This is Planet Money from NPR.

Just a quick note, there is some swearing in this show.

The minute you look into the story, you become instantly addicted to it and it becomes

an obsession so it's weekends, evenings.

I mean, I've got to be honest, I'm still completely consumed.

This is Jamie Bartlett.

He's a writer and a journalist.

And a few years ago he wrote a book called The Dark Net Inside the Digital Underworld.

So I spent a couple of years of my life on dark net drugs markets, you know, troll forums

and neo-nazi groups, really trying to get to grips with the hidden underbelly of the internet.

So while he was researching, he found online markets for organic fair trade cocaine, stolen

credit card data, illegal pornography, you know, all those things that you can't go pick

up at Costco.

And then in 2018, he was approached by a producer from the BBC, named Georgia Cat.

And she had the story that she thought might interest him.

And it wasn't like anything he'd ever run into before.

It's a story about a woman with an online empire and a massive, massive following, like

stadium filling following.

Let's give a warm applause for our creator, our founder, our lovely Dr. Rougeham.

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