Ⱡayna💉🩸 · @LaynaLazar
17th Mar 2022 from TwitLonger
My full experience with Bunny_Gif [with evidence]
Before I say anything, I want to be absolutely sure it’s known that this is not a witch hunt. This is not a means to give reason to attack anyone, and please- be respectful. This is a means for me to want to finally be free, and speak on something I have held onto for many years.
Take some time to listen to what I have to say, and make your own judgment going forward.
This is long, as it’s been years in the making behind the scenes, and unfortunately as much as I wish I did, I don’t have an in a nutshell version for you. Please be patient with me, I know this is going to take a lot of your time if you’ll allow it.
This is the story of my professional and personal experience with Bunny Ayumi aka Bunny_Gif and how it’s cost me friendships, opportunities, and many sleepless nights.
Starting from the beginning, as we were wrapping up with the success of Susu’s succubus figurine, I was contacted through instagram by Bunny Ayumi, who you may know now, as Bunny_Gif. She had mentioned she was dating Susu at the time and wanted to know if we could make a figure of her as well.
Susu's Figure:
https://gyazo.com/d0dfe9ae2c99b81742002662089eec45
After clearing it with my partner at the time (as well as co-owner of IHazToys) we opened up a dialogue with Bunny through Facebook. (She has since deleted it) Noted in the screenshots.
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After speaking on what she had in mind, I quickly, as always- start on a professional footing by discussing options of them being paid, and how we work. We were very open, clear, and honest as well as continuously checked in with her if she was comfortable and to please discuss with us at any point if there was any confusion. After getting confirmation both through Facebook messaging and email, we started the project.
https://gyazo.com/22ec51ff13846320fdd9bc16b4107d81
https://gyazo.com/d5fef42504ab384461ddded6e0d7a97e
https://gyazo.com/8a1372b7ad4059fc96c2a2a2f740dea6
https://gyazo.com/4f77ceab8b3525733ed92c97aec45d30
EMAIL CONTRACT:
https://gyazo.com/c73bf22b90c10fbff16552cf1cb6a08f
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I was in charge of consulting with Bunny throughout the project as well as sculpting her figurine. This took a handful of long hours, days, and weeks to complete. Already being a long process in general, she had continuous changes throughout the project that pushed both myself and Slugbox. They were constant and a bit frustrating. We both struggled together a lot, but we made a friendship in getting through it together. He was amazing to work with, and I thank him a lot for enduring that with me.
As the sculpting phase was coming to an end, I was letting her know every step of the way when it would be ready for announcements. This announcement as well as the pre-order launch were the most vital and important to this entire collaboration. Upon telling her when things were ready, I was met with excuses and making me feel inappropriate for asking her to post about the event. After so many months of hard work, it made me feel extremely insignificant. That a tweet was too difficult and too big of an ask. I felt very ashamed, but continued with the project.
Upon it being her time to come up to the plate, she would post tweets and instagram photos, and then delete them not long after. Making excuses as to why she got rid of them. I tried to explain to her how important it was to leave them up as they drive sales, which in turn made her more money. I was also met with more excuses.
https://gyazo.com/a8f18103abaebab7152eed8e54991631
https://gyazo.com/175da3b7dc1066ba10a96e7c887cc298
https://gyazo.com/44ddacbab71a174fdb54be44669e5c7e
https://gyazo.com/3ab2a507e5cf7dd15b577822ffc71a62
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During those end months of working on the sculpt and bringing it forward to production, I was often asked to be in calls to hang out, and invited to a cosplayer group under the name of “Cherry Bombs”. I’m not a cosplayer, so I was always the guy on the sidelines keeping to myself. It was around this time I started to feel uncomfortable and witness a lot of red flags. She would often get upset at other women copying her and she would retaliate. In private messages she would body shame women and make claims about them, as well as ways to take them down due to them making her upset. She was very good at rallying others around her to go up against others in the community in very quiet ways to slowly make their career suffer, to the point where they were just blotted out from the community over time all together. She would pressure people quite often to RT her, share her posts, and keep growing through making connections with other women, in order to keep growing her social numbers. If this wasn’t something they did, she would get angry with them in passive aggressive ways.
https://gyazo.com/97a83005de0c7f4dfd2e2ec0d8743a06
https://gyazo.com/28a40ac3966a7181ffe05cdb5ddfac06
https://gyazo.com/61392450f36e4709c73c83eadffff0c6
https://gyazo.com/71701e53b71dc15639f25193706b0a64
I had seen a handful of women be extremely hurt by this behavior around this time, to a point where they started to get in contact with me privately. Sharing their hurt and fear of the situation.
Many times I felt awful because as a business, I can’t step in due to professionalism. I continued to get more messages, and in my heart things felt very wrong. To be supporting on the side someone being so cruel to so many women in her own community. All they could do was silently suffer and fade into existence as everyone in the community feared her. She was one of the biggest models/cosplayer/lewd model. She called the shots.
Manipulating another cosplayer:
https://gyazo.com/87737a639274a8cc6b005bfd3f8e13e0
https://gyazo.com/e005be99abab52c886b8972cbd936b40
https://gyazo.com/7a0d901b3b2731936bd4c4291a3214cb
https://gyazo.com/6422458f3ab3c2f3c85769b926a0cf47
https://gyazo.com/0be2e07440816725dfa1d486a87d3dc3
https://gyazo.com/45f77cbc8d940cedd9fc36cc01af5f34
https://gyazo.com/a66673b3e8d242cff11c6fcc23a7135b
https://gyazo.com/122e1761d9f50aab3ecf2f8e19aee722
https://gyazo.com/3302479aaebf2a13220d90db8381d317
It was at this point I was around for a conversation with Jenna, being confrontational regarding not RTing something, so I came forward with my feelings on the matter, as it was clear Jenna was being cornered. Everyone had been too scared of Bunny at the time. I had messaged Susu trying to explain that women were scared of her and things needed to change, but when Bunny had found out, she got extremely upset with me. So I imagine making this step in front of all the women in the group, made her extremely angry.
https://gyazo.com/43fc69394176a83832e1d6c5d745521c
https://gyazo.com/594fec4843c851ca25b84976bc4b9aac
https://gyazo.com/0ef7b73b115ba792c0f983961ab41069
https://gyazo.com/b317275b67391f02e6901b081679824d
https://gyazo.com/53c1b088a26540566aa0e4e2b601c5d5
https://gyazo.com/26ed880c1f16529bf7729c749d3e466d
https://gyazo.com/5ebccadbbce32323ea606adec3e05c92
https://gyazo.com/024f1c1bde36ebd714863a257ce23467
https://gyazo.com/1ba25d1e2a468b4919e29b9470203ef5
https://gyazo.com/aed9844d664c725751df3ae19724501e
She then broke the group, and nothing was said by her in that chat again.
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Some time passed and she had started to reach out to random cosplayers that I had never spoken to let alone even knew. Making claims that I had attacked her, full well knowing the evidence was clear that I didn’t. This went on for weeks. She continued to slander the company as well as myself.
https://gyazo.com/1a03b14ee3e6fa6f25487b44097a3b0b
During one of my streams, her boyfriend OGTexas (yes at the same time as dating Susu) had tried to reach out to my partner and manipulate him into being okay with ripping me off the project not allowing further contact.
https://gyazo.com/1b43801d236c3ad01cc032d276153891
I had then messaged OGTexas, explaining how extremely unprofessional and inappropriate that was. I was then told by him that I no longer am allowed in any messages, emails, or any further use on the project.
https://gyazo.com/02653be1f1e48d4a299246b39b07338f
https://gyazo.com/170960da17e88706c4d53e8391557ce8
The point in the project we were on was getting the grey resin cast out, and the painting had not been started, Bunny had also not made her cosplay for the prints that she had wanted to go in the collectors edition. (Which I had asked her many times to please do but was met with excuses)
https://gyazo.com/847a0b819a9f640bec4d5658fed0de66
Therefore, we had about 3-4 or more months left to work with her. For my own sanity, and mental wellbeing, I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t also face myself doing this for her when so many were hurting. It felt wrong.
Proof of the work by hand we do for frigures: (this was what I would need to do with bunny figure for shipment)
https://gyazo.com/89e26a215a9c79ee3a38f74959adf500
https://gyazo.com/2085bf8ec369173624542d2286f58479
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I put my relationship and my business with my partner on the line, when I had made the decision on my own, to cancel the project. I was selfish and chose not to listen to my partner, and make a decision that had massive consequences.
Bunny refused to be in contact with me anymore, and any further conversations were had through their new agency, Nani.
We compiled everything they asked for, and did not continue forward until we made good on the things that were needed.
After discussing what may have been left on the project, I let them know my decision on canceling the project, and what that would entail.
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This is where things are absolutely not okay.
Bunny has told a vast majority of people, consistently coming after me, actively trying to sabotage me with slander, that I scammed her out of money. That she was taken advantage of financially. That she was NEVER paid.
This is what has been motivating me to come out with this now. I refuse to continue to let people believe that she was not paid and let off freely.
https://gyazo.com/cfa4e6ac2f17150e7b12c683469e8f76
https://gyazo.com/f2875874d1b8a84c523b23d30fa88ec9
https://gyazo.com/d6cc9bc271d48ad5e3368baf0c8d77de
https://gyazo.com/8ddbcce10c94c1f10735e0a79eca4c85
https://gyazo.com/77691eb61bc7635136db042085d1c3da
https://gyazo.com/91a2f573c03dde1e5d9be6aaec9cb37e
https://gyazo.com/5aba68d84097d961a91ab81c73803cf2
https://gyazo.com/4bd82c9884c3b56c60e102b49f8e4604
https://gyazo.com/2a4f40088f478d2c8b908348b1159f81
https://gyazo.com/4aafbf438aa2f4d726cbc141afdd74b0
https://gyazo.com/eb3c326cc227f709ce0a67a1c3538195
Bunny kept the money she was paid by us from the pre-orders. Which was $2,123.00USD on July the 10th, 2018. She was never asked to pay it back, nor was she asked to help with refunding those that pre-ordered. I agreed I would take on full responsibility for my decision, and pay over $20,000USD that was owed. Not only was I 20k in debt to pay off the refunds, I also had to pay to cover the cost of the production that was already happening. (I am STILL to this day paying this off)
PROOF OF PAYMENT:
https://gyazo.com/2ddedba1cc076237c34a628005637825
In screenshots it is shown that it is agreed on by both Nani and IHazToys that she keeps her cut of the money. She was paid.
https://gyazo.com/3bb75bd0a32008cc236a10bbb8e7c716
https://gyazo.com/9381234f500d067c6c03fbb22b90c3c4
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I took an entire year away from Twitch. I was no longer in remission due to this mess, back on prednisone, and needed to find as much freelance work as I could to quickly put this to rest. I worked so hard to make all the money I needed to pay everyone back. As well as help from the other women that were hurt by Bunny.
I was in debt 20k due to canceling this project. I lost my stream, my health, my reputation, money, and I put my relationship on the line. We struggled a lot for years due to my decision. But in my mind, it was, and still is, the right thing to do.
Bunny never suffered any financial penalties, she got to walk away free, just minus her figure.
I was scared as all hell to come back. I didn’t come back for a long time..in fact it’s another reason why I started vtubing. I was scared. I was sick. And I didn’t want to stream with my face anymore out of fear after everything that went down, among other hardships that happened during this time.
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I had hoped enough time had passed that the waters would cool. Turns out not long after I came forward to start vtubing, Bunny had begun contacting as many people as she could, trying to slander my name as well as our company. She went to an extremely large vtuber group, telling them all I had created lies about her, that I went after her mods, telling them never to work with IHazToys or me, saying I took advantage of her financially, saying I snapped, and that she was afraid. She did this to others that have now come forward with proof, and god only knows who else she may have spoken to in this way.
This didn’t stop with them, it continued to grow to other people in our community. This behavior went on for years. Any time I had started to collaborate with anyone new, or even make friends, there were times where they stopped talking to me, unfollowed me, and that was that. Later on seeing them stream together with bunny etc. She tried to bully me out of the Vtuber community behind the scenes over time, and did the same thing to Susu. When Susu had come out with her Vtuber she was treated with the same animosity to the point of just about dropping it all together. She no longer felt welcome.
I now have a handful of dms of people coming to me letting me know she contacted them, trying to discuss whatever she could about me.
I chose to keep to myself as much as I could as I knew this was something that I could never escape. I was fearful of ever talking to anyone as I just didn’t want anyone uncomfortable, I wanted to just try to be happy, pleasant, and show that I wasn’t this person maybe people thought I was. I was much smaller then, and she’s always been a giant..there’s no way I had any weight in what I had experienced. So I just kept swallowing it.
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Later brings up the situation with Bahroo. To be clear, I don’t know Bahroo, I’ve never once spoken to him. All I know is he followed me once, and then I was blocked. I had a fear at this point she would do the same to him as she did to many others, this time making it worse as he’s an extremely large content creator.
In looking into it, Bunny and Bahroo were close around this time.
I was so scared of making new friends, and interacting with anyone who had contact with Bahroo or Bunny.
It turns out my insecurities were correct, he had reached out to a close friend of mine, claiming I was as bad as Arcadum, claiming I was a pathological liar, saying I DM everyone I collab or interact with. (This was something Bunny did, so this is a clear projection situation)
I will keep these screenshots private unless I am given permission to use them or they would like to come forward at any point.
This was in January, and two weeks ago he contacted another close friend of mine asking to discuss this with him.
This was many…many years ago. Not only has she never left me alone in the vtuber community, Bahroo is now doing the same thing, but reaching higher heights to drag me in any way he can.
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This has never stopped, since 2018. I can’t escape it, and I’m mentally tired. I'm tired of being scared. I’m tired of pleading my case. I’m tired of making new friends and wondering when they’re going to contact them and having to explain myself. I’m tired of this boulder breaking me and I can’t carry it anymore.
I tried to save face, keep the peace by not coming out with this. I know she knows the truth, I know she was scared for me to say anything so she tried to change up her story in hopes it made gains, but hasn’t. It’s caught up now, and I’ve had enough.
This behavior IS NOT okay. It’s not okay in ANY community. Manipulation, harassment, the lies. I can’t do it. I refuse to do this anymore.
There are many other women I watched be torn apart by Bunny, and I am sure they will have their own stories to tell when they’re ready. But this is mine, and I’d like to finally be free.