It is with a little delay that Jeremstar arrives at the appointed appointment. Truth be told, we’d be almost surprised to see him after seeing his story a few minutes earlier. The videos show him speeding down the ski slopes of Val Thorens in Savoy, accompanied by friends. So far the 16th arrondissement of Paris where we must find it. “I no longer post in real time, I am very careful, in retrospect I was able to analyze the dangers of social networks.
The creator of the content arrives, then, wrapped in his black down jacket, calm, almost ashamed. Not that we expected to see him land, phone in hand, in the middle of filming a video and screaming loudly. But the contrast between the man in the stories and the man in real life is striking.
Like the place where the exchange takes place: the cafeteria of his publishing house. When Jeremstar is asked where would have been most appropriate to place his portrait, he answers an eye for an eye: “in court, in an audience chamber.” A way according to him to correspond to these years of media and legal tumults.
Especially not an influencer
Jeremstar -a pseudonym used daily by Jeremy Gisclon since the late 2000s (“I give my stage name when I introduce myself, it’s a habit. I integrated it. He’s not a different person from me.”)- defines himself today as a leader of business. In charge of his own company, he now alternates the creation and production of audiovisual concepts, journalistic interviews or even one-man shows. However, it is out of the question to describe him as an influencer, “too notorious for all the scams”, stating above all that most of his income does not come from product placements.
The creator also added another hat to his list, that of writer. Already the author of three books, Jeremstar has just published his fourth book. Not a biography or guide to getting into reality TV this time, but social media survivor (Ediciones Hugo Image) is an intimate testimony of his relationship with the platforms and cyberbullying as he experienced it.
In this 200-page book, Jeremstar goes behind the scenes of his legal problems, but also of his new relationship with social networks. If they helped him make himself known and spread gossip about him, he is now more cautious. The possibility of going out instagram or Twitter, however, never touched it. “It’s not up to me to quit social media, it’s up to the people who misbehave to be banned,” she says.
A platform to start your rebuild
However, there is one big topic that Jeremstar has decided to stop laughing about: cyberbullying. Since the “Gate of Jeremstar”, launched in 2018 and which accused him of being in charge of a network of prostitution of minors, the creator hopes not to go a day without insults or death threats. He seems almost resigned, even used to it. Testimony of the almost robotic way in which he reveals his judicial journey and his fights, just as he has told the media or in court in recent months.
To recover from this experience, Jeremstar decides to apply his mantra: “turn negative into positive.” A few months ago he launched his own platform, acoso.online, to help young people who are experiencing cyberbullying. A way for him to “start his rebuilding” and to offer his audience a place to speak freely, “much less cold than government sites where young people find it hard to identify themselves.” An embodied site where the cameraman himself responds every day to testimonials and, above all, a way to complement existing associations.
Only one association, Hugo!, accompanied him during his militant actions, in particular before the Paris court on October 7. Because Jeremstar does not hide it: he intends to assume the role of spokesman for the fight against cyberbullying. “As a spokesman, my judicial decisions are useful since I am the only one who has obtained such forceful decisions,” he recalls. “It costs me dearly, but it serves jurisprudence. I hope that more and more people call me when they talk about these issues. I know the subject better than anyone.”
“Justice pushes suicide because of its slowness”
Even with ongoing lawsuits, Jeremstar isn’t ashamed to openly criticize the slowness of justice, one of the other subjects close to his heart. “Justice must take the popular court of social networks as a model since they condemn immediately. There are immediate appearances for cocaine trafficking, but when there is real human suffering, there is no one. I understand people who commit suicide. Justice pushes suicide because of its slowness.”
A slowness that is also usually accompanied by decisions that are considered little dissuasive or significant. Olivier Porri Santoro, a journalist from Nice, was sentenced, for example, to four months in prison for leading a smear campaign against Jeremstar, before this sentence was overturned following the Court of Appeal ruling.
The former C8 television columnist campaigns first for more sanctions, but also for the creation of a file of digital aggressors so that they appear as offenders. He also wants them to be banned from signing up for an internet subscription.
His often criticized past
Part of the reason Jeremstar is so denigrated and attacked is because of his past as a professional gossip teller. Feeding a blog specializing in reality TV and hosting his guests in his famous bathtub, the videographer has forged an image as a gossip, often at the root of cyberbullying campaigns against certain show candidates.
A past that he regrets, although he warns that the use of social networks it wasn’t the same “I was far from doing horrible things, but in retrospect, otherwise I would have made my debut. I corrected the situation and made a real my faultin particular by apologizing to the people who could get it from”, confesses Jeremstar.
The businessman thus regrets the way in which Internet users tend to hide the moment in which an ex-defendant becomes a victim, stating that “rehabilitation is impossible.” Jeremstar affirms it: “it is much more of a seller to be guilty even if it is false. As soon as one wins lawsuits, no one takes over.”
However, justice has once again supported her status as a victim of cyberbullying. The investigating judge in charge of the 2018 investigation into the harassment of the blogger Aqababe has decided to reopen the investigation, extending the acts of harassment until 2022.
“This laxity of justice pushed my cyberbullyer to continue as a few weeks ago he was still talking about me in unflattering terms and laughing at his first conviction. (12,000 euros in damages and 2 000 euros fine for defamation and public insults, Ed). Bullying is when it goes on for a long time. It’s been 4 years now,” laments Jeremstar, who confirms that other complaints have been filed by other influencers against the blogger.
A politicized future?
Besides having a grudge against justice, Jeremstar also goes after the government. met well cedric or or Laetitia Avia, he for a time Secretary of State in charge of digital, she at the origin of the law against hate content on the Internet. But that goes back several years. And that is no longer enough for Jeremstar, who rebels against “certain politicians who comment [ses] stories because there are sexy guys, but they don’t answer when [il] request appointments to give your opinion on [sa] confrontation with justice”. He also regrets that the government has not received Mavachou’s companion, a young influencer close to Jeremstar, who committed suicide in December 2021 after a wave of cyberbullying against him.
The creator wants to speak to a member of the government, ideally the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupont-Moretti. A few years ago, Brigitte Macron had responded to him by mail, without however granting him a physical meeting. “All the time I see influencers invited to the Elysée Palace to make humorous or live videos. It’s all very well for fun, but I have real messages to convey,” says Jeremstar, a bit disappointed.
What if instead of waiting for answers from politicians, Jeremstar jumped into the arena? The hypothesis may make you smile, but it doesn’t scare the former blogger who wants more “young people in government who have been harassed and understand this new digital world, to act faster.”
Because while he waits for the end of his tests, in a year or two according to his hopes, Jeremstar projects himself into the future. Always on social networks of course, but with that even stronger desire to help the victims. And a detour into politics does not seem inconceivable.
Far be it from him to run for president as Jean Marie Bigard (“No pressure,” he jokes), but he doesn’t rule out giving politics the benefit of his digital expertise and experiences. “If one day they offer me to be a deputy or have a role in the government or in the National Assembly on the issue of cyberbullying, why not?”
Source: BFM TV
