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What I’m about to say sounds unbelievable

User Profile: johnng823
johnng823 July 27th, 2025

About TalkLife

I’m scared for my safety and well-being. Nobody believes me, or when I try to talk about it, I guess it scares people away. Recently in the last month and a half maybe two months I have been working on getting an app that is like this but different. I want someone to take me seriously. I feel like nobody does. Honestly, what do I have to gain from this? I have absolutely nothing to gain and everything to lose. I’m shaken about this whole thing. I should tell you the App that is involved, but I’m afraid that this post will be taken down and I don’t want that. I’ve come here for support, I’ve come here because I’m legitimately scared for my safety and well-being, I’ve come here because I’ve used this service before and it helped. I’m not misrepresenting facts, I’m not doing anything like that. OK so now that that is over and then just start from the beginning. 

I spent a lot of time on the app in question so I understand how it works, plus I’m also just a nerd. I emailed the CEO of this company every day for a month. I never got a response back, not once. I’ve started noticing things. I had some pictures on my phone of someone who was involved in this whole thing and it was a screenshot of a man who was harassing individuals on this app. Those two pictures I had disappeared. I’ve also been working on this with someone I’m very close to And she had a whole folder of evidence that has gone missing. It’s all gone. I do have some screenshots on my phone still but the important ones I sent to a friend. I didn’t understand where my pictures went, and I just found out today about her folder. Here’s what you need to honestly know about this app. It’s not a mental health app. It’s not like 7 cups whether they’re helpful and they care about people. They say it is but it’s not. I know this because of what I’m going to tell you now. Someone got into my computer at my home here. What happened is known as a man in the middle attack and that basically means that between me and their website that I wanted to go to was a person or a computer making it so I couldn’t do it and what’s really important about that is this website was for state agency where you would go to file complaints like against Internet providers and cell phone companies, things like that. When I went to the website, it was blocked. I couldn’t get it, not securely. My computer gave me that warning. There’s no reason for this at all. I got the same warning from 3 different sites something was off. After doing some digging, I found some really disturbing stuff that puts the app in the middle of this whole thing. I was having some problems with my phone and I wanted to pay close attention to what was happening inside the app because I knew that people were being hurt. So I used an emulator or basically a simulation of a phone inside the computer. I downloaded the app And I used it for a little bit of time. What I’m gonna tell you now doesn’t sound the best but it’s important so that you understand. I wasn’t supposed to be on the app. They blocked me from the app and the reason they blocked me is because I was actually bringing attention to the issue. That’s Why. Because I wouldn’t sit down and shut up and be complicit in this game they were playing. Because I refuse to shut up when minors and young women are and currently and have been targeted in ways where minors shouldn’t be targeted. Yeah, that kind of thing. It wasn’t just minor though, it was any woman on the app. I have heard stories of people going through major psychological stress and symptoms of trauma because of this app.  I have contacted or been in contact with people who talked about doing things that indicated they did not like themselves at all. One of these was this girl that I was talking to. Anyways, let’s back up a little bit here. I was able to go through my computer after I disconnected it from the internet and looked through the records of my connections and everything. I found out that my computer and the android studio program I was using created an entry point for the hackers who were involved in this. Now there are four apps on that emulator. Everything else was bloatware (things that are included on the phone when you buy them from the manufacturer. So like for Apple, Apple Music, FaceTime, that is bloatware.) The first app was the app in question. The second was a social media app, and the third and fourth had to do with stock market trading. There’s no other way that someone could’ve gotten into my computer in any other fashion and I have proof of that.i have screenshots… proof that there was a incredible amount of data coming into my computer. We are talking 340 gigs in 40 minutes. To put that in your perspective, that is like 12 full length 4K movies meaning 24+ hours of continuous video. I don’t think I have to tell you that that’s unusual especially for. Computer from 2014. It should’ve have ever been possible for my computer to operate. Basically what you need to know is that I traced it back through the emulator to this app. I had people who knew insider information about the app and about me who shouldn’t have had that information. For example, I made a new account I was on there for about two days. Maybe a little more, that is when I got a message from somebody saying that they knew who I was and mentioned to me by name. This is not possible, it’s not. The only way that this would happen is if somebody inside the app or the company was monitoring my IP address. The same thing happened with her… but a little different. She made a new account within a second, she got a message saying “this is a perfect username for you.” It was something that she picked about Medusa for some reason.  Again, no way anybody could’ve known that. It was a brand new account just like the one I made, and it was a message that came in immediately when she made the account.  There are two kinds of people on this app, and there are the predators and then enablers and then there are the ones who are on the app to get help. Those who need help are the people that I’m concerned about, and these other people that I have been fighting for because I’m not going let someone get hurt. By the way for you people who are more technical 45K ping. Also not normal. None of this was normal. When I called Apple about this today, I explained to them the situation. I was supposed to talk with someone at the senior level, but they refused to talk to me. What that means is they refused to talk to me. This is because they could be held liable as this app was on their store. Don’t misunderstand it because it’s also on Google play as well. The app is called TalkLife, stay away from it. It’s dangerous and I have proof of that now. What’s going on there is abuse and I do not know what to do, I’m scared, and I need just one person to believe me. that’s it. I suggest you go do research on your own.  There’s more than enough evidence online that you will find that back up my claims. One of them is a website that’s actually run by some media company I think who explains how dangerous this is. They wrote a whole article on it. I’ve contacted the FTC as I said earlier and I’ve also contacted the Department of Justice. Im scared. Also super important when I remove the app from my phone and when I remove the app from my computer, they both returned to normal. Now you understand why I’m scared for my safety. I have screenshots. 

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User Profile: unassumingEyes
unassumingEyes July 28th, 2025

@johnng823 i dont know how to help, but im so sorry you have to face all of this! I can imagine how daunting it must be with all the information you have and the lack of peoples trust in you. Personally i dont fond this unbelievable, there are other dangerous places on the internet that claim to be safe spaces for mental-health issues, and it sounds like this is a really bad one :/ idk what you can do about it honestly but i do believe you and i hope youll be okay through it all 🤍

User Profile: fossilfellow
fossilfellow July 28th, 2025

@johnng823 you're not alone in this. I've been through similar things 🤍 it's best to distance yourself from those sites and applications. And please don't engage on them deeper. Sending lots of love your way! ❤️❤️