84 Videos, Zero Action: How Odysee Sided With a Convicted Defamer Over His Victim

Over the course of a year, a single Odysee channel posted 84 videos targeting one man — a British entrepreneur named Bryan Flowers. The videos accused him of human trafficking, child exploitation, money laundering, bribery, and organized crime. They included unauthorized images of his wife and children. They exposed his partial home address. Flowers submitted a comprehensive dossier documenting every video with timestamps and specific Community Guidelines violations to Odysee's legal and moderation teams.

Odysee's official response: the content "did not violate their policies."

The person behind the videos has since pleaded guilty to defamatory conduct and faces two criminal charges in Thailand. The content Odysee refused to remove was created by a convicted criminal.

A Year-Long Harassment Campaign

The channel @Soi6Whistleblower published 84 videos over approximately one year. The content included:

• False criminal accusations: allegations of human trafficking, child exploitation, money laundering, bribery, Hell's Angels involvement, organized crime, and selling underage content
• Images of the victim's family: unauthorized photographs of Flowers' wife and children used in video thumbnails and content
• Doxxing: partial exposure of the family's home address
• Sexualized content: depictions of Thai women and trans individuals used alongside defamatory claims
• Fabricated quotes: statements falsely attributed to Flowers
• Copyright infringement: Flowers' own videos and images reused without permission

Each of these individually violates Odysee's published Community Guidelines, which explicitly prohibit harassment, bullying, defamation, false allegations, doxxing, privacy violations, sexual exploitation, impersonation, and misleading content.

The Dossier Odysee Ignored

In 2025, Flowers submitted comprehensive documentation to Odysee's legal and moderation teams. The dossier included:

• All 84 videos cataloged with timestamps
• Specific Community Guidelines breaches identified for each video
• Evidence of the perpetrator's criminal history
• Documentation of the harm caused to the victim and his family

Odysee's legal representative reviewed the materials and concluded that the content "did not violate their policies."

84 videos. False accusations of child trafficking. Images of children. A partial home address. And Odysee — the platform whose CEO's leaked email said Nazis aren't grounds for removal — found nothing actionable.

The Perpetrator: Now a Convicted Criminal

The primary perpetrator behind the harassment campaign has been identified as Adam Howell. Since Odysee refused to act, Howell's legal situation has evolved significantly:

The person Odysee chose to protect — by refusing to remove his content — is now a convicted criminal facing additional charges. Odysee reviewed 84 videos of his work and determined it "did not violate their policies." The courts determined it violated the law.

Odysee's Own Rules — In Their Own Words

Here is what Odysee's published Community Guidelines say they prohibit. Every single one was violated by the 84 videos they refused to remove:

These rules exist on paper. They are prominently displayed on Odysee's website. And they are meaningless. When presented with 84 documented violations by a person who has since been convicted, Odysee's legal team concluded: not a violation.

Permanent Harm: The Arweave Problem

Odysee's migration to Arweave's "permaweb" makes this case even more alarming. Under the new architecture, content stored on Arweave is permanently and irrevocably stored. If the 84 defamatory videos — which a court has now confirmed are defamatory — are stored on Arweave, they cannot be removed. Ever. By anyone.

This is what "complete autonomy and self-governance with no compromises" actually means in practice: a convicted defamer's false accusations of child trafficking, featuring images of the victim's children, stored permanently on a blockchain that nobody can modify. And the platform that put it there reviewed the content and said it was fine.

What This Case Proves

The Flowers case is not an edge case. It is a documented proof of concept for how Odysee's moderation system works — or rather, how it doesn't:

1. Reporting is useless. A comprehensive dossier with timestamps, specific guideline breaches, and evidence of criminal conduct was submitted. Odysee's response: no violation.
2. The guidelines are decorative. Every single prohibition in Odysee's Community Guidelines was violated across 84 videos. The legal team still found no violation.
3. Odysee protects perpetrators. The person making the content has been convicted. Odysee protected his content against the victim.
4. Blockchain makes it permanent. The migration to Arweave means this content could be stored forever, beyond any court order's reach.
5. The pattern is consistent. This is the same platform that hosts 4,711 flagged items with an 11.5 million view count and a 0% removal rate. The same platform whose CEO wrote "nazi isn't grounds for removal." The same platform that hosts a US-designated terrorist organization.

Flowers has since launched odyseewarning.com to warn others. Legal complaints are being filed against Odysee's domain registrar and hosting provider. UK law enforcement has been provided with evidence.

The message from Odysee is clear: if someone posts 84 videos accusing you of child trafficking, featuring images of your children, and exposing your home address — and even if that person is later convicted — Odysee will review the content and tell you it's fine.

That is not a moderation failure. That is a policy.