Thomas Schoenberger posted on his YouTube Community page that he was willing to hand over my private data to any party that might want to sue or place a restraining order on me.
He writes: “I am now giving Sarah R. Adams, David Shurter, and others who wish to litigate against Teresa Joyce Randolph her email, home address, and phone number.”
The screenshot below shows a post Thomas Schoenberger made on his Sophia Musik YouTube community page, 02/20/2026.
Announcing that you’re going to disclose a person’s private data in a video or post violates YouTube Community Guidelines.
I reported Schoenberger’s post on his Sophia Musik YouTube channel on 02/20/2026, yet it is still visible on his community page.
The Players
Thomas Schoenberger is a polymath, composer, and entrepreneur, as stated on his website, at schoenbergermusic. He describes himself as a co-founder of Cicada 3301, an organization associated with crypto ecosystems. Cicada 3301 is an augmented reality game that features Cicada crypto tokens within its puzzles.
Schoenbergers’s ownership of the Cicada 3301 puzzle is up for dispute. The Washington Post writes that the creators of the puzzle remain unknown in their article, “Five of the internet’s eeriest, unsolved mysteries.”
After avowing for several years that he co-founded the mysterious arg game from its onset, he finally formed an LLC.
Cicada 3301 Metaverse LLC affirms that its products and services are the work of independent artists, writers, and performers. However, it makes no mention of an arg puzzle game with a crypto token.
In November of 2022, Schoenberger sent me a flattering email about my YouTube livestream and asked whether I had a crypto wallet, as he wanted to make a donation.
I declined because, as a student journalist, I knew it was unethical to accept money or gifts from people you are reporting about.
I was already aware of Schoenberger before he showed up in my livestream chat, because two weeks earlier, I had sourced him for a class assignment on QAnon.
We had to give a class presentation on movements that used hashtags related to race and gender issues. My group chose #QAnon. The source I used was an article in the Daily Beast titled, “Right-Ring Advocates Discussed Wire-Tapping Seth Rich’s Family, Three People in the Room Say.”
Wealthy Texas businessman Ed Butowsky hired Schoenberger as part of an elite, self-proclaimed reputation management company called Shadowbox, which used bots, sophisticated internet technology, meme creation, PR, and cyberguerilla tactics to defend clients online, according to The Daily Beast.
Schoenberger is currently in a lawsuit with Michigan State University over allegations that he disseminated QAnon propaganda via Twitter, stemming from linguistics professor Laura Dilley’s research paper titled “QAnon Propaganda on Twitter as Information Warfare: Infuencers, Networks, and Narratives. “
David Shurter is an alleged Satanic ritual abuse survivor and author of the book Rabbit Hole, which is an account of his childhood experiences of SRA abuse.
The book was published in 2012 by Concierge Marketing Inc., a publishing services provider for independent authors. David Shurter alleges his ex-husband’s publishing company published his book.
During the rise of the spread of QAnon conspiracies of a cannibalistic Satanic child-trafficking deep state cabal that President Donald Trump was going to save humanity from, David Shurter rose to prominence within the far-right fringe online media.
QAnon-promoting shows such as Lift the Veil with Nathan Stolpman and David Zublick’s Awake Nation regularly featured Shurter as a guest and continue to advocate his uncorroborated narrative.
David Shurter started defaming me three years ago with several of Schoenberger’s chosen targets, of whom he has made accusations that we are neo-Nazi Satanic child traffickers responsible for the death of actor Isaac Kappy, who spun #Maga and #QAnon narratives online.
Schoenberger was the person who helped Isaac Kappy get booked as a guest on Lift the Veil.
For the past three years, Shurter has also been accusing Daniel Doud, Jesse Davis and Paula Davis of Sewer Town YouTube, Geo Farnsworth, who ran a Kappy Discord-type forum known as “Key Base,” Cory Daniels, a researcher into the suicide of Kappy, and his wife, who is said to be the last person to have contact with Kappy before his death. The list also includes Gabe Hoffman, a hedge fund manager and producer of the film An Open Secret, and Manuel “Defango” Chavez, whom Butowsky also hired through Shadow Box with Schoenberger.
Recently, Shurter’s ex-moderator, Sharilyn Shecta, said that Schoenberger was paying Shurter $500 a month to defame us online.
Following Schoenberger’s YouTube community post affirming that he was willing to give my personal data to Shurter, Sarah R. Adams, and others, Shurter posted an email on his blog that he cc’d me on with Harlan, Iowa, sheriffs and news outlets.
Sarah R. Adams hails from online UFO media circles. She first branded herself as a super soldier, which in the conspiracy world is defined as a victim of highly classified MILAB (military abductions) and mind control programs.
Adams rebranded herself as a multi-dimentional life coach where she offered psychic readings and healing services to clients.
Adams has a long-standing grievance with me for many years for exposing her as a fake psychic healer, and as of recent, I have done commentary on the Not My Rabbit Hole podcast about Adams’ near-fatal mushroom ritual that almost killed comedian Steve Harvey’s daughter-in-law.
Both Adams and her client had to be intubated from the ingestion of a synthetic form of mushrooms that she purchased from a cannabis dispensary.
Shurter has admitted that Adams offered to pay him $5,000 to take me down during a livestream on his YouTube channel.
After Adams made the offer, Shurter began accusing her ex-business partner, Tajinder Gill, and me of blackmailing and extorting her.
On the same day that Schoenberger threatened to give my personal data to Adams, she published on Meta, that she spoke to the university I attend, and they instructed her to call law enforcement, procure a restraining order against me, and that I will most likely be suspended from the college. I am earning an MFA in creative nonfiction.
The Inciting Incident
The catalyst to Schoenberger’s online threats was over a YouTube video that I uploaded with commentary on Shurter telling his YouTube followers that Schoenberger’s defamation was valid titled, “David Shurter says that a felon on stalking charges has the scoop.”
In Schoenberger’s threatening data dump post about me, he argues that he is not a felon and that Hoffman and I are pushing this lie about him and that he will dispose Hoffman as a witness in a court case against me if needed.
Schoenberger’s denial that he was not a convicted felon on stalking charges is inaccurate according to California Public Records. However, his felony charge case status is inactive.
What this means is that the court is no longer managing the case, but the conviction and record still officially exist and is sitll visible to the public. Schoenberger denies this and attests that his felony conviction was expunged.
Expungement is a legal process that dismisses a conviction, often allowing you to legally state you have no convictions on employment applications.
Schoenberger’s allegations that his felony on stalking charge was expunged is simply not true, and my reference to his felony is not a reason for him to threaten to divulge my personal data to third parties.
