A PETITION GENERATED BY DOXFEED.COM

Discovery Channel: Get Back to Nature, Not Doxxing
Petition
Warner Bros. Discovery and Discovery Channel leadership:

Discovery should be about the real world: wildlife, oceans, storms, wilderness, history, exploration, and people doing difficult work in remarkable places.

It should not lend the Discovery name to programming surrounded by an influencer audience that seeks out personal information, targets private people, and turns humiliation and online hostility into entertainment.

We are asking Warner Bros. Discovery to cancel or indefinitely suspend How to Catch a Dirtbag, review the audience conduct surrounding the influencer currently being amplified, and replace the program with serious, exciting Gulf Coast nature programming.

The exhibit  DISCOVER THE DIRTBAG documents public audience conduct connected to the influencer’s account and the program’s surrounding ecosystem. It presents examples and aggregate measures involving personal-information seeking, targeting, hostile commentary, and doxxing-style behavior.

The exhibit also places those conduct measurements alongside a current Warner Bros. Discovery stock-price reference. This petition does not claim that the exhibit proves financial causation. It asks executives, advertisers, and shareholders to examine whether the proximity represents brand-safety, reputational, and business risk.

The question is simple:

Does this format belong on Discovery Channel?

Discovery has always been strongest when it takes viewers somewhere real—into the ocean, across a desert, through a storm, or deep into the history of a place. A program connected to an audience culture built around targeting people is a poor fit for that identity.

There is a better story waiting in the Gulf.

Horn Island is not some tiny scrap of sand. It is a roughly 13-mile-long wilderness barrier island about ten miles offshore from Mississippi. Congress designated it as wilderness in 1978. It has no ordinary visitor facilities and protects a rugged coastal ecosystem filled with birds, alligators, raccoons, frogs, snakes, turtles, live oaks, pine trees, dunes, maritime forest, and marine life. National Park Service: Horn Island Wilderness

The island has the kind of history Discovery was made to tell. Its name is tied to French exploration and a lost powder horn. It once had a lighthouse. During World War II, it served as a Chemical Warfare Service quarantine station. Mississippi artist Walter Inglis Anderson later found inspiration there, returning again and again to study and paint its wilderness.

Imagine a series filmed with salt in the air and sand underfoot:

Wildlife surviving on a narrow barrier island
Alligators, sea turtles, seabirds, dolphins, and coastal forests
Hurricanes, storm surge, erosion, and rising seas
Shipwrecks, lighthouses, forts, and Gulf Coast history
Walter Anderson’s art and his connection to Horn Island
Fishermen, researchers, park rangers, boat crews, and conservationists
The struggle to protect one of America’s remaining wild coastlines
This would be tough, beautiful, intelligent television. It would have real stakes. It would show viewers a place where weather, wildlife, history, and human courage meet.

We ask Warner Bros. Discovery to:

Cancel or indefinitely suspend How to Catch a Dirtbag.
Conduct an independent review of the influencer’s audience conduct and the public evidence documented in the Doxfeed exhibit.
Examine whether the program creates unacceptable brand, advertiser, privacy, or shareholder risk.
Determine whether amplifying this format is consistent with Discovery Channel’s identity and editorial standards.
Stop promoting or rewarding content that encourages personal targeting or the circulation of private information.
Commission a major Gulf Coast nature and history series beginning with Horn Island.
Consult scientists, historians, park officials, artists, conservationists, and Gulf Coast communities.
Publish a clear explanation of the review and the network’s decision.
This petition is about a programming decision and corporate responsibility. It is not a request to contact, identify, or harass private individuals.

Discovery should choose the wild Gulf Coast over online targeting. It should choose fieldwork over outrage, history over humiliation, and nature over doxxing.

Sign the petition and ask Warner Bros. Discovery to get back to its roots.