Viral to Violent: The Nasim Aghdam Story
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In 2018, Nasim Najafi Aghdam walked into YouTube headquarters with a loaded gun and a personal vendetta. But this story doesn’t start with violence—it starts with viral vegan videos, fitness content, and a YouTube channel that once brought her internet fame. Nasim believed the platform was silencing her. Censoring her. Punishing her for speaking out about animal cruelty. Whether that was true or not didn’t matter anymore, because she acted on it.
This episode tracks how Nasim’s rise as a content creator spiraled into isolation, conspiracy, and violence—and how the digital platforms that connect us can also amplify obsession in the worst possible way. No manifesto. No clear answers. Just a deeply strange and heartbreaking moment in true crime that almost no one saw coming.
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| 0:00.0 | In 2018, a woman who once went viral for vegan workout videos walked into YouTube headquarters |
| 0:07.0 | with a gun. Her name was Nassim Agdam, and she thought the platform was targeting her, |
| 0:14.1 | deliberately tanking her views and silencing her message. What started as fitness content |
| 0:19.5 | turned into conspiracy and ended in a way that left |
| 0:23.0 | everyone asking, how did we get from tofu recipes to a shooting? This is not your usual |
| 0:29.5 | true crime story. It's weirder and way more unsettling. Before we dive in, if you like your |
| 0:35.9 | true crime brief and bingeable, you're in the right |
| 0:38.6 | place. Hit follow right now for at least two new episodes every week. This is 10-minute |
| 0:44.1 | murder. Let's get into it. |
| 0:57.0 | Music The The On April 3, 2018, a 39-year-old woman walked up to YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, |
| 1:25.2 | with one very specific objective. |
| 1:30.0 | What that objective was, and how long she'd been planning it wouldn't become clear until much later. But what we do know is that |
| 1:36.3 | it didn't start that day. It started years earlier and across several countries. Her name was |
| 1:43.0 | Nassim Najafi Agdam, born in Yermia, Iran, |
| 1:47.0 | then moved with her family to Azerbaijan, then again, this time across the globe, to the United States. |
| 1:54.0 | She'd been living in California since she was a teenager, and she had the kind of life story that looked on the surface |
| 2:00.0 | like a model case study in assimilation. |
| 2:03.6 | Multiple languages under her belt, Persian, English, Azerbaijani, Turkish, |
| 2:08.6 | and a passport that could have come with footnotes. |
| 2:11.6 | That skill set landed her right in the middle of the internet boom. |
| 2:15.6 | As social media started compressing the globe into bite-sized, bingeable chaos, |
| 2:21.8 | Nassim leaned into it. |
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