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- Nov 2, 2020
My current opinion is the latter. I haven't seen anything about Pyrocynical trying to get nudes or sex out of Ivory. Intent to push things into real life action is a defining factor of grooming. If Pyro's intent was to get into Ivory's pants you'd expect at least one dick pic to pop up during the 3-4 years they were talking.That's pretty damning. However can we really call what he did with this kid grooming, or was it just him being a bit too horny for his own good?
I think Pyro was wrapped up in the same fucked up but normalized furry ERP behavior described earlier by Cactus Wings. People thinking a monitor softens the reality of their actions isn't a furry specific phenomenon but they delude themselves more than normal people. The screens and fursonas make them forget an adult and a minor "just ERPing" is still an adult and a minor jerking each other off. None of them want to admit that's what it is either because it would bring up too many painful realizations about what they've been doing. It's comfier to keep your head in the sand and your hand in your pants.
Based on Pyrocynical deleting a lot of stuff relating to his fetish ERPs, removing public displays of his fetish, and the current lack of accusations about him starting this with more minors after 2017/2018, he may have had a come-to-God moment. I think he realized it was wrong and backed off. I don't think he's pedo or a groomer. It currently looks like it was an unfortunate combination of his YouTube content bringing in an audience of minors and him not having proper boundaries. He still needs to take his lashes though. His intent is important to take into account but it doesn't change that his actions hurt people.