Brie Lybrand, a New Orleans actress, teacher and model had a modest following on YouTube - posting cute make-up tutorials, shopping tips, and tours of her neighbourhood.
But the pageant queen's fame spread rapidly across the web after her latest 12-minute video, in which she alleges, in graphic detail, that she was beaten, molested, tortured and repeatedly raped by his father between the ages of four and 13.
During the video she also shows viewers three loaded guns, which she reportedly keeps by her bed and in her handbag.
The decision to share her most traumatic years on film was prompted by an email she received from YouTube which informs her when someone subscribes to her videos.
Brie Lybrand is visibly distressed in the YouTube clip she posted
"The man that took my virginity, robbed me of an innocence has subscribed to me on YouTube and is watching my videos," she says.
"I never got to testify in court and tell him what it feels like being tied up and chained and tortured for hours when you're four years old by your father."
She describes how her father knocked out her mother's teeth after an attempt to stop him raping her.
"I watched my mother in a pool of her own blood and then he came after me. Even at my age I still have nightmares that he's coming back to kill me."
Lybrand then goes on to narrate the story of her life, as a cheerleader, her high school boyfriend, her time at college, "a better college than you went to", and her career as an actor and teacher.
With tears streaming down and her voice shaking, she says: "When you were raping me my mind was somewhere else. I was in Disney World, or I was on a beach. Or on a swing listening to Broadway musicals. But I was anywhere except you on top of me. And I have turned that into my career."
Brie Lybrand with her pink gun, which she claims to have bought to deter her father from contacting her
Taking out a candy-pink case, Lybrand draws a gun out, which she claims she purchased in case her father ever returned to find her, and which she now keeps by her bed. She show the views a small gun, which she says she keeps in her "purse".
Then she holds up a metallic pink gun, "the pink lady" which she shows the viewer is loaded.
She adds, barely able to speak through the tears: "I wish for your death every day. You don't deserve to breathe the same air that I breathe.
Brie in one of her previous make-up videos
"When you die, I will find your grave and I'm going to take a big, heaping dump on it because that's what you deserve. I hope you see my face every day for the rest of your miserable life."
After asking her father to unsubscribe from her channel, she apologises to her subscribers, saying: "I'm sorry this is a different type of video than I usually do. But I needed to say it; I needed to say it to your face."