Riley Reid's Amazon, Venmo and eBay got hacked and her phone number got transferred to another provider. She is most upset about the hacker making transphobic and Nazi posts on her Twitter.

Ames was due to perform in a pornographic scene, but withdrew when she learned that the co-star was a man who had appeared in gay pornography. On December 3, 2017, Ames wrote on Twitter:[11]

August Ames Twitter

@AugustAmesxxx

whichever (lady) performer is replacing me tomorrow for @EroticaXNews, you're shooting with a guy who has shot gay porn, just to let cha know. BS is all I can say🤷🏽♀️ Do agents really not care about who they're representing? #ladirect I do my homework for my body🤓✏️🔍

December 3, 2017[12]

The tweet drew criticism and abuse from social media users. Jaxton Wheeler, a pansexual performer, demanded that Ames apologize or take a cyanide pill, which he later said he regretted.[13][14] Ames, who was bisexual, defended her right to exercise her sexual autonomy in a subsequent tweet.[15][16]

On December 5, 2017, two days after her tweet, Ames was found dead in a park in Camarillo, California, at the age of 23.[17][2] Her death was ruled a suicide due to asphyxia by hanging by the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office.[18] Upon her autopsy, toxicology results revealed that she had cocaine, marijuana, the antidepressant Sertraline (Zoloft), and the anxiolytic alprazolam (Xanax) in her system at her time of death.[19] Close friends stated that cyberbullying led to her suicide.[20]