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Transparency Mass Ban - 2026-02-04

Look, I don't really understand 100% on what's going on, but bickering about it like this isn't going to get anyone anywhere. Times are tough right now and arguing on a forum about all this isn't a good way to spend said time.
well said I have personal experiences with both sides that was less than good which i will not go into but this seriously needs to stop. Bickering and dragging each other down isnt producing any good results.
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To add to my previous argument:
Let bygones be bygones. I left behind the stuff that gave me negative impressions about redsun and the people behind it and turned new leaf.
I am very sure both sides have disagreements and problems with each other, but we need to leave this behind otherwise we will be locked into this catfight that does nothing but hurt yourself.
 
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Starting this with a few things:
I don’t like getting involved in drama. I will admit that I will talk based on what I’ve heard and I will gossip in the background especially on ongoing drama. I’m writing this now because I truly think you are acting so out of line here. Tohru I also acknowledge your personal life has really sucked for you. There were some things I’ve learned from this post that I or most others did not know. I really wish that you communicated some things regarding that to the staff. That said, that is something that should not be used as an excuse, which is something you would acknowledge for others.
There's also some idiots like Silva-Stars stirred shit for no productive reason and 42 doing their thing during Zane’s event was also something I will say looks bad. Behavior like that is indeed scuffed and I do not support that. Those people, if they even want to after all this, can take accountability for themselves. Also do wanna mention, why did you take down those screenshots of a public discord? You clearly utilized them as an integral part of the post in the first place so what was with that? You’ve also clearly dragged Mikusch’s name through the mud after they vented so why get rid of all instead of admitting you’ve messed up in that regard in the post? Oh and I will be assuming that yes this is indeed all statements and such you are writing of your own volition. Jonathan being a part of every single major drama, sure lets go with that later. As for Sui being a spy, that's a wack claim supported only by a single out-of-context screencap you took as literally as possible and you took him out back for that.
Oh and for the big elephant that you have yet to address appropriately, let's be clear you know you should’ve made your statement regarding the pax incident leaving zero ambiguousness as soon as you returned from there. With the incident involving a former community head as well as several current and former Redsun members, its a huge fuck-up to not even make a public attempt to clarify all what happened or at the very least. I’m not going to discuss that much, that would be for all the people that were involved in-person or dragged into that. What I’ll say is, from what you’ve said/done and what I’ve heard from others, I am very confident in not trusting you over anyone else that was part of the incident.
Now for a transparency post even with those screenshots you previously, you fail to provide any proof of hows or whys. All you have here right now are statements and feelings that can’t be backed up. You yourself have dealt with these types of situations of all “statements and feelings” and disregarded them appropriately. Why is it that your particular situation is different from others from before? You know full damn well the implications of these posts that you're making, especially for someone who was on the receiving end in 2020 when 404 pulled out a zip file in publicly denouncing you and you had to get others to bail you out for your own bad decisions. Really nice seeing how you have learned nothing from that and are, in fact, weaponizing it at this moment.


How about you properly back up your very bold claims first, if literail is wrong, use your own words instead of victimizing yourself. It’s an honest to god joke that you’re expressing yourself in that manner when you’re taking actions like removing bans without consulting any others and acting offended when logs are checked to see what else you did. Explain why you really think a decal of a wojak transwoman hanging is an integral part to Redsun that you go out of your way to subvert the rest of your team and reverse the ban for. Regarding those screenshots, you should post all of them you have, and show people that literail is the nefarious person that wants to drive applicants away with bad-intentions you make them out to be.

don't worry about it, just go to sleep like i'm trying to


I fail to see how this makes you look good.

Either way I am tired of all this. I want to sleep for a long, long time.

Please explain yourself why and how there's a clear discrepancy between people knowing for a fact that you should be completely aware of the Swing situation, and you somehow not being aware or lacking the evidence. For a major drama, did Jonathan intentionally make it so out of the people that were informed, you were the only person who didn’t receive the messages? Also, do you not realize how insane it looks to instantly go from handing the Swing situation to you peddling someone else’s suggestion that Screwdriver predated Swing? Schizo-posting for here, this comes off as you actively collaborating with that person to convince staff that Jonathan is a big bad boy who preys on groomed victims. Anyone who would come up with something that bat shit crazy with no concrete evidence would’ve been binned and completely discarded and here's a viewpoint that is being promoted. Why is this another of your exceptions??? Why were you trying to insist that staff should prod this unknown person for a “missing piece of a puzzle” You were asking why we care so much about this unknown person, it's because they’re pushing a ridiculous idea that you would have normally told them to get bent over if it were any other person besides Jonathan that they were posting about.

You really did take that out of context.

Just to clarify, I told quag he could be a dick and figured it would get some more of the more sensitive shit-stirring problem users out. I did not order any transphobia, nor do I think he has been overtly or intentionally transphobic.

Explain then how exactly it was taken out of context, like I said, you have words. Clearly you aren’t afraid of burning anymore bridges at this point. Good job on the appointment of a “responsible and experienced” mod by the way. Hope you’re ready in taking full accountability of their as well as everyone else’s actions that you’ve personally appointed, especially someone who goes “don’t go sulk anywhere else, I’ll know and I’ll make fun of you for it”. And well not knowing what something would be considered as too “transphobic” would be inline with you after being blatantly transphobic while you had a trans community manager before and you know how that ended up for you.

With all that, I did not necessarily think you were a bad person before. You had many people vouch for your character before, especially during the time where 404 posted the files on you onto twitter. Now, quite frankly it's really disappointing to see how this situation still develops to this day. It’s been compared to 2018 with a similar exodus and changing of guard, I don’t think it's comparable to back then, I think it’s much worse than 2018 as of now.
 
Waifers, please. Look, I know you're not happy about whatever and whenever, but can we please just let this rest? This isn't worth the integrity of the entire community we have built over the years.
 
Regarding those screenshots, you should post all of them you have, and show people that literail is the nefarious person that wants to drive applicants away with bad-intentions you make them out to be.


the attempt to claim i was "trolling" by informing people of what behaviors tohru is allowing on the server is hilarious.

if he wants to be upset that i informed people of the behaviors he was allowing, thats his issue, lol.
 
why did you take down those screenshots of a public discord? You clearly utilized them as an integral part of the post in the first place so what was with that? You’ve also clearly dragged Mikusch’s name through the mud after they vented so why get rid of all instead of admitting you’ve messed up in that regard in the post?
Because I've talked with someone regarding this and learned further information. I still do not appreciate what he did, but I at least have the decency to retract things when I'm wrong.

I didn't initially address the pax incident because I believed it was a personal matter and didn't want to drag it into the community and potentially cause a fuss like this one. That's it. That's the entire reason. I regret not addressing it publicly because it allowed this to happen.
I do not often talk with others about my own problems, hence why others' narratives often come out on top. I can be too prideful to talk, if that's the best way to put it.

Because the only thing I've learned is that people want me to be docile and pay for their ride. I'm not welcome in my own community, and I hate it.

How about you properly back up your very bold claims first, if literail is wrong, use your own words instead of victimizing yourself. It’s an honest to god joke that you’re expressing yourself in that manner when you’re taking actions like removing bans without consulting any others and acting offended when logs are checked to see what else you did.
Sure.
I've asked everyone who's received a DM to send me it. I'll update this post once I have them.

Explain why you really think a decal of a wojak transwoman hanging is an integral part to Redsun that you go out of your way to subvert the rest of your team and reverse the ban for. Regarding those screenshots, you should post all of them you have, and show people that literail is the nefarious person that wants to drive applicants away with bad-intentions you make them out to be.
Way to twist words. Users have the ability to ignore decals now via the /ignore tool. If they don't like something, they can... use the block tool we gave them. Once the shit regarding the spray rule had calmed down I was wanting to relax it again after a while once the line-pushing bad faith users had been put in their place, because the volunteer moderators don't need this shit to deal with as well.

Please explain yourself why and how there's a clear discrepancy between people knowing for a fact that you should be completely aware of the Swing situation, and you somehow not being aware or lacking the evidence. For a major drama, did Jonathan intentionally make it so out of the people that were informed, you were the only person who didn’t receive the messages?
I've dealt with similar situations before where an allegation turned out to be either overexaggerated, misrepresented or outright false. This was no different as Jon did not provide the proof of this to me, nor did he think it appropriate to remove the accused person from the team (or suggest so). I would love to provide you with the screencaps of this, but that is unfortunately on my deleted account.

I can see where you're coming from on this one and it's... offputting but explainable. Doesn't mean you'll like it though.
The simplest explanation is often the truth, because it is. I wanted more information. That's it.
As for why, though, I will keep that to myself out of not wanting to cause further issues, because revealing that would cause yet another shitstorm I do not have the time, energy or emotional investment for. Enough shitslinging is going on, I don't want to add any more than I'm forced to.

Sure.
The bridge comment he made was a jab at someone who was going on about the Charlie Kirk murder.
And yes, I am taking responsibility for this, and accountability too. Again, I did not tell him explicitly to post this or anything else. I did chastise him for this in private.
And I can actually vouch for him, because he's one of the people who has been keeping me correct on pronouns with a lot of people. I forget a lot of the time because I don't think, out of absentmindedness. He is handling most of the day to day cleaning in my absence while I handle doctor's appointments and referrals.
I disagree with you there, partially. Maybe I don't because I just have higher tolerance to certain things. Offense is taken and it's subjective, ultimately I stand in line with my values of not taking down something, and again, I'll take what comes my way, good or bad.

...and I am now? Suddenly this means "once a horrible supernazi, always a horrible supernazi"?
I'm tired of all of this. The recent changes I've made have involved stricter controls on controversial content and what I guess you'd call hate speech, with plans to introduce something akin to the Gentleman's Ticket onto the servers themselves along with a few changes that are still in discussion.

But the TL;DR is that I am taking accountability. I can admit when I'm wrong, and I was wrong to clam up and not tell my side of things. I did it to try and avoid this, because I didn't want it to be a big issue.
But now it is. And I reap what I sow.
 
Waifers, please. Look, I know you're not happy about whatever and whenever, but can we please just let this rest? This isn't worth the integrity of the entire community we have built over the years.

The integrity of this community was compromised by Tohru on multiple occasions, held up on the backs of others like Wo, Canarde, 42, and Mikusch.
 
The integrity of this community was compromised by Tohru on multiple occasions, held up on the backs of others like Wo, Canarde, 42, and Mikusch.
But why do you say that? From the look of things both parties have done things that can be considered compromising, you can't just accuse tohru of being the only one at fault here. Besides this whole us vs them tribalism is what caused this whole divide in the first place, a divide mind you that would directly benefit 42 after he had a falling out with the other staff members. This entire server was founded and maintained by tohru, he has just as much right to remain an active member of the community as anyone else. Removing him won't cause the "engoodening of redsun" it will only cause it to wither and die like slag gaming
 

You have completely misunderstood me. Nowhere did I say Tohru needed to be removed, nor did I say it need an engoodening. It already was good, regardless if Tohru was active or not.

What Im saying is, there has been a constant set of bad decisions that as of late Tohru has made that have diminished what others have worked so hard to establish.
 
This is just looping back and fourth, we're literally getting nowhere here. People fucked up, both sides have faults and we can't just keep throwing shit at each other over this because something is gonna snap and this whole thing is going to come crashing down. You guys don't have to like each other, nobody is telling you this, but we're all still apart of the same community and I don't want that to come to such a catastrophically abrupt end
 
I'm so confused and out of the loop by the whole situation, OMG. Either no one is speaking straight, or my English comprehension skills have sharply declined.

If someone wants to post some summary of the accusations for all the drama, I'd love that. For now, a lot of he said/she said, but I wasn't there at PAX or 2016, and at that point, this is all getting very confusing.

There must be something because everyone is leaving, but I'd love to be able to make my own opinion before doing something.
Posting that publically in order to help the others that are as confused as I am.



Maybe things should stop being swept under the rug at some point. There is clearly an issue that needs to be addressed, and I for one I'm happy to have some transparency for once.

The integrity of this community was compromised by Tohru on multiple occasions, held up on the backs of others like Wo, Canarde, 42, and Mikusch.
Appreciate it, that, as out of the loop that I feel, I just want to say I care a lot about the people round' here as I've made some good friends over the years.
 
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Yea I'm still waiting for the Critikal Video.
No but for real looks like it is a healthy decision to keep a little distance from everything, because I as a semi active person on the forum or the discord (mostly active on the TF2 Server) didn't knew that the drama is that deep.
I can't and will say anything to the bans.
I just hope that we still can enjoy our time on Raiden (or Armstrong) as a Community and don't let it get ruined by some black sheep (Like i said not talking about any specific person)
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You know, Tohru, I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. More than that, even.

When I met you at PAX, I genuinely believed you were working to improve yourself. I wasn't just there to talk to you from afar at PAX. I was there with you in the same room after what happened. I stayed there that night after everyone else had left, because I saw you were clearly suffering a mental breakdown. While I didn't fully understand what exactly happened and I got some of the details wrong when I heard them, I could tell that you were thoroughly broken by it. I lent you the Ralsei plushie I bought that day just to give you some sort of comfort, because I knew I didn't have the words to do so myself. I could physically feel your pain that night, and though I could truly understand only a piece of it, I wanted to empathize and try to make things easier for you, even with my very limited capability to do so.

I felt guilty leaving the hotel early next day, knowing that they had kicked you out of the hotel entirely. While I was at least able to convince someone else to listen to you in my stead, I still felt horrible over not being there for you myself, since I couldn't exactly go back; the whole ordeal made me so uncomfortable that I had already scheduled an early flight out of there. By the time I had heard from you, I was already at the airport.

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I was willing to defend you in court should the need be, based on what you told me. I've barely even known you for like half a year by this point, and I was still willing to do so because I felt your pain in the moment. And I do to this day still believe your testimony about your parents, your recent loss, and I was willing to believe your testimony on this for a bit as I myself didn't fully trust Screwdriver either. Regardless, I put my faith in you, and my empathy for you caused me to go into a nearly two-day autistic shutdown during the mass staff exodus, in part because I was worried about your own well-being. I was even briefly considering applying to become a moderator here after that, to potentially ease the burden on you.

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Except it turns out no, actually! You were talking out of your ass and were misrepresenting the situation based on one line from a second party! And when the first party in question gave their side of the story and explained that no, they weren't being abused and were fully consenting, you conveniently ignored it and continued to let some random conspiracy theorist peddle sweet nothings into your ear.


You really did take that out of context.

Just to clarify, I told quag he could be a dick and figured it would get some more of the more sensitive shit-stirring problem users out. I did not order any transphobia, nor do I think he has been overtly or intentionally transphobic.

That does not make it better.
YOU ARE THE HEAD ADMIN OF THE COMMUNITY.
You could have easily just direct messaged the users in question about what they apparently did wrong, warn them about it, and then if they did it again, just mute/ban them. That was all entirely within your authority and power, and would've have been vastly more professional and understandable than what you actually did.

Instead, you decided to:
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  • Order one of them to stir shit on your behalf to intimidate users out of the server instead of handling it professionally. No, it doesn't matter that you didn't order any transphobia specifically, you still ordered them to stir shit and make people uncomfortable.
  • Sweep their transphobia and agitations under the rug while claiming you were trying to make the place more welcoming
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  • Give a seat of power to one of said bigots
At this point, I don't even know what Macie said or did to earn your ire, but given this was your response, I'm now inclined to not even believe you on what she may or may not have done.


...and I am now? Suddenly this means "once a horrible supernazi, always a horrible supernazi"?
This is not the fucking point, Tohru. This is not what we are saying here.
I can't speak for anyone else here, but just know that whenever I personally try to write a forum post or something serious, I agonize over basically every word to ensure that my exact feelings and understanding comes through, so no misunderstanding can come from it. I also, however, understand that communication is a two-way street. As such, I have a single request:

FUCKING. READ.

You allowed a rot to fester in this community that resulted in basically all of my best friends leaving this place. Several of whom are responsible for me realizing I could feel more than just "ok" about myself; that I could find something about myself to be truly happy and proud about.

These servers were a place for me, and I'm sure many others, to forget about how awful the world around us is getting. To get away from the encroaching shittiness, transphobia, racism, and the like, and just enjoy ourselves playing some goofy gamemodes and sentence-mixing silly voice commands to make the mercs say funny, stupid things. All that work from the developers and moderators. All the attempts at self-improvement on your end. All that patience, and for what? For you to regress to your former petty, bigot self. All while trying to deflect the blame from yourself and refusing to look inwards.

This is what we get for our efforts? For the empathy others and I have tried to share with you? A sledgehammer to what was once my and many others' favourite community?
This is how you repay me? How you repay all of us?


But the TL;DR is that I am taking accountability. I can admit when I'm wrong, and I was wrong to clam up and not tell my side of things. I did it to try and avoid this, because I didn't want it to be a big issue.
But now it is. And I reap what I sow.
No you aren't. "Taking accountability" for allowing rot to fester does not involve actively promoting the agents of said rot.

I've fought with you until now, and I think you've become a pretty good person since we met, but I guess I thought wrong.

Fuck you, Tohru. Fuck you, Qwagsoir. Fuck you, Toxicologist.
I won't stay in a community where transphobia is tolerated.

Begone. I'm done here. Do not speak to me again.
 


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