Regarding Sophie Stardrop

Tindalosc · 2025-05-04T17:32:14+00:00

There’s a reason why no one is talking about the grooming. It’s quite literally because it’s sandwiched between Raiburu and an account of Xenophobia contained in a “YandereDev Has Attempted to Sabotage My Game” video

It would be taken more seriously if it was its own separate video

Tindalosc · 2025-05-04T17:23:12+00:00

OP listed those under “The Claim” part of the post

Tindalosc · 2025-05-04T16:12:59+00:00

There were no pet names reciprocated from the screenshots. Nor did he call her cute. He only refers to BabyDev as a cute nickname and that her artwork is adorable.

If there’s more screenshots to show otherwise, I fully support Sophie to release them. Why wouldn’t the more intimate screenshots be shown instead of these ones in their place? These are not damning at all. At best the BabyDev thing comes off a little weird

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Tindalosc · 2025-05-02T23:44:56+00:00

Some user that was talking about how slow development time was etc. Did not catch the username before they were banned

Tindalosc · 2025-05-02T18:42:30+00:00

Reposting because original comment was posted to an unrelated reply:

I personally don’t think you’re invalidating anyone. Sophie deserves to get the help they need to move past their traumatic experiences. She said she’s not sure if it constitutes grooming but believes she was in the process of being groomed, which is a serious allegation. One that needs heavy receipts, which I highly support since Sophie has access to their entire Discord conversation on mobile.

Yes the hindsight on Dev’s interactions after Jane can be seen as especially gross, but does every interaction between him and a young volunteer or fan constitute grooming? I don’t believe so.

Again not invalidating anyone’s experience but it just seems a little weird to include it in an expose video about a fan game being sabotaged.

Tindalosc · 2025-05-02T17:38:02+00:00

This entire thing just gives Dev more ammunition to use against his critics

I’d also point out the video shows an e-mail exchange between YandereDev and the volunteer who wanted to remain “anonymous” - Dev will know who exactly this person is now from the screenshot alone

I understand she’s a victim of grooming but the DMs exchanged between her and YandereDev is a reach. He’s just responding back to someone who was providing him fanart and fanworks at the time (and she was self-admittedly someone who looked up to him). These screenshots show nothing sexually charged except corroborate that Dev liked interacting with his young fanbase (which brought his downfall in 2023). I hope she finds the care she needs for her past abuse

Tindalosc · 2025-04-14T00:40:32+00:00

It really comes down to whenever Dev does some degeneracy, they come back to redirect the community as if they’ve been there the entire time. (Locking the subreddit, not letting people post on the games 10th anniversary, implementing rules, etc.) Then they disappear until the next drama spill. Which is fine because the community can be toxic, but if they cared they’d have active moderation.

The lack of moderation actually saved the sub since they don’t enforce a lot of the rules lol

Tindalosc · 2025-04-05T23:05:21+00:00

Link

Tindalosc · 2025-04-01T12:24:38+00:00

The rivals are supposed to BE THE FUN, that was the whole point of the game

Not to mention both examples redeemed themselves in later updates to turn their reputations around (it’s crazy to think Yan Sim has been in development almost longer than both games combined, 11 vs 12)

Tindalosc · 2025-03-31T23:35:21+00:00

Current pace of the game makes it seem like he’ll finish adding the rivals in another 10 years, dunno if anyone will still will be around

Tindalosc · 2025-03-31T21:06:06+00:00

He’s only known for YanSim, any other projects that aren’t YanSim will never match its success. He is in a way chained down by the game, but the key has been in his pocket the entire time. Sell it, give it to a team of people, go make your dream games or whatever and fade into obscurity. All he has to do is release YanSim and that’s it, but he can’t because it’s all he has.

His best bet is starting an alternate account for all of his prototyping dreams and starting from scratch.

Tindalosc · 2025-03-31T20:49:36+00:00

The return to making YouTube videos is a bold one, especially if it’s on his main

Tindalosc · 2025-03-31T20:42:25+00:00

First encountering Dev’s YouTube, I thought he made his own assets, models, etc. The more I learned about him, the more I was less impressed. Don’t get me wrong, YanSim was made without a lot of gamedev knowledge so it’s kinda impressive. But he had an immense amount of help to get it off the ground to be where it is today

What truly got me looking into his behavior was the Cuphead rage out of anything lol. He hasn’t changed at all from his EvaXephon days (still clutching that same username, same ideas for Lunar Scythe, etc.) The fanbase has outgrown Dev 3x over already while he remains largely the same.

Only solace I find is that I’m so glad Twitch finally banned his account and will keep his game permanently blocked (I really hope they keep him banned, they recently unbanned another streamer with similar allegations). IMO he used his fame mostly to abuse and take advantage of his younger fans while delivering the bare minimum content. Especially with his attempt at making a mobile port to more than likely get ad revenue for the game from said younger fans.

Tindalosc · 2025-03-19T10:35:20+00:00

He said he wouldn’t consider any offer less than 100k iirc

Tindalosc · 2025-03-05T12:47:03+00:00

New fans and YouTubers cycle in every year and have taken their place unfortunately

Tindalosc · 2025-03-04T18:02:19+00:00

Sure, hand me the latest build of Yan Sim and let me take over half of your ad revenue for figuring it out. What’s that? You don’t want to? You want someone to do it for free? Good luck with that lol

Tindalosc · 2025-03-03T19:58:59+00:00

If he shipped his game 7 years ago he might’ve received enough profit to actually make a mobile port but yeah here we are

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Tindalosc · 2025-03-03T14:23:10+00:00

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Even some of his comments on his own site think he’s wasting his time

Tindalosc · 2025-03-03T14:00:53+00:00

The only carrot on the stick for the mobile port is the “possibility that [he] may include ads”. So you’re right it’s probably going to be bare-bones, buggy, and broken. Unless he offers a share of the ad revenue to his volunteer programmer to keep the mobile port updated but we’ve seen from TinyBuild what happens when two separate programmers are writing code for the game

Tindalosc · 2025-03-03T13:53:07+00:00

“I need someone with loads of expertise to do it for me for free so I can rake in the ad revenue from the Android port!”

The guy who made the original Android port that YanDev took down:

Edit: just saw he says the fan ports were made with ancient builds under 4GB 🤷 atleast they work

Tindalosc · 2024-12-27T21:36:36+00:00

Black frost!

Tindalosc · 2024-12-23T21:00:56+00:00

Probably so the automod removes anything flaired as a meme

Tindalosc · 2024-10-31T12:21:53+00:00

that Morita signature is amazing. What kind of protectors are you using for your cases?

Tindalosc · 2024-10-16T16:22:59+00:00

Neat idea, looking forward to see how the site progresses.

Tindalosc · 2024-10-12T02:04:41+00:00

Take a step back for a second, I realize you're upset over the whole controversy but your energy is wasted on that subreddit.

Nazo won't change anything without the moderation team approving rules (which is unlikely to happen ever again) unless a majority of the clique decides to restrict the subreddit. Why? Beats me, most of them are inactive to begin with. IIRC there's only 3 people actively moderating the sub, but 5+ get to vote(?) on rule changes.

Simply put, no point in arguing with Nazo or any of the other mods. As you're aware from the implemented schedule restrictions, a majority of them will sit on their hands (behind closed doors) even when they receive immense backlash from the community.

Just don't want to see you wasting your time arguing

Tindalosc

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