Thread by @Genderillennial

I was sexually assaulted by Ava Tyson and here is my story:

For Context Ava and I are both adults and met each other as adults

Ava followed me on Twitter in November of 2022 after seeing my transition timelines on Twitter when I had under 500 followers.🧵

We started messaging each other every day through twitter. She confided in me that she thought my results from HRT were amazing and that she was planning on getting on HRT soon to transition herself. As someone who follows online culture, content, and streaming I was overwhelmed

by emotions with being trusted with this secret and information that I knew would be huge news. As a transgender woman who publicly transitioned a month earlier, I genuinely could not believe something so amazing had happened in my life after I had been through so much.

Eventually we talked about me potentially working for MrBeast and she told me that she was sure she could get me in a video.

She was the most famous person to ever show me that type of attention and she immediately started love bombing me and making me feel like the most important person in her life.Within the first few weeks of us talking she told me that she told her therapist about the positive

impact I was making on her life, and that she had told her friends about me. She very quickly moved our conversation to snapchat

While I was under the impression that she was working on getting me in a video we started having video chats on discord.

Ava asked me to masturbate with her on video call multiple times and I always felt like I had to say yes if I wanted to be in a video or get a job.

On one occasion she asked me to join a video call and asked me to masturbate even though she knew I wasn’t feeling well which led me to joining her and then puking after a few minutes.

Our conversations always leaned in the direction of affectionate and sexual, and she sent me a lot of sexually explicit snap chats, messages, photos, and videos.

Our relationship was very confusing to me and I didn’t fully realize I was being coerced at the time.

She eventually flew me out to her home in Greenville with a one way ticket while I was still under the impression that she would be getting me in a video with MrBeast.

The first night at her house she told me to set up in her bedroom as I would be sleeping in there with her. I thought that this was potentially the beginning of a relationship.

When we went to bed together that night we ended up cuddling and kissing which led to her taking her clothes off and asking for oral sex from me. I went down on her expecting to engage in sex that would be reciprocated, but when I was done she made it clear

that she did not want to return any sexual favors to me.

I was hoping that would not be the case the next time we hooked up, and I believed we would be moving to something more mutual

Over the course of the next week Ava engaged me sexually and ended up receiving oral pleasure several times, but she never reciprocated any sexual favors in return when I was done. I was too scared to directly ask for anything in return and she took advantage of that.

The day she first posted publicly that she was on HRT was also the first week I was there. After making her post Jimmy called her later that night while Ava was receiving oral sex from me. She answered the phone and had that conversation with Jimmy while I continued to

perform oral on her. I was again now given access to very private information which made me feel special, something that happened consistently throughout our relationship.

After almost a week I was starting to feel really used and confused about everything. While I was there I found out through conversation between Ava, myself, and her friend that she did not have the ability to cast anyone in a MrBeast video.

I eventually asked Ava to buy me a ticket home and flew home the next day. Leaving Ava’s house was incredibly difficult to process emotionally after that week. I remember trying to hold myself together while traveling so that I wouldn’t break down in public.

When I got home I spent the rest of the night crying uncontrollably without fully understanding what happened to me.

Ava and I remained in contact, but she did not show me the same level of attention and affection as she did before I spent a week with her.

This was the first time we went through a cycle of her love bombing me-> using me-> falling for someone else-> treating me like I’m an annoying jealous ex-> and then coming back when things didn’t work out.

Shortly after that first week, she went on a work trip to Japan and invited someone else, but things did not turn out the way she expected.

She was upset and flew back early from her trip and she also offered me a job as her assistant and offered me to move in with her.

I quit my job that month and moved in with her on June 16th and began working that day. I was supposed to start with a 2 week trial.

During this trial period and my employment Ava continued to receive oral sex from me multiple times and I started to feel like I was being coerced. Because I started feeling that way I decided to try and avoid any physical engagement between Ava and I that could lead to more

one sided sexual acts.

I took a short trip to my home state at the end of July and returned on July 28th. When I got back I continued to do my best to avoid anything physically sexual between Ava and I.

On July 29th we were watching TV together alone in her living room. With no warning, prior physical engagement, or sexual conversation she took off her pants and started touching herself in front of me.

I had just moved in with Ava and left my job to come work as her assistant. In no way shape or form did I feel like I could say no without somehow risking my job or being asked to leave. She used that against me in order to receive non consensual oral sex.

This was the moment that truly broke me for the first time. Nothing was enjoyable, it felt like it would never end and my entire body just hurt from performing the act.

It took me a few days to fully accept what had happened. Unfortunately I was dealing with all of these emotions while on a work trip traveling the country and spending most of my time with people I had just met.

The trip itself was very isolating as an employee and there were several times where I broke down crying. I was on a 3 hour car trip to the airport with 3 ppl I had just met,and I spent the entire drive crying but trying to be as quiet as possible so that I didn’t bother anyone.

I then had to wait and board for an overnight flight from Boston to Los Angeles. When I boarded the plane I decided to send Ava a message on telegram sharing my concerns with her.

I tried to do so carefully and navigate the conversation in a way that would stop me from being sexually assaulted again, but allow me to keep my job.

Ava was very manipulative in her response and follow up conversations we had in person once we had got to our hotels.

We agreed not to have sex anymore if that’s how I felt about what happened.

For several months we did not engage in explicitly sexual acts but we did continue to engage in physically sexual acts such as cuddling, groping, hand holding, and sleeping in the same bed,

and sexual conversations/texts

For the next year Ava towed the line with me between what was and wasn’t an appropriate relationship with our power dynamic.

These led to me having mixed feelings and receiving mixed signals from Ava on how she viewed me. She was able to manipulate me very easily with the power she had over me which led to the cycle of,

her love bombing me-> using me-> falling for someone else-> treating me like I’m an annoying jealous ex-> and then coming back when things didn’t work out with multiple people.

We did eventually hook up one more time during a week in December in which I was super emotional because my cat of 12 years that I brought with me to NC was dying of cancer

I was spending a lot of time with my cat that week and monitoring her breathing rate and she seemed okay and then she passed away in her sleep before I expected it.

I found her curled up in a corner showing no signs of life. I realized what had happened and I sat down, picked her up in my arms and started crying uncontrollably.

It was very late around 1 am and Ava heard me so she came to check on me and realized what had happened. I was hysterical and couldn’t really speak clearly or gather my thoughts properly.

She stayed up with me for about one hour at which point I told her that I was gonna take my cat to the vet in the morning so that they could prepare her body for cremation.

After an hour Ava told me that she didn’t know if I wanted her to stay or not so she was gonna go downstairs and go to sleep.

I stayed alone with my cat until 7am and then took her to the vet by myself while I was still crying uncontrollably.

This led to a lot of fights between Ava and I that week in which she continued to gaslight and manipulate me into thinking I was the problem and it was my fault that I was feeling used

Whenever I became emotional or had an issue with how Ava was treating me it was always turned around on me and I was made to believe that if I didn’t stop acting that way or prove that I was okay with everything, that I should move out and not be her assistant anymore.

This cycle kept happening until Easter 2024 when Ava traveled with me to spend Easter with my family.
We then spent a weekend together in Boston in a hotel while I showed her around the city.

At this point we were very very close emotionally and I told Ava how I was feeling about us and that I wanted to have a conversion about us. I told her that it already felt like we were in a relationship and she agreed. I told her that the feelings I had for her were like that

of a partner and she said she felt the same way about me. She told me that traveling with me for Easter did something for her and I believed we had something special moving forward.

A few days after Easter she had planned to travel to LA to visit a friend that she was talking to and interested in sexually. I told her this wasn’t a problem for me and that what I wanted for us was an open relationship anyways.

She wasn’t ready to officially call us partners at this point, but she assured me that this person wasn’t looking for anything serious and she didn’t even know if they were going to hook up.

She ended up hooking up with this person on the first night and was calling them her boyfriend by the end of the week and they were officially in a relationship.

I had a huge problem with the way all of this played out and I wanted some clarification from Ava on what she and I were. This led to a lot of fights which led to me moving out in the beginning of June because of how bad my mental health was with everything going on between us.

When I moved out we had an agreement that I would keep my job as a hybrid travel/remote/wfh position.

When I reached out to Ava after moving out to discuss my schedule for the rest of the month she informed me that she was already working on replacing me.

I felt forced out of my position and made it clear to her that I wasn’t comfortable with the way things went down but she didn’t answer any of my concerns.

I kept in contact with her and remained friendly while I navigated my departure from the company. She told me that she was

keeping the company updated and that someone would talk to me about my severance and leaving the company in June.

When this didn’t happen I asked Ava for another update on my employment. I was eventually given the correct contact information for HR

Before I talked to HR, Ava found out that I had talked about her sexually assaulting me, and that I was planning on reporting her. Her reply was to send one message and then block me on everything

I learned that Ava told them I had decided to resign on my own free will and the first they heard of me leaving was that first week of July.

I informed them what was actually going on with my resignation and it became pretty clear that Ava had not been forthcoming with them,

about anything that transpired between us during the course of my employment.

A few days later I told them enough about what happened between Ava and I, which led MrBeast to launch a third party Investigation into the matter.

I provided them with evidence of chat logs, screenshots, and gave them a list of witnesses in the company who had seen Ava and I being physical together.

That was over two weeks ago and in that time I have not heard back anything despite asking for an update twice.

During this time period the allegations against Ava for inappropriately talking to minors and more details of her relationship with Shadman became public.

Seeing all of this come out and happen has put me in a uniquely uncomfortable position. I knew she had a troubled past,

but I thought it never went past attack helicopter jokes and liking an edgy artist. I wasn’t super online when Shadman was popular so I knew very little about him and did not know Ava was associated with someone who sold drawings of CP.

It was already extremely difficult to navigate moving on from being sexually assaulted and being taken advantage of by someone I cared about who had an immense amount of power over me.

Seeing everything this week has been extremely stressful, and It has been equally difficult to see people respond in bad faith with transphobia as it has been to see people blindly defend Ava and disregard evidence because she is transgender.

and I feel like the only way for me to move forward with my life is to talk publicly about what happened.

I don’t want hush money and I don’t want clout.I just want to be able to move on with my life and close this chapter.