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A comedian accused of posting explicit videos of his ex-girlfriend online whined that reporters have ruined his life.
Ryan Broems, the first person to be sued under New York City’s new anti-revenge-porn law, griped in Manhattan Criminal Court that he can’t get bookings anymore.
“Nobody wants to hire that guy,” he claimed.
Broems was arrested twice on charges that he relentlessly harassed Dr. Spring Chenoa Cooper, a CUNY public-health professor, after she ended their relationship.
He allegedly sent her a barrage of Snapchat videos of himself masturbating and posted intimate photos and videos of her on Tumblr — along with her CUNY profile, according to Cooper’s civil suit.
Court papers allege that he sent her menacing messages from the handle CALIDADDY26 with the threat, “I know who you are, be my personal webslut, or I’ll post you on my slut exposing blog.”
Cooper previously told The Post in an exclusive interview that she feared her career “would be over.”
But the out-of-work comedian, who has denied waging the harassment campaign, only seemed concerned about himself Thursday.
After leaving court, he tweeted, “Today I had a reporter tell me they were ‘harmless’. Reporters are about as harmless as guns.”
He faces a slew of misdemeanors including six counts of unlawful disclosure of an intimate image and the unlawful threat to disclose an intimate image, both charges added by the city’s revenge-porn statute. He faces up to a year in jail.
The state’s revenge-porn bill died Thursday after an aggressive opposition campaign by Google-backed lobbyists.