Researching the phenomenon further, they uncover information about a person known as 'Terri DiSisto' (alias 'Terri Tickle'), who pioneered recruiting and distributing tickling videos online in the 1990s. Farrier and Reeve respond by following the representatives to Los Angeles to an apparent video recording location, but are turned away at the door. Although their interactions are superficially cordial, the Jane O'Brien Media representatives bully the investigators to drop the project. Īfter their initial blog posts about the story go viral, the duo receive legal threats from Jane O'Brien Media, who send Kevin Clarke and two other representatives to New Zealand to meet with them. Farrier, bewildered at the hostile response, partners with television producer Dylan Reeve to dig deeper into the mysterious producers. The company responds with a volatile email, refusing to 'associate with a homosexual journalist' (although Farrier is actually bisexual ).
He begins to research it for a story and requests an interview with the videos' producer, Jane O'Brien Media. 5 Response from the documentary's subjectsĭavid Farrier, a New Zealand television reporter whose beat focuses on 'quirky and odd stories', encounters online videos depicting 'competitive endurance tickling', an activity in which young athletic men are restrained and tickled by each other.
