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americanhouses · 2 years ago

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Weirdcord modchat and the exposure of minors to inappropriate material (Edit: Read reblogs and replies for more experiences)

TW// mention(s) of grooming, minors being exposed to NSFW content, uncomfortable situations, mention of sexually explicit conversation I've been kind of inactive on discord recently and somebody brought it to my attention that Gib (@godenteredmybody and owner of Weirdcord) had to make an announcement on Weirdcord that minors will no longer be allowed to be moderators. I won't go into details out of respect for these people's privacy, as they were forced to be around inappropriate and NSFW convos as minors and I don't want them catching flack from Weirdcord moderation. I've heard multiple stories from friends who have been on the mod team at various points in the server's history and 18+ NSFW content and discussion is apparently commonplace. It's shocking that it took Gib, who also frequently posted said NSFW content/topics in modchat, would suddenly now step in to make this rule. Of course this has apparently been going on for a few years and when it started Gib would have been 18, they are now 20. All of the people I spoke with have agreed that moderators on Weirdcord have been as young as 14 years old so this is concerning. I'm disturbed that an adult would be discussing NSFW topics in a private channel with minors (modchat is only accessible to mods and the server owner(s) so nobody else can see it's contents). Gib has also been known to read explicit fanfiction in public Weirdcord voice chat on multiple occasions around minors, going so far as to make official server announcements alerting all to join vc to participate. I was also told of a time Gib (19 at the time) made a minor (who was 16-17 at the time) read one of these NSFW fanfictions in vc for an audience of server members. The fact that this announcement was even made makes it clear that something was in fact going on in modchat and it's no place for a minor to be, especially when the server is controlled by an adult who fully knows how inappropriate the things they talk about are. As someone who has been groomed as a minor in the past, I see Gib's behavior as incredibly worrying and unfortunately all too familiar. I'm not making this post to say "wow guys Gib is a groomer", I'm making it to spread awareness that Weirdcord may potentially be an unsafe environment for minors. I've received all of this information from trustworthy individuals and friends who have no motivation to lie and I am making my own conclusions based on the evidence provided and my own lived experiences.

Stay safe everyone, have a nice night!

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mkr-2002 · 2 years ago

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Weirdcore continued...

This is a follow up to my previous post.

As I stated, I do not condone any actions made by the owner of Weirdcord. However, I also do not condone any of the actions made by the admin and moderator team. As admins and moderators they also had a responsibility to address these issues.

I haven't been active on the Weirdcord server lately at all but I just feel really shitty knowing this has happened.

I'm going to put the original post below in case the OP gets deleted. I am aware of the fact that this is purely text without any screenshot proof so take this as you wish. I've made my decision to not be involved with the server much from now.

I hope everyone can move on and learn from this. Please be aware of minors. Saying the things that were said, regardless if it is behind a screen or to their face, this is still not right.

Take care everybody <3

January 5th 2023

americanhouses:

Weirdcord modchat and the exposure of minors to inappropriate material TW// mention(s) of grooming, minors being exposed to NSFW content, uncomfortable situations, mention of sexually explicit conversation

I’ve been kind of inactive on discord recently and somebody brought it to my attention that Gib (godenteredmybody and owner of Weirdcord) had to make an announcement on Weirdcord that minors will no longer be allowed to be moderators. I won’t go into details out of respect for these people’s privacy, as they were forced to be around inappropriate and NSFW convos as minors and I don’t want them catching flack from Weirdcord moderation.

I’ve heard multiple stories from friends who have been on the mod team at various points in the server’s history and 18+ NSFW content and discussion is apparently commonplace. It’s shocking that it took Gib, who also frequently posted said NSFW content/topics in modchat, would suddenly now step in to make this rule.

Of course this has apparently been going on for a few years and when it started Gib would have been 18, they are now 20. All of the people I spoke with have agreed that moderators on Weirdcord have been as young as 14 years old so this is concerning.

I’m disturbed that an adult would be discussing NSFW topics in a private channel with minors (modchat is only accessible to mods and the server owner(s) so nobody else can see it’s contents). Gib has also been known to read explicit fanfiction in public Weirdcord voice chat on multiple occasions around minors, going so far as to make official server announcements alerting all to join vc to participate. I was also told of a time Gib (19 at the time) made a minor (who was 16-17 at the time) read one of these NSFW fanfictions in vc for an audience of server members.

The fact that this announcement was even made makes it clear that something was in fact going on in modchat and it’s no place for a minor to be, especially when the server is controlled by an adult who fully knows how inappropriate the things they talk about are.

As someone who has been groomed as a minor in the past, I see Gib’s behavior as incredibly worrying and unfortunately all too familiar. I’m not making this post to say “wow guys Gib is a groomer”, I’m making it to spread awareness that Weirdcord may potentially be an unsafe environment for minors. I’ve received all of this information from trustworthy individuals and friends who have no motivation to lie and I am making my own conclusions based on the evidence provided and my own lived experiences.

Stay safe everyone, have a nice night!

January 8th 2023

PureDragonn:

I am very sad to say that this is indeed true.

TW// Mentions of adults grooming minors, minors being exposed to NSFW content, mentions of sexually explicit conversation, and general discussion of very uncomfortable situations I was best friends with gib (godenteredmybody) for a long time and was a mod/admin in weirdcord from April 2021 through June 2022. I have a lot to say about this. I should also mention that I do have screenshots of a decent amount of these conversations.

Starting off, there were in fact numerous instances where there were deeply NSFW conversations within mod chat involving minors. There was one instance I remember (around June 2021) where there was an in depth conversation about fetishes for around an hour or two, which included minors aged 14-17, and gib was 18. Everyone was encouraged to share their fetishes, although I’m not sure if it was gib who initiated this, but at the very least he did nothing to stop it and partook in it himself. I myself was only 15 at the time, and two friends of mine who were also there were 16. Frequently there would be graphic sexual jokes made within mod chat. It was said multiple times that it was okay to talk about such things in mod chat since it was a private channel that only we could see, and as far as I remember, gib said that we could talk there to not weird out regular server members. I think it’s important to note that these jokes were made so frequently that it made people uncomfortable, but nobody said anything because gib was older and everyone looked up to him. Many times in vc (both public and private) gib would frequently make highly explicit jokes with minors there. After knowing someone for as long as I’ve known gib, I understand when they’re joking and when there’s something more to what they’re saying.

Also in june 2021, I invited gib and another user (who I will not be mentioning by name, instead I’ll call them H) to a private server to post “something secret”, what it was, I wasn’t sure until it was posted. H then posted a porn drawing of their (gib and their) OCs. Gib then said “Now delete it before Dragonn sees :troll:”, although it was not deleted. H was only 16 at the time, and I think it’s worth noting that their OC was their sona and would also be 16. The fact that gib was telling a minor to draw porn of his OC and the minor’s OC and to show it to another minor is extremely concerning and quite frankly, disgusting. It’s clear that this was not a “joke”, you do not joke about stuff like that, and I don’t see how this could have been a “joke.” The fact that gib mentioned me by name shows that he was fully aware of what he was doing, and the fact he said to delete it shows that he was aware of how bad this behavior was. The fact that he said my name specifically shows that he was fully aware of who it was directed at. Gib was fully aware that we were both minors. There is nothing that can be said that can excuse this behavior, especially the fact that this had an adult making a minor draw and send explicit material to another minor.

Right after this, H asked if I wanted them to draw porn of my OC and gib’s, and I said yes because at the time I thought it would be funny. Looking back I know I only considered this funny because I was socially conditioned by gib to think that this “humor” was appropriate and funny. H later sent the drawing in the same channel, to which gib then pinged another person and started making fun of me. Over the next few months we would talk in this GC, and of course the NSFW topic discussions would continue. H would also send more porn drawings and so did gib once, but he deleted it right after, although it was in the middle of everyone talking so we all saw it. He stated that it was sent intentionally. Throughout this period, me and another person who was also in the GC (who I will not be mentioning by name either, and will call F) were encouraged by gib to date. F was 17 turning 18 in 3 months, and I of course was 15. The age difference was mentioned by all of us several times, but we still ended up dating for around a month, and gib would make slight comments about us. Although these weren’t sexual. Mostly teasing I guess. Throughout this period, gib would casually mention his fetishes. There were a few times F would make a single extremely sexual joke towards me in front of everyone else and make me extremely uncomfortable. I once made a very sexual joke (not directed towards anyone though) about the OC that gib and the 16 year old would draw porn of that F screenshotted it and would say in public chats on weirdcord that they would “send the screenshot”, which would also make me extremely uncomfortable and anxious. Eventually, someone pinged @everyone, to which gib started freaking out. For context, there were around 15 or so users who were completely inactive and never checked the server, all of which were members from weirdcord. Gib then started deleting all the channels because it had “his personal information in it” and then had H make a new server for us to talk in. The person who pinged @ everyone started apologizing profusely to me and gib and asked if they could join the new GC, but gib told me in DMs that he no longer trusted them. This person was 14 or 15 at the time.

Me and F broke up in late July due to the fact that they were close to turning 18. I was still only 15 at the time. Starting around August, me and H started dating and they would frequently make unprompted graphic sexual jokes towards me in the GC in front of everyone else. I could go on and on about what they would say to me in DMs, but it isn’t really relevant here. I will say that this relationship was very one-sided, as I felt pressured into it after they said they had a crush on me (which they told gib about first and informed me of that.) A lot of this would go on over the next few months until the GC slowly died over the course of 2 weeks or so, but the sexual jokes in mod chat continued happening.

It’s important to mention that everyone mentioned here was a mod on weirdcord, and everything here happened in private servers or as with the things mentioned at the very beginning such as the fetish sharing incident, in mod chat.

Around a month later I mentioned to gib that H had me in a toxic relationship and gib said “yeah, I could tell you were uncomfortable.” This goes to show that he knew what was going on was very wrong, but chose not to do anything about it. He purposefully chose not to step in to help me even though he was fully aware of what was happening.

Now as for the NSFW fanfiction readings, this happened starting when I joined weirdcord in early March of 2021, and I was also told by gib that this was a sort of “tradition” on weirdcord, so it was happening before I even joined the server too. One of the very first calls I was in on weirdcord was one of these fanfic readings. They would typically last a few hours with gib usually reading them, but every now and then he would ask me to read one, but I refused since I did not want my parents to hear me reading out loud very graphic imagery for over half an hour. As everyone knows, these eventually would become official server events with @ announcements for them. I raised concern about this in mod chat for obvious reasons, considering many many minors were in the server, with a lot being very young, like 13-15. I was instantly shut down and told that “gib knows what he’s doing.” These readings were in fact still very graphic. Gib had made a thread where people could send fanfictions for him to read, and of course many of the people sending them were minors. There was no 18+ restriction for any of these events or the thread whatsoever. Earlier on in 2021, around April-June, gib would host drawpiles where gib would start drawing porn, yet again “as a joke.” One time I remember he did it with someone’s OC, who was 15-16 at the time. Many other minors, like with the fanfic readings, would also be watching or partaking.

In my opinion, all of these instances culminated make it hard to deny that gib in fact had some level of malicious intent with all of this. It makes me really sad to say all of this, but it’s the truth and I want to make everyone aware of this so nobody else will be made a victim.

Lastly, I want to thank OP for making this post. It has encouraged me to come forward with this information. I want to encourage anyone else who has been made a victim or otherwise been made uncomfortable by this to also come forward.

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