Anyone who has looked at the AI slop website, bigbendtimes.com, knows that David Flash is constantly writing about himself in the 3rd person, probably to make it appear that someone isn’t reading one of Flash’s fever dreams, but is instead reading something reported by someone else. Since it’s likely that everything posted to David Flash’s ad tech clickbait websites wasn’t written by anyone, but is actually just text generated by a computer, perhaps it’s not wrong to refer to Flash in the 3rd person. He lists himself as the ‘publisher’ of the posts on his websites, not the author. So perhaps it’s fine that his AI slop websites refer to him in the third person. If the text in his posts is generated by a computer, then he isn’t actually the one writing it.
When this reporter first started researching Flash’s awful websites, I noticed a number of articles supposedly ‘written’ by Holly Pearson. This person has supposedly ‘authored’ over 40 posts on Flash’s smear site, bigbendtimes.com. It’s interesting that starting Dec 31, 2023 and until April 1, 2025, someone was working with David Flash. We cannot find any announcements of this ‘reporter’ joining Flash’s ‘team.’ One would think that if bigbendtimes.com suddenly had double the staff, there would have been an announcement. Afte rall, Flash is the guy who posted on the internet when he allegedly got a promotion at the steam cleaning company he works for. Strange that his first staff reporter worked for almost a year and a half without any mention of her hire. And there seems to be no reason why this person stopped posting on Flash’s smear site on April 1. But that date does seem to indicate what might be going on.
Who is Holly Pearson? We don’t know. I brief investigation found no one by that name in the Big Bend Region. There are no pictures or video with Holly in them anywhere on Flash’s smear sites. Just a series of posts on the internet supposedly authored by Holly. And if one reads a few of the articles, the ‘writing’ style is obvious. It’s just more AI generated slop pretending to be journalism. The articles sound exactly like all the other articles on Flash’s websites.
While Flash has a bio on his site claiming all types of certifications and credentials, Holly’s bio is strangely empty. Is Holly an introvert and doesn’t want people to know anything about her? Possibly, but usually journalists want to let people know enough about them so that readers can trust who they are or that they, at bare minimum, exist. There is no email address or any other way to contact Holly on Flash’s website. If someone wants to submit a tip to Holly, or ask her to correct false statements in one of the stories published with her name, how would one contact Holly?
Holly….if you are out there, let us know. If anyone has any tips about Holly’s safety, please let us know. Constitutional scholars, journalism marketing professors at ASU, and kidnapping experts are following this story closely. The editorial team at Big Bend Times Dot Org will update this page as more facts become available.
