> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Thomas Johnston, Better Known As Worst Boyfriend Ever: Unmasking a Pedophile and Sexual Predator Operating On Substack - URL: https://the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io/thomas-johnston-better-known-as-worst-boyfriend-ever-unmasking-a-pedophile-and-sexual-predator-operating-on-substack/ - Published: 2026-10-31T20:13:14.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-01T04:41:39.000Z - Author: Joshua Goldberg - Tags: Substack, pedophile, pedophiles, pedophilia, rape, rapes, rapist, rapists, sexual violence, sexual abuse, sexual assault "Worst Boyfriend Ever" is easily Substack's most notorious sexual predator (and, unfortunately, Substack's biggest success story as well), but few people actually know his real identity - until now. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-782abc699ac335f4.png) A 2023 picture of Thomas Johnston, who you might know as “Worst Boyfriend Ever” on Substack. (NOTE: This article has been sitting in my drafts on Substack for quite a while now. I could not publish it on Substack because of the risk of my account being suspended. At one point, Thomas Johnston's close friend Patterson Troope ("James Knox") managed to get my Substack account suspended simply for *threatening* to publish this information. In the time since I began writing this article, someone else has already published [a more detailed dox article](https://thomas-johnston-archive.pages.dev/?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) about Johnston. Regardless, I am publishing this article on here anyways. A full Doxbin page on Johnston is currently in the works, and I am also working on getting him arrested.) Thomas Johnston is the real name of a 27-year-old pedophile and sexual predator who has become one of Substack’s most prolific and infamous writers. Under the screen name “[Worst Boyfriend Ever](https://substack.com/@worstboyfriendever?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io)”, Johnston writes one of the most cringe-inducing Substack columns that you will ever find, yet has somehow managed to amass over 9,000 subscribers simply by being a massive attention whore shamelessly pimping out his own long history of sexually abusing women and girls. Basically, imagine a serial sexual predator writing in graphic detail about all of the women and underage girls who he has sexually abused, but writing it in the style of a quirky, lighthearted sex diary à la Carrie Bradshaw from *Sex and the City*. Now imagine that this sexual predator even has [a published book](https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Boyfriend-Ever-Sensitive-Young/dp/B0F3XSJGSD/?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io), which, needless to say, was drafted with the same level of quality. Imagine that he actually [hosts public events](https://web.archive.org/web/20260727220308/https://megalodon.jp/2026-0728-0659-42/https://x.com:443/TwinkBukowski/status/2027161994961584482) for his fans, encouraging underage girls to attend these events. Finally, imagine that he has a rabid fan base who worship him as a god and eagerly await his next post detailing what he did to another one of his victims. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7ead031c69f3097c.png) Rest assured that I will most definitely not be using any of the pedophile lobby’s preferred terms, like “minor-attracted person” or “Roblox enthusiast”. No, I will be calling Thomas Johnston exactly what he is: an utterly contemptible subhuman pedophile preying on vulnerable children. To give you an idea of Johnston's writing, here is a brief excerpt from his article "[Those Cornell Guys Probably Didn't Rape Anybody](https://megalodon.jp/2026-1004-1658-20/https://x.com:443/TwinkBukowski/status/2105710296408944901?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io)" (an article which was so vile that he couldn't even publish it on Substack, opting for Xitter instead): --- i need to put a big poster up on the wall wherever i live: nothing women say matters. you can’t take any of their words seriously. this is not pickup artist manosphere bullshit this is reality: words are nothing to them. words are mere entertainment. so now finally it’s her doing all the talking and me refusing to listen. i struggle pulling her tight jeans down and she half-lets me. it’s hard to know exactly what she “wants” this evening but she keeps telling me please, please dont, please please i.. please, i’m just laughing at her, you chose to come in here with me, i’m sorry i have to, but why do you have to? what will you gain from this? i ask her have you ever been hard as a man? she can’t relate. you know the first message she ever sent me, about 10 days ago, was this: “i read your blog because i’m too inert to understand what’s compelling about fucking” and like a naive retard i took her female words to heart. i’m done doing that now: i use saliva to coat my fingers with mouth-slop and wetten her up for entry. she, again, half-accepts it with her body while her face and her voice disagree. i smother her with a pillow so to block out my face, so she can’t see me as i do it and so i can’t see her. in retrospect this maneuver was more for her than for me, but i assure you dear reader, the entire rape here was not for her one bit at all. i’m so sick of serving people, trying to please them, this all felt like rebellion against this thing i have lately become. i’m going up on stage here in new york reading shit i wrote when i was 24 just wanting everyone to like me, trying to make them laugh. now i’m making myself laugh fucking karine against her will. and because God is kind her pussy is perfect. sorry i can’t describe it - the feel is just perfect. --- Few people perfectly encapsulate the deeply rancid nature of the social media attention economy better than Johnston does. In fact, Johnston’s success on Substack as “Worst Boyfriend Ever” very much reminds me of [a recent horror film](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14619456/?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) in which a sadistic serial killer gains a massive social media fanbase by posting videos of his killings on a TikTok-like website. It goes without saying that, if a serial killer were to begin writing columns on Substack about all of his victims and how he killed them, then that serial killer would instantly become one of Substack’s most popular writers, just as Johnston has - and, quite frankly, that’s really a searing indictment of the entire human race above all else. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-73c25d1bbb438fa5.png) For months now, it has been known that Johnston attempted to solicit a 16-year-old girl (or, at least, what he thought was a 16-year-old girl) for sex: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-716183c8632a8407.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7a3bcb204cd90889.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7dfd762f3b592a7d.png) The screenshots above are from the article “[WORST PREDATOR EVER](http://web.archive.org/web/20260718205814/https://cjamesdesmond.substack.com/p/worst-predator-ever)”, in which the author details how he ensnared Johnston by posing as a teenage girl, Chris Hansen-style. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-79c5f17337c63e6e.png) Thomas Johnston in 2025. Having been [accurately described](https://samkahn.substack.com/p/on-worst-boyfriend-ever) by one author as “Substack’s Most Degenerate Writer” and [by a different author](https://worldsbestboyfriend.substack.com/p/worst-boyfriend-ever-and-the-evils) as Substack’s “resident rape-journalist”, Johnston - born on January 5, 1999 - makes no secret of the fact that he’s a pedophile, openly courting teenage girls on Substack and penning articles like “[Sexting Teenaged Girls](https://web.archive.org/web/20260728100233/https://jamesguilty.substack.com/p/sexting-teenaged-girls)” (with a laughable, mocking disclaimer on his profile that his genuine stories are “ALL FICTION BTW”). His grooming of teenage girls is well-known among the Substack community, with articles like “[Worst Boyfriend Ever Is Only a Trauma Mirror](https://garbageworld.substack.com/p/worst-boyfriend-ever-is-only-a-trauma)”, “[Worst Boyfriend Ever and the plight of the ambitious woman](https://giraffetales.substack.com/p/worst-boyfriend-ever-and-the-plight)”, “[I Killed a Substack Groomer](https://dietc0kehead.substack.com/p/i-killed-a-substack-groomer)”, “[I’ve been reading WBE’s articles](https://ipdiary.substack.com/p/ive-been-reading-wbes-articles)”, and “[I met Worst Boyfriend Ever. He’s not what you think.](https://thingol.substack.com/p/i-met-worst-boyfriend-ever-hes-not)” (to name just a few) having been written about him. In [one interview](http://web.archive.org/web/20260728033609/https://cjamesdesmond.substack.com/p/worst-boyfriend-ever), Johnston is confronted with a Reddit post from a woman who knows him in real life: “I have the misfortune of knowing him irl from school. sorry to be a woke scold, but i have a hard time with the way he is sometimes taken seriously as even potentially producing work of real literary value—none of his writing is fiction btw, he’s incapable of imagination—personally being friends with women he has written about nonconsensually, in graphic and/or violent sexual detail, with the barest veneer of anonymization and who have felt pretty traumatized by it all” \[sic\]. Johnston, in typical sociopathic fashion, responded: “my intent was never to hurt women, I was just trying to make myself happy and get what I thought I wanted, which is what we all do. Some women use me for validation and I use them for sex. They use me to feel less alone, I use them for a story. I use them for science. We all just use each other. I won’t be made to feel bad for any action I took with no ill intent. I don’t care how my actions made you feel, I’m not in control of your emotions. You are. All of (you.)”. Johnston has even [bragged](https://substack.com/@worstboyfriendever/note/c-301990724?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) about how at least one woman has committed suicide as a result of his blog. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-79faf770b80e21fa.png) Under the name “Aloha”, Thomas Johnston was [indefinitely banned](https://www.ssbwiki.com/Smasher:Aloha?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) from Washington Smash events, which are public tournaments for the popular fighting video game series *Super Smash Bros.* (a video game series which, it must be noted, is *very* popular with children). [Thomas Johnston’s Medium account](https://thomas-sky.medium.com/?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) \- which features two articles that are both clearly written in the exact same style as “Worst Boyfriend Ever”’s Substack articles - further confirms his identity (in [one of those articles](https://thomas-sky.medium.com/cheating-in-high-school-2922dc64dd90?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io), Johnston even admits to being a bored, entitled brat who cheated his way into a full ride at the University of Southern California with a merit/leadership scholarship simply because he could). Under [his Facebook account](https://www.facebook.com/Th0masJ0hnst0n), Johnston operated a Facebook group called “[Thomas johnston memes for narcissistic teens](https://www.facebook.com/berniewasrobbed)”, and the period of time that the Facebook page ceased to be active lines up with the period of time when Johnston began operating his “Worst Boyfriend Ever” Substack account. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-708877a5cf9dcbd4.png) It was never explicitly stated why Thomas Johnston was indefinitely banned from Washington Smash events, but you can probably surmise the most likely reason why. In [a Zoom call](https://web.archive.org/web/20260715072304/https://n.uguu.se/YkhwZtJa.mp4), Johnston mentions a woman named Maria, who married an older man. On Johnston’s Facebook account, it can be seen that he has a sister named Maria Johnston Gallo, who has been married to a significantly older man for the past ten years. Maria very much wants nothing to do with any of this mess, and I really don’t blame her. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-720c547b1a178d81.png) Thomas Johnston’s Facebook account, which he doesn’t appear to use very much anymore. Take this with a grain of salt, as it could potentially be someone who knew him from home, but is lying about being his family and just being malicious. It could also simply be something that Johnston himself made in a desperate bid for more attention: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-71c93e7e81b61c6f.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7dc1cba9df56762a.png) While I cannot confirm who made the image above, the mermaid picture is indeed on Johnston’s Facebook account: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7a1bead4dfaca5e4.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-795041fbd4963be4.png) Thomas Johnston’s education records were easy to find, and they also match up with “Worst Boyfriend Ever”’s location: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-75494b8db8996c54.png) Some of it is even on his Facebook page: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-79e4956ff7a899a7.png) There is a voice match of Johnston in [a University of Southern California YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t06nF0nchk&ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io) and “Worst Boyfriend Ever” in the aforementioned Zoom call, further confirming that it is indeed him. Johnston’s email address - jamesguilty43@gmail.com - is publicly available: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7cf2a569f99b79cd.png) Entering this email address into Breach.vip confirms his Hawaii location, as it reveals that his phone number is 808-464-9179, with 808 being the area code for the entire state of Hawaii: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-77df977051502c9d.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7d7460757c8a49a4.png) …although Johnston’s Facebook account states that he is originally from Ashaway, Rhode Island and lived in Seattle, Washington at one point: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-789f01f5e6c560f9.png) …and he seems to travel quite a lot: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-79b3d7608d4f786b.png) [This](https://web.archive.org/web/20260727220354/https://megalodon.jp/2026-0728-0701-10/https://x.com:443/bestbfever123/status/1893565681506910687) is from the ex-boyfriend of the woman whom Johnston wrote about in his article “[My First Rape](https://jamesguilty.substack.com/p/my-first-rape)”: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-74a55ad8c0261eda.png) Unsurprisingly Johnston also has close ties to some of the only plankton on Substack even more vile and depraved than him: a small clique of Soyjak Party and [Kiwi Farms](https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/sir-another-pedophilia-scandal-has)\-aligned, alt-right, “traditionalist Christian” incel pedophiles who were banned from iFunny for spamming gore, animal cruelty, BBC porn, and CSAM and engaging in severe targeted harassment, and who regularly organize the exact same kinds of extreme harassment campaigns on Substack, primarily targeting the most vulnerable people, including crime victims, the grieving families of recently deceased people (especially the families of crime victims), suicidal people, mentally ill people, children (especially autistic children), disabled people, and the elderly (among countless others, of course). In fact, Johnston actually tried to recruit the “Swaggers With Attitude” iFunny rejects (who operate similarly to other alt-right sadist com groups like 764, the Order of Nine Angles, the UTube Troll Police, and the [foodists](https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/antioch-the-first-foodist-mass-shooting), but are even more comically inept and utterly irrelevant) as a personal army to kill (yes, literally kill) the ex-boyfriend in the screenshot above. Clearly, Johnston genuinely thought that the iFunny coterie - part of the broader [“ironic” degeneracy movement](https://moonmetropolis.substack.com/p/when-did-trolling-become-inextricably) that I’ve written about previously - were actually hardcore neo-Nazi skinhead gang-bangers rather than just edgelord pedophile neo-Nazi incel keyboard warriors. And, needless to say, it didn’t really work out for him: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7fd094b6a9c3b4ff.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-794683961591dd73.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7970a1a03bae81c2.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7d666dd5a32bcf2c.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-7f56243cae3038b2.png) (Just to be perfectly clear: the person who Johnston tried to have killed is not some alt-right diaper sniper with terabytes of child porn and zoosadist material on his hard drive. The person who Johnston tried to have killed is, again, the ex-boyfriend of one of Johnston’s victims. In other words, it was someone whose life actually has value, whereas the life of an alt-righter has less value than the life of a feces-eating bacteria.) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-16d5f580aacb9163.png) Thomas Johnston actually does the things that the other members of “Chudstack” (or “Rapestack”) can only fantasize about doing, hence why Johnston is universally worshipped by alt-right Substack. “James Knox” is 24-year-old Patterson W. Troope of Columbia, Tennessee, who currently interns at a Tennessee district attorney’s office and uses his position at the DA’s office to obtain the personal information of the people that he targets online (and, unsurprisingly, Troope wasn’t such a tough guy at all when a contact of mine called him on the phone recently). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/472770775_18481990675010174_6408619669991638690_n.jpg) “James Knox” (Patterson Troope) is the third one from the left, in the blue jeans and glasses. Needless to say, he looks exactly like you would expect him to look. Also, keep in mind that one of Troope’s favorite activities is calling random people ugly on the internet while hiding behind anonymity. You be the judge of that. The “Swaggers With Attitude” crew - which Troope is the leader of - was largely driven off of Substack by yours truly (and I am planning to publish articles unmasking them as well), but I don’t doubt that Johnston still communicates with them on a regular basis on Discord and Telegram - and I know for a fact that Johnston still regularly communicates with other alt-right pedophiles. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-13341f4143074b67.png) Johnston is still in contact with the alt-right pedophiles in the iFunny clique (the ones who he unsuccessfully tried to hire to kill the ex-boyfriend of one of his victims), and he is also in contact with most of the other alt-right pedophiles on Substack. Being a depraved pedophile is pretty much the #1 requirement for being an alt-righter, so it should obviously come as zero surprise that there is a massive overlap between Johnston’s fanbase and “Chudstack” (or, as they also often call themselves, “[Rapestack](https://nullfiles.substack.com/p/rapestack)”), i.e. alt-right incel substack. In fact, Johnston is easily the single most beloved member of “Chudstack” by a very wide margin. Johnston writes about doing what the average alt-right incel can only dream of doing: sexually abusing vulnerable underage girls, then tossing them out like used tissue before publicly humiliating them for the entire internet to see. Much like other serial sexual predators like Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Oskar Dirlewanger, and Peter Scully (or “Scullychad”, as alt-righters call him), Thomas Johnston is exactly the kind of so-called “abusechad” or “rapechad” (their terminology) that every incel chud idolizes as a demigod-like figure. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1b943a2e15c13b67.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-197357dbe921d934.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1e5bd26688f0e810.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1352733d3609ffe2.png) Pictured above: just a few of the “traditionalist Christians” in the small clique of attention-seeking iFunny rejects that Thomas Johnston pathetically begged to put a hit on the ex-boyfriend of one of his victims. While most alt-righters prefer children *much* younger than the ones that Johnston goes after (hence the alt-right’s idolization of Peter Scully and their persistent tendency to spam CSAM of infants and toddlers), they will, nevertheless, always try to prey on *any* child who crosses their path, whether that child is a newborn baby or a teenager in high school. Anyone who knows anything about alt-righters knows that it is EXTREMELY easy to catfish them by posing as an underage girl (or an underage boy), even if the account that you create is the most ridiculously obvious decoy account imaginable. Take, for example, this recent account: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1b69cefd47edfc58.png) Before changing “her” profile picture to the above, this account was - almost immediately after it started posting - outright proven to be fake, as the account used a picture of some Atomwaffen e-girl from years ago that numerous people were able to easily trace: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1fe7e47093bb94b2.png) ([Here](https://kiwifarms.st/threads/john-cameron-denton-atomwaffen-division-siegeculture.38120/page-38?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io#post-4074686) is a Kiwi Troons post from 2018 with that image.) …and yet, that STILL hasn’t stopped “Chudstack” from hitting on the nonexistent “Ava” non-stop in the desperate hopes of getting their Cheeto-stained hands on some underage punani: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1e1d7705b5b037d2.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1c163977261c73c5.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-17bcead1c1d9910f.png) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-165edcf02e47d1e4.png) Johnston is certainly no exception to this rule. Even when the decoy account is as blatantly obvious as the above, he still falls for it hook, line, and sinker every single time, without fail. If I were to make a direct comparison, I would compare him to John Kennelly and Michael Seibert, the two men who appeared on *To Catch a Predator* TWICE, having adamantly refused to learn their lesson the first time (John Kennelly even showed up to Chris Hansen’s sting operations twice within a 24-hour time span, which is exactly the sort of thing that Johnston would actually be retarded enough to do). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-109a4b787bda02bd.png) “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou Some have tried to file reports with the FBI over Johnston’s attempt to organize a hit, along with his sexual solicitation of what he thought was a 16-year-old girl, but, unsurprisingly, the FBI didn’t care: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1c066603fffee0c2.png) Do I think that publishing his real name and face will stop Johnston? Absolutely not. When the screenshots of him attempting to solicit (what he thought was) a minor were made public, Johnston only went dark on Substack for four days before returning to business as usual. I don’t doubt that Johnston will continue to publish his blog under his real name, and will indubitably get plenty of disturbed young girls flooding his Facebook and Instagram accounts (not to mention his phone), along with more donations from his veritable army of moronic minions. Not to mention, as of this writing, Johnston is currently in Osaka, Japan - and Japan, as we all know, is one of the most pedophile-friendly countries in the world, where Johnston is very unlikely to face charges unless big daddy America demands that Japanese authorities extradite him (just like Japan obstinately refused to outlaw child porn until 1999, criminalizing it only because of persistent pressure from American gaijin - and it was still legal to possess child pornography in Japan until 2014). (UPDATE: Since I wrote this paragraph, Johnston is now back in New York City, [living in a van unlawfully](https://substack.com/@seansonline/note/c-366573592?ref=the-goldberg-variations.ghost.io).) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-1491f74a12938904.png) Thomas Johnston’s entire brand as “Worst Boyfriend Ever” is being a degenerate pedophile and, as such, trying to ruin his reputation by accusing him of being a degenerate pedophile would be like trying to ruin a gangsta rapper’s reputation by accusing him of being a brutal gang-banger (or trying to ruin my reputation by accusing me of internet trolling). So, why expose him at all then? Well, because I still feel an obligation to do so. Making “Worst Boyfriend Ever”’s real identity public may not stop him, but it certainly will not help him either. Ultimately, my endgame is getting Johnston arrested and making sure that he can never rape anyone ever again. This article may not result in that happening - in fact, considering how utterly worthless the FBI is, it very likely won’t - but it is, nevertheless, still a step in that direction. Rest assured that I will never give up on getting Johnston arrested, and I will stop at nothing to make sure that he faces justice, one way or another. I have gotten pedophiles arrested before, and many of those pedophiles had MUCH better opsec than Johnston does. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/08/1d/081d8096-87bb-4db6-8499-332d119bd3dd/content/images/2026/10/ezgif-161d659bf9fe32e9.png) Shinji Ikari profile pictures truly are cursed objects. “Worst Boyfriend Ever” is Substack’s cash cow. He is Substack’s one singular success story, which is undoubtedly why Substack obdurately refuses to do anything about him. Substack very much has moral culpability for allowing a well-known sexual predator to use their platform to further his crimes and inspire other like-minded sexual predators to do the same. When Johnston is arrested - and, rest assured, he will be arrested - does Substack really want to be forever known as the platform that knowingly turned a blind eye to his crimes because they were able to make money off of him? Ultimately, that’s for Substack’s staff to decide.