He contacted me in 2020 as well.
From: byuu <byuu@byuu.org>
To: Null <null@kiwifarms.net>
Date: Sept-28-2020 8:40 PM
Hi Null, I'm sorry to bother you, but I hope to humbly beg you for a favor.
Long story short, I got a thread made on me for acting like an idiot in 2017.
I fully own that I deserved it. I tried too hard to be liked by my peers and
lost sight of myself. I acknowledged my mistakes, and cleaned up my act.
I've tried very hard to improve myself, and I I haven't done anything off
since the thread went up 2018.
I've never once complained about or criticized you or your site,
and I'm aware that this is in no way your responsibility or concern,
but regrettably, someone in late January went A-log to try and coerce
a reaction out of me by combing through my friends list and doxing as
many people as they could, and then threatened them with leaking it if
they didn't give up my personal details.
I lost one of my best friends of 10 years over this, it terrified another,
and the anxiety and stress over this has really made my life a living hell.
I'm sure you can relate that when people go after our friends and family
things really cross a line and it really starts to hurt. I don't at all blame you
or your site for that, I fully blame only myself for my past eccentric behavior.
But not knowing what else to do, I signed up on your forum after that and
acknowledged my mistakes there as well, pleading for whoever it was to
stick to targeting me and not people unrelated to me. But predictably, it
just showed they were getting a reaction and the dox list was posted on 4chan
in March. I've been dealing with almost daily panic attacks ever since and I simply
don't know how to handle it anymore.
While asking for advice on Discord, I learned that the person who made the thread
on me was someone I knew from that very server. Jacob reached out and offered to
lock or take down his thread, which I assumed he handled through you but apparently
not. It really felt like a once-in-a-lifetime second chance. I was unaware he went
about it in a stupid way and didn't tell anyone until after it went back up. That
likely screwed any slim chance I had at asking you this, but all the same...
My thing is that I write free game system emulators: Sega, SNK, N64, PlayStation, etc.
It's the only thing I'm good at and the only thing that brings me any joy. I put my life into this.
I'm not going to return to the internet or social media either way, but I would
like to silently work on the emulator and just post new builds and that's all.
But I'm worried that if I do, whoever this is will keep escalating this as long as
they have an audience on your forum. I'm also worried that more people might join in.
My request is to ask you for mercy. I've been thoroughly shamed and broken already.
Everyone who's anyone has already seen the thread and that can never be undone now.
The thread's been archived six ways to Sunday already and will always be available online anyway.
I never once said anything or complained about the thread for the first two years it was up.
But I'm certain that whoever is behind the doxing is doing so to provoke reactions from me
there. I sincerely believe this is my only shot of possibly stopping this, or I wouldn't ask.
But yes, it had its desired effect, and yes, it really hurt a lot.
If you would please, please consider just hiding my thread, or even one day in
the future, it would mean the world to me and I will be forever in your debt, though
admittedly I don't have much to offer other than being a programmer.
I'm really not a bad guy, I just got momentarily caught up in acting dumb. I have
to live with that no matter what. I just want whoever it is to please stop going
after other people because of me. I can't handle the guilt of that.
Still, I realize how unlikely it is, but I'll respect your decision either way.
You have my word you won't hear from or of me again even if it's a no.
Thank you for your time.
(aside: if you want evidence first, I can send you 4chan archive links or whatnot.)
From: Null <null@kiwifarms.net>
To: byuu <byuu@byuu.org>
Date: Sept-28-2020 10:19 PM
I really do not appreciate that you had a mod suicide his account by
deleting your thread.
((For context: This thread was deleted by the OP, who was a Furry board supervisor at the time, immediately before he disappeared.))
From: byuu <byuu@byuu.org>
To: Null <null@kiwifarms.net>
Date: Sept-28-2020 10:33 PM
I'm really, deeply sorry about that, he turned out to be someone I knew from a Discord server I was in. I was asking if anyone had experience with anxiety and after explaining why, he reached out to me, told me who he was, and offered to take it down after running it by some folks. I assumed he meant you or someone senior there. I didn't know he would do so in such a stupid way, and I only found out after the fact. I would have *never* asked him to do something that would screw me over ten times as much and just make everything worse. I'm very sorry you lost a mod over it, that was never my attention at all.
From: byuu <byuu@byuu.org>
To: Null <null@kiwifarms.net>
Date: Sept-28-2020 10:51 PM
In any case, I accept the responsibility that talking about this on Discord is likely what led to him feeling sympathy. I've just been having a really rough time over this whole situation. I regret not reaching out to you myself back then instead of leaving it to him on account of it being his thread.
It sounds like that ruined any chance I had, so I guess I'm well and truly out of luck ._.
As promised, I'll leave you alone then. Thanks all the same, and once again my sincerest apologies about that.