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La Caída de Yaki Risu: Historia y Controversia

the vtuber community has been a rapidly Rising Juggernaut in the content creation space in the 2020s while the technology has existed for years it's seen a huge rise in prominence thanks to the cover Corporation and hollow life Productions expansion into English V tubing while I have mixed feelings about the genre and content it's at least more neutral now than it was previously but an underlying issue with the concept of V tubing is that in a sea of cute anime girls Bad actors are bound to blend into the community and appear inconspicuous despite the disturbing truth of the person behind the model of course the easy joke to make here is that the cute anime vtuber is actually a middle-aged man in Disguise but somehow the story behind our subject today is much much worse Yaki risu often referred to as simply Yaki is or should I say was an upand cominging content creator online primarily known for her vtuber streams and content but is also known to a lesser extent for her cosplays Yaki would often adopt her vtuber Persona when she appeared in content on the YouTuber alpharad's Channel yes that alpharad and just when it looked like her career as a content creator had just begun to pick up steam all that momentum was lost when on May 30th of 2023 content creator deputy aru and editor/publisher telling their experiences behind the scenes with yaku risu their document being published was the Catalyst for many other individuals coming forward and writing their own Google Docs giving their own unpleasant histories with Yaki risu that effect snowballed into a complete [ __ ] storm of allegations forming a laundry list of unsavory things Yaki has done in the past and that spiraled into an entire hate campaign raging on Twitter which grew so large that even people who weren't even aware of who Yaki risu was to begin with began to take notice and comment on the situation by the end of it there were a total of 11 Google Docs written and involved in the situation coming from an assortment of people online with pretty much every Google doc having similar themes of manipulation and pettiness throughout and some of these Google Docs get long so we certainly have our work cut out for us today so without further Ado sit back relax and let me show you how deep the rabbit hole goes this is the story of the world's worst vtuber before we dive into the 11 Google Docs we must first establish their subject and the subject of this very video Mary is a Lithuanian American woman from Michigan and as we'll come to find out has gone by quite a few aliases online but she is best known under the pseudonym of Yaki risu often shorten to Yaki and sometimes remixed into new but familiar names in March of 2019 she would create her Twitter account under the handle at Yaki risu with two use the account that would end up becoming her most popular one according to Yaki herself she also began cosplaying in 2019 with cosplaying becoming what she was best known for and what grew her follower base on social media soon after she created her Twitter she would go on to create her twitch and YouTube accounts as she wanted to start streaming as well over the course of 2019 she would build a pretty respectable following for herself having a nice 14,000 followers for herself only a year after making her debut that's nothing to sneeze at and her twitch numbers for someone just starting out aren't half bad either and with this influx of new followers why not take the opportunity to Cozy up with some of your new mutuals and start building connections with people although the outcome of that will be discussed later on in this video however this growth would soon Peter out as she suddenly stopped streaming and would rarely put out a cosplay this can clearly be indicated with the huge Hiatus in streams seen on Twitch tracker as well as her stagnant follower growth on social blade it's unclear as to why Yaki stopped posting content online especially since according to her significant other at the time she wasn't employed at the time and was mostly relying on her Partners in income whatever the case may be this Hiatus was broken with the beginning of 2022 as she began getting back into content creation both in terms of cosplays and streaming and soon after began streaming as a PNG tuber although claimed she was a vtuber in her titles and tags for some reason and just in time too as the connection she made in the past led her to making connections with very popular creators this would give her a nice bump in attention and notoriety thanks to her association with them her growth was more more gradual and steady initially but in November she made her debut as a proper vtuber with a model and everything her official debut as a vtuber garnered Yaki a lot of attention and took her growth from Modest and steady to her now gaining thousands of followers each month and around this time she began appearing as a guest in alpharad's content getting her name out there in content by a Creator as popular as him no doubt contributed to the increasingly fast growth Yaki was having at the time Yaki was picking up some serious momentum and at the rate she was gaining followers Yaki was poised to end up with at least 100,000 twitch followers by the end of 2023 and Yaki also took the opportunity to expand her content onto YouTube as well with her creating videos and shorts that she fashioned out of her content from her streams and these videos performed very well for themselves with her first YouTube short having an entire million views to its name and while her two other shorts weren't nearly as popular 370 DK are certainly large view counts shorts aside she was also beginning to hire editors to create fully edited long form YouTube videos out of her stream content with her two videos currently sitting at a pretty 274k and 135,000 Views respectively for her first videos on YouTube that's incredibly solid most YouTubers First videos don't have nearly that amount of views with all of these factors into consideration Yaki was bound to be a popular Creator herself by the Year's End and be able to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with her content creator peers with growth like this and friends like alpharad yaki's career was pretty much cemented what could possibly go wrong the first Google doc exposing Yaki dropped on May 30th of this year with it containing the accounts of Ultima Shadow X or simply Ultima as well as deputy aru not only were they the first ones to tell their stories both of them appear to have been affected most recently by Yaki we'll begin with Ultima story and move on to arus afterwards Ultima works as an editor behind the scenes for Youtubers with him working with such notable creators as Matt MCM Muses berus and the vtuber henya the genius as well as alpharad H what a coincidence Ultima and Yaki had been friends for well over 4 years but after he broke up with her significant other in 2022 she began facing some dire Financial issues as she returned from a trip to her significant other absent and a mortgage she could not shoulder Yaki begged Ultima to move in with her so she wouldn't lose her house which he agreed to because of their history Yaki later claims that this Arrangement was mutually beneficial and that Ultima was looking to move out of his place anyways however Ultima contest this stating that he wasn't looking to move at all and simply did so to help her out in the beginning things were peachy between Ultima Yaki and her new boyfriend Ruby but after the first few months things turned sour Yaki began becoming more and more aggressive towards Ultima ultima's account of his experience states that she would verbally abuse him for some of the slightest inconveniences particularly with getting him to pipe down it's something that is focused a lot in Ultima story as the house they shared had thin walls apparently they must have had paper thin walls though because if he would make any noise while she was streaming even just Whispers she would berate him over It ultimately resulting in one particular instance where she came into his room and yelled at him for quote ruining her content she would also Strongarm him into paying for stuff on her behalf often notably the gas for his car which despite belonging to him Yaki was the only person who would actually ever use it the verbal abuse got so bad that he ended up confiding in Fidel otherwise known as on the down low or games cage about the situation Fidel will also so come to play a larger role in the story so remember him for later I do an entire video for her and follow her rules and do her changes and in her notes it's like are you stupid this is bad I hate this I said to do this I read your notes I did what you want stop treating me like I'm incompetent I am burnt out and depressed on editing I can barely get out of bed I lost my main source of income you saddle up to my boss you tell me to pay for gas on my own car I let you drive when I don't drive Ultima also talked about how Yaki would use her connections with larger creators in particular her close friendship with alpharad and hold it over ultima's head as a means of silencing him I try to handle this quietly she will gossip she will ruin my career I am scared of that all because I wanted to help Ultimo later at an instance where Yaki threatened him if she found out he was talking about what was happening stating ominously that they would have problems it's always great to see people weaponize their friendships with larger creators against others as we can see from her Channel yaki's quite the fan of Pokémon so it should come as no surprise to find out that her treatment of her pets is less than Stellar according to Ultima he was the one left with the responsibility of taking care of them feeding them cleaning up after them and so on Yaki would have the cats locked in the bathroom for over half a day and would tell Ultima not to let them out also if if you're curious this is what her bathroom looked like now for reference here's what Chris Chan's bathroom looks like that's really all that needs to be said funnily enough in her response Yaki unintentionally corroborated this claim referring to this as putting them in quote gay baby jail cute the worst of it happened during yaki's recent trip to La as one of her cats at home had become terribly ill so much that it was unable to walk while Yaki extended her stay in La for a bit longer Ultima drove multiple hours to the vet and paid for over half the checkup and medical costs for it to which she allegedly never paid him back for due to the affir mention issue about Ultima being too loud for Yaki she suggested that the three of them look at moving into a bigger house to alleviate the issue with Ultima and Ruby finding a place that worked for them when Ultima Ruby and Yaki with the help of ultima's dad went to apply for a loan for the house though she refused to become co-owner to the loan citing her mortgage on their current house problem is as Ultima states she had been making funny little jokes about moving to LA to be closer to alr's group of friends and if she ever went through with that which is highly likely if her streaming career kicked off then she'd abandon Ultima with a loan that he couldn't pay thankfully because of her flakiness everyone backed out in addition to working as an editor for other creators Ultima also offered Yaki to help her out with editing a couple of her YouTube videos as well these experiences however were hellish for Ultima as he explains anytime I would submit a video to her for revision I would just be treated like a total idiot things like why would you do this or you just don't get it or this is baffling what were you thinking and it made me very upset as I was burnt out and barely motivated to work as it is of note is that within an IMR album containing screenshots on Discord between Yaki and Ultima all these screenshots save for one from May that is completely unrelated and isn't about anything although is very ominous given the is everything okay and the uh kind of not really and the 2hour call that happened afterwards are from January and February of 2023 considering that the two videos ultimate edited for Yaki came out on February 16th and May 8th this leaves us with an entire 2 to three months of Correspondence unaccounted for in this album supposedly refuting the claim that she was abusive towards Ultima and you know call it a hunch but I don't think the messages from that time frame work quite as easy to chalk up to simple disagreements as the screenshots attached are or the really bad [ __ ] could have just happened in real life or over Discord calls that's also just as likely while we're on that topic let's switch gears into aru's testimony auu is a content creator online with a primary focus on Twitch streaming but also dabbles in some V tubing and cosplay as well which is what her and Yaki have in common how aru and Yaki came to know each other though was through their Mutual association with Fidel I mentioned him not too long ago to be a tease but I'll delve more into this later on in this video but what's important to know is that Yaki really doesn't like Fidel and when she noticed that aru and Fidel broke up she began to slide into aru's DMS to in effect manipulate aru into turning against Fidel to quote aru directly it ended up with her calling me and telling me he cheated on me and since she had no reason to lie to me or so I thought I believed her she also told me that he would say awful things about me behind my back for the past 2 years he's known me and that he actively would sabotage my career because she was very close to Fidel I had no reason not to believe her Yaki used this opportunity to try and get aru to move away from Fidel's friend group and try and move into hers aru described her introduction into the friend group to basically be a way for her to secretly humiliate aru to her friend group behind her back and as a vehicle for her vitriolic rhetoric about Fidel and this ultimately culminated in a trip that the group took to LA in order to spend time together which I mentioned not too long ago at least that's what it was supposed to be till Yaki started pulling some strings in March aru Yaki and their mutual friend Izzy plan to hang out together to celebrate Izzy's birthday in La which coincided with other events that the three all intended to attend despite aru paying out of her own pocket for this trip she been almost the entire trip being Outcast from every social Gathering during this trip all the while Yaki would basically lie Li and defame aru and Fidel to everyone else Yaki was able to do this because she managed to lie about both of them in order to convince everyone not to invite them like saying that aru made alpharad uncomfortable and saying that if Fidel and alfad were in the same place it would blow up [ __ ] that was so blown out of proportion that it borderlines on complete lies to be specific aru had been Uninvited from a dinner with alpharad's friend group a brunch the following day a trip to the aquarium and her own own friend Izzy's birthday party in particular that last instance resulted in aru being given an incorrect address that took her to a completely different side of LA and when aru called her friends asking for them to come get her Yaki was allegedly calling aru passive aggressive for being scared that she was completely stranded alone in LA in the middle of the night whilst we don't know if it was intentional that aru was given the wrong address it sounds like it was the worst moment in her trip to La that was completely wasted to begin with and that's what considering another circumstance aru recounts in her own testimony where she actually arranged plans to hang out with Yaki and Izzy in her hotel room however they needed to make a stop beforehand at a friend's house and told aru to meet them there shortly after aru arrived they bounced and left to go to alf's house ditching aru in a house with three dudes she doesn't know well enough to be left at their house like that this left aru incredibly upset that the two people she thought of as friends would abandon her like that and according to aru the reason they did this as well is not letting aru ride with her friends to and from places despite being in a hotel room close to alpharad's place as per their suggestion is because Yaki specifically orchestrated it that way apparently she did this because she thought aru was being weird with wanting to find out alad's address and by that I mean she asked like a couple times so she could Uber her friends there so they could drop off their luggage at his place for the sake of convenience and not to the insane degree Yaki allegedly tried to portray aru was thankfully able to catch an Uber to the actual location of the party and there she confronted Izzy about why aru was being excluded from everything despite the fact that she only took the trip to LA in the first place to hang out with them it was here where Izzy revealed that much of it was because of Yaki pulling the strings and using the opportunity to talk [ __ ] about her and Fidel for the duration of the entire trip keep in mind that aru spent money out of her own pocket to come to La it wasn't arranged for anyone else to pay for her to fly out so aru spends a [ __ ] ton of money to catch a plane in a hotel in La so she can hang out with her friends and one of her friends is deliberately barring her from doing so and talking [ __ ] about her during the entire 3 or 4 day trip now that's really shitty aru decided she had to confront Yaki about this and Izzy pleaded with her not to as she was afraid Yaki would ruin her friendships reputation and even her birthday party aru had her heart set however and proceeded anyway as aru explains despite her having three other people tell very similar stories when she confronted Yaki she denied basically everything and this resulted in a heated conversation between the three of them involving yelling crying and emotions running High the conversation ended with aru telling Yaki as long as you stopped talking bad about me to other people it's water under the bridge just please stop doing that and be honest if you don't like me rather than bullying me to which Yaki responded saying aru I love you I would never say anything bad about you afterwards Yaki Izzy and Company took an Uber back to alpharad's place and according to Izzy Yaki was yelling at the others in the Uber ride back about what had just transpired after the trip Izzy became yet another person Yaki would maliciously defame to their creators in order to dissuade them from collaborating or working with her and this didn't stop for aru or Fidel either to quote aru directly Yaki only poisoned the well with alpharad's friend group when it came to me but she began spreading rumors into other friend groups that were resulted in other content creators completely cutting contact with me or just being very cold and standoffish towards me after hanging out with her I ended up having to disconnect from everything because of how badly my mental health was affected by all of this aru also confronted alfr about the alleged role he had in the drama a lot of yaki's words and actions were predicated on things that she said alpharad thought felt or said or that the only reason Yaki [ __ ] talked aru in a relationship was only because alfad would ask about it according to message mes between alpharad and aru that was not the case at all and alpharad had a really hands-off and bystander involvement in what happened Yaki was simply evoking his name as a way to dilute what her intentions really were or took his words and blew them up in such outlandish proportions that they weren't representative of how he really felt at all making a mountain out of a mole hill in other words aru ends her story by explaining what her point of view of the follow of their interactions has looked like as you can probably tell with me posting this she never stopped and I keep hearing things being said about me that continue to be traced back to Yaki even just last week she called two people in hopes of downplaying what she did to me and is continuing to do to me and told them that I constantly talked badly about her and asked for them to give her personal details on my life I truly believe yaki's fixation with hurting my reputation is creepy and Incredibly invasive this kind of behavior makes me feel unsafe and uneasy this is not normal behavior and I just wanted to go hang out with my friends and constantly was treated like someone who deserved to be excluded and isolated from invitations when you hang out with people who you consider your friends there shouldn't be so much mudslinging I shouldn't have had to experience being treated badly when I was supposed to be there for a good time Yaki lied to me manipulated me gas lit me suied my reputation in the gaming space and completely bullied me to the point where I needed therapy and I know she has done this to other people besides me I just want all of this to stop I'll just give a quick warning that this section in particular deals with the subject matter such as these that you can read on screen right now if you would rather not hear about them just skip to the next section yohen sushima known simply as Hazel is a former partner of yakis with them dating from 2017 until they broke up in 2021 additionally they lived together starting in 2018 until sometime after after they split up during the time they lived together a lot of what happened to Ultima was also happening to Hazel also similar to Ultima is how Yaki pressured her into buying the house that they lived in along with it being the same house she would share with Ruby and Ultima later on on top of that Hazel was also the only one with a job so she basically shouldered most of the financial responsibility in the relationship while also being a full-time college student at the same time according to Hazel as joaki became more and more popular on Twitter and twitch she would become more and more aggressive towards Hazel braiding her over the smallest mistakes tell her that everything she did was [ __ ] and blaming anything that went wrong on her she felt like more of a house cleaner rather than an actual significant other it was around this time that their dog pinto had been attacked by one of the other dogs an event which became the last straw and broke up their relationship soon after yaka with Ruby and the abused Hazel suffered at the home worsened even more escalating to her being locked out of the house Yaki physically assaulting her and strong arming her to pay for even even more things with her manipulating Hazel and disdain by telling them that their parents wouldn't take them in due to their gender sexuality due to how bad the ABS got Hazel attempted to take their own life in May of 2021 by ingesting sodium nitrate they were admitted to the hospital and thankfully survived the attempt but fearing what Yaki might do they simply told them that they had a panic attack Hazel soon moved out in June 11th taking their belongings as well as their cat Gil as Hazel had observed yaki's abusive treatment towards the pet describ desing their treatment as quote throwing the cat multiple times locking him in closets multiple times and generally confining him to a very small room and left me to take care of him completely Hazel's story is the most horrific that we've heard during the situation as she experienced much of the same [ __ ] as Ultima but to a much higher degree due to the relationship aspect especially as that relationship became strained and broken but don't think we're in the clear just yet we still have a lot to get through yes you read that right the next person to call out Yaki goes by the username rat barf and has gone by similar root and puke themed names before for the purpose of this video I'm just going to be calling them Jake Jake was good friends with Yaki for about a year or two from 2019 until 2021 Jake describes yaki's friendship with them and others as being one where she would braak and Bully her close friends including them although they would mostly let it slide due to apathy it's only now do they realize this became a pattern of behavior for her Jake explains that there were aspects of yaki's behavior during their friendship that raised red flags in their mind and they simply shrug them off initially they explained how Yaki would act pretty rude to her friends and strangers allegedly insulting them in a way that felt harsh and unnecessary Jake explains like so I recall times where she would call me stupid and a [ __ ] often in a context that was really unnecessary this was also apply to other people in the group she would pick her favorites and actively avoid the rest but hold power over our group since a lot of us were young and naive there was even one instance where she claimed one of our friends was a quote fat loser that no one likes and is only around cuz everyone feels guilty in short Yaki was over the top in her aggression to us and I can get at least 10 people who can verify these claims and stories certainly not a good look and that's not even the main point of their document either their friendship turned for the worst after Jake split with their then girlfriend of 2 years at the Time Jake admits that he didn't take the breakup well threatening to take his own life proceeding to make an attempt and contacting his ex about it afterwards despite being told not to their ex would vent about this teaki since the two were close but if we know anything from aru's story it's that Yaki getting involved with relationship drama doesn't end well at all according to Jake despite their ex explicitly telling Yaki not to talk about this with anyone Yaki proceeded to do the exact opposite and began telling people a warped version of the story that painted Jake in the worst light possible even a people neither party even knew Yaki used this as a point of Leverage to assassinate Jake's character and have him excommunicated from nearly all of his friend groups this included [ __ ] like leaking personal information and claiming that Jake faked his attempt because it wouldn't be content creator drama without someone claiming someone iside baiting Yaki would claim that she never told anyone about what she had been told but Jake was able to provide screenshots of his having to retroactively explain to his friends that the story Yaki had told them was intellectually dishonest and then setting the record straight despite Yaki meddling in their relationship Jake and his ex would soon make an attempt to mend the relationship and have become friends since then something that Yaki was not too fond of telling others how stupid his ex was for even attempting to do so and even after the two made amends Yaki still didn't drop the issue and continue to [ __ ] talk them Jake makes it clear that it's not so much the [ __ ] talk that bothers him so much as it was the dishonesty in how she presented the situation and how she leaked information that neither party was comfortable with her doing using it to get people to turn against Jake while not to the same degree of shittiness this does resemble how she acted concerning aru and Fidel's relationship like a light version of what their situation ended up being a sign of things to come so to speak before Jake concludes their document they mention how they were witness to yaki's abusive Behavior towards their then Partners specifically mentioning an anecdote in which Yaki yelled at her partner while on call so harshly that they started crying and forced them to explain to everyone that it was okay I'm not sure if this was Hazel and this claim is simply anecdotal so take that as you will but to say it tracks would kind of be an understatement mado's story has some similarities to part of Ultima story as he was commissioned by Yaki to edit a video for her on her YouTube channel and similarly to Ultima mado's story working with Yaki was very poor in 2022 mahado had the opportunity of working with Yaki as an editor for a video which he was happy to work on as he saw it as an opportunity to grow as an editor the video she commissioned him to work on was a highlight video for her Pokemon smash or pass stream that she did Maha tried to make it the best he thought it could be but she's just kind of passive aggressive about the whole thing I mean I say that but these messages just kind of have this tinge of unprofessional sourness she's just kind of [ __ ] on Mado for not being able to read her mind and know exactly what she wanted and when working with an editor you have to give that sort of leeway if you want a video to have a very specific strict direction or be edited in a specific way then you just have to edit it yourself and when mahado points out how editing a video out of a VOD she gave him was going to take a while she got all caddy and acted like Mahar was trying to blame her for the video taking time to make you want to know how long the VOD is 30 minutes and 1 hour no 2 hours he had to edit through 2 hours of footage and she gets mad that he's taking a bit of time to get it done okay I'm sitting here watching through her VOD while writing the script and out of all the Pokemon from jens's 1- 4 a total of 493 she said she would [ __ ] 160 of them what the [ __ ] I crunch the numbers on this that's basically a third of all the Pokemon one and three this [ __ ] is on crack speaking of which you want to know how much Mahana was paid for his work you want to know how much he was paid for editing an entire 2 hours of footage into just 21 minutes 60 bucks that's it $60 for all of that work or at least that's what I would say if he didn't refr her half of the money for not being able to apply the changes that she requested and just to get her off his back and if that wasn't enough Yaki proceeded to [ __ ] talk mahado and his work behind his back and I know this because if you read intently in the DMS that she leaked between her and Ultima she literally tells Ultima that his work was quote horribly shitty and in mahad's document he states that she's close friends with people that he talks to regularly so there's a high likelihood that Ultima wasn't the only person she sh talk mahado to in my opinion mahado went above the Call of Duty and trying to offer her some grade a customer service and even after bending over backwards to meet her demands she just throws that [ __ ] in his face it's just shitty pure and simple whenever a public figure is facing public backlash due to allegations being made against them claiming said figure to be a reprehensible human being it's always best to respond to such allegations calmly in the correct tone and with a deep understanding of what the controversy is centered on we've seen dozens of YouTubers fail in this regard as they often approach controversy hastily anxiously and improperly by distracting from the main point by focusing more on their cute pet or with whataboutism that leave the audience unconvinced as such it is infinitely better for public figures to wait out the [ __ ] storm on social media calm down take the proper amount of time needed to release a response that effectively refutes the claims made against them or address them in the appropriate manner one good response is infinitely better than two or three hastily thrown together ones so you would hope that Yaki would respond in kind seeing as this controversy had hit the Twitter trending Tab and the site was a buzz with conversation about the allegations hopefully she would respond in a week maybe 5 days at least a couple of days so she could calm down and collect her thoughts before responding right her response came not even 20 hours after the initial Google doc dropped Yaki wasted no time getting a response out and it ended up being right smack dab in the middle of the controversy you can look at the time bar right now we're not even like halfway through this [ __ ] and due to her hastiness and trying to dowe the Flames surrounding her reputation she ended up pouring gas instead of water the best way to summarize yaki's response is essentially her looking at what everyone else has said and going nuh-uh [ __ ] you mean nuh-uh her response to aru can basically be summed up with her contesting aru's claims by saying that things happen differently just some he said she said [ __ ] that and also just throwing in whatever she can to make aru look bad in her dock like her claimed that aru only talked about Connections when she was introduced to the friend group which doesn't contribute to anything and really isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things when we compare to what has been alleged Yaki has done both to aru and others as well as just coming up with weird flimsy counterpoints like how she tries to refute aru's claim that Yaki called her passive aggressive by saying that she simply asked others if they thought so because that's totally different do you guys think yaki's being pantic here you see I don't think so myself but I'm just asking you if you think so this is completely neutral and isn't a leading question despite yaki's claims being dubious to say the least and were likely put out there an attempt to save her own ass the Riff Raff had me concerned as to whose retelling of events was more truthful after all even if the other allegations made against joaki have a lot of concrete evidence that solidify their legitimacy that doesn't give us a free pass to tack on things that could potentially be untrue after all I literally just made a video about how that can seriously [ __ ] you over so I wanted to make sure that I had all of my ducks in a row and to get to the bottom of this and thankfully with aru's help I was able to do just that I contacted aru to ask her about the claims Yaki made in her document and how they conflicted with what she said and she was able to provide some valuable clarification seriously huge props to her for being so willing to talk to me about this it's never easy to talk about something like this when you've actually experienced it in person Yaki made the claim that aru slept through her alarm clock on the day that their friend group scheduled a trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific airgo Yaki did not make an effort to exclude aru from the trip however in actuality what happened was a lot more complicated so I'm going to break it down for you Yaki and her friend group had initially made plans to visit the aquarium at around 1:00 p.m. the following day here we have screenshots provided by Yaki that show the group arranging the best time for them to visit the aquarium while this is going on in a screenshot aru gave me in DMS she is also inviting one of her friends to the aquarium as well yaki's screenshots are 3 hours late so these two screenshots take place at the same time I can verify this because aru also sent me her version of a DM Yaki attached to her response verifying the time difference and with that it seemed everyone was in agreement that they would meet up at around 1:00 p.m. until four hours later where Yaki realizes that she had plans to meet with Adriana figuroa yes that Adriana figura at 1:45 p.m. creating a scheduling conflict according to aru Yaki tried to reschedule the aquarium visit to around 10:30 a.m. which wasn't as unanimously agreed upon as the prior time most likely because certain people already had their own plans at or around that time creating complications and due to those complications the plans eventually fell through and and nobody went to the aquarium that day this was after Aro had already been excluded from several other plans Yaki made with friends so at this point aru didn't have any intention of showing up at the new time and just silently canceled her plan to attend Yaki made the claim that she and Izzy hadn't ghosted her when it came to them arranging when they should have brunch together but rather it was aru who ghosted them when she stopped responding to their messages concerning it and shared this image that appears to corroborate this claim I asked aru about this to which she clarified that most of the conversation setting this up happened over the phone she explains that Izzy had taken too much time trying to set up these plans so aru had already made separate plans before they could agree on a proper time to meet up aru claims that she had to wait 3 hours for Izzy to decide on a time that would work and speculates that the reason for Izzy's sluggishness and indecision was due to Yaki telling her not to really meet up with aru and believes that much of why she was uninvited to so many Gatherings was due to similar conspiracy by Yaki as for the last claim Yaki made in shot she had taken of the beginning of her DMS with aru and I read all of them and what I found was quite interesting the DMS initially begin with both of them venting about their frustrations with Fidel's chat and the remarks they make about them that's nothing out of the ordinary it's completely understandable for them to vent about a Rowdy twitch chat however what's interesting is that aru pivoted the conversation from complaining about a twitch chat to complaining about a lie Fidel told something relatively small and not a huge deal but aru values honesty Yaki then used this little bit of frustration from aru to take her into a Discord VC where she basically told her a false story about how Fidel was cheating on her with this story being about how while Fidel and aru were dating Fidel was receiving nudes from another female streamer behind her back aru had no reason to believe Yaki would lie to her and only had her best intentions in mind only to find out in a matter of months that the story wasn't true what ensued was a pretty brutal bout where both Yi and aru would converse with Fidel separately where they confront him about this false story and when Fidel obviously claims that the story was false and fabricated they ured each other that yaki's story was the truth and that Fidel was attempting to blame others instead of himself of course Fidel being dumped by his girlfriend because someone he thought was his friend decided to tell them a false story about how he was cheating on her understandably upset him this was aru's thoughts on that at the time also why the [ __ ] is he yelling at you for something he did is he crying at least please tell me I made him cry he sounded like he was yeah h [ __ ] deserved she would go on to repeat similar sentiments throughout the rest of the leak DMS the rest of them consist of the two of them completely [ __ ] on Fidel and totally ripping into him the one particular thing that stuck out to me is how aru called Fidel a spoiled Manchild whose own mom told him he has a history of habitually lying so yeah it's not pretty what's perplexing about why y attached these screenshots is that they don't prove a whole lot sure they make the drama more juicy but all of these 111 screens shots were pretty much aply summarized in aru's original document sure she didn't divulge into just what she said about Fidel but it gets the general gist the only reasons Zaki attached these screenshots is either to portray aru poorly by showing how brutal she was to Fidel during their breakup or because she genuinely for some reason thought these screenshots held details aru left out of her doc when that's really not the case this is just really confusing I don't know how she expected anyone besides a complete psychopath like myself to really sit there and read every message and in the end the messages weren't really the gotcha she was hoping for but I suppose that could really be said for the entire document really Yaki then moves on to talking about Ultima and his story with her Beginning by explaining that she never strong armed Ultima into moving in with her and that their agreement was mutually beneficial as Ultima was also looking to move out of his current place as well Ultima later claims that this was a lie and that he wasn't in any need to move out at all so we're off to a good start already Yaki just kind of throws her hands up and admits that pretty much everything Ultima mentioned happened but spins it in a way that gives her plausible deniability kind of like yeah that did happen but I don't remember it being as bad as how he described the funniest instance where she does this is when she mentioned how Ultima claimed that she threatened him if he were to talk about the alleged abuse and she said yeah I said that but I didn't mean it like I'd destroy his career and it's like what did you mean then I suppose given the nature of these allegations that it is possible Yaki could have been telling the truth and for some reason Ultima Fidel and everyone else vouching for his claims are just making a concerted effort to defame Yaki but I personally find that hard to believe it's totally possible and I leave decision of who you believe more up to you but Tim DMS with Fidel along with other people's eyewitness accounts of her treating him poorly make me comfortable in believing Ultima also you know the other [ __ ] ton of Google Documents we still have to sip through that leads us into discussing the final Google doc Yaki attempted to refute with this response that being the claims made by Hazel in her document yaki's attempt to refute the claims made by Hazel is like a mix of what she did with aru and Ultima in that she basically takes almost every claim Hazel he made and claims it was her that was was doing the actual work while hazo would pretty much just play video games and slack off and not do anything pretty he said she said stuff and pretty much every grievance listed happened in real life so there's little in the way of evidence to add legitimacy to either person's testimony but what's really strange is that aside from that Yaki also misunderstands and misinterprets what Hazel said in her original document like how Hazel made it clear that she hid her suicide attempt from Yaki and kept it a secret and simply claimed she had a panic attack to this claim Yaki says that she doesn't remember the incident at all completely ignoring that that's entirely Hazel's point or how Yaki claimed that Hazel never trained their dog Momo when Hazel admits that while she tried she was ultimately unable to do so on top of her college classes and her full-time employment and another time when she claimed that her cat Gil was kidnapped while she was away when Hazel explicitly mentioned this and that her reason being that Yaki was abusing him this is either evidence of Yaki rushing out a response to stoke the Flames of the drama or Yaki lying in her response by denying everything Hazel claimed even if it doesn't make sense for her to it's very odd this response was also where Yaki posted pictures of the condition of her house after she had returned home from her trip claiming that Hazel was the one who trashed it and that she was the one not putting in the work to keep the house tidy but based on Hazel's testimony she was the only one paying for pretty much everything while also going to college and trying to clean the house when she could considering the affir mention inaccuracies in Yaki story that cast doubt on the validity of her account this very well could have been an unintentional self-report on just how insanitary or living conditions were and possibly still are but hey that's just a theory Yaki just couldn't help herself and decided to drag in another person into the situation who up to that point wanted to remain a third party because even when facing backlash from a tital wave of people on Twitter she can't stop herself from [ __ ] on Fidel Fidel is mentioned in her response more than Ultima or Hazel which is absolutely dumbfounding the heavy focus on [ __ ] on Fidel resulted in Fidel putting out a short statement on his Twitter detailing his perspective during everything that went down to summarize an already short Google doc Fidel explains that though Yaki and Fidel were initially great friends she wasn't very happy when Fidel expressed to her that he was uncomfortable with her constantly self-promoting her content on his streams and in his Discord server well initially seemed like a minor issue to Fidel he didn't notice a change in Attitude until she suddenly became two-faced and began to basically outright slander his reputation and image to other popular creators and otherwise notable people when Fidel wasn't around meanwhile still acting agreeable when around Fidel to make it appear like everything was fine we've already gone over how the story she spun about Fidel cheating on aru was completely fabricated but despite how she tries to play it off in her document she was more than willing to run this false story to more people than just the person who was affected by it as Fidel explains I found out during an LA trip to see the Mario movie with my friends Johnny and Adam specifically at Izzy's party that Yaki was going around to her entire new friend group of Mega content creators that are a part of alpharad's group and continues the false narrative that I was a cheater manipulator and overall an evil human being which not only kept me from being invited to some events like Mario Party Summit or stream Awards and such but it got to the point where I wasn't even invited to my friend Izzy's birthday party because of the fear Yaki instilled about me he adds when there was a big friend award show in La Yaki slandered my character to as many people as she could she also told aru that if she really wanted to she could ruin my connections within the industry by telling her Sega friend she can make it so that they never work with me or interact with my content and since Sonic is my quote bread and butter I would be left with nothing Izzy and her friends later confirmed this once Yaki became aware of aru contacting people to get to the bottom of what was being said about her Yaki went to Fidel to try and patch things up in an attempt to manipulate him into keeping everything on the down low sorry sorry he just wanted the [ __ ] being said about him to stop so they mutually agreed to just stop talking about each other and move on predictably as seen in Ultima screen shots Yaki wasn't interested in upkeeping her end of the deal speaking of Ultima Fidel caps off his statement by describing what he personally witnessed of yaki's treatment of Ultima likening it to the way people would scold the misbehaving dog but he didn't know how bad he was really treated at home until Ultima vented to him on Discord oh and alongside Yaki was someone by the name of Ruby Who provided his perspective on the matter since he was the only other person who was living with Yaki and Ultima well this might peque your interest at first it's important to note that Yaki and Ruby are dating and that immediately calls into question the validity of their statement not only are they obviously biased towards their significant other but if Hazel's experience is anything to go by their perspective could very likely have been infuenced by Yaki if not just outright sticking her hand in the pot and as you might expect Ruby's statement is just kind of a milk toast support for Yaki trying to vouch for her perspective in the situation and it basically boils down to him saying well I didn't see any ab and him asking if Ultimo was so upset why didn't he complain which is kind of strange Ruby would ask considering he did complain to Fidel about this very situation Ruby's attempt to has claims that since Ultima never complained therefore he wasn't being abused are screenshots where they're discussing who would take what rooms in their new house pretty insubstantial [ __ ] if I can compare this document to anything it's like that one guy from PaRappa the Rapper that just kind of backs up his bully friend with one-word sentences it's kind of like that and based on what we know and we'll learn later about Yaki roping Hazel into her drama back when they were together Ruby's statement gives me pause well I don't know I don't want to completely dismiss it as just being ghostwritten by Yaki or anything but there's too high a likelihood Yaki had a direct hand in the creation and or approval of Ruby's document for it to be considered with any real Merit or weight and sorry to spoil the rest of the video but during the entire time that this situation was making the rounds on Twitter not a single soul besides Yaki and Ruby came out in defense of them quite the contrary actually as we can see with the [ __ ] ton of Google docs written by different people of their poor experiences with Yaki if yaki's really as innocent as she wants us to believe why are there so many skeletons in her closet and why does everyone who she used to surround herself with vouch for Ultima Fidel and aru it's not impossible for Yaki to be innocent and I would like to see the proof that would vindicate her if it's out there but already it's not looking great and it's about to look a lot worse needless to say yaki's response did not go over well and was torn to pieces on Twitter for yaki's poor attempt at vindicating herself the response was primarily focused on making attempts to recover a reputation at the expense of acknowledging what she had done wrong and actually apologizing for said mistakes Yaki was more focused on Shifting the blame back on to the people who called her out rather than making a proper response where she owns up to what she screwed up on and if you'll note the runtime we still aren't done with this story no Siri because the story does not end with yaki's response it's truly the gift that keeps on giving so let's continue shall we the censor component for any vtuber online is their vtuber model it's what's always on screen during their streams and videos it's the focal point of their branding and it's what the graphic design of their branding is usually based on and it's literally the entire point of a vtuber I mean a vtuber without a model it's just a normal streamer without a face cam at that point while V2 remodels are the most integral part of the community vtuber models are also prohibitively expensive provided a vtuber isn't creating the model themselves commissioning an artist to draw a model for them tends to cost upwards of $400 or $500 you can get something cheaper for sure but that's the general rule based on the numbers I've been seeing after sifting through quite a number of commission sheets and with the vast majority of vtubers being slick pretty anime characters with a lot of detail it's the big contributing factor as to why the price tends to be so high and that's just on the art itself you also have to rig every separate section of the model and if you don't know how to get that done well you're going to have to pay someone to do that for you and if you want to go the 3D route with your model just forget about it at that point establishing just how expensive vtuber models can be is important as it provides you a frame of reference for Tommy's story as they are a former friend of Yaki who was the artist who provided her both her PNG tuber Avatar and vtuber model at the time of their creation Yaki had just split with hazel so Tom Tommy felt bad charging her for their work and since they were pretty close as Tommy explained Tommy decided to make these for free again a vtuber model that based on how nice the art looks would easily cost upwards of $500 and Tommy was such a lad that they decided to do it free of charge Yaki assured Tommy there would be no deadline and they said they'd try to get it done within 5 to 6 months although advised them to look into potential other options if they weren't able to get it done fast enough seeing as they were doing this for free that's pretty reasonable months passed and due to having some personal issues as well as already having commissions which obviously take priority they weren't able to get a ton done but when Tommy had most of the sketch done Yaki requested some changes and since it was still early in production they were more than happy to oblige should be a win-win for both they had a call a couple weeks later which served as the instance when Yaki changed her model from the first concept to the new Final design she would end up using but then a month later tensions began to rise while Yaki didn't give Tommy a deadline Tommy began saying things like it'll be done Monday it'll be done next week and so on to Yaki she took this as Tommy setting a conrete day of delivery which was not the intention so when Tommy would postpone when the work would be done Yaki became more and more peeved this came to a head on August 14th where Yaki confronted Tommy about this she held his words over their head and was guilt tripping Tommy over it saying she felt like she wasn't being prioritized and being ignored but as Tommy explains this couldn't have been further from the truth Tommy had been there for Yaki through her breakup they donated to the gofund Miaki created to fund the surgery for her dog pinto subed to her twitch and sent donations and has also done illustrations for her featuring her vtuber to try and guilt trip Tommy over not doing something for you for free fast enough and prioritizing things that take presidents like commissions is a shitty thing to do on the face of it but for it to not even be correct is just a whole new level and when Tommy began to explain to Yaki about his personal troubles being an issue and how they've just been barely been able to get their commissions done Yaki just shrugs it off and says okay just get it done then the actual psychopath behav like what the [ __ ] these screenshots just reveal this weird entitlement from Yaki acting as if he owes her this vtuber model just because he said he would do it and her whole reason as to why he has any obligation to deliver it in a timely manner is that she did his makeup for his cosplay he did one time one last thing I want to touch on for the sake of completeness is one last screenshot Tommy posted on Twitter this one being her response to this drawing he did it looks pretty damn good but when she saw she was weirdly passive aggressive and back handy about the whole thing sick art laughing at how you forgot 99% of the design though not going to lie I did sketch it off of memory and went with what I remembered oops honestly impressive but you forgot so so much would have killed you to say thanks both of these stories have similar themes of giving Yaki money under a certain condition which in one way or another was not met or was not the case both of these stories are also pretty short and the people involved weren't particularly close to Yaki so combining them into one section later in the video makes the most sense first we have a person who goes by the pseudonym Frosty Klondike although I think I'll shorten their name to just Frosty for the sake of brevity Frosty was a fan of Yaki streams beginning in September of 2022 they explained in their document that they particularly gravitated towards yaki's Community thanks to them being inclusive of their non-binary gender identity as well as Yaki being a cosplayer which Frosty is a fan of when they saw that Yaki had a patreon they decided to become a top tier Patron which included the benefit of requesting Yaki to do a custom cosplay based on a character of the patrons choosing initially this patreon tier started at $100 a month then double to $200 every month then $400 every two months Frosty was understanding of Yaki adjusting the price of the patreon tier so much as Yaki would still need to turn a profit for each custom cosplay for the effort to be worth it what they took issue with was instead yaki's tartin with delivering patreon rewards this is what the timeline looked like Frosty became a patron on September 26 2022 and requested Yaki cosplay Nico Robin from One Piece Yaki agrees and orders what she would need for this C cosplay the cosplay outfit then arrives on October 30th outfits are likely made to order so that is understandable Yaki tells Frosty that she should have the cosplay done and sent to them within a week it wasn't until December 22nd did Frosty receive a proper update that the cosplay had been completed and even then Frosty didn't receive a link to claim their rewards until January 12th literally a wait of over 3 months and you want to see what the reward looked like after all that time wasting money well spent don't you think adding insult to injury is that whenever Frosty would ask about where their reward was Yaki would get pretty clearly upset with them asking despite the fact that they paid for the [ __ ] thing to begin with it starts with her getting kind of snippy with Frosty by telling them that getting into cosplay takes more time than it does to just change an outfit again just really passive aggressive and Petty and frosty sent that message 21 days after Yaki told them that the cosplay had arrived and photos would be sent within a month I don't think asking almost 3 weeks later some sort of infraction oh and just the irony of Yaki getting defensive when her patrons inquire about something they paid for yet she acts entitled when pushing around Tommy about something he's doing for her for free the next time Frosty asked she responded really bluntly almost as if she was insulted they asked and proceeded to kind of just list excuses about how she does other things besides streaming in Cosplay and how she needs to do other things in order to pay her bills except that her patreon is also paying her bills too but friends I don't know that's not the last of Yaki taking offense to her patrons asking for updates about the [ __ ] that they paid for but we'll leave a pin in it for now and get back to it later not delivering patreon rewards in a timely manner is bad of course but what I think is worse is the other reward of note that Frosty pledged for that reward being a paid privilege to be a twitch and Discord moderator for Yaki now on the face of it this is a terrible idea and you don't need me to tell you that first of all just the idea of going hey guys for just a simple monthly fee you too can have the privilege of moderating my twitch chat and Discord server is insane to me it literally cements what is supposed to be the role of a chat Hall Monitor to a status symbol something that was already prevalent not to mention that a good moderator is often donating their time to keep an eye out and monitor the chat or server and if money's changing hands at all it's usually not the other way around to be fair it's not like Yaki just lets anyone become a mod they have to go through a screening process to make sure that they're not going to abuse their power but that still doesn't alleviate the issue entirely we know this because our friend Frosty here is an example of why they explained in the doc that they were initially not really interested in the role to begin with but felt theyd might as well be of some assistance to Yaki since they thought Yaki could use the help however they had no prior experience as a moderator at all and made it clear when they applied for the position despite this Yaki still welcomed them aboard and frosty was able to learn the ropes through some help from their fellow moderators they seem to be doing fine as a Discord mod even letting Yaki know about the Twitter account of someone who had been banned from the server but after moderating their first stream for Yaki Yaki suddenly had a change of heart and decided to demote frosty in the screenshots attached it shows Yaki citing the reason being that Frosty slipped up on shouting out a couple Raiders for activating mod shield and for making polls and shouting out people without yaki's permission and for Banning people who should have been timed out generally being a loose cannon to put it simply and while that's totally UNF Frosty for not taking more care and messing up something they should have already been aware of I can't help but also look at Yaki and think what were you expecting someone who has no experience moderating a twitch chat before and isn't familiar with your moderation accommodations just gives you money and you just let them this is literally why nobody else does this the employees at fault but you also got to blame poor management oh and by the way Frosty didn't even turn the mod shield on it was someone else they admitted it in chat and on their Discord and Yaki was just like yeah I felt like it was you so I'm just going to blame it on you [ __ ] brilliant that is and after Frosty began having some financial trouble they had to lower their patreon tier they didn't even stop supporting Yaki they were simply changing how much they were supporting her but this small decision that was basically completely outside of Frosty's control nor could they have predicted that they had to do so resulted in the bridge burning between the two fast forward to the night of February 2nd and frosty's rewards for basically the entire time they were supporting Yaki had not been fulfilled at all the only thing they had received was this photo I showed earlier but they were missing several other rewards you can read here five fan signs which are basically selfies with the person holding the name of a fan the selfie is dedicated to as well as three other cosplays that Frosty had paid for Frosty had asked for updates about their rewards previously but when they asked in a direct manner on this particular night it was clear that Yaki was upset greatly so she basically became fed up with Frosty unjustifiably so as the greatest crime they've done in these patreon messages is sending long messages which they only did because you asked multiple questions at a time and sometimes using patreon DMs like personal DMS where does this Frosty person get off I tell you and because I guess this Frosty person bugged her just a bit too much she decided to block his account on patreon ban him from her community Discord server and in typical Yaki risu fashion proceeded to [ __ ] talk the guy behind their back to her little friends to further ostracize them from their communities with Frosty being banned from at least 10 twitch chats and multiple Discord servers and all of this because they asked where their rewards were Frosty particularly took it hard as as mentioned at the start these communities provided a space for them where they felt that they could be themselves and be accepted so to lose all of that for [ __ ] that's really trivial really stings and I totally understand how they feel of course this is only their account of the story and while they graciously attached their entire patreon message log with Yaki to help back up their claims there's always the possibility that they were much different on Discord and deserve to be given the boot but to be ousted from other communities because of what is at most some drama with Yaki is just Petty and completely uncalled for especially given how big of a supporter they were and how much money they sent yaki's way man Yaki mistreats her friends she mistreats her roommate she mistreats her editors she mistreats her partner she mistreats her pets and she mistreats her fans is there anyone she doesn't treat like [ __ ] well you know besides Hing up to alfat moving on to the second story this one concerns someone who goes by the handle n super gamer guy on Twitter otherwise simply known as Nathan Nathan is someone who appears to be a part of Fidel's little Community he's got going on and as such they knew Yaki and after Yaki broke up with hazel and would complain about the result that that had on her life Nathan would offer to help Yaki out by giving her a few bucks in order to make her life easier simply as an act of kindness for someone who was struggling or at least appeared to be and by a few bucks I actually mean much much more than that to cut to the chase what was initially Nathan helping out Yaki who was likely legitimately struggling financially at the time soon turned into Yaki abusing Nathan's goodn generosity by essentially using him to get even more money by lying to him about her current situation and what she intended to use with with the money she would lie to Nathan claiming that she needed the money to repair her car yet strangely as we know from Ultima and Yaki Yaki was regularly using ultima's car to get around for most of the time they lived together now I'm not a math teacher but clearly something's not adding up here just where's the money Yaki is being sent going well thankfully ultima's got the answer when auu posted her and Ultima stories Nathan talked to Ultima about him sending Yaki money to which Ultima revealed that she was lying to him just to finesse money out of him in fact Yaki never used the money to repair her car at all instead she bought a brand new one makes you really wonder how she didn't have enough money to repair a car on her own but was conveniently able to buy a new one when she wasn't able to freeload off of ultimas in total Nathan sent Yaki $3,682 over the course of 4 months with most of it likely not going towards what Nathan believed the money would be used for if you've been keeping track at home yaki's been racking up a pretty big list of shitty things she's done and the number of people she's manipulated or has otherwise been shitty to is one of the highest I've ever seen in a situation such as this but we finally reached the final chapter the best for last well the next person isn't the person who got screwed over the hardest by Yaki I mean it's hard to get worse than Hazel's testimony but this person's story is both one of the more hardcore of the testimonies and it's also the most recent testimony so it'll serve as a good way to cap off this video let's dive into Twitter user at Hima known simply by their name sha is an artist who has something of a complicated and checkered past online he used to go by the names @ stairfax Anda on Twitter which is important to note since screenshots used in this section contain his old usernames under that old username he began to grow Infamous due to his tendency to accept a lot of commit ions but would be very slow in making progress due to a few factors concerning his living situation at the time so allow me to give you their backstory as it's integral to understanding their experiences with Yaki according to Sha's Google doc which he titled sir an 11th Google do has hit the Yaki Towers I [ __ ] you not sha used to be mutuals with Yaki on Twitter starting sometime around 2018 there wasn't anything notable that happened between them directly they simply chatted interacted with each other's tweets and so on and after a while that began happening less and less sha shooked it off initially as they weren't particularly close to begin with while that was going on life circumstances occurred that had completely [ __ ] up his financial situation Shawn was disowned and cut off financially from his parents forcing him to drop out of college which also forced him out of his on-campus job as a computer lab technician and support desk assistant at his school fortunately this didn't have any impact on his living situation per se he had already signed a lease to rent a place with with his friends but still being forced to drop out of school and lose your job is really shitty due to being out of a job they decided to give becoming a full-time freelance artist a shot in order to keep himself AF flat this is where he made the mistake of accepting too many commissions at once which became an issue that would grow in scale over time but it's understandable why he would do this I mean rent's not going to pay itself and he's got to feed himself somehow and none of the jobs he was applying for were getting back to him but [ __ ] really hit the fan when his computer [ __ ] the bed resulting in him losing all of his data this set him back not only in time but also financially as he had to pay for his laptop's repairs this is where the amount of commissions he accepted really bit him in the ass as it's what led to him being Infamous around the AR Community as his work kept getting pushed back resulting in compounding stress on top of what he was already dealing with and disappointed clients Shawn slipped into depression word of his irresponsibility with commissions began getting out although Shawn acknowledged that his clients did have every right to complain but strangely concurrent with the rumors of his lacad isical work ethic were rumors that Shawn was taking the commissioner's money and blowing it all in gotcha games namely fate Grand order Shawn vehemently denied this aspect of the rumors about him as he was using the money for basic amenities like rent and food these incorrect rumors only worsened his ongoing depression and if things couldn't get worse 2020 rolled around and due to circumstances that I'm sure were all familiar with it only made Shawn's life even worse he had to cancel his appearances at nerd in gaming EV events at his university which would have been a good opportunity for him to make some more money to ease his financial troubles due to his lack of money he was even aied from his dingy crappy apartment forcing him to move into an even shittier hostel sea explains the experience thusly 12 people sharing an apartment space meant for three people at most sharing one bathroom with constant racism based berading lack of privacy inability to work due to a lack of privacy awful roommates loneliness and more depression after 2 months living there he was thankfully able to move out thanks to the kindness of a friend and he has been improving mentally over the past 3 years but the damage to his reputation has been done and he certainly hasn't fully recovered yet he's very aware of his poor reputation but he can't really object because well they're kind of right even after understanding his poor living conditions and mental health it still doesn't really excuse Shawn's irresponsibility it's like a homeless person stealing food from someone sure they're most definitely suffering more than the person they stole from and it's something they needed to survive but it still doesn't justify stealing from an innocent person speaking of those rumors we finally arrive at where Yaki plays into all of this some of you may be ahead of me but trust me we'll get there in due time as Shawn recounts they would interact casually from 2018 all the way until about 2022 he was venting to a friend about how to deal with online trolls and [ __ ] when she buted in and said something to the effect of I hate it when people say stuff like this and bringing up the rumors about him out of nowhere I can't seem to find this tweet even with my rigorous research primarily due to his ATA account getting suspended or maybe it has something to do with Yaki purging 32,000 tweets from her Twitter last May while I wasn't able to find the Tweet Shawn talks about I was able to find a Twitter thread that pequ my interest the thread starts with a now deleted tweet I'm unable to locate but Yaki responds with Blackberry in response a third person pleads with Yaki to take it easy Yaki it's really not best to pester him about this genuinely why can everyone else point it out but me misogyny I'm really sorry but you were the first one I saw just now just trust me it's not a spot he wants to revisit blame Andrew he put it on my timeline of course I'm not like blaming you I just wanted to look out and prevent any issues cuz you of course wouldn't know why he doesn't want to be pestered about it I apologize if I seemed hostile about it yeah you were extremely hostile for no reason delete the Tweet then if it's such a huge issue okay the original tweet was from Shawn as we can clearly see here so I'm not sure if this is related to the rumors but it's something worth mentioning Sha's Twitter was suspended last May the same month that aru Ultima and Hazel would speak out about their experiences with Yaki initially he didn't have much to say other than support for those who spoke out but that was until he began hearing Rumblings that Yaki was involved in pushing the rumors surrounding him he took to Twitter to write a thread briefly going over what I've already covered basically a tldr of the story in the comments of his thread Fidel replied yeah she told us countless times on call that you were a scammer and you hadn't finished commissions and convinced us you were awful I'm sure we were not the only group she said that to with artist and friendy you're a crab backing him up on this the same day that aru came out with her Google doc a Twitter Mutual who owned a Discord server for artists to connect and collaborate came to Shawn to tell him that the real reason Shawn was banned just mere hours after joining was because of Yaki ratting out to the owner and getting him banned hm sounds familiar doesn't it as they chanted about it it started to Dawn on Shawn that Yaki might be the person who started the quote spending money on gacha games rumor all those years ago the next day Shawn began talking to Andrew the guy mentioned a bit ago on Discord about Yaki I think Yaki is the one that mainly spread the rumors that I spent commission money on gacha games instead of rent back in 2020 oh yeah she was I remember that now if that's the case then I have an actual reason to dislike her what did she say I spent 200 or so from commissions on skah Hawk and fgo I don't remember but I remember her talking about that it was like What if he spent money on gacha then it turned into he spent money on gacha I rolled for skah Hawk and wailed for her back in 2017 when I wasn't disowned and I didn't need to worry about rent the only correct thing she said is that I'm slow on commissions but everything else is [ __ ] blatant [ __ ] where's the proof LOL ain't no proof proof she just wants to believe it so it's true after this Shawn made the aention thread but him putting his two cents out there led to him becoming reacquainted with hazel who revealed more you're going to want to sit down for this one folks cuz this shit's [ __ ] insane Hazel revealed that Yaki had actually been screenshotting and documenting tweets from Shawn where he was quote unquote ebegging and according to this compilation this can either vary from asking his followers for 16 bucks to offering to sell something to complaining about being broke like [ __ ] man I've been there before it's even worse knowing what we know now it's one thing for someone to ebeg but it's a lot different when they live either in a shitty apartment alone or a cramped shitty hostel with 12 other people asking for just a couple bucks because he has no family to ask for help and the irony of Yaki putting in a tweet where Shawn self-deprecatingly mentions that he had a dream where he went to Korea with his family but realized oh yeah I have no money and I have no family like Jesus [ __ ] dude talk about poorly aged and yaki's only supporting evidence for her narrative that Shawn spent commission money on fgo and this figure of skah Hawk is him saying he spent money on gacha games in the past previously past tense in fact thanks to my researching ability and by that I mean punching in some words into Google I have concrete evidence that refutes the claim that Yaki was seemingly setting up to make Shawn states that he spent over $500 collecting ly on two characters in fate Grand order these tweets are from early 2018 the first character he spent money to pull was Scot Hawk and the event where you could pull her was a Thanksgiving 2017 event as for the other character Shawn switched to the Japanese app which is important to note since Got Game events and Banners have a massive weight time between regions in fgo's case the weight is two whole years and Shawn states that he tried getting Jean dark alter referred to by fans as simply jalter in the Japanese app and she was relased in 2016 that was a whole 2 years prior and the figure of Scot Hawk that Yaki attached to this Google do that figure was released in August of 2018 Shawn wasn't disowned until summer of 2019 that being when his financial troubles properly kicked off this so-called evidence Yaki intended to show proving Shawn was using commission money on gacha games doesn't hold weight at all just the fact someone would not only make a Google doc containing such nothing Burger instances of someone quote unquote ebing which is actually mostly said person venting about their current life situation but to also rope your significant other into it and get them to help maintain the Google do as well his genuinely psychotic behavior if I had to guess I'm assuming she was probably going to write some [ __ ] Google doc expose about how Shawn scams people for money to spend on gacha games how ironic that would have been oh but it doesn't stop there it gets better because not only was she making this Google Document Not only was she talking [ __ ] behind the scenes to get him kicked out of Discord servers and telling people he's a scammer and to not work with him but on top of all that Yaki was using burner accounts on Twitter to [ __ ] with Shawn about the rumors we only have Hazel's word to go off since the account is hard to locate currently but contained in Shawn's document is a screenshot of a tweet from one of yaki's burner accounts accusing Shawn of scamming his clients you know if I had a nickel for every female content creator who got embroiled in controversy in mid 2023 who got exposed for using secret burner accounts to [ __ ] with someone they unjustifiably hated I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but but I'm not done yet because it gets worse ladies and gentlemen because in addition to all of that she's a goddamn hypocrite Not only would she spend copious amounts of money at once to get one character in a gacha game she spent more than what Shawn did at once and on top of that she used the money she was supposed to use for rent on it you couldn't make this [ __ ] up if you [ __ ] tried dude yeah smells a lot like predection on her part spread rumors about sha being a scam artist in order to ruin his reputation but is actually the one who spends her rent money on gacha games that's just the kind of person Yaki risu is and Sean's story is truly just representative of just what's wrong with her Shawn wraps up his document by summarizing how bad yaki's actions were when you get a sense for the entire scale and understand his perspective a guy who was disowned and abandoned by his family falling into financial troubles barely making ends meat needing to sell his own personal belongings just to feed himself living in very poor conditions and having the universe conspire against him with having his laptop crash like that living like that is Hell itself but to have someone come along AOG you and maliciously spread untrue rumors about you to popular creators and public figures just to taint your reputation is a whole another level of psychotic it's one thing to be upset with Shawn and his irresponsibility but Yaki took it to a degree it should have never gone and for what nothing Sean did nothing to Yaki certainly nothing worth having this much IR thrown his way I would say this is kicking a man while he's down but that's not even in the same league when it comes to Yaki risu and just the sheer amount of terrible [ __ ] just one person can commit you could ask for a better more representative story to cap off this video than with that The Fallout of the akisu story was felt pretty hard her name was trending for a solid 3 to 4 days on Twitter she was pretty much the main character on the site over that period across every Circle that was even vaguely aware of her and even people who weren't even aware of who she was began chiming in due to just how far the allegations had spread while a few were willing to defend her most of the internet couldn't ignore the laundry list of poor experiences that many had with I mean when 10 different people come out in the span of 3 days all with their own stories of someone being a shitty person it's hard to shrug off the entire controversy as conjecture and as if the entire internet being against her wasn't bad enough the final nail in the coffin for Yaki came on June 2nd of 2023 when alpharad one of yaki's close friends and an incredibly popular YouTuber in his own right went live on his twitch to address the Litany of allegations surrounding his friend alpharad's name was mentioned somewhat frequently in aru's story and since alpharad featured Yaki in much of his content with an entire video of his putting her at the Forefront people looked to alpharad for a response I would compare alpharad's response to pulling teeth it's very clear that alfad doesn't want to make this stream and you get this strong feeling that he really doesn't want to be here right now and it's understandable given how close Yaki was to alfad and his friend group and even despite alpharad's close friendship with Yaki and his reluctance to speak on the matter he wasn't going to run defense for Yaki either in situations like this it can be easy to be blinded by your own biases so I commend alad's ability to empathize with those Yaki hurt despite it all this is what my statement said it said regarding Yaki um I am sorry that I do not have the mental energy to pull a put a full statement together so I'm just going to keep this brief as you probably know Yaki was a close friend of mine however that does not dismiss how she treated all these brave people who have come forward and demonstrated a pattern of behavior from her that I will no not support I have read all the statements presented so far but it will take a while for me to truly process them given how close I was to her despite that let it be known that I do not condone this behavior I'm sorry that I do not have more to say to sign off I will no longer be working with Yaki in any capacity and she will never be featured in any of my content on any of my channels going forward please be kind to each other and just like that everything Yaki had built the connection she made The Branding she crafted the budding fan base she just barely began to cultivate was washed away as the one person who was set to cement her career as a content creator disavowed her kind of ironic considering she weaponized her connections with Alfred to her others this is quite literally the textbook definition of reaping what you sow Alfred's statement served as the final person of note to add to the conversations surrounding Yaki and the allegations that came forward during the time being the punctuation to the discourse alphared stream was the final nail in the coffin but the coffin for yaki's career as a content creator was fully buried when she deactivated her Twitter and Instagram accounts sometime either late on June 26th or early June 27th Yaki might have had a slight chance to make a comeback if she was lucky enough but purging her Twitter that had over a 100,000 followers at its peak has sealed her fate while her YouTube and twitch Pages remain up it's likely they won't see much activity at least not in the foreseeable future maybe she might be biting her time to make a comeback perhaps she intends to Rebrand to give the V tubing thing another shot but in all likelihood this is probably where Yaki ru's story ends what else can be said about Yaki at this point the controversy that erupted on Twitter was a complete spectacle in and of itself admittedly it's a bit of a you just had to be there situation but the controversy spread so disproportionately far and wide that everyone across the internet even people outside of yaki's community were putting in their two cents often at how taken aback they were at the sheer scope of the controversy and some of the things said perhaps is indicative of a larger phenomenon but what I can say for certain is that everyone present was in awe at the utter catastrophe that unfolded I mean 11 Google Docs 11 in the grand scheme of things Yaki is far from the most Sinister person online but you have to be a seriously shitty person to have so many people not only have something worth writing a Google doc about but actively be willing to write it to begin with even the most genuinely rancid and [ __ ] up individuals can't lay claim to that but I for one I'm glad that everyone came forward to talk about their experiences with Yaki I know that a lot of you out there have grown weary about what feels like constant controversy and allegations coming out about different creators it can really suck to see someone whose content you enjoyed turn out to be a genuinely loathsome human being or just hate how often things like this happen it's become a okay what has this person done this time type of song and dance but the way I see it I'd rather have the truth come out than have it be suppressed so it doesn't go public that's truly the dichotomy that we face as viewers would you prefer to have the truth come out no matter how insightly it may be or would you rather go on not knowing the truth may seem obvious but we're never aware when the choice is made after all it is not us that makes the choice because when you have a shitty track record as extensive as yaku ru's it's inevitable that everything would come crashing down now we're just looking back in hindsight as the name Yaki Ru turns into nothing more than a distant memory left behind but if there's one thing worth remembering it's the award alphared gave her