Martin's efforts to scrub the internet of the non-consensual porn depicting her were unsuccessful, and the images continued to escalate. "It was completely horrifying, dehumanizing, degrading, violating to just see yourself being misrepresented and being misappropriated in that way," she said. "And then one time, one perpetrator said that they'd only remove the material if I sent them nude photos of myself within 24 hours." Noelle Martin has spent years battling the spread of deepfake porn online. "Sometimes I'd get a response and they'd remove it, and then it'll pop up two weeks later," she said. Martin even attempted to contact the operators of the the porn sites that hosted the pornographic photos of her, but those efforts sometimes led to more abuse.
Martin tried contacting the police, private investigators and government agencies, but because she didn't know where the images originated there was no way to hold the creators accountable. "And I didn't have any partners or ex-partners who might've done something like this to me." I'm literally just an ordinary person, literally a nobody from Perth, Western Australia," Martin told CBSN Originals. "I am not a public figure, I'm not a celebrity.
She did not know who created the images or why she was targeted, but these graphic images continued to appear on fetish websites. Martin's social media accounts had been used to gather photos that were then used to create the realistic-looking graphic images.