Mission: Bianca Coster Vindication
Bianca Coster, a Digital Creator, is known to most of us as the face of ChrisExcel. I first encountered ChrisExcel sometime during the height of COVID. Seeing his profile picture, I honestly thought that it was a stock photo .. until this morning.
A friend talked about a podcast episode from Penuel The Black Pen where Bianca Coster was interviewed and talked about how ChrisExcel has ruined her life by using her photo as his brand. I looked into her and it seems she has asked for ChrisExcel to stop using her photo but he retains it to this day.
I have since made it my mission to get Bianca Coster’s photos off of ChrisExcel’s account for three reasons:
- To get some vindication for Bianca Coster
- To test if Twitter has a bias when dealing with high-value individuals breaking their ToS
- To refine my process for Twitter Takedowns
The only social media account I know for sure belongs to her is @bianca_coster. But there’s a Twitter account that seems somewhat plausibly hers, @Bianca_Coster. Given her following on Instagram and her brand being more built for Instagram, the Twitter account seems somewhat plausible. For the purpose of testing reasons 2 & 3, I’ll be assuming the account is hers.
Since I’ll be going after a Twitter account with a HUGE following, an active user-base and is often in the Trending column, we have to collect as much evidence as humanly possible to prove that Bianca Coster is the rightful owner of those images and that they are not being used with her permission, in good faith nor within fair-use. I found a good bunch of accounts in all sorts of places - all of which look and feel plausibly hers. I also got a bunch of product endorsements, modelling portfolios, etc. That should be enough evidence to get started.
Now comes the hard part... Approaching Twitter and convincing them to go ahead with a takedown.
Let's see how it goes, it's all in Twitter's hands now.