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Friday, December 15, 2023

SIN*SKI's Sordid Past

Original date: December 20th, 2020

Please don't go and attack SIN*SKI/Moarin/Solisoli, as she changed from her past and became a Twitch streamer, and has moved on for good. This is a journal to let anyone know about SIN*SKI/Moarin/Solisoli's origins and her days as an VOCALOID producer and Virtual YouTuber, but I'll not be referring to her by her name but rather as her aliases SIN*SKI during her VOCALOID era up into the Kyamjya controversy that'll be explained in an another journal, Moarin for her VTuber era and Solisoli for her current life after she retired as Moarin. Anyways, I'll talk about her early online presence and VOCALOID days first. 

In 2012, while in high school, SIN*SKI made her online presence on a now-defunct website called CreCrew (크리크루) (if you didn't know, it was a Korean video-sharing website that was created by the makers of SeeU and which focused on the Korean VOCALOID fandom, which lasted from 2011 to 2013) as an talented VOCALOID producer, and is notable for making songs using mostly SeeU and Camui Gakupo, with the latter being used for the Japanese arrangement of one of her popular songs, and even made two albums throughout her career, all of which were sold at a now-defunct doujinshi convention called Cake Square, which was cancelled in 2017. However, most of her songs can still be watched on Niconico, but the YouTube versions were kept private, even to this day.

In May 2016, an controversy over Kyamjya's high school bullying spread like wildfire around Twitter, and as a result, there was an separate controversy that resurfaced, this time of SIN*SKI, who also attended the same school as her, also bullying the others in school as well. When this controversy happened, she acknowledged being the bully and apologized on Twitter for her actions, before retiring from VOCALOID afterwards.

2 years later, SIN*SKI came back as an indie Virtual YouTuber named 모아린 (Moarin), whose livestreams focused on video games, artworks, and small talks like drinking mukbang and dirty jokes and not to mention, she often interacted in the VTuber gallery on DCinside, and since she was an talented artist since her SIN*SKI days. As her fans increased, at the same time, there were antis, also due to her generosity and the mixed reception of her livestream styles, which led to the tension between the users and the fans.

After the incident, Moarin was met with negative response and the strained friendship between the veteran users of the VTuber minor gallery, which got even worse as VTubers who were generous to her like Project Paryi (which got disbanded in April 2019)'s Alice Mana and Ena was also met with negative response, but that didn't stop them from creating their own VTuber agency named 541 E&C, whom I'll be referring to as 541, with Goblin (also a DCinside user, and changed their names to Lotamo after founding and joining 541 E&C), Kaen and Lucia. 

At first, 541 consisted of 6 members, and most of their profile pictures, character designs and images were drawn by Moarin, which were met with a negative reception even though most of her artwork are awesome. Not to mention, Alice Mana and Ena's initial character design were made by their initial character designer Paryi, while Lotamo made his character design himself as Goblin. However, despite that, most of her artwork are awesome, but it was considered ugly, and unfortunately gave her a negative reputation, which she always had since her SIN*SKI days.

Together, 541 participated in Seoul Comic World on August 2019 where they sold their merchandise, which was met with backlash since Moarin broke her promise of quitting doujinshi activities all together. Later on October of the same year, Lotamo retired from being a VTuber because of his health concerns and the agency's music composer Lorou was hired to join the agency itself, with three members, Han Chiho, Baekyeon and Mo Gaon following suit, joining the agency one month later. 

2 months later on December 2019, there was an upcoming male VTuber located in between its existing talents, named Vina (비냐) but his debut was cancelled due to the company behind the VTuber agency NIJISANJI, ANYCOLOR (Ichikara at the time of the writing this in 2010) entering the Korean market, forming the now-merged NIJISANJI KR, with 4 1st gen members joining and livestreaming at the same time and a month later, 541 merged into NIJISANJI KR, with the remaining members going into the Korean branch, which increased by 6 members (which included Moarin herself, Mo Gaon, Lorou, Kaen, Baekyeon and Han Chiho) even without an VTuber audition being held, to the dismay of the first-generation NIJISANJI KR talents.

Surprisingly enough, Alice Mana, Ena and Lucia didn't join NIJISANJI KR, as they were considering to retire from being VTubers for personal reasons, and Ena refused to talk about the matter, and didn't tell Moarin about their reasons for retiring as a VTuber. 

Unfortunately, someone posted an now-deleted allegation on the site that Moarin was SIN*SKI, which led to users knowing about that on other DCinside galleries and sites like Ruriweb and Twitter, in which 6 days later, Moarin made a throwaway Twitter account to post an apology and uploaded an apology video on YouTube. The next day on February 28th, she went live on Twitch where she explained everything throughout her last stream, before quitting NIJISANJI KR and retired from her VTuber activities.


5 days after she retired from VTubing activities, Moarin came back as 솔이솔이 (Solisoli) on Twitch, thus was able to reveal her real name and face for the first time, even though she physically appeared in her sister's livestream, wearing a white hat, back in September 2019. Since then, she broadcasted for about 9 months on the platform, and her last broadcast was on November of the same year, and her last video on the platform was her playing an obscure game called Crazy Arcade, which launched in 2001 in Korea but unfortunately was shutdown in North America in 2011 a year after it launched there back in 2010.

Recently, on December 12th, 2020, Solisoli posted a very long community post about why she hasn't livestreamed on Twitch for an month and turns out, she gave up on her livestreaming career and now works as a game developer the whole time, reflecting on her actions, and turns out, last time I checked on her YouTube channel, she made a livestream public on her channel, taking to account that she last streamed on YouTube back in April 2020.

Half a year later, on March 2022, there was a short-lived VTuber named Irua that was beloved by the global Blue Archive playerbase but hated by the Korean playerbase. Here's her only video:



If you know about the sad story behind this VTuber, here's a summary.


Irua was promoted as a part of Blue Archive's VTuber marketing campaign, which has been already done with the Japanese server with an NPC character named Arona. 


The reason why Irua was hated by the Korean playerbase is because the developers had allegedly used their money to make her project instead of fixing the game for them, her character designs doesn't fit within the game's setting and the poor art quality of her Live2D model, and honestly, I think that the playerbase themselves are at fault in the first place since they overreacted over a VTuber in the first place. 

Apparently, a Korean company under the name of PLUMVERSE was outsourced by the developers to make this video and the talent behind Irua was compared to Moarin by the Korean playerbase only for Blue Archive's producer to shutdown the rumors on Twitter, saying that she has nothing to do with the talent herself. On the other hand, PLUMVERSE went bankrupt 3 months after the controversy, following an major conflict involving one of its talents following a Discord leak, but that's another story.

Monday, December 11, 2023

What Happened to Yokai Planet Clarice?


There was a short-lived Japanese mobile game which was marketed as a MMORPG game that was shutdown 2 months after its initial release (which is an extremely short lifespan for an MMORPG), and since there weren't any English articles that cover this game, I will be writing about what happened to this game, but before that, if you don't know anything about this game, I highly recommend watching some videos covering this game before explaining it to you.




Alright then, let me explain to you what kind of game is this.

Yokai Planet Clarice (妖怪惑星クラリス) was a short-lived free-to-play mobile game originally scheduled to release in late May 2017, but was delayed to December 2017, made by the Japanese company Kola Entertainment for iOS and Android devices. It had an interesting concept of an planet whose human population are infected by a DNA virus and they were called "Yokai" by the humans on Earth, preventing them from going back to the earth.

The game's battle system consisted of Puzzles and Dragons-style puzzles in which you had to randomly use your characters and swipe the correct tiles to fight against enemies, and despite that, the developers are usually generous to the players, which is unusual for a MMORPG game, and allowed them to write scenarios in the game, and some of the game's scenarios were written by the others who were friendly to the players as well.

That's all I have to explain about this game is for those who didn't know about it, and here's how it began.

The Twitter account for the game has been created in February 2017, with weird Japanese texts and interesting character designs, and with the intent that the game will be released in May of the same year. The character designs were interesting and creepy at the same time, and the storyline, which sounded cool on paper, but not for some players.

The videos promoting this game were uploaded on both YouTube (which was taken down along with the channel itself) and Niconico, and the developers put out a poll suggesting the name of the one of the characters, and their Twitter community manager Kola (コラ), notorious for her horrible Japanese writing and unfamiliar with Japanese internet culture, had been scolded by the company themselves, posting an apology tweet and never learned her lesson, as she continued to create Twitter polls in the style of the monster with a obscure name.

For example, there was a female character with a rose for her head, donning a kimono was given a weird name and another character that resembles Pikotaro with his head being a cat, whose name was incomprehensible to the point I have a hard time pronouncing it. What the hell was their Twitter community manager thinking? The game became a meme of itself, and the characters were merely plagiarized, as its mascot character's face was stolen from another game character.

However, this game was scheduled to be released in May 2017, but was delayed to June and the closed beta test began on August of the same year, which unfortunately caused an incident in which there was a mistake with the email, leaking their email addresses to the closed beta testers, thus giving the developer a negative reputation. Eventually, the game was finally released in December 2017 for both iOS and Android devices.

However, it was released contrary to what the users had expected, and it gained positive reviews for allowing scenarios written by the players, being generous to the players and their unique gacha system, but failed to attract other players and however only attracted a few number of players. Upon its release, one of the characters have their name change and people were skeptical.

In the game, players were usually said to be together with an another if they're in the same server, and interacted with each other from day one, and there's an NPC named Clarice, in which the player can talk to her and go on quests through her, but there's an option on the menu, so they don't have to go through her. There's nothing else on the map, except that there are buttons you can touch at the bottom on the screen.

Not only that, there were three types of chat tabs in this game, unlike many other MMOs, which offers more than three chat tabs. The world chat was always accessible from any location the player is in no matter what quest they are in, and the field chat doesn't keep any logs and is barely used in the game. The management chat allowed you to directly communicate with the developers, in which one player asked them to give them diamonds for their birthday and afterwards, many players begged for free diamonds from them.

However, the developer was overly sensitive and put the word "運営(Unei)" as banned words in the game, so the players had no choice to write the word in romaji "UNEI". In addition to that, the game's main currencies are diamonds and coins, in which the former is a premium currency and can be exchanged for the latter in order to buy story quests and premium scenarios, which sounds like a pay to win moment. However, the premium currency can be obtained through login bonuses and as rewards for clearing quests, but free diamonds can't be exchanged for coins.

Although there were arguments, the developer somehow managed to gain a small number of audience and continued to operate the game, but were unprofessional due to the players pointing out a lack of salesmanship, as they were generous to the players by eliminating pay to win elements, which sounded like a good choice, and according to their Niconico livestream, the company's name was derived from the phrase "I love Koalas (コアラが大好き)" and the name of "Clarice" was derived from the main character of Silence of the Lambs, and they even announced a crowdfunding campaign, whose original video was uploaded on both YouTube and Niconico, featuring a young woman, whose face was censored by using a character from the game itself, who talked about the project, which according to her, started in 2015, and she showed us her plans on how could the game be improved.

Sadly, this game only lasted for two months, as they announced on Twitter that it was shutdown in February 23rd, 2018, with their servers and website shutting down in less than a hour, without a notice from the developers about the game shutting down, in which some of the game's writers declared that they didn't know about the shutdown and have asked the developer about their salaries but didn't get a response from them, and combined with the crowdfunding campaign, suspicion of the company themselves running away with the money and them being scammers arose. 

Some of the staff were outraged and the players as well, because one of them asked for refunds from them. Around that time, there was a crowdfunding campaign for the game on CAMPFIRE (a Japanese crowdfunding site) to develop new features for the game, which exceeded its goal of 100,000 yen (equivalent to 935 USD and 761 euros at the time of the game's shutdown in 2018, in which as of modifying this article in 2023, is equal to approximately 684 USD and 630 euros), and they weren't informed about the shutdown and were outraged at the situation, and damage was already done, as they weren't any notice about in-app purchase refunds, and there were plans to revive the game on Twitter, but the tweet was later deleted in less than an hour.

The reason why this game was suddenly shutdown was because the employees involved in the project quit the company, making it difficult for them to operate the game on their own and they'll delete the crowdfunding page on CAMPFIRE and refund the money to the backers. 

2 days later, one of the writers' salaries were paid and in less than a week, the money the backers spent on the crowdfunding campaign was eventually refunded, thus ending the CAMPFIRE incident. 2 weeks later, Yokai Planet Clarice was eventually delisted on Google Play and the iOS App Store. A few months later, on July 2018, a company called KBK Labo got the intellectual property rights of the game and took over its Twitter account through a transfer but was cancelled and deleted the Twitter account on January 2019, thus ending this game as a whole.

That's all I have to say about this game. If you have any more information about this game, let me know in the comments.

Monday, November 13, 2023

The Yandere Simulator Dev Predatory Scandal

Original date: October 2nd, 2023

I originally posted this on Tumblr, but since it didn't gain enough attention, I'll be posting it on DeviantArt instead. Please note that this journal is meant to report on insights based on allegations and is not meant to harass anybody involved in the situation.

Please note that this journal is meant to report on insights based on allegations and is not meant to harass anybody involved in the situation.

Remember the game called Yandere Simulator, who most of you may have been familiar with for being notorious for being in development hell for almost 10 years since 2014, when it began to be covered by many popular YouTubers, and multiple personalities alike back in the day? 

Back then, I was just starting elementary school at the time and I used to play that game before on my old computer a few years prior to its death in September 2020, but I was eventually discouraged from it by my parents so I completely forgot about it for 3 years.

That is, until one day in July 2020, one of its official subreddit, who I used to join and had since left, had been taken over and hacked by someone on Kiwi Farms, which has been one of the few times that made my day on Reddit better.

3 years after this incident an old friend of mine that I had since 2015 decided to post a temporary YouTube community post exposing the developer's actions the other week and has since disappeared.

Recently, there have been scandals towards the original creator of Yandere Simulator, who had been controversial for the fact that he had been notorious for refusing any useful advice from people online, and doing no effort to change his own life since prior to his years posting on Gaia Online, whose former longtime users had enough and were all sick and tired of his actions, and had been preying on underage users for a while, even before he started to groom someone named Sisefs, otherwise known as "Victim Zero", who was 14 back in 2009 and is currently in their late 20s, to the point they treated them like trash.

I wasn't surprised this happened for over a decade, as this person just recently came back to write on their Tumblr blog a few days ago and someone got in touch with them through a YouTube video that I highly recommend also watching below, which has sadly since been taken down by YouTube due to it violating their TOS, and has since been reuploaded on Rumble that you can watch by clicking the link.


Recently this year, undeniable evidence consisting of conversations and calls, revealing the proof that the original creator of the game had preyed on an underage fan of the game, who he had known for 7 years since 2016, and is only referred to by the game's former fanbase as "Jelly" and "Jane" but whom I'll be referring to as "Victim A", who is about 4 months older than I, had resurfaced online last week.

Not to mention, the creator not only pressured Victim A into the point he threatened them, but had doxxed them and committed identity fraud by using their real name to take down Ally's video through a fraudulent copyright takedown, and thankfully the video has been reinstated for now thanks to Victim A's help. 

Here's Ally's video regarding the matter that I recommend watching:

Additionally, this resulted in most of the game's volunteers, including the voice actors of the characters of the game, several game artists, and a third-party developer, known for developing the game Dark Deception, who decided to no longer sell the Yandere Simulator DLC for their game, and the rest of the people involved in the game's development from day one, cutting ties with him, according to a Reddit post.

I checked into the original creator of Yandere Simulator's blog, and from what I've heard, the posts were incomprehensible at all, as they started to victim-blame their own victims while playing the victim card, so to me, they're untrustworthy towards underaged fans of the game, unforgivable and isn't willing to change at all due to their predatory behavior towards minors, I'll no longer be supporting the game and the developer themselves for good, in solidarity of the victims involved in the situation, especially to Victim Zero and Victim A. 

Anyways, here's a message to all victims of said creator, if you're reading this, I wish you all good luck in your future endeavors and make sure to stay away from that predator as far as possible. 

And for more information regarding this situation, I highly recommend watching these two videos above and keep in mind that I'll be updating this with more information as I can find from other people.


UPDATE (as of October 30th, 2023):

Anyways, from what I've heard, the original creator of Yandere Simulator was lying to their fans on their WordPress blog post and at one point there was a comment on YouTube that stated that they pretended to be an concerned fan online and played the victim card by using autism as an excuse but that doesn't mean that they are a predator and criminal, taking to account that their main target audience were mostly people aged between 11 and 34 years old as of October 2023.

It doesn't help that the age of consent in California, where they live, is 18, but how come hadn't they surrendered themselves to the police yet? It seems unlikely.

Apparently, it seems that their Discord account had been disabled, and as of recently, their Twitch account had been banned that evening after the allegations came to light, which turned out to be a permanent ban according to a Twitch partner on Twitter, and not to mention, Yandere Simulator has been banned on the platform since 2016, for having questionable content involving its supposedly underage characters, who are assumed to be middle school students, based on their school uniform, and thankfully, there's a comic on Reddit that I recommend reading, which summarizes everything that's going on about the situation right now.


UPDATE (as of June 20th, 2024):
Another victim has come forward on Reddit, posting their experience with this person on the r/Osana subreddit as well as the evidence detailing his predatory behavior towards them on a Google Drive folder that I recommend reading.

UPDATE (as of July 22nd, 2025):
It's been almost 2 years since the allegations were made public.

I checked out the Google Drive folder that was linked on Ally's other video covering the situation that was posted 4 months prior to the last update.

From what I can find on the Google Drive folder, Victim A was revealed to be an abuser, who put herself in dangerous situations by teaching other minors how to extort money from child predators on Discord, not to mention blackmailing them and having a long history of interacting with those predators.

Honestly, after seeing her sordid past, I hope Victim A reflects on her own actions before it's too late.

UPDATE (as of August 8th, 2026):
After the allegations came out about the predator in question, he made a now-privated video basically featuring himself where he basically denied being the perpetrator and played the victim card in front of his viewers.

Almost 3 years later, he made a now-deleted comment on a YouTube video where he was completely denying the allegations that were made against him and thankfully someone managed to screenshot it before he took it down.

Little did he know, the person who made the video he commented on called him out in their YouTube community post below and turns out they were right about him:

Please note that while I completely lost interest in this game for unrelated reasons from his predatory behavior towards minors that I found out about 6 years ago, I do not support his actions in any way, shape or form.

Also, to YandereDev, if you're reading this, you are nothing but a danger to women, especially young girls who you basically admitted to be hitting on in the past.

Right now, my only hope for you is to turn yourself in to the cops and make sure that you stay away from all women ever again.

What Happened to the Kidmo Affair?

Original date: March 2nd, 2022

Remember the controversy that involved an talented artist whose art is mainly inspired by those realistic female characters shown in the Korean MMOs Vindictus/Mabinogi Heroes, Black Desert Online and Lost Ark as well as being similar to SakimiChan's art? 

Well, if you didn't know, Kidmo was an talented artist who has a passion for drawing and notorious for drawing NSFW art, in which I wouldn't show you due to DeviantArt's policy towards adult content, but I'll show you some of his SFW art before talking about how his career went downfall. 

Apparently, prior to the controversy, which will be the main subject of this journal, he was an established YouTuber on his own right who taught people how to draw art and was good friends with other YouTubers, who later cut ties with him due to the incident.


Back in November 2020, South Korean news outlet Yonhap News posted an news article and uploaded a video on YouTube titled "'19금 일러스트' 그려서 연봉 5억 번다고? (lit. Saying that you made 500 million won a year by drawing NSFW?)", with an image of Kidmo's art, along with a screenshot from his KDA Ahri speedpaint video, in which the finished art is currently his profile picture.


Not only that, 2 months prior to Yonhap's video, an underrated Korean channel dedicated to Dungeon Fighter Online which is also known as Dungeon and Fighter in Korea, uploaded a video about the incident which became the most popular video on that channel.

In addition to these two videos, Kidmo mainly uploads his own videos through his YouTube channel, which hasn't been updated since June 2021, so here are some of his videos before giving you a proper summary.


How was these three videos? Anyways, without further ado, here's a summary of the incident.

Kidmo found out that his art was stolen without his permission by someone on a piracy website and asked them to take it down only for them to reject his request unless the original copyright holder can only request their works to be taken down.

In the end, Kidmo decided to prove to the piracy website that he was the original copyright holder of his art by registering the copyright for it with his personal information only to get in trouble for violating the Act on the Protection of Children and Youth against Sex Offenses last year. 

In addition to the trouble, the reason I think was because the characters in his art were considered minors by South Korean law.

Anyways, in addition to his art which mainly consists of fanart and realistic women and comics, Kidmo drew art for three Steam games called Wish Paradise High, Secret Pie and Secret Series: BJ, all produced by the developer Momentum Games. 

A month prior to his disappearance, Kidmo posted his last Patreon post where he gave his patrons game activation keys to Wish Paradise High and instructed them on how to put the keys on the Steam client which will automatically install the game on their computer.

Additionally, to make matters worse, there were also leaked KakaoTalk screenshots of him allegedly committing tax evasion and making disparaging comments about job applicants and college students, and currently, the tax evasion situation is under investigation as of writing.

Apparently, Kidmo came back on April 28th, 2022 and uploaded an new artwork while at the same time deleting his NSFW art from his Pixiv and Twitter accounts as well as taking down his Patreon and Gumroad pages. 

However, the NSFW art in question still remains on his account on here, Newgrounds and other platforms to this day. 

Not only that, he posted an fanart of Yor from SPYxFAMILY taking a blood bath 3 days later, with an DC Inside user getting their comment deleted from the Pixiv comments of the post in the same day as well as the post getting deleted after. 

There were also 2 posts related to the situation on DC Inside, with OP posting a screenshot of the results they found on the Korean criminal justice portal website with their phone and along with posting a screenshot of their KakaoTalk texts in the first post along with a second one in which OP sent a screenshot dating back to February 2022.

Apparently, Kidmo came back to post two fanarts for a obscure Japanese mobile game called Yggdra Resonance in a single week, which looks great, but sadly, he posted a message implying his return and since then there have been no updates from him afterwards.

UPDATE (as of April 8th, 2023):
Since it's been a year since the persecutor for the case involved were changed, there have been no updates on the trial whatsoever and we have no updates from both parties involved, to this day.

UPDATE (as of November 13th, 2023):
2 weeks ago, Kidmo recently posted a new fanart, this time of Ahri from League of Legends, on his pixiv account and started livestreaming and uploading on YouTube a year after he stopped uploading videos there in 2021 and his final video and post was yesterday.


Not to mention, according to his livestream, Kidmo was sentenced to 3 years of prison, community service, 4 years of probation, along with the money he earned from his Patreon and Gumroad accounts and the hard drive being seized.

UPDATE (as of February 21st, 2024):
It has been almost 2 years since this journal has been written. After a 2-year disappearance, Kidmo finally came back on November 2023, posting an new fanart of Ahri from League of Legends, on his pixiv account, and going live days later. 

Turns out, according to his livestream, he was sentenced to three years in prison and a four-year suspension along with the money he earned from both his Patreon and Gumroad accounts being seized, which turned out to be most of his fortune, according to him.

Not to mention, in his livestream, he told the story about what happened a few years ago, and mentioned that after his house got raided by the police, he was forced to sort the files, which was worth four terabytes to determine the way he had drawn, before claiming that he was on vacation and was later treated as if he turned himself to the justice.

While in trial, he claimed that the prosecutor who was in charge of his case asked for a three-year prison sentence for an another individual when the judge actually sentenced the individual to a year and a 2-year probation, (taking account that in South Korea, rape isn't punished this severely), while also claiming that the said prosecutor asked for a five-year prison sentence, ten years of disclosure along with the seizure of his house when the judge actually sentenced him to three years in prison, community service, a restriction on job offers, four years of probation, a sexual assault treatment class, the seizure of his house and fortune, and to make matters worse, his appeal was denied even though he primarily drew fictional characters and the individual who the prosecutor of his case was in charge of, got away with rape scot-free.

The main reason as for why Kidmo hasn't made a public statement, was because he was in the middle of a trial, and after the trial was over, he made an constitutional complaint and claimed that the content of the KakaoTalk screenshots was fake while the contents couldn't be released because the chat in question got nuked, and that's because the person who was saying about the derogatory remarks never said anything, so its authenticity is unknown.

On the other hand, 3 months after his return livestream, Kidmo's YouTube livestreams were being mass reported for no absolute reason, so he announced that he'll be livestreaming on CHZZK, which was created by NAVER as a refuge for Korean streamers after the announcement that Twitch was ceasing operations in South Korea, but unfortunately, his stream was cut short thereby after and his beta tester rights were revoked, due to CHZZK's policy of banning streamers who have a criminal record, in similar fashion to Twitch's off-service conduct policy, and he announced on his YouTube community post that he was permanently banned from the platform and decided to move into an another platform to livestream.


UPDATE (as of November 25th, 2024):

It's been 9 months since Kidmo stopped posting content on social media, including both his YouTube and AfreecaTV channels.

Eventually, his first trial was made public through Namuwiki, and turns out, the final verdict on the first trial was that the court sentenced him to 3 years in prison, a 4-year suspended sentence, attend 40 hours of sexual assault treatment classes, 480 hours of community service, along with a 3-year ban on working in youth-related organizations and welfare facilities for people with disabilities, and a fine of 200 million Korean won (equivalent to 191K USD) that he has to pay, after his computer and external HDD got seized.

However, he tried to appeal for the first time, only for his sentence to be upheld and this led to him appealing for the second time, which led to it being reversed and the sentence being affirmed, with his arguments being rejected.

At least things are going well for him in the end.


It's been a year since Kidmo stopped posting content on social media. 

UPDATE (as of March 20th, 2025):

Recently, earlier this year, he's finally back with new art for his new game on his Twitter and pixiv account, and thankfully, he's alive and doing okay the whole time, as a new game featuring his own art was launched on Steam by Momentum Games, which was the same company, whom he outsourced most of his art to and worked with on their previous games Wish Paradise High and the first two installments of their Secret Pie series, and is planned to release within Q1 2025.

Unlike his other games, this game in particular, Streaming ON! VTuber Training, actually has an interesting premise of the two leads starting a new VTuber agency from scratch after a betrayal, but sadly, it contains AI-generated content, as shown on the female lead's VTuber chibi portrait, along its involvement within some of the backgrounds and the NSFW scenes.

In this game, the player plays as a male lead, who starts a VTuber company, consisting of several well-known streamers, but everything came crashing down on him after he lost his job, money and home all thanks to Bitna's false accusations, and thankfully for him, he actually has people who are still on his side, including the female lead Hanna, and together, they both created a new company with the goal of making her the most successful in the entire industry.

Not only that, Kidmo also commented on a YouTube video, confirming that he was being investigated for violating the said law even though there were no victims involved and that the uploader was right the whole time, as he was found guilty in the first trial and appealed several times to Korean court only for them to be dismissed, in which he also said that his constitutional appeal is in progress, but the court refused to address his case and extended it for an indefinite amount of time.

5 years had passed since, and he's almost letting go of this situation, only to never return again.



The Rise and Fall of Anjeon Gajog (Safe Family)

Original date: September 30th, 2021

If you are wondering what happened to the webseries and want to know more about this series, then here's an explanation of what is Safe Family, otherwise known as Anjeon Gajog (안전가족).

Safe Family was a series of Korean videos created by the Korea Fire Service and was shown often on every schools in South Korea. The main characters of the series consists of Haengdong Kang (강행동), his parents Seonbong Kang (강선봉) and Haebi Jun (준비해), and his grandmother Joeon Myung (명조언). There are several supporting characters in this series, especially Haengdong's friend Yeongho and their teacher who has no other known name.

However, according to Namuwiki, there was a theory that Jahyung Gu (구자형) was the voice actor of Seonbong Kang but he debunked it by saying that he isn't the voice actor of the character, and it was assumed that Yeongho was voice acted by Jungun Yang (양준건), who was miscast as him but his mature voice is unsuitable for characters who are elementary school students.

Back in October 2020, the South Korean Ministry of Public Safety and Security took down the fanmade videos, fanart, meme videos and playlists except for the English dubs which was still left intact as of 2021.

Recently, since as of late 2020, YTP YouTubers are moving on making content out of other series like the Korean flash webseries Chocohana (초코하나) and the Korean manhwa and anime series Black Rubber Shoes, and their own original content like Safe Family.

That's all I have to talk about Anjeon Gajog. However, to the South Korean Ministry of Public Safety and Security, this is a journal to let anybody know about this series. Please do not take it down. Thanks.

What Happened to Kyamjya?

Original date: September 13th, 2021


Remember 캼쟈 (Kyamjya)/piyo/ppotatto? Well, since she has several aliases online, I'll call her Kyamjya in this journal.

Kyamjya is a 24-year-old artist who is known for drawing Cyphers fanart and the artist of the webtoon 그곳에 천사가 있었다 (Geugos-e Cheonsaga isseossda; lit. There was an Angel) which was serialized on the Korean niche webtoon hosting website KTOON (formerly known as Olleh Market Webtoon prior to August 2016) in early March 2016. She also has an amazing artstyle despite her flaws, which currently can be only viewed on her Tumblr account (which has been hacked by a third-party) and her Piapro account. Here's some examples of her art before we talk about her dark past.

Most of them are quite great, but I can't believe that this person has wasted her talent by doing something horrible 9 years ago. Here's how it all started:

In May 2016, an throwaway account exposed Kyamjya's past behavior on Twitter and they claimed that they were a student of the school she was attending. However, this account has posted videos (people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) please don't watch) and they told us not to reupload their videos anywhere so I will not show you guys their videos.

Anyways, while in high school at the time in 2013, Kyamjya, at the age of 16, along with the three other students, had bullied the students, who were about her age, by forcing them to call them upperclassman, wear black slippers, colorful clothing and Adidas-branded jerseys. If their victims disobeyed them, she'll often bully and force them to do a position, in which one of the female victims had to be hospitalized for an surgery that costed 3 million won (approximately 2,000 dollars and euro as of 2023). When the bully was suspended from the school, her parents also bullied her victims and called them names.

3 years later, now at the age of 19, Kyamjya wrote an apology message on Notepad and posted it on Twitter as well as posting an apology 9 days later on her Naver blog whom she have abandoned since 2016. 

However, the victim told us not to share personal information of the former high school students including Kyamjya herself, at the time so we'll not be sharing personal information of them to protect their privacy.

As the controversy was being widely talked about by netizens, they decided to boycott the webtoon Kyamjya worked on by sending its host multiple emails and customer support tickets, in which the writer (who was one of the two people working on the webtoon besides her) posted the end of the webtoon on its last page and she posted an apology about the end of her webtoon.

Not only that when she was underage, she also drew R-18 content, doujinshi, did a R-18 commission as well as underage drinking and doing low-quality commissions. It was also revealed that she also ran an Twitter account named Ellie's Diary whom she abandoned in January 2016 and is still up even as of today. 3 months after her controversy, there was an impostor that a doujinshi circle called out

3 years later, another throwaway Twitter account posted an document about Kyamjya, who used the aliases of PUNCHI and Masb (맛브) before and now going under the aliases of Gyoyangin (교양인) (who she later deleted after this expose was made) and another person named Vesa from their lawyer's advice as well as posting 5 of of the former's drawings. Lately, they have been responsible for cyberbullying others and according to the person who wrote this document, they have contacted the person who literally sold their account while Kyamjya (under the Masb aliases) was playing Mabinogi at the time and turns out, they revealed her real name.

Remember one time when Kyamjya/Masb deleted her other account just after there was a question on Peing (a Japanese question box website) that said "트친 중에 캄쟈가 있다면 어떻게 할 것이냐 (lit. What would you do if there were Kyamjya among us?)"? I'm sure that the throwaway account knew it.

In their conclusion, Kyamjya supported cyberbullying by leaking private KakaoTalk texts with others to Vesa. 

Anyways, prior to the cyberbullying expose, there was an traditional artist going by the name of Songjin Art, who did the same exact things as Kyamjya.

Unlike Kyamjya who mainly focuses on digital art, Songjin Art was an artist who focused on traditional art and got in trouble back in 2019 for being an radical feminist by offending men from her country of origin by referring to them with misandrist words. What's even worse is that she used a word made by users from a website created by toxic feminazis and plagiarized other artists like Meyoco and Rocoa as well as stock images without their permission.

In addition to the plagiarism, Songjin faked signing an contract with Disney and cyberbullied a foreigner who was a fan of Meyoco's art, only to delete her YouTube videos and disable her YouTube and Instagram comments as well as taking down her Instagram and Twitter accounts. However, from what I've seen, Songjin's YouTube channel, ArtStation, Reddit and Patreon accounts are still up even to this day.

UPDATE:

A Mabinogi fan posted on Twitter that they got sued by Kyamjya, who was now in her mid-twenties, and her friend Vesa, sending screenshots of the document, giving the proof that they were sued two times in 2021 and 2022 and sent a link to their Notion site, detailing most of the information about the lawsuit, and not only that, the person behind the throwaway account that was created in September 2021 was also sued as well, posting legal documents on their side, revealing that PUNCHI was Kyamjya's username in Mabinogi and describing the game itself, and explained about her past life and cited her school violence case on NamuWiki, which was even made worse by the fact that Kyamjya's reputation was already known on the entire Korean internet, even on Korean search engines and had lied in her complaint, and to end things up, the throwaway account asked that if she has anything to say about this situation, she can contact them directly or through their lawyer. Anyways, Vesa seems to know what Kyamjya's up to, and usually answers on her behalf, posting her KakaoTalk screenshots. 

Additionally, a Korean Mastodon instance named parfait.day, popular with Mabinogi players and fans alike, and one player warned that those, including Vesa and Kyamjya, and those who support their cyberbullying actions will be banned, as one of Kyamjya's friends have been banned from there as well.

To conclude into my analysis, Kyamjya is still alive, and in conclusion, after writing the document, the throwaway account apologized to the Mabinogi community and certain Twitter users, and thanked Kyamjya's victims and the petitioners, hoping that drama and the cyberbullying culture will end in that community. 

Not long after, Kyamjya created a Twitter account, this time as PUNCHI, calling out those who exposed her and sending KakaoTalk screenshots, along with a link to her document on Google Docs, only to get called out by the person behind the throwaway account for playing the victim card, and posted text describing her past.