Nigerian content creator Ezinne Onyeabor Rita, better known online as Crazysocket, posted a screenshot to her X account on Wednesday showing a direct message from an anonymous admirer who asked to “smell” her feces “for a fee.” Rita, who blocked the sender, captioned her post with a photo of herself covering her mouth in shock.
According to the screenshot Rita shared, the sender wrote that smelling her “mess” would “be an honor” and volunteered to pay “any amount,” wrapping the request in the Pidgin English phrase “no wahala.” Rita told her followers the word “mess” referred to feces, a usage common in Nigerian online slang. The post, which is still live on her X account, was the first public airing of the exchange.
Nigerian entertainment account YabaLeftOnline amplified the screenshot later the same day, writing that the “influencer Crazysocket shares shocking message she received from a secret admirer,” according to a post verified via X’s syndication feed. YabaLeftOnline, a Nigeria-based Business-verified account with more than 5.5 million followers, routinely covers viral celebrity moments across West Africa. The amplification post drew replies from users who called the request “creepy” and “invasive,” and pointed to a wider pattern of women creators fielding unsolicited fetish messages on social platforms.
The exchange fits a documented pattern researchers and advocacy groups have flagged for years. A 2022 New York Times investigation found that direct messages sent to five high-profile women on Instagram functioned as “a cesspool of misogyny,” with abusive messages allowed to “thrive” despite the platform’s policies. A separate 2024 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, covered by Vice, concluded that Instagram failed to act on roughly nine in ten abusive DMs sent to women, a finding Meta publicly disputed. Meta’s own transparency reports acknowledge the volume of sexual-harassment content across Facebook and Instagram, and the company has built reporting flows specifically for bullying and harassment in DMs.
Rita is far from the first female creator to flag such an exchange publicly. Hypefresh has tracked similar moments in its own coverage, including Selena Gomez’s revelation that Chris Brown slid into her DMs before she started dating Benny Blanco, Sophie Rain’s claim that Drake messaged her offering a Bahamas trip, and the Tea app’s decision to shut down its DMs entirely after a privacy scare exposed more than a million messages. Each drew public attention to how direct-message platforms handle — or fail to handle — unwanted contact, particularly when the sender is anonymous.
Rita, who lives in Lagos, built her following through dance videos, comedy skits and lifestyle content. She launched her YouTube channel in December 2018 and operates under the handle Drealcrazysocket across platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. According to her biographical profile aggregator, she has more than 550,000 Instagram followers and is also the founder of the perfume brand Zeescent Elixir. Her publicly known full name, Ezinne Onyeabor Rita, appears on her own social-media bios and on the aggregator profile; no further details about the sender of the unsolicited message have emerged.
The incident also lands in a broader creator-economy conversation about how women monetize attention while absorbing harassment. Recent Hypefresh coverage of Lauren Boultier’s apology after an AI-altered body-swap image of model Tatiana Elizabeth circulated online shows the same tension: creators who build audiences through their image become targets for non-consensual use of that image. For Rita, the choice to publish the screenshot — and block the sender — fits a long-running pattern of female creators going public about fetish messages rather than absorbing them in silence.
As of Wednesday evening local time, neither Rita nor representatives for YabaLeftOnline had announced any plan to escalate the matter to law enforcement or to the platforms involved. The screenshot remains on Rita’s X account, and YabaLeftOnline’s amplification post remains live with comments open.
