Actor Mark Harley has released leaked direct messages exposing Brendan Schaub’s attempt to purchase a moderator account on the TFATK subreddit. According to Harley’s disclosure, the messages reveal an elaborate scheme involving Schaub, his brother Jay, and Harley himself.
The conversation begins with Schaub requesting Mark send information, followed by discussion of shutting down a Discord server for TFATK community.
“They’re already freaking out, huh?” Schaub wrote, adding “Not too many people are going to go over there, lol. I love it.”
Harley shared communications with a subreddit moderator willing to sell their account. Schaub initially responded positively, noting they could “at least get rid of the bad ones.”
However, his tone shifted when Harley mentioned the Schaub brothers by name in communications with the seller.
“I wish he didn’t say disgust with Schaub brothers. We don’t want to be tied to it in any facet, dude,” Schaub wrote. “That’s why I had you make a fake email.”
He continued expressing concern: “Man, you’re giving a person we don’t know in any facet way too much info. He doesn’t need these details or confirmation from the Schaub brothers. Please stop with that.”
Schaub worried about potential exposure, stating the seller was “clearly a former troll” and that if something went wrong, “He’s going to be like, it’s Brendan. I have proof. Look at this.”
He repeatedly insisted: “There’s just zero upside using my name or Jay’s. Literally zero.”
Schaub told Mike to make an offer of $1000 dollars for buying the moderator account.
When negotiations began, the seller requested eight thousand dollars for the moderator account. Schaub’s response was skeptical: “Oh wow, he might be a troll.”
He suggested countering with “Oh wow. Yeah, it’s not worth 8K to us. Appreciate you even reaching out.”
The messages reveal Schaub had already invested in what he called his “dark web team” to take down the subreddit entirely. “I don’t have too much faith in my dark web team. They’ve been saying for months they can get it down, but I don’t know,” he admitted.
Technical questions dominated later exchanges, with Schaub asking whether moderators could ban other moderators and whether their actions could be reversed. “We can just ban that entire user base in there and nobody would see anything,” he wrote optimistically.
Perhaps most revealing was Schaub’s statement: “We can also post positive things and I can tell fans to go.” The plan included removing other moderators before they realized what happened.
Throughout the conversation, Schaub emphasized protecting his reputation, telling Harley: “This is my career. When I hand you this stuff, no one else is affected. Treat it like he wants to hurt us. That’s how we protect the business.”
