I should have came out with this a long time ago, but this is regarding my experience with a person under the names Plue, Ributo, and K4iro. I was 15 years old at the time, and they were either 19 or 20.
This started a little over a year ago on Twitter, when I opened commissions and K4iro was the first person to come for my services. My age was right there in my bio, so I know they know what they were doing. They seemed friendly at first, but upon expressing vulnerability to them (I was massively lacking confidence back then and when they asked what I wanted in Smash, I spilled over a bit), they started getting very personal with roleplay and words, saying that I can come to them and they’ll guide me. Then they asked for my Discord, and the conversation turned to there. Unfortunately, I do not have screenshots of what happened on Twitter since my Twitter and theirs has long since been deleted (I’m near certain their original Twitter is gone because of the amount of times they’ve changed their tag). Below is what happened when we connected on Discord.
https://imgur.com/a/ort8VFc
By engaging with them and telling them I didn’t mind, I know that I was enabling their behavior. However, at that moment, I felt as though that was the best thing to do, since I was very insecure, nervous, and an overthinker. I did not want for them to view me with the same hatred that I had for myself if I were to decline their advances.
Their interaction and behavior towards me had me feeling very unsafe and even more insecure than I had already. Their question towards my sexuality had me most alarmed, since under all circumstances and context, a 19-20 year old should never be interested in where a 15 year old’s attractions lay. This makes me believe their ultimate goal was to get in a relationship with me. Ever since, I had tried to keep enjoying Smash, but I could never shake the thought that if I kept going, they would keep trying over and over to gain my trust, or that I would find people like her, if not worse. It eventually led to me being resentful of Smash, of the community, and gave me a sense of wrong for trying to fit in the same place as someone who made me unsafe and unwelcomed.
Finally, about a month ago, I got together what I needed to try and speak out against it. The first person I spoke to was the owner of the ZSS Discord (since at the time, K4iro was a ZSS main), who told me this.
https://imgur.com/a/e0XvVt0
The most disgusting part about it all is how K4iro has roleplayed with multiple other minors. I don’t know if it was to the extent, or worse, than what she and I did, but considering the fact that she questioned my sexuality, I have all right to assume that she has attempted to seek relationships with other minors before. I also want to address another thing said in what the ZSScord owner has told me, regarding K4iro’s therapy. People can change from therapy, but that doesn’t revert the damage she has done to me, and the potential damage she has done to other people. And sometimes, people don’t change. There’s always that possibility that she never changed and is still doing the things to other people, like she did to me.
Now I want to talk about where she stands in Smash today. At the time of this screenshot, she is a tourney host for her own series (K4iro’s Klash) and a commentator.
https://imgur.com/a/YH7Bxc5
This is another thing that is very concerning. Her history with minors should prevent her from doing things that would give her more access to them. These positions in the community also grants a small position of power/leadership, and I do not believe someone like her should be able to hold that kind of thing, as she could, easier than ever, groom minors into doing the things that she wants. Even if she has changed, she should still not take these positions. Would you trust K4iro to be with or around your child, theoretical or not, knowing that she has a history with doing inappropriate actions with minors? The only thing you have to go off of is her promise to not do these things *again*. I wouldn’t trust her.
I understand she has ADHD and Autism and those could very much be leading factors in why she acted the way she did, however, being someone who also has Autism, I do not believe they should exempt her from how wrong her behavior and actions were. She is still an adult. She still should’ve known the extensiveness of how wrong she was, not just with her behavior to me, but with other minors.
One final thing I want to talk about is the timing of her name change from Ributo to K4iro. Around the time that I spoke with the ZSScord owner, I was also talking with SCS moderators about getting her blacklisted and kicked from the SCS. Not too long after she was blacklisted, she made a new Discord, revamped her Twitter, and made a new tag. This has me believing that she is attempting to bypass all punishment by making a new identity. That was the final push I needed to have this thought clouding my head and pestering me, pushing me into saying this. I don’t trust her in the community. I don’t want her in a community chock-full of minors, knowing the risk.
Below I have more screenshots that could provide more context to the situation.
Proof I spoke with the SCS and they had her blacklisted.
https://imgur.com/a/UyY5bC9
Soon after she created her new identity, K4iro, she message one of my friends with this. This is how I know K4iro and Ributo are the same person.
https://imgur.com/a/n7oWOCC