So saw this on the /r/FolkPunk, and abuser out calls are just nice to be spread in related spaces I guess? so following is the text posted over there by u/Both_Pickle6782
We Need To Talk About Pink Williams…
EDITED: Hey everyone, not getting on this thread to be an asshole, or bash creatives, but I do think that someone needs to say something about the musician/social media influencer Pink Williams. He’s really big on TikTok, and it’s where he blew up.
I know him personally, and so do a lot of people I know, and for my sake and the victims sake, I wish to remain anonymous.
For those who don’t know who Pink Williams is. He markets himself as a liberal, country music songwriter. He’s always been a super creative guy, and multi-talented, no one can deny that. But he’s bad news.
He used to live in my town, I worked with him, and so have a lot of other people I know. And then one day, he up and left the west coast to Tennessee.
Basically he has sexually and emotionally coerced and manipulated a lot of women, including two minors that I directly knew. Not sure if there’s others. He would kiss girls without their consent, including my sibling (who was also a minor at the time), basically try and have sex with everyone, try to watch women change in the wings of shows (when he was a big theater actor around here).
There’s been a lot of complaints about the guy over the years. And then he turns around and says he’s a liberal, but his personal values are anything but. It bothers a lot of people I know that he’s blown up, because there was never any real justice served and also because he’s a complete hypocrite.
Anyways, like I said, I do support artists and feel they should have a platform to create and share their work; but everyone’s been too scared to talk about this guy, and I think someone has to. So.
EDIT: I appreciate you all being here and reading this thread. I felt like I was going to fucking burst if I continued to not say anything about this guy. The most helpful thing anyone can do is spread awareness!
EDIT: Folks from my town are coming forward. Thank you for further validating this everyone. I had someone come forward, anonymously. They said that they know of accusations about him sexually harassing two other women in the theatre community, and fucking some girl in a high school bathroom (though they were both in high school at the time). Also evidently has a kid, and was emotionally manipulating the woman he had the kid with.
EDIT x3: for the person who says I won’t post details. Here they are. It’s all good, I will tell you everything I know.
So Pink Williams. His real name is Erik Sterling-Weiss. Used to live out on the west coast, in Santa Rosa, CA. He left the area during COVID, in the summer of 2020. He was known out here as a theatre actor, singer, musician, and makeup artist. He also used to work at a costume shop that since closed called, Disguise the Limit.
Erik was very, well known and frequently hired. He gained a reputation for being a talented performer. He made the local theaters a lot of money, and brought a lot of recognition to the area because he was constantly nominated for theatre awards and the shows he was in would always do really well.
I first met him in 2017, right after I graduated from high school. I thought that he was very friendly and charismatic. Almost immediately after the fact, when I mentioned to a friend he had introduced himself to me, that friend immediately warned me to stay away from him and expressed that he had a reputation for being highly inappropriate with women.
Not long after I met him, we got connected on social media, because we ended up being in shows together and had a lot of the same connections. He added me on Snapchat (this is still when I was 17) and made comments about how he “couldn’t wait until I was 18,” and he sent me pictures and videos of his dick, and him masturbating to me. I was super disturbed, but I’ve only ever told my sister and partner about this before, in the past. I’ve basically hated the guy ever since.
In 2017, he was working on a holiday show. One of the cast members was 14 years old at the time. This individual (who has also wished to stay anonymous) was given a lot of attention by Erik. He would flirt with her and call her cute, and he eventually coerced this young woman into sending nude pictures of herself to him. She confided in me, other members of the theatre community, and the former executive director of that particular theatre company, about these circumstances; but nothing ever came of it.
There was another girl that I went to high school with, who was 16 or 17, that was also a victim. I believe they met, because Erik’s and her father knew each other. Not entirely sure of the timeline on that one, but my younger sister had a class in school with this girl. At the time, the girl said “she was in a relationship with Erik.” Obviously, she was being groomed as he was in his mid 20’s when this occurred. Again, my sister knew this girl a little better than me, and she recounted instances that she had been told about, regarding Erik and this girl having a sexual relationship.
My sister (who was another one of the minors) was kissed on the mouth by Erik without her consent. She did actually have the stones to stand up to him though. He would flirt with her and make her feel “like a sex object.”
I know from someone in the cast of a show that he was working on, that he would try and watch women change costumes in the wings. That individual took notice and started positioning themselves to block the vantage point so this couldn’t continue to occur.
The last thing I heard before he left the area, was that he was going to be in a production of “Hair” the musical. A bunch of people protested his being cast, in confidence, because there is nudity in the show, he already had a history of inappropriate behavior and exposing himself, and there were minors in the show (there shouldn’t have been, but the old executive director of the theatre had his own unsavory reputation). He ended up being removed from the cast.
He had a reputation for being in multiple relationships because he is out as polyamorous. He also said that he was bi-sexual, but from all accounts, he was only ever going after women. Women would often say that he was overly flirtatious, touchy, and had a hard time taking no for an answer. He would also pursue people who were in relationships.
