Alright, that's it. I've had it. After everything i've heard and seen, I'm sick of seeing discourse about this shitty VN on my timeline. I'm putting an end to this.
I had a bad run in with the Class of '09 developer (soulbrothanumbuh3) when I was 14.
I have absolutely 0 interest in this game, I'm not a fan of Visual Novels nor am I part of the audience that seems to love it (Autistic lesbians who ship the characters)
I'm here to tell all of you who are part of that group: the creator of Class of '09 hates your existence
Many accusations about Macks (the creator) have flown recently, to him hitting on newly turned 18 year olds, and having his fetishes in game with all the weird shit in it
I have no say in any of that, but I am hear to confirm: He 100% bullied autistic kids in his free time
Macks used to be part of a group/forum called "Combusting Herpes" where they would go around Skype, looking for autistic kids/teens to prey on and bully them into doing stupid shit. How do I know this?
I WAS, one of those autistic teens.
When I was 14, I already was stepping into shit I shouldn't have been, I liked connecting with people on Skype because I sure as hell wasn't gonna find other autists irl. On Skype, I made "friends" with this 17 year old furry (He secretly hated my guts, I knew the whole time)
in January of 2013, He had discovered Mack's videos around the time and showed me some of them, and then later tried to get into contact with Macks over Skype. Immediately Macks and co started shitting on the kid, and to get some heat off himself, he pulled me into call
I was an ultra-spergy, edgy 14 year old with no social skills, so I had no idea how to react when this grown man in his 20s started calling me every insult in the book, so I just kinda laughed the entire time, I thought the whole thing was a bit.
It wasn't.
Call went on for about 30 minutes, until I had my fill, and then left. That was my run in with soulbrono3 from 2013.
Now I know some of are wondering: Do I have any evidence of this event transpiring at all?
Why yes, I do.
a 3rd party who hated Macks was in the call, completely silent, and was recording the entire thing. He later uploaded the video to Youtube to show the world what a piece of shit he was picking on a 14 year old autistic kid while he was in his 20s.
Macks has made an effort to scrub the video off the internet because its a very bad look for him, and for the past decade, I thought he did.
I was sent the video last night by someone. It still exists. I have the full thing on my hard drive.
Its 25 minutes long, but it has some personal info in it I'd rather not have out there so I've gone through and cut it down to "highlights".
Just a warning, if you are sensitive about bullying and slurs, it is a very hard listen, so heads up.
Here is a full grown 20+ year old Macks, soulbrothanumbuh3, the creator of Class of '09, bullying a 14 year old MagicMush
(Audio Only)
That should speak for itself. With the way he speaks about his friends it should be blatantly obvious he's done this more than with just me.
Why am I coming out about this now? Well, I haven't thought about the guy in years, I have more subs than him now, I saw that as a win
I thought maybe since i surpassed him in subs that's enough for me, and I didn't feel like ruining his one claim to fame after years of trying to make it big, over some petty shit that happened a decade ago.
But after what i've been told in private, he hasn't changed a bit.
I don't want you to feel pity for me, I was 14 and shouldn't have been around weirdos, honestly in the entire call the most cringeworthy part is hearing my mega autistic southern twang trying to banter back, you don't see many Youtubers re-posting cringe shit they did as a teen
But this is a demon I need to put to rest. This is the only footprint I have of my younger self from the internet, and if it'll help bring to light all the terrible shit Macks has done and is still apparently doing, I'll be happy to let the world know.
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Its been 24 hours since I made that post, and I thank you all for the support. But I wanna make it clear one more time: This does not bother me anymore. It means nothing to me, it was a 30 minute Skype call from 11 years ago, and since, me and Macks have never interacted again.
And I saw many people ask "Why bring this up in the middle of the current controversy"? Well its not really a "controversy" i'd say, the last game is just ass from what i've heard.
I've spoken with some people he's interacted with and I've been told, he hasn't changed at all.
I wasn't saving that audio for a rainy day like some people thought I had, I legit thought it was lost media until I found out someone had it archived.
I didn't come out with this earlier because it would be completely unprompted and I had no evidence.