My JeaLouS Ramblings

I think this concerns me because unlike the conversation about someone’s work vs someone’s personality / past in cases like Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, Chris Brown, or Eminem, the gap between the viewer and the creator isn’t such a wide gulf. And we know that Travis has reached out to fans on more than one occasion with the result being the fan was left feeling unnerved, confused, abused, harassed, or worse. None of us are telling you that you shouldn’t have enjoyed the content he makes, but only that we’re concerned about the things he’s done because others enjoyed his content, and we don’t want him to keep abusing individuals in his fanbase, or anyone at all, really. These videos aren’t about Travis, but I think they so apply to him: 

- Laci Green on Sam Pepper  (”overwhelmingly people believe the rapist”)

- Hayley G. Hoover on Alex Day  ( “It’s just funny to me that as girls, as young women, part of the rulebook of femininity that you’re taught to follow from a young age is that you don’t speak up when people hurt you. If someone is horrible to you it’s still your job not to make a big deal about it. It’s your job to save your face, and to be a lady, to keep calm, and to not be a drama queen.”

“And because of this, somehow guys have learned that they can do anything they want, because girls won’t speak up about it, and then they’re shocked when they do.”

“Yes, don’t slander someone’s name by making up false information about them. Cool. Also, don’t use your position of power to discredit people far far below you on the power scale.”) Here are testimonials from fans, with links to support they knew him wherever possible: Carson is the girl in the video and the girl he references in his video. Here are screen caps from there first email exchange where he makes sure she knows he doesn’t reach out to fans often.  JujuBeans360 invited Travis to Internet Prom. His texts made her uncomfortable, especially considering how young she was and how old he was. When she let him know, he reacted poorly.  OtterLovers4Ever has shared that she was a fan who had a romantic relationship with Travis and didn’t want to believe Carson’s story, but slowly as she read accounts from other people, things started to fall into place for her.  And from folks who used to be his friends: Reinix, who said he’s manipulative as fuck, and that though things never got too far, he really did try. Not sure if Sama was a fan first or a friend, but that he’s commented on her video here lets me know they were acquainted. She just echoes Reinix’s sentiments. 

apparently he didn’t claim that handle when he joined tumblr and someone else has taken it to reblog all of the posts about his abuse and that makes me SO VERY HAPPY

1) He wanted me to be sexual with my sisters, would get mad if I said no and that it repulsed me, and instead used their toothbrushes to fuck myself with

2) He wanted to have a daughter so we could have an incestuous family.

3) He wanted me to get fucked by a pet dog.

4) He wanted me to take nudes in public places, like corners of my high school and in my backyard, and I did.

5) He wanted to drug and rape me, and said that he wanted his friends to join in.

6) He came to Chicago, picked me up in a car, drove me to a discrete location, paraded around the streets, squeezing my ass and cupping my pussy, and I’d tell him to stop groping but he’d still grab on, and when i put my hands on his arm to move him away, he’d grip me tighter. He threw me against a brick wall and I hit my head really hard on it and he made out with me and touched me again, and he did this as people walked by.

7) He led me to a dark ditch in this small strip of grass next to a cemetery, threw me into the ditch, took my pants off & gave me oral sex. When I made noise, he told me to “shut the fuck up.” Then he rolled me onto my stomach and held my head down and forced me to give oral sex til he came in my mouth.

8) After this happened, he posted a selfie of the both of us, and later on, he texted me a pic he took of me when I was getting forced to give oral.

9) He told me I was the only one, but he was abusing other girls and women, as well.

10 ) He was constantly getting mad at me, esp if I didn’t follow his strict rules for nudes, and would yell and me and call me “bitch” and “slut” and would tell me I’m not good enough for anything, and sometimes he’d disappear for days at a time to try and scare me, and he made me feel like I needed him. 

While it’s obvious someone has to be lying and I wasn’t there so I can’t know who is telling the truth about what, Travis used to lie to me all the time about the dumbest stuff. When I finally cut ties with him, I recall deciding that he must be delusional, as his version of reality never matched up with mine, nor that of others around us. I’m going to link you to some of the tumblr posts. Myself, Steve (FizzyLimon) and Reyna (Reinix) were all pals of his back around 2010. There’s some posts from other people who were just fans of his, too, that had uncomfortable experiences.

  http://fizzylimon.tumblr.com/post/83458161483/on-whattravissays http://fizzylimon.tumblr.com/post/84122251561/with-the-thing-you-reblogged-about-whattravissays http://fizzylimon.tumblr.com/post/115941223735/what-gets-me-about-the-travis-situation-right-now http://reinix.tumblr.com/post/83476827848/on-whattravissays http://reinix.tumblr.com/post/83478578809/he-had-this-alex-carpenter-esque-charm-that-i http://chateauofadoubt.tumblr.com/post/116335544255/an-e-mail-i-sent-to-travis-neumeyer http://chateauofadoubt.tumblr.com/post/116340505030/heres-my-skype-chat-with-p-ive-removed-all http://chateauofadoubt.tumblr.com/post/116450475270/my-one-comment-that-actually-hasnt-yet-been 

 Also, here are posts from people I don’t know. But I took the liberty of googling their user names with Travis’s to confirm they knew each other.

  http://neurocinemania.tumblr.com/post/84091394950/whattravissays https://twitter.com/whattravissays/status/69808112663666688 - the link included is to an unlisted video of her asking him to internet prom and he’s commented on the video. 

 Sama doesn’t say much, she echos Reyna’s story and her tags say that she removed him from snapchat and that he just didn’t stop. http://spellboundsama.tumblr.com/post/83477682101/on-whattravissays

He’s a fucking liar, he’s a manipulator and he’s good at it. Be careful if you’re a young cute woman (or girl) who fan girls hard for him. He feeds off the fame and feeling important and the more you give him that, the more likely he will sweet talk you into being his next young woman to groom. I know first hand the slow and steady manipulation he does. He is the definition of an abuser. Just go and do a simple Google search for “signs of emotional abuse”, if you’ve known him, compare notes. Compare how many times he’s disappeared on you, ignored you for days even weeks after an argument and had some crazy story as to why. Then somehow makes YOU feel bad for being critical of his disappearance, or gets upset with YOU because you don’t want to be friends anymore. Convinces you that you’re the source of his stress and when you try to end the friendship/relationship he calls/texts, constantly. Sending texts like “I miss you” or appealing to a common interest. How many fights/blame games he’s done with you. If you ended up having an online sexual relationship with him under the premise that he loved you and you’ve convinced yourself you have also fallen for him, only to be met with his demands of “love” to be sexually explicit pictures that never seemed to be enough for him and rarely anything back from him. If your relationship (physical or emotional) never felt like you were doing enough for him and felt one sided. Even though you did everything you possibly could to be who he projected what you wanted to be for him. 

he tried pretty hard to manipulate me… and it worked for a little while. luckily, i’m very perceptive and very good with people. so it didn’t take long for me to realize what was going on and for me to kick him out of my life. 

he tried to start up a friendship again and get flirty and asked why i didn’t want to. when i said “because you were an asshole to me and i don’t waste time on assholes.” he flat out tried to convince me that everything i brought up just didn’t happen? but in like a really gross and skillful kind of way.