Breaking Character / Special Update - 6/9/26

So I'm breaking character here to actually write as myself. 

In a really wild twist of fate, I learned some surreal information about Netflix board member and Airbnb CFO Ellie Mertz. Before I get into it, I'm going to bring in some context.

Every single thing here is backed up by emails and documentation at Netflix. In case there's ever a subpoena, they'll find it all easily. 

Netflix fired me in January 2024 for objecting to: 

1. My bosses' secretive and dopey A.I. training, using global Netflix performances (not just audio, also video) to build their A.I. I begged them to think about 2026 talent union negotiations and that there's no way this won't get out, and the damage this will cause to Netflix longterm. "They won't know until after we've done it, and they can't stop us anyway" was the actual response to my concerns from the Innovation A.I. VP lol, and then my boss said to me "Drop it, or else". 

2. My bosses spent massive sums of money in the dumbest, most unscalable ways, all to protect a VP who spent tens of millions being hoodwinked by obvious charlatans using VFX sleight of hand and expensive nonsense methodology instead of actual development that could have helped Netflix (and this methodology also was immoral, possibly illegal depending on how you look at theft, and caused grave metrics harm to Netflix IPs like "Money Heist".)  This particular A.I. training methodology also required mass replacement of SAG-AFTRA talent and US labor, because they needed to do it outside of the US to cover themselves. And these execs had just pushed US recording studio partners to spend millions building stages for them... little did those partners know that these execs were simultaneously planning to quietly move most of the work out of the US. Not illegal but gives you an idea of the character of the decision makers here.

3. Lying to talent/producers about all of this, and withholding information about the harm caused to Netflix shows and IPs. 

4. My boss' insistence on covering up and taking part in her bosses' manipulation and spin of internal metrics, massive corporate waste (imagine needlessly spending somewhere between $3mil to $5mil on a single English dub, and that English dub results in the lowest metrics against expectations of all time on Netflix, for any show ever, any language, and then internally blaming the show's creator for the poor performance of the show). And that's just a single project on the slate... try to imagine how much money has been secretly wasted on unusable A.I. development at Netflix, or on A.I. development built on theft. I assume at some point in the last two years they eventually changed course to smarter methodologies, who knows.

5. My boss' proposal to charge a fee to actors to cover the minuscule Netflix costs for workshops that were always free for talent. I created these workshops so that any artists had the opportunity to come into a recording studio for free and experience dubbing in studio and see what we do, and maybe they would take an interest in dubbing / voice acting and the overall ecosystem of talent would grow. It was always an open door invitation, and talent was absolutely never ever asked to pay anything ever. I repeatedly told my boss that charging talent for workshops would be immoral, horrible PR, and almost certainly illegal depending on the context. In my wildest dreams I never expected them to move ahead with it in the blatantly illegal way they did, but that's up to the California Labor Commissioner's Office to decide what to do about now. 

After I was fired for these objections, I hired Netflix-friendly, non-suing, very fancy Hollywood lawyers to take the details to Netflix senior management. I only asked for my job back. Ted Sarandos' response was to have his fleet of lawyers threaten me into silence. One of my very fancy, famous-for-a-lawyer Hollywood lawyers (he reps some of the biggest movie stars you can imagine) told me that Netflix threatened me, and said that if I ever talk about any of this or sue them they promised to "make my life very difficult" and they would "no longer respect" me or my career. He said if I do move ahead with a lawsuit I would probably become a hero for artists rights, and I was not interested in an expensive battle I couldn't afford that would almost certainly just end with frustration. I moved on in life. 

After I was silent for a year and a half of being unable to find full-time work in the industry, I finally got a promising freelance position that had nothing to do with Netflix. It was working with a company who does other work with Netflix. On the day I simply updated my LinkedIn with the new position, Netflix sent their "Global Resource Management" team to intimidate my new employer. To spare that company potentially being punished for working with me and losing all of their Netflix work, I withdrew. And it didn't really matter because all of the studio execs who had been taking my calls and giving me shows to produce dubs for them stopped responding.  My career was done. These days I'm back home helping take care of my elderly parents, and I managed to get a job teaching public high school and I'm grateful because I love it. 

So anyway, with all that context above, something crazy happened in between being fired by Netflix and threatened by their lawyers, and where I am today. 

After Netflix fired me, I couldn't afford my house longterm anymore (first world problems, but stay with me). I grew up in a wonderful middle class family with school teacher parents, and I never dreamed I would own a house in Laurel Canyon. I put everything into it and I was really happy there, but without that Netflix salary it had to be sold. I had an offer for an overseas trip for 4 months, and I didn't want to try to sell the house while I was away, so I hired a "luxury short term management" company to manage renting my house for the four months I would be out of the country from April to August 2024. This was my primary and only home, and I had never rented it out before, but I needed to cover the mortgage for those 4 months, and the plan was to rent it and break even and put it up for sale when I returned. 

I returned in August 2024 to an absolutely surreal life chapter. The house was completely destroyed. The luxury rental company pushed me off on Airbnb (who had been the portal for that particular rental). I gave Airbnb and their insurance everything they needed by early September 2024. Police reports etc etc. They delayed and denied for months. I begged them repeatedly for help-- I had homeless addicts coming to the house constantly, it appeared that crimes may have taken place in the house, and it was terrifying. The FBI and LAPD (who were both incredibly supportive and helpful throughout this nightmare) told me to leave LA for a while to make sure there wasn't any confusion about whatever mysterious happenings went on in the house. 

I returned to the house in October 2024 to try to protect it from squatters, and found employees from the "luxury rental company" inside my house. Why were they inside my vacant, destroyed house two months later? That's a whole other story that I will be sharing. And it's an even bigger doozy, involving CEOs partying in rental homes with reality show celebrities in rental homes they control in the Hollywood Hills and Palm Springs. And Airbnb enables and knows all about it, and they don't care and even give them special treatment because Airbnb profits from it. But that's for another post, another day. And if you think these details I am sharing on this website are wild, just wait for the details on these individuals. 

And to be clear to cartel and anyone else Ellie Mertz and Airbnb and their business partners profit from enabling: I am not beefing with you, I am only beefing with C-Suite level corporate senior executives and their billionaire handlers who are malevolent toward humanity. I stay out of your business. 

Anyway it was a harrowing, nightmarish experience. For months I repeatedly begged Airbnb to stop delaying and denying my claim so I could at least fix the house to make it livable, and eventually get it completely redone so I could sell it. 

I begged and begged multiple parties at Airbnb and Crawford Insurance for months, living in a destroyed house with no heat, holes in the walls, flooded second floor, collapsed ceiling, etc. I had paid thousands of dollars the day after the renters to have the entire house professionally tested for the presence of drugs, and it came up negative but the house had all the trappings of a trap house just without any proof or hard evidence. And in particular I was always contacting and interacting with Airbnb Investor Relations, overseen by Ellie Mertz. I begged them repeatedly for help out of fear for my safety.

When I finally was forced to shame Airbnb and Crawford Insurance in front of their employees via a pretty funny email, Airbnb CFO Ellie Mertz who also oversees Investor Relations quickly approved a payment that would cover my destroyed and stolen property. It was nowhere near all of my losses, but it was enough to help me pay the mortgage while I used my savings to rebuild the house as quickly as possible. 

When they were embarrassed, Airbnb sent me that check, but even in all of our conversations via email and on the phone (I even fucking cried on one call thanking them for agreeing to send me something because I was living in fear in the house)-- Airbnb Investor Relations and Ellie Mertz still did not tell me what they knew about the renters they had put in my house. 

I only found out some of those Airbnb renter details 8 months later, after I had rebuilt and sold the house and left LA. I received a phone call from USPIS federal agent Lyndon Versoza, who told me that the Airbnb renters were arrested shortly  after they left my house, and that there was already a criminal conviction. 

And I didn't know all the details until randomly stumbling across this last week:

https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2026/04/fentanyl-made-in-us-how-clandestine.html?m=1

That's my house! That's the house Ellie Mertz and Airbnb put fentanyl producers and traffickers in, and then didn't tell me when they knew all about it. They gaslit me and acted like I was crazy for suspecting criminal activity and fearing for my safety. Ellie Mertz only sent me a check after I sent an email embarrassing Airbnb and Crawford Insurance senior management in front of their employees. Airbnb and Ellie (who is #2 overall on the org chart at Airbnb) didn't tell me who they had put in my house, and what danger I was in on multiple levels just by being there at the time. And it was a harrowing 6 months in the house in multiple ways that I will detail in another post.

Now, I know that I have created a Pynchon-themed comedic website for all this whistleblowing stuff. And I use names like Wednesday Tinasky to amuse myself (and also to keep my government name out of google whistleblower searches, thank you everyone for keeping it that way I appreciate it). I even threw in Josh Harris and the NBA because it wasn't that difficult to find stuff like Harris having Jeffrey Epstein facilitate a mysterious $2.4 million payment to an assistant in 2014, 6 years after Epstein's first child sex conviction. 

But now I have to ask myself... did Ellie Mertz actually know who I was? I mean... it's bad enough that Ellie Mertz and Airbnb appear to systematically withhold fentanyl production and trafficking information from hosts / homeowners, even when the host / homeowner is in clear and immediate danger without this information. But the added wrinkle that she almost certainly knew who I was, and then was elected to the Netflix board a few months later? I mean now that's some paranoid conspiracy stuff, and it doesn't really matter either way, because what matters is that Airbnb and Ellie Mertz CFO are withholding information about clandestine fentanyl labs (that Airbnb enables) from hosts and the general public and the authorities. I assume it would be a bad look for Airbnb if anybody found out. Airbnb and Ellie Mertz choose protecting profit over protecting the communities they operate in. 

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Netflix A.I. whistleblowing would lead me to a Netflix board member who purposely left me in a fentanyl house. And who seems to have possibly done it with malice, I assume via whoever had the power to get her on the board. I mean that is so farfetched that it can't be true, right? That would be like a ridiculous illuminati movie, but then again the moronic nature of it all would be on brand for A.I. Ted. Away from how he’s framed by fawning press looking for access and trying to keep their careers alive in a dying journalism industry, he’s closer to a hateful garden gnome come to life who does as he’s told.

If you pull the curtain back from the press fawning and framing to get access or simply because journalists have been pushed to a point as a profession that taking a risk and telling the truth about him would lead to a fate like mine: teaching high school for $35k/year. (By the way, I love it and I recommend it to anyone disgusted with Netflix senior management If you’re up for a lifestyle change). 

Anyway, any conjecture about Ellie Mertz's motivations for withholding this information from me is just conjecture. The point is that she did it, and she probably does it to all homeowners with clandestine fentanyl labs that her company enabled with sloppy A.I. guest approvals and it's just too ridiculous that there's also at the very least a suspiciously coincidental connection to Sarandos' handlers vengeance. I kind of feel like Oedipa Mass hearing the lock click behind me at the crying. 

Anyway this has been a weird couple of days learning all of this stuff and trying to process it. It's probably just the coincidence of a malevolent C-suite executive happens to also enable and cover up fentanyl trafficking to protect profit and just happens to fit right in with the Netflix board.  

Anyway I'll get around to posting a big update with tons of evidence etc. I don't care about money. I care about the truth being made public for the greater good. 

Thanks,

Wednesday Tinasky 

June 9th, 2026