Regarding Markiplier: why are so few people addressing the fact that asking (however jokingly, however indirectly) your (very loyal, very impressionable and largely underage) fanbase to send you topless pictures* is INCREDIBLY SKEEVY.
Maybe it was genuine naivety on Mark’s part, and maybe - hopefully - he’s learned since then, but he didn’t acknowledge it in his statement and it’s infuriating.
Hi guys! Thank you so much for all the support we’ve had regarding this blog and the masterpost. We are really glad to be helping the youtube community in whatever way we can.
Recently it has come to our attention that there are certain people who, in some people’s minds, do not belong on the list. We would like to address these issues now.
Firstly, this masterpost is not a sexual abuse masterpost. This is a masterpost to document people who have been accused of manipulative or problematic behaviour. This is in order to let viewers know about creators actions off screen. We recognise that some cases were isolated incidents or that things have changed but we believe that if a victim of this type of behavior is coming to us with a story to share we should try and share it.
Ifone post turned out to be a false claimand the poster comes back to us asking for it to be taken down we will remove a person’s name from the list.We are not the police. Although we try and fact-check as much as possible, it is a very hard task and so we are of the opinion to believe the word of the victim over the word of the potential absuer as, even if things turn out to be false, we did no harm by believing someone who might be in need.
It is at this point that we would like to take the opportunity to say that we get things wrong. And for that we can only apologise. So, please, do not take the masterposts word as gospel. The names of people listed are those who we believe have displayed problematic and manipulative behaviour. It is up to you to read the posts listed and make your own decisions about your own opinions. This is because every case is different and people have different thresholds of tolerance, as it were, to who they will continue to support or not.
We also recognise that, as every case is different, people have an issue with the masterpost not documenting that. So we are working to fix that. Beside every name in the masterpost, there will now be a short ‘label’ summary about what the person being accused has done. (WIP) The post is in chronological order of when we hear about the accusations. We feel that this is the best order to keep it in and we hope the addition of the summary labels will clear certain things up.
On a more personal note, we would like to ask that you keep this discussion to the blog ask box and, if necessary, to the email [email protected]. We try and keep the work that we do here separate from our personal lives and find it slightly intruding to get messages about this in our personal inboxes. This blog was created for a reason. We won’t deal with things sent to us personally. The discussion should stay here. It does say this in our FAQ but to reiterate, we never answer questions publicly (unless specifically asked to).
That’s all for this post. Once again, thank you so much for the support and to the other people helping to better the youtube community.
Suzanna Bobadilla: What is Callisto and how will it work?
Jessica Ladd:Callisto is a college sexual assault recording and reporting system. College sexual assault survivors will be able to go to their school-specific Callisto website, fill out a form online documenting their assault, and securely store their time-stamped record. They will be able to access their record again at any time. Survivors interested in reporting their assault can then receive a clear explanation of their reporting options and, if they wish, directly send their report to their chosen authority. Survivors can also elect to just store their record for now, but automatically report their assault to their chosen authority if someone else reports the same assailant.
SB: How will incorporating the experience and suggestions of survivors make Callisto a more effective tool?
JL: Callisto is built by survivors, for survivors. I myself am a college sexual assault survivor, and we have involved survivors throughout the ideation, design, and development process. We have conducted surveys, interviews, and focus groups with hundreds of survivors and advocates. Survivors help us decide on the branding for Callisto, the feature set, the graphic design, and the user flow. They help us to create a product that truly meets their needs and help them feel in control of the process.”
On January 13, 2015, Amazon.com Inc. announced it was partnering with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Woody Allen to write and direct his first television series for the company’s Prime Instant Video streaming service.
On February 1, 2014, The New York Times published an open letter from Allen’s adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow recounting the hideous sexual abuse she endured from her father at the age of seven years old and younger.
[Warning: the following paragraph contains graphic details.]
Farrow’s letter detailed routine inappropriate behavior, including Allen forcing her to “get in bed with him under the sheets when he was in his underwear” and “plac[ing] his head in [her] naked lap and [proceeding to] breathe in and breathe out.” She also detailed the time he raped her in the attic of her own home. All of these acts were hidden from her mother Mia Farrow, until, at the age of seven (following her rape), Dylan naively asked if Mia’s father had ever done similar things to her when she was a child, just to inquire if this was “normal.”
It wasn’t normal. And it’s not acceptable.
Allen was never prosecuted for his crimes. Following the NYT’s publication of Farrow’s open letter, on February 7 that same newspaper published a charismatic rebuttal by Allen denying any wrongdoing. His letter was intended to clear up the facts. The “facts” that Allen presented have since mostly been disproved.
Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer. It is ubiquitous and unavoidable. By associating with a known pedophile – not only doing business with him but celebrating him – Amazon is sending the wrong message to the world and to its customers.
We, the undersigned, are appealing to Amazon’s sense of decency. We are asking Amazon to honor the voices and lives of women, children, and all victims of sexual abuse. We want Amazon to cancel their proposed series written and directed by pedophile Woody Allen.
This is not Amazon’s first dalliance with pedophilia and pedophiles. In 2010 the company defended its right to sell a guide for pedophiles in its Kindle ebook store. “Let me assure you that Amazon.com does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts,” the retailer said when reached for comment. “We do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions.” However, following a nationwide call to action and resulting boycott of the company, the book was subsequently removed.
This time, it’s not about free speech or purchasing decisions. This is about Amazon itself publicly (and proudly) announcing its support and collaboration with a known pedophile. This is a vile and despicable decision, and we are demanding that Amazon reverse its partnership with Allen.
Those of us who are capable of escaping Amazon’s herculean grasp on the online retail market vow to boycott the company until this decision is reversed. No more purchases. No more subscriptions. No more credit cards.
In her open letter, Dylan Farrow describes the harrowing ordeal of having Hollywood and the world at large turn a blind eye to the horrors she endured. “Most found it easier to accept the ambiguity, to say, ‘who can say what happened,’ to pretend that nothing was wrong. Actors praised him at awards shows. Networks put him on TV. Critics put him in magazines. Each time I saw my abuser’s face – on a poster, on a t-shirt, on television – I could only hide my panic until I found a place to be alone and fall apart.”
She goes on, “For so long, Woody Allen’s acceptance silenced me. It felt like a personal rebuke, like the awards and accolades were a way to tell me to shut up and go away. But the survivors of sexual abuse who have reached out to me – to support me and to share their fears of coming forward, of being called a liar, of being told their memories aren’t their memories – have given me a reason to not be silent, if only so others know that they don’t have to be silent either.”
We believe Dylan and other victims of sexual abuse. We support them. And we won’t be silent.
Sincerely, The Undersigned
Hey guys, I just started this petition and I’d be really grateful if you signed/reblogged it. And, if you’re capable of it (I know a lot of people aren’t), I’m asking you to boycott Amazon until this partnership is cancelled. Let’s send a message to Amazon that protection, promotion, and celebration of known pedophiles isn’t okay, and that the voices of CSA survivors are heard and valued.
the bare minimum on how to be a decent human being concerning survivors and victims of sexual assault
our lives aren’t narratives to neatly apply moral lessons on
don’t tell anyone about our status as a survivor without our express permission - it doesn’t matter if you think its public knowledge. we deserve the right to know who knows and to dictat they kno
a sincere kind word at the right time will always be appreciated
let us control where and when the right time is though
no human is rational - survivors are entitled to be as irrational as any other human being, our failure to fit neatly into a narrative about recovery is not unique to us.
We had a great response to people interested in boycotting Alex Day’s London gig, but Goot is planning on playing in 14 different locations across Europe: Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, London, Parist, Utrecht, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Frankfurt, and Cologne. Details of specific tour stops can be found on Goot’s website.
If you – or someone you know – is interested in coordinating a protest at one of these locations, please CONTACT US (tumblr / twitter) un-anonymously ASAP. The tour starts in less than two weeks!
“Founded in 2013, Know Your IX is a national survivor-run, student-driven campaign to end campus sexual violence. Running on grassroots energy, we educate students across the country about their civil right to education free from sexual violence and harassment while also pushing policy and legislative change on the national level for better federal enforcement of that same right. Know Your IX fills the gap between the law on the books and survivors on the ground: we work to educate our fellow students about their rights and empower them to take action for safety and equality on campus; and bring students’ voices, experiences, and concerns to policymakers writing the next chapter in Title IX’s history.”
GREAT organization and a great resource for students - check out their website here
We had a great response to people interested in boycotting Alex Day’s London gig, but Goot is planning on playing in 14 different locations across Europe: Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, London, Parist, Utrecht, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Frankfurt, and Cologne. Details of specific tour stops can be found on Goot’s website.
If you – or someone you know – is interested in coordinating a protest at one of these locations, please CONTACT US (tumblr / twitter) un-anonymously ASAP. The tour starts in less than two weeks!
Conversations on Street Harassment often exclude Black Trans Women because we don’t view them as women& we see their bodies as inherently deserving of violence. We tend to see street harassment of trans women, not as gender based systematic violence, but as non-existent or inexplainable & unavoidable tragedy.
:::TRIGGER WARNING::: abuse, rape, drugs, pretty much everything terrible
Before I start, I want to say that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life. I understand that I am setting myself up to be attacked in more ways than has already been done to me. People may accuse me of lying and may try any tactic to protect him because they don’t know who he truly is. I will have to take the heat for being the first person to openly come out about this, though I am NOT the only one who has experienced the abuse from him. There are soooo sooo many of us. I know of some, I’m friends with some, and I’m without a doubt sure there are some I don’t even know about. It’s not my place to tell their stories. I can really only tell mine.
Throughout the five years of knowing him, I have been mentally and physically abused… by Toby Turner.
I first met Toby when I was working at E3 in June 2011. I had flown there from Georgia and he was doing a hosting gig. He added me on facebook and as I was returning home, eventually my number. We texted almost daily and Facetimed with each other. He kept telling me that I should move there and that he needed a female host for his new gaming show, so a month after E3 I had bought a new car and packed my stuff for LA. I didn’t know at the time but that would be the one of many broken promises.
-I was writing way too many details when I realized that I have WAY too many things to tell that happened in five years. So I’ll cut out the small stuff. I was being cheated on since day one. He would fluctuate between telling me we weren’t together, to saying we were. Once I started finding the evidence of other women, he would fluctuate between admitting he was cheating, then to saying he told me he didn’t want anything serious. Every time I would try to leave, he would tempt me with saying he was ready to come out about dating me now. He would say he was just worried about what the fans would say to me and all the hate I would get. But he never cared about that. When he started dating Olga, we were still dating. He told me that they weren’t real and it was just a show for subscribers and views. At the beginning I actually believed that. Then my gut feeling was going off like crazy and I realized I was just being weak. I stopped seeing him and started seeing someone else. Of course I kept getting texts that he missed me and that I was the one he wanted. Once I stopped seeing the other guy, we went right back to dating. On and off just as I now know was coinciding with Olga and his breakups. Or maybe the breakups were lies. Who really knows. I know this makes me look really dumb, but you have to understand how he makes women feel. It felt like a drug. I would try to date other people and I was so stuck and in love with him that no one ever compared. But I notice now how I was also being manipulated and forced. He thought it was a game to keep going when I would say No. He would grab me and try to tear my pants off and I would say No and pull them back up. So forcefully that they would tear. I still have my pants folded in the drawer that have ripped belt loops and holes in the crotch from him trying to tear his way in. I even headbutted him once bc I was starting to see another guy and did not want to be physical with him. But I was so scared of losing him that I would just let him win and have his way with me. He would call me his girlfriend, then if he found out I told someone I was dating him he would accuse me of trying to ruin his career and insult me.
2013 was when the drugs really started. I’m not going to get into too much detail with that, but this was when the abuse started getting very violent. By this time I was conditioned to always make sure he was happy and I had so many panic attacks and anxiety when I was with him because I never wanted to upset him. We were writing most of his parodies and songs together and then fighting when the “high” would start to fade. Everything was a bipolar mess. There was an incident where we met up for dinner (his classic line “wanna eat?”) and he was on drugs of course. I told him not to park in the 30min parking spot. He was immune to all rules in his mind (“im a god”) so he left it. Our conversation at dinner turned toxic. He said some girl was aborting his baby, I said years ago I had a miscarriage but would have had it. This caused him to get angry that I would have kept the kid. He called me stupid, a faggot, among other things. (FYI to this day he STILL calls me a faggot. He uses that term all the time and calls me names even when he is being “nice”) So I am upset and trying to stand up for myself but only making it worse. I’m sure I cried at some point. I was always crying. We leave the restaurant and low and behold, his Range Rover got towed. He is yelling and mad. We get a uber(taxi?) and go back to his place. By this time I am absolutely terrified and just trying to not make him more upset. He started punching things in the kitchen. He kicks his stove and I get out of the way as he punches the pantry door. It has a big giant crack in it. (He later covered it with a chinese new year calendar and made jokes on vlogs saying “how did this get here?”) I’m crying and he’s blaming me for stuff, and then I go and sit down on the beanbag chair he has in the living room. He starts screaming at me to get the fuck out of his house. I’m balling and crying and asking him why he is doing this to me and he is screaming at the top of his lungs that he hates me and to get the fuck out of his house and that he’ll call the cops. He grabs his phone and saying he’s calling the cops and I’m just crying and crying. He screams and asks me “did you hear what I said you stupid fucking dumb blonde?!” (he would always tell me he hated blonde hair) and so I stand up to leave. I’m hysterical and get in my car and I speed off to drive away and he jumps out in front of my car. Immediately saying imsorryimsorryimsorrycmere cmere… I’m crying and I stop the car and he pulls me into the house. I’m nothing but a hyperventilating crying mess and I’m having a panic attack and shaking, when he starts taking off my pants and saying shhhhhh. He sets me down on the end of the bed and starts having sex with me. The entire time I’m crying and mumbling for him to stop but he keeps saying shhh. After he’s finished, he pulls my pants back on and I turn to my side and keep crying. I honestly don’t remember if he cuddled me after. Maybe he did. Once again I was psychologically damaged and stuck around. I even dyed my hair brunette to please him. We spent valentines together. At this point I knew I had to find a way to get over him. I just didn’t know how. He was turned on every time I cried and he was always mean and insulting to me, so this was the pattern. Friends tried to intervene and I actually lost a few because I kept going back to him and they thought I was weak and an idiot. I was. I finally mustered the strength and told him we should be just friends.
Feb 26th, 2013. I came over to help him with something, I’m not sure what. My friend Alissa was having a party I wanted to go to and he kept telling me not to leave. I told him I had to go. He was being flirty and cute. I was conditioned to enjoy the tension and “game.” But I told him I was going. He asked if I would take a shot with him. Just one before I left. Yes, I know I should not have even said yes and taken a shot before driving. I am aware. But you have to understand, at this time drugs were running rampant in this house and I was so exposed to drug and alcohol abuse that I was just used to it. I said ok and took a shot with him. Instantly I knew something was wrong. At first I thought it was shitty vodka. I even asked what vodka it was since it was the worst taste I ever had. Then I saw his face… and I realized I knew what that bitter taste was. I asked him if he had slipped something in my drink. ::insert cute grin with gryphon voice denying it:: I asked a bunch of times and he denied. But I already knew the answer. I also knew that the people who die from mdma/molly have always been mixing it with alcohol. That both of those together are a DEADLY mix. That Toby is a drug addict and that the amount of drugs he put in my drink are far more than I will EVER be capable of handling. I start crying and telling him he’s going to kill me. Why would he try to hurt me. That he is selfish and that I am going to die because of him. This somehow gives him a moment of clarity or maybe it was just the drugs taking effect, but he admits to putting it in my drink. He tells me it was only just a little bit and it must have still been on the glass from when he used it. Then he admits fully to doing it. He starts crying as well and admitting he is a sex addict and drug addict and needs to get help. I am SO FUCKED UP at this point that I honestly don’t remember what happened. Did we have sex? Did we only talk? I’m not sure. All I know is at some point he is passed out cuddling me on his beanbag chair and I’m just staring straight ahead wide awake with anxiety. I literally feel like I am being held hostage and kidnapped. I don’t know this man. I want to escape but I am so fucked up that I cant leave. Once I feel like I can maneuver a car (the next afternoon), I drive home. I really shouldn’t have drove but I needed to escape him. I come home and my roommates are in the kitchen. They would be so mad if they knew I was still talking to Toby after the blatant rape, so I tell them that someone at a bar drugged me. They tell me to go to the hospital and I say I just want to lay down. I go in my bed and just start sobbing. I was fucked up on this drug for 3 days. I regret never going to the hospital. I regret never going to the cops for what he did. I honestly thought about his career ruined and I didn’t want to hurt him bc I loved him. How messed up is that? He had just tried to kill me. I knew I was too weak to go to the hospital, but I made sure to text him what he did so I would have evidence. So I would at least have a text proof that he drugged me. So he couldn’t turn around and deny like he always did. Like he denies ever dating me now. What’s messed up is the text he gave me before I texted the proof. “'twas fun”. Yeah. FUN. I wish I could say I stopped talking to him after that. But we all know that’s not true. He said he would change his ways and I took him back again. March 2, 2013, I go in his bathroom and see a black thong and condom in his trashcan. He’s in the other room gaming, so I walk in there and grab him by the arm and he’s shocked, but I take him to the bathroom where I have put the items on the floor and I push his face down towards it. His response??? “what?” 'WHAT?!?’ “yeah what?…so?” and I’m livid. I say ‘Who the fuck is she?’ He tells me “It doesn’t matter. You’ll never meet her.” I really wanted to destroy and break everything in his house on the way out, but I just grab my stuff and go. Done. Except not, bc I’m an idiot and I stay friends. The last time I ever have sex with him is Memorial Day of 2013. This isn’t by choice of course. This is a violent hate fuck after he thinks I am flirting with Max Landis at his (Toby’s) bbq party. Then of course I find out he was hooking up with another girl from the same party who is also a friend. The list goes on and on.
Mid to late 2013- He finally has a relationship with someone else. (By this time, they are known as “mains” in my circle of friends that know the drill). So luckily I can say I never slept with him after that. But things still were messed up because he would always try to use me to masturbate. Either do it in front of me or try to grab my hand to do it for him. It’s disgusting and i’m embarrassed but it’s the truth so whatever. I became “just a friend” and I really thought things were looking up. We started doing songs together, even though I was helping him write them throughout this whole time. But NOW I was included and he was actually letting people know we were friends! Yay. Gag. I wont get into the lack of payment for anything I did, cause that’s a separate issue. But I knew I was being used. I was just so happy to be included! Yay. Gag. He always strung me along and would wave that carrot of songs or gaming to get me to come back.
2014- He tells me we will perform Depressing Song at Playlist. I’m super happy bc we wrote it together and it was our “look how magic we are together” song. Once it gets close to Playlist time… he starts getting wishywashy like he always does. I ask him if we really are going to play the song because he never gives me a straight answer and he starts telling me he only has passes for Seth and Gabe and he doesn’t know. Then tells me he will only be doing standup. This is after I already have my flight and hotel. So now he all of a sudden doesn’t have a pass for me that he said he would have. So I decide to go anyways. My amazing friend gets me into playlist and I have a really good time even though I know the drill of if Toby sees me there, he will ignore me and I have to lie to fans and play along that he’s just sooooo awesome. He asks what I’m doing and I text him that I’m hanging with these other youtubers and he gets mad (and jealous) because I shorten their channel name and accuses me of acting too cool. I say they’re my friends and that’s just what I call them. He then texts a mutual friend and says something along the lines of, “April is on her high horse and I’m about to put her down.” The day of his performance, I tell another mutual friend that I just KNOW he’s going to play our song. She assures me he wouldn’t do that. I have Toby energy and we are super connected. I FEEL IT. I know he is. And he does… I’m going to admit to the internets, that I almost committed suicide. I was in the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. Worse than the cheating, the lying, the physical and mental abuse. I’m not sure why, but to deny me the very thing I created… to perform my song when it was my DREAM to be up there… That was worse than death. I was on a high balcony of my hotel, and the opportunity presented itself. Luckily I didn’t go through with it. I vowed not to talk to him. He didn’t get to use me in this new life. I spent all of 2014 getting constant texts from him. Some spamming, blaming, and attacking me, some saying he wanted to say sorry. Towards August I think, I started to respond. I have only seen him a few times since then. I saw him a few months ago in January at a friend’s birthday and though he was nice to me in person, he started flirting with my best friend and then was trying to text her to entice her to hang out with him. When I texted him to stop (bc hello we’re bffs and she’s gonna show me), the attacking verbal abuse was back again. He never changes. He’s still abusing and damaging women. There are women with stories similar to mine. He’s still playing his games of multiple girls at a time. Still asking hot chicks to game with him as a pick up line. I keep hoping maybe he has changed and I tried not to give the gory details to the women he tricks and fucks over. But I see he hasn’t. Two “mains” found out about each other just the other day.
Why did I tell such extreme detail of the worst parts of my life and about him? Because last night I was working and went to a Toys R Us and saw a Tobuscus toy in the isle. I started to cry and have a panic attack. I was supposed to be professional, but I couldn’t help it. I wanted to run up to the cashier and tell her that they are selling a drug addict rapist to children. They are selling a sexual predator and don’t even know it. But I know even if I did that, his toys would be out on the floor as soon as I left. Because people don’t now. Parents don’t know how terrible and toxic he is. How he hurts and destroys the best part of you. All they know is his funny voices and his characters. The back of the package called him a hero. I’m sorry but a hero doesn’t disrespect, abuse, rape, and drug women. He is not a hero. He is not a role model. He is a sick sick man.
Be a good friend. When your friend leaves an abusive relationship, delete/unfollow/unfriend their abuser. Don’t give them anymore activity. When they leave, leave with them. Be their support system. You cannot be neutral when someone was abused.
