I've just woken up, and given this a read. As I'm busy this weekend for IRL work, I will get round to this in much more detail when I get the time (either tonight) or Monday. Regardless, this will still be a LONG thread and it will get extremely heated at times, because this man has been obssessed with me for YEARS now.
I am glad Brax has come public with this as I can finally speak publicly on this matter. Braxophone is indeed the creator I have talked about before on stream that kept trying to force his friendship onto me. It got so bad to the point where aside from just multiplte friends, he started contacting HoYoverse staff (PLURAL, he glosses over this as if he messaged only one person) to speak on his behalf.
This was well over a year beyond the point I had told him in DMs explicitly that I do not trust him and made clear I do not want to be friends with him. He asked me up front, and so I told him up front that I do not vibe with him. He explains he's awkward etc. and ok, fine? That doesn't mean I have to be your friend, regardless, my assumption on his character was proven to be right anyway. Soon after we had this conversation, Brax then starts subtweeting me on his alt account (seems to be deleted now) and then follows up with a twitlonger (I can't access this at the moment, but it should still be up): .
He talks about himself, the passing of his dog and things that are bothering him, including me not wanting to be his friend and how he feels that ultimately locks him out of opportunities to grow. Understandably, it's an extremely sad situation, BUT me not wanting to be Braxophone's friend does NOT mean he can't befriend other people and talk to them.
I would like to think I am friends or at the least on good terms with the people he namedropped in that twitlonger: Rin, Sevy and Tenten and NOT ONCE have I spoken to them about Braxophone. I'm almost certain HE has spoken ill of me to them though, if I'm wrong, I apologise sincerely, but just as he had his negative assumptions of me, that is also my sentiment after more of his characteristics came to light.
When we first "met" - he walked up to me with a bunch of cosplayers - and then he started talking to me as if we were friends, and I did not know who he was at this time. It was weird at best, very uncomfortable and borderline creepy at worst, he asked me to send him the photo we took, so I followed him back (stupid mistake since this could have all been avoided if I never did that) and DMed him the photo we took.
That was already an uncomfortable interaction, but following that, Braxophone's characteristics would be on display pretty evidently from his tweets. Braxophone would incessantly tweet about growth, numbers, financial status, friendships, how he's perceived and wants to be perceived etc. and fair enough, there's plenty of creators like that, but I DO NOT WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE LIKE THAT.
It's pretty obvious following both of these twitlongers Braxophone is obssessed with the idea of social climbing or "climbing the ladder". His first twitlonger was a literal self-report that he just saw me as a way to network into other creators and open himself up to a larger part of the community, he didn't see me as a person, he saw me as an opportunity to grow. The most comical thing about all this is after his many sad tweets and even for his initial twitlonger, some people - SMALLER CREATORS - reached out to him publicly and he IGNORED ALL OF THEM. All that tells me is that they simply weren't "clouted enough" for your standards.
During an Anime Expo OfflineTV party, as Braxophone said, he and I were in attendance. And yes, as he glosses over this with lighter words, he literally just walks up to me and says "XXXX the voice actor for XXXX (in Genshin and no, not Tighnari, someone else) is a sexual predator" and I'm just like ?????????
Naturally, I was shocked and confused, and he's right, this was a big yikes to bring up to me out of nowhere.
He then talks about how we are taking photos and truth be told, I - and I'm sure the others were too - shocked when Brax self-inserted himself into our group photo. He claims that Dish pulled him in, and I do not know whether that is true or not, but if that's the case, then that is a misunderstanding on my part and I apologise. Following that incident, someone else in our group says "let's take a housemates photo" - while I was unhappy Braxophone put himself in the original photo we took, I am not the one that excluded him from whatever other photos we took.
In some of those photos, we were also with VTubers - who do not have their faces publicly shown - one of them being one of my closest friends, Saki. He posted the photo fully leaking Saki's identity, and he took it down after a couple of hours. Saki then asked him to NEVER bring it up again, and now he's putting this into an "expose" twitlonger, I HATE THIS, IT'S SO GROSS, AND SO SELF CENTRED. This man is using anything to get at me as he has harbored this most insane obssessive grudge towards me for not wanting to be his friend.
Last note on this, Saki showed me his "apology" to her for leaking her face, and it was just pathetic "the good news is I don't think a lot of my audience aligns with you & tuontos so things are *probably* safe but yeah I didn't know sorry! I hope everything is still under control". NUMBERS. AUDIENCE. GROWTH. BIGGER CREATORS. CLIMBING THE LADDER. THAT'S ALL HE CARES ABOUT. He does not care that Saki is a vtuber and getting doxed like that is a TERRIFYING experience, the way he glosses over it and tries to minimise this was enough for me to know that this guy was just red-flags all over.
After all this I made it very clear to the people around me that I do not wish to be in a shared space with him and that I do not want to be associated with him. I'm sure this meant Braxophone was excluded for my sake at gatherings or parties, and for that, I feel sorry for him, HOWEVER, this does NOT stop him from contacting other people like a grown-ass man and just talking to them and befriending them, without having it be about me. But no, what does he do, he DOES contact them and he DOES make it all about me.
Take a look at his twitlonger, he goes into psychoanalysing my relationships to my friends, going through my channel, my numbers, my growth, my collabs, insinuating I use my friends solely to grow and 'climb the ladder'.
I'm sorry to break this to you @Braxophone but if you really were "parasocial" like you claimed and knew anything about me, you would know I have publicly gone on record to say that I DISLIKE doing collabs and that I often turn them down from friends & other creators regardless of their size. Unlike you, I DO NOT VIEW MY FRIENDS AS STEPPING STONES FOR GROWTH.
I want to deep-dive into this whole twitlonger when I get time, but there are two more things I want to point out.
This, this is slimy and utterly disgusting. Do you want to know what Braxophone is referring to? A girl who was attending the party had been sexually assaulted in the past by another creator (not at the party), but they don't want to talk about it and don't want to come out publically.
That is the VICTIM'S place to talk about it, NOT YOURS. The fact you are WEAPONISING SOMEONE ELSE'S TRAUMA to attack my character and your self-admitted source are RUMOURS, makes me utterly REPULSED. YOU ARE SICK, AND SO UNBELIEVABLY SELF-CENTRED AND SELF-OBSSESSED.
I really hope, people wake up and just realise what this man is saying: "caused a LOT of trouble for both Atsu and some of the girls" - SO WHY WOULD I WANT TO PROTECT THIS PERSON IF HE'S CAUSING ME PROBLEMS???
He follows this up with "but what do I know I wasn't there" - SO WHY ARE YOU SPEAKING ON IT?
Next: "Why does Atsu not have a problem with it? Maybe Atsu does, but he wouldn’t want it to come out. Because this late, that would implicate him as someone who let it slide" - WHEN SOMEONE ELSE HAS A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE, YOU DO NOT SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF. IF THEY WANT TO SPEAK THEIR TRUTH, LET THEM, I REPEAT, YOU ARE DISGUSTING, THE FACT YOU ARE WEAPONISING THIS AND INSINUATING THAT I AM LETTING SEXUAL ASSAULT SLIDE IS SO FUCKING DISINGENOUS.
Now, please Braxophone, take YOUR OWN insinuation tactics and apply them to yourself. Please share to the world who this "Sexual Predator" or in your own sugarcoated twitlonger words "a terror" or "a creep" is. Do you want to protect this person? Are you afraid you're gonna be "implicated as someone who let it slide". No right? Surely, you're not keeping this horrible secret under wraps to protect this person right? Or is it because in your own words: "Because this late, that would implicate him as someone who let it slide". Surely you're not projecting your insecurities onto me, right? Let me have the tiniest ounce of what miniscule respect I have for you remain intact. But I have to ask, why does one thing apply to me, and not apply to YOU?
Finally to Braxophone again, the subtweet in my tweet addressing @Tectone, you're right. My assumption was that it was 90% you "leaking" stuff to him and manipulating him. After your twitlonger, now I'm 99% sure it is you, and yeah, I might be wrong, maybe you're not the one feeding false information to Tectone, if that's the case I truly do apologise, but EVERYTHING from my perspective points to YOU.
You literally have a paragraph stating I get to pick and choose who works for Hoyoverse, the EXACT narrative that Tectone has been feeding to his audience. You have held this obessessive, borderline-stalker like grudge towards me, who else has that? Tectone.
YOU, had the audacity and lack of self-awareness to message me AGAIN after I made it clear I did not want to be your friend, asking me for FINANCIAL ADVICE WITH HOYOVERSE. From this discussion, it looks like you wanted to talk about a "CONTRACT" without stating so. SO OF COURSE I'M GOING TO THINK YOU ARE TECTONE'S SOURCE.
Tectone has been obsessively yapping about contracts and how creators are "forced to be positive", IS THIS WHAT HE'S REFERRING TO? As someone parading themselves as an advocate for change, about all these contracts silencing creators into being hoyoverse-shills alongside Tectone, SPEAK.
I absolutely pity myself back then for giving you the benefit of doubt and giving you a thorough response of financial guidance. Feel free to show all of our DMs, you have my permission, and just so you know this isn't a "threat", this is simply if you wish to elaborate on XYZ, you are free to share anything in our DMs.
Carrying on, Tectone yesterday kept deflecting whenever HIS OWN CHAT and I challenged him to share his "mystery source" feeding him this information that I had all this power over Hoyoverse. Natually he only has 3 options, admit it's a lie, reveal the source, or throw someone under the bus. The timing of you coming out and virtually saying the same thing with this twitlonger just seems all too coincidental.
So for me, it just completely looks like you are the one spinning narratives and manipulating Tectone as a way to attack me indirectly. If I am wrong about this and you have not spoken to Tectone whatsoever about me in this regard, you have not spoken about this supposed "contract", I sincerely apologise. Only you and Tectone know the answer to this, and ultimately, I cannot trust either of you to be truthful, and I genuinely hope you can see why it looks so very much like you are the source.
I really have to go now, and I will elaborate FAR MORE later when I get time to, I hate that I am busy this weekend, the timing of this just seems pre-mediated as I already announced how busy I would be, but here we are.
A closing message to Braxophone.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE YOUR STEPPING STONE OR YOUR FRIEND. LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. I AM SO HEATED TYPING THIS OUT RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE I HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH YOUR OBSESSIVE STALKER ASS BEHAVIOUR IN SILENCE FOR THE LAST 2-3 FUCKING YEARS.twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss4kv6
I am glad Brax has come public with this as I can finally speak publicly on this matter. Braxophone is indeed the creator I have talked about before on stream that kept trying to force his friendship onto me. It got so bad to the point where aside from just multiplte friends, he started contacting HoYoverse staff (PLURAL, he glosses over this as if he messaged only one person) to speak on his behalf.
This was well over a year beyond the point I had told him in DMs explicitly that I do not trust him and made clear I do not want to be friends with him. He asked me up front, and so I told him up front that I do not vibe with him. He explains he's awkward etc. and ok, fine? That doesn't mean I have to be your friend, regardless, my assumption on his character was proven to be right anyway. Soon after we had this conversation, Brax then starts subtweeting me on his alt account (seems to be deleted now) and then follows up with a twitlonger (I can't access this at the moment, but it should still be up): .
He talks about himself, the passing of his dog and things that are bothering him, including me not wanting to be his friend and how he feels that ultimately locks him out of opportunities to grow. Understandably, it's an extremely sad situation, BUT me not wanting to be Braxophone's friend does NOT mean he can't befriend other people and talk to them.
I would like to think I am friends or at the least on good terms with the people he namedropped in that twitlonger: Rin, Sevy and Tenten and NOT ONCE have I spoken to them about Braxophone. I'm almost certain HE has spoken ill of me to them though, if I'm wrong, I apologise sincerely, but just as he had his negative assumptions of me, that is also my sentiment after more of his characteristics came to light.
When we first "met" - he walked up to me with a bunch of cosplayers - and then he started talking to me as if we were friends, and I did not know who he was at this time. It was weird at best, very uncomfortable and borderline creepy at worst, he asked me to send him the photo we took, so I followed him back (stupid mistake since this could have all been avoided if I never did that) and DMed him the photo we took.
That was already an uncomfortable interaction, but following that, Braxophone's characteristics would be on display pretty evidently from his tweets. Braxophone would incessantly tweet about growth, numbers, financial status, friendships, how he's perceived and wants to be perceived etc. and fair enough, there's plenty of creators like that, but I DO NOT WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE LIKE THAT.
It's pretty obvious following both of these twitlongers Braxophone is obssessed with the idea of social climbing or "climbing the ladder". His first twitlonger was a literal self-report that he just saw me as a way to network into other creators and open himself up to a larger part of the community, he didn't see me as a person, he saw me as an opportunity to grow. The most comical thing about all this is after his many sad tweets and even for his initial twitlonger, some people - SMALLER CREATORS - reached out to him publicly and he IGNORED ALL OF THEM. All that tells me is that they simply weren't "clouted enough" for your standards.
During an Anime Expo OfflineTV party, as Braxophone said, he and I were in attendance. And yes, as he glosses over this with lighter words, he literally just walks up to me and says "XXXX the voice actor for XXXX (in Genshin and no, not Tighnari, someone else) is a sexual predator" and I'm just like ?????????
Naturally, I was shocked and confused, and he's right, this was a big yikes to bring up to me out of nowhere.
He then talks about how we are taking photos and truth be told, I - and I'm sure the others were too - shocked when Brax self-inserted himself into our group photo. He claims that Dish pulled him in, and I do not know whether that is true or not, but if that's the case, then that is a misunderstanding on my part and I apologise. Following that incident, someone else in our group says "let's take a housemates photo" - while I was unhappy Braxophone put himself in the original photo we took, I am not the one that excluded him from whatever other photos we took.
In some of those photos, we were also with VTubers - who do not have their faces publicly shown - one of them being one of my closest friends, Saki. He posted the photo fully leaking Saki's identity, and he took it down after a couple of hours. Saki then asked him to NEVER bring it up again, and now he's putting this into an "expose" twitlonger, I HATE THIS, IT'S SO GROSS, AND SO SELF CENTRED. This man is using anything to get at me as he has harbored this most insane obssessive grudge towards me for not wanting to be his friend.
Last note on this, Saki showed me his "apology" to her for leaking her face, and it was just pathetic "the good news is I don't think a lot of my audience aligns with you & tuontos so things are *probably* safe but yeah I didn't know sorry! I hope everything is still under control". NUMBERS. AUDIENCE. GROWTH. BIGGER CREATORS. CLIMBING THE LADDER. THAT'S ALL HE CARES ABOUT. He does not care that Saki is a vtuber and getting doxed like that is a TERRIFYING experience, the way he glosses over it and tries to minimise this was enough for me to know that this guy was just red-flags all over.
After all this I made it very clear to the people around me that I do not wish to be in a shared space with him and that I do not want to be associated with him. I'm sure this meant Braxophone was excluded for my sake at gatherings or parties, and for that, I feel sorry for him, HOWEVER, this does NOT stop him from contacting other people like a grown-ass man and just talking to them and befriending them, without having it be about me. But no, what does he do, he DOES contact them and he DOES make it all about me.
Take a look at his twitlonger, he goes into psychoanalysing my relationships to my friends, going through my channel, my numbers, my growth, my collabs, insinuating I use my friends solely to grow and 'climb the ladder'.
I'm sorry to break this to you @Braxophone but if you really were "parasocial" like you claimed and knew anything about me, you would know I have publicly gone on record to say that I DISLIKE doing collabs and that I often turn them down from friends & other creators regardless of their size. Unlike you, I DO NOT VIEW MY FRIENDS AS STEPPING STONES FOR GROWTH.
I want to deep-dive into this whole twitlonger when I get time, but there are two more things I want to point out.
This, this is slimy and utterly disgusting. Do you want to know what Braxophone is referring to? A girl who was attending the party had been sexually assaulted in the past by another creator (not at the party), but they don't want to talk about it and don't want to come out publically.
That is the VICTIM'S place to talk about it, NOT YOURS. The fact you are WEAPONISING SOMEONE ELSE'S TRAUMA to attack my character and your self-admitted source are RUMOURS, makes me utterly REPULSED. YOU ARE SICK, AND SO UNBELIEVABLY SELF-CENTRED AND SELF-OBSSESSED.
I really hope, people wake up and just realise what this man is saying: "caused a LOT of trouble for both Atsu and some of the girls" - SO WHY WOULD I WANT TO PROTECT THIS PERSON IF HE'S CAUSING ME PROBLEMS???
He follows this up with "but what do I know I wasn't there" - SO WHY ARE YOU SPEAKING ON IT?
Next: "Why does Atsu not have a problem with it? Maybe Atsu does, but he wouldn’t want it to come out. Because this late, that would implicate him as someone who let it slide" - WHEN SOMEONE ELSE HAS A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE, YOU DO NOT SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF. IF THEY WANT TO SPEAK THEIR TRUTH, LET THEM, I REPEAT, YOU ARE DISGUSTING, THE FACT YOU ARE WEAPONISING THIS AND INSINUATING THAT I AM LETTING SEXUAL ASSAULT SLIDE IS SO FUCKING DISINGENOUS.
Now, please Braxophone, take YOUR OWN insinuation tactics and apply them to yourself. Please share to the world who this "Sexual Predator" or in your own sugarcoated twitlonger words "a terror" or "a creep" is. Do you want to protect this person? Are you afraid you're gonna be "implicated as someone who let it slide". No right? Surely, you're not keeping this horrible secret under wraps to protect this person right? Or is it because in your own words: "Because this late, that would implicate him as someone who let it slide". Surely you're not projecting your insecurities onto me, right? Let me have the tiniest ounce of what miniscule respect I have for you remain intact. But I have to ask, why does one thing apply to me, and not apply to YOU?
Finally to Braxophone again, the subtweet in my tweet addressing @Tectone, you're right. My assumption was that it was 90% you "leaking" stuff to him and manipulating him. After your twitlonger, now I'm 99% sure it is you, and yeah, I might be wrong, maybe you're not the one feeding false information to Tectone, if that's the case I truly do apologise, but EVERYTHING from my perspective points to YOU.
You literally have a paragraph stating I get to pick and choose who works for Hoyoverse, the EXACT narrative that Tectone has been feeding to his audience. You have held this obessessive, borderline-stalker like grudge towards me, who else has that? Tectone.
YOU, had the audacity and lack of self-awareness to message me AGAIN after I made it clear I did not want to be your friend, asking me for FINANCIAL ADVICE WITH HOYOVERSE. From this discussion, it looks like you wanted to talk about a "CONTRACT" without stating so. SO OF COURSE I'M GOING TO THINK YOU ARE TECTONE'S SOURCE.
Tectone has been obsessively yapping about contracts and how creators are "forced to be positive", IS THIS WHAT HE'S REFERRING TO? As someone parading themselves as an advocate for change, about all these contracts silencing creators into being hoyoverse-shills alongside Tectone, SPEAK.
I absolutely pity myself back then for giving you the benefit of doubt and giving you a thorough response of financial guidance. Feel free to show all of our DMs, you have my permission, and just so you know this isn't a "threat", this is simply if you wish to elaborate on XYZ, you are free to share anything in our DMs.
Carrying on, Tectone yesterday kept deflecting whenever HIS OWN CHAT and I challenged him to share his "mystery source" feeding him this information that I had all this power over Hoyoverse. Natually he only has 3 options, admit it's a lie, reveal the source, or throw someone under the bus. The timing of you coming out and virtually saying the same thing with this twitlonger just seems all too coincidental.
So for me, it just completely looks like you are the one spinning narratives and manipulating Tectone as a way to attack me indirectly. If I am wrong about this and you have not spoken to Tectone whatsoever about me in this regard, you have not spoken about this supposed "contract", I sincerely apologise. Only you and Tectone know the answer to this, and ultimately, I cannot trust either of you to be truthful, and I genuinely hope you can see why it looks so very much like you are the source.
I really have to go now, and I will elaborate FAR MORE later when I get time to, I hate that I am busy this weekend, the timing of this just seems pre-mediated as I already announced how busy I would be, but here we are.
A closing message to Braxophone.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE YOUR STEPPING STONE OR YOUR FRIEND. LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. I AM SO HEATED TYPING THIS OUT RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE I HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH YOUR OBSESSIVE STALKER ASS BEHAVIOUR IN SILENCE FOR THE LAST 2-3 FUCKING YEARS.twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss4kv6
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