#ekrcoaster

Zach Belanger, Seth Belanger, and ANDYBTTF all actively bullied Ekrcoaster in the MOBGames discord server in 2018.

Ekrcoaster, (who was 15 at the time of the bullying,) made an attempt on his life.

These people almost drove a kid to suicide. Please do not buy anything from these people, Poppy Playtime Chapters or otherwise.

(A lot of people out there have played the game or been involved with the game, and while I understand not knowing the extent of the controversy, I really hope they do become aware of what has really been going on for a long time now.)

Also, I encourage you all to check out Ekrcoaster’s response. It’s a very interesting read to begin with and goes over a lot of the happenings in detail. 

Ah... I usually try not to get involved with controversy. Okay, well that’s a lie. I’d say I’ve yet to dedicate time to discussing it on a platform of my own. But this one kind of got me heated, specifically in regards to Ethan/Ekrcoaster. Some people are considering this a genuine and positive clarification letter, but from what I’ve learned and what I’ve read within said letter, I can’t share that opinion. So I’m going to break down why the following letter is abhorrent and unacceptable in my opinion:

As for the controversy, no, this isn’t a fault of every person that may be involved in the creation of Poppy Playtime, but select individuals. Don’t lump in everyone involved with the production of Poppy Playtime, and don’t harass anybody, whether they’re connected to the controversy or not. Now, if you don’t know about the controversy being discussed, and you want more context, I’ll give you a link before we begin. I don’t plan to get into more than this letter, but because of that, at least giving you a good starting point to form your own opinion before I get into my discussion is fair. However much further you want to dig is up to you, and if your opinion differs from mine, cool. I’ve seen arguments on both sides that make sense, and either way, the most important details and facts that give definite, irrefutable answers aren’t available regarding a lot of things talked about. I’ll give you the direct link to Ekrcoaster’s twitter thread, where he clears up a lot of this stuff himself. I would encourage you to look at more than just this post or his side, but this is a good starting point to understand what everyone involved is talking about moving forward. Trigger Warning for Anyone Who Reads Ekrcoaster’s Story. It gets into some heavy territory: https://twitter.com/theekrcoaster/status/1449583867615068164?lang=en ________________________________________________________________ Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about this mess of a statement.

Before I properly start, I just want to note that they said as early as possible that the majority of Poppy Playtime's team was not involved in the drama they're about to acknowledge from their past. While true and worth acknowledging, this is planting a seed that isn't really about protecting said people. We'll come back to it.

In their "apology" the first thing they did was bring "context" that only suggested they had a relationship largely based on making videos that periodically featured Ekrcoaster's content, as though that was the more important context out of how he was treated. You barely get context for why the use of his videos for sinning fodder was so nefarious if you don't know that it was attached to drama they personally had behind the scenes with Ekrcoaster, but woe to them if they have to admit they had problems with Ekrcoaster on a more personal level. So we're already minimizing Ekrcoaster's complaints and his validity by obscuring the real facts.

The very next thing they do is - without acknowledging their derision was so blatant that numerous people picked up on them being biased and harsh concerning Ekrcoaster's content in specific - try to suggest that after so, so long of stopping with no rude or condescending words exchanged, they even went lighter on his content than normal when they reviewed it. How kind and benevolent. They were going "soft" on the guy, but it turns out it wasn't enough for him to not "get in his feelings”. If you don't know that they actively mocked him when he asked them to stop, you might even think they had good intentions when they decided without asking or gaining his permission in any way to make this "nicer, more positive" video to shed a "good" light on Ekrcoaster. Here’s a question they don’t answer: WHY did they make another video on him knowing he said not to? You surely don’t ignore someone’s wishes because you respect them and intend to spread positivity, especially if you were aware enough that you waited until the fires settled down to do it.

Despite trying to lowkey plant the above ideas in your head, they follow up by "validating" him, noting that he was rightfully upset, because if they're willing to admit that and they can sucker somebody into missing all the the malicious subtext laced between the lines above, they'll surely look like reasonable, mature people that made an honest mistake, not people who willfully acted like baleful A-holes and want to smooth over the situation so the money keeps rolling in now that it can hurt them, not just Ekrcoaster.

Following this, they point out that Ekrcoaster cut off communications and refused to respond to apologies, which sounds relevant, but it's not. You can even tell just in the fact that taking that part out doesn't change anything. Ekrcoaster's fully within his right to cut off communication. Here's why they brought it up: It's just meant to subtly get people to read into it as Ekrcoaster possibly being immature and unwilling to discuss with people who were genuinely trying to make things right. Then they say they discontinued their whole channel, but only after giving you multiple cases that make it seem like their poor mistake with Ekrcoaster got out of proportion and they felt super sorry, so the deletion of an entire well intentioned channel can largely look like Ekrcoaster’s fault. It all apparently happened due to Ekrcoaster's refusal to have open discussion with people who - with the "context" they gave - haven't done nearly as much as Ekrcoaster acts like they have. Except here's the thing: They admit that he's rightfully upset they disregarded him and made a video critiquing his work knowing they have a history of things that include making a "joke" about Ekrcoaster holding a gun to his head - yes, I'm serious - but they think it's relevant to say he hasn't responded to their apology? It's not the victim's job to tell their abuser everything's hunky-dory. They don't HAVE to respond. If the intent was to highlight that they haven’t spoken in years, fine, but what does the apology have to do with their attempt to suggest they’re far removed from Ekrcoaster and his work? Just leave it at “we haven’t spoken in years.” If you look at what follows, it’s clear why they did this. Like I keep mentioning, they’re setting it up to make him look bad so their later claims don’t sound so malicious.

They (finally) refocus on the primary claim, now that the damage is done to the public's perception of Ekrcoaster's supposed maturity, validity and rationality, only to immediately use - and I quote - the word "absurd." Again, the only context they gave was that they ran a - supposedly good faith - channel that occasionally featured Ekrcoaster's content, they were told to stop, they did for a long while and then they made one final video to largely give praise but Ekrcoaster got mad so they discontinued their entire channel. They suspiciously leave out that “years later” when Poppy Playtime came out, a post announcing it was still made on said channel. The channel currently has a huge follower base who hopefully wouldn’t know about the controversy, so they’re still using their terrible channel’s clout to boost sales, despite the terrible history that built them up. Only now do they say in regards to the claim of stealing ideas: "The accusation was based on the assumption that the creators of Animation Sins were attempting to create a game to spite him. This is absolutely absurd." There’s a reason absurd was the word they used, and the entire letter was setting you up to find it palatable.

They would have you believe that for no reason at all, with no prior history of spite - and quite the opposite, since their last video apparently was largely to praise the positives of Ekrcoaster's animation - that Ekrcoaster targeted them irrationally with a claim that they were spiting him (which is them basically leaving the suggestion for readers to pick up that Ekrcoaster is unreasonably spiting them). Funny how, like the last time they copied him regarding the use of his outro, they went through a ton of steps to call Ekrcoaster's cognitive rationale into question and finished off with the suggestion that he was doing as accused - before, he was copying their outro, though they never used it before to date and Ekrcoaster had been using it since 2016, and now he's spiting them, though there's plenty to suggest the opposite. The only thing that changed, from how I'm seeing, is that their ability to gaslight has become more elegant and eloquent. It honestly makes the idea that there's no ill-intent leagues away from believable to me, whether it can't technically be proven or not.

The next thing they do is try to appeal to the passion of the team, because who doesn't love and respect the picturesque indie development team who's got a passion project they've been working for months to develop? It doesn’t have to be a lie - it might not be a lie - but it’s easy brownie points; let’s face it. Given everything else in this letter, I’m going to take that into account. They then state that they were in the wrong for making the videos on Ekrcoaster's content years ago - gotta get in that it's been years one last time - but Ekrcoaster's not justified for coming after the entire development team. Remember this?

"they said as early as possible that the majority of Poppy Playtime's team was not involved in the drama they're about to acknowledge from their past. While true and worth acknowledging, this is planting a seed that isn't really about protecting said people. We'll come back to it."

Please keep in mind that the CEO himself who has a massive hand in the development of Poppy Playtime is one of the primary people who treated Ekrcoaster poorly, that he has not given full and needed context but is more than happy to mislead others into thinking he gave context, and please acknowledge that after readers have settled into the above paragraph and the offhand suggestion that Ekrcoaster's the one spiting them, THAT’S when they say it more blatantly. By now, the idea's thoroughly sunken into a lot of people's subconscious, so it's easier to accept this not-totally-direct claim without question.

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HOPE YOU ENJOYED! 😀

This video took about 3 months to make!

HELP ME MAKE ANIMATIONS: https://www.patreon.com/Ekrcoaster JOIN MY DISCORD: https://discord.gg/E4ZsASx FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ekrcoaster

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