S'pore Content Creator Harassed Online For Over 2 Years, Targeted With Fake AI Videos Showing Her Being Groped By A Man

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Most of us would log off from social media after days of online harassment.

But content creator Renae Cheng endured it for more than two years before speaking up.

In fact, she detailed the whole ordeal recently in a nearly three-minute video, and later tells 8days.sg that the harasser is a woman based in the UK.

“Since 2024, she as made multiple accounts to harass me on Instagram, TikTok, and even Gmail, sending me long and hateful messages, threatening to harm me,” Renae said in her video.

The harassment ranged from relentless messages to disturbing AI-generated videos depicting Renae in compromising situations, including being groped by a man who is not her husband.

The situation escalated beyond just her, and Renae said her husband was targeted, and her eight-month-old baby was even called a “jin”, which she was told means “demon”.

According to Renae, the entire saga stemmed from something she described as “borderline laughable”. It allegedly began after a 2023 TikTok video Renae posted, where she reviewed Eczema Mittens, a product designed to help manage the condition she has lived with for years.

“The owner of the Eczema Mittens business is a Singaporean guy named Reuben, and he is the one I was made to make out with and be groped by in the AI videos. And when I reported the AI videos to TikTok, the harasser would spam screenshots on my posts,” she said.

Renae added that the woman appears to suffer from eczema and topical steroid withdrawal like her, making the fixation on her and the business owner even more puzzling.

She said the harasser had initially messaged her about having a crush on the business owner, and asked her for his contact details.

“In fact, she has a dedicated TikTok account... dedicated to posting AI videos of him canoodling with anyone he dares to collaborate with, me included, and a bunch of other men and women,” she said.

Renae told us that when she first saw the AI videos, she felt very uncomfortable and violated.

“Even though I reported them, she would keep making new accounts to repost and sending them to me via my inbox. When I blocked her messages, she would comment screenshots of that inappropriate imagery on all my posts, including sponsored posts which would affect my livelihood and how clients view me, and affecting decision to work with me in the future,” she said.

Beyond the professional impact, the personal toll has been significant. “My family and in-laws follow me on social media, and it is extremely upsetting for them to see such visuals, especially because some of them are on the older side and may not understand much about AI,” Renae told us.

Renae clarified in her video that she is not doxxing the individual, noting that the woman’s Instagram account is already public and actively used to target her.

“She is a young lass, and instead of going out and doing activities that a typical young girl would enjoy doing, she has decided to pour lot, and lots of time, effort, and emotion into crafting these hateful messages, creating lots, and lots of new accounts, because we are actively blocking her, and she has to come up with new ones,” she said.

“And you know, just sitting around, generating AI videos of people canoodling, and then sending it to them, and being very proud of herself, and being like, “Yay! I’ve achieved my mission,” she added.

Renae also shared that the harassment overlapped with a particularly vulnerable period in her life.

“She has been harassing me throughout my pregnancy in late 2024 to mid-2025, which caused me a great deal of anxiety and distress because this was my first pregnancy,” she told 8days.sg, adding that she believed in the Evil Eye. “I was so afraid she would wish ill on my foetus.” 

The Evil Eye is a belief that can cause misfortune, sickness, or injury to the person receiving it.

After delivering her child, and dealing with personal matters like moving house, she said she would receive a barrage of long, hateful, and violent messages, including threats to harm her.

Renae showed 8days.sg multiple screenshots of her harasser threatening to harm and even kill her.

In the video, Renae revealed that the harassment took a more alarming turn when the woman threatened to come to Singapore to set fire to malls here, and even considered ways to smuggle vapes in, knowing that it is illegal here.

“She said she wanted to ‘vape’ into my face. Such a unique threat. Also, I love that the two things that come to mind are malls and vapes, so I guess that’s what our nation is known for,” she dryly noted.

Renae also mentioned in the video that her harasser is using her full government name, and it will be interesting to see what effect her actions will have on her future education and ability to find a job.

When we asked Rane if she had reached out to the authorities, she said: “I haven’t, as she is from overseas.”

"I have a friend who got harassed badly by a woman based in Batam and she contacted various authorities, like lodging police report, contacting MHA and the Indonesian embassy in Singapore. She even met up with [her] MP on multiple occasions to explain her case. Yet the answer is always that nothing can be done since the perpetrator is not based in Singapore," Renae elaborated.

At press time, Renae shared on IG stories that her harasser has asked her to delete the video.

“Don’t do this. You literally exposed my face. Can you delete it on your Instagram and TikTok? I can get into trouble at college. I don’t want to get into trouble at college,” she pleaded.

Renae simply responded: “Yeah, I’ll be sure to let [your school] know.”