Maybe posts like that are why.
Also, just posting DMs that obviously server no other purpose than to ridicule a person, makes you look like an asshole.
Proctor: I want vtubing talents to be comfortable chatting to me
Also Proctor: Hey, let me share my DMs.
what would others said about this? that the so called "trustworthy vtuber asylum owner that can handle vtubers" decided to just drop someone's DM because you dont like his attitude and debates?
Let me take this opportunity to address this directly, because it's a recurrent theme I've seen developing recently.
TVA is considered a kiwifarms-adjacent doxing forum. This is our public perception. Why would a vtuber want to contact me or by extension any of us? What would motivate them to do so? They would need to, at minimum, have A) completely perfect opsec*, B) agree with what we do, C) be willing to endure backlash from anyone who disagreed with B).
* Or just not care about it.
Who in the industry is like that? I personally can't think of anybody. It is critical to grasp that every single contact I've ever gotten in the industry has been despite me owning this forum, not because of it. Every single one of them, without exception, would like me more if I deleted TVA.
I tried to give people a chance to change that perception, and that ended when the vtuber who was willing to trust us and openly interact with us got harassed and had RL pictures demanded from them, then lied about for years afterwards purely as a way to get a rise out of me personally.
The truth is that the only vtubers who were ever interested in openly interacting with TVA under the terms TVA publicly set after that incident were A) severely mentally ill*, B) terminally stupid teenagers, C) a sociopathic alcoholic who likes to ask her 500$-a-month supporters to carve her name into their arms in VC.
* Much more so than even the norm for this industry.
That was it. It took me a very long time to grasp this fact, and I am completely to blame for not doing so sooner. I was an optimist, and I was wrong.
We are not the kind of people vtubers want to interact with. We dig into their backstories, we expose their PL information, we post their faces. I know many users would absolutely go so far as to post full dox material if I let them, which is one of the only lines in the sand that I've drawn. This stance has caused me intense personal stress and misery in the past two years. My determination to not censor this place has strained my relationships with people I deeply care about. But even though I object to some of the things that are posted here, sometimes very strenuously, I will not let them be taken down or removed.
No vtuber likes this. None of them appreciate your attentions. They would all, to a woman, prefer it if this place didn't exist. Even large amounts of posts about them can indirectly cause them misery and career issues by being known as 'that vtuber the doxers like'. The ones who believe as I do are like me, in that they believe in the spirit of free speech while still objectively, tangibly suffering from the consequences of their belief in reality, because bad faith actors will incessantly use their own standards to attack them without fear of retaliation.
So to sum things up; no, me leaking the DMs of a user is not going to tangibly impact my relationship with anyone in this industry.
Running TVA does not tangibly benefit my mental health, my finances, or my social life in any capacity. It will not make me a successful career, and it will not win me friends or allies in this space. But I will run it because I fervently believe that it should exist, that it is better than the alternatives, and that history will one day prove that tiny, insignificant acts of defiance to the mainstream censorship edifice made a difference in the fight against it.
That's all I have to say on the topic, thank you for listening.
