READ THIS, IF NOTHING ELSE
This document is going to be long, and I understand that might make it less palatable to read. Just, if your response to this document is going to be "I'm not reading all that, can someone give me a tl;dr," please remember that sharing an uninformed opinion can often do more harm.
If you do respond, make sure it's in a way that does not discourage victims of abuse from coming forward. As with any such situations, do not harass anyone involved. This community has a problem with dogpiling people on Twitter based on incomplete understandings of the problem, which is a big part of why this situation itself became such an issue. Don't add to the problem with your own behavior.
Now, I've been harmed substantially; I've been accused of a sexual assault I didn't commit in front of my friends, my audience, and even the police. This is a situation that threatened my freedom and my career, has cost me tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees alone, and has led to people finding my personal information and someone calling my phone repeatedly to harass me.
I don't expect anyone to believe me on the basis of trust alone, and I will provide evidence to defend myself, but that does mean you'll have to keep reading and do some critical thinking while you read before you'll be satisfied. This is important and complex enough to merit full, careful consideration instead of quick hasty judgements. It's okay not to respond to this, but if you do respond, make sure it's an informed response!
All of that being said, what's much more important is that this situation has done an unprecedented amount of damage to the community's ability to keep its members safe.
There are aspects of the community's unwillingness to engage with this that I can understand. I'm a white male YouTuber with some amount of influence in my community who was accused of sexual misconduct. Six has been labeled the "victim" of the case by default in almost every conversation about it, even by people explicitly and openly doubting her claims. Even if people see contradictions in her story, every instinct is understandably screaming to give her the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is that there will always be at least a few bad actors who try to take advantage of the benefit of the doubt. In situations where the benefit of the doubt is all we have to work with, Splat Safety is an unusually sophisticated community mechanism aiming to protect us all from these bad actors by removing the doubt itself. Right now, that mechanism is threatened because, when Splat Safety investigated and found the allegations unconvincing, my accuser responded by launching a smear campaign to delegitimize them in what I believe was an attempt to avoid consequences for her actions. So far, that smear campaign has worked.
I also need to impress on you that this situation involves a lot of private, personal, sensitive information about the people involved. This is one of the many ways in which this situation has been harmful, and not just to me. I mean it just as much about my accusers as I mean it about myself when I say that the public should not have had to learn these things. If it weren't for the fact that I need to defend myself against such serious and widespread allegations, I would absolutely be doing the least harm by simply not speaking out about it and trying to handle everything through more private channels that wouldn't leak to the public. I'm also trying to keep my reference to third parties to a minimum out of respect for their privacy.
Shortcuts to sections of the document:
IN CASE YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING 3
WHY I’VE BEEN SO SILENT ON THE ISSUE 3
WHY I HAVEN'T BEEN MAKING CONTENT OR TEACHING LESSONS 4
WHY WOULD SIX MAKE FALSE ALLEGATIONS? 32
WHAT NOW? 35
IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING
This document is a response to a number of allegations MissPixiSix aka Six, formerly TheGoddessofToast has made against me. These allegations have also been made on her behalf, repeated, or corroborated by iMAD, who is her current partner at time of writing, and spread, to a lesser degree, by other people on Twitter, but I believe they more or less all originate from Six.
Six has accused me of emotional abuse, stalking, and sexual assault. I have done none of those things. She has made these allegations to law enforcement and in court, and attempted, though ultimately failed, to have me charged for a felony I did not commit. (Please note the difference between "charged" and "convicted"; she has failed even to have charges brought). She has also posted these allegations on Twitter, circulating them through the Splatoon community. Given that this is my audience as a professional YouTube content creator and private lesson instructor, as well as that I'm trained as an educator, this poses a real threat to my career.
As I've said, Six has criticized the response of Splat Safety, the community safety organization charged with fully, thoroughly investigating these cases on behalf of tournament organizers. This has led to a lot of criticism and harassment of that group. A cyberattack was made against Splat Safety, and someone publicizing it (who, incidentally, is banned by Splat Safety themself) cited my case with Six as a reason they felt Splat Safety needed to be more "transparent."
It's entirely possible that there are more allegations I haven't seen, or that Six decides to make more after this document is written. She's put out so many different allegations that I simply can't address every one. I tried, but the document ended up being the length of a novel. At a certain point, I need to pick the most important battles to fight and exclude information for the sake of the privacy and safety of everyone involved and for the sake of keeping this document to a more reasonable length.
WHY I'VE BEEN SO SILENT ON THE ISSUE
Something I hope a lot of commenters learn from this situation is that just because someone's silent on a legal case doesn't mean they don't have anything to say in their defense. A lot of people have tried to put themselves in my shoes, thinking something to the effect of, 'well, if I were falsely accused, I would come out with receipts to prove it. He's not doing that, so he probably did what she's saying.' It is human nature to want to defend yourself from something this serious, but I've had to restrain myself from doing so specifically because there are multiple court cases involved. I have been working to contest the now-vacated ex parte Order for Protection, ensure that Six actually adheres to the agreement that vacated it, protect myself from further harassment, and protect myself from the criminal charges Six tried to press, all of which are separate legal matters that each have taken a very long time, and my lawyers have insisted, for the sake of having the best chances of winning in court, that I keep my cards very close to my chest until those proceedings are decided. Even now, there is still further information I would like to share but, in the ongoing defamation lawsuit, Six and iMAD have gone out of their way to mark every single document they've disclosed as confidential. As such, many documents that are relevant to the case and which I believe contradict their claims cannot possibly come out without further court proceedings and may not ever be able to come out at all.
In addition, Six and I were both temporarily prohibited from posting about certain legal matters by a settlement agreement, which lasted from August of 2024 until December 27th of 2025. I adhered to this agreement while Six continued to speak publicly, which is part of the complaint in my current defamation lawsuit against her and iMAD.
WHY I HAVEN'T BEEN MAKING CONTENT OR TEACHING LESSONS
I would never ask that people trust me blindly just based on the short statement I put out denying her allegations. This community expects receipts in a situation like this, a Google Doc or a TwitLonger with screenshots and a unifying narrative, and instead they got a single, very short tweet denying the allegations that sounds like it was written by a lawyer instead of by me. Without being willing to show receipts, I didn't feel comfortable asking my audience to just trust that I was safe to interact with. If I haven't done my due diligence to convince them yet, I believe that they shouldn't trust me yet, regardless of what the truth actually is. Continuing to make content and benefit from that ad revenue sets a precedent that it's ok to trust and support people even after those people are accused of heinous acts, not because you've carefully considered the evidence and believe them to be innocent, but just because you like their content or respect them as a Splatoon player. For the sake of the community's safety, I've taken a step back until such time as I could make a more complete statement to avoid setting that precedent.
ADDRESSING THE ALLEGATIONS
The most severe allegation Six has made is that I sexually assaulted her. Allow me a chance to show that this is untrue.
Six and I dated from Spring of 2022 to Spring of 2023, when we broke up. After Riptide in September of 2023, where we spoke in person for the first time in months, Six and I started spending time together again. Here's a conversation she had with a third party that helps illustrate her intentions at the time:
For context, the entire time I'd known her, she had been polyamorous. In fact, for most of the time we had previously been dating, she was married to someone else. I learned iMAD was her partner in November of 2023, but the way she represented iMAD's boundaries to me was that a certain amount of physical intimacy was acceptable. I was never made aware that she was no longer practicing polyamory when she started seeing iMAD. I upheld the boundaries as she communicated them to me, even in one particular instance where she did not. However, these boundaries ended up being a misrepresentation of what iMAD was actually okay with.
Also, there was one final incident where she lied to me that she had broken up with iMAD to get me to go further with her than I would have otherwise.
Six has admitted to this lie and her motive for telling it in writing multiple times to multiple different people, including me.
Nevertheless, in July of 2024, she made this public post, which contradicts her private admissions.
After I learned that she had lied to me to get intimacy I otherwise would not have been okay with, I didn't trust her anymore. I informed iMAD about what had happened and then arranged to meet with Six to let her know I didn't want contact with her from then on.
Just hours before the meeting with Six, which took place almost a week after the date on which she claims I sexually assaulted her, she sent this message to a third party, saying "I want Gem to confess that he's always been an awful friend to me but he sees now that I'm the best possible thing that's ever happened to him and no one's ever going to care about him the way i do and he'll get on the ground and beg me to take him back in whatever capacity i'll have him" (sorry, this stretched out screenshot is the way it was sent to me, but if you zoom in it's readable):
Since cutting things off with her in person, I have made no attempt to seek her out in person or online and have been largely successful at avoiding her.
Nevertheless, in February of 2024, Six made allegations of emotional abuse against me on Twitter. In the document she created in an attempt to support her claim, titled "A Study in Subtle Manipulation," she refers to moments where I attempt to communicate respectfully and cautiously as "conversational control tactics," and alleges a "surrounding context of emotional or physical intimidation" that I argue is a complete fabrication. I did my genuine best to be communicative, respect her boundaries, and be responsive to her feelings during my time with her.
For example, she shares a screenshot of paperwork from her hospitalization in February of 2023, implying that my actions were to blame for it. These are the first messages we exchanged after that hospitalization, and I believe they tell a very different story:
In another part of the document, she shares these screenshots from a conversation we had...
...and provides this commentary that follows them:
This conversation is entirely about Six's suggestion that I add a feature to my Discord server. I'm just trying to understand her suggestion, which takes me a while. When she doesn't understand my reason for not automating the notifications, I refer back to things she said further up in the conversation, trying to make it as clear as possible what I'm referring to to avoid confusion. Nothing was "scary." Nothing supports that conclusion.
While I'm sure that, over the almost two years we spent together, she can cherry pick some moments where I was awkward, insensitive, or foolish, she is wrong to try and paint me as dangerous to the community or to press criminal charges.
In June of 2024, after the accusations had little effect on my following, she made a police report with the intent of pressing charges against me for criminal sexual conduct. The process for charges to be considered requires that the police refer a case to the county attorney's office. If the county attorney decides to take the case and a judge confirms the decision, charges are filed. We have since received a police report confirming that the county attorney assigned to the case has declined the charges (excerpt shown below).
It's worth noting that, according to Splat Safety's video, when iMAD provided a screenshot of this same document to Splat Safety as evidence of the charges being investigated, this section showing that the charges had already been declined was conveniently cropped out. Splat Safety reached out for him to explain this omission and both he and Six declined to comment.
In his deposition, iMAD said, under oath, that he had already known the charges were declined since November 2024, and he acknowledged that this was months before his submission of that cropped screenshot to Splat Safety.
Six posted the following on Dec. 11, 2024:
Six already knew charges had been declined at the time she posted this. In her deposition, she said under oath that the police investigator had called her in November of 2024 to tell her as much.
The screenshot she shares in this tweet is an excerpt from the larger police report. The very next item on that police report, on the same page as her excerpt, with the same date stamp as her excerpt, is the notice I shared earlier that the charges were declined, making her failure to give that context particularly egregious.
Note that, in her tweet, Six claims that, because the police did refer the case to the county attorney's office, this means the "police believed" her. However, the police investigator's deposition, shown below, confirms multiple times, explicitly, that all charging decisions in these cases are forwarded to the county attorney's office without police discretion. She is incorrect to post that this signals any confirmation of her claims by the police.
[...]
iMAD defended their statements by claiming in his deposition that a conversation with the police investigator led them to believe that the investigator was trying to in some way "resubmit" the charges.
When asked about this claim, the investigator signed the following affidavit in response:
In addition to pursuing criminal charges, after being denied once, Six applied a second time for an ex parte Order for Protection, a civil legal order that I'll now explain.
"Order for Protection" refers to a legal order which is intended to be used for limiting an alleged abuser's access to their victim. Under that order, I would not be allowed to come near where she lived or her place of work or to interact with her in any way, and would face legal consequences if I had been found to do so. This order is what people in the community have been generally referring to as a "restraining order" and which Splat Safety erroneously called a "Harassment Restraining Order," which is slightly different from an Order for Protection. What Splat Safety did correctly point out, and what much of the community has failed to understand, is that the language "ex parte" makes a massive difference.
"Ex parte" means that the matter was initiated based on the input of only one party. Many legal cases require that both sides be able to hear what's being said and answer to it, but in cases involving allegations of abuse, it would often take too long to hear both sides before that protection is needed. Therefore, courts are willing to put the order in place temporarily, trusting the accusers that come forward at least until such time as the courts are able to hear the case and verify that the order was actually needed. They trust, but verify, as I've heard others put it.
Ex parte relief is a temporary stopgap; an ex parte Order for Protection can be vacated by a hearing which the accused party is entitled to. In this case, Six's allegations were all the court heard before they granted her the order. Since the story she told met the criteria for receiving the order, she initially received it, on the understanding that the story could be verified later at an evidentiary hearing. However, the allegations Six made to get the Order for Protection were never verified, and the order was vacated by a legal agreement we made.
She came to that court hearing in August with no witnesses except herself and no evidence submitted. Her attorney initiated talks to reach an agreement out of court before the hearing began. I am firmly convinced, based on how little evidence she brought as well as further information I cannot disclose, that she had no intention of actually disputing the case.
Contrary to how Six has represented it, the legal agreement that vacated the Order for Protection was designed explicitly to allow both me and her to continue to attend Splatoon tournaments, even at the same time as each other.
It was brought up in court that we'd previously attended Low Tide City 2024 with no incident after a no-contact order was put in place by TOs (tournament organizers). For context, this is how that came about:
Starting on March 14, 2024, I reached out to Cyren, one of the head TOs of LTC, which I was planning on attending May 11th and May 12th. Six had recently gone public speaking in detail about a situation from our sex life, and I was starting to feel really uncomfortable about iMAD's response to that, the gif of a woman cocking a shotgun, for example.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/gif--657033033145304576/ for link to the gif so you can see it animated
I was worried about people starting arguments or even altercations when we ended up in the same room together. After some discussion, a no-contact order was established between me and Six and iMAD, which, Cyren can confirm, all parties respected during the event.
To be perfectly clear, there is no legal reason, past or present, that I could not attend Splatoon tournaments. Six signed off on a settlement agreement that explicitly allowed me to continue attending. This community mechanism of keeping her and me separated is all either of us needed to comfortably attend LTC 2024, and it binds Six in exactly the same ways that it binds me. As I addressed above in its own section, I have not been attending events because returning before defending myself would have been unsafe for other reasons.
The legal agreement also stated that Six and I were not allowed to "post on any social media platform about the prior, vacated Ex Parte Order for Protection and its contents with the exception of one post by both parties upon approval of both parties." This meant that we were allowed to compose one statement each for the opposing party to review and that that would be the last that it would be spoken about online for the duration of the agreement. Six did submit a statement for us to review that we were willing to approve, but every time she posted it, there was additional verbiage that was not approved and that I argue was misleading and damaging. She also posted numerous statements she did not submit for review that my attorneys believe clearly violate this agreement.
Therefore, once the charges against me turned out to have been declined, I filed a civil lawsuit against Six and iMAD for working together to defame me and for violating the settlement agreement. That lawsuit is still ongoing at time of writing.
Even so, it is likely that court will not provide the decisive closure this community has been expecting. Many people, I think mistakenly assuming that there has ever been a criminal trial against me, have voiced that they feel the issue should be decided in court and that the jury's decision should be the final word on the case. In reality, such a trial would have required the county attorney to press any charges in the first place, and they declined to do so. Even in my defamation case against her, though, it's more likely that we'll never get a decision. Defamation cases are statistically unlikely to reach that point in the proceedings. It's very possible that we're going to have this out in the court of public opinion without ever getting a court decision to base our claims on.
Six has long had a pattern of posting about the situation online, both before and after the settlement agreement. I argue that she has abused her plausible deniability to create a narrative that was crystal clear to her audience but that she could, in theory, deny in bad faith if she were ever pressed on it.
"girl you KNOW that's what it's about"[...]"no one knows who i'm talking about"
These two statements are contradictory.
I believe that a lot of what Six has said about the situation on social media is deliberate lying. There are some things she's claimed are true that simply aren't, and I can't see any excuse she has to think otherwise. For example, she posted these tweets on July 22nd and 24th, 2024:
As you can see, in the tweet, Six represents these as "old diary entries" she "went through...for evidence". The most reasonable interpretation of this post as a reader is that Six is claiming she wrote these as diary entries describing actual events she experienced. However, in her deposition, under oath, she explicitly called these posts works of fiction. "It's not literal. This story didn't happen"
She gives none of this context in the posts, nor did she ever issue context or corrections for her audience. I believe she intended for her audience to interpret these as true, while leaving herself plausible deniability in case she were ever pressed on it, like she eventually was in court.
The posts seem plausible too. We routinely spent time together on Wednesday nights and the listed date, June 28, 2023, was, in fact, a Wednesday, making it seem as though the events she describes in the first journal entry happened that same day. Even given a charitable interpretation of the intentions she had for posting, she was still severely irresponsible in failing to provide the necessary context.
To show that these posts are, in fact, untrue, we had broken up in March of 2023 and, until September, I shut down any contact other than to tie up a prior plan we'd made to travel together and to give her some of her things back that she had been leaving at my apartment (the screenshot from 6/20, below).
Note the gaps in contact from April to June and then from June to September.
There's a similar gap in the text messages:
To be clear, these texts are all from Six to me; I was not responding.
She never saw me on June 28, 2023. There were months-long gaps in contact at this time. I made clear, acknowledged communication that I was not interested in pursuing the relationship. She decided to get her things back from my apartment, realizing that she wasn't going to be coming over anymore. She had no good reason to believe we were still playing a "game of Casual-Dating Chicken."
Someone close to Six was independently confident that she completely fabricated these journal entries, even before Six's admissions in court:
These DMs are with a friend of Six's whom she's known since grade school
Six only journals on paper, not on a computer. Her longtime friend called her claims about the journal entries "boldface lies."
In addition to "boldface lies," though, I also want to point out ways that I believe Six deliberately manipulates the narrative that leave her plausible deniability, while still having a harmful impact.
I argue that Six has a pattern of referring to perceived offenses against her in ways that are so exaggerated that they cease to resemble reality.
The following is a Twitter interaction she had with a third party in December of 2024. It came up in court because we have argued that it 1. contains harmful misinformation (I did not "concede" in court, for instance) and 2. violates the settlement agreement's prohibition on posting about the protective order.
This is the only interaction I'm aware of between Six and the Twitter user replying here up until the date of the following screenshot, and the only time the individual ever approached me with information about Six's behavior. Six appeared to treat it cordially in her reply.
However, months later, Six accused this individual in DMs of 'stalking' and 'harassment,' which is not a fair description of this lone Twitter interaction:
I would argue that it's only reasonable to approach serious allegations she makes with a grain of salt, considering her willingness to make overblown accusations.
As time has gone on, friends have come forward and documents have been revealed through court proceedings, and I've learned that Six has a pattern of working to drive a wedge between me and my friends. She put people who might have spoken out in support of me in a position where they felt torn between their friendships with me and with her, a tactic I believe was intended to keep them sitting on the fence and out of her way. She reached out and began confiding in people she knew were close to me. Over a period of months, she would repeatedly complain to them about me and validate any complaints those people were willing to share about me.
A lot of my friends have DMs with Six that follow this pattern. Depending on how receptive they were, she might just try to cast me as a bad friend to them and a bad partner to her, but in many cases she went as far as ridiculing me for sexual preferences I had shared with her in confidence or even spreading a false rumor that I was "grooming" a fan. The individual mentioned in these accusations does not want their identity to be known, but they have permitted me to use this statement they've made:
Six never made that allegation publicly, but she had no problem saying it privately where it would spread without her ever being called on to substantiate it. She also made this allegation to Splat Safety, perhaps not anticipating how thoroughly they would investigate it.
In order to really know something for sure, it has to be a falsifiable claim. It has to be something that there is a way to disprove, a way where we could test the claim and, if we observed certain things, we would come to the conclusion that it's untrue. Not every claim someone can make about an in-person relationship is going to meet the standard of falsifiability; there will always be some plausible deniability unless every instant is being recorded in some dystopian way. But there should at least be something over 2 years of interactions, especially when so many of those interactions happened in writing online. Instead, Six's rhetoric often aims not to bolster her own claims, but to make her claims unfalsifiable, to make it so that even when her claims are wrong, there's no way to test them that would prove it.
For months, Six acknowledged that what happened that night was that she lied to me to cheat on iMAD. This remained her story even when she made allegations in February of 2024.
Sharing this again to show the date and time
In February, when she came forward and said that I was a bad partner and shouldn't be trusted to give dating advice, she explicitly said that she wasn't trying to call me abusive and that she didn't want anyone to misunderstand her to be accusing me of sexual assault.
9 days later, she changed her mind and said that I had been emotionally abusive. At that point, she had already burned the bridge with me thoroughly and had no reason not to make any accusations she wanted, but sexual assault never came up.
If her claiming she was hurt is all that matters, why bother confirming the accusations at all? How can anyone know that her therapist really said this, or used these exact words?
Only months later, in June, did she decide to accuse me of sexual assault and involve the police.
Both times she's made new allegations, she's claimed that this is the result of working through the situation in therapy and coming to new conclusions she didn't recognize before. Since her therapy sessions are private, this claim is plausible, but unfalsifiable. Does she genuinely believe a distortion of the truth that she represented to her therapist? Is she being deliberately dishonest with her therapist? Is she misrepresenting what her therapist actually said in response? Is she making up the conversation altogether? I'll probably never know for sure. In any case, anytime her story is inconsistent, she can just argue that she worked something out in therapy and create plausible deniability for herself.
It's important also to recognize that the allegations do not exist in a vacuum, and that Six's interactions with her followers on social media have been harmful as well. Six has tended to encourage the spread of harmful false narratives. Take the following repost, for example:
When Six posted screenshots of the paperwork she got from the sexual violence advocate and the police, she also reposted this tweet which claims that "documents from professionals" condemned my actions "as r#pe" which is completely untrue. Again, the documents she showed did not mean that any of her claims had been verified. The sexual violence advocate's job was to help complaining witnesses navigate the legal system and to trust everyone who came forward with allegations, not to adjudicate the matter. Only a judge can do that. There was never a finding of domestic assault, and the Order for Protection was vacated. While there was a police investigation, as there should be about such a complaint, it was decided that charges would not be brought against me at the first step in the process when that could reasonably happen.
In my personal interactions with Six, I've learned that she has a pattern of making sure she gets to third parties with her version of the story first. That way, the third parties will view the other person's version of the story through the lens Six provides them, and they'll be less likely to believe it. She has been able to use this tactic to prime people close to me as well as her audience on Twitter to adopt a 'guilty even if proven innocent' mentality.
If the courts were to firmly decide a case in my favor, that wouldn't matter to her audience, because she has already primed her social media followers to distrust the court system, making it so that what is, in fact, a losing case for her looks like a miscarriage of justice to them, or at the very least a loss that doesn't mean anything because what really matters is whatever else comes next.
The order was later vacated, but Six had already downplayed the significance of that to ensure that her followers continued to believe her. The later result of the police investigation was the county attorney declining charges, but again, her followers were primed to take confirming evidence as gospel and disconfirming evidence as irrelevant.
At the time Six posted this, there was no application for an HRO or defamation lawsuit, but Six was already anticipating that they might happen and claiming that they would in some way not be "legal" (which is just wrong by definition).
Six has more recently been calling my court filings "frivolous". She's not being "harassed and manipulated" by me; just sued.
Every time new evidence contradicts her narrative, the goalposts have already been moved pre-emptively.
I'll give some more examples. Note how, in many of these, she stops short of explicitly making specific allegations, but the responses she's giving heavily imply that she intends to corroborate whatever allegations other people are willing to believe.
In some cases, I believe that she intentionally creates these false narratives, leaving breadcrumbs for her followers to draw the conclusions she wants, while maintaining some level of plausible deniability.
During Riptide, she posted that there was a court order requiring me to stay away from her.
What she left out was that she was also required to stay away from me by the same exact order, and that neither of us were allowed to post about the legal matter online. The order was explicitly designed to mimic the no contact order put in place between us at LTC earlier that year by SplatLANs, which both parties honored and agreed was an acceptable solution. Nothing was making her any less safe at LTC earlier than she was at Riptide later. The same rules for our conduct toward each other at tournaments remained in effect between them.
I believe Six is perfectly okay with the false narrative spreading because it only seems to confirm her larger false narrative that I was abusive.
Six deleted her Twitter account around November 11th, 2024. It was well after the settlement agreement went into effect that prohibited us from posting, and less than a week after the county attorney declined charges against me. The timing of this decision in combination with Six's habit of anticipating and lampshading future legal action leads me to believe that she did so to wipe the record of her offending tweets. I believe she wanted to be able to plausibly claim she doesn't recall or can't confirm what she posted when asked about them.
Given the quantity and unfalsifiability of her claims, I truly don't believe that any amount of evidence I could provide, no matter how convincing, will change everyone's minds.
She can just keep trying to make more allegations and arguments I haven't addressed in this document, and it's already the case that not everyone is going to get through this document in its entirety, let alone any future rebuttals. If I were to try and dispute every claim, doing so publicly would involve harmful violations of my privacy, her privacy, and the privacy of third parties that I'm not willing to commit. There is a yearslong history of interaction between Six and I. I'm not going to get caught up in litigating each new Discord screenshot Six decides to take out of context, spreading details about our intimate relationship across the internet the whole time. However, a reasonable, appropriately skeptical consideration of the facts leads to the conclusion that Six has already lied about very significant facts on multiple occasions, has mischaracterized evidence, and has intentionally mobilized the community against me on these false premises. This poses a danger to the community and those around her.
WHY WOULD SIX MAKE FALSE ALLEGATIONS?
A sticking point for a lot of people is that they can't imagine why Six would make these claims about me if the claims weren't true. She has benefited a lot in the short term from the audacity of her allegations; why would someone say something this extreme and go through all this trouble if it wasn't real? I can't read her mind, of course, nor can anyone else. I do have a number of theories, though, that I find plausible, and I'm going to present a few of them so you can at least understand why someone might do what Six is doing and show that there is a precedent for it.
False accusations of especially sexual assault are a sensitive subject, because there's a history of true accusations not being taken seriously. I want to be very clear that I'm not over-emphasizing false allegations to discredit victims who come forward in general. I just also understand (because this was my position on the subject before I became more informed) that some people, not knowing the data on the subject, will fail to see any reason a false allegation might be brought forward at all and assume that the number of false accusations is negligible. There are many studies on false sexual assault allegations, and while this research is very difficult and no one can really know the exact numbers for sure, most studies estimate that 2-8% of accusations are false (https://evawintl.org/best_practice_faqs/false-reports-percentage/). While accusers should always be taken seriously and their cases should be heard out, false accusations do happen, and I believe Six is making one of them deliberately.
The document further below, titled "Motivations for Intentional False Reporting," is an excerpt from a psychologist specializing in criminal forensics testifying in a court case about reasons someone might falsely report sexual assault. Link to the full document here: https://arizonaforensics.com/affidavit-for-borderline-personality-and-false-accusations/. Please note that, while the document itself pertains to a case where an individual had Borderline Personality Disorder, I am not sharing it for that reason. I do not mean to imply that she has BPD or any other condition. I do not have information to share about her mental health. It's neither my place to do so, nor something I would be qualified to speak on even if it were. I believe that, whether her mental health factors into the situation or not, she has motives to make false allegations regardless. What I want to show from the document is this fact sheet:
Original edited to remove page break
Recalling that I broke up with Six, after which she was unfaithful to iMAD in her interactions with me, I would argue that she has a number of plausible motivations that line up with these findings. This isn't to say I can assert with certainty that any of these individually are true, but I do think that at least some combination of them is likely enough to mention.
She could want to:
- Get back at me for feeling that I was at fault for our relationship failing and for not showing the interest in her that she wanted me to feel
- Try to resolve cognitive dissonance about her infidelity to iMAD, both for her and for iMAD
- Draw supportive attention from people who perceive her as a victim
To that last point, I would especially ask you to read back through the conversations in replies under her social media posts. To me and others, it has felt as though she encouraged people to continue interacting with the subject rather than bringing it up reluctantly to mitigate harm. The only time she has asked for the situation not to be discussed is when Splat Safety released their video explaining the rationale for their decision on our case. Six got this video taken down by making a copyright claim against it, which has no basis in law and worked purely because it wasn't worth the time and effort for Splat Safety to contest it.
By contrast, Six had previously assisted a YouTuber in making two videos on our case, providing information to support their creation. The second of those videos came out in June of 2025, four months after the defamation lawsuit began. If Six really believes that a YouTube video that shares facts about our situation jeopardizes the legal case, she should not have supported these.
I was never asked for comment by the content creator, and only ever found out about either of their two videos after their respective releases. The videos were eventually taken down due to the unsafe amount of personal information about both parties that they made publicly available.
It is hypocritical of Six to demand that Splat Safety take down their video. I believe Six's problem with Splat Safety's video is purely that it does not support her false narratives, not that videos of that nature are inappropriate by any standard Six has set with her own conduct.
I recommend the following resource for more on the subject of false allegations and the reasons why people might make them.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/21/health/why-people-lie/index.html
Like I've said, I can't say for sure why Six specifically is doing what she's doing. Nevertheless, it's totally untrue that there is "no reason" for her to lie or make false accusations. It's uncommon, but it's well documented that people do things like this for a variety of different reasons, and Six has a lot of the very common reasons to do them.
I don't think Six is a cold, calculated schemer; what I've seen has convinced me that she is taking this course of action, manipulative and dishonest though it may be, as a result of powerful, overwhelming emotions. She is lashing out at me due to genuinely feeling hurt. This does not excuse the harm she has caused. She has chosen to feed those feelings and given them priority over everything else, including her finances, her relationships, the objective facts of what she experienced, and the safety of everyone else around her. Still, please address the situation with the nuance it is due. Hurting her needlessly is not justice. It does the opposite of solving any problems and it makes us all worse.
WHAT NOW?
I think others who have fallen for Six's narrative truly believe that their actions protect victims of abuse, and while it's important for them to learn to use their platforms more carefully and learn how not to be manipulated like this, I don't think they were acting out of malice. From the people who spread the initial quote tweet that kicked off the February allegations to the others in Six's inner circle who spread the July allegations, it seems like the people posting genuinely care about harm being mitigated and were misled. I believe they are genuine, loyal people who thought their friend had been harmed and were acting to protect them. The error they made was one that I myself learned about the hard way in content creation. They didn't follow one of the very important rules of journalism: always try to get both sides of the story before you go to print. You can call them negligent for this if you want, but I think that, if not for being fed misinformation, they never say what they said about me. I would call their behavior irresponsible at worst. It's water under the bridge with them, provided that they do not continue to drum up support in the community for the allegations in spite of the evidence.
Anyone who has harassed me or decides to harass anyone involved in this is, of course, causing harm, wasting their own time, and generally making the world a little bit stupider. This is not "drama." This is not a spectacle that's meant for your enjoyment. If you have to act in bad faith and use plausible deniability to be taken seriously, you don't have ideas worth sharing.
iMAD is a little different. I can understand that he moved across the country to live with Six. That's a very vulnerable position to be in. Early on, before really getting settled in the new city, if his relationship to her were to break down, he would be very alone and unsupported. Presented with a conflict between his girlfriend for whom he moved across the country and her ex that he's barely ever spoken to, he's going to lean toward his girlfriend. Relationships are based on trust, and I also trusted Six at one point in time, so I would feel hypocritical to blame him for that. That said, I think iMAD has escalated the situation in ways that I can't excuse so easily. He has often alluded to wanting to commit violence against me while stopping just short of saying anything that constitutes making an actual threat.
The sexual assault allegation may have come from Six, but he was the one who put it on Twitter first, not her. I opened a counter-case with Splat Safety in part because of Six making claims about our sex life on Twitter, but also in part because of iMAD responding with a gif of someone cocking a shotgun in response to those claims. When I spoke to him on our call, at that time, I was willing to offer him my couch to crash on if he needed a place to stay, an ear to listen if he were having problems in his relationship. Now, I don't feel safe offering him any kind of support.
As for Six herself, I want what's best for her because what's best for anyone is also what's best for everyone around them. I want her to find a way to be happy and not feel like she has to draw her ex-boyfriend with red glowing eyes.
I hope that those who believe me and want to make things right seek out restorative justice, not retributive justice. I do NOT want people to feel justified in harassing Six on my behalf. I'm not just saying that for appearances or for a feeling of self-righteousness, but because harassing her doesn't help me or fix anything, and can only make things worse. It can only reinforce her biases against me, make her feel like a martyr, cause her to double down and cause more harm.
Do not behave toward her like this individual, for example, has behaved (and been rewarded for behaving) toward me.
I will not be sharing what this individual has DMed me; it's foul.
I will not stand by anyone if they want an excuse to look down on someone more than they want to mitigate harm.
That said, Six has done irreparable harm. If I had been a little less educated on the legal system, had a little less money, had a little less support from my family, been a little less patient, a little less mentally stable, this could have been so much worse for me.
I think Six needs to see consequences to force her to confront the real source of the problems, to start being more honest with herself and take the mask off with the people like her lawyers or her partners who are trying to help her. I think the community needs to be kept safe from her, and that she needs to disengage from a group of people who will remind her of me and have enabled her destructive and self-destructive behavior patterns.
What I'm really most angry about out of everything is the doubt Six has cast on Splat Safety. One of the videos I'm most proud of is the video where I discuss the history and importance of Splat Safety, because there are so many bad arguments against the way that organization works that get repeated over and over again and I never saw anyone speaking out to dispel them. Now, though, because of completely bogus allegations, if I speak in defense of Splat Safety, it looks like there's a conflict of interest, a quid pro quo. When they responded to Six's allegations in July of 2024, there were multiple incorrect suggestions from the public that I was a part of Splat Safety or that Splat Safety was protecting me on some such basis.
There's a false rumor, started by someone who is Splat Safety-banned, that I sued Splat Safety somehow, for some reason. This turns out to originate with a speculation Six shared with this person.
Splat Safety concluded the case and informed me about it on April 30, 2025.
In the same way that Six lampshaded the possibility of losing court cases so people would believe her story in spite of contrary evidence, she also lampshaded this response from Splat Safety. She convinced people that this is evidence that Splat Safety is corrupt instead of evidence that she's an unreliable source and that I'm not a threat to the community. Guilty even if proven innocent.
Six has attacked Splat Safety, and in doing so has made it more difficult for this community to keep itself safe from actually dangerous people. Now that her attacks have shown to be successful, there's a formula to follow for people trying to get away with harmful behavior that may help them remain in the community unpunished. While I don't believe Six was involved in the cyberattack against Splat Safety, I also don't think it's totally a coincidence that the cyberattacks on Splat Safety happened when they did. Six created an unprecedented amount of public doubt in Splat Safety...
...and this created a perfect environment for banned players to opportunistically attack Splat Safety in the hopes of taking down an organization that played a role in banning them.
Part of the reason we have so much diversity in our community is that we take instances of harassment and abuse seriously, that we have procedures for preventing harmful people from coming back, but Six is trying to undermine those procedures.
I did not sexually assault Six; Six lied to me to get intimacy that she wanted. Instead of taking accountability and accepting my decision to cut off contact over it, she ran back through the whole history of our relationship and, as I believe I've shown, grabbed at any story she could twist or lie about to make me look bad and put it all on Twitter. When that didn't produce the effect she wanted, she escalated the allegations to the point that it went to court and changed the trajectory of my career. As I see it, in trying to lie her way out of her web of lies, she has made what might be the most successful attack on our community safety efforts in the history of the scene.
I want Six banned from the Splatoon community. I want the damage she's done to my career to be mitigated as much as possible. Outside of what is necessary to accomplish these goals, I never want to perceive or interact with her again.
I will not support any Splatoon event that Six is allowed to attend. I will not continue to interact with anyone who remains friends with her, because that exposes me to a risk of further harm.
I don't know, at time of writing, to what degree I will return to the Squid School channel. There are too many questions that need answering before my next course of action will be clear. Thank you for hearing me out. Please stay safe and respect our privacy.