The life and death of hidden video porn king Swell80

I think a lot of his videos were made in the days when you could get away with playing porn on your laptop while having the camera on at the same time. He is constantly repositioning the the laptop so the guy can "see the porn" not realizing Steven was just positioning it to get a better angle of the action. So it looks like the guy is always looking into the camera when he is actually just trying to watch the porn on the screen.

OP - you did a great job of summing up the essence of his videos.

This curious carpenter appeared in about five of his videos. He was one of the few guys Steven actually ended up fucking. Most of his videos are just getting a guy to masturbate with him while watching a porn video. I guess it makes you wonder if any of the guys ended up killing themselves after being exposed in such a way all across the internet. He makes no attempt to cover their faces or keep them anonymous.

Traveling to Costa Rica for gay-for-pay activities? What could go wrong???

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Yikes! Stay away from Costa Rica!

I remember this being mentioned and thinking that this murder was a waste of good dick.

I have to agree with you R7. Even though what he was doing was pretty sketchy. I can't imagine making your money from possibly ruining innocent guys lives. But when you remove yourself from the sordid backstories, the videos are pretty hot for those who enjoy voyeurism.

I wonder if one of the guys he secretly filmed killed him in a rage or if he was killed in a random robbery because they knew he kept money on him to bribe guys.

Did he inadvertently record his own murder?

I have to admit I found some of his videos hot, despite the ethically deplorable nature of them. This one with the hot bi guy was my favorite.

Man, what a brutal and horrifying way to go.

But the guy was playing Russian Roulette with his porn livelihood. This wasn't a completely unexpected outcome.

His videos were pretty hot. But I knew they were sketchy, when he’d be picking up Spanish-speaking dudes off the street in what was clearly not the US, and hooking up in back seats. I still remember being mad because he hid one car fuck vid behind a paywall haha. RIP tho, yikes.

No sympathy here for what happened to him. Not that it would matter, as he's dead anyway.

Exploiter/sex predator asked for it.

It's pretty clear that there are (or were) drugs sometimes being exchanged for sex, and that swell80 was buying or selling drugs, especially once he was down living in Central America. I think I read somewhere that the police speculated that the murder was a drug deal gone wrong. I don't doubt that it's possible that one of his former tricks murdered him, but the odds of the poverty-stricken guys he was filming towards the end having access to a paid membership to xvideos and knowing exactly where to look for his videos seems pretty slim to me, or that their friends or family would have accessed those clips. It's more likely, if one of the tricks killed him, that the trick came by hoping to score some more cash, or just aware that a Norte Americano probably had more cash laying around his trailer that he wasn't sharing. I can see someone showing up with a knife, demanding some cash, and getting into an altercation that ended with multiple stab wounds.

I actually prefer his earlier clips made in Canada, especially the ones where he rims someone until the guy gives up his ass. (His commentary always claims that they're straight or bi-curious, but I have my doubts).

He had some hot videos but they indeed got sketchier as time went on—lots of rough trade and weirder scenarios. There is one later in South America where he gets fucked by a guy in his RV that is pretty hot though. My favorite of them though was where he jerked off with a “straight” electrician who, after a long jerkoff session, volunteers to suck his dick unannounced. It was hot as fuck.

He didn't fuck that many guys, but this guy appeared in his videos. I know Swell did renovations and I think this guy was a married electrician that he worked with. It's just hot to me when a curious guy turns out to be a horny bottom who loves taking dick. You can tell they get it so rarely that they are totally into it when they do. The guy is super cute too and loves getting fucked. His moaning and passion is really hot. There are three other videos of them together out there somewhere. Again I feel terrible that this guys private exploration are exploited like this but they are hot to watch.

r15, I think this is the video you are talking about. The guy's wedding ring is as big as day in the video. You can tell he's not used to doing this because taking Swells dick is difficult for him to do. I would imagine these guys are married early bisexual guys who have very little experience with men. But it is hot how horny he is to try to get fucked. Although I think he might regret it half way through since as we all know it's not the easiest thing to do if you don't know what you're getting into.

R17 I think his name was Kyle, and yeah, he appeared in a few videos. They were some of the hottest because you could tell he was very into it and LOVED taking dick. Cute guy, too.

In the comments section under one of his videos on his xvideos account, there was one where the commenter was basically threatening him with a lawsuit because he didn't know he was being recorded at the time. He just made risky decisions and probably bad connections. Could have just gone to Florida and have countless latinos of his choice to jerk off with. RIP, nonetheless.

R20 I think what got him off was the whole setup - getting guys to show up under false pretenses, then seeing how far he could get them to go.

He was probably one of those guys who couldn't get excited unless there was some weird element of danger involved.

There was the extra element of documenting it R21. That is next level. And not only documenting it but showing the world what he had done. Maybe it came from an impulse of self-loathing over being gay and his place in the world, his family. He had to show the world that there are more people like him than most people think. He had to prove that his gayness was common and not some weird outlier. The videotaping and distributing part and having zero boundaries is the problem.

It reminds of Bill Cosby. People say he got off raping women. It was more than that. He got off raping comatose women, which is some next level serial killer shit. Like ultimately he is a necrophiliac. In his global travels, I am sure there are probably some unnamed, unknown women who never woke up, or made it out of what he did to them.

He had a good dick but he couldn't live forever.

Amen to that. We can just hope it wasn't cut off during the stabbing r23 and that he is able to Rest inTact

The guys always looked at the camera. Did he have straight porn on while recording the action?

It depends, r25. In some of the scenarios he told the guys his girlfriend wants a 3-way and so she would be watching (which was the excuse he had for recording) so there may have been porn and in some cases another person ostensibly or actually watching. Whether that person existed and whether they were male or female is unknown.

Other times he did have porn on the screen.

Dr. Sigmund Fruit checks in at r22.

Holy shit, what ludicrous bullshit you created without ever having even spoken with your “patient.”

I’m a straight acting gay man. Not an ounce of what you call self-loathing, and I would love to set up a scenario exactly like this.

Why is every armchair psychologist’s go-to either “on the spectrum,” “narcissistic,” or “self-loathing” without a scintilla of medical testing or evidence?

R27 Sounds like you've got a helluva lot of self-loathing, not to mention barely concealed violent tendencies, goin' on there.

I'd recommend you release your own arm from its chair, get to a psychiatrist, and undergo some medical testing.

Sounds like Costa Rica is not a great place to be murdered.

I don’t know. I heard he gave it 3/5 stars on Yelp.

[quote]I’m a straight acting gay man. Not an ounce of what you call self-loathing, and I would love to set up a scenario exactly like this.

You must have been seeing red when you read my post r27. I am not talking about the scenario exactly itself. Although catfishing guys into jacking is on the lower end of the morals spectrum - that isn't self-loathing. That's just being horny.

The part that was EXTRA was not only recording it, but broadcasting it for the world to see. You are essentially taking someone's private moment and potentially ruining their life. You would have to wonder if after all of this time any of those guys killed themselves over this. I wouldn't be shocked. I was saying his need to show the world was self-loathing possibly because he had to show that everyone has gay tendencies. He's not gay, he's just being a horny guy, like everyone else.

Haha, R27 sounds nuttier than a fruitcake! "I'm not self loathing and I'm a big, butch he-man not like those faggots." Sure, Jan!

gay panic lives on.

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It's not normal to trick people into recording them during sex. This is something psychopaths do.

It's really not normal to broadcast those videos online. Again, a major mental disorder must be present for someone to justify this behavior; mentally well people just wouldn't. One doesn't need to play armchair psychiatrist to see those things as facts. A number of moral norms need to be crossed to get to the stage of operating a porn empire from constantly filming non-consensual sex videos and posting them online. These aren't moral lapses, they're compulsive and deliberate behavior that consciously devalues other people as sexual objects.

He had a pathology that he expressed in an exploitative and dehumanizing way. "The videos were hot" doesn't change that. If you would "love to set up a scenario exactly like this" then there's something wrong with you, too, and going out of your way to announce it while calling someone else crazy only confirms it.

The bit about being straight acting is just the crazy icing on a batshit cake.

Where's my armchair?

WTF is R34 talking about? I never mentioned any of these guys were straight. I'd be embarrassed to actually sign a post like that. Where Darkgeminilord did I say anyone was actually straight? Please enlightenment me so I can understand your vitriol.

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r35 99.9% of these trickery videos are faked and have been from the beginning.

That wasn't armchair psychology, but rather ethics, theology or philosophy. It's rationalization not logic.

victim blaming and sexism... misogyny. The idea that violent predators are the real victims, unwillingly lured into the depths of sodom by the depraved homosexual and murder was their only rite of purification back into the bosom of the patriarchy.

r36 He's triggered by the idea that str8 men are capable of gay acts without being attracted to males. He believes they must be gay or bi. And that neither a gay or str8 man can pop a bone for someone they're not attracted to.

Darkgeminilord, R37 that is not what I said at all. If you read what I wrote actually I said that was part of HIS self loathing. He had to film these guys because he is a self loathing gay that had to show the world he wasn't gay gay, just a horny guy stroking with another guy like a lot of guys do. It was in response to R27 saying there was no self-loathing involved.

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A lot of people crack open a bottle of wine and crash into Datalounge like a wrecking back picking up a phrase here are there as they swing through. Their intention is havoc.

Darkgeminilord what would you say to a man who puts his cock through a hole to get it sucked off while he watches porn on his phone. How would you describe his sexuality when he can't see who is doing it? Men are wired to get off and arousal can be in the mind.

MARY!

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r40 Yes, I do rather enjoy fucking but do you think calling me an idiot is the best way to communicate your point? So, this is about a trans obsession and not really gay men? Or do you believe that males that get an erection while raped enjoy it? Tsk. Tsk. They really did a number on you, didn't they. So, why are you so hysterical and paranoid over the trans thing to think it applies to any of us? Will you be doing penile plethysmograph on us all now to ensure we're not tranny fuckers?

His videos were hot when he was in his area. But as stated from everyone else, once he moved to a third world country and was picking up the locals, you knew it wasn’t going to end well.

He was an ignorant white guy because I bet he got in trouble exposing these white guys and thought a bunch of Hispanic guys in a third world country would never find out what he was doing. Little did he know.

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Darkgeminilord is living in a very 20th century binary world. I guess a woman who likes getting choked during sex likes being punched in the noggin in real life. Sexuality is as individual as a blue print. But I guess your binary definitions make you feel safe and sound. Loosin up Sandy baby. Not everything has to be black and white. If I sucked on a hot pair of tits, that hardly makes me bisexual. It just makes me sexual. Gay is more than who sucks your cock or what gets it hard. Same goes for straight.

r46 Some would say bisexual males don't exist. There are gay acts or str8 acts. Generally, people assume any str8 man that commits a gay act is gay/bisexual Yet any homosexual male that commits str8 act is still suspect, often viewed as a predator of females. The kinsey scale on a social level simply reduces the number of homosexuals... it significantly lessens our numbers, even though these suspicions remain of a divide between str8 and gay without bisexuality entering into the equation.

r49 Why would you assume I'm bisexual? You know, when it comes to sex the labels aren't significant to men.. cock is. So, one can keep a male in their head, watch gay porn (or even str8 porn while focusing on the male)

r50 where did I admit what? And what makes you believe we're all sociopaths and you're pure, true, authentic, filled with virtue on the one truth path of holy sodomy?

r50 if we were playing the assumptions game, I'd would be inclined to think you're either a lesbian (as their culture is more hostile to bisexuals) or a g@y (one of those bizarre cult gays that try to police every other homo... the closest male comparison to radical feminists)

^ ah, apparently they're zeros... I thought it was the at sign. It seemed like it would have made more sense.

Darkmingwhatever is a troll. Block it and move on. Get better at spotting trolls in the future. Don't indulge their obvious efforts to derail a thread by responding to obvious shitposts. Block and move on.

It's a passive-aggressive revenge fantasy. Getting one over on the privileged hetero male. What could be more deliciously evil than exposing someone- esp. if they were doing something taboo?

Darkgeminilord you need serious help

Oh, Attmay's alter ego has discovered this thread!

It's just like I thought. I'm a handsexual because I can stay hard while jerking off.

people are very curious beings aren't they?

Well, this just has to become a movie. Bradley Cooper?

I thought he was sexy all by himself. He could have picked up hot guys that knew he was filming and wouldnt care. But there you have it,everyone has a kink.

i had no idea he died... damn

Not just died. He was MURDERED.

Dun dun dun!!

I think about men, a lot. Yet my dick can get hard while I’m doing it, regardless of whether it’s in a man’s mouth, a woman’s mouth or a fleshlight.

That doesn’t make me bisexual.

Straight guy fetishists are always fucked up

This cumdump had a bunch of videos on the internet. I always wondered if his visitors knew they were being filmed. They all look on the downlow.