It was business as usual on Friday as YouTuber Lane Myers livestreamed audio of his arraignment for eight counts of felony aggravated harassment and seven counts of misdemeanor harassment.
The charges were brought after repeated complaints by Shannon Walker, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center employee, that Myers violated a no-contact order that is in place preventing Myers from contacting her.
Myers was released without bond on Friday on the condition that he does not make contact with his alleged victim. When pressed by the prosecution, the Judge stated that making contact includes making videos about Walker, contacting Walker’s family or co-workers or visiting her place of business. Myers was also ordered to remove all YouTube videos he’s made about the victim.
As of Sunday night, Myers claimed that he could not comply with the court’s orders to take down the videos as he was never provided a list of specific videos to remove from his channel. He claimed he would comply once he received the list of videos to remove.
Myers also put up a new video about his alleged victim, Shannon Walker. The video showed how to do a google search to find Walker. It also featured her profile from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center website, along with the direct profiles and photos of her co-workers.
The tone of the video was complimentary, with Myers going out of his way to praise Walker and the staff of the Medical Center.
Not so complimentary were Myers’ videos featuring the image of prosecutor Rachel Stiles, who oversaw his arraignment. Myers used the term “Kunt” in the thumbnail of one of the two videos posted about the prosecutor on Sunday and indicated his displeasure about her ruling.
The two videos primarily featured Myers nitpicking police reports related to the charges against him, the charges himself, and, of course, multiple dance breaks as the YouTuber busted a move for his adoring fans.
Myers also found himself at odds with the person who runs his former-run Twitter/X channel. That channel, now known as “Lame Liars Channel for NonViolent Social Deception,” featured screen captures of an exchange between Myers and the person running the account.
The exchange featured Myers threatening legal action against the fan-run site as he claims they had a contract, and the fan violated the terms of the contract. The fan retorted that Myers had no legal control over the account as he did not create or own the account. Myers then notified the account owner that the Twitter/X account needs to be deleted as any activity on the account after January 14, 2025, “would be a crime.”
Update: We’re well aware of the threats Myers made against our own YouTube channel in his Monday night broadcast. Had Mr. Myers stopped and actually watched the video, what he said was actionable was our direct account of a Christopher “Direct D” Ruff livestream.
We suggest that Mr. Myers, who has now threatened Direct D with a lawsuit, along with a lawsuit against the person who was running his Twitter/X account, check into the legal definition of defamation before making such threats, let alone actually taking action.
What was presented in our video happened on Direct D’s livestream, which accompanied the video in our “Text Only” link. We’re unaware of any laws that we’ve broken by presenting such coverage.
If we had made up the story, we would have labeled it as parody, which is covered under the same First Amendment Myers is using to counter sue Arizona and protect his own YouTube videos featuring his alleged wild claims and possible inaccuracies when describing witnesses, judges, and court officials involved in court cases against him.
We stand by our reporting.
As far as profiting from Mr. Myers, we’ve brought in less than $10.00 in revenue from videos featuring him as a subject of the video. His videos tend to do worse than our normal videos as Lane Myers is not a household name. While infamous to a small audience, direct interest has been lacking and any profit from reporting on his activities has been negligible at best.
We otherwise thank Mr. Myers for the promotion. They again resulted in a small blip in our overnight viewing numbers.
Correction: A previous version of this article identified Rachel Stiles as a Judge, when she is, in fact, a Prosecuting Attorney. We apologize for the error.
