#like the youtube channel that it was on (from my most recent check) hasnt had any new videos in a long time

[apologetic-artist]

I feel like I'm the only one who remembers that one dhmis cosplay music video with the song "Break My Mind" in the background from years ago, I swear NO ONE knows what I'm talking about.

[datcravat]

yanderedev

Im seeing a lot of blind support for the creator of yandere sim on tungle dot hell.

Just ignore me and check out this video if you want!

First of all, Im not gunna dive into the evaxephon rabbit hole since I firmly believe people can grow and change. He certainly has... but I ain’t nesecarrily sure it’s for the good. 

There’s an incredible abundance of little problems. Like how he says on his patreon that his monthly salary is $3500, and the rest of the money goes towards the game. He has income on top of the $5000 from patreon (but that has reduced to around $4000 since the recent controversies), from twitch, youtube and merch - which he conveniently fails to mention in his big transparency post.

So why isn’t he paying people? He's making a huge surplus; bigger than what’s come from patreon. Surely he can afford to pay a head artist so that his game can look more consistent...? He mentions in that huge patreon post that he doesn’t even need to pay people if they offer to volunteer... and then you see him complain about how volunteers find him dispoable, and how nobody ever sticks around. It’s a little contradictory.

He mentions in his videos how he could use a head programmer, so he isn’t acting as director and producer plus lead programmer.

Ahh wait, he doesnt want to add another programmer after he got rid of the one tinybuild provided; since they improved his code to the point he couldn't understand it (in case you didnt put two and two together, this means yandev is bad at coding. You can find examples of his "spaghetti code" - as professional programmers like to call it - online). 

On top of this, he's stolen a lot of assets for his game (such as yan-chan's bedroom and various textures) from artists who have explicity requested him to maybe not do that.

Artists who have volunteered have expressed their explicit distaste for him for being very difficult to work with, or for him taking their work and then not crediting them or contacting them again.

Im gunna bet a high percentage of his patreon supporters have no clue about the loss of tinybuild or the texture stealing or the lack of crediting, since he conveniently didn’t bother to tell them in his videos.

(And since he's pulling all his assets from so many different sources, the final game won't be consistent in its animations, art, etc.)

And from my own personal experience with him now... he is very rude. Even if someone is an annoying person, these are some choice words!

As you can partly see here, something he complains about often is that little edgy kids are into his game. That's a little rude to his fans for a start - but if he wants his game to end up with an M rating as he’s told his fans, why aren't his youtube videos age restricted? And on his server, I encountered a lot of kids... the youngest was ten. It doesn't add up, unless you consider how he must get a lot of revenue (if not most of it) from his very young audience, and that's why he keeps them around.

Also, reminiscent of his evaxephon days, he is a bit gross. On his server there was this quote bot that'd give you a random "funny" quote from him, and every single one was about perversions.

(okay... rereading this, isn't 82 a little familiar?)

For those that don't know, that's his own old twitter... it makes me think he hasnt really changed.

He also mentions in that patreon post that he’s comitted to honesty, which sounds ridiculous to me. He knows almost all his audience has only seen his youtube channel, where he’s conveniently forgotted to mention the partnership with tinybuild has ended; and immediately bans anyone in his lowkey dictatorship of a discord server who mentions things like evaxephon or azzman, or if they even very gently criticise his game.

I dont have a screenshot... but I witnessed someone say something critical about the game, and the other members suddenly jumped in like "they didnt mean it!!" And "please don’t ban them they didn’t know!"... it looked almost like an abusive relationship. The server is closed so Im not in there any more... but I was suprised to find out how much borderline stockholm syndrome his current fans have.

He goes on about people cherrypicking very old things he's said and using it against him, but it's too recent and too often. He goes on about twitch cherrypicking which games they want banned simply because they don’t like them... when that’s exactly what yandev does when it comes to facing criticism (something which, every large youtuber has had to do).

I see people saying that if you don’t like something, just ignore it - which is totally true. Here though... he’s sucking up cash from people who don’t realise what’s going on, or who haven’t been given the full picture by him. I don’t think he even wants to work on this game any more, but that’s just speculation!

Feel free to add on sources. If you are doubting the info here, you can find evidence on twitter (people are compiling it) or google, or if you have some time you can see it in this video, where it’s all laid out very clearly. 

If you’re wondering if the rumours are true, like I used to... yeah, they are.

It’s embarrassing to acknowledge it. I’ve made fanart for that game, watched a ton of youtubers have fun playing it, etc. Eugh.