I'd like to talk about one part of YS development that turned out to be way funnier than I remembered - the battle between Alex and a softcore camwhore website Twitch.com. Why? Because of level of deception, manipulation and outright bullshit coming from Alex was alltime high and he seems to have phantom pains about it to this very day. Let's dive in!
2015 was very good for Alex - his Patreon went higher than ever, he switched from /v/irgins to new fanbase, who somehow were even more gullible and retarded and to be fair, there wasn't much to corner him with outside of 4chan, Loserz forums and other stuff. For his new audience he was yet to fuck up in too many places and 2016 promised to be even better, right?
Wrong! On January 22, 2016 Yandere Simulator gets officially on Twitch's shitlist, meaning that anyone who streams it will get banned. The next day Alex leaves
a blogpost with a hastily made video which is funny to watch even today.
He starts his video by showing
Twitch's list of banned games and lists Yandere Simulator next to Battle Rape and Rapelay, to mislead his fans into thinking "well, there is no way YS should be among those games". The situation becomes even more absurd when realize that Alex actually played RapeLay and even asked for advice on Hongfire! (
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Alex was only about to turn 18 in two weeks and Manaka is a teenage girl, by the way.
He himself acknowledges that YS already had torture, suicide and pantyshots, but immediately jumps to "well, GTA5 isn't banned and it has torture scene", failing to realize that scene is one, required by plot and what is most important you don't do it with a minor!
He then says "if Twitch told me what's wrong, I'd modify the game", even though...
Just after that he refuses to remove pantyshots, even though mere seconds before he told that he is ready to compromise and years later will say this.
Alex says he is yet to get a response and concludes that "I would not be willing to remove gameplay mechanics or change parts of the game that are essential to my vision". Days pass, then weeks, then months and it seems that the conflict has exhausted itself, Alex sucked it up and moved on. Oh, if only...
On October 1, 2016 Alex leaves
two tweets, where he basically asks his fanbase to deal with his problems with Twitch.
It seems that this tactic wasn't very successful, since
on January 22, 2017 an entire year after the fact Alex decides to push his bullshit to the limit and beyond by releasing this video.
This time Alex tries to rope not only his simps, but every fucking developer under the sun! "If this happened to me, then it can happen to you!" - Alex doesn't understand that games about killing/sexualizing minors are rather exception than the rule.
He then again lists his fetish meme simulator next to Battle Rape and RapeLay to make look his ban more absurd than it really is, even though the list has such games as:
- House Party
- Kamidori Alchemy Meister
- Radiator 2
- Rinse and Repeat
- Second Life
- Witch Trainer
Doesn't sound too ominous, right? It's especially funny in the case of Kamidori Alchemy Meister, since it can easily pass as JRPG, even though our protagonist solves more problems with his dick, than with his sword.
He then accuses Twitch of double standards, since some games despite their violent nature are not banned, because they are popular. Think that he wants some justice? Nope - mere seconds after this he basically says "now my game is popular, let me back in".
He again uses GTA 5 as an example of torture scenes allowed on Twitch, even though he himself
tweeted back in April "If the torture sequence ever becomes interactive, it might work like the interrogation scenes from "Bullet Girls 2". If you don't know what this means - '
Bullet Girls' is about ripping clothing off of young girls and groping them' by Alex Mahan.
He then says, that "nudity and violence are not the goals in my game". To be fair, Alex added to his game the ability to befriend your rival or match her with someone, but to be even more fair, in the year before that post Alex added the following things:
Clearly he did his best to save his game from the eternity on Twitch's shitlist.
Then he finally says it - "it's SJWs in moderation". How ironic....
Not so cocky now, are you?
Of course, in the end Alex cries that it is unfair, that it can happen to anyone and urges people to harass Twitch and it's employes with questions about the ban.
Doesn't seem that this decision went universally praised among his fans, since two days later
he creates a poll to ask if they want him to do nothing make more videos about Twitch. Surprisingly, simps who want more videos NOW NOW NOW end up as a minority and even though 25% are against doing more of these, around a half wants another video week later, so Alex does exactly that, only not in the way everyone expected.
On January 29, 2017 mere week into his war with Twitch, Alex realises that antagonizing them even more by roping other developers into this wasn't the best idea and
backpedals almost to a complete halt.
Now he doesn't claim that they ignored him, now he claims that "oh, maybe I've missed their email", even though before he claimed that he contacted them everywhere.
Now he claims that Twitch doesn't want to tell him what is wrong, because they are afraid that he will censor the game! Let that sink in! Here he talks about "Twitch friendly version".
Now he claims that they probably have no protocol for unban, yet he claimed that some of the instalments of Senran Kagura got unbanned after all.
He also says "well, now you don't have to kill your rival, you can befriend her", yeah, by kidnapping a girl and giving her PTSD, nice change of pace.
And about "even though the game was banned a year ago, it doesn't meet the criteria anymore"... Just scroll up.
But after brief mention in his blogpost on
Feb 2, 2017, he says that
Twitch finally responded to his bitching on Feb 11, 2017 and that response was strange and brilliant at the same time.
From the email it seems that Twitch had problems with the following things - Titan Mode, clouds of steam covering girls in shower, pantyshots and finally "the setting, intent and gameplay indicate that the game is about violence against and sexual harassment against minors in the school setting" since he himself called YS "a game where you stalk and kill schoolgirls" in
his Vice interview. This is strange, since the first three are exactly the things that Alex listed in his first video about Twitch ban from a year ago and really, Twitch could limit their response to the last one. It almost feels like the person responsible for that email just watched his bitching to come up with reasons except the last one.
Of course, Alex begins weasel his ass and claim that "well, you get penalty for murder and you can eliminate them in other ways" and also goes full retard and says "well, the rules have nothing about killing minors".
He also continues antagonizing Twitch by saying dumb shit like "but Witcher 3 has sex scenes and you can run naked in Conan" even though A - those things aren't the focus of those games, B - they have no minors involved in those activities.
But the funniest part of their response wasn't this - in possibly the most daring trolling attempt in history of all Twitch, they told him that they can review his game again and maybe even lift the ban, but since the game keeps changing from build to build, it is possible only after the development is complete! I am surprised how they didn't ask him to delete his Twitch channel.
However, the last piece of comedy comes from Alex himself who calls this "the end of TWITCH SAGA". Well, you may've heard about one person, whose periods of life are described as 'sagas' too.
However, Alex wasn't done yet. Just 2 days after this
he jumps on Twitch suggestion board and literally cries "please, change your rules to let my game back in" with arguments from his previous videos. Of course, he wants to use his underage fanbase.
This results in his suggestion getting spammed with messages about him being a scammer and a pedophile.
On March 1, 2017
Alex announces his doomed partnership with TinyBuild and among other positive things lists that "TB has already build good relationships with Steam and Twitch". From the leaked emails it seems that yeah, our favorite retard really believed, that contract with TB will unban his game from Twitch.
I'd ask why they decided to work with someone, who signs a contract with a publisher only to get his game unbanned from Twitch, but hey, some of them were YS fans, so their intellect is out of the question. Alex himself probably realized how embarrassing this was, that's why in
his admission of the partnership with TB going to shit, he didn't mention Twitch once.
On Sep 1, 2017, when his partnership with TB was basically dead,
he tries another trick - splitting the game on YS mode and Lovesick mode, different in uniforms, absence of debug commands and color filter only. He tries to pass it as "now people can choose between serious and funny", even though he also adds bugs(no, not the usual ones) as an alternative to pantyshots, so he could fall on "well, you don't have to take them now", which makes his intentions obvious. However, this idea was met so poorly, that
he had to reverse it the next fucking day! Where is it now? You guessed it - it's an easter egg!
The last time Alex bitched about his game being banned from Twitch
was on Sep 21, 2019. He claims that he was watching someone stream YS for 7 hours and made some adjustments to the game. It would be nothing of note, if not for one little thing he said - "After Osana is released, it should become a priority to appeal to Twitch and ask them to reconsider the game’s ban", even though Twitch said, that the game can be re-reviewed only after it's done and he claimed that his v-slice will be rewritten by someone competent. However, almost a year has passed since, but it doesn't seem that Alex is doing something about it.
I doubt he realizes that until his game is set in school, it has no place on Twitch. However, if they indeed review his game again, I really hope the person responsible for the process will stumble upon the old threads, where he describes in detail how the game is set in "middle-high school", all his ideas about selling underage girls into sex slavery and of course him calling senpai's sister "slutty jailbait". That would be really unfortunate.