Today’s topic will be about a 19-year old social-media figure named Brittany Johnson, or known by her screen-name, Lovely Peaches. For almost five years, she has been on the topic of controversy. From hiring someone to harm internet star Charli D’Amelio, to harming her dog, to even breaking into people’s houses, there’s nothing but trouble.
2017: Early Career
Social media is one of the fundamental ways of expressing yourself. There are positives to this, such as ease of communication. However, there are also detriments to this. Some very sick people could use this as an advantage to post sick stuff, which is what I will be talking about today. This article will be discussing a user named Lovely Peaches, a 19-year old prostitute whose real name is Brittany Johnson. She started her first account back in 2017 when she was just 17 years old. Her backstory is still unknown, but it has been speculated that she ran away from her parents at 15 and sold herself to prostitution.
Peaches started on Instagram, where her early days were usually that of prank calls and typical social media posts. However, as the times would come, viewers would begin to see how odd of a life this lady truly is living.
Before you knew it, Peaches started posting rather irregular content when compared to her usual standards, such as eating her excrement, participating in intercourse with men much older than her, licking toilet seats, rubbing her menstrual blood onto her face, and even going as far as to violently punch herself. She has also sung songs about having STDs and openly admits herself to exchanging sex for money, food, or a place to stay. At this point, Peaches’ fanbase has extended up to around 80,000 followers, mostly being teenage girls who admire her and fail to see the dark side of her internet persona. Some people speculate that Peaches is just a troll who resorts to shock value to get attention and views. But by 2018, this has proven to be false.
2018: Baby Cora Controversy
On March 1st of 2018, Peaches gave birth to a baby child to which she named Cora Miracle. However, when Cora was only 4 months of age, Peaches started uploading Instagram posts stating that she was selling Cora to men so that they could molest her. She would also upload pictures to her InstaStories of what appears to be a conversation between her and a man, discussing the money she would earn from renting out Cora. in June of 2018, a video was surfaced depicting Peaches on the phone with an individual, stating on how she was jealous on her child and suspects her on flirting with her partner and plans to brutally abuse Cora.
Because of this, Peaches has gained a surge in popularity from angry people, who started an internet campaign to report her to the authorities. People have been using the hashtag “#savecora” to raise awareness of the situation and to have Peaches arrested and to have Baby Cora taken away from Peaches’ custody. Several YouTubers have made videos to expose her and try to prevent people from being harmed by Peaches’ content. One of those Youtubers was RepZilla, who made a couple of videos on the topic of Peaches’ mental health. In one of his videos Betty Johnson, who claims to be Peaches’ stepmother, claims that everything Peaches said about Cora was all for attention and that she doesn’t have full custody of her. After claiming that Cora is well, alive, and healthy, Betty asked for help from the internet community to have the authorities investigate Peaches to give her the support she needs.
After all this, Peaches posted a video where she claims to have ended her daughter’s life in great detail. But with the context that Peaches’ stepmother has provided us at this point, we knew with great knowledge that this is not true. People have speculated that Peaches has uploaded this video to justify the fact that she kept posting the same six recycled pictures of Cora onto Instagram, presumably because she no longer is in her custody.
After all this, Peaches gave up on using Cora getting harmed as a tactic to make her popular, as it was not working since people knew all the facts at this point.
2019: Rise in Popularity
Peaches however continued posting as she became a huge personality on the social media app “TikTok”, where she was recognized for videos of her explicitly dancing in public near minorities, and for fighting and harming herself. In 2019, her single “Burning and Itching” became a trend on the app, which caused her to earn more visibility on the social media platform. Peaches were continuously posting videos and giving her more attention and followers, to the point of reaching 1 million on both her accounts on Instagram and TikTok.
2020: Peaches and Charli D’Amelio
Apart from her usual videos, Peaches also does collaborations with other TikTok stars in live streams and tries to interact with them in a very sexual way, sometimes engaging them to participate with her in sexual acts. One of her victims was social media singer Malu Trevejo, who was 17 years old at the time.
In February of 2020, Peaches started posting pictures of herself on the front porch of Malu’s house and claimed that she was waiting for her to return to the house. Peaches even stated that she managed to somehow get inside of the house and was trying on Malu’s clothes and smelling her pillows.
The next month, Malu confronted Peaches on a live stream pleading her to leave her alone, because even if the house she visited was Malu’s, there was no explanation as to how Peaches even got inside in the first place. For the whole stream, Peaches’ reaction was unsettling. She was laughing hysterically before flashing her crotch to Malu, causing Malu to end the live stream screaming.
After all this drama Peaches was no longer satisfied with stalking Malu, so she moved on to the next target. The next unfortunate victim was a 16-year-old at the time by the name of Charli D’Amelio who made a breakthrough by being the most followed person on TikTok, with only 67 million followers at the time. Presumably, Peaches wanted to leech onto some of that fame, because during one of Charli’s streams, Peaches spammed the live chat with sexually explicit comments. On June 26 of 2020, Charli was having a live stream with her fans, when Lovely Peaches, on a verified Instagram account in a crowd of over a hundred viewers, joined the live stream commenting explicit requests, much to Charli’s frustration. These comments were along the lines of “Charli, I wanna see you and Noah together in action in the bedroom”, and “Charli, please sleep with Noah”.
Soon after comments like this began to pop out of nowhere, Charli decided to wrap up her live stream to avoid any more of the comments, causing her fans to put the blame on Peaches and complain about her on social media, demanding for TikTok to ban her from the platform. However, all this did to Peaches was causing her to accuse Charli’s fans of bullying her.
On July 2 of 2020, Peaches posted a video where she claimed to have hired a 30-year-old man to find Charli’s house to sexually harm her. Then she posted another video where she asked her viewers to find Charli’s address to send him there. Charli and her family have not yet told their side of the story, but Charli’s father Mark D’Amelio as well as her sister Dixie D’Amelio has assured everyone that everything is under control so far and that Peaches has not yet shown up at their house, and they hope that it will be that way. On July 4, 2020, when asked by a reporter about the drama between her and Lovely Peaches, Charli only responded that she is not yet comfortable with talking about the topic.
After all this, Peaches’ Instagram account has finally been taken down, but obviously, this is not yet the end of the drama that Peaches is causing.
2021: Locked Up (or is it?)
On January 20th of 2021, it was announced by Lovely Peaches that she had gotten herself a dog. People who are familiar with her content know that this is an immediate red flag, and of course, not long after, a video has surfaced of Peaches doing something that no one was expecting.
In the video, Peaches stated: “The dog honestly made me too angry. We were walking, and he stopped and peed in the grass, and I said ‘Don’t pee in the f*ckin’ grass’. So we went back, when we finally got back inside, I took one of his legs and I broke it in half,”
Peaches went into detail on breaking the dog’s leg, stating that the dog was screaming when she did so, causing Peaches to break his other leg and then put him in a bathtub full of hot water. Peaches stated that her account will be deactivated in a few days, rightfully so. When this video surfaced people were disgusted. But before anyone could take action to save the dog, it was unfortunately too late.
More videos have surfaced of Peaches doing cruel things to her dog, such as spraying his eyes with perfume, treating it like a toy, and even grabbing it from its neck. Shortly after these videos became more mainstream, people began to lose it. Many accounts have tried to raise awareness in the situation, to some even finding Peaches’ location, somewhere in a hotel possibly in Atlanta.
A few hours after this whole deal was getting massive coverage on social media, news broke out that Peaches had been arrested. A user on TikTok explained how the police had finally made it to Peaches’ location, and the dog was taken away from her. Public records later show that Peaches has gotten arrested for animal cruelty. Many people were proud that Peaches had finally been arrested, but only for a while.
Not only a week after, Peaches was somehow released from jail, causing everyone on social media to officially lose it. Everyone just felt numb after this news. Almost as if no one can even stop Peaches anymore. However, people know that this wasn’t her first time behind bars, as she was arrested a few months back for being abusive towards her daughter Cora. By then, people were no longer cool with this. Here was what Peaches said in response to her comeback: “I love you guys so much, I’ve missed you Peachlings! I’ve got a YouTube video comin’ for yall,” “The haters gonna hate, I love all of you so so much.”
Not only that but people have been disgusted at how her fans have praised and supported her even ignoring her true behavior. People are afraid that Peaches might make the internet a toxic place yet again since that’s all people know her for at this point.
Efforts to STOP Lovely Peaches
It’s no doubt that what Lovely Peaches is doing is very controversial. On July 6th, 2020, Peaches was seen with her now 2-year-old daughter Cora again, by posting pictures of her and Cora on social media. People were not pleased with the news and denounced her so much that another FBI investigation was kickstarted.
Several petitions were made against Peaches once again, not only for the safety of her daughter’s well-being but also for Charli’s, and many other people’s well-being. By then, everyone was aware of Lovely Peaches and her harmful actions to others. On August 5th, A Facebook page by the name of Gillespie Forensics and Investigations uploaded a post, where a retired federal agent and current private investigator named Mark Gillespie called out Peaches in response to the whole situation:
“I can’t verify if they are true or false, but those videos are among the most disgusting and repulsive videos I’ve ever seen.” Mark concluded the video with a warning directed to Peaches: “Lovely Peaches, this is for you so pay close attention to what I’m about to tell you. You need to know that I will do everything in my power to rescue your child from your satanic hold on her and I promise you, I will find you, and see that you are arrested, indicted, convicted, and sentenced. And don’t think for a moment that I won’t.”
Mark also offered Charli his full aid, as well as the aid of his cadre of other white-collar professionals. The next day, after the collaborative toil of many individuals, both real life and social media, Children’s Riot, a group of concerned mothers who encounter and try to solve many child-related issues in the world, posted on their Instagram that Cora has been rescued from Peaches’ custody, stating that “she will never return” to her biological mother again. Since then, Peaches’ official accounts have been taken down, and there are still some Instagram accounts dedicated to telling people what to do to hold Lovely Peaches liable for her dirty accomplishes.
However, despite the struggles and efforts put into the case, Lovely Peaches continues to be a big name on social media. Most of her videos keep getting saved and shared and viewed. Also, many people have accounts with Peaches’ name in them, regardless of whether they are fan accounts or because Peaches has had her fair share of alternate accounts to keep posting in case her main accounts get deleted.
So, Where is She Now?
What lies ahead for this social media figure is and will possibly remain a mystery. The last time anyone heard of her was when she was freed from prison in January of 2021. There are two possibilities as to what happened to her sudden disappearance, including the fact that she is no longer able to harm her daughter Cora, who is now living with her grandparents and is still living to see another day.
The other fact claims that since so many people have exposed Peaches so much, that there is no one out there who does not know her name or does not know the horrific damages she caused to the internet with her dirty actions. This is a woman who has done so many things just for publicity, always on the bad side. People hope that Peaches will get herself the help she needs and that she will finally leave the internet alone.
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