It looks like we only have a vague timeline for when this first supposed incident happened. After a failed career of trying to be a stripper and then posing for nude photos as "Locke Valentine," Chelsea ended up married around 2007-2009, and filed for divorce in January 2010 (it was finalized in April 2010). She has a tweet saying she'd
been in Canada for a year as of December 2010 (she would move to Boston in
July 2012), so she presumably emigrated with the husband from Albany, NY and was with him in Canada sometime in 2009 or early 2010 before divorcing him. She's claiming a sexual assault happened within a few months of injecting herself into the Toronto indie games community, maybe the info is out there as to when exactly she involved herself but the closest I can figure is that she was actively using the fake Zoe Quinn name as of August 2010, and we know that because she made up a fake birthday of August 13th because it happened to be on a Friday that year. A tweet about working on her
"first indie game" was in August 2011.
"It's why I don't go to GDC anymore" - This "haunted" her so severely that the only reason she has stopped going was because some dipshits enabled her to grift in comics instead; she was regularly attending GDC and 2018 was the first year she skipped because of "really fun and cool" reasons (probably the comic?), then she didn't go in 2019 because she was already going to multiple comic cons that month.
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Chelsea claims she couldn't tell anyone she had been sexually assaulted because her "visa status was threatened" if she did. Despite this, the guy "went out of his way to tell the community" that Chelsea had been "falsely accusing him of rape" when she "hadn't said anything to anyone." This sexual assault supposedly had a witness who had confronted the guy about it the next day. Chelsea then brushes this off and says she isn't really talking about that guy and this is just the "background to this story" because he's had "years of therapy and working on himself" and "reached out and apologized for everything" and she's forgiven him.
Edit:
@TheMonkeyMan posted above some pastebins from 2011 which likely are what this drama is about. Looking over it, it looks like Chelsea was fucking Brendan Frye, the editor for C&G in late 2011 and according to him she was trying to take the relationship, which was just casual sex, more serious but he didn't feel that way. She dropped hints that she wanted to write about games and he agreed to let her submit articles, but he would not have final say. They broke off the sexual relationship but tried to stay friends. According to him he had moved on and was in another relationship shortly after. He got drunk over a friend's death and was at a ToJam event and Site3 party looking for a friend to confide in, and couldn't get in touch with anyone. He learned Chelsea left and he saw her walking with someone named Miguel Sternberg (who wrote the other pastebin), according to Frye he tried to "pull her aside to talk" but it "did not work as intended," he tried to apologize to Miguel the next day "with regrettable results."
According to Miguel's version, Frye was totes stalking Chelsea and had even got his lip pierced just like hers and was, TW/CW: following people Chelsea knew on Facebook and Twitter. He was her boss up until he fired her after she rejected his verbal advances. He was following Chelsea around ToJam and then got drunk and "basically followed her non-stop." He followed them to the Site3 party and tried to follow Chelsea into the washroom, then Miguel and the others decided that was the last straw and told the party organizers, who just tried to "stall' Frye as Chelsea and the others left. They then had an Assassin's Creed chase scene play out where they "strategically slowed down, speed up and stopped in crowds" to try and lose him. After more "stalling tactics" Chelsea confronted Frye and he said he wasn't doing anything, then he - TW/CW sexual assault - grabbed her hard by the shoulder and ran away when she yelled at him not to touch her again, then he ran back and yelled more and "essentially" told her she was fired and wouldn't be going to the Montreal Game Summit to report on it. He then called her repeatedly when they went back to the party. Miguel ends by trying to get Frye excommunicated from the comic and indie games community and urges people to blacklist him and not support his work or provide him content.
Chelsea claims she was ready to kill herself over the sexual assault she declined to report or talk about, and it was only because she cared so much about her roommate that she didn't do it. It looks like we now jump up to 2012, as she claims she started a relationship with Alex Holowka and he had invited her over to Winnipeg, which we have evidence of having happened in
March and April of 2012, as she tweeted about
being invited there. This could be a discrepancy here as an ex-boyfriend has a text message from when she was dating him
in July 2011 and he said she had already been complaining about how hard it was for her to be a woman in the indie game/game jam scene (he further said that by sometime in 2012, he was talking with a co-worker who was involved in the indie scene and he said Chelsea was a "social pariah" and had fucked everyone on her game jam team and had a reputation for being a piece of shit person and a liar, which the ex said was a "good reason" she left Toronto).
Chelsea admits she and Alec were mutually flirting with each other and part of the reason Alec invited her to Winnipeg was to see if they "hit it off" and move their e-dating to real life, as well as to see if Chelsea wanted to move there and start an "indie game house," which we do have a piece of
evidence supporting. Chelsea also had a tweet about
apartment hunting in Winnipeg, she tweeted about
being in the same room as him during her Winnipeg visit, she tweeted about him
now working on some "It's Not Okay Cupid" game with her, so seemingly this all did happen. Chelsea then claims Alec had "physically confined" her in his apartment and the only way she got out was for Chelsea's Toronto roommate to use his air miles to buy Chelsea a ticket back. As far as I can tell, this part is a lie. She had constantly been tweeting on a daily basis when she was there. It seems like she
left on her own volition to
go to TCAF (a festival in Toronto) "for a bit." She
tweeted at him after going to Toronto and abruptly stopped after the linked one on May 10th (unfortunately he's locked down so we can't see what he may have said). It sounds like her return to Toronto was meant to be temporary, and then he told her to fuck off when she was supposed to return to Winnipeg - whatever it was that happened, it seems unlikely she was "physically confined" in his apartment and more likely she just destroyed another relationship through constant lying and/or cheating. Chelsea a few weeks after returning:
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Chelsea goes on to claim he was totally abusive and controlling, that he convinced her to give up her "indie dev house" idea and to let him program the Cupid game instead of someone else (after just a few days in Winnipeg she was already
"scheming" with him for future collaborations). He supposedly was "isolating" her from everyone else she knew (while letting her run rampant on social media) and was "absolutely degrading" her when they were alone. He supposedly screamed at her for "over an hour" because of the tone in her voice when she said hello. He supposedly wouldn't let her leave the apartment by herself and refused to give her the door code to get in.
As if it wasn't obvious, Chelsea admits she was fucking him, and he was supposedly "jealous" of her for being so alluring that the other guy had allegedly sexually assaulted her. He supposedly would mention that during sex. He claimed he loved her in a way no one else could, because he knew she was "terrible" but still loved her, and Chelsea claims she "bought it" because she was "recovering from being sexually assaulted." She claims she spent "a lot" of her time in Winnipeg "hiding from him in the bathroom" and that his moods would shift and he would start chimping out and throwing things and self harm and blame her. He would supposedly "jam his fingers inside" Chelsea and "walk [her] around the house by them" when she said it hurt.
Chelsea was supposedly too scared to leave and too scared to tell anyone. All of what she has mentioned supposedly took place in the first two weeks. This was supposed to be when she went back to Toronto, and she got more scared and Alec kept putting off the plane ticket he was allegedly meant to be buying for her to go back. Supposedly her Toronto roommate got concerned enough to "get scared" and ask Chelsea if she "needed help getting out." Alec was somehow powerless to stop this and he "barely looked" at Chelsea when she left.
Chelsea claims she dumped Alec when she was back in Toronto, with a "cordial and friendly break up email." Alec supposedly chimped out and banned her from an indie games community he ran, banned himself, then went to "industry legends" and asked them to help him kill himself because Chelsea "was such a bitch." He supposedly blacklisted Chelsea out of "important industry events" and "to a degree" had ruined her "career" she'd "barely started."
Years later when Chelsea's lying blew up in her face with Gamergate, she claims she "vaguebooked" abut Alec and two "other women in games" immediately asked if she meant Alec and Chelsea claims he had "done similar things to them." She claims the women knew Alec had been "fixated" on Chelsea and were "too afraid" to speak up about an "industry legend."
Chelsea claims she's still "afraid' of him and "too afraid to speak out," especially because she's already been outed as a serial liar and piece of shit through Gamergate and has a reputation as being garbage. She claims all these indies know about his behavior and just ignore it. She then lies and claims she skipped the last two GDCs because she "couldn't risk being around him or seeing everyone clap for him on stage. Especially not people who know." We've already seen that it looks like the reason she didn't go to GDCs was because she was doing comic cons (and the last 'game' she was developing is vaporware), so...
Chelsea then claims she doesn't wish ill will on anyone, then proceeds to imply Alec is mentally ill, that he is obsessed with her and has had a "meltdown" about her, that he is a "broken stair" that she knows nothing will be done about unless she says something, but she's so very scared and a "big childish part" of her has been hoping a lynch mob would start "caring or figure it out on their own" and destroy Alec for her. She ends by implying Alec is some dangerous juggernaut that is running around actively "hurting" game developers and she's been "hiding" until whatever happened that she decided to attach herself to and try to destroy this guy in revenge for a failed relationship from over 7 years ago.