Cultcow EvaXephon / Yanderedev / Alex Mahan / Alexander Stuart Mahan / cannotgoogleme - Edgy weeaboo coomer with pedo tendencies and 15+ years internet history as a lolcow, now known as a disaster developer behind eternal debug build called "Yandere Simulator", confirmed groomer and dollfucker

The end of EvaXephon?

  • Quitting after a meltdown of Phil Fish magnitude

    Votes: 207 8.6%

  • Dropping YS after failed Kickstarter campaign

    Votes: 88 3.6%

  • Dying of old age with 9 out of 10 rivals ready

    Votes: 205 8.5%

  • FBI at the doors, SSD in the microwave

    Votes: 684 28.4%

  • Slowly fading into complete obscurity with Mulberry and Cameron by his side

    Votes: 311 12.9%

  • Killing himself after someone remakes YS into fun and optimized game

    Votes: 320 13.3%

  • Getting killed at night by the pile of broken real dolls that came to life

    Votes: 108 4.5%

  • Making YS so bugged that it stops launching, then quitting

    Votes: 194 8.0%

  • Burning to a crisp after leaving his home for the first time in years

    Votes: 144 6.0%

  • Getting killed by real-life yandere

    Votes: 150 6.2%
  • Total voters
    2,411
CoconutCat said:
I don't know if this is the right place to post this (but I don't know where else so eh), but I found this old interview from 2016 where YandereDev openly acknowledges that the majority of his audience are children: https://kotaku.com/the-secretive-creator-of-yandere-simulator-a-game-abou-1782741247
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Oh, thank you so much for this. I had a good laugh. Quote in question:
YanDev said:
YandereDev: In January, I polled my audience to find out more about them. I learned that 43% of the fanbase is 11~15 years old, and 36% is 16~20. I learned that 51% percent of the fanbase is female. I also learned that 69% of the fanbase is in favor of the game’s primary focus being manipulation, deception, and social sabotage (instead of murder).
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My other favourite quote:

D’Anastasio: What are your feelings about introducing this sort of violence and sexuality — panty shots, gore — to preteen girls?

YandereDev: Yandere Simulator has become quite popular among YouTubers - especially ones with a preteen demographic. I never intended to expose millions of preteen girls to the kind of content that is present in Yandere Simulator, but it was inevitable as soon as the game became popular among YouTubers. It does make me somewhat uncomfortable, but I don’t really consider myself to be the one who is responsible for it.

D’Anastasio: Who would be responsible?

YandereDev: YouTubers with millions of subscribers are the ones who are responsible for the massive amounts of exposure that the game has gotten. I am very grateful to them for allowing my work to reach such a wide audience! It’s a dream come true for any indie dev, and every day, I think about how lucky I am to have been noticed by big names such as PewDiePie and Markiplier.

It’s unfortunate that, as a side-effect, Yandere Simulator now has a fanbase that is far, far younger than I ever anticipated or intended. With that said, I’m still grateful to the YouTubers who play my game. If it wasn’t for them, my 12 hours of daily work would be appreciated by a much, much smaller audience, and the work that I do would hardly feel worth it.

"This is not my fault, it is all those damn dirty gremlins youtubers!"

Also, even back then people were shitting on Alex.
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This one made me laugh.
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The Cum Consumer said:
I think that this could really work if you did it in a comedic tongue-in-cheek sort of way. Have everybody fall in love with Senpai for no reason other than that he sits in the main character seat (you know, back of the room beside the mirror on the left). Really play up the fact that Ayano is too shy to talk to Senpai yet bold enough to kill a bunch of people. In fact, even end the game with Ayano going on her first date with Senpai only to realize that she's not really that into him. This game has real comedic potential.
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How bold of you to assume that Alex is this clever.
 
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Weird confession for an anecdote on why his "fans" act the way they do:
When I was first told about the game via a steam friend and looked at the game's website, I imagined the dev to be a sort of cool eboy in his cool bedroom tack tacking away at a keyboard, like a developer computer sciencey version of leafy, and I was thinking "wow this is so neat it's only 5% complete and there's so much! I can't wait for all the character interactions" I was probably like, 14 or 15 then.

But it was just a creepy, lazy old man wearing wifebeaters in his parents' house, who never faced consequences of his actions and had all his tendies served to him on a kid cuisine plate. Had I known this then I probably would've never given a second thought to supporting him in any way (ig when i put it that way i'm pretty shallow). Since most of his fanbase is children, I think they'll grow out of supporting the game and him, but there will always be more kids growing into edgy phases, and the cycle continues
 
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peachrancher said:
Weird confession for an anecdote on why his "fans" act the way they do:
When I was first told about the game via a steam friend and looked at the game's website, I imagined the dev to be a sort of cool eboy in his cool bedroom tack tacking away at a keyboard, like a developer computer sciencey version of leafy, and I was thinking "wow this is so neat it's only 5% complete and there's so much! I can't wait for all the character interactions" I was probably like, 14 or 15 then.

But it was just a creepy, lazy old man wearing wifebeaters in his parents' house, who never faced consequences of his actions and had all his tendies served to him on a kid cuisine plate. Had I known this then I probably would've never given a second thought to supporting him in any way (ig when I put it that way i'm pretty shallow). Since most of his fanbase is children, I think they'll grow out of supporting the game and him, but there will always be more kids growing into edgy phases, and the cycle continues
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Whilst there may be more kids entering into their "edgy phase" Alex will never get the exposure that he got that began the flood of popularity which was the wave of big YouTubers such as pewdiepie and markiplier. The cycle continues but it's slowing down and one day, it will inevitably stop.
 
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LitmusPaper said:
"Those dang dirty gremlins forced me to delay Osana again, and now I have to fix the subreddit"

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Alex, the master of timekeeping and priorities.
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spend time fixing it = changing a few pictures and modding a few people which could be done in a day... if it weren't for the fact that he is gonna salt the earth and ban everything that has the slightest chance of wounding his ego. So it probably will take a little while.
 
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lewdwig van beethoven said:
the new mods should've made him pay for it again
edit: this sounds like a get rich quick scam: "wanna get rich quick? just do some autist hack and steal alex's subreddit. get money fast!!! he'll blow at least 3k for it!!"
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You see, it was Reddit admins that gave him the subreddit back, they couldn't charge him for it because as far as i remember it's not legal to actually buy them.
I'm pretty sure they weren't aware that he purchased it in the first place so they just moved the ownership back to him.

I can already imagine what kind of manipulative message he wrote to get it back, something about how's the victim against those evil hackers and gremlins that wanted to harrass him etc etc...
 
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Kingu Cinnamon said:
spend time fixing it = changing a few pictures and modding a few people which could be done in a day... if it weren't for the fact that he is gonna salt the earth and ban everything that has the slightest chance of wounding his ego. So it probably will take a little while.
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Alex and his mods deleted nearly every single post made while the sub was hacked, this is all that shows up as posted in the last month. Deleting hundreds if not thousands of posts and banning all posters/commenters must have taken a huge amount of time.
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*Ack ack ack ack ack in DSP*
Just got a recent video suggested by YT on how someone recreated YanSim in just 2 weeks, how his community jumped on him with legit questions and how Alex went full apeshit. I had no idea, so I may be late few days on this, but still incredibly delicious.

There are dozens of reasons why it has come to this, mainly Alex being a greedy incompetent jerk with some screws loose, but avoidable with at least some work-ethics. If he really wanted to make his game a reality he would've focused, planned it in all aspects and streamlined his path to victory.
Instead he put together a random mess with a flabby resemblance to what he thinks it will be, going absolutely nowhere and stuck stagnant as if he's just a random dood who creates a random hobby project for fun. And it smells exactly like that, buddy.

Sure, coming up with ideas also takes time and they just recreated that, so they're faster with Alex' template. However, the idea isn't breaking in the first place and stretching time from 2 weeks to 6 years (or so) is really questionable. This happens when you actually put time in the game instead of everything else. For example excuse videos nobody asked for.
 
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I remember hearing about this guy back in the day maybe even pre 2014 its been so long I cannot exactly remember. He would go into twitch channels and shill his story about steam not wanting to accept his trash heap of a game, he argued it was because of the subject matter when in reality it was most likely because the game was a proof of concept at best at that point (it still is).

So we have a guy who got the hardest and most expensive part handled pertaining to a game. Hyping it up and advertising it to millions of people on a non-existent budget practically impossible to do in most cases. He for 6 years fumbles the easiest part which is developing the game. Clearly this guy sucks ass at developing a game because he, as a so called developer who's job is to develop a game yet still failed at it. All he had to do is get this game into an early beta phase at minimum where most if not all the mechanics promised are implemented and he probably would have got green lit and would have made quite a bit of money easily in the several 100k's.
 
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Disheveled Human said:
All he had to do is get this game into an early beta phase at minimum where most if not all the mechanics promised are implemented and he probably would have got green lit and would have made quite a bit of money easily in the several 100k's.
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yeah, but he's too stupid to realize this. that's why we're here
 
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