Mangs, Goose, Chaz, TheFETruth, Everything: The Full Story

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Mangs, Goose, Chaz, TheFETruth, Everything: The Full Story


Table of Contents:
[Part 1 - The Beginning] - July 8th - 10th of TheFETruth Account
[Part 2 - Self-Reflection and Near-Tragedy] - Realizing what I did wrong too late, and the near-death of a friend.
[Part 3 - The Imposter] - Responding to every one of Imposter’s Screenshots.
[Part 4 - Pre-emptive Questions] - Answering some questions I may possibly get before I get them.
[Part 5 - Closing] - Giving my final thoughts.
(Press Ctrl+F or Cmd+F on Mac to bring up the search function to skip to any part.)

[Part 1 - The Beginning]

Hello, my name is Ryan. Some of you may know me as Rybean. I’m a very small FE community member and I interact in many other YouTubers’ streams. Something you are probably aware of, whether you just learned recently, or have known for a long time is that I’m friends with Goosaphone. As all of you should know, on July 8th, Goose came out with her statement telling her story on how she was sexually assaulted by Mangs. For almost everyone in the Fire Emblem community, including other FETubers, this was the first they have ever heard of this incident. For many of the YouTubers that were there at Anime North though, as well as her mods including me, we were told this very soon after. I have personally known about the AN incident since August of 2019. For those of you wondering why Goose didn’t give her statement immediately after, let me remind you that Mangs and Goose were friends, and she didn’t want to hurt his career. However, what Mangs did to her took a toll on her, and so she decided that she couldn’t keep this hidden any longer. When Goose told me and other members of the community she trusted that she would finally release a statement, I told her she would have my full support. Goose had a group chat with other FETubers including her, Ghast, Lucky Crit, Pavise, Chaz, Nadgey, Sagemaster, and Tomefaired (note that I was not a part of this group chat), and they helped proofread and give their support to Goose since this was undoubtably a hard time for her (remember this for later). When Goose was finally ready, she released her statement to the public, and received overwhelming support. However, as Goose, I, and a few others noticed, this was going a bit too smoothly. I honestly expected there to be a civil war in the FE Community, and it turns out I would be right, just not yet.

On July 9th, @Indie_Calls released a statement accusing Chaz Aria LLC with sexual misconduct claims, however to many early viewers of this post, there was something extremely suspicious about it. Indie had already called Chaz out a year prior, and Chaz debunked those claims with screenshots as well as audio files, a form of evidence that not many Twitter cases have. This is where TheFETruth comes in.

For those of you who are wondering why I’m talking about TheFETruth now, and not when the actual account started, it’s because before this point, TheFETruth had almost unanimous support, but at this point, skepticism started to arise, and people started to take sides whether to believe Truth or not, but let’s go back to the very beginning of TheFETruth.

On July 8th, the same day that Goose posted her statement about Mangs, I went undercover and started the truth_fe account. The very first tweet posted to that account was a response to Ghost Aggron.

Ghost posted "I’mma be real with ya, Mangs rubbed me the wrong way for a long time. It always felt like he wanted some chick to “work with”, and after he started working with Ryn, alarms started going off for me. Mangs doesn’t deserve you, and I’m glad you’re speaking out about this.” https://twitter.com/GAggron/status/1280893575555952647

To this, I responded with a screenshot from Ryn’s stream where she showed her DMs with Mangs confirming they were in a relationship.

The only negative reception was to Mangs, with people saying that he seemed so predatory, that they were disgusted, etc. Later on, I would get completely deserved negative reception for this reply, but for a completely different reason, that will be explained later.

After that, I decided to open Truth’s DMs to the public. Because of this, I would receive DMs from people with evidence against Mangs that I would be able to share while keeping them anonymous. I shared said screenshots of Mangs’ words and actions from multiple social-media platforms, and Truth received no skepticism or hate. I created truth_fe to show the wrongdoings of others in the Fire Emblem community and to help those in need, I even received a thank you from @serif_Aizawa for my actions. https://twitter.com/serif_Aizawa/status/1281002607037857793
However, July 8th would be the last and only day of unanimous support for TheFETruth though.

The next day, Nimious and Chaz got into an argument. Nimious posted a tweet about the things he has learned recently which sparked discussion and disagreement with others on Twitter. Chaz got angry at Nimious because he thought he was missing the point, which Nimious countered, eventually Chaz shared a screenshot showing that Nimious dated and fingered one of his mods back when she was only 16. The discussion of legality vs. morality continued on, and since this was another case of predatory behavior, I decided to retweet this since the nature of the account was to focus on allegations in the community. https://twitter.com/truth_fe/status/1281324679341498368 - Retweet
https://twitter.com/ChazAriaLLC/status/1281322225128349704 - Original Reply

Later on, Indie released her statement about her story with Chaz. Immediately after I saw this post, a red flag went off in my head. Many people did not know this, but Indie had already released a statement about Chaz a year prior. I stated this before already, but Chaz debunked those claims the year before with a ZIP file called 18_only. Not only that, but Indie had taken advantage of a minor known as Byliyth or Henry in order to bring these claims to life. Byliyth had been sexually abused by a FEHTuber known as SgtOfDoakes, and Indie used this situation to bring more attention to her claims. When these claims were proven false by Chaz, Indie fled the internet and deleted her Twitter. This time it looked like Indie was using the exact same tactic to bring her claims to the spotlight. Indie made her claim directly after the abuse stories of Goosaphone, Soleil/tomefaired, Mercie, and others. Henry came forward and stated that Indie had manipulated him into using his story to promote her own, and that this was old news that had already been dealt with. With this new account, I felt that it was the right thing to do to share what happened last time to those who weren’t aware of it.
https://twitter.com/truth_fe/status/1281399397398589442 - Tweet
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uFuhvHTybbsFs8NJsC7EEzMML3y0y9X2/view?usp=sharing - Screenshot


This begins the fall of TheFETruth

I uploaded the ZIP file and posted a short blurb about what happened last time, this is where I made a huge mistake. Because of Byliyth sharing his thoughts as well as the previous evidence already existing, I paid less attention to Indie’s allegation this time. It’s just like the classic tale “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. Because Indie’s claims were taken care of last time, I thought this time would be no different, and I was just as wrong as the villagers were in the original story. Some people applauded that I had “debunked” this new statement, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rnz35kg8aGlzUAG-Lb_bDTilFx1vD03z/view?usp=sharing
but others were skeptical, and this is where the water got really muddy.

I should have seen this coming, but after I sent this reply, many people accused TheFETruth of being Chaz in disguise. Because I had publicly opened Truth’s DMs, people also DMed truth claiming that Truth was Chaz. Because of this suspicion, people started to doubt what Truth was saying because of the guess that he could be Chaz. IDC_SAO confirmed on his Twitter that Truth was not Chaz, but rumors still persisted even after.

Chaz would receive a second allegation from an account named @StrongicoMonica . If the allegation Indie sent to Chaz felt even slightly fishy, this one was worth an entire lake. Monica stated that she started playing FE4 because of Chaz, despite the fact that Chaz had not uploaded a single video dedicated to FE4 before Anime North. The “evidence” from Monica had been horribly edited as well. Monica’s profile picture was also a stock-image. While not evidence on its own at all, combined with everything else made the allegation very suspicious. The callout was horribly-made, but I decided not to input on it at all.

Later that day, a Tweet was posted by EnderForeverBaka (@EnderThyBaka) about someone who was a victim to Nimious. I responded to them so that I could talk to Ender in DMs about this situation. No matter what, I still wanted to do the right thing.

July 10th would be the last day that I would be active on the truth_fe account. Lucky Crit made a twitlonger on what he thought about the Chaz allegations. I gave it a read and decided to retweet it. With the retweet, I gave it the comment
“I highly suggest that you all read up on this and come to a conclusion yourself. As I am not Chaz, I was not at Anime North myself. Here is a testimony from someone who was though.”
https://twitter.com/truth_fe/status/1281626919637786631 - Truth’s Retweet
https://twitter.com/luckycritgaming/status/1281606478340796417?s=20 -Original Twitlonger

I intentionally made the comment neutral as I was not trying to sway anyone’s opinion. Manipulation was not my intent on the account. I wanted everyone to formulate their own opinion from Stevie’s statement.
After that, someone reached out to Stevie and provided him with a folder full of cosplays that were at Anime North, while this definitely is not the entire collection of cosplays at the event, it is pretty good evidence that there was no Tana cosplayer there (which Monica claimed to be). Shortly after, Monica deleted her Twitter account and someone took a screenshot of that and tweeted it. I retweeted “An innocent person does not do something like this.” https://twitter.com/truth_fe/status/1281627097774067712 - Truth’s Retweet
https://twitter.com/luckycritgaming/status/1281613040245452801?s=20 - Original Reply

Minutes later, Truth received a DM from someone who I will leave anonymous currently. They were very neutral to me and wanted to interview me to get what I knew about everything going on. One question that they asked me though was do I know Chaz, and if so, how? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SMzZLRvQPn5RvU8RDT9mR5h4GjFEvnPF/view?usp=sharing

I replied “I have talked to him a couple times, I would say we're acquaintances. I have never met him in person, and I can't even say I've ever been in a voice call one on one with him either.”
This is completely true. I can count the amount of times I’ve talked to Chaz on one hand. I’ve never been in a VC one on one with him, and the only times I’ve ever been on a VC with him at all was on Rival Bromains 11 and 14.
This person said they were working on a YouTube video about the Chaz allegations and asked me if they were allowed to show our DM conversation in the video, and I gave them full permission. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CxNEIVBT3uGzR-95w_dGmncBFaBe6dCk/view?usp=sharing

A couple hours later, Chaz came out with his statement about Monica’s allegations, proving them false once and for all. After reading his tweet, I retweeted it with the caption
“Some of you didn't trust the truth, well now here it is spoon-fed to you.” out of sheer anger for Monica.
https://twitter.com/truth_fe/status/1281666110471929856 - Truth’s Retweet
https://twitter.com/ChazAriaLLC/status/1281659457123098624?s=20 - Chaz’s Original Twitlonger

One of the things that anger me the most are false accusations, and you can see that from the tweet I posted on my main. https://twitter.com/Rybean1_/status/1281684991777398784

With that though, I posted the last tweet that I would on TheFETruth.

[Part 2: Self-Reflection and Near-Tragedy]

2 Days later on June 12th, I would go to read @LughEmblem’s twitlonger regarding his thoughts on everything a couple hours after it was released. https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srapki
I was not expecting to feel much from it at first, but by the end of it, I realized that I had acted irrationally. I retraced back to Indie’s statement and realized that I focused too much on the past, and not enough on the events that had happened since the last time Indie spoke out. I was angry and thought too much about the past, traits that I had developed due to my turbulent relationship with my family during quarantine, and ones that I want to get rid of. By no means am I using this as an excuse, I am only stating this so I can better myself in the future. After this realization, I went into almost a state of shock. I genuinely thought I was doing the right thing, and realizing that I may have been doing the exact opposite made me feel gross. Let me be clear in saying that NOBODY was making me do this. I did this by myself and I fucked up horribly. I tricked myself into thinking I was doing the right thing the entire time and I take complete responsibility for any misinformation that I have spread.

That night, one of Goose’s Mods DMed me saying they found a Twitter account called FE_Imposter. He showed me who they were following, and they were following everyone that was in the FETuber group DM to help proofread her statement/support her as well as me and truth_fe. I brought this up with a closed group in Goose’s Discord called The Broken Boyz. Since I feel like people will ask me what that was if I don’t explain, I’ll do that right now. Broken Boyz was a closed section in Goose’s Discord that was essentially a group therapy. People that were close to Goose in her community that had stuff going on in their lives were part of the Broken Boyz, and this is where we were all most-vulnerable and vented about what was happening in life for us. For me personally, this is where I would talk about my life at home. Goose was in a really bad place this night. Goose had figured out that her Discord had been hacked that made an invite link to her server for new people to join. Goose blamed herself for being hacked since she did not have 2FA at the time and expressed suicidal thoughts. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FI5b5pSFsyMNmglK2_ZFGbi5UVIXzLAD/view?usp=sharing

Goose said she wouldn’t hurt herself and logged off for the night.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zJ3e0YdRj5PIbWedJib_BZy8KbdJpBnA/view?usp=sharing

Mentally defeated, I did the same.

Later that night Goose attempted suicide. https://twitter.com/Goosaphone/status/1282693207839707136

Goose finally had the strength to come out and tell her story of what happened to her at Anime North, and having all of the support she got slingshot back in her face pushed her to her breaking point.

Luckily, one of Goose’s mods was awake at the time. He was able to call Goose’s roommate to wake him up and help her.

[Part 3 - The Imposter]

The next morning, I woke up, and exactly what we thought would happen happened, Imposter hacked into Goose’s Discord. From this, Imposter was able to take screenshots from Broken Boyz as well as group DMs. I will stress again that I was not in the FETuber group DM. Any group DM you see with me in featured only members of Goose’s community. I will be going over all Imposter’s screenshots now. https://imgur.com/a/PWAgZH3

Image #1:
This one doesn’t need an explanation, this screenshot just shows the tweet proving Truth is not Chaz and I honestly don’t know why it’s in this collection.

Image #2:
This image aged really poorly. This is when I thought this Indie allegation was the same deal as the last one. Also when I say “we” in this picture, what I mean by that is someone took the tweet I posted on Truth and posted it in Goose’s Discord’s #general chat. For the record, I didn’t ask anyone to do that, and unfortunately I can’t even check who did now since Goose’s Discord is gone now, but at the time when I thought Indie’s claims were false, people posting the tweets in #general chat helped spread the word (Something that I realize now was not a good thing since I was wrong and wasn’t aware of that at the time). TheFETruth was run by me and me only. NO ONE forced me to ever post a tweet on TheFETruth account, the account was run by me and me alone. As I said before, I take complete responsibility for everything wrong I have done regarding TheFETruth. Also yes I am aware that in image #1, I said that posts in #general would be appreciated, but the images in this collection are out of order, as you will soon see.

Image #3:
This was the angry side of me coming out. Since nobody had liked or responded to the message at all, I had no reason to pay it any mind. My language here was not appropriate though. This was around the time that Chaz confirmed Monica’s allegations to be fake, hence why I was so angry typing this. I took my anger out on Monica and it shows here.

Image #4:
Ryn sent me a DM thanking me for all of the support I had given her over her channel’s lifespan. The “she edited it to say Ryan instead” and thinking emotes are because Ryn had originally sent me the message and said “Rybean” instead of “Ryan”. I unsubscribed from her channel because I didn’t know at the time if she was going to defend Mangs or not and I needed some time to think. I think Goose spoke out of line here. In her suicide attempt Tweet she says that she was taking medication that clouded her judgement, that combined with her anger for Mangs contributed to what you see here. As I stated in a tweet before, just because Goose and I are friends and because I was there for her when she posted her statement on Mangs does not mean we see eye to eye on everything. I 100% believe that Goose could have chosen better words here, but I had no influence over what she said. Goose saying "egg sympathizers" was very insensitive to the situation at hand, but this was a private group of trusted friends and she may have been trying to make a joke to take some stress off of herself. I still don't think that excuses this, but it may be an explanation. I want to give a personalized apology to multiple community members at the very end of this document, Ryn included.

Image #5:
This screenshot is taken out of context to vilify Goose and the other FETubers. Cancelling Mangs was not an organized attack by a “clique” of FETubers who wanted to take him down and rise a new king of Fire Emblem. This group DM was made so these people could proofread Goose’s statement and give her moral support since she was going through an extremely tough time. Chaz was also not aware that I was TheFETruth during this screenshot.

Image #6:
The top line is pretty self-explanatory. All I wanted to do was support Goose in any way that I could. There was no need for me to be a part of that Group DM, and I was perfectly okay with that. The bottom line is pretty easy to explain too. This was before anything related to Chaz was posted on Truth, and the account was only about Mangs then. Someone asked me if my DMs were open, and I responded saying not yet, but I will consider it. Opening my DMs would give a way for victims or friends of victims to come forward and have a voice while staying anonymous at the same time. This is exactly what happened with EnderForeverBaka.

Image #7:
This is just a higher-res version of Image #3, next.

Image #8:
In case you haven’t noticed by now, Goose’s name switches back and forth from “finally free” to “Goosaphone”. This is because Imposter got into both her Discord as well as group DMs. Finally free is her nickname in her Discord, and simply Goosaphone is from group DMs.

Goose continued to express her anger in this screenshot. While I wanted to support Goose throughout all of this, her anger only caused her to act more irrationally. Once again, I believe she should have chosen better words here, but I have no influence over that. I made a bold claim here and said I “could have debunked this”, but I was only referring to the first part of the sentence. The DM is in very broken English, so I legitimately couldn’t tell if this person was saying that I was a mod in Ryn’s Discord, or if they were a mod in Ryn’s Discord. Either way, this claim was absolutely false, as Ryn does not have a Discord. I say “proof” at the end of this, which is followed by a screenshot of proof that she doesn’t have a Discord. Oddly enough, this is followed up in Image #18 of the collection. As for the second sentence onward, they are absolutely correct. I had no business in sharing that screenshot of Ryn’s Discord. Just because it was publicly shown on her stream beforehand does not make it right. As you can see from Image #4, Ryn and I had started to become somewhat friends over the course of her channel’s lifespan, and I feel that I betrayed her. When I first shared the screenshot of her Discord, it was not meant to been a shot against her, it was supposed to be a shot against Mangs’ sketchy behavior that he was dating someone 11 years younger than him, therefore breaking the “half your age +7 rule”. However, I realize that is was inappropriate for me to share this screenshot regardless, even if I was trying to speak up about Mangs. This information being shared not only had effects against Mangs, but Ryn as well and I failed to recognize that at the time.

Image #9:
There isn’t much to say on my part here. All this screenshot shows is that I am behind the truth_fe account. I cannot speak for Goose when it comes to this screenshot, but what I can say is that this screenshot proves that the account was made and run by me and only me. TheFETruth was not coordinated with anyone else. Anyone who found out I was TheFETruth found out after the account was made. Anything else in this screenshot can be explained from Image #8’s explanation starting with “As for the second”.

Images #10, 11, 12, and 13:
These are just screenshots of me posting Truth’s tweets in the Broken Boyz now that they know it’s me. I must stress that NONE of these screenshots were sent to me from Goose nor Chaz. The community tab screenshots were taken by myself and the others were sent to me by someone completely different.

Image #14:
Just like Image #2, this has aged badly as well. When Indie accused Chaz, I took it upon myself to provide the ZIP file full of evidence that Chaz did for last situation to this one. People have told me on Twitter in the past day that I’m “not some vigilante hero” and they’re 100% correct, I was a complete dumbass to do this. Chaz has the ability to speak up for himself, and in the end, I only caused more harm than good. It was stupidly naïve of me to think that the two accusations would be the same, and that I should have stuck my nose in there in the first place.

Image #15:
This is pretty-much the same case as the last image, but while Image #14 was a reply, this was a Quote Retweet. If you manually type in the URL to go to the tweet, you will see that it’s no-longer there. I’m not a fan of deleting tweets or entire accounts because in my opinion it shows weakness or guilt. The only reason why I deleted this tweet is because Truth received a DM requesting that I take down that tweet for the sake of the others in the screenshot that aren’t Indie.

Image #16:
This is a screenshot of me on the Twitter reply screen. I did restrain myself and not post this reply, but after fact-checking this, I was wrong on this as well. Indie posted her allegation against Chaz shortly before Chaz announced he would take a break, NOT the other way around. Even though I never posted this reply, I still feel the need to apologize for being wrong on this one. I did not check my facts on this occasion, and it goes to show that I should have never gotten myself involved in the first place.

Image #17:
This is a case of Imposter trying to push a narrative that simply isn’t there. If you read the screenshot from top to bottom and don’t scan the whole thing at once, you’ll see that Goose is defending the point that Chaz is not in the wrong, and the I post a Tweet as Truth, however the tweet posted has nothing to do with Chaz. In fact, the tweet doesn’t really have anything to do with anyone besides myself. Someone on Twitter made an account called @FETruth3 which was not connected to me in any way, and I made a tweet to make sure people knew about that. From what it looks like, Imposter is trying to push a narrative that Goose told me to post something as Truth so she didn’t have to, but the Tweet shown doesn’t match up with that narrative whatsoever.

Image #18:
This image is also trying to push a narrative that Goose told me not to respond to the Twitter DM that Truth received. While it is true that I did not respond to it, that is not because of Goose at all. As I stated in Image #8, Goose’s anger was getting the best of her, and I wanted her to calm down and compose herself.

Images #19 and 20:
These are screenshots of Goose talking to Pavise and I will not speak for Goose, but what I will say is that I’m happy that she stepped back to do some self-reflection as well. I realized the error in my actions, but only when it was too late. I wish that I could have seen that sooner, so that I could have cleaned up for myself earlier. As for Pavise, I completely understand his actions, and I wish him nothing but the best in the future. I know he is currently a game developer, and so I hope that he will be successful in the future.

Image #21:
Finally, the last image from the collection. Imposter says that their account was silenced before they posted anything, which is correct. When one of Goose’s mods let me know about Imposter, I felt it was necessary to mention it to Goose’s group DM. After mentioning it, the people in the group DM started reporting the account. The FE_Imposter account was taken down, but came back the next day.

Imposter, what you did was wrong. I have admitted myself already that I did something wrong as well, but two wrongs do not make a right. I started truth_fe with good intentions to bring attention to any allegations in the FE Community, but I lost myself along the way and went wrong. Imposter, you maliciously hacked into Goose’s Discord account in hopes of finding screenshots you could use to tear others down. I think IDC_SAO puts it best here. https://twitter.com/IDC_SAO/status/1282746398698385408

“For the record I want to say, your method here is wrong. Goose has the right to a private conversation, I will not applaud your actions.
Anyone can use person's emotions against them. Goose was not level headed and was talking people where she felt comfort away from the public”

While I have now responded to everything that Imposter has sent, there are still a few more pieces of evidence that I need to clear up.
There has been a Reddit post made recently talking about TheFETruth, and it is filled with an EXTREME amount of misinformation. I will not be talking about any of the comments there, I will only be talking about the original post.

Starting off with this:
“Firstly, the identity of the TheFETruth Twitter account is a Fire Emblem Youtuber named Rybean1,”

True, this is correct.

“who was collaborating with Chaz Aria LLC and Goosaphone on both signal-boosting the sexual assault allegations against Mangs, and the attempts to discredit Indie's sexual assault allegations against Chaz Aria LLC.”

This is a complete half-truth. I signal-boosted the allegations to Mangs on my own accord. I may have referenced a tweet that Chaz sent, one in which he had purchased a Fire Emblem ring,
https://twitter.com/Rybean1_/status/1280925533929431046 - My quote.
https://twitter.com/ChazAriaLLC/status/1278840593276379137?s=20 - Chaz’s Original Tweet
but in no way did I ever talk with Chaz to spread the word of Mangs’ allegations ever. I find it funny how they didn’t even say that I “likely” collaborated, they just labeled it as a flat-out fact. This is just the pot calling the kettle black at this point. Now references on both sides do not consist of 100% facts.

“Similarly, these images show proof that Goosaphone, Rybean1 and likely Chaz Aria LLC, Lucky Crit and other FE Youtubers had collaborated in a response against Mangs, which explains why so many FE Youtubers were so quick to condemn Mangs when Goosaphone's allegations against Mangs were brought to light.”

No. As I stated multiple times, Goose had a group chat with other FETubers so they could proofread her statement and give her moral support. I was not a part of this group chat. This post is trying to mesh me and the group chat together and that mesh never happened.

“Here's another image of Goosaphone and Rybean1 attempting to leak Ryn's private messages with Mangs to discredit her character”

Again, no. The DM with Mangs was meant to be a shot at MANGS, not Ryn. Please read my explanation for Image #4 as well as Image #8 starting with “As for the second”. Once again, I cannot, and will not speak for Goose, I am not her and I do not mirror her beliefs or views. I have harbored absolutely no ill will towards Ryn whatsoever.

“Similarly, here's another image where Goosaphone is discussing Chaz's statement in her private Discord room:” https://i.imgur.com/ChRIDbi.jpg

This is a COMPLETE LIE. This screenshot is taken from #general chat of Goose’s Public Discord “Goose Gang". Anyone who had joined the Discord for a second would have access to this and I have no idea where this is coming from that this is a private Discord channel. Not to mention that it is incredible disrespectful to paint both SN_Ivan and Ozmatt12 in a negative light here. They were both bystanders trying to contribute to conversation and they did nothing wrong. The least you could have done was censor their names and PFPs. I understand that I may have accidentally posted some misinformation by thinking that old evidence from a case from a year ago would work with a new case from this year, but I honestly hope and pray that this misinformation is accidental as well. If you knew that any of this wasn’t completely legitimate, then that is extremely low.

[Part 4 - Pre-emptive Questions]

At this point, I will outline some questions that I may receive and give my responses to those.

Question: Why did you make TheFETruth account in the first place?

As I’ve stated in the beginning, truth_fe was created with only good intentions. Aside from the DM leak, everything else I had posted about Mangs was informative and showed off his true character to those who weren’t already aware. I was also eager and willing to help out EnderForeverBaka with their friend who was a victim as well. In the beginning, I thought if I spoke out about allegations anonymously and offered to provide a voice to anyone who didn’t want to come out publicly, I would be doing a service to people and wouldn’t get as much harassment as if I spoke out about allegations as myself. As it turned out, the exact opposite happened.

Question: If every decision was made on your own accord, then why did you even show some of those screenshots to Goose and a couple of her community members that you trust in the first place?

I think of it like a best friend or spouse telling their best friend or spouse what’s going on in their life. While they may share what’s going on with them, the final decision is still completely up to them.

Question: Why did you stick up for Chaz in the first place?

It was a spur of the moment decision that I made because I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. Chaz has the ability to speak for himself, and he didn’t ask for me to speak for him either, yet I did it anyway, and in the end I was wrong. I can’t even say I’m close friends with Chaz either. As I said way back during the interview, “I have never met him in person, and I can’t even say I’ve ever been in a voice call one on one with him either”.

[Part 5 - Closing]

I was wrong about defending Chaz, especially about when I did so. I tried to stick up for Chaz when he didn’t need me to, I stuck my nose into business that was not mine only because I wanted to help. I was naïve in thinking that evidence used to disprove claims from last year would have the same effect this time as well. I manipulated myself into thinking that I was doing the right thing, and in my process of trying to do the right thing, I did the exact opposite and caused tons of harm. I have never sexually harassed anyone in my life, and want to make sure that stays true for the rest of it, but I ended up defending someone who was accused of doing just that.

Here I want to say my apologies/thoughts to other members of the community:


Indie: I’m sorry for not believing in you as fast as I should have. All allegations from victims should be taken seriously. Even if they are as nonsensical of a claim as Monica’s, they should still be thoroughly researched into to find the verdict.

Chaz: I apologize for making TheFETruth account in the first place. Having people rumor that TheFETruth was you was not fair to you. However, I feel like the water between you and Indie is very murky. I should have looked into Indie’s claims more than I did especially since this was her second statement. I did not use the correct thought process when evaluating Indie’s claims, and I should work on my thought process when it comes to repeat allegations against anyone in the future.

Stevie: I’m sorry that you had to share a side with me. There’s no doubt in my mind that you will be able to gain the community’s trust back. You’ve always been one of, if not the nicest person in the FE community, and I know you can bounce back.

Mekkah: You contacted and addressed me in a very fair, civil way, and I have a ton of respect for that. Your anger was completely warranted and you sent your fanbase at me in a completely respectful, diplomatic manner. You’re a very kind, collected person and I wish you nothing but the best of luck in the future.

Pavise/Ghast: You two along with Mekkah were actually the smartest people in the community when it came to this situation. In middle school, the staff always tells everyone to break the silence and speak up, but in this case staying silent was the best possible choice to make.

Ryn: I don’t deserve that final thank you that you sent me. While I tried to do the right thing, I ended up betraying your trust, and I don’t know if I can ever get that back. I hope you continue to keep being awesome in the future.

Goose: I hope and pray you take care of yourself. I don’t know if I’ll ever recover from hearing that you almost took your own life. I would have been absolutely devastated if you didn’t come out of that night alive, and I wish that your health with improve from here on out. The past 2 years of being a part of your community has been an absolute treasure, and if this is the end for me, I will cherish all of the game nights and hangouts.

To everyone else in the FE community:
I have always been as nice and helpful as I possibly could every day. I always enjoyed assisting others because it gave me a sense of accomplishment. That’s why I always offered to help people like Goose with OBS troubles and CyanYoh with wireless 3DS streaming, or create Feather Farming guides every week so people could have more merges on their FEH units. This time, I overstepped extremely. I tried to help someone who was perfectly capable of telling their own story, as well as not knowing the full story myself. Most, if not all the time actions speak louder than words. EmblemCast is hosting a charity livestream giving to victims of sexual abuse, and I would love to participate to show that I care and want to help. By no means do I want to use this as just a way to atone though, I have been interested in helping with the stream even before Truth had posted anything about Chaz, and I genuinely want to support the scene in any way I can. If people strongly object to me being a part of it though, I completely understand and will not participate. If I am granted a second lease on life, I promise that I will never post anything regarding future allegations against anyone no matter what. To the end, I want to do anything to help the Fire Emblem community be a better place, and if that one final thing I need to do to make it better is to leave, that is a price I would be willing to pay.

- Ryan

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