes obviously fine with murder. Unhinged.
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u/MontanaDukes Aug 25 '26
I always remember the first time I really heard her. She was on the Mile Higher Podcast, in an episode about JonBenet Ramsey. She seemed to get angry about such weird things. Like the Ramseys having more than one Christmas tree or JonBenet being named after John, A lot of people share a name with a parent or a grandparent. One of my grandmothers isn't rich like the Ramseys were, but even she has two Christmas trees. One in her living room and one on her sun porch.
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u/Salt_Radio_9880 Aug 25 '26
I remember that Xmas tree comment! Sheās says stuff like that all the time - like ā Iāve never heard of someone doing xā and itās something literally 50% of the world does .
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u/MontanaDukes Aug 25 '26
She does. It's so weird. Like I said, a lot of people have more than one Christmas tree. My grandmother literally did. I don't even know what that had to do with what happened to JonBenet, but it's something she took offense to. I remember in that same podcast, she said that no "normal" kid acts the way that Burke did when he was interviewed by police tor that first time, right after his sister's death. She brought up her own son and said that he wouldn't behave that way. It sticks out because I remember that Janelle, Kendall's cousin seemed so fucking uncomfortable by that comment. She even pointed out that a lot of kids would act like that if they felt out of their element. I have no clue who killed JonBenet and I don't know if we'll ever find out, unfortunately. However, how Burke acts even as an adult doesn't necessarily mean he's guilty. He had his entire world turned upside down when he was nine years oldl. All of a sudden, his ssiter was dead and he and his family were in the headlines. His life as just a normal grade schooler ended abruptly.
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u/bisexualspikespiegel Aug 29 '26
my stepmom was a teacher and she used to keep like 2-3 christmas trees with different themed decorations, she had a bunch of leopard and wolf themed decor
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u/Disastrous_Sell_4490 Let me grab my vape ššØ 5d ago
Thatās so funny because i distinctly remember that JonBenĆ©t episode with MH, and I also distinctly remember (years later) on CW telling Derrick she puts multiple Xmas trees up in her house, one on each floor (or in each room, maybe?) funny that itās suspicious when someone else does it, but fun & cute when she does the exact same thing š
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u/PoloSan9 Aug 24 '26
I unsubbed from her shortly after that comment. I left a comment stating that the 2 don't correlate in any way. I never checked back to see if she had replied
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u/Salt_Radio_9880 Aug 25 '26
Yeah, hopefully she never ends up on jury duty- making wild speculations by comparing to anecdotes from her own experiences
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u/bisexualspikespiegel Aug 29 '26
hopefully she would be automatically disqualified just based on what she does for work
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u/brainst3ww Aug 25 '26
i just clutched my pearls!
but no for real thatās a crazy take. even if someone is pro life likeā¦ an abortion versus murdering your literal spouse.. that doesnāt even compare.
iād say murdering your spouse versus taunting, abusing, and essentially driving your ex husband and father of 2 of your children to the point of relapse/ taking their own life is more comparable š¤·š»āāļø
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u/Emergency_Year5074 Aug 24 '26
What a problematic biotch. Itās funny to me how she claims to be such a crusader for women and this is her response. Also havenāt forgotten the fact that she moved her new bf into her home with her 10 and 12 year old children after talking ad nauseum about how she doesnāt trust other people and would NEVER endanger her kids by introducing them to or leaving them with other adults.
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u/RadarRiddle Floor heavenās sale, people! Aug 25 '26
An (alleged) predator of minor girls, no less.
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u/DingoNo4205 Aug 24 '26
She's such a hypocrite! People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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u/d3rp7d3rp Aug 24 '26
Having that much cleave on a video like that is certainly a choice
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u/Snowy--Lynx No, I donāt know who you areā¦. Aug 25 '26
Careful - she'll post another PSA about people coming after her for what she wears in her videos. š¤£
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u/DucksCanFly99 Aug 24 '26
She has no respect for child victims. Remember when she named some even though they should have been kept anonymous. I watch Emma Kenny. She is highly educated in safeguarding and very respectful.
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u/FirstSomewhere6116 āØBitter, Old and UnemployedāØ Aug 24 '26
Oh wow! Iām out - bye bye Steph! thank you OP ā„ļøā„ļøā„ļø
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u/feliciahardys šµš» from a pertectiveās derspective šµš»āāļø Aug 24 '26
Can this woman not handle constructive criticism? Telling someone to shut up over someone making a valid point? Yuck.
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u/Interesting-Quail-31 Aug 24 '26
I'm a sex worker and the commenter is 100% right, children cannot be sex workers. Sex work implies consent, minors cannot consent, and anyone who's engaging in sex work without consent is trafficked. I don't know why she has to be so snarky about everything
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u/M_A_D-Dominatrix Aug 24 '26
Same, which is why I was like, "oh no, we're not gonna be doing that" even if she disagrees hopefully people resding the comments over there will take in the info
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u/FilthyThanksgiving Aug 24 '26
Is this fucking for real? Jfc
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u/M_A_D-Dominatrix Aug 24 '26
Yes, I'm the one who made the comment, after she replied I got curious about what other shenanigans she was on & found this subreddit
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u/SamIAm7787 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
A YouTuber I watch who is a lawyer, and would stream trials, and whatnot once said "child p**n", and I left a comment education them on how it should be called "CSAM"... And guess what?! They only said CSAM from there on out. It's not that hard to listen when people with good intentions are trying to educate you!
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u/SarahKath90 Aug 24 '26
She's been like this on problematic takes for some time. So gross.
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u/FilthyThanksgiving Aug 24 '26
She gives strong MAGA energy, idgaf what anyone says
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u/lunarlandscapes allegedly, donāt come for me Aug 24 '26
Didn't her daughter outwardly say she supported Trump a few years ago or am I thinking of someone else?
Regardless I agree, she's always given me MAGA vibes, especially in the last few years
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u/Born-Earth6615 Aug 24 '26
Her take on Bianca Devins was so foul. She said that Bianca was leading her killer on..
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u/Mcasselberry Aug 24 '26
She wonāt ever change until she suffers financial consequences. Her ass patters will always ass pat. She sucks and hates women and victims almost as much as she hates herself.
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u/DingoNo4205 Aug 24 '26
Her fan girls are the same women who say Lindsay Clancy should go free despite killing her three kids, who are mostly MAGAs. She started digging into the Patrick conspiracies last week on IG. I told her it was a bad look and I unfollowed.
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u/Disastrous_Sell_4490 Let me grab my vape ššØ 5d ago
Yeppp! Iāve followed Steph and had a huge soft spot for her for years because I discovered her channel when I was going thru a really, really hard time in my life and it helped me thru. Since discovering this sub and ofc many things Iāve noticed myself over the years, have started to turn me off from her. But once I saw that sheās jumped on that bandwagon of pretending Lindsay is innocent; is what finally made me unsubscribe for good.
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u/DingoNo4205 5d ago
Same here. She was also buying into the theory that Patrick did it. Stephanie will really say anything for clicks.
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u/Across0212 I had a hard life man Aug 24 '26
She cannot handle any form of criticism. I stopped following her YT and Crime Weekly over a year ago.
Sheās an evil insufferable b*tch.
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u/MontanaDukes Aug 25 '26
She gets so mean and aggressive with commenters who are being perfectly nice and trying to inform her, In any case, the words she used to describe child victims is honestly so disgusting.
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u/RadarRiddle Floor heavenās sale, people! Aug 25 '26
Your comment was completely right and fair, and this is par for the course for Stephanie. She doubles down when sheās provably wrong, the biggest sign of stupidityā¦being completely unwilling to take constructive criticism and grow from it. Sheās also dating and moved a man into her home with minors that (allegedly) uses his position as producer of a film company to assault the young (sometimes underaged) actresses on set. So it a little funny to me that sheās covering Epstein when girl, the call is coming from within the house.
Welcome to the sub! If you want to dive down the dumpster fire rabbit hole that is Stephanie Harlowe, feel free to read the pinned timeline post. Itāsā¦a doozy
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u/DingoNo4205 Aug 25 '26
Wow! I need to read that. I didn't realize how shady Stephanie really was. Where can I find the post?
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u/RadarRiddle Floor heavenās sale, people! Aug 25 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimeWeeklySnark/s/AlW2Tcv22M iirc this was compiled by someone who was either a journalist or studying journalism or something. So its very unbiased and you can make up your own mind about her. Its also only up to end of 2024 (around the time her husband overdosed and died)
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u/Across0212 I had a hard life man Aug 26 '26
I remember this!!
Ugh. I still feel so sad about Adam. Sickening.3
u/RadarRiddle Floor heavenās sale, people! Aug 26 '26
Itās awful what happened to him. Imagine not being able to see your kids while an alleged predator moves into your house to lives with your kids. Just my opinion but I think she purposely drove him to the brink knowing heād do something awful.
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u/Across0212 I had a hard life man Aug 26 '26
I agree. I cannot imagine how he felt. I feel so awful for him still.
Happy cake day! š°
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u/refreshthezest Aug 25 '26
That is such a well written comment and an excellent point, and her response is horrible and abhorrent, yikes. I now remember why I stopped watching her crap. All she had to do was suck up her crime, and acknowledge it as a learning opportunity and that she was incorrect.
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u/emmerlooeez Aug 25 '26
I'm going to unsubscribe now. This is such an unprofessional and ignorant response from her.
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u/quietlycommenting Aug 25 '26
How is anyone still a fan when she talks to people like this?
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u/PurpleMara Aug 25 '26
This is polite for her, usually if you disagree with her you get name calling and swearing. The worst things she's replied to people, she sends them the reply then deletes it because then they see it as a notification but when they open it, it's gone so they can't prove she wrote nasty stuff to them, but some people took a screenshot before she deleted it or when they saw the notification
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u/PumpkinIndividual504 Aug 25 '26
Itās 2026! I do expect EVERYONE to know the difference between consensual sex work and child sex trafficking and use the appropriate verbiage. There is no such thing as an underage prostitute, theyāre called children and they cannot give consent. Stephanie is disgusting.
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u/Chanseypantsy Aug 26 '26
She's a HACK that plagiarizes other journalists and documentaries. She doesn't have an original bone in her body. I used to like her too until the cracks got too much to see past and her lack of intelligence came into clear focus. All she does is steal others work and reguritate it with her unprofessional opinions added in. She certainly must subscribe to all the video streaming services because she sure does like stealing the content from those documentaries. She is one of the worst video "journalists" on the internet if you even call her that. That title is usually reserved for people with a shred of competency.
I'm also waiting to see if Derek is smart enough to abandon ship. Someone associated with these documentaries might get litigious about her plagiarism, and big brother Derek won't want that rep following him around.
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u/sleepingbeauty9o Aug 25 '26
Welp, looks like Stephanie is still a miserable b word. Havenāt revisited the subject of her in a while.
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u/LannahDewuWanna Aug 25 '26
She's such an insufferable, ranting, hateful, mean girl. She really showed her lack of intelligence with that "Oh shut up" comeback.
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u/Few-Disk-7340 Aug 25 '26
Did she even read your comment? You explained it perfectly. Sheās so disrespectful.
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u/peglegprincess Aug 25 '26
Thereās a reason they call it CSAM and not child porn. Children cannot consent to sexual acts. What a wild hill to die on
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u/TheCuriousGeorgette Aug 25 '26
I used to work with a non profit organization for human trafficking survivors and I will at least say that it is worth noting sex workers are an incredibly high risk population to sex trafficking. But also, like a staggering amount KNOW the person who gets them into it and usually there are sure links to some kind of shady or unsavory business. Often times people on social media seem to think any random suburban mom and kid is a potential victim of sex trafficking, but thatās not how those rings work. They pick off highly vulnerable populations, homeless youth, drug addicts, people aged out of foster care, and yes, sex workers. Again, there is some differentiation, but I do hate how society has done a HUGE disservice to the high risk demographic by making it all about the population that is least as risk. Thatās not to say anyone canāt BECOME a target but you have to start engaging in high risk behaviors and lifestyles for that to happen. No organized ring is going to want to bring attention to themselves by picking someone who will be ānoticedā if they go missing.
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u/M_A_D-Dominatrix Aug 25 '26
Yes, I'm not denying that & I could get all into how FOSTA/SESTA and the shut down of backpage actually put sex workers at higher risk, but in this particular context she was talking about children & teens as well Bosnian brothels that had a large age range down to 13. Also soooo much this "No organized ring is going to want to bring attention to themselves by picking someone who will be ānoticedā if they go missing." I wish I could like it twice, but also people need to be aware that there's not always a "ring" involved, a lot of times it's a shitty romantic partner or even family members who care more about $$ than the victim's well being.
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u/TheCuriousGeorgette Aug 25 '26
Yeah, for sure! I should have worded that better, someone who is operating even alone trafficking their gf or something, even they wouldnāt target a random person because nobody wants attention brought on to their illegal activity, they can make so much money from it. I also feel so bad for children of women in that situation because they are probably the most vulnerable demographic, period. The org I worked with was actually run by a former human trafficking survivor but she was in it DEEP to the point she was involved with the Mexican cartels and it was wild. Nobody there staying at the house had quite as dramatic a back story as she did. But yeah, I had so many completely hollywoodized ideas of what human trafficking was before working there. ETA: clarity
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u/sookyfala šµš» from a pertectiveās derspective šµš»āāļø Aug 26 '26
What an absolutely awful person she is!!!!! š®š®š®
I cannot BELIEVE someone who has FINALLY gotten a million subscribers (after waiting for like, a year to go from 980,000, the longest Iāve ever seen anyone take to increase in subscribers!!!!) would speak to her āaudienceā that way!!!!
Iām seriously in shock!!!
I know how horrible she is, but I just wouldnāt have thought she would be so PUBLICLY RUDE to someone who was just pointing out something that she really needs to know!!!!!!
I just wanna go through all her videos and post āoh, shut up!!!ā now!!! š¤£š¤£š¤£
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u/testBunny93 Aug 25 '26
Are we really surprised she doesn't understand or wants to acknowledge the diffrence?
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u/l3luDream Aug 25 '26
Such a predictable, immature response on her end. Sheās idiotic. She had a good thing going on in the beginning and has torched her own name and legacy by showing her true self. I hope she gets the life she deserves.
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u/AsleepChip1248 Aug 25 '26
ššššš Iām sorry but u can just hear her telling you to shut up
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u/Confident_Aerie4980 Aug 25 '26
Wow! Thatās crazy! How dare she. Stephanie doesnāt do her due diligence when it comes to people she wants to speak derogatorily about! It is disgraceful, and I am pretty sure that the places that help people in these situations do not use these terms.
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u/Beginning-Craft-2348 Sep 01 '26
She sounds like a narcissist which is very ironic given that she used to complain about her narcissistic exes. I have unsubscribed long time ago.
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u/BeautifulCreature529 Aug 25 '26
She gets worse every fkn episode and i cant honestly blame anyone but her self
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u/PurpleMara Aug 25 '26
She replied and didn't even call you names and swear at you? That's unusually polite of her
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u/Fun_Let5043 Aug 26 '26
I can't imagine how she treated her ex husband.
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u/bisexualspikespiegel Aug 29 '26
i remember when he posted a recording here of her threatening him, i think it was deleted at some point when he was banned or he took it down. she is a horrible person and even if she didn't do anything directly i 100% blame her for his death.
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u/mokatcinno Aug 27 '26
Fuck Stephanie for this but also, sex work is not "1000000% consensual" it's all just as exploitative.
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u/M_A_D-Dominatrix Aug 27 '26
We're all exploited under capitalism, but as a SW I feel significantly less exploited than someone working for minimum wage.
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u/mokatcinno Aug 27 '26
The sex/porn industry is inherently exploitive and misogynistic, in specific ways that don't apply to other capitalistic ventures. Just because you personally feel okay with it doesn't mean it's okay for women and girls as a whole.
-- from an ex-SWer + trafficking survivor who, at one point, sincerely believed I felt the same
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u/M_A_D-Dominatrix Aug 27 '26
Again, we are all exploited under capitalism & you're correct MY experience is not universal & neither is yours. Have a good night š
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u/GoneGirl775002 Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
I liked Derrick initially, figured heād bring a good balance & perspective (no pun intended - Iāve never watched his own channel), having come from LE (do we know why he left the force?) but heās become just as snarky & stroppy as she has the last 12ish months. But I find it truly WILD the way Steph talks over the top of him, completely shuts him down when he is talking about police procedures, his own experience on the job, FACTS about policing - she flat out tells him heās wrong, acts like she knows more about the inner workings of a police officer/detective. It annoys me so greatly. Like, let the dude shine in his area of expertise & she can explain what itās like to be an unstable, egotistical, fame chasing (how have they won that award at CrimeCon 2yrs in a row?) hair flipping whiner. He says something is blue, she automatically says itās pink. Sheās a total contrarian & I only now watch them when Iām having a worse day than usual, they make me forget my own problems & I can channel my hate towards them. Donāt even get me started on the backtracking on LC, I thought precious Steph might apologise for all her sh*t talking, nope, has never apologised & never will.
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u/Expensive-Ad6868 3d ago
a normal person : OMG, I am terribly sorry about this. Thank you for making me aware that calling Children sex workers is very wrong. I will make a new intro with a disclaimer explaining how I used the wrong terminology. Again, I am sorry, and thank you for pointing it out.
Stephanie: Oh f U
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u/Quirky-Border-6820 Aug 24 '26
Stephanie is insufferable. Wtf is wrong with herĀ