Streamer Destiny sued for sharing intimate videos

Political commentary streamer and former StarCraft 2 player Steven K. Bonnell II, also known online as Destiny, is being sued in a Florida court for allegedly sharing sexually explicit videos of a woman without her consent. The lawsuit was filed by an unnamed woman, using the pseudonym Jane Doe and her online handle Pxie, on Feb. 18. Pxie first shared the allegations on social media in January, and raised more than $50,000 to pay for legal fees related to the then unfiled lawsuit. Pxie is seeking more than $1 million in damages.

Lawyers write in the 13-page complaint, which has been reviewed by Polygon, that Pxie and Bonnell had “sexual relations” once in September 2020; they had first met online approximately two years earlier, when Pxie was 19 and Bonnell was in his 30s. The lawsuit alleges that Bonnell filmed the two “engaging in sexual conduct,” and that, two years later, in October 2022, he “intentionally shared” one of the recordings with a 19-year-old female fan “without [Pxie’s] knowledge or consent.”

In November 2024 — four years after the intimate clips were recorded — the video that Bonnell allegedly shared with the fan was uploaded to Kiwi Farms, according to the lawsuit. Kiwi Farms is a web forum notorious for facilitating doxing and harassment, primarily of women and LGBTQ+ people. From there, it spread onto pornography websites, where captions allegedly named both Destiny and Pxie as participants. Lawyers write that Pxie’s face is “visible and identifiable” in the footage. The video has been viewed tens of thousands of times, according to the lawsuit.

Pxie, like Bonnell, is a streamer who focuses on politics, and lawyers write in the complaint that people began to spread rumors that she had “exchanged sex for professional growth and favors from Bonnell.” When Pxie directly asked Bonnell in November 2024 about sharing any videos of them, he apologized for having done so, replying via Discord, “I’m super sorry, there’s literally no excuse,” according to the lawsuit.

“While other people were undeniably harmed by these leaks, they were seen as collateral damage to the publisher of the material,” he wrote in a prepared statement for the YouTube video. While reading aloud from the letter, Bonnell flipped back and forth between screenshots of communications between himself and Pxie. Polygon has reached out to Bonnell for further comment.

In their complaint, Pxie’s lawyers write that as a result of the intimate video being shared online, she began feeling “increasingly humiliated, mortified and depressed, and start[ed] feeling suicidal.” After Pxie announced on social media in January that she was suing Bonnell, she received messages from “approximately fifteen women” who told her they had received from Bonnell “sexually explicit images […] of other women without the other women’s consent,” according to the lawsuit. At least two women, the complaint says, have since publicly alleged that Bonnell shared sexually explicit videos of them without their consent.

Pxie’s lawyers write in the suit that Bonnell also began a “smear campaign” against her, in which he claimed that she is “only interested in getting money from him” and that his only crime is being “too much of a gooner.” In addition, the complaint alleges that Bonnell has been “actively” deleting evidence related to the case and his actions.

Pxie’s lawsuit cites several different violations of state and federal laws: sexual cyberharassment, protections for intimate images, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and invasion of privacy. (Sexual cyberharassment is the term in Florida law that covers what is colloquially referred to as revenge porn.) Bonnell has not yet filed an official response to the lawsuit in court.