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How Influencers Enable False Accusations · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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  Speaker 1: I went to Evo Las Vegas alone, but I wasn't alone.
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  Speaker 1: I shared a hotel room with Sykuno, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that he had other intentions.
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  Speaker 2: All right, stop. First couple of seconds and already she's
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  Speaker 2: lying to accuse this guy of being a predator. You
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  Speaker 2: mean to tell me that you, as an adult, who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, later said she had three past relationships,
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  Speaker 2: which means she's not new to this stuff, So as
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  Speaker 2: an adult, you mean to tell me that you didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that this guy wanted to be alone in a
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  Speaker 2: room with you because he wanted to have sex? Bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't sleep with anyone that I'm not dating. And
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  Speaker 1: it didn't happen that night. I didn't want it to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So instead, I just gave him oral. And then when
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  Speaker 1: he fell asleep, I got out of bed and I
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  Speaker 1: just ate a banana and I was just staring out
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  Speaker 1: the window. I was dissociating. I think I was sort
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  Speaker 1: of just dissociating. And I'm like, what the fuck happened?
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  Speaker 1: What just happened?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you voluntarily had oral sex with a guy
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  Speaker 2: that you shared a hotel room with. What's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 2: No indications of coercion and no indications that he physically
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  Speaker 2: forced you into doing it, so why are you speaking
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  Speaker 2: like you're the victim of a sexual assault? Anyway, for
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  Speaker 2: those of you who are unaware, recently there's been some
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  Speaker 2: allegations against a very popular Twitch streamer who goes by
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  Speaker 2: Sykuno or Thomas. A number of girls have come out
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  Speaker 2: and accused Sykuno of being a predator, who takes advantage
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  Speaker 2: of younger women who are small streamers, this one being Leia,
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  Speaker 2: who I guess was a former mod of his, and
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  Speaker 2: she's very obviously trying to frame this consensual encounter as
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  Speaker 2: a sexual assault. But before we talk about that, recently
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  Speaker 2: a jury ordered Meta and YouTube to pay millions for
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  Speaker 2: their role in designing and promoting addictive platforms. They knew
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  Speaker 2: their apps could contribute to anxiety, depression, and body image issues,
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  Speaker 2: but did not share those risks while prioritizing profits. If
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  Speaker 2: you or your child spent years growing up on social
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  Speaker 2: media and experienced serious mental health struggles, you should hear this.
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  Speaker 2: Morgan & Morgan is stepping up to hold these platforms
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  Speaker 2: accountable for the harm they caused. You can use the
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  Speaker 2: link in my description or scan the QR code to
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  Speaker 2: take a short quiz to see if you qualify for
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  Speaker 2: a case. You may be entitled to a potential recovery
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  Speaker 2: of over $ 1, 000. Alright, so back to Leia's allegations against Sycuno.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this is the 10th set of false
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  Speaker 2: allegations that I've heard about in the past year. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how often this happens with regular people, but
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  Speaker 2: with social media influencers or famous people in general, false
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  Speaker 2: accusations are rampant because accusers have an extreme incentive to
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  Speaker 2: make them. They get clout, they get money, or some
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  Speaker 2: of them are just crazy and they get to get
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  Speaker 2: revenge against an ex for breaking up with them. And
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  Speaker 2: there's really no downsides for the accuser, even if their
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  Speaker 2: allegations are very obviously false. No one goes to jail,
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  Speaker 2: no one loses their career over it, they don't even
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  Speaker 2: get a fine for it. So there's a high reward
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  Speaker 2: to virtually no risk, and worse, it hurts actual victims
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  Speaker 2: who were actually abused. That being said, let's go back
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  Speaker 2: to Leia's vast misrepresentations of her encounter with Sycuno.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't ask him to share a room with me.
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  Speaker 1: I just simply asked him, hey, are you going to
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  Speaker 1: Evil Las Vegas? He said yes. And I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to look at, I'm trying to go this year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at hotels and everything's so expensive. Do you
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  Speaker 1: pretty much have like any recommendations? Like I know he
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  Speaker 1: lives in Las Vegas. And he said, oh, you're planning
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  Speaker 1: on coming. I actually have room if you just want
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  Speaker 1: to room with me. And I said, and I at
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  Speaker 1: first was against it. I was like, are you sure? Like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to intrude. Like, I don't mind getting
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  Speaker 1: my own hotel. He said, no, no, no. Like, I
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  Speaker 1: have extra room. I already paid for it. And I
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  Speaker 1: even asked him, I'm like, are you rooming with a
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  Speaker 1: group or with friends? And he said, no, but there's
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  Speaker 1: two beds. So like, you'll get your own bed.
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  Speaker 2: She starts by saying, but I didn't ask him for
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  Speaker 2: a room. I'm guessing she's trying to make it seem
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  Speaker 2: like he forced it on her, but it's very obvious
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  Speaker 2: that she was asking for a room when she said, gosh, gee,
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to Evo so badly, but the
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  Speaker 2: rooms are so expensive. Do you have any recommendations? He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my room. Leia, you can't Google or use Expedia to
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  Speaker 2: find the cheapest hotel. You're a really terrible liar. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: this is her asking for a room without being direct
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  Speaker 2: because that's just how women operate. Oh, but don't worry
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  Speaker 2: because there's two beds in the room. Let me put
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  Speaker 2: it this way, guys. If you were in a relationship,
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  Speaker 2: would you let your girlfriend go to a video game
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  Speaker 2: tournament by herself and share a room with a super
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  Speaker 2: famous multi-millionaire streamer who she mods for? If there were
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  Speaker 2: two beds, would women trust their boyfriend in a situation
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  Speaker 2: like this?
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  Speaker 1: But me, being a dumbass and not being very strong mentally.
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  Speaker 1: Not physically. I mean, like, maybe this is a people
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  Speaker 1: pleaser in me. And maybe, I don't know, benefit the
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  Speaker 1: doubt or because I still thought he was cute or
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. He tried to make a move on me. Resolute.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But he made a move on me.
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  Speaker 1: It did take like 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: A people pleaser. That's definitely a red flag word. But
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  Speaker 2: how is he able to make a move on you?
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  Speaker 2: There were two separate beds and you didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: do anything, right? so why would you be sitting close
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  Speaker 2: enough for him to make a move when the selling
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  Speaker 2: point of the room was that there's enough space for
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  Speaker 2: you to keep your distance? As a side note, though,
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  Speaker 2: really one of the best ways to tell if someone's
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  Speaker 2: lying is to ask them specific questions about the event
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  Speaker 2: that would be obvious if it actually happened. Most people
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  Speaker 2: aren't smart enough to be able to perfectly fabricate a story,
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  Speaker 2: so if they're lying, they'll stumble when they try to
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  Speaker 2: give specific details, or they'll give answers that don't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the reality of this situation between Sykuno and Leia.
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  Speaker 2: We all know what Netflix and chill means, and 30
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  Speaker 2: minutes after the door closed, she was already getting intimate
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  Speaker 2: with him, so she basically wasted no time. This is
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  Speaker 2: where the oral happens.
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  Speaker 1: I just gave him oral, okay? This is, like, so personal. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't talk about my intimate life at all, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't sleep with anyone that I'm not dating.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, that's a lie. Not only did you get intimate
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  Speaker 2: with a person who you weren't in a relationship with,
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  Speaker 2: but he didn't even have to buy you dinner first.
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  Speaker 2: That's like the definition of easy.
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  Speaker 1: I barely slept that night. Then in the morning, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't really want to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about what? You consented to oral. What's there to
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  Speaker 2: talk about? I mean, outside of you clearly trying to
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  Speaker 2: make consent look like rape.
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  Speaker 1: And I was just kind of trying to open it
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  Speaker 1: up and talk to him about like what happened. We
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  Speaker 1: were going to talk about it, I don't know, later
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  Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, but I can't remember. But
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  Speaker 1: he ends up hugging me, but then pushes me onto
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  Speaker 1: the bed. from the hug and we end up having sex.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have it in me to tell him to stop.
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  Speaker 1: So I just let it happen. And while this was happening,
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  Speaker 1: while we were doing it, I always wear protection and
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  Speaker 1: I only sleep with people I'm in relationship with. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not used to one night stands or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: But we were not using protection and I'm legally hard
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  Speaker 1: of hearing if you guys don't know already. But in
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  Speaker 1: the heat of the moment, he asked me if it
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  Speaker 1: was safe and I didn't hear him. But I just said,
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  Speaker 1: and he finished.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds a lot like consent. Not only did you
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  Speaker 2: not say no or give any resistance, but you openly
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  Speaker 2: said yes to unprotected sex when he asked. Oh, but
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  Speaker 2: she's like sort of deaf or something. Therefore, it's sexual assault.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you didn't want to be intimate, you
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  Speaker 2: could have began with, I don't want to have sex,
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  Speaker 2: when he initiated that morning. Did you not say that
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  Speaker 2: you refused him the night before and went with oral instead?
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  Speaker 2: How are you suddenly not able to say no? And also,
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  Speaker 2: it being the case that you are a helpless people
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  Speaker 2: pleaser who can't say no to anything, even though you
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  Speaker 2: did before, But that being the case, why did you
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  Speaker 2: put yourself in a position where you were alone in
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  Speaker 2: a hotel room with a guy who you think is
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  Speaker 2: single and you admitted you were attracted to?
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  Speaker 1: Because I still thought he was cute or.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that kind of a bad position to be in
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  Speaker 2: if you want to maintain the standard of only being
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  Speaker 2: intimate with guys that you're dating? So I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: you at all. And personally, I'm kind of tired of
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  Speaker 2: all these women asking to be treated like children when
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  Speaker 2: they're basically in their mid-20s like Leia. Or even people
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  Speaker 2: who are in their 30s who have dated multiple people
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  Speaker 2: yet want to pretend that they don't know obvious information
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  Speaker 2: about how relationships work so they can falsely accuse someone.
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  Speaker 5: This is actually probably the worst one of these videos
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  Speaker 5: that I've ever seen in my life. it's very weird
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  Speaker 5: that she's framing her own, her own supposed moral guideline
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  Speaker 5: as an implication that he did something wrong. So you, okay. So,
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  Speaker 5: but you weren't in a relationship with him at all. Um,
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  Speaker 5: you obviously agreed to give him a blow job and,
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  Speaker 5: And then you have sex with them the next day. Like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to sound like an asshole, right? But
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  Speaker 5: in my opinion, something like this is either rape or
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  Speaker 5: it's not. And the fact that she's framing it like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I only do this. And the reason why I think
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  Speaker 5: she's doing that, and maybe not the reason, but I
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  Speaker 5: think that what's happening is that you hear that. And
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  Speaker 5: then the implication is that, well, then why did she
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  Speaker 5: do it? And then your mind goes to the perspective of,
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  Speaker 5: maybe he made her do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but clearly she consented to all of it, which
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  Speaker 2: is why she isn't making any strong statements, because if
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  Speaker 2: I were Sykuno and Leia made any statements here that
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  Speaker 2: could legally get her into trouble, I would be suing
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  Speaker 2: the shit out of her. Though I don't get why
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  Speaker 2: Leia made this video in the first place. She even
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  Speaker 2: says that she stayed friends with Sykuno after the event,
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  Speaker 2: despite pretending that this entirely consensual interaction was traumatic. Allegedly,
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  Speaker 2: this all happened three years ago when she was around 23,
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  Speaker 2: so why the change of heart now? Well, that's because
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  Speaker 2: recently it was revealed that Sykkuno was in a long-term
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  Speaker 2: relationship when he got with Leia. And not only that,
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  Speaker 2: but he also had a whole lineup of women that
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  Speaker 2: he was seeing at events and hooking up with. And
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  Speaker 2: to talk about that, we'll have to talk more about
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  Speaker 2: who Sykkuno is. Sykkuno became super famous after seemingly cloud-sharking
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: a more famous streamer named LilyPichu during COVID, many such
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  Speaker 2: nepotistic cases on Twitch. Anyway, Sykkuno is primarily known for
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  Speaker 2: his expert gameplay at Among Us, ironically, and acting like
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  Speaker 2: an anime character. I do usually get a negative KDA, mom.
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  Speaker 3: That's not true, you liar.
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  Speaker 6: What?
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, honestly, I don't really keep track.
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  Speaker 6: Every time I play with you, you have a positive
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  Speaker 6: kill-death ratio.
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  Speaker 7: That's because I sweat extra hard because I want you
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  Speaker 7: to think I'm cool or something, you know?
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  Speaker 8: You know, Poki, if it made you smile, then that's
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  Speaker 8: enough for me.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Damn.
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  Speaker 3: You trying to date or something?
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  Speaker 6: What? No, no. I was just trying.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 2: Wait, what?
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  Speaker 7: You are extremely popular.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm still growing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still growing, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I meant you're extremely popular with me.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're really cool. Personally, I thought that most people
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  Speaker 2: would think a guy in his 30s talking this way
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  Speaker 2: is pretty cringe. But apparently, tons of women eat this
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  Speaker 2: shit up, and Sykuno gained one of the largest female
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  Speaker 2: followings as a streamer.
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  Speaker 8: I just thought everyone knew that uwu shy anime boys
• 11:12
  Speaker 8: didn't exist in the real world. I thought we were
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  Speaker 8: all in on this kind of persona he was putting forth. Guys,
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  Speaker 8: we know he's not a shy uwu anime boy, right?
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  Speaker 8: He's a 30-year-old man. This is like a persona thing.
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  Speaker 8: In the past where any one of us would.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I never would have guessed that this would be
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  Speaker 2: such an effective strategy. As much as feminist video essayists
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: of the past have made a million videos saying that
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: manic pixie dream girl relationships like Ramona Flowers and Scott
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  Speaker 2: Pilgrim don't actually exist, Apparently that type of a relationship
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  Speaker 2: is exactly what tons of women want.
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  Speaker 4: Ew, cringe.
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  Speaker 6: But to put it simply, Sykkuno is basically the male
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  Speaker 6: version of Pokimane. He pretends to be an anime character,
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  Speaker 6: while Pokimane will LARP.
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  Speaker 2: As a Japanese girl, by doing stuff like covering her
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  Speaker 2: mouth while she laughs.
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  Speaker 6: I am wishing you a happy new year, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: rooting for us.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: I wonder how many times she practiced her reshot that
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  Speaker 2: moment where she blows out the candles, until it had
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  Speaker 2: the perfect anime level of kawaii. You can see there's
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: a cut right before she blows out the candles. So
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  Speaker 2: while Pokimane will do this anime girl shit, Sykkuno does
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  Speaker 2: the male version of that by acting like Izuku from
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  Speaker 2: My Hero Academia or Ken from Dan to Dan. I
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  Speaker 2: never would have guessed that the uwu male anime character
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  Speaker 2: archetype was designed to actually attract women, because I just
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  Speaker 2: see it as cringe. Now, before we move on, let's
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  Speaker 2: just get the obvious out of the way. I do
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  Speaker 2: not like Sykkuno as a person. I don't enjoy defending
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  Speaker 2: someone who has routinely cheated on his long-term girlfriend, while
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, hiding that relationship from the women
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  Speaker 2: that he got involved with. This is not a good person.
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  Speaker 2: This is someone who is probably just as manipulative and
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  Speaker 2: deceptive as Pokimane, so it's not a shock that Sykkuno
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  Speaker 2: and Pokimane were friends. However, despite not liking Sykkuno, what
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  Speaker 2: I hate even more is how often people are trying
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  Speaker 2: to blur the lines between what is and what isn't
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  Speaker 2: sexual assault. Being an asshole doesn't make you a rapist.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: Not liking someone as a person doesn't mean that the
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  Speaker 2: allegations against them are true, and I want to emphasize
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  Speaker 2: that because an uncomfortable amount of people will decide that
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  Speaker 2: someone is guilty or not based on how much they
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  Speaker 2: like them, instead of the actual facts of the case.
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  Speaker 2: That part of human nature is why we're lucky that
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  Speaker 2: the criminal legal standard in America is innocent until proven guilty.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, let's move on to the next accuser,
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: the one who actually started all the drama, a she-her
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  Speaker 2: who goes by Hemimal or Amal, and what a shock,
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  Speaker 2: she has an OnlyFans or a Patreon. Same difference. It
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  Speaker 2: seems like anytime there's a false allegation on social media,
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  Speaker 2: there's an OnlyFans chick close by. Guys need to learn
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  Speaker 2: their lesson and stay away from these women. Anyway, Ma
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: posts a Google Doc on Twitter and captions it, Well,
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: that's pretty spicy. When you use the word predator, I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking he's like a sex offender or a criminal. So
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  Speaker 2: that's a pretty serious allegation. Let's hear why she made it.
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  Speaker 2: She starts the document off by saying, I thought it
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: was amazing that such a big content creator even knew
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  Speaker 2: I existed, let alone followed me on social media. He
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  Speaker 2: had been my role model and someone I looked up
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  Speaker 2: to for a long time, ever since my days in
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  Speaker 2: high school. However, what I learned about Sykuno after that
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  Speaker 2: day would make me regret my decision. Alright, so already
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  Speaker 2: she's framing him as a child groomer by saying, he
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: was my role model and I've looked up to him
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  Speaker 2: since high school. Because of that, let's be clear by
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  Speaker 2: saying that everyone involved in these allegations was over the
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: age of 18. I believe Maul is 20 and Leia
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  Speaker 2: was like 22 or 23 at the time of her allegations.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if Sykkuno is currently 34. They're all
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  Speaker 2: consenting adults, and I've been getting annoyed at how often
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  Speaker 2: people are being called child predators for doing stuff with
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  Speaker 2: another adult. So after these opening statements, Maul urges all
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: other victims to come forward because their strength in numbers. Oh,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: so they're victims now. Victims of what exactly? Page 2.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: After Valentine's Day, I was so excited about him following
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  Speaker 2: me that I told a friend who then urged me
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  Speaker 2: to strike up a conversation. I finally worked up the
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: courage to send him a DM, and he replied right away. Okay,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: so pay attention. Sykuno did not start the conversation. Maul
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: started the conversation. She approached him. All he did was
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: follow her on Twitter. I don't know, maybe he was
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: gooning one day and wanted to save the account. I mean,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: there are plenty of big, random accounts on Twitter who
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  Speaker 2: follow me, and I've never messaged them or followed them back.
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  Speaker 2: Following someone is not a big deal or a predatory act.
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  Speaker 2: So let's be clear, much like Leia initiated the conversation
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  Speaker 2: about hotel rooms, Maul initiated this conversation too. Then Maul
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  Speaker 2: talks about them playing games together online and titles a chapter,
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  Speaker 2: Interest in Where I Live, to, I guess, portray Sykuno
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  Speaker 2: as a crazy stalker? After this, she says, Sykuno made
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  Speaker 2: plans to meet me IRL. It was set to be
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: the same weekend as Dokomi 2026, since he was flying
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: over anyway to attend TwitchCon EU. Going to the aquarium
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: would be our first date. I also learned that there
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: is a 15-year age gap between us. She puts this
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: text in bold to, again, I guess, make him look
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: like a child predator, even though she's an adult. What
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I find weird, though, is how is she just learning
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: his age? She said she was a fan for years.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: He was even a role model, and his age is
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: public information. You never Googled it? But even if she
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: didn't know, if she really thought the age difference was
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: a problem, then she could have just stopped. I don't
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: see why his age is relevant here, considering that she
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: was aware of it, and yet continued to have a
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: conversation about moving in with him, right after first talking
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: with him. With Sykuno, our relationship moved so incredibly fast,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: it almost felt like a dream. It was like he
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: could make anything I wanted happen, and as someone as
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: prolific and successful as him, I had no reason to
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: doubt anything he said to me. Then she talks about
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: a cat or something. So here we have a full
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: display of Maul's motivations for interacting with Sycuno. She starts
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: by saying, Okay, so Maul is definitely a sociopath. Both
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: of them probably are, but let's be clear, the kind
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: of relationship that Maul is describing is not one where
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: she's like in love or enjoys Sycuno's company or admires
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: personality traits he has. Her description of his value is,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: look at all the stuff I can get from him.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: One of the best months of Among Us. I feel
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: like I shouldn't say numbers, but I will say I
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: made more than I made in an entire year as
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: a software developer in one month. Like not a little more.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: It was like more than. Two or three times as
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: much as my whole year's salary.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: You made three years worth of your salary.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: In a way, it feels too good to be true.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: This is not a victim. This is someone who looks
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: like she fully intended to fleece him for clout or money.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: And she's only writing this Google doc because she found
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: out that there were other girls. She's mad that he's
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: better at the game. And now she's implying that he's
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: like a financial abuser because he gave her some money
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: that she didn't ask for. I mean, you could have
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: just sent the money back if you didn't want it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: but instead you posted what he bought you on social media.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Seems like you were happy to take his money. So
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: that's pretty much the end of this document. It was
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: really a lot of nothing. Granted, it's bad that he
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: lied about not being in a relationship, but the words
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: victim and predator have an association with criminality in the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: eyes of the public, so if you're going to call
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: him a predator and yourself a victim, you better have
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: more than what's in this document. Oh, and one more thing.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: At the end, Maul links this Discord call of an
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: argument that she had with Sycuno after she found out
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: he was in a relationship.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: This is not settled.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I'm beyond upset with you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's fine. By settled, I mean, like, probably
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: never talking again.
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: You and me?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yes. What?
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: Hmm?
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Is that not why?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Weird how she's saying that she still wants to talk
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to the guy who she's calling a predator, probably still
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: wants his money and fame. Also, technically the correct word
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: is a womanizer or a player. And last, speaking of,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: after getting public backlash, Mal goes on to Twitter to say, Sorry,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: English isn't my first language. I didn't know how people
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: view the word predator. Nice, the Hasan Piker 9-11 defense.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: But you understand now, and not just now, but you
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: understood fairly soon after you said it, that saying Americans
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: deserve 9-11 is a completely different statement and one that's wrong. No,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't say Americans deserve 9-11. I said America deserves 9-11.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Right, but that's still wrong. And in that moment, well,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: maybe you can.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Chalk it up to English being my second language or
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: whatever you want to chalk it up to. Right, so
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: you didn't know what you were saying when you know
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: words like prolific, as well as tons of idioms and
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: terms like love-bombing. You understand pop culture references, and most importantly...
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: You very obviously understand which English words to use to
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: make people come to the conclusion that Sykkuno is a
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: stalker and a child groomer. This person is very good
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: at English. If I didn't hear her accent in that call,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I would have thought she was a native speaker, so
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: she definitely is lying about her language ability. Now, it's
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: already bad enough that many women feel empowered to throw
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: out false allegations like it's nothing and basically receive zero
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: consequences for it. But what makes everything worse... is the
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: massive industrial complex that likes to help false accusers by
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: signal-boosting their statements. Without these two forces working together, false
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: allegations would not be so prevalent. Which brings us to
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: a video essayist who goes by Mugen, who got 2
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: million views in under a week after covering this story
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: about Sykuno and his accusers. Now, in the past, Mugen
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: has had a pretty strong reputation for being one of
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: those guys who checks the sources and is good with research.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: But from my perspective, as someone who has only recently
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: found his channel in the past six months, When it
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: comes to legal issues or serious allegations, Mugen should not
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: be trusted at all. This guy has zero understanding of
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: standards of proof or how to do any actual fact-checking.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I also don't believe that he has the critical thinking
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: skills or the moral discipline to discuss things like sexual
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: assault allegations. Let's talk about why I think that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: The male streamer in question here was none other than Sykuna.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: What made him really desirable is just how socially awkward
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: he was. He was innocent in an endearing way. He
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: was a boy failure that needed a woman to fix him.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: In a nutshell, he was this picture. Almost allergic to
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: other women. He just couldn't handle anything romantic. He would
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: get too flustered. This made many of his fans want
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: to be the one to finally fix him. But make
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: no mistake here. This was all a perfectly crafted image
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: that he had made for himself. He wanted you to
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: think that he was innocent, naive, a boy failure, someone
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: who's inexperienced in relationships and would never hurt a fly.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Because in reality, behind this mirage, this illusion, there was
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: a master manipulator, a serial cheater, and a predator.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, what? Again, that is a very strong statement
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: to make considering the evidence that we have so far.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And let me emphasize that this video really is just
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: about Maul's document, and all that happens in it is
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Sykkuno talks to her online, and then to a different
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: girl named Elphelia. Maybe he met Elphelia at a convention,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: but as far as I can tell, Sykkuno didn't have
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: sex with either of them. The most salacious thing that
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: happens in that document was Maul sending him some spicy
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: content where she's insisting that he make personal use of
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: that material, which kind of makes her look like the
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: aggressor in terms of sexuality. So why is Mugen using
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: a word like predator, when it's a word that's going
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: to immediately make viewers think that Sycuno committed a sex
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: crime against these girls, when there's no evidence of that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Someone who would make it a point for many years
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: to target smaller content creators, take full advantage of the
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: fact that he was one of the most desirable men
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: in the streaming world, all while making it seem like
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: he had no experience with women and that it just
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: might be romantic. They just might be that special someone
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: who can fix him. What he would somehow forget to
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: tell them, though, is that he had been in a
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: monogamous relationship since 2021. But you don't have to take
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: my word for it, because he admits to everything in
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: a recorded voice call with the victim herself.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: What's Maul a victim of? A few DMs, a new sweater,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: and a copy of Resident Evil 9? What did he do?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: She talked to him first. Maybe the worst of it
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: was the illicit material she sent, but really is it
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: that big of a deal when you can see the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: same content from her for like $ 12? All Sykuno did
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: was click follow on some chick he was gooning to,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: and she initiated everything else. I mean, if you're going
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: to talk about how he wanted to take advantage of
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: smaller creators, what about Maul's admission that her only interest
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: in Sykkuno was to use him for clout or money?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Or the fact that she, like, virtue signals and pretends
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: that she doesn't want money, when one of her Patreon
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: tiers is, spoil me with $ 600 and I'll give you nothing.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Like I said, Mugen is ass at critical thinking. Does
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: he have no relationship experience? How is it not obvious
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: that Maul's framing of this relationship in her document is
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: incredibly transactional. Well, really, both of them are trying to
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: take advantage of each other. But how do you not
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: notice this? How do you not notice that Maul opens
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: up with a very overtly sexual comment and then tries
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: to push for a date a second time when he
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: gives a non-answer? This is someone who wants something. She's
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: just mad that she got outgamed. Also, just as an FYI,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: since we're talking about character here, did you guys know
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: that Hemimal, of all people, made some very interesting tweets
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: about Charlie Kirk right after he was murdered? where she
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: expresses joy that he was killed for saying his political beliefs.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: What a wonderful person she is.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Going to the aquarium would be our first date. I
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: also learned that there is a 15-year age gap between us. Right,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: so look, I personally spoke to the victim about this.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I asked, like, would that usually have been like a
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: red flag or a turnoff? She said yes. But the
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: thing is, this is Sycuna we're talking about here, right?
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: So she made an exception. Because as you saw in
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: the intro of this document, she used to watch him
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: in high school. She genuinely looked up to him. To
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: say that she was starstruck was an understatement, and that's
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: exactly what he was counting on. Now, while keeping that
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: 15-year age gap in mind, this next section definitely hits different.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: It's titled, Making Plans to Move In Together.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Again, trying to frame Sycuno as a child groomer, so
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: he leans into the age gap without asking, how in
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the hell did Mal not know his age when she
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: was a fan for multiple years? Who the hell cares
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: about the age gap anyway? They were both consenting adults.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Stop acting like she's a child. Again, I think the
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: only reason that they're bringing this up is to make
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: him look like he committed a crime when he didn't.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And the constant lack of perspective in this video is annoying.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: He simply wasn't seen like the run-of-the-mill Twitch streamer. No,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: there was definitely more to this. And one of the
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: main reasons why this worked out so well is because
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: he was seen as a boy failure. No, not the
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: kind of guy who's unemployed and lives in a dump
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: and smells like shit. I'm talking about the ideal boy failure.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: The guy who's handsome, smells nice, doesn't live in a dump,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: but is instead just a hopeless romantic. Someone who turns
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: all red when you want to initiate physical contact. The
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: most innocent, naive soul imaginable. The appeal of a boy
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: failure isn't necessarily that he's a failure. It's the fact
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: that he's perfect, but just needs one person to fix him.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And that's how a significant chunk of his fanbase felt.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: If you're going to call a guy a predator and
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: all the affected party's victims because he acted like an
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: anime character, then, like, at least half the girls on
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Twitch are pretending to be anime girls because men wouldn't
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: engage with them otherwise, and that's not even counting the VTubers.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Pokimane is probably the best example of someone who super
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: performatively acts like an anime girl. Also, how many girls
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: intentionally pitch up their voices so more guys will watch them? Well,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the guys who donate, anyway.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: So, Sawyer, I'm visiting from America, and I've never had
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: nanos before, and I've heard some great.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Things, like, to get the medium.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: This girl, Extra Emily, is almost 30, by the way.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: These people are not stupid. They're very successful at playing characters,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: and they know which archetypes cause people to give them money.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Sykkuno and Pokimane, there's also this underlying ideology, well,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: actually it's pretty overt, where Mugen is like, how dare
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: this guy pretend to be single and manipulate viewers? Bro, listen,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: cheating on your girlfriend is bad, but if you're going
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: to call a guy a predator for pretending to be
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: single and manipulating people, then I can show you like
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: dozens of female Twitch streamers who are doing the exact
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: same thing. You don't think they have simps trying to
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: DM them and chat them up on Discord just like
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: with Sykkuno? So anyway, there's not much else to Mugen's
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: video that I didn't already cover. He spends most of
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: it reading what Maul said, and then throws in the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: 17-minute mostly boring Discord call with Sykkuno, probably just to
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: boost the watch time for more ad revenue. And last
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: but not least, he does a little edit where he
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: turns Sykkuno into Thomas the Tank Engine, and reinforces that
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Sykkuno is a predator, which looks a lot like defamation.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if this
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: legally counts, but after seeing how much Mugen tried to
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: make Sykkuno look like a sex offender with no proof,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I would be making some phone calls to my legal
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: team because the aftermath of this video was that it
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: seems like a pretty large portion of his streamer friend
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: group threw him under the bus for something that he
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: didn't really do, which kills his ability to make money
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: from collabs.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Of course, before streaming today, I expected a lot of
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: people in the chat asking me to talk about the
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Sycuno situation. I was really stressing about it, and then
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: I realized, like, I'm stressing about it so much. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: Sykuno hasn't even said anything yet. I think what I
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: really want to say is I am just so, so
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: sorry for all the hurt that's been caused to the victims,
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: to our communities. I feel like I feel everyone's hurt
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: and shock and confusion. And I'm right there with ya.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: I really try so hard to make my channel a
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: safe space for everybody. And I really hope the people
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: that do need to speak up will.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: That was an Oscar-level performance from Pokimane. Interesting choice, though,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: for her to use the word victim. In fact, I'm
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: not the only person who pointed that out. An expert
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: English language scholar who goes by XQC questions her use
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: of the word victim, to which she responds by playing dumb,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: pulling out Webster's dictionary and saying, Well, actually... Iman, no
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: one cares about what the dictionary definition of the word is,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the colloquial or common use of the word. definition or
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: how people feel about the word is what actually matters here,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and we know what you were trying to do. Going
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: back to Mugen, needless to say, I'm not the only
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: one who had a problem with his framing of the story.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: In fact, a ton of people did, especially his clear
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: use of the word predator to imply that Sycuno committed
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: sex crimes. As I said before, womanizer or player or
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: fuckboy is the correct term here. Predator is not appropriate
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: here because it implies that there was criminal activity or
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: that the people in question weren't willing participants. Mugen responds
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: to the criticism by also pulling out Webster's Dictionary and saying, well,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: technically the definition is, you've got to be kidding me,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of everyone playing dumb. Literally, this whole drama
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: is just people pretending to not know things because they
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: got caught doing something immoral. Mugen, come on. I know
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: you know how people perceive that word. There were many
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: creative choices that you made in this video that shows
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: you understand what you were doing when you said predator,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: just like it's clear that Maul understands what it means.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: And to reiterate, I don't like Sykkuno. I think he's
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: an asshole who cheated on his girlfriend. But the conversation
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: is not about that. It's about people enabling false allegations
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: to which, Mugen, by the way... has done on more
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: than one occasion. And this stuff is a problem, not
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: only because it harms a lot of innocent people who
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: usually have no options for recourse against the ones who
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: falsely accused them, but also it hurts actual victims because
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: people won't believe them. God forbid an OnlyFans girl actually
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: gets assaulted, no one's going to think they're being honest. So,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: many people criticize Mujin for the video, one of them
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: being a VTuber who goes by Pounder. In this tweet,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: she is directly responding to Mujin's video as someone who
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: has interacted with Sykkuno stating that he was obviously a player,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: but she never felt manipulated by him. Powder goes on
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: to say that Mugen was never really a reliable narrator,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: and personally I agree based on the content of his
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: that I've seen. Now, because Mugen, of course, always wants
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to make sure that he hears all sides of the
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: story and not just the parts that fit his bias,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: he then quote tweets Powder, basically giving her the middle
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: finger by saying, Haha, you have no viewers. Which, for one,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: is a really ironic thing to say when his video
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be about him standing up for small influencers.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: And two, I could have sworn that I've seen Mugen
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: make this exact argument where he says that anyone who
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: disagrees with his obviously wrong take is a cloud chaser.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: We get it. You're really cool because lots of people
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: watch your videos. It doesn't mean you're right, though. Mujin
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: then threatens to blackmail Powder and expose that she dated
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: a black guy. Who cares?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I've never dated a black guy.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: I've never slept with a black guy, by the way.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: And finally, he yet again lies and pretends that he
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: doesn't know what the colloquial definition of the word predator is.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: With that said, this whole time Saekuno has not said
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: that much until he dropped this letter. And the English
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: voice actor for Izakumidoria, Justin Briner, was kind enough to
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: read it out loud for us, so I don't have to.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: I would like to apologize to everyone I have disappointed.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Most of all, to my girlfriend, I am so sorry
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I put you through so much. I never want to
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: make these mistakes again and hurt you and the people
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: I care about. I was unfaithful, and I own and
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: fully admit that. I lied to people and told them
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: I was single, which I know is not right. I'm
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: sorry to all of the people that I hurt by
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: doing this. However, I have seen some false accusations about
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: me that are not true. I cannot allow false accusations
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: and such extreme labels to be placed on me. I
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: do understand that the people making these claims did it
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: from a place of hurt. So please, do not send
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: any more hate to anyone. I just want the situation
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: to get better, and I wish them the best.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Someone did an edit with a My Hero Academia inspirational
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: background music, which was really funny, but I'm tired of
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: getting copyright claimed, so you can find that version by
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: searching for this tweet here. Though, personally, I don't really
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: care about Sykuno's apology because I don't have any proof
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: that he's actually sorry, so for now, it's just empty words.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: But the more interesting part of this is the message
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: from Sykuno's girlfriend, who was the actual victim, by the way,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: where she chastises all of the cloud chasers who were
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: trying to use these allegations to boost their careers. What
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: a shock. It's like what I said earlier. These sociopaths
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: doing this for personal gain hurts the actual victims. Imagine
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: finding out that you were being cheated on, and then
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: it becomes a massive public drama because some guy wanted
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: a few thousand dollars on a YouTube video. Keep in
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: mind that since nobody knew about Sykuno's girlfriend, she is
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: not voluntarily in the public eye, so this is kind
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: of a shit thing to do while pretending that it's
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: on her behalf.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: All I care about right now is that it's okay.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Keep me updated on that.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Um, I don't know if that's a possibility.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You can keep me updated on how she's doing. You
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: can keep me updated on when she moves out, because
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think she should be living with you anymore.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Um, I don't think you need me to do that.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I care about her. Yeah, she can
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: do that.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: True.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I'll just reach out to her then.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Keep in mind that directly before Hemimal talks about how
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: much she cares about Sykuno's girlfriend, she says that she
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: still wants to date him despite the cheating. Yeah, she
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: should break up with you for cheating on her, but
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a second chance. Make sure you let
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: me know when you guys have broken up so I
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: can slide back into your DMs. I mean, how is
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: this not just standard gold digger behavior, especially after that
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: moment where she talks about how much she can get
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: from Sykuno in the Google Doc? She obviously is trying
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: to get them to break up so she can have
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: exclusive access to his money and clout, particularly considering the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: millions of dollars she can make on her OnlyFans slash Patreon.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: By being attached to someone as famous as Sykkuno, how
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: do you not see this, Mugen? Maul is just as
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: guilty as he is. That's why Maul never contacted his
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: girlfriend or asked how she felt about all this being
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: exposed publicly before making the document. She's mad that she
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: just lost Amaranth levels of wealth. Again, Mugen either knows
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: nothing about women or has zero critical thinking skills if
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: he didn't notice this. Sykkuno's girlfriend then goes on to
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: say that she's trying to work things out with him,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: which I don't think she should, but whatever, it's their relationship. However,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: the great news is that after all of this, people
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: started massively shitting on Mugen, the one who enabled all
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the nonsense in the first place, by signal-boosting allegations that
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: falsely suggested that Sykuno was a sex criminal. In response,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Mugen deleted the expose on Sykuno and then made an
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: apology video where he sounds like he's taking accountability and
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: he sounds like he's going to do better, but if
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: you know anything about his behavior, then you can tell
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: that he is definitely not sorry for what he did.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I'm making this in regard to my last video about Sycuna.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I want to clarify how this video came to be,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: while also taking accountability and apologizing for the mistakes that
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I made. So, how did this all begin? Well, for me,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: it was on April 7th when I was reached out
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: to by Mal for the first time. I was told
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: that a Google Doc was releasing soon about a big
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: content creator. And this is when I was asked if
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I wanted access to it early to maybe make a
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: video about it. The document was going to publicly release
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: on the 10th anyway. This means that this wasn't some
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: grand conspiracy, okay? This document was going to release with
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: or without me.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Wait, so his story is that he first heard about
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: all this on April 7th, and he posted the video
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: on April 10th? He also insists that this was the
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: first time he had ever talked to Maul, the one
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: who wrote the Google Doc. There's some controversy on that,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: but I'll take his word for it. By the way,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: he doesn't forget to remind everyone that he gets millions
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: of views on his videos. God, this guy is arrogant. Anyway,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: he released the original video on Sykuno on April 10th,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: after first hearing about everything on April 7th. So you
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: mean to tell me that you did a one-hour scripted
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: video on this in less than three days? Well, minus
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: about 17 minutes. But how did you do that? And
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: three days is generous. Really, it's more like two. I
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: say this because this is not a slop-tuber reporting the
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: daily news. His whole reputation is that he's the guy
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: who does his due diligence and fact-checks everything. Two or
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: three days is not enough for a topic like this.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Fact-checking is one of the most time-consuming parts of this job.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Here he is quoting Breaking Bad and bragging about how
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: fast he is, but the reality is that the only
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: way you could get this kind of video out this
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: quickly is if you literally just took everyone's word for
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: it and did no independent research of your own. You're
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: really not fact-checking that much if you can release a
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: video on a complicated subject like this that fast. In fact,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I remember the last guy I covered who bragged about
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: how fast he could get videos done, and when I
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: actually fact-checked him, it turns out he got pretty much
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: everything wrong. I hear he's being sued by Ethan Klein
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: right now for defamation.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: If you've watched my channel before, then you'd know that
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: I'm someone who highly values both sides of the story.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: It's actually something that I always implore you to do
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: before forming your own opinions. And while I do receive
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: so many DMs about scoops or exclusive info about certain topics,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: I mostly never take them. Always choosing to wait for
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: things to unfold in public first, before making my videos.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, come on. Mugen, look at me. You did not
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: just say that shit unironically. You posted your video instantly
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: after the allegations came out, which gives Sykuno no time
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: to respond. How is this waiting for the full story?
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: We never heard his side, especially considering that you made
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: some incredibly strong claims about him. I mean, Mugen's definition
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: of listening to both sides sounds a lot more like
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a coordinated attack against Sykuno between Mugen, Leia, Bao the Whale, Hemimal,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: and Elphelia. Also, if my memory serves me right, just
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: a few months ago with Tectone's case... where he unjustly
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: lost a court hearing for a protective order that I
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: believe was maliciously filed by his ex so she wouldn't
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: face repercussions for allegations of sexual assault that she made
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: against him that had an extreme lack of proof. However,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: when talking about that case, Mugen felt comfortable saying Tectone
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: was guilty of sexual assault while at the same time
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: openly admitting that he never read the court transcript because
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: it wasn't public yet. And I think it's crazy that
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: he did no fact-checking before he went on this long
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Twitter diatribe when we regularly see corrupt judges allowing all
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: kinds of atrocities. God, especially in family court where the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: standard of proof is probable cause. So Mujin is just
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: super incompetent. He doesn't know how to do independent research
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: or scrutinize information.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: What made the situation special, though, was the 17-minute video
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: recording of the voice call between Mal and Saekun. My
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: logic here was simple. It was me thinking that we
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: already had the other side of the story, and it
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: was Saekun admitting to his wrongdoings in the most raw
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: and unfiltered way possible.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Holy shit, this guy's an idiot. Powder was right, he's
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: not a reliable source. No one should trust him if
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: he thought only receiving information from one side was fact-checking
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: both sides. Again, he obviously just believes whatever people tell him,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: and he's too incompetent to know how to scrutinize information.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: He's getting these large view counts not because his information
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: is highly accurate, but because he knows storytelling skills. So, uh, forewarning,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: just because someone is good at video editing and selling
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: a narrative and sounding smart doesn't mean they're actually correct.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: The first mistake can be found in the intro of
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: the video, and it's me using the word predator. Yes,
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: it was my idea, and the logic behind it was
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: me trying to encompass everything, like the serial cheating, lying,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: and deliberate targeting of smaller content creators into one word.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Before using it, I even made sure to double check
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: its definition in multiple dictionaries, which said things like, a
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: person or an organization that uses weaker people for their
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: own advantage, or... one who injures or exploits others for
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: personal gain or profit. Due to this, I had to
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: come to the conclusion that, yeah, This word fits. I'd
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: find out quickly afterwards, though, that for many people, that
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: word is only reserved to describe pedophiles or sexual predators,
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: which made a substantial amount of people feel misled after
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: watching the intro of my video. It made it seem
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: like a hit piece, exaggerating things, and it also made
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: it seem like Sycuna had committed very serious crimes, enough
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: to land him in a high-security prison or something, when
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: that clearly wasn't the case. That was not my intention
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: at all, and I'm sorry for that.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't believe that you're sorry. We're only four
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: minutes into a 12-minute video and you've already been incredibly deceptive.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Here's an idea. You sold a false narrative that cost
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Sykuno numerous business opportunities because he lost a part of
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: his streamer friend group. Words mean nothing to me. You
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: financially benefited here and got 2 million views. That's like, what, $ 10, 000
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: to $ 20, 000?
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Now look, with all that being said, apologies are great,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: but there's no use presenting them if there's no attempt
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: to act on them. And that's exactly what I intend
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, why don't you show that you're actually sorry by
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: giving that money away to charity or something? If you
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: honestly believe that what you did was immoral, then you
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: shouldn't get to make $ 10, 000 plus off falsely accusing someone.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: So donate the money and then I'll believe you. After all,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: you didn't do this for views, right?
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: I thought that since my channel had grown exponentially, don't
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: ask me how or why because I have no idea,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: I could maybe use my platform for a good cause,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: spreading awareness about Sykuna's behavior so that no one else
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: gets tricked into being a homewrecker against their will. while
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: in parallel, encouraging others who have been wronged by him
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: to finally speak up. Additionally, seeing that the person speaking
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: up was doing so from a small account, I figured
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I could help amplify that message to spread maximum awareness.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Now yes, some people could definitely argue that I was
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: desperate for a topic to bring in views, but to
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: me it didn't matter because I was already lucky enough
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: to be able to cover niche topics I enjoy and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: still somehow reach over a million views on them.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: God, this guy takes every chance he can get to
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: brag about his view count and talk about how moral
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: he is. Okay, so how about you do the right
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: thing and give away the profits from a video where
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: you fucked up majorly and basically implied that someone was
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: a child groomer? You don't need the money, right? Because
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: you said that you already have numerous videos that are hits.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: He'd also call out anyone trying to frame him with
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: false accusations. So yeah, as you can see, not much
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: has changed. He's already admitted to these things in the
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: voice call with Mal. When it comes to false accusations, though, yes,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: there are stories that have circulated for years among some
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: VTubers that accuse Sykuno of doing worse than cheating. At
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: this point though, it is not up to me to
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: say whether it's true or not. Just pointing out what
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: he might be referring to.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: He's still doing it. He's still doing the thing that
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: people were mad about. Now guys, I'm not saying these
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: are true, but I just want you to know that
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I've heard rumors that Sycuno is actually a sex criminal
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: for real. So not only is this sort of an
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: admission that he did mean what everyone thought he meant
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: when he used the word predator, but also he's signal
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: boosting the idea that he has secret information that we
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: aren't privy to that may confirm Sycuno did commit a
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: sexual assault. Why would Mugen bring this up if he
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: didn't want us to think that Sykuno is a criminal?
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Because it's clear to me, as someone who doesn't have
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: secret intel, that when Sykuno says false accusers and extreme labels,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: he's obviously talking about you, Mugen, and Leia, and Maul,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: and like two other people. Nobody requested further elaboration from
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: anonymous sources. If you were actually sorry, you wouldn't be
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: trying to shift the tension away from yourself by saying, well,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: these other people said this, so maybe he is a predator.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I can't confirm it though, but I just want to
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: throw that out there.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: The Sycuna video was live for a week, so I'll
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: keep this video live for a week as well.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, so he's just going to delete the video. Good
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: thing I saved it. You see what I mean when
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I say that he's not actually sorry for enabling false accusers? Ironically,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: he cites a PewDiePie video where Felix apologizes for saying
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: the N-word on accident during a livestream eight years ago.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: That's a big who cares moment, but you know what
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: the great thing about that apology video from Felix is?
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: It's still live. Now, I get why Mugen removed the
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: original Sycuna video, but to remove the apology video after
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: one week? makes it very much look like he doesn't
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: want people knowing that he's screwed up. On top of that,
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: he doesn't apologize to Sykkuno for misrepresenting him. He instead
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: apologizes to the audience. And he doesn't apologize to Powder either,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: though I don't think she's that broken up about it.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Mujin, thank you so much for being a fucking retard.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: You made my night.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: So Mujin's behavior is very suspicious. That is yet another
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: reason why I don't trust him, because here's the reality.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: An uncomfortable amount of content creators like Mugen will misrepresent
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the facts of a case because they know the audience
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: won't independently look this stuff up themselves. I know a
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: lot of viewers are unhappy about this reality of nature,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: and that's why I always try to be very clear
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: in my videos on where I get my information. I
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: do that so people can fact-check me independent of my
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: video and come to their own conclusions. a courtesy that, unfortunately,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: most creators don't seem to offer. Actually, thanks to AI,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: these days it's much easier to find the source material
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: when people don't cite it. But really, the only way
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: to reduce the number of influencers like Mugen who try
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: to get their viewers to believe a false narrative is
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: to every so often spend the time fact-checking the sources yourself.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Not every video, but if you want to do your
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: part and make the world a better place, every so
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: often take one for the team and do a little
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: research on some of the claims that creators are making
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: so that if you do find someone who is being dishonest,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: you can call them out. Even if it's just a
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: very small percentage of viewers fact-checking each video, it'll make
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: a big deal, especially if over 2 million people watched it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: And the direct benefit to you as a person who
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: is doing your part is that it teaches you how
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: to research and research quickly, which is a crucial skill
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: for a ton of things. More importantly, it teaches you
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: critical thinking. People ask me every so often how to
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: develop critical thinking skills. Well, this is one of the
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: ways that you do it. You research, you think about
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: what you found, and then you try to articulate it
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: to other people. And by articulate it, I mean you
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: shitpost on Twitter or the YouTube comments section. If you're
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: going to engage in unemployed behavior, then you might as
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: well use it to train your brain. Many modern philosophers
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: have been developed in the comments section, because writing is
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: one of the strongest ways to get good at critical thinking. Anyway,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: thanks for watching, follow me on Twitter, and I'll see
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: you in the next video.