Trainwreck Raven Sparks / Diana Bradley - Globe-trotting gothic grandma, married a child, abandoned her kid, serial pet-murderer

[Petronella]

Dorian's ex-wife is a monster who manipulated everyone

They say a man ends up with a woman like his mother.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

After somehow finally managing to make it through the entire video (which I would not recommend), I have to wonder what prompted this interminably long confession-session from Goffbags. Apparantly "The Truth About Everything" meant "5 minutes of admitting to stuff that a blind person could see and nearly 2 hours of bitching about random shit". And by random, I mean that it ran the gamut from sperging about Josh's mean ol' family to her appetite being so bird-like that she insisted she even had trouble snapping into her Slim Jims the other day, the poor waif.
After listening to whole thing and having a peek at her very dramatic YT comments, I have a feeling @MirnaMinkoff may be right about Raven's motivations- I wouldn't at all be surprised if a fundraising plan was in the works.
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(In response to a viewer stating that they were out of work and unable to pay their bills).

A few other notable highlights:

• Explaining in detail why Josh's entire family is a bunch of assholes and he's better off without them
• Josh's brother's girlfriend is not only a huge dick, but RAVEN met the family before she did, so it's SUPER unfair that they like her better!
• After ranting about Josh's family, an inexplicable plug for her favorite colored contact lenses
• They both lost their jobs because OTHER people are incompetent jerks
• Dorian's ex-wife is a monster who manipulated everyone
• Raven didn't get ANY Trump Bux and that's totally unfair!
• The evil slumlord of their rent-to-own trailer neglected the septic system and wouldn't let them skip rent to fix it!
• Sure, one of her dogs recently "disappeared" when she let it outside unsupervised, but she's a literal SAVIOR to animals! Besides, someone probably stole it, they never found it's body!
• A weird segment of Raven trimming her cat's claws for some reason
• She doesn't care what Lolcow's IP data shows, she DOESN'T go to hate sites except for that one time she came here and people were VERY MEAN to her
• Yes, Raven lied about a few things, but it totally wasn't her fault because HATE SITES

For those of you who just want to catch her explanation of the Baby Boost Mobile situation without having to endure each and every "here's why this other thing isn't my fault" segment, it starts right around the 1hr-15min mark.

It's kind of amazing how Raven constantly manages to feel so victimized by so many people and so consistently views everyone else (their bosses, Josh's family, Logan, Dorian's ex, her landlord, Trump. the "hate sites"...) as the problem. What's that old saying? If it smells like shit everywhere you go, you might want to check the bottom of your own shoes.

I had to do a double take on that comment. Josh lost his job because “the warranty company wouldn’t give us help we paid extra for.” Is Josh or Raven one of the idiots that fall for “your car warranty is about to expire” spam calls? Were they shocked that the “warranty” on their beater car didn’t actually cover jack shit? Shocking!

She’s always ready to go to bat for why it’s totally not Josh’s fault he lost yet another crappy job. I figure half the time he skips work thanks to some manufactured drama courtesy of Raven.

It’s amazing that they couldn’t find even one co-worker, friend, Uber or neighbor to give Josh a ride to his desperately needed job. Unless maybe he was a pizza delivery or Uber eats guy, which I doubt only because I don’t think he has insurance and doubt his license is valid.

It’s funny they are still paying rent on that trailer. Are the slumlords going to kick them out and find another sucker to rent a garbage trailer with a yard of sewage? The hardships of sewage trailer ownership.

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(FYI rent-to-own hovels are the biggest scams going where they are still legal in the south. They are always awful properties. If your hovel costs $25,000 and you pay off $24,700 but suddenly miss the last payment the owner can reclaim the property and boot you out. It also means they don’t have to maintain the property or do jack shit to it, that’s the tenants responsibility, which is the real reason they offer the arrangement.

Josh and Raven are fucking idiots. I didn’t realize how widespread these shady rent-to-own scams were until a friend of mine at legal aid was telling me how a huge number of dilapidated shit holes in our city’s worst hoods are these arrangements. The legal owners claim they aren’t obligated to fix/maintain them and put the responsibility on their poor ass tenants who don’t have a pot to piss in. The tenants are usually broke idiots like Raven and Josh who are drawn to the fantasy they will “own” these shitholes one day. 99% of the time the tenants are booted out within 6 months to 3 years, never coming even close to paying off the paltry amount to own the place. It’s a scam aimed at poor people who can’t get HUD subsidies to pay their rent and have no chance of ever getting a bank loan. It’s ideal for generating income out of shitty properties that no insurance or bank would touch.)

Raven and Josh are exactly the sort of poor, stupid, desperate people with no credit, no security deposit and terrible employment history that rent-to-own scams are designed for.

The ultimate irony is if they weren’t such terrible credit risks, or had not burned bridges with Josh‘a family, they probably could have got a real mortgage on a decent trailer or small house. They’d be paying the same amount every month on it but actually own it. Instead they just got scammed to pay rent for a hovel, without a landlord having to do any maintenance on it. They will get evicted again and have nothing to show for living in the middle of raw sewage for months.

Can you imagine living in a dilapidated trailer surrounded by 15 years of raw sewage in August in South Carolina!?!? Im getting nauseous just thinking about all bug infestations in the rancid stinking sewage steaming on a hot, humid August afternoon.

 

[makeup]

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(In response to a viewer stating that they were out of work and unable to pay their bills).

She says "double suicide," yet what I hear is "murder suicide"

 

[Xerxes IX]

I think it's great when someone goes "Oh noes some kiwis shot up schools you guise!", when there was only one kiwi who did a school shooting. He barely posted here anyway, and ever since then he's been roundly mocked and belittled by other kiwis for being a massive dumbass and total waste of oxygen.

With how Couch Cuck's attempt went, a Kiwi shooter wouldn't be able to get in and shoot them with Josh's mom's couch barricading the door.

 

[Fern]

Yet another cash grab.
It won't work this time. Money will not improve their situation. With the sob story she just laid out it's evident that giving Raven money to try to float this situation would be just like throwing cash into a bottomless pit. Plus everyone is kind of going through tough times in one way or another. Raven thinks she can just show up after months of nothingness and tug on heartstrings?
HA.

She needs to work on selling all of her Christmas trees and goffic garbage, Josh needs to either start selling drugs (preferably drugs they don't regularly use) or possibly his butt and mouth if he's in debt to his dealers, they need to take advantage of every Church or social service around them, buy a van that runs, ditch the shit shack and head out to the big city like the retarded Clampett's.
Live in the van and gig work until they get enough money together to get a cheap apartment, then start looking for jobs that they will eventually get fired from through no fault of their own, then move back out into their van, where they will stay until the murder suicide.
The bodies will be found much faster in the city and I think city folks will be much kinder to Raven when they come across her corpse as opposed to the hillbillies.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Yet another cash grab.
It won't work this time. Money will not improve their situation. With the sob story she just laid out it's evident that giving Raven money to try to float this situation would be just like throwing cash into a bottomless pit. Plus everyone is kind of going through tough times in one way or another. Raven thinks she can just show up after months of nothingness and tug on heartstrings?
HA.

She needs to work on selling all of her Christmas trees and goffic garbage, Josh needs to either start selling drugs (preferably drugs they don't regularly use) or possibly his butt and mouth if he's in debt to his dealers, they need to take advantage of every Church or social service around them, buy a van that runs, ditch the shit shack and head out to the big city like the retarded Clampett's.
Live in the van and gig work until they get enough money together to get a cheap apartment, then start looking for jobs that they will eventually get fired from through no fault of their own, then move back out into their van, where they will stay until the murder suicide.
The bodies will be found much faster in the city and I think city folks will be much kinder to Raven when they come across her corpse as opposed to the hillbillies.

I think the video was a trial balloon for some e-begging, it didn’t go well. I’m sure Josh thinks she should do it since the mom’s funeral scam netted them $800 or so. But Raven knows it probably won’t work or it’s not worth the humiliation and cackling from the haters to get $90 or so. Most of her audience are just train wreck watchers. The small amount of “Fans” she has are just as trashy and deadass broke as she is so limited pity buck potential.

Raven must be exhausted having to prop up Josh’s ego and keep her bitterness and crazy in check to some extent. If she unleashes on him for destitution and living in open sewage then he can just go back to mom’s sofa. Even if Josh’s family is pissed they would welcome him with open arms if he dumped goffix granny. They could all sit around and shit talk Raven for a few weeks while Josh gets his laundry done, bums smokes, watches a 80 inch TV in mom’s living room.

Raven, otoh, is fucked if couch boy dumps her. She is even less adept at holding a job than him. She’s got to be clinging to him for all she’s worth. If there was any other simp on earth interested pretty sure the open sewage would have made her take that option.

 

[Pope of Trash]

The truth about everything

Can't believe I sat through this whole thing. I was nodding off near the end, but these are the interesting points I remember.

• She admits that she lied about going to her mother's funeral. She claims it's the fault of the rent-a-car company, who told her beforehand that she could rent a car without a credit card. She then went on to make a fundraiser for the trip. When she showed up on the day, the company rejected her, telling her that was not a policy of theirs and that they had never told her this. She shows a video she filmed that day of her crying and apologizing to her backers, but she decided against posting it because she knew the haters would accuse her of stealing the money. So she decided to fake going to the funeral... so she could steal the money.
• She admits that the baby is fake. She claims she was actually pregnant, but miscarried as usual and couldn't bare to face the haters. Goes on a rant about how her first doctor lied to her about saying she's incapable of pregnancy, and that's what all the haters believe now. She's adamant that the baby was not faked via a cell phone, but was a real live baby that she was babysitting. The cell phone reflection in her glasses was simply because she has notes that she references while filming.
• She admits that Joshua's brother and brother's girlfriend have both spoken against them on the "hate sites." The brother went to lolcow, and the brother's girlfriend came here. She proclaims that she will never forgive his family for betraying her, and that she told Joshua that he must choose between her and them.
• She claims that they do not murder, hoard, or abuse animals. Instead, they find or adopt stray animals who they fix up and then find new homes for.
• She discusses the Dorian, Logan, and Isa situation. She essentially just rants about how Logan's not a true trans, that she never saw any sign of it in the entire time they were married, and that it's likely Isa turned him into a troon. Isa is also not a true trans, because she now claims to be both male and female apparently. She frequently uses the word "transtrender," showing her familiarity with farm culture. She also defends true trans and the brave and stunning struggles they go through.
• She discusses her burns and shows footage of her poking the yellow blisters on her stomach. She then shows another clip of them after they've been popped.
• She admits that they're in financial ruin. Despite just recently bragging about purchasing a jacuzzi (which apparently fell through), they're in a very poor financial state. According to her, this is the worst-off they've ever been. Both of their accounts are in the red for about $500.
  • Raven got terminated from her job due to what she claims is a misunderstanding. She grew frustrated helping customers, as they were made to wait for hours in a queue of thousands, resulting in them taking their frustration out on her. The employee help center was not helpful regarding specific issues, so she was unable to help customers. She went to her manager, who asked her if she'd like to transfer to a different department. She agreed and her request was submitted to H.R. Apparently there was some type of miscommunication, and H.R. believed that Raven was resigning instead, and so she was let go.
  • Joshua's car broke down, so he was unable to go into work. The car was sent to be fixed, but warranty refused to cover it, and the couple could not afford to pay for the car. They managed to scrounge up some type of loan to pay off the car, which apparently costs them something like $80 per week. Joshua went back to work, but was only back for a few days before he was let go.
  • Their trailer suffered a septic tank back-up after it was found the owner hadn't cleaned it in 15 years. As a result, the yard and god knows where else became covered in exactly what you'd expect from a septic tank back-up. Their trailer is a rent-to-own property, and Raven claims that they are legally the owners. They asked the landlord if they could use that month's rent to fix the septic, which the landlord had refused to help with. There was a lot of arguing back and forth, which resulted in the court case. Raven claims that the case was dismissed and they were able to settle the situation.

After this I woke up with the worst stomach ache I've had in years, so let it be known that allowing Raven's voice to access your dream state has serious consequences.

I am honestly amazed she's finally admitted to most of the dumb shit she's done. Mind blown.

Also I'd say her backyard being flooded with shit is some kind of karma.

 

[Toasty]

I am honestly amazed she's finally admitted to most of the dumb shit she's done. Mind blown.

Also I'd say her backyard being flooded with shit is some kind of karma.

She hasn't admitted the biggest thing. That the lurve that was more than oh whatever with captain cave couch is a sham, and once again, the only things holding it together are her need to keep up appearances, spite, guilt trips, and sunk cost fallacy. Sooner or later he's going to miss his family. She states in this video, how they haven't been there for him since they got together, but SHE has, so he knows who cares! Guess who has been there for him since birth?
I'll be impressed when she actually lives her life on her own two feet, or at least paying her own upkeep. Without depending on a teenager or a moron to con into being responsible for her.

 

[AprilRains]

Josh is her sugar daddy? That was a damn mistake. He's made of saccharin.

 

[Pope of Trash]

She hasn't admitted the biggest thing. That the lurve that was more than oh whatever with captain cave couch is a sham, and once again, the only things holding it together are her need to keep up appearances, spite, guilt trips, and sunk cost fallacy. Sooner or later he's going to miss his family. She states in this video, how they haven't been there for him since they got together, but SHE has, so he knows who cares! Guess who has been there for him since birth?
I'll be impressed when she actually lives her life on her own two feet, or at least paying her own upkeep. Without depending on a teenager or a moron to con into being responsible for her.

I don't think it's possible for her to live on her own, or on her own two feet. She clearly needs attention all the time, and I don't think she can function alone. Plus she clearly doesn't have the motivation or drive to do anything herself.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

She hasn't admitted the biggest thing. That the lurve that was more than oh whatever with captain cave couch is a sham, and once again, the only things holding it together are her need to keep up appearances, spite, guilt trips, and sunk cost fallacy. Sooner or later he's going to miss his family. She states in this video, how they haven't been there for him since they got together, but SHE has, so he knows who cares! Guess who has been there for him since birth?
I'll be impressed when she actually lives her life on her own two feet, or at least paying her own upkeep. Without depending on a teenager or a moron to con into being responsible for her.

She’s can’t do that until she manages to find a new simp. It took her years and moving ten thousand miles to finally find a someone to take her in after her childgroom marriage fizzled out. She might really be stuck with Josh because it’s either cave man in open sewage trailer, or 50 year old fat guy with three grown kids who lives on SSI and lives in a trailer with a functioning septic tank.

Basically she’s stuck with Josh until he finally realizes he he’s got a 200 lbs goth granny albatross around his neck for no good reason. Raven has to keep giving Josh’s ego blow jobs, reminding him how awful his family is to him, keep showing him photoshopped selfies from her glory days and keep the 26 year old meth head trailer chicks with lots of tattoos away. This on top of living in a hoarded trailer, with too many pets, surrounded by open sewage is Raven’s best life.

 

[Toasty]

My fren had to go back home to mom's. Next time she feels down about it I'll remind her that her mom's is a luxury condo, and Raven's sewage trailer is well... Yeah.
So how come when the Bradley's took "ownership" they didn't have the septic tank taken care of as a part of the settlement ( lol) or soon after they had taken possession? How do you live in the sticks and not know you need to at least get that thing sounded? Captain caveman should have known that at least.

 

[Professional Asshole]

Does this mean she will have to sell cell phone baby in order to repair the Septic system? Lol who am I kidding, she will use the money to buy more useless crap!

 

[Dirty Bird]

Raven posted a new video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWBzZUEAA_Y&ab_channel=Raven

She basically says that she is going to try to keep making videos like how she used to before she knew about LC and KF. She says she misses doing videos and talking about what is on her mind and try to pretend like the hate sites aren't there.

She cites some other youtuber with a large following being bullied and figures if someone with a large following gets bullied and mean comments, then she may as well keep making videos too.

She says some people came through privately and gave her money to pay for her bills.

She shows off a spider tattoo on the side of her head, and then says that the money that was given to her was not used to pay for the tattoo. She said her and Josh have both been applying to jobs and he recently started one, and said the tattoo was paid from their jobs.

I think that was about it.

I've been reading through this thread from the beginning to relive old drama memories and remember when she started the gofundme for her plane ticket, and then immediately started getting all those tattoos, plushies, and Jeffrey Star lipsticks? This is the same exact shit. I feel like she probably does some mental gymnastics to say the donations didn't go to her tattoo, but I find it hard to believe it didn't.

 

[Petronella]

I feel Raven's main motivation is money. I think she thinks she can build a fanbase and then hit them up for "help with bills."

 

[Karl der Grosse]

The only fanbase she's ever been able to develop are the people who watch her shit and laugh about it, here and at lolcow. And most of them don't bother keeping up with her idiocy anymore because she's gotten so boring. Maybe that'll change if she starts uploading more content. But an actual fanbase? That will never happen. Granny and Grunt aren't the sort of people who get a fanbase.

 

[DeadFish]

She isnt dead yet?

 

[Turd Blossom]

While a good percentage of her viewership is there to watch the shitshow unfold, as unlikely as it seems Gravy has a handful of viewers that have followed her since her myspace days.
Poking through her comment section has become almost as entertaining as her delusional videos, as it offers an insight into the types of ding-dongs that identify with our Grifting Goth Granny (spoiler alert: they're all just as insane as she is):

Spoiler: Gravy's Fanbase

Goffbags seems to be a magnet for other middle-aged Goth-moms with jobless boyfriends. Too bad she can't seem to attract any independently wealthy Goth fans to keep her in Slim Jims and Ali Express jewelry, what a shame.
Although Raven does have a paypal listed just in case anyone -excluding those unemployed or in the midst of "mental breakdowns" ofc- wants to help (our stoic hero is WAY too proud to ask, though!)

There are even a couple fellas who are long-time fans of Raven, including this charmer:



Rox is a real renaissance man, he does it all: music, makeup, reviews, psychology... and discussing his daughter's first period for all of the internet. And when not being your friendly neighborhood DoorDash driver, he puts out what I can only imagine are very tasteful pictures on OnlyFans.

Perhaps my favorite Raven fan is this one, which at last look made around 10 comments with different account names. The fact that Raven manually approves every comment makes this all the more funny/sad, especially considering how she boasted in her video that she got very few negative comments after her confession video. Either she's lying or literally no one but a few crazy long-timers and spam accounts bothered to comment. I don't know what's worse tbh.

Other highlights in her comment section included Gravy mentioning that she's going to do a good old-fashioned "rant" video soon, so I guess we have that to look forward to. One can only guess what's gotten her knickers in a knot this week beyond her septic issues and the fact that Josh's entire family appears to hate her.

She's still addressing comments under her confession video. It's nice to see she feels absutely"horrible" about the lies that she was FORCED to tell because shitlords on the internet shamed her into inventing a fake baby!!

Poor, poor Raven: such a conundrum she's been faced with for so many years! Does she go offline and give up what she loves the most (attention), or stay online and be faced with the "constant abuse" (people occasionally pointing out her lies/inconsistency/missing animals).

Funny, I seem to remember the thread being pretty dead when she managed to stay offline for a few months. Although this thread can be pretty entertaining at times (mostly because of the clever posters here), it only attracts a very small handful of us. Much like the collections of crap she's accumulated in storage boxes, she's kind of a dusty old relic at this point and greatly overestimates people's interest in her.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Raven posted a new video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWBzZUEAA_Y&ab_channel=Raven

She basically says that she is going to try to keep making videos like how she used to before she knew about LC and KF. She says she misses doing videos and talking about what is on her mind and try to pretend like the hate sites aren't there.

She cites some other youtuber with a large following being bullied and figures if someone with a large following gets bullied and mean comments, then she may as well keep making videos too.

She says some people came through privately and gave her money to pay for her bills.

She shows off a spider tattoo on the side of her head, and then says that the money that was given to her was not used to pay for the tattoo. She said her and Josh have both been applying to jobs and he recently started one, and said the tattoo was paid from their jobs.

I think that was about it.

I've been reading through this thread from the beginning to relive old drama memories and remember when she started the gofundme for her plane ticket, and then immediately started getting all those tattoos, plushies, and Jeffrey Star lipsticks? This is the same exact shit. I feel like she probably does some mental gymnastics to say the donations didn't go to her tattoo, but I find it hard to believe it didn't.

I have a hard time believing she got any significant donations, but she loves to promote the idea her fans love her so much. I figure she can’t do a GFM again due to not having a bank account that’s not severely overdrawn.

She certainly has non- hate watchers but they tend to be as dead ass broke and trashy as her, as the comments demonstrate.

I’m still so glad she left NZ to shack up in a filthy trailer with couch boy.

 

[NomiMalone]

Just keep in mind that Raven is a sociopathic liar and you can't take anything she says at face value.

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