Chapter 6. Keri Smith's #WalkAway Revenge
Keri's best friend, #WalkAway spokesperson Mike Harlow, faked having cancer to smear me. December 2021-February 2022.
Although we are deviating from Keri Smith today to introduce her best friend, I still recommend you read our story from the beginning. That’s the way I intend it.
If you haven’t read Chapter 1 yet, start here.
Mike Harlow is Keri Smith’s best friend and partner in crime.
Mike Harlow is a desperate hanger on to Keri, a person whose only mission in life is to be famous. He’s been an extra in a lot of music videos, tried out for a lot of reality shows, actually got selected to be on Survivor before getting cut from the cast (it’s a sore spot for him) and started grifting into the “MAGA influencer” space on the conservative political right in about 2019 when he realized there was money to be made pretending to care about politics.
A lot of failed actors, comedians, and performers do this. You’ll see them all over the conservative influencer space. It’s the only way they can get an audience.
For what it’s worth, his real name is Michael Bernstein. That’s why, in his GiveSendGo where he is begging for people to pay his moving expenses (he can’t be bothered to get a real job), you’ll see that the funds will be received by Michael Bernstein.
I know all this because I toured with him for six months as a part of the #WalkAway campaign in 2020. Mike Harlow isn’t just Keri Smith’s best friend. He’s also Brandon Straka’s best friend.
Well, he’s anyone’s best friend as long as he believes that person can make him famous, or pay his bills.
I wasn’t sure I was going to write about him. But then, last night, I was speaking to someone about the situation with Keri, and we ended up talking about Harlow as well.
I said: “I thought he was my friend when we were with #WalkAway. I tried to do everything I could to help him.”
They said: “Yeah, Karlyn he was never your friend because when you were touring, he would call me all the time to talk about how much he hated you.”
I wasn’t surprised. I was just disappointed.
I’m fairly certain he did this to get close to me to get information he could use to get me kicked out of #WalkAway so he could get Keri Smith to take my place.
I did eventually leave #WalkAway because Brandon Straka saw nothing wrong with Mike Harlow’s behavior. So, he won.
So, I decided that since he’s going to show up repeatedly throughout our story anyway, I’d dedicate a chapter to him and some of his greatest hits against me.
He’s the attack dog
Mike Harlow is basically Keri Smith’s attack dog. He goes out of his way to twist everything I say and do against me for the sheer purpose of spinning up a mob of below-average IQ followers against me.
I’m not joking about that, his fans are the lowest of the low. The white trash of the internet. They’re almost all anonymous accounts that just spend their days in a constant state of outrage on Twitter.
Let’s start our journal in December 2021 when Keri really started to lose it (I covered that in our last chapter).
This was when, in the midst of a two-hour discussion of morality, I tweeted that Hitler went to heaven because God loves everyone unconditionally, even if they are bad people, and there is no hell so there’s no possible way he can go there.
Well, he jumped right on it, RTing and replying to as many people as he could to spin up his outrage mob.
Remember, I had clear policy reasons for joining the Libertarian Party in April 2021 that I outlined in chapter 3. But still, they continue to spin this idea that I’m not really anything and have no firm beliefs, while never providing an example.
Harlow loves to call me names. Butch. Krispy (that stands for bacon, they’re calling me fat). Potato. You’ll see him make lots of superficial attacks as we proceed.
Ahhhh conservative grifter Ian Miles Cheong shows up again. Imagine my shock.
“Pile of pudding” - he’s a deeply kind and empathetic person.
Remember, in chapter 3 I showed you evidence from just this week (December 6, 2022) that Nick Fuentes’ supporters consider him part of their anti-semitic movement.
Harlow always has some excuse, some way to rationalize these things away. But I promise you that Nick Fuentes’ supporters DO NOT think I’m a friend of their movement.
I have other evidence, too, from when I was brigade by the white identitarians. I’m sure I’ll go through my thousands of old screenshots and find it at some point.
Apparently, my “day of reckoning” was over a year ago. They’re so desperate to destroy me. Any minute now…
He also has an unhealthy obsession with the amount of content I produce because…well…he doesn’t make any of his own.
Narrator: Just because you don’t want to admit reality doesn’t mean she lied.
Well, at least he admitted I”m not anti-semitic, I suppose.
Ah! This is the statement from Kieran that Keri Smith retweeted saying “integrity” when she had no insight into our relationship at all. I didn’t realize I had a screenshot of it! Since Kieran’s account is now private so I can’t see the tweets as of this writing. But I have an archive of Mike Harlow’s tweets that I’m pulling from for this project.
If you missed this, I covered it in chapter 5.
At this point, he and Keri had been publicly harassing me for a year, literally tweeting hundreds of things about me.
But of course, the only reason I’d be “coming at them” is that I’m mentally unwell. Sure.
As we covered in chapter 1, Keri did not try to disconnect quietly.
Reminder: Mike Harlow was calling people while we were on tour with #WalkAway telling them how much he hated me while pretending to be my friend.
Mike and Keri consider it slander if you post their public statements. But at least he admits he’s been trying to cancel me for a year.
And then he released a video about me. An hour and a half of things clipped out of context to make me look as evil as possible.
He was just obligated to do this. The internet demanded it. He obviously wasn’t trying to cancel me or anything.
Sure.
And then he got as much exposure as he could for the video by retweeting it as much as possible.
It’s the most successful thing he’s done on his whole channel.
Yes, Mike Harlow is the victim here. Victims must stand together.
Harlow doesn’t understand that Libertarian is not right or left wing. It’s only anti-authoritarian.
He dedicated his video to the victims of the world.
Stunning and brave.
I’m not the only person that Mike Harlow has defamed.
He’s also defamed this really nice guy named Jacob.
Jacob, on a few occasions, has come to my defense, which I’ve always appreciated.
To punish him, Harlow calls him his stalker. You’ll see this happen a few times in our story.
It’s just such a relief for him to open up about his traumatic experience. Please feel sorry for him…and subscribe to his channel.
And of course, then Keri wrote her essay about how I’m her abusive mother. We covered that in chapter 5.
Narrator: It was not his last word on the matter…later that same day:
What happened at the hotel was never proven to be a lie. It happened in 2020, I haven’t covered it in this project, and I may at some point, but it caused me a lot of trauma, and I don’t like thinking about it if I don’t have to. Suffice it to say there is not a single photo or video that contradicts what I’ve said happened publicly. There’s only people saying “we swear she lied!” while providing no proof.
Harlow also started sharing Kieran’s smears. It was a pure coincidence that he ALSO became best friends with Kieran just like Keri Smith did. They both instigated him to smear and harass me for months, even creating fake “evidence” they could use against me or photoshopping things to make it look like they said things they didn’t, all so they could keep the harassment going for almost a solid year until Kieran finally made his account private.
And, of course, Kieran was rewarded with followers and clout and money as long as he gave up the goods:
This was a discussion in my private community that they literally had to pay to get access to.
These people literally pay me money to stalk me everywhere. I’m that important to them.
This meme is pretty based, actually.
I asked my Locals community to vote on if they wanted me to do a reaction video to Mike Harlow’s video about me.
They voted no.
As we covered in chapter 5, I absolutely can produce messages saying I asked Kieran’s permission to post this meme publicly and he said go for it.
But unlike Kieran and Mike Harlow, I don’t believe is sharing private communication all over the internet for clout.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to never trust anyone who makes content on the internet.
No one.
In other news, I’m “literally blackmailing people.” Of course, no proof has ever been provided of this.
This is when it became Mike Harlow’s sacred duty to expose me to the world. Trying to cancel me every day is literally Christlike.
Isn’t it funny that there’s still no proof of this blackmailing I did?
All of those tweets were in the month of December 2021. He almost hit Keri Smith’s record of 106 tweets in a single month, but he narrowly missed it with only 100 tweets.
Still, he tweeted about me more than 3 times per day during the month.
But he’s obviously the victim.
Now, let’s move into January 2022.
This wasn’t actually the first thing I did…I had joined the platform 6 months prior to that.
But you have to admit, this was a funny move.
After Carter fired Keri, I returned the handle to him. He controls it today.
Fun fact: Whenever Mike Harlow was dating someone new, he would find a way to get alone time in their bedroom so he could go through their drawers searching for pills.
I know because he used to call me on the phone as he was doing it.
I did not hit this woman, in fact. And if I had, they would have posted video of it. Of course, they don’t show the part where this woman ran up, got right in my face and started screaming at me.
That would paint a different picture. Can’t have that.
Adella is one of the most crazy woke social justice warriors in the knitting community. But of course, I’m far worse.
Also, very nice of them to consider my husband. This is what they consider parody.
In later chapters, Keri is going to go on and on and about my Twitter burner accounts.
I was using them to track when Kieran and this group of people was hate watching me.
I’d set up a dummy account, flash it on the screen, and check to see if they blocked the screen afterward.
Everytime they’d block it, I’d create a new account with a new name to trigger them.
They almost always had the new accounts blocked by the end of the stream because they were almost always hate watching me.
These people are the definition of obsessed with me. They literally watch every minute of every stream I do looking for things to use against me.
Again, they are driving this story that I have no friends and can’t maintain relationships.
What they mean is I’m not friends with anyone connected to KERI SMITH.
Keri Smith is the common denominator in this. She has friends who hate me who I’ve never even spoken to.
But apparently that’s my fault.
Sure.
Something that Mike Harlow worked very hard at what trying to get the Libertarian Party to denounce me.
It never worked. But he made a lot of people’s lives difficult.
I can never apologize enough to my friends who have been impacted by all of this. A lot of time I don’t really know what to say.
Moving into February 2022…
These people are OBSESSED with my YouTube numbers.
It’s like they don’t understand that YouTube is one of a dozen platforms I’m on…
(And even when my videos perform poorly, I generally still get more views than they do, which is part of the reason they are so obsessed with the numbers.)
This is one of the burner accounts I created to track if they are hate watching me.
I literally told them what I was using the accounts for. If they weren’t hate watching me every day, how would they know about it?
It’s actually still online - you can see that it’s never tweeted anything.
But they believe in free speech so much that I should be banned for this.
And then Keri pipes in with a list of my other accounts. Yes, I was naming them things I knew would piss Kieran off because he was doing is best to make my life miserable.
My community has 14,000 people in it.
Mike Harlow’s community has a few hundred.
We are not the same.
And then Mike Harlow faked having cancer.
No seriously. This happened.
Here’s how it started.
He did this to send his mob to attack me for being such a horrible person for attacking someone with cancer.
Now, watch what happened in his replies with his audience when he tweeted this:
Notice Keri swooping in above?
Mike Harlow faked having cancer to spin up a mob of dozens of people to smear me. And it worked.
The problem is that Mike Harlow doesn’t know how to do anything but lie. So I gave him enough rope to hang himself with and continued to needle him to double down.
Since Mike Harlow never gave a public update on his alleged cancer (even though I was being attacked for being mean to someone with cancer), I made sure to check in.
Did he ever get his cancer test back?
Unsurprisingly, he didn’t answer the question.
Because Mike Harlow never had cancer.
And then a funny thing happened. Mike Harlow proactively messaged one of my supporters privately to trash-talk me to try to get him to turn away from me.
Keri Smith’s horde does this all the time - they private message people who post nice things about me to try to turn them against me. Sometimes I find out about it, sometimes I don’t.
But on this occasion, Mike Harlow basically admitted that he never had cancer…although he claimed he never claimed he had it in the first place.
They do this because they know that most people will not go back to check his previous posts (there are a lot of them, as you’ve already seen).
But in this case, we have pretty clear proof that Mike Harlow made people believe he had cancer.
And then a month later, when he was asked if he had gotten his tests back yet, he refused to answer the question.
It’s almost like Mike Harlow faked having cancer just to have ammo to use against me.
If only Mike Harlow had learned from my tweets…
Let’s wrap up the rest of his tweets about me from February 2022.
To get on Harlow’s good side (because they wanted to sleep with him), people I’d never spoken to before would frequently claim to be bullied by me. That was fun.
We may revisit more from him in future chapters, I just wanted to give you an intro to this walking STD of a human being that is #WaklAway’s own Mike Harlow.
Epilogue
I woke up this morning (December 8, 2022) just hours after publishing this article…and I see I’ve hit a nerve.
Mike Harlow and his mob at STILL pretending he never said he had cancer and continuing to smear me.
And of course, Keri Smith is there as always.
Here’s their tweets from the last 12ish hours about me:
Notice Keri Smith swooping in with the retweets to amplify her attack dog’s messaging to her much larger audience.
Keri is also RTing stuff like this to make it seem like she’s concerned for her friend having cancer…
…but remember, we literally have private messages he sent one of my supporters admitting that HE DOES NOT HAVE CANCER.
Keri Smith is doing this because she knows her audience won’t look at the actual evidence.
She is relying on her audience being mindless sheep.
But you’re looking at the evidence if you’ve made it to this point…so you know better.
Never trust a thing these people tell you. The only thing they know how to do is lie.
And now, let’s look at the responses he gets from his followers when they do these things.
Mike Harlow will never take legal action against me.
Because unlike his mob of idiots, Mike Harlow knows that I show up with receipts and the countersuit against him would be delicious.