Yeah, I really fell for it when I didn’t believe him from the start and asked for proof. It’s a pretty big deal that my response was, “oh really? Where/what is that?” instead of “REEE REEEE femboy RETARD femboy femboy LIAR”. But maybe that’s just a different methodology on my part that Chinese, SEA, and Latinx would not understand.
Take an extremely similar claim from the olden days, “IRyS used to do NSFW ASMR!!!” Ok, if someone makes that claim, and you don’t believe them, how do you respond? You have to see what their ‘evidence’ is in order to debunk it. You’d never know that they were actually talking about nightfawn(?) if you didn’t see their ‘proof’, so of course you have to request what they have, and I think that showing interest will make them more likely to show their ‘evidence’ rather than cussing them out.
It’s just shocking to me that so many of you think it’s weird to ask people to show proof for a claim.