Liana Kerzner Is Engaging In Professional Defamation And Knowing Endangerment Of A Disabled And At-Risk Individual

This article was originally posted on Original Pursuits LLC's LinkedIn business profile today, May 25, 2026. It is reprinted here with slight formatting adjustments for readability that are not possible on LinkedIn's service. The factual and rhetorical contents of this page are identical to the article published on LinkedIn. Any changes, revisions, deletions, or additions will be chronologically documented as they occur.

Liana Kerzner writes at redlianak.bsky.social on May 25, 2026:

So I got web hosting services from a company called Novelty Factor. I paid for those services.

The owner turned off my services without notice some time ago. More recently he doxed me.

He claims I defamed him by talking about that and is now claiming we never had any professional communications.

I have literal receipts for the services I paid for. Here is a screen grab of one.

The company website is gone now but I saw that he's talking about bringing it back.

Suddenly leaving me without email with no written notice of termination of services is one thing, doxing is next level.

[ Image of an e-mail invoice from Novelty Factor Hosting ]

Doxing is wrong even when people with no business relationship do it, but the guy is claiming we never had a business relationship to somehow justify his doxing of me and other people. It's a really weird lie.

So if the company does come back, at least I tried to warn people about this.

People who run web hosting companies have a particular duty of care to respect privacy of customers. This company doesn't. If the guy flies into a rage he makes every excuse under the sun for doxing in an act of vengeance.

They've got multiple websites of dox. No one to report to. They're the host.

So, yeah, I got seriously screwed and I'm out hundreds of dollars US because I paid for lifetime hosting as a special sale incentive, they shut my services off without warning, and I was never refunded the money.

Hopefully this will be a warning to others if the company tries to do business again.

In case they open up under another name, beware of "lifetime hosting" packages for a few hundred dollars. The website will likely have all this great stuff about their philosophy of creativity. It operates out of Colorado. I didn't name them previously because...

I didn't want to call attention to the dox. They're not just going after me, but my husband as well. And I thought the company was defunct. But if it's coming back I want to warn people. They don't give you your money back even if they never actually provided a service you paid for. And they dox.

The guy has been super enraged that I referred to him by name on my discord server when I was desperately asking for help getting services set up with another hosting company. He insisted he shut off my email as a friend, not as a professional, which doesn't make any sense.

He also claims that people have been impersonating him when contacting me, but doesn't seem terribly concerned that one of those impersonators included his full home address in a message. That makes me suspicious that it's not really an impersonator. IP addresses on the messages trace to Colorado

When I said "hey either you've been hacked and your husband's job is at risk because he handles confidential information or you're lying" he accused me of threatening his husband's job. The message was an exact copy of a response he sent to my lawyer with web host's home address on it.

Instead of recognizing that I was trying to say that people he insists are stalkers knew his address and were getting access to his private correspondence, he accused me of threats. So I don't believe he's actually being impersonated.

Hopefully this saves someone else from the mess I ended up in.

Here is what is true:

Liana Kerzner, mental health journalist, advocate, YouTuber, radio host, and peer counselor, did purchase and receive services from our imprint Novelty Factor Hosting.

Here is what is false, claim by claim:

The owner turned off my services without notice some time ago. ...

Liana informed Asher that she would be transferring her hosting from Novelty Factor Hosting to another provider on September 30, 2024 at 9:30 PM Mountain Time. It has been documented here.

What follows is information that Kerzner has disclosed herself: at that time Kerzner had been paying for one hosting package from Novelty Factor Hosting. Those payments immediately ceased on October of 2024.

Kerzner also upgraded another purchased package to promotional Lifetime Hosting, which was a limited promotion that is no longer available and will never be available again. She has had access to that package up until today, because she was fully refunded every payment she ever made to Novelty Factor Hosting, as referenced here

All other packages affiliated with Kerzner were controlled, purchased, and managed by Asher as a friendly favor for Kerzner as she had informed Asher that he might procure more clients through her associates and their endeavors.

As was publicly made clear, when the other packages were discontinued, Asher Wolfstein was the sole owner and manager of all other packages associated with Kerzner and had maintained them, for free, before and after September of 2024.

The package linked to the e-mail domain in question (which Novelty Factor Hosting does not maintain), the one that Asher had always controlled and owned, for free, had published a page with instructions on how to transfer her e-mail information, consisting of public DNS records, because he knew it was a pain point before. This is documented.

Kerzner transferred her hosting, by virtue of changing the nameservers of the domain pointing to her Lifetime Package, swiftly after the exchange between her and Asher on September 30, 2024. For months she failed to follow up, check, or apply the clear instructions put up by Asher on her e-mail domain consisting of public DNS information, and instead chose to continue using the DNS infrastructure being provided for free by Asher.

It became clear to Asher that Kerzner was telling others a very different version of events, an inaccurate and non-factual version of events, fairly early when Kerzner posted a message to her public Discord server (pay-walled by $1) concerning the service. The free service was not discontinued at this time.

However, later, those same messages were publicly posted onto the BlueSky social media service by Giancarlo Vanzzini, a former member of her community. Upon "breach of containment" Asher summarily ended the free services he was personally providing as a friend because his generosity was now publicly being abused. The fact those screenshots, and many other incredibly sensitive screenshots from her Discord are so easily available to a wide audience (before he ever posted any of them) is proof enough to Asher that it is, indeed, not private.

Kerzner claimed that Asher was confused over these screenshots, assumed they were real after Giancarlo, a trolling Kiwi Farmer, posted them, and in Asher's mixed up mind thought they just happened. The truth is Asher was aware of those messages only days after they were made because a concerned member of her Discord sent them to him earlier. Kerzner has a long history of filling in and decides things for others that are not hers to fill in, decide, or state with any certainty while simultaneously rejecting, with extreme vehemence, any observation of the same made about her.

There are many documented patterns regarding Kerzner's behaviors. A companion article to this one can be found here.

Continuing with Kerzner's public claims:

... More recently he doxed me.

He claims I defamed him by talking about that and is now claiming we never had any professional communications.

The claims of "doxxing" are purely Liana's opinion. What Asher has done is publish Telegram logs of their five year relationship, after publishing their final exchange. The final exchange was published after months of trying to get restitution publicly over Liana Kerzner's inappropriate and highly unprofessional cancellation announcement concerning her and Asher's husband's Kickstarter project BOSSFIGHT: Song of Sparklemuffin, which you can view on Kickstarter. The cancellation announcement is viewable here:

It is this cancellation announcement that is at the root of all the grievances and all the claims regarding those grievances and all the published evidence regarding those claims that Asher has made over the last 18 months.

The five-year-long Telegram logs were published, censored for third-party privacy and legal purposes, on Asher's personal website. They are available at Asher Wolfstein’s 5-Year Telegram Exchange With Liana Kerzner. They were published, as written, for several reasons, three of which are:

1. Kerzner has suggested, publicly, that her and Asher's relationship was rife with mistreatment and nonsensical aggression with her on the receiving end. That is a claim Asher has repeatedly denied in his efforts towards restitution. These denials have never been acknowledged.

2. At several points after she discussed, on her Patreon, receiving disturbing and harassing messages, Kerzner has factually pinned, not suggested, but blamed Asher for sending a veiled death threat, and even read one of these fundamentally anonymous messages on her radio show broadcast to millions with enough information for her inner audience to know who she was talking about.

   These messages are fundamentally anonymous given the average person's limited investigative abilities, but that has been of no concern to Kerzner. Pablo and Asher have repeatedly explained who these e-mails are most likely from, since they themselves also do not know for certain, and why their contents (of which they've been privy to only two of them) are allegedly made up of the material she cites.

   In response to one of these explanations, being Pablo's video that you can view below, Kerzner wondered in exasperation to her Discord how she was "supposed to know about this 'Mario' guy."

• (Continuing...) And it is this denial of the ability to have ever known this information that is one of the core reasons that Asher, being faced with never having any explanation, denial, or other information provided acknowledged by Kerzner or her community (one Asher is a former member of) seemingly no matter what, reluctantly decided to publish the Telegram logs as they show, definitively, that Kerzner has every reason to be fully aware of this individual and to infer the most likely source of this triangulation.

Here is a list of times with links, as repeatedly provided by Asher, where he and Kerzner discussed Louis Michael Cseke and Asher's fears regarding this former friend of his, complete with screenshots that were shown in the video above:

And if you do not want to visit X, which we wouldn't blame you, you can also use this list:

1. On April 21, 2019 at 20:50:27 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2019-04/#telegram-message-98046
2. On April 21, 2019 at 21:32:49 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2019-04/#telegram-message-98078
3. On July 18, 2020 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-july-2020-07/#telegram-message-136801
4. On January 2, 2021 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-january-2021-01/#telegram-message-141083
5. On April 30, 2021 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2021-04/#telegram-message-146768
6. On July 2, 2021 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-july-2021-07/#telegram-message-147621
7. On April 13, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2023-04/#telegram-message-151930
8. On April 15, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2023-04/#telegram-message-151974
9. On April 16, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2023-04/#telegram-message-151985
10. On April 19, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2023-04/#telegram-message-152272
11. On April 24, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2023-04/#telegram-message-152455
12. On April 28, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-april-2023-04/#telegram-message-153005
13. On May 18, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-may-2023-05/#telegram-message-154233
14. On July 24, 2023 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-july-2023-07/#telegram-message-156227
15. On May 5, 2024 - https://asherwolfstein.com/liana-kerzner-telegram-exchange-may-2024-05/#telegram-message-163118
16. On June 14, 2024
17. On June 22, 2024
18. On July 12, 2024
19. On July 13, 2024

These are eighteen conversations spanning over three years of a five year friendship about this person, their situation, where they came from, screenshots of their harassment, reports of how the friendship between him, Asher, and Pablo went sour, and even how Asher and Pablo felt the need to go to the police just to get their property back after Michael refused to return it and said he was going to "make a report," which would've consisted of... what?

At no point does Kerzner show confusion over who the individual is, or the context of his antagonism towards Asher. At least one conversation occurred in-person in Arkansas about Louis Michael Cseke. It recounted how Cseke had "vandalized" (Kerzner's terminology) his Wikifur entry (now removed) as also detailed in the chat log. At that time as well, Kerzner did not express confusion.

It is an ominous state of affairs from any angle.

Asher repeatedly brought this up in his writings and postings after September of 2024, which Kerzner and her Discord moderators have looked at over that time period, "stalking" his content to this day by Kerzner's own metric. At no point was there any sign of acknowledgment, recognition, or even address regarding this information. Instead Asher only observed ridicule, mockery, stigma, disdain, and extreme revision over all claims he made. They were dismissed as lies, falsehoods, and delusions.

So Asher published the logs, but only after saying that people wouldn't find what she said in them, repeatedly, and only after Kerzner herself stated that she wished someone would just put the entire context up regarding these things.

Asher obliged.

This is one of two websites that Kerzner refers to as "dox sites." The other is Asher's husband Pablo's site where he details his side of the project's development, what Kerzner left out of her cancellation announcement, and not only how inappropriate and unprofessional the announcement was, but how morally asymmetrical and stigmatizing it was towards Asher Wolfstein: - BOSSFIGHT: Song of Sparklemuffin - Autopsy Report

In regards to Asher claiming they had no professional relationship, Kerzner is selectively citing what he recently posted:

And again, Liana and I have had zero professional communications. Everything she ever told me about anyone was "dishing."

https://x.com/asherwolfstein/status/2058767733601484852?s=20

This is not a claim of having no professional relationship. Kerzner purchasing services from Novelty Factor Hosting placed Kerzner and Asher in a professional relationship, albeit a highly limited one. This professional relationship was constrained to the services provided, and the framework in which those services were provided including support tickets. The professional relationship did not reach beyond that.

Any discussion concerning what packages Kerzner might want to set up, suggestions to take up a promotion, was done on friendly and casual terms, much like the services Asher continued to offer for free; services he was in control of and paid the company for.

They were his.

There was no professional discussion or interaction outside of the control panel offered at my.noveltyfactor.com and its ticket support system. This is what Asher is saying. Kerzner has a very long history of reinterpreting what Asher says in strange ways, not once conceding that what he says are his motivations, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are actually what they are, and instead consistently overwriting them with her own armchair psychological diagnoses consisting of inferiority complexes, self-loathing, hatred of women, guilt, inability to feel or face his emotions, and a slew of other claims that no doctor Asher has ever seen would ever endorse.

Liana Kerzner is not licensed or has any credentials or qualifications when it comes to mental health treatment. These are opinions presented as advice, facts, and explanations of the much maligned and dangerous "stalker"; a term she uses to refer to Asher, Pablo, Emily Schooley, and any other inconvenient critic.

Kerzner continues:

The company website is gone now but I saw that he's talking about bringing it back. Suddenly leaving me without email with no written notice of termination of services is one thing, doxing is next level.

By Kerzner's own statements, her own actions in transferring her hosting, her own recognition that she saw the message put up on her free service (which she interpreted as a "threat" and violation of privacy, as far as we can determine), ample written notice of termination was given as she herself had already given notice of termination.

This is an extremely biased and selective retelling of events from a highly prejudiced viewpoint.

The website for Original Pursuits LLC, being https://originalpursuitsllc.com/, is currently empty, and the website for Novelty Factor Hosting, being https://noveltyfactor.com/ is currently empty, however the control panel and online self-service store, accessible at https://my.noveltyfactor.com/, has always been up and available.

Several other clients have used it since September of 2024 to purchase similar services and are very satisfied with the results.

Asher repeatedly stated that Kerzner could continue to access her Lifetime Hosting package at https://my.noveltyfactor.com/ after September 2024 without issue. Kerzner ignored this information and continues to misrepresent her experiences.

Kerzner continues:

Doxing is wrong even when people with no business relationship do it, but the guy is claiming we never had a business relationship to somehow justify his doxing of me and other people. It's a really weird lie.

What has been published is not doxxing, at least not in our eyes, not in Asher's eyes, and not in the eyes of many others. What has been published is proof and evidence of what Asher and Pablo have been claiming for 18 months, consisting mostly of Asher's posts and writing.

If these grievances and this information, particularly the information regarding Louis Michael Cseke, had been acknowledged, recognized, and even addressed, then this publication of evidence would have never need occur.

It is Kerzner's clear negligence in doing so that has created this situation, as Asher has repeatedly stated that he seeks restitution and isn't going to simply "walk away," (as Kerzner puts it) without it. Kerzner agrees that, given false accusations, he has every right to do so in this video:

This inaccurate portrayal, of Asher claiming there was never a business relationship, has never been the justification for the publication of this information.

The bullet points above provide accurate and definitive reasoning behind the publication, as has always been presented. This has always been the justification for the publication of this information.

Asher has never written the reasoning or justification Kerzner claims. Liana Kerzner is the only one who has provided it.

This justification is entirely manufactured by Kerzner herself.

The justification has always pointed to the seeming impossibility for Asher's factual grievances to be addressed, acknowledged, considered, or believed; that Asher has many reasons to believe Michael poses a serious threat, that Kerzner is fully aware of this, or reasonably should be; and that Kerzner won't seemingly stop her negligent and abusive activities.

Kerzner has a long history of manufacturing motivations, reasonings, and justifications for Asher Wolfstein, which he contradicts on a regular basis. This has even occurred the very next day, and she is consistently believed over Asher himself by her audience. According to Kerzner, even in their final exchange, Asher is unable to tell the truth, fundamentally, until he stops lying to himself about the reality that Kerzner decided for him regarding his own psychology and emotional makeup.

Asher echoes this in his second apology, where he outlined what he understood Kerzner to be saying, not that he agreed with it because, as it became clear, he didn't.

She claims, repeatedly, in her videos that Asher's actions just, "make no sense!" when given his alleged motivations. Asher has countered, publicly, for months, that they "make no sense" because those aren't his motivations. It doesn't make sense because it's not true.

It is manufactured absurdity on the part of Kerzner, an absurdity that she has no reasonable reason to be offering given everything Asher has published but which remains unconsidered.

Kerzner continues:

So if the company does come back, at least I tried to warn people about this. People who run web hosting companies have a particular duty of care to respect privacy of customers. This company doesn't. If the guy flies into a rage he makes every excuse under the sun for doxing in an act of vengeance. They've got multiple websites of dox. No one to report to. They're the host.

The company never went under. It was never defunct. It has been registered and in good standing with the State of Colorado for years, filing taxes for years (including Kerzner's previous payments). The only thing that's not been consistently available is the front marketing website for the Novelty Factor Hosting service.

The administration of Novelty Factor Hosting, as maintained by Original Pursuits LLC, has not violated any privacy of its customer in regards to the business relationship. All information that has been associated with Liana Kerzner linked to Novelty Factor Hosting is information she disclosed herself. According to one of Kerzner's recent posts, she might venture to call this, "violating her own privacy," which, according to said post, makes her solely responsible for its publication and reference.

Being a customer of a service does not expand the duty of privacy the company has towards that customer to cover every aspect of their life or dealings, or onto future publishing clients from disclosing their own experiences and their own private information about said customer. This is an extension of privacy that is unreasonable and morally untenable. It is based on a principle that only serves to protect abusers.

Asher has not "flown into a rage," beyond that which Kerzner has applied to him in her constant narrative abuse, erroneously explaining the motivation behind his every action to her captive Discord audience. Asher's carefully chosen public actions, which, they are all carefully chosen, do not provide a window into his mind, as Kerzner has claimed to be privy, anymore than anything Asher might infer from Kerzner's actions provides a window into her mind.

According to Kerzner, the insight this window offers Asher is nonexistent, and so, it follows that the insight Kerzner gains over Asher's motivations by stabbing in the dark is nonexistent.

Anything else, supported by any other Kerzner-manufactured narrative, is abusive and even stigmatizing. Asher has repeatedly, exhaustively listed his reasons, which Kerzner is free to describe as excuses, and none of them have ever included "vengeance."

The motivation of "vengeance" and emotionally dependent "revenge" is manufactured entirely by Kerzner. Asher has never said that, written that, published that, hinted at that, suggested that, nor disclosed that to anyone. He repeatedly denies the motivations of "vengeance" and "revenge" but, Kerzner's narrative is unfortunately more believable despite providing no evidence, no expert opinion, no accurate history, and no other reasoning than her feelings.

Kerzner is free to speculate and guess at Asher's motivations. She is not free to define them for him and offer it as a fact from any position of presumed authority as a mental health journalist, advocate, YouTuber, radio host, and peer counselor. There are many ethical and legal reasons licensed therapists with training never do this, and they all boil down to it being dangerous and irresponsible, much like reading anonymous messages on the radio and pinning them on individuals with no evidence.

In terms of reporting the alleged "doxxing," Liana is incorrect. There is somewhere to report it to: Novelty Factor Hosting. The reality however, as unsatisfactory as it may be to Liana's whims, is that Novelty Factor Hosting, being Original Pursuits LLC as a commercial entity, has determined, with due diligence, that the content does not violate their terms of service, and is not illegal in their jurisdictions.

It does not constitute any form of offensive hate speech despite her Discord attempting to brainstorm ways in which it does, because, that's what those laws are for apparently. Even if it does constitute an illegal form of hate speech in Canada, Original Pursuits LLC operates within Colorado within the United States of America, and only those laws ever apply to its activities. If a country determines that the content accessible violates their laws, it is Original Pursuits LLC's stance that it is then up to that country to limit access.

Asher has published that he has taken care to abide by all legal requirements when it comes to publishing the information, and that he's censored irrelevant third-party information that identifies them or is unnecessarily embarrassing for them. This does not include the highly relevant communications that Kerzner made comprised of privacy-violating disclosures of her clients both then-current and former as that's part of the issue at hand.

Asher has stated, repeatedly, and exhaustively, that he believes he has no ethical or legal obligation to not publish those as evidence of irresponsibility, negligence, and abuse since he's not a peer counselor, did not sign anything with those individuals or Kerner, did not promise to keep them private (in fact, one instance appears to have occurred to encourage Asher to do the opposite), does not position himself as a mental health advocate, and otherwise has no moral obligations to make up for the moral shortcomings of Kerzner.

We unequivocally support this view.

If Kerzner believes that this activity must be reported due to her rights being violated, then she still has somewhere to report to: the government.

Asher has never suggested that anyone can't or shouldn't exercise their rights. He has always encouraged others to file if they believe their rights are violated so that they can pursue possible restitution. We welcome any and all filings of such nature so that conflict can actually be resolved and the restitution that has been withheld might finally be reached.

Kerzner continues:

So, yeah, I got seriously screwed and I'm out hundreds of dollars US because I paid for lifetime hosting as a special sale incentive, they shut my services off without warning, and I was never refunded the money.

At first, Asher reinforced the policies of Novelty Factor Hosting regarding the promotional Lifetime Hosting packages: that there are no refunds since this isn't a leasing agreement. That service is provided for the life of the service, which is in operation today.

However, for months now Asher has been publishing that Kerzner is welcome to a refund, going against the policy. Kerzner has not taken up this offer, which only requires a message to Pablo or a ticket in the control panel. Today, given her posting, the refund has been made regardless since this is tantamount, to us, to a request for a refund. The evidence of such can be found here:

Thus, Kerzner is no longer "screwed," is no longer "out hundreds of dollars US," and has no longer "paid for lifetime hosting" where her "services were shut off without warning", and has now been refunded, in full, every payment for service she has ever made to Novelty Factor Hosting.

All business relationships between Kerzner and Original Pursuits LLC (not Asher Wolfstein personally), which was always the case, are now terminated. There is no business relationship between Liana Kerzner and Original Pursuits LLC, and there will never be one again. She and her husband, Steven Joel Kerzner of Ed the Sock fame, are summarily banned from all future activities and services provided from the company. The company will also be seeking damages at some point in the future for this now twice-published egregious defamation.

Kerzner continues:

They're not just going after me, but my husband as well. And I thought the company was defunct. But if it's coming back I want to warn people. They don't give you your money back even if they never actually provided a service you paid for. And they dox.

What Kerzner refers to as "going after" her husband is the following fact published by her indispensable team member with the allegedly problematic spouse:

In a private Telegram conversation on February 2, 2022, Kerzner acknowledged that her husband, Steven Joel Kerzner, had taken $3,000 from the Kickstarter funds allocated to the Song of Sparklemuffin project.

Detailed information regarding this statement and all the context surrounding it, including why it was published, can be found here: Claim 11: Thousands Of Dollars

As Kerzner has claimed for herself, all Pablo has done is publish what Kerzner herself told him about her part in the development of the project, so, if Kerzner was lying or misrepresenting the facts, then, that's Kerzner's responsibility.

This is the metric Kerzner has applied to her inappropriate and highly unprofessional project cancellation announcement, and so, it then equally applies to her.

Kerzner has a long history of framing all criticism, all contradictory claims, and all inconvenient facts as lies, manipulations, and "attacks," by "unhinged" "stalkers" hellbent on "going after" her for irrationally emotional reasons. And she does this over months on her YouTube channel, her radio show, her Patreon, and her Discord.

This is childish, dismissive, manipulative, irresponsible, and overly melodramatic to a ridiculous degree.

Yet, her pathologically supportive audience never questions why a mental health journalist, advocate, trusted YouTuber, radio host, and peer counselor, many of theirs peer counselor, would continue to do this regarding every single problematic conflict she finds herself to be facing.

Asher has stated that he believes this occurs due to Kerzner's style of rhetoric consisting of a disturbingly common format: she removes herself from any and all personal situations by appearing to objectively analyze it, and in doing so proactively removes any consequence of her actions, telling the audience, in one instance, that a man crying tells them no information about her conduct.

This is patently ridiculous.

Kerzner continues:

The guy has been super enraged that I referred to him by name on my discord server when I was desperately asking for help getting services set up with another hosting company.

As written, Kerzner has no boundaries between her thoughts and impressions, and other people's feelings and motivations. Asher has not been "super enraged" over any of that. Asher has pointed out, repeatedly and exhaustively, all the places that Kerzner has used his name, including in relation to her 'cutesy' Discord-approved name for him and his husband, "The Gruesome Twosome."

Kerzner's impressions and her own interpretations are not reality. They do not determine Asher's interior state. Her feelings do not determine his safety.

It is extremely dangerous for others to regard Kerzner as the one who determines Asher's thoughts and motivations, considering that she has attempted to place a "confession of knowing intent to harm her," into Asher's mind by the same mechanism, and especially given his status as a disabled and at-risk individual due to a chronic mental health condition and the stigma attached to that.

How is Asher supposed to survive with the dangers of stigma hanging over him if someone else can determine what he feels, thinks, and believes? At her whim, Kerzner can manufacture terrible, and even criminal, motivations, disturbing thoughts, and terrifying emotional responses as if those are facts he himself "confesses."

It doesn't hold true, and it shouldn't ever hold true. Her activities here have not fought mental health stigma, but reinforced it at every turn. This is mental health stigma in action, regardless of how she fails to define it.

Kerzner continues:

He insisted he shut off my email as a friend, not as a professional, which doesn't make any sense.

At the very time it happened, Asher made clear, multiple times, that those services were being provided by him personally, as a friend. If you know the facts, and don't regard a singular business transaction with a company that Asher owns as the only relevant interaction between him and his close friend of five years, then it makes perfect sense.

There's no argument, confusion, or debate as her reasoning is simply flawed and incomplete.

Kerzner continues:

He also claims that people have been impersonating him when contacting me, but doesn't seem terribly concerned that one of those impersonators included his full home address in a message. That makes me suspicious that it's not really an impersonator. IP addresses on the messages trace to Colorado.

When I said "hey either you've been hacked and your husband's job is at risk because he handles confidential information or you're lying" he accused me of threatening his husband's job. The message was an exact copy of a response he sent to my lawyer with web host's home address on it.

Instead of recognizing that I was trying to say that people he insists are stalkers knew his address and were getting access to his private correspondence, he accused me of threats. So I don't believe he's actually being impersonated.

Hopefully this saves someone else from the mess I ended up in.

This is a fundamentally abusive and inappropriate overstep for someone in Kerzner's self-appointed position as a mental health journalist, advocate, YouTuber, radio host, and peer counselor. It is undeniable, and Asher has stated, repeatedly and exhaustively, why, for months.

To state that Asher doesn't seem concerned that the impersonator, who he believes is Louis Michael Cseke for many rational, documented reasons (shared eighteen times with Kerzner over a five year friendship), is ludicrous.

Of course Asher is concerned.

Asher has expressed deep concern and heightened anxiety, urgently publishing multiple times that he is being endangered. Recently, his fears have started to manifest as local police were called, anonymously, to perform a welfare check on him over innocuous social media posts. One of the concerns was that he didn't sleep at all one night, which, makes you wonder what the rest of the context given was.

Why would he not be concerned?

This is similar to the assertion Kerzner made to Asher that Emily Schooley, who she quickly and proactively identified as "Stalker-chan," early on in their communications as documented in the chat logs that are now available, "didn't care if she was impersonated."

Asher found that odd then, and he finds it extraordinarily odd now.

Who in their right mind would not be concerned about that, especially with the claims being made of what she was doing and saying?

Exactly.

This is an impression that can only be described to be painting Asher as irrational, unwell, and unable to take care of himself if he is being impersonated, or, as we see, is not being impersonated, with the same results.

Asher has fully, repeatedly, and exhaustively explained why a message from the impersonator would include every single one of those details:

1. Michael knows Asher's address, has most likely known Asher's address for a long time, and even, Asher has reason to believe, published his current home address on Kiwi Farms via a link to his voting record. There's no reason that the impersonator wouldn't be able to send Asher's home address to Kerzner. It not being a surprise to Asher does not mean that he isn't concerned.

   Kerzner conflates these kinds of reactions and emotions consistently, and always to her benefit, even when they are contradictory. Asher also has Michael's home address, for reasons that should be extremely easy to imagine.

2. Michael lives in Asher's resident city, or at least has close ties to it as he owns multiple properties in Fort Collins, functioning as a landlord. Asher has stated multiple times that Michael could very easily enter the public library caddy-corner to his apartment building and use one of their computers to send Kerzner, and any other woman Asher interacted with (however contentiously), harassing and disturbing messages.

   In effect, he could do so anonymously (although there are records and cameras) and thus secure an IP address that can be tracked to be right near where Asher lives.

   This would create a wonderful cover and extremely suspicious circumstances, perhaps even circumstantial evidence, that Asher himself sent them, except for the fact that Asher hasn't stepped foot in that building for years, and has never been in there for library services.

   He simply isn't serviced by that library, at all, by choice.

   Given that IP addresses in Colorado are often consolidated at various geographical points by the ISPs, mostly Comcast, such as Denver, when "looked up," and given that Colorado currently boasts a population of approximately 6 million people, and given this already published context, this connection and the reasoning around it is targeted harassment by insinuation.

3. Asher is not surprised one bit that the impersonating message contained the exact verbiage of his letter before her lawyer received it in PDF format. That does not mean he's not concerned.

   Again, these are two entirely different things.

   The reason Asher isn't surprised is because it has been demonstrated that whoever is sending these messages simply copy-pastes whatever Asher has published on the Internet. Asher himself says, now, that the majority of that request to Dr. Mark Bourrie had already been posted and was mostly a copy-paste job. If he was copy-pasting, then why not the impersonator?

   Asher's always maintained this, and in fact, there's proof of this as shown in the following two images.

This image was produced by Kerzner on her Discord:

This rambling, nonsensical, and truly bizarre sequence of sentences that appear manic, disconnected, and completely random are all copy-pastes of things Asher posted save a few edits and a few originalities at the end.

When Asher wrote them, they were all in context and so, with any review, they all made sense, even if it took a few seconds to truly understand given his writing style.

They've been slightly edited in places, slightly reworded, as if someone had to go in and change certain words to make them look as if they weren't copy-pasted, and in at least one place missing a capital letter at the beginning. These details and the sentences random topics are both markers that this is copy-paste.

What's even more telling is that, the final sentences, particularly, "Thank you and I apologize and take responsibility for my side of the fence," are categorically out of character for Asher.

In a Patreon video Kerzner describes this writing as seeming more authentic to her because "it comes from a place of guilt," demonstrating that she does not possess insight into Asher's psychological state, moral character, or personality despite her claims otherwise.

His therapist, his husband Pablo, his mother, his brother, his lifelong friends have all stated that Asher would never write that sentence. Asher has explained, repeatedly, that he would never write that sentence because he would never apologize for anything to his abuser at that point, and also because there's nothing for him to be sorry about according to him.

He has stated, repeatedly and exhaustively, that he does not feel guilt over this. He is not being eaten up by guilt, or his conscience (which he proactively states he doesn't have, not that which people often put forth as one), or regards his actions as a "necessary evil."

He doesn't consider them evil.

He writes, repeatedly and exhaustively, that he thinks it's fair and just.

Kerzner, facing this, denies this categorically for Asher, insisting that all of that is entirely false, she knows the full truth of his psychology after five years, she told him what help he needs as a "friend" performing "tough love," and that she's right because it's "physiologically impossible" that anyone wouldn't feel and think like her, and her audience, allegedly feel and think.

This is irresponsible, dangerous, arrogant, and cruel.

These images were produced by Annie Gallagher:

This is an irrelevant issue to the one at hand, but it demonstrates that, once again, the impersonating message is full of slightly edited copy-pastes of things Asher himself posted. Even Annie herself observes that "This idiot went out of their way to email me their schizo thread about me. The following is a detailed response to these criticisms against me."

Kerzner wrote:

"... When I said "hey either you've been hacked and your husband's job is at risk because he handles confidential information or you're lying" he accused me of threatening his husband's job. ..."

Kerzner didn't 'say' this to Asher personally.

This was not a private communication. She doesn't make that clear whatsoever.

This was part of an online tirade on Twitter aimed at discrediting, ridiculing, shaming, and vilifying Asher and Pablo over strange irrelevant details such as Pablo flirting with gay men on Second Life who were "far too young" for him despite being in their 30s, or Asher being "obsessed" and threatening to kill himself if Pablo didn't divert attention away from Kerzner's game, allegedly, to focus on his furry porn kinetic novels (except, he didn't, and there wasn't any diversion during "work time," only highly personal time), or Pablo and Asher living in a "small two-bedroom apartment" (which they do, in a not-so-great neighborhood and building, where Asher once took a picture of a hypodermic needle on the elevator floor and sent it to Kerzner), or that Asher was an active Kiwi Farmer despite him being banned for defending himself with 3 whole posts because Joshua Moon said with factual certainty that he was a "pedophile," and more.

In the middle of that public tirade Kerzner posted that she had received the contents of the letter Asher sent Dr. Mark Bourrie, her then-counsel, through an anonymous message, indicating that either he is not being impersonated, or that his home network was hacked, allegedly placing his husband's employment at risk because he allegedly handles sensitive information on our home network.

The truth of it is, though, that there was no reason for her to post that detail, or any of the other details, because her, Asher, and Pablo, are all aware of Pablo's job, and so if she was publicly worrying their home network was hacked, all three of them would already be aware of the risk.

Asher has argued that it was included deliberately in order to endanger Pablo's modest employment that supports both him and Asher, his disabled and at-risk husband who hasn't worked for ten years. Pablo's yearly income is approximately $10,000 above the federal poverty level right now, which explains the neighborhood, the apartment, the quality of life, and the struggles Kerzner has claimed to have begrudgingly and magnanimously saved them from (she didn't).

For the record, in contrast, from as far as Original Pursuits LLC can determine, Kerzner owns a house, has access to mortgages, has a large social network, a solid standing and cushion, upward mobility opportunities and other independent opportunities for economic growth, and is seen as some sort of authority in mental health in many eyes due to her radio show and other video journalism.

Asher has repeatedly stated that she has relied on all of those securities to engage in an 18-month campaign of falsehoods, character assassination, and mental health stigma; securities he has no chance of enjoying anytime soon.

There is absolutely no rational, connected, logical reason for Kerzner to arrive at the conclusion that Asher isn't being impersonated. This may be her speculation, and her opinion, but, it is not reality and it won't be shown to be reality.

On top of all of that, on top of this entire false defaming thread that Kerzner has posted, there's one last significant element to consider: that of her responsibilities to her Kickstarter backers.

In the cancellation announcement Kerzner posted she repeatedly referenced both her integrity and the transparency she owed backers. Pablo, with his website, hosted by Novelty Factor Hosting, https://bossfightgame.com/ has raised very serious doubts, questions, and contradictory evidence regarding many of Kerzner's claims over the last 18 months over BOSSFIGHT: Song of Sparklemuffin.

One of those issues was Steven Joel Kerzner's, Liana's husband of Ed the Sock fame, access to the Kickstarter funds, where at one point he removed $3,000 from the fund. Kerzner claimed it was returned, but Pablo had no way of verifying that, and given all of the contradictions Kerzner has put out, he's reasonably skeptical.

Liana has denied on all fronts this occurrence, mostly. She conceded, sort of, once, but then doubled-back by stating to a skeptical enquirer that, yes, every single thing Asher and Pablo have written is entirely false and a lie.

Today, the issue, the falsehood, and the lie have been put to rest by Ed the Sock himself:

Asher does not exclusively employ Maus, Merry, Merryjest, or any other moniker, such as Keith, to refer to his husband Pablo online. He uses Pablo's name at times. He's done so multiple times. That's just one minor inaccuracy in a post full of inaccuracies and abusive reasoning.

What's most offensive, in Original Pursuits LLC's opinion, is when Steven Joel Kerzner appears to make an attempt at garnering sympathy and understanding by sharing that he was in a deep depression, with medication that was not managing it, violating his own privacy in the process.

Asher has implored, repeatedly and exhaustively, to much more than deaf ears, but sneers, jeers, ridicule, mockery, cruelty, and constant insistence that Liana knew what was really wrong, knew what was best for him, and knew every real reason he does anything while her neurodivergent and otherwise majority mentally ill audience supported, agreed, nodded their virtual heads, besmirched him in her Discord, invented self-serving interactions that didn't happen, doubted every thing he said because it was allegedly an expression of a dangerous pathology, and sang consistent praises over Liana's alleged integrity and honor, that he, too, suffers from trauma, and trauma responses, and can be triggered, and can act pathologically in isolated cases, and that he apologizes for it and constantly tries to do better, and for others to extend to him the same moral and emotional affordances they so readily pile on to Liana Kerzner.

This was never answered. It was never even considered. As he posted that he was in danger, that he was fearful, nervous, and anxious that something was going to happen, such as the police getting involved in order to shape a narrative around him as someone being abused or abusing others, he was told "good riddance," and that he was a "broken nobody." And when it actually happened, when what he said might happen, happened? When the police were called by an anonymous caller to perform a welfare check because he posted he hadn't slept all night? Something that is extraordinarily out of place in his life?

Liana Kerzner, mental health journalist, advocate, YouTuber, radio host, and peer counselor mocked him by writing,

when that wasn't even the issue in the first place.

The simple facts of the matter surrounding all of these issues is that Liana and Steven Joel Kerzner have provided no evidence, have denied factual evidence only to then confirm that it was true, and in the process have engaged in an unnecessary eighteen month campaign of mental health stigma and callous negligence and endangerment of and toward a disabled, at-risk mentally ill adult aggravated by public displays of depraved indifference.

Now that this is all very clear, factual, and evidence-based, damages will be sought.

Source: LinkedIn article. Static HTML generated from the publicly available article markup on 2026-05-26.