Hello everyone.
I've known about this thread for years but it's only been in the last few months that I felt compelled to post here.
I'm FanaticDreamer. I was Chibi / Aquana / Adam's "best friend" from 2016 to 2019. And boy do I have stories. I don't know how to verify my identity but I'd be more than happy to do so if needed. I saw multiple people in the past post about knowing him and sharing their stories / providing more insight so I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring, too.
I caught up on this thread recently and I just want to say firstly to the people who are expressing sympathy to him - DO NOT BE FOOLED. This was a trap I fell in and what made me want to be his friend originally. He followed me on Twitter around AGDQ2016. I was really excited at first because I love memes and one of the biggest memes in the speedrunning community had followed me. I was warned by several streamers to block him / do not engage but I couldn't help it. Against their advice I engaged because I felt bad for him. I tend to like the underdogs and I felt like maybe people were being unfair and basing their entire opinion on him based on a single moment of cringe (Tomba 2 run) I wish I had listened to them.
Being friends with Chibi is like...working a full time job that you do not get paid for. A job where the boss is a moron and constantly setting the office on fire - even after you've explained to him dozens of times that fire is bad and can hurt you. At times I felt almost like being friends with Chibi was like having a child. He would keep coming up with ideas on how to build himself up on Twitch and then I'd have to remind him that 90% of the community doesn't like him and won't want any part of anything he does. Then he'd get all depressed and "suicidal" which is in quotations because I truly believe it is posturing purely for attention. Never once did he seek professional help for it or take seriously any of the therapeutic techniques I showed him to avoid those thoughts. It was all just a way of getting attention and making you feel bad for him so you do most of the work for him.
Shortly after AGDQ2016, Chibi came up with an idea for a Speedrunning Marathon. In his mind it was a way to get him back in the good graces of the Speedrunning community. I knew this would be a problem and as I said above - highly unlikely given his reputation. We were in a voice call and he brought up the fact that at the time I knew a lot of people and my reputation was good...so I could get people on board. I was unsure about that but he was begging and shitting on himself for almost an hour so I agreed...reluctantly. But I said I would only help if I was in a position of leadership because I did not want my name dragged through the mud for a fuckup.
I messaged people and got about a dozen higher profiled streamers to do runs in the marathon. I drafted the contract with Easter Seals and handled the contact with their representatives:
I also was prevalent in scheduling and other organization. The idea was pretty simple: Chibi could be the "face" of the marathon but I'd be the one doing all the organization and heavy lifting behind the scenes so when it went off well then he'd get the credit and people in the community would start respecting him and not think he was a colossal fuck up. I'll admit it was deceptive but I'm certain it could have worked. Except it didn't because this is Chibi we're talking about. He is capable of fucking up even the most well-crafted plans.
Chibi decided that he wanted to put the feelers out for more people. He wanted to get more people involved. So he started hiring random people to be on staff. This is where I had an issue. Originally it was just myself him and like two(?) other people. He and the other two were already doing little but adding more cooks to the broth. I knew if even more people got added it would turn into a shit show - spoilers: it did - but he just couldn't say no. One of the people on staff who was by FAR the most useless was PrincessKooh. I cannot tell you how much this person irks me because they are the lowest common denominator of a person and was single-handedly responsible for like 75% of what went wrong during the marathon, but I digress.
The new staff shook things up in a bad way. They wanted to expand the marathon longer, wanted to move the schedule around, decided we needed to have long calls on discord where nothing happened except talk about anime and other stupid shit that had nothing to do with the marathon. After two days of this I told Chibi I was stepping down because I didn't want to deal with it (which I did) and told him I was going to take a step back from him (which I unfortunately didn't). As predicted, the marathon was a mess. The schedule never got finalized so people had no idea what was happening, there was a problem with who was going to be moderating the stream and when, and the whole...Asian grandpa porn thing. Thank you PrincessKooh for those images being forever burned in my mind.
Anyway after the marathon there was a lot of coddling going on in the Discord. There were people telling Chibi to not blame himself and it wasn't his fault. I got really annoyed about it so I went off in a mini-rant:
After this situation went down, I tried to distance myself from him but he pulled me back in with guilt. He told me how I was the only person who never gave up on him and he couldn't bear for that to stop being true. He also told me that I made him believe in himself again. So I caved.
Over that summer things had gotten worse for him. With the Tomba2, cheating, Iwata Funeral, and now the Easter Speedsters disaster, he was getting a lot of animosity. He was freaking out and telling me how he felt like nothing he could do matters and that he felt like he was at the end of his rope (essentially suicide-baiting again) I felt bad (I know, I'm stupid) so I decided to help him again. I told him he could put out a statement and address everything that happened. He could be open and honest and that it would resonate with people. He complained that he wasn't good at writing...I don't know how it happened but I ended up writing the whole thing for him.
It a Pastebin filled with all my words and he passed it off as his own. He must have deleted the tweet because I can't find it, but I know he posted it. Here is the best proof I can give:

For a few weeks after the Pastebin he was on (relatively) good behavior. I thought he was finally changing for the better. During this time he was telling me how unhappy he was living in his mother's home. He said she was such a terrible person and his step-dad was always bullying him. So since I cared about him + needed to move anyway, I offered him the idea of us getting a place together and being roommates. He jumped at the idea. We started making plans until one day I got several frantic calls on Discord from him. I asked him what was wrong and he told me that he brought up the idea to his mom and she shut it down. Da fuck?
I told him he was an adult and it was his decision but that clearly didn't work because then I found myself in what was probably the most awkward / uncomfortable conversation in my life. He proceeded to put his mother on voice chat with me. I wish I was kidding. We talked for just about an hour and that was with me trying to break away. She said that Chibi wasn't mentally mature to move out on his own and that he doesn't even know how to cook for himself properly. I thought she was being really ridiculous but in hindsight.........
This post is getting kind of long but I could go on. There's a bunch of stuff that most don't know about the situations - like the saga of him and his ex-girlfriend, the nudes situation, him getting evicted from his friend's house, the GDQ shenanigans, etc. But I'd be happy to answer questions or make a follow-up post with more stories if people want it. If not, that's fine, too.
I'm only posting here because Chibi showed his true colors to me. As his other good friend who recently cut ties with him said: he's a liability and he cares more about attention than he does about the people in his life. He will throw friends under the bus if it means getting attention or if he thinks it'll make him look good. He is a vile person. Nobody should feel sorry for him because as someone who talked to him damn near daily for years I can honestly say I believe he does it all on purpose. He's not as low-functioning as he'd have you believe. The autism isn't an excuse - he does what he does because he likes attention.