NY1 Meteorologist Fired For Moonlighting On X-Rated Website Returns To Social Media With Warning

Erick Adame, the gay Spectrum News NY1 meteorologist who was fired back in September, after his employers became aware of his sexual discretions, has returned to social media after a four-month absence.

For those of you not up to speed on his story, Adame was fired from NY1 after his employers became aware that he was performing sexual acts while chatting with viewers on the adult website Chaturbate.

What Adame did not know was that his sessions were secretly being recorded, and the footage was sent anonymously not only to his employers, but to his mother.

“My psychiatrist calls my actions ‘compulsive behavior,’ others would call them reckless, stupid or brazen. I’m not in a position to argue with any of these descriptions,” he said in a lengthy, September Instagram post explaining what had happened.

“Despite being a public figure and being on television in the biggest market in the country in front of millions of people five days a week for more than a decade and a half, I secretly appeared on an adult webcam website,” he continued.

“On this site, I acted out my compulsive behaviors, while at home, by performing on camera for other men. It was 100% consensual on both of our parts. I wasn’t paid for this, and it was absurd of me to think I could keep this private. Nonetheless, my employer found out and I was suspended and then terminated.”

Last I heard before Adame went off grid, he was getting his attorneys involved in his termination suit, and we hadn't heard anything from him since - until I just so happened to be scrolling through my Instagram and saw that he had posted a video on New Years Day updating his followers on how he's been holding up.

Here's what he said:

“That news gave … sexual predators the idea that I wanted to be exploited and humiliated as if it were something I enjoyed,” he said. “A lot of these people are out there searching for internet for whatever pictures or videos of me they can find. But I want to be absolutely clear about something tonight: I never wanted any of those images or videos to ever be recorded or kept or saved or shared in any way. And I don’t want any kind of this attention that I’ve been receiving.”

“What I do want is for these people to leave me alone,” he continued. “I’m hurt. And I wish people would focus more on the fact these videos exist when they shouldn’t exist, as opposed to the salacious details that people have been really going on and on and on about.”

“I assumed that once I closed my laptop that anything that happened on camera would only exist in memory. But instead, those video sessions were recorded, by people and sometimes these bots.”

“And these bots are scripts that automatically run on a computer or website that record those webcam sessions and post them on a website, and that’s all done without your knowledge or permission. And many of these websites then have a download available to download the entire video, for a fee! Someone out there makes money off you doing sexual activity on camera without you even knowing.”

“So I say this again, to all the sexual predators out there: I did not want any of these pictures or videos out there, and I don’t want them shared. I don’t enjoy being humiliated and treated like a sexual object.”

Adame continued, “And to everyone else, obviously … you don’t need me to tell you this, the internet is a very dangerous place. Anything you put out there on the internet, is going to be out there forever. There are sexual predators who are ready to exploit you like they have been doing to me.”

“I still think that the real story here should be that there are these websites out there that are recording you or taking screenshots of you while you are on camera, without you even knowing.”

Adame said many of these websites are hosted overseas and out of US jurisdiction. He says he’s read other stories from people on Reddit: Individuals depressed or suicidal after taking part in an adult webcam chat that was recorded without their knowledge.

He ended by wishing people a happy New Year and saying he hopes people will be able to see him on camera again in 2023.

In short, if you take part in adult webcam chat, be someone might record and share them without your knowledge. So be careful.

It's not all doom and gloom for Adame, as in the four months that he's been working on getting his career back on track, he revealed on social media that's he's found love in a hopeless place.

If you are a sex worker or an exhibitionist, definitely be aware of where your videos end up on social media. I have heard from a few sex worker friends of mine how they've had to report websites for posting their content without their permission, and formthe most part it get's taken down.

However it's like trying to eradicate a roach. Once you kill one, a few more continue to pop up. I also could have sworn that, written in the Chaturbate guidelines that viewers are not supposed to record other people's live streams?

While there are some out there who are pro-sex, there are a lot of sexually-repressed people out there who get off on shaming others for being sexually liberated because they are ashamed of their own sexuality.

As for Adame, I don't feel he needs to apologize for exploring his sexual kinks outside of work. Unfortunately, it cost him his job and the person who sent the video to his mother as a way to shame him is trash. I don't think he'll get his job back at NY1, but I do hope he ends up at another network continuing to do what he loves.