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BeyondWalls
06/27/21 8:37:31 PM
#51:


Sorry, guys. I give up. This shit goes back a decade across multiple forums. I just can't sort it all. I can tell you to search "Byuu" if you want to read it all yourself. Most of Kiwi Farms is claiming that this is fake and Byuu is lying. Their main evidence seems to be that they find it strange somebody was typing out a google document instead of calling the police. They seem to think he'll show up again in a week talking about a "near miss." I don't believe that. I think this is probably real.

All I can say with certainty is this is what happens when groups of mentally ill people clash. Byuu certainly had his share of problems and drama, depending on who you ask. He seems to have pissed off various people in the emulation community over the years (including the retroarch people), especially in terms of money. He was clearly unhappy with his life in terms of his career goals, personal goals, and his sexuality. He was also clearly interested in transitioning, furry porn, and defending that lolicon bullshit. That made him an easy target for Kiwi Farms.

In terms of what Kiwi Farms did or didn't do? I can't fucking say. The shit spreads across multiple forums and into every corner of the internet. It's not like this was limited to just the Kiwi Farms website. The Kiwi thread clearly bothered Byuu and he had threatened to sue the owner if he didn't take it down. But, it wasn't a popular thread. It was only 13 pages and nearly dead. But it's mere existence seemed to drive Byuu crazy. I've read some stuff about doxing, etc. I don't think there was some giant effort by Kiwi Farms to destroy this guy, but it is likely that one or two of it's members kept pushing this clearly mentally ill man every chance they got.

It doesn't seem like Kiwi Farm was "going after" Byuu per say (although maybe a few of their posters might have), but they are giving a home to assholes to congregate and feed off their own bullshit. They certainly seem to show no remorse for any of this. The site should probably be shut down just to break these people up.

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Zikten
06/27/21 8:41:48 PM
#52:


Yea I agree. Shut kiwi farms down. And if any individual poster cam be linked directly to the harassment, arrest them
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Rimmer_Dall
06/27/21 8:46:31 PM
#53:


BeyondWalls posted...
I think Kiwi Farms cataloguing his fights was a source of anxiety, but I don't know if I'd say he was "targeted" by them. But I'm only one page in.
Been reading. It's odd. The thread only accumulated about 200 post over a period of 3 years, he himself participated in said thread and was actually received rather well. When people talk about drama he was involved in they keep linking to threads on 4chan, so it seems it's on 4chan all the bad stuff was happening and Kiwi Farms mostly just talked about it, some disparagingly, some supportingly. Then out of nowhere the owner of Kiwi Farms gets an email from him offering him 120000 dollars to take down the thread "or I'll commit suicide" and posts the email in the thread and the thread gets about 1000 posts over the course of a single day. What the hell happened here?
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BeyondWalls
06/27/21 8:51:56 PM
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Rimmer_Dall posted...
Been reading. It's odd. The thread only accumulated about 200 post over a period of 3 years, he himself participated in said thread and was actually received rather well. When people talk about drama he was involved in they keep linking to threads on 4chan, so it seems it's on 4chan all the bad stuff was happening and Kiwi Farms mostly just talked about it, some disparagingly, some supportingly. Then out of nowhere the owner of Kiwi Farms gets an email from him offering him 120000 dollars to take down the thread "or I'll commit suicide" and posts the email in the thread and the thread gets about 1000 posts over the course of a single day. What the hell happened here?
I don't know. That's about where I gave up. Stuff was going on in emails, Reddit, 4Chan, Twitter, etc. It's impossible to sort out. The RetroArch guys accused him of several mental illnesses. Who knows what's true though? That's actually one of the points Byuu was trying to make at one point.

I think Byuu was probably an unstable person being pushed by unstable people. Kiwi should probably be shut down just to break that group up.

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CyricZ
06/27/21 8:52:36 PM
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That's so sad. :(

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Rimmer_Dall
06/27/21 8:57:33 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...
I don't know. That's about where I gave up. Stuff was going on in emails, Reddit, 4Chan, Twitter, etc. It's impossible to sort out. The RetroArch guys accused him of several mental illnesses. Who knows what's true though? That's actually one of the points Byuu was trying to make at one point.
I just find it so weird, because by the looks of the early pages in that thread it seems the people on Kiwi Farms mostly liked the guy. It got worse in the last couple of pages before the explosion where apparently he had started talking about depression and stuff where some people said things like "I hope he at least finishes the N64 emulator before killing himself" and stuff like that.
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BeyondWalls
06/27/21 9:04:26 PM
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CyricZ posted...
That's so sad. :(

From 2014...

It's doubly sad that this dude felt he had accomplished nothing but "computer programming" when I'd kill to have half his talent. It's a shame that he never gave his skills more credit. He got so hung up on what he wasn't that he never recognized the amazing stuff he did accomplish. I use his emulator myself and I personally owe him for the joy he brought to my life.

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Rimmer_Dall
06/27/21 9:15:34 PM
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This whole e-mail chain is just utterly deranged. Can't screencap it all because there's too much of it.

https://i.imgur.com/ZBMywEr.png
https://i.imgur.com/D6aHe05.png
https://i.imgur.com/PUpwtAv.png
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matchboxsantana
06/27/21 9:22:33 PM
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Rimmer_Dall posted...
This whole e-mail chain is just utterly deranged. Can't screencap it all because there's too much of it.

https://i.imgur.com/ZBMywEr.png
https://i.imgur.com/D6aHe05.png
https://i.imgur.com/PUpwtAv.png

so this guy hosted content doxing near, doxing his friend, accusing him of horrible things, and then upon hearing near would do what he did he pretended to be a man of morals who doesn't want to be extorted and who fears the wrath of God?

What a hypocrite.
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Zikten
06/27/21 9:27:08 PM
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Fuck that site owner

Poor Near basically says "goodbye. I am going to die now"

And his reply is "I will not be extorted "

Such a piece of shit. People should never let this go for the rest of his life. Hopefully his site get shut down
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Rimmer_Dall
06/27/21 9:29:00 PM
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matchboxsantana posted...
so this guy hosted content doxing near, doxing his friend, accusing him of horrible things
See, here's the weirdest thing of all; from what I can see the thread didn't contain any dox. Just links to his official website and social media.

EDIT: Re-reading the e-mail, Byuu himself said the dox were uploaded to pastebin and posted on 4chan. It's kinda odd nobody put them on Kiwi Farms in that case considering their fondness for dox, but I'm over a dozen pages in and I still haven't found anyone posting them. Everything about this is just so weird.
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matchboxsantana
06/27/21 9:29:11 PM
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Zikten posted...
Fuck that site owner

Poor Near basically says "goodbye. I am going to die now"

And his reply is "I will not be extorted "

Such a piece of shit. People should never let this go for the rest of his life. Hopefully his site get shut down

First he did the usual GOP voter thing when they claim their strong, wholesome morals don't allow them to right a fucking horrible and immoral thing they have done, and then when it didn't work and he was scared as fuck he said he'd not be extorted because he thought it'd be good for his defense.

Who leaked the emails?
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Rimmer_Dall
06/27/21 9:29:58 PM
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matchboxsantana posted...
Who leaked the emails?
The owner of Kiwi Farms. He posted them in the thread in question, on page 14 I think.
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matchboxsantana
06/27/21 9:30:18 PM
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Rimmer_Dall posted...
The owner of Kiwi Farms.

that sounds like a dumb move
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BeyondWalls
06/27/21 9:30:34 PM
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Rimmer_Dall posted...
https://i.imgur.com/PUpwtAv.png
What's sad is that Null (the owner of Kiwi farms) will feel no remorse over this at all if it's true.

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ultimate reaver
06/27/21 9:32:15 PM
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He has had that we will not be censored response every time his user base does something bad, this is nothing new

basically nothing will happen to them most likely

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LanaDurant
06/27/21 9:34:35 PM
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Damn bsnes was a dope emulator
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BeyondWalls
06/27/21 9:40:12 PM
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I hate to say this, but.... just to play devil's advocate for a moment... It's possible Byuu was trying to set Null up on blackmail charges. Because I think if Null agreed to destroy damning evidence against Byuu in exchange for money then that qualifies as blackmail. Right? It's possible that when the blackmail scheme didn't work then Byuu fell back on his fake-suicide-disappearance plan.

I'm not saying that happened, but that's probably the theory Kiwi Farms will push.

At this point I honestly don't know if this was a final plea from a man at the end of his rope or a cooked up revenge scheme against his tormentors. I don't think we'll ever know unless we get more information.

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matchboxsantana
06/27/21 9:43:26 PM
#69:


BeyondWalls posted...
I hate to say this, but.... just to play devil's advocate for a moment... It's possible Byuu was trying to set Null up on blackmail charges. Because I think if Null agreed to destroy damning evidence against Byuu in exchange for money then that qualifies as blackmail. Right? It's possible that when the blackmail scheme didn't work then Byuu fell back on his fake-suicide-disappearance plan.

I'm not saying that happened, but that's probably the theory Kiwi Farms will push.

At this point I honestly don't know if this was a final plea from a man at the end of his rope or a cooked up revenge scheme against his tormentors. I don't think we'll ever know unless we get more information.

I am no expert, but I think that's not how it works.
Blackmail is something like saying "I have pictured of you cheating on your wife. Give me X or do Y or I will release them".
Bribery is "I will give you (money or thing) if you do X".

but bribery only applies to certain people, e.g. judges in a contest, govt officials, etc, not randos who own message boards.
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BeyondWalls
06/27/21 9:47:08 PM
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matchboxsantana posted...
I am no expert, but I think that's not how it works.
Blackmail is something like saying "I have pictured of you cheating on your wife. Give me X or do Y or I will release them".
Bribery is "I will give you (money or thing) if you do X".

but bribery only applies to certain people, e.g. judges in a contest, govt officials, etc, not randos who own message boards.
I don't know. I think it qualifies as blackmail, extortion, or something. Because then all Byuu has to say is that Kiwi Farms is collecting damning documents against people and harassing them unless they pay high sums of money. Then Kiwi Farms will stop and delete the documents.

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Rimmer_Dall
06/27/21 9:47:57 PM
#71:


BeyondWalls posted...
I'm not saying that happened, but that's probably the theory Kiwi Farms will push.
So far it looks like a mix of people either believing he's not dead or that he killed himself because he's been depressed and suicidal for years and it was only a matter of time.

I've been spending way too much time reading through that thread. I need to go do something more productive. The past several pages I've read have all pretty much been the same anyway.
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Axiom
06/27/21 9:50:36 PM
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All I had to see was Kiwi Farms in a post and that tells me all I need to know. I just found out about that site a few years ago and wish I didn't know about it

One of the worst things I have ever seen involving forums. Sad people literally compiling info by stalking others through all corners of their life
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Lil_Bit83
06/27/21 10:43:01 PM
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How pathetic and worthless and petty do you have to be to dedicate a website solely to harass people?

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LanaDurant
06/27/21 11:00:01 PM
#74:


Lil_Bit83 posted...
How pathetic and worthless and petty do you have to be to dedicate a website solely to harass people?


@Tails82
@mrgoatthief
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BeyondWalls
06/27/21 11:10:03 PM
#75:


The honest truth is, I've been bullied, ridiculed, and humiliated my entire life. From my earliest grade school memories to now. It's always hurt me deeply enough that I can't describe it in words. I could only just tolerate it with heavy depression when it was 4chan.

But Kiwi Farms has made the harassment orders of magnitude worse. It's escalated from attacking me for being autistic, to attacking and doxing my friends, and trying to suicide bait another, just to get a reaction from me. I lost one of my best friends to this. I feel responsible

I can't handle this anymore. I have tried everything. I have taken every medication available. I have tried multiple therapists. I have tried closing myself off from the world. It doesn't help at all. Every night I am filled with panic attacks and dread and worry.

I have tried changing in every way possible as they wanted me to in order to get this to stop, but it just never does. Every few months, it's something new. A new dox, a new thread, a new tangent. It's too much to bear any longer.

I've always tried my best to be kind and helpful to everyone. And I didn't do anything wrong other than be weird online. Maybe a bit too passionate at times. Their horrific claims are entirely baseless. Still, if I've hurt or upset anyone, I'm really sorry for that.

The internet is not a game. It's real life. I'm a real person. This stuff really hurts. I poured my entire life into this. I have no real-life friends, I have no other reason for being. Only this. And now I have nothing.

It's too late for me, but I pray that someone, at some point, will do something about that website. There's too many people suffering, and no one seems to care because we are relative nobodies online, and they know that. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Please don't remember me for this. Remember me for what I've done. For my work and dedication. Thank you all so much for your kindness and support over the years. I'm very sorry, but know that I love you all very much. Here's hoping there's something better awaiting.

Please don't hate me for this. As much as I know it will cause some of you to suffer, please understand I was suffering far more. I'm sure some will try to play this off as my fault. But it's not. They didn't have to do this and they could have stopped any time, but chose not to.

I would have kept going if Joshua Moon had shown me just the tiniest bit of compassion. But he chose not to. That's not on me, that's on him. That's on every last person who pushed me to this point and didn't let up. I never deserved any of this.

Thank you all so much for the kind messages. Please take care of yourselves. I love you all very much. Thank you for all your support over the years. It's been such an honor. I'll miss you all so much, but at least I can finally be at peace.

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MegamanX299
06/29/21 11:19:34 AM
#77:


ZSNES is best

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Solid Sonic
06/29/21 11:21:06 AM
#78:


MegamanX299 posted...
ZSNES is best

bsnes is the best one because it's no different from a real SNES, warts and all. It's the most distilled definition of "emulation".

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Bio1590
06/29/21 11:22:34 AM
#79:


Casual reminder there's multiple users on here who gleefully post on kiwi farms and condone this
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Rapid99
06/29/21 1:25:24 PM
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ultimate reaver posted...
He has had that we will not be censored response every time his user base does something bad, this is nothing new

basically nothing will happen to them most likely

He's even had people doxx him, doxx family members, and get his mother fired from her job, and he still doesn't give a shit. You know you've failed as a human being when Moot has more self respect than you.

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BeyondWalls
06/29/21 4:32:53 PM
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So was anyone able to confirm this?

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Artemis86
06/29/21 7:38:39 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...
So was anyone able to confirm this?

Just lots of people hoping it isnt true, nothing concrete. If the follow-up tweet about talking to the authorities was true, its likely a false hope they hold out for.

I guess its nice that at least Near got a nice outpouring of love and support. If I checked out like he did, no one would give a fuck anywhere. Hell, extra shitty places like this one might even celebrate. If they somehow knew anyway.

In truth, most people have oblivion to look forward to, I'm hardly unique in that. Itd sure be nice if we could not be shitty to each other at least until the void takes us.
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STEROLIZER
06/30/21 12:56:14 AM
#83:


Solid Sonic posted...
Please stop insulting 4chan, I spend a lot of time there.

@Solid_Sonic

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BeyondWalls
06/30/21 12:59:34 AM
#84:


Kiwi Farms is DOWN!
They're under attack!

Hello!

Someone is currently paying money to DoS attack the forum. While the Kiwi Farms and everything on it is legal, DoS attacks are a federal crime.

You may be looking for information on Byuu / Near. Since I can define this error page, I will use it to relay some information.

If you're a regular, I promise the site will be back up this week, probably sooner rather than later.

Some hack activist has had enough!

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Zikten
06/30/21 1:01:02 AM
#85:


BeyondWalls posted...
Kiwi Farms is <u>DOWN!</u>
They're under attack!

Some hack activist has had enough!

Good. Hopefully they are never able to get back up.
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STEROLIZER
06/30/21 3:20:42 AM
#87:


Solid Sonic posted...
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137

:(

I just got done reading this. I cried.

I know what it's like to lose an online friend to suicide. They are so close, yet you are so far.

Thats the origin of signature by the way, if anyone ever wondered why I rock it.

https://youtu.be/AgYkrDQYeZg


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EyeWontBeFooled
06/30/21 3:29:16 AM
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yusiko posted...
According to the reddit thread I read this on near did ignore them for awhile but then they started doxxing his friends and family which was a major factor in nears suicide
Jesus wept, wth

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06/30/21 3:35:41 AM
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catboy
06/30/21 4:12:00 AM
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never used bsnes myself mostly ZSNES and lately SNES9x, but really sad to hear

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SomeLikeItHoth
06/30/21 4:28:42 AM
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Here's a few things I don't understand that maybe some people can clear up.

  1. What is Nears real name? If he was getting doxxed like he claims, then it should be all over the place.
  2. What were the people who doxxed him doing? I see no trace of names, phone numbers, addresses of anyone posted anywhere.
  3. Who are these so-called friends/family members of Nears that he claims also got doxxed? He himself said he has no friends. So who got doxxed? Who are his family members that he claims got doxxed?
  4. What terrible things have Kiwi Farms done? I've seen multiple people claim they harass/dox people, yet I haven't seen proof of anyone gotten doxxed by them.

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BeyondWalls
06/30/21 11:20:27 AM
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
What is Nears real name? If he was getting doxxed like he claims, then it should be all over the place
Kiwi Farms official statement says the doxxing is a lie. That no one knows Nears last name and that hes completely anonymous. Thats why no one can confirm if hes alive or dead.


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Badmotorfinger
06/30/21 11:22:13 AM
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Lol. "Kiwi Farms official statement says the doxxing is a lie"

Do you seriously think they're going to admit that doxxing is taking place on their forum. Use your brain for five seconds
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BeyondWalls
06/30/21 11:36:43 AM
#96:


Badmotorfinger posted...
Lol. "Kiwi Farms official statement says the doxxing is a lie"

Do you seriously think they're going to admit that doxxing is taking place on their forum. Use your brain for five seconds
I have to admit that Kiwi Farms makes a compelling argument. No evidence can be found of anyone doxxing Byuu and the only evidence he died is coming from one google document with a dubious story.

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Ardbert
06/30/21 11:38:14 AM
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im still holding out hope he's not dead and it's an elaborate stunt to go off the grid.

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Rimmer_Dall
06/30/21 11:55:49 AM
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Badmotorfinger posted...
Do you seriously think they're going to admit that doxxing is taking place on their forum.
Err... yes. They do. All the time. The thing is, you can actually look at the thread itself right now and see there's no dox there. You can look at old external archives of the thread too and see there never were any dox there.
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The_Korey
06/30/21 12:10:42 PM
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yusiko posted...
According to the reddit thread I read this on near did ignore them for awhile but then they started doxxing his friends and family which was a major factor in nears suicide

Fucking garbage


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BeyondWalls
06/30/21 12:13:53 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
so let me get this straight. this person suffered abuse and harassment their whole life, but managed to hang on despite all of that. and then after the "psychological scars of late 2020", they got help and "found medication".... and then within months ended up committing suicide?

so what was this medication? some kind of anti-depressant, i assume? the kind that all the TV commercials always warn may increase thoughts of suicide? i've always wondered how medications like that are allowed to be made and sold. they are supposed to treat depression, a disease that often leads people to commit suicide, but one of their potential side effects is to increase the likelihood of the person committing suicide. it's not right.
I wouldnt try to dissect this story until we get confirmation its true. Im leaning toward the idea that Byuu just wanted to disappear off the internet and quickly concocted this plan to get some revenge on the way out the door. I think hes still alive.

That being said, the fact that Kiwi Farms would drive anyone to fake their own death is a problem in itself.

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