Yogscast Sjin - A threat?
[Content Warning: Child sexual abuse, underage sexual relationships, manipulation] Most of this post will be under a cut so that you don’t have to be involuntarily subjected to this.
Also known as - the longest God damn Tumblr post ever. Serious commendation if you somehow read this long, confusing mess.
Okay so I have been holding off of doing this for two years, but having seen some similar issues popping up around Tumblr recently I decided to do this and get it out of my system.
Basically, this is for me, and I am aware that it means that I am probably going to get an extremely negative amount of attention directed at me, but it is like water off of a duck’s back. Ultimately I guess that this post exists because I do not know if Sjin is behaving like I want to believe that he is, and I am so worried about the possibility of him making people (fans, vulnerable) feel bad.
I would also like to make it clear that I have never and will never have any ill feelings towards Kim or Hannah, they are two of the nicest people that I have ever spoken to and I wish them nothing but the best. Please do not, under any circumstances, hassle them about this.
The same goes for Erin, Sjin’s girlfriend, who is an absolute delight, and Sjin’s ex, Minty, who again joins the tally of people who are just shockingly lovely.
Want to direct your anger somewhere? As much as I look up to him, direct it at Lewis.
Also, a disclaimer: No, I’m not going to produce any screenshots here. Do I have them? Yes. So why am I not posting them? Because I don’t need to. I do not fancy blurring out details like usernames and locations, and I really do not care even in the slightest that you do not believe me. It is irrelevant.
Your icon is art of two men you don’t know kissing, so your entire post is invalid.
Excuse me? Are you fucking kidding? How dare you tell someone their post is invalid because of their icon. This better be a joke because boy it make me extremely cross to read. If you don’t have anything positive to say don’t say it at all. How about instead of being bitchy towards victims you actually sympathise and understand that just because you find something hard to swallow doesn’t mean it’s not happening. It takes a great deal of courage to come forward with shit like this and I’m sick and tired of these people getting shit on for being truthful.
So what you’re telling me is, in a nut shell that Sjin talked to you in the past. He appearntly did something vague and horrible in the past. You’re worried that he is still doing things to people now only on the basis that someone else also had an experience with him that may or may not be true. Yet you also won’t supply sufficient evidence to help your case. Are you doing this because of the recent events happening and want to get in on that sllice of attention pie? Because honestly, keep an open mind, I think this is all false as well as not actually having any actual accusations to go against him. This is literally just to make people aware of something that could be happening. Please stop this trend already, I’m sick and tired of people doing this kind of stuff.
So your telling me, an Ex of his that it’s false huh? Interesting output. I think that I’d know a little bit more about what goes on behind closed doors and the fact I reblogged it to begin with shows that low and behold, in fact it’s the TRUTH. Stop blindly defending someone when you haven’t got any of the facts just because it’s a hard pill for you to swallow. Do you realise how hard it is for anyone to admit something like this happened to them? Do you understand the level of strength it takes to speak up? Only for people like you to come along and stomp all over them because how can someone you ‘admire’ be doing these things. Abuse of power happens all the time. A leopard never changes its spots.
Honestly I may have gone a bit over board with what I said. I don’t know anything about this situation. Maybe it was because I was bringing stresses from other things into it I shouldn’t have. But I will say that the timing for all of this is just….weird. As well as my opinion on bringing out these kinds of accusations onto the internet makes me feel like its not only to speak up, but to also incite drama and bring all kinds of attention onto oneself. My opinion further goes that these kinds of situations really shouldn’t be publicized through the internet in this way. It should have been kept in private, preferably through private court if it has to come to that. I want to ask why this has to be done in this manner at all? Is it only supposed to be used as a warning against him or is this supposed to attempt to ursurp some kind of power in the Yogscast Team to take Sjin out of it and or punish him? I want to know what the purpose of this whole post is other than what it feels like to me, a sort of way to grab attention. Please tell me I’m wrong.
The yogs have been contacted on many different occasions by many different people regarding this subject. It’s treated like ‘it’ll blow over just ignore it’. That sadly therefore makes talking about it to other fans in public the only other output. Not only that, but there are many people that aren’t aware and get swept up that Sjins added them on Skype/Facebook/snapchat or whatever. They don’t think much of it until the strange aspects start to happen. Now I can’t speak for everyone because I far from know every little detail. I don’t think everyone entirely has the large picture except for Sjin himself. What I do know is that the people who have come forward and been shunned about this before are telling the truth.
When I was with him I discovered many disturbing conversations and many weird numbers on his mobile that were saved as things such as Aa bb etc. I also see girls sending images to him through snapchat that he had screenshot, and pictures of himself im guessing he sent in return to whomever. I remember vividly when this originally came out, can you imagine discovering your boyfriend had been talking to 30+ girls on the Internet in a sexual manner? What effects on me that caused? And I did bring it up to people within yogs because as I said then, it is not right and something needed to be done. He effectively got a slap on the wrist and promised not do it again, yet here we still are.
It’s not right for someone to continue abusing their position to talk to people asking things from them. New friends and talking to people isn’t a crime, but it’s more what seems to always follow and be asked of these victims. I feel it’s important to make sure that these victims don’t feel alone in this anymore, too long I felt bad for not being able to speak up and I felt sorry for each and every person fighting a sea of angry fans wanting to disbelieve everything.
At the end of the day, from what I’ve seen unless it’s changed ofc, the victims would like it to be acknowledged and an apology. Because I can only imagine the amount of hate they received for trying to warn people of it happening to them, or someone they are friends with. Coming forward with anything like this takes a great deal of courage. It’s scary stuff. I myself have had to go through something similar in the past, my first boyfriend who I was with for seven years. Discovering the things he did during the last three years together made me feel sick for a weeks, scared to talk to anyone about it, even my family, and I lost near enough all of my friends at the time until the truth came out because they sided with him. All of the above, it’s not a nice situation at all to be in, and the least I can do is be honest about it for all.