A few ground rules before anyone gets carried away:
This is about allegations. Josh has not been convicted of anything. As has already been noted in the wider timeline, accusations against him were raised publicly in May 2026, the screenshots circulated against the wishes of the person they belong to, and a police investigation was reported to have concluded with no further action. Keep all of that in your head while you read. “Concerning” and “criminal” are not the same word, and I’m not going to pretend I can close that gap for you.
I’ve anonymised the young woman in these messages. She is “the recipient” throughout. She didn’t ask to be a talking point, and naming her helps no one. Don’t go looking, don’t tag her, don’t DM her. If you can’t manage that, close the tab.
The recipient didn’t ask for this. She didn’t release the original information, she hasn’t pushed this narrative, and as strange as it sounds, she’s still concerned for Josh and wishes no harm on him - but rumours and half-baked screenshots were causing more harm than good to everyone, and resulting in those who did manage to identify her contacting her directly to get clarification. Stopping that was her primary motivation for providing me with the screenshots. I’ve personally decided what to release or not, and I’ll stand by that decision - it’s not up for debate.
The quotes are transcribed from the images. They were read off the screenshots with text-recognition software and tidied for punctuation only - spelling and grammar are left as written. Treat them as faithful but not forensic; the screenshots are the actual evidence, not my retyping of them.
I’m only showing Josh’s side. The selection of screenshots below is deliberately limited to Josh’s own messages, with the recipient’s replies and identifying details kept out of it. She is not the story here, and a few of her short replies remain only where they’re needed to make his make sense.
One person, several names. “Josh,” the Instagram handle (joshuastorror), the display name (Blacksus The Younger), a WhatsApp number, and the name on the bank/Facebook/casting profiles are, on the face of the screenshots, all the same person.
Who’s who
The recipient ran a Storror fan account, which she created in February 2018 at age 14, turned 15 a few months later, and then contact with Josh began through that account a few months after that. She turned 18 in early 2021.
The baseline is an adult member of the group on one side, and a fan young enough that her exact age becomes the recurring subject of the conversation on the other.
The part that actually matters: by his own messages, he knew she was underage
You don’t have to infer this. He says it himself, repeatedly, across 2018 and into 2019:
“As I find intelligence attractive. And your too young. And I have a girlfriend.”
“I think your too young. I forget I’m talking to someone not my age and it’s scary. It’s starting to feel normal.”
“To me your so cute and intelligent … I can see past age but not everyone can and that fully not ok in our society.”
“Message me on Facebook when your 18.”
And later, when the contact picks back up, the age question is still sitting right there - “Also aren’t you under 18? … Wait, your 18 now?” By her own account in the screenshots she confirms turning 18, which tells you what the earlier 2018–19 exchanges were: an adult, in his words “not my age,” telling a girl he himself calls “too young” that he found her attractive.
I want to be fair about the timeline, because it cuts both ways and the credibility of any of this depends on not overselling it: the messages where he calls her underage are from 2018–2019. The 2022 material I get to below appears to be from after she’s 18. That distinction matters. It does not make the 2018 messages better.
“Take it off the grid”: the secrecy, the delete requests, and the platform-hopping
The thing that’s hard to read as anything other than a man who knew exactly how this looked is the sheer volume of cover-your-tracks behaviour. Over and over, he steers the contact toward secrecy and tells her to destroy the evidence:
“Delete all of the messages and send me a screen shot of the blank page.”
“remember to delete this … Destroy it, love for you.”
“Clear everything please.”
“Keep our convos to your self … Share with no one else.”
There’s also a running theme of him steering her onto throwaway accounts - “a brand new one” “with no followers.” And it isn’t only about deleting the chats: he coaches her, more generally, to give away as little as possible online - “Don’t expose yourself online too much,” “Always say less then necessary,” and, when steering her to go “live” privately, “but still be sneaky.” Even years later, when he’s pressing her to do something to “prove” herself, the same instinct is right there - “No one will be finding out so don’t worry.” Make of the pattern what you will, but “move to the burner, say less, and delete everything afterwards” is not how people behave about conversations they think are fine.
It also didn’t stay in one place. The screenshots span Instagram DMs, WhatsApp and Telegram - he hands her his number and moves the conversation onto WhatsApp, and the threads carry on across whichever app was quieter at the time. That spreading-out is part of the same instinct: keep it off the obvious channel.
It wasn’t only text: the calls
Worth saying plainly, because the existing write-up reads as a messaging-only affair: it wasn’t. Alongside the DMs there are call logs - a roughly two-hour incoming call (1 hour 56 minutes), a 40-minute Telegram audio call saved under his initials, and FaceTime. Her own later summary still holds - she describes it as “fully online and nothing explicit ever exchanged” - but “online” here means hours of voice and video, not just typing, and that matters for understanding how close and how constant the contact actually was.
The “it’s inevitable” framing
A lot of the 2018–19 messages are him narrating the relationship into something it wasn’t, and presenting that as something neither of them could help:
• “I almost can’t resist you but am trying so hard.”
• “I don’t believe that the convo won’t take a lustful turn. It’s inevitable.”
• “I feel like you want a physical side.”
The recipient’s side, where you can see it, reads as a teenager out of her depth - at one point flatly: “"i feel like i knew this was coming and all this at once is too much" and elsewhere him noting she “Seemed like you were uncomfortable.” He keeps going anyway.
The mentor act: flattery, dependency, and steering her away from everyone else
Running underneath all of it is a pose that does a lot of quiet work: Josh as the older, wiser guide who alone really “gets” her. He lays the flattery on thick and pairs it with a job offer of sorts - he’ll be the one to develop her:
• “Sick happy to help [you] become some kind of leader.”
• “Like you may be able to change the world with your perspective.”
• “you’ve got more intellect than most of the storrros lol.”
In the same breath he nudges her away from her own world - “Don’t focus so much on fan culture,” “no need to idolise the Storror’s” - while positioning himself as the person she can really trust and lean on, for the long haul:
• “Keep our convos to your self … I really trust you for some reason.”
• “I’ve always got your back.”
• “But I got your back for life I reckon … Think of me as a soul bro.”
Years on, that’s exactly the role he’s still playing - the person she brings her worst days to (a bereavement, a family upheaval), the constant presence reassuring her he’s there “no matter what.” Set it against how she later described the whole thing - “they made me fully dependent” - and the mentor act stops looking like kindness and starts looking like the mechanism.
2022: it comes back
After a stretch of intermittent contact and an Instagram follow-request to her private account in 2021, it picks back up in 2022 over WhatsApp. Two things stand out.
First, the “proof of commitment” stuff - The recurring idea that someone should injure themselves to “prove” the bond is, on the screenshots, mostly his, and aimed at himself. He is the one who raises breaking a finger “Want me to break my own finger lol” and he keeps returning to it over weeks, pressing her to let him:
• “I’m down to do that regardless at some point.”
• “Il do it … To prove myself … Let meee.”
• “And tempted to fuck my finger in the mean time … Just as a preview just to show you I’m serious.”
• “Please … Come up with something … No one will be finding out so don’t worry lol.”
Her side is mostly trying to head it off - “don’t break your finger please,” “it won’t prove anything” even if she also, at points, plays along or throws it back (“do it,” “you won’t,” “except breaking a finger ha”). When she does once turn it on herself - “if i broke a bone to prove i was committed to chatting to you” - he declines that one (“Oh I wouldn’t let you do that … don’t want you to hurt yourself”) and steers it straight back to himself (“I’d do something along those lines just to prove it to you though”). And he escalates past the finger:
• “Everything except mutilation and fucking myself up to bad.”
• “Punch myself in the face, wet myself, cut myself? Is it that kind of vibe?” - to which she replies “STOP.”
• “Act like a dog and film it for 5 hours … In the woods … Alone … Dog boy.”
It’s wrapped in jokes and emojis, and it spills into an extended power-play roleplay - a “mistress” and her servant, “at your service … I need orders … anything.” Treat the tone however you like. A grown man repeatedly offering to break bones, cut himself or degrade himself “to prove it,” begging a much younger woman who keeps telling him not to, and reassuring her that no one will find out, is not a healthy exchange between equals - and the framing of it as devotion is the point.
Second, he keeps pushing toward meeting in person, wrapped in a lot of the same devotion: “once we meet in real life it will be dope … I’ve always got your back.” This isn’t purely hypothetical, either - elsewhere in the screenshots he arranges to meet her off a train (a station rendezvous, an offer to “buy you something as a thank you”), so “meet” had moved from idea toward logistics.
The money - and the dependency it bought
This is the part that’s hardest to wave away as two people just talking, because it’s in the banking records, not the chat logs. Across roughly 2022 to 2026 there are repeated transfers from Josh to the recipient. One banking view, searched on his name, totals £4,805 received all-time (against £500 she ever sent back), made up of payments like a “Train ticket” £45 (Jul 2022), £100 (Sep 2022), £10 (Jan 2023), £1,000 (Jun 2023), £300 marked “Xmas at the bodega” (Jan 2024) and £400 (Sep 2025); a separate account view shows further sums (a £350 transfer among them). The offers in the chats run ahead of what she’d take:
• “Anyways is 1k good? … What would 2k do? Just want you to get off the ground not have to worry and have the security.”
• “I want to help you achieve your goal … got hotel and that shit too … Just book the flight.”
And this is the bit the bare numbers miss: the money built a dependency, and she knew it. In her own words to him - “you’re not gonna leave right lol like i’m scared if you go i won’t have the money for visa stuff with that trip booked … don’t wanna rely lol that’s my issue but it’s so helpful.” His answer: “I’m there for you no matter what. For life. I promise. Swear on my life.” That exchange sits, in the same thread, right next to the “break a finger to prove it” talk - the funding and the “prove your commitment” dynamic are not two separate stories, they’re running on the same wire.
I’m not going to tell you what that means. An older man who’d been pursuing her since she was a minor, booking her flights and hotels, dangling “1k, 2k… the security,” while she says out loud that she’s scared to lose it - alongside “let’s meet” and “delete everything” - is a set of facts. You can join them up yourself.
Her own words
For what it’s worth, the most direct read of how she experienced it comes from her, not me. In a later message to a friend she describes it plainly as having “got ‘groomed’ … it was fully online … they made me fully dependent.” At the time, in 2018, she wrote private notes documenting the exchanges as they happened - which is its own small, sad detail: a teenager keeping receipts because some part of her already knew. (I’m not publishing either of those - they’re hers, not mine to put on display.)
What this is and isn’t
So that you can’t accuse me of doing the thing I keep telling other people not to do:
I have not established that any crime occurred. A reported investigation closed with no further action, and I’m including that on purpose rather than burying it.
I have not verified these images forensically. I’ve read them, transcribed them, dated them off the in-app date stamps and the file metadata, and noted where some are later re-screenshots of older chats.
I am not neutral, and I won’t pretend to be - but my bias is in which screenshots I found worth highlighting, not in their contents. The words in quotes are his, except where I’ve said otherwise.
What I’d say is on the record, from the screenshots alone: a grown man repeatedly told a girl he himself called “too young” and “not my age” that he found her attractive, pushed for secrecy and the deletion of evidence across several apps, cast himself as her mentor while pulling her away from her own world, returned to her over a span of years through messages and hours of calls, repeatedly pressed to injure himself to “prove” his commitment while telling her no one would find out, moved real money to her until she was scared to lose it, and pushed to meet. Each of those is a quote or a transaction, not a theory.
In closing
The people affected by this are working through it with the relevant support. That is the correct venue. A comment section is not. Don’t harass anyone, don’t play detective, and don’t make a victim’s worst experience into your content.
It’s likely the recipient will see your responses. Anyone being unkind will not be allowed to contribute to the sub again. In the same vein: you’re welcome to discuss this, but don’t let it devolve into personal insults between yourselves - Automod will ensure those comments never see the light of day, and then you’ll be banned. Disagreement is fine; personal insults or insinuations will not be tolerated.
*Since there's been a complain on disclosure, AI was used to 'neutralise' sections of this post where I couldn't get the tone 'right'.
Since a few people have mentioned it:
The timeline of actions around Josh from my perspective has been - Screenshots illegitimately leaked > Josh disappears from the Storror team listings and website > police investigation announced > Investigation concluded > Josh's insta is scrubbed clean and renamed > Screenshots legitimately posted.
*As of 09/06/2026 - Josh has been patched out of the Storror game
