When documentarian and journalist David Farrier discovered Competitive Endurance Tickling by accident, he contacted the organizer about doing a piece on them. Instead of declining politely, Jane O'Brien Media began a harassment campaign full of intimidation and homophobic slurs. 

Undeterred, Farrier and his crew set out to make a documentary about Competitive Endurance Tickling, only to discover a dark world of lies, blackmail, and of course, a big ol' catfish.

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"Tickled", documentary (2016), David Farrier
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/david-damato-dead-tickled-villian-died-1201794767/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickled