#sykkuno

the youtuber/streamer Sykkuno is “being cancelled” because he got outed for allegedly cheating on his girlfriend. Thats all people are saying and it makes me so angry, because thats just the start of the problem, and in my opinion is already bad.

What really happened is a 34 year old man with power as a very popular creator and also as someone who was 15 years older then the main woman who spoke out against him, put on a fake persona of being wholesome and nice in his content to attract a primarily woman audience. He then turned around and showered young woman (multiple at a time) who were trying to grow as content creators with a LOT of money (hundreds of dollars) and attention in order to have a sexual relationship with them, all while having a long term girlfriend who reportedly no one knew about. Not even his streamer friends/roommates

“they went to him first” it was his responsibility as both the older man, and technically celebrity to ignore them, or tell them he was not interested

“it wasnt with minors” your bar is in hell. raise it

First of all, I hope all his victims are able to heal(Including his girlfriend), and fuck Sykkuno and fuck anyone who is making light of this.

I just feel so... disappointed. I'm not going to say I was super surprised. When he started using the Vtuber model something just didn't seem right to me. I thought maybe I was being prejudice against Vtubers. But knowing now that he used his fame to go after extremely young women in the Vtuber community with far less fame makes me think I probably knew deep down something didn't seem right.

Honestly, I don't know the last time I watched Sykk more than a few minutes properly. I used to watch Leslie if I wanted to watch a stream, but Sykk just. Stopped hitting it at some point. I've unfollowed most of the OTV and Friends gang though at this point. But still.

This hits hard though. I'm sad. I'm betrayed. Sykk and Corpse and the Among Us days got me through the worst mental health episode of my life. I loved Sykk. I subbed to him. I have his hoodie(Which part of me wants to throw away but we'll see)

I saw the tweet for the doc on my for you page as I was waiting for my work laptop to boot up this morning. There have been moments where I feel so fucking dirty for supporting this guy but there is maturity in giving myself grace for not knowing.

I kept opening twitter to refresh my for you page and all the old usernames just started popping up and everyone was all hurting and betrayed. But I was also glad to see everyone being true to standing with the young women. And I needed to focus on work but I kept refreshing to see new tweets roll in.