CLOWDERGATE

His name is John Meyer.

[clowdergate]

I don’t believe that anyone is still playing his games, but

If you aren’t aware, John Meyer (known online as John Clowder) solicited a minor for nudes. 

This blog contains the record of his abuse towards her. 

He is, of this year, 30. He was 28 at the time of the incident. His victim was 17 at the time. 

I have reported him to the police. 

[clowdergate]

I have made a report to the police.

[disjfhugoskdijfh-deactivated201]

Concerning John Clowder

This is not meant to be a standalone callout or anything. I just want to make things clear and put my thoughts out there, since it has been eating at me.

About 2 months ago, a callout was made for John, with the main point being that he asked a 17 year old for nudes.

I am the 17 year old mentioned in the post. 

To clarify: we were in a relationship that he had initiated. He had confessed love for me months prior, around October, I believe. We started dating. He asked for nudes in December; from this point forward, he brings up something sexual in every conversation + asks for nudes constantly. He also suggested us eloping multiple times.

How we started talking:

Big fan of his work; impulsively sent an ask at around midnight saying something along the likes of “john i want to die and i don’t know what to do”

A beautiful private response a few days later, elated

Exchanged correspondence on Tumblr for a while; asked for his Skype  

I believe the first ask I sent was sometime in the February of 2015, and I know I obtained his Skype sometime over that summer.

His first part of the answer of this ask was about me, by the way, if you couldn’t already tell. 

Calling him John is odd to me, since when we first started talking, he requested to be referred to as Coyote. So, I will switch to that instead..

Coyote abandoned me on February 1st and has not talked to me since. 

I do believe that me now making this post will help me cope with the situation, although I do feel reluctant to make it, because I want to talk to Coyote again.

A now ex-friend of his can provide additional logs of his general … oddness, as well of him trying to cover for himself and make me seem like a perpetrator. One of his poor cover ups was his claim that he is “only” 22 and not 28, as if that would alleviate the situation… somehow. 

@kaedetakagaki

Again, I do not, at this moment in time, have the energy nor time to make a more comprehensive post on this matter. I just wanted to make my identity known. If you’re still hesitant;

Here is a selfie he has posted.

And here are some he has sent me. (one - two - three)

[clowdergate]

It's been at least a year so I want to give an update -

I'm safe, I don't know if M is safe as of right now but I will give updates when I get into contact with her.

We've been waiting for her to get stable housing before contacting the police.

There's more receipts that I still have to sort through.

If anyone has any other information, please let me know.

And as was said before - John Meyer, under the alias of John Clowder, is a pedophile and abuser who solicited nudes and emotionally manipulated a 17 year old girl. The receipts of that are on this blog.

Don't give a dime of your money to him. Pirate the new game if possible. If you have a copy and are willing to distribute it, please do so.

[scitydreamer]

I hope that this user is actually John Clowder trying to be Not Mad about my thing on him.

[scitydreamer]

In case this person, who May Or May Not Be John Clowder, is tuning in, here’s the response I posted on the blog:

I’m not saying that a review can’t be subject to a review, rather, I’m pointing out that said review of the review carries an attitude that is unbecoming of creators. While the post doesn’t have screenshots to the original review, the link to the review and the thread itself is still posted, so I’m not trying to hide it. The thing is, the matter isn’t of whether Clowder should review said review or not - if it was, I would have gladly included screenshots. The problem is the general attitude that Clowder carries himself with, acting dismissive and hostile. You may see NTC3’s review as banal, but regardless of the intellectualism angle you’re trying to push, it’s still an honest review. And to have a hostile attitude toward honest reviews just isn’t a good look.

I do believe that games can be art. In fact, I considered Fidchell rude for their own dismissive attitude toward art games. But if creators of art games get mad at people for not getting it and dismissing their concerns, it does not reflect well on art games.

[ornistheavianfiend]

Kinda sad to see he’s still irritable with critical reviews. I feel kind of bad for him because the first unwritten rule of etiquette for “weird” artists is to be aware and understand that people most likely won’t see your work the way you do, and that those who do like your work will also have their own vision of what your art means to them.

[scitydreamer]

The fact that there was pretty much zero marketing for Where They Cremate the Roadkill and I only found out it released by casually scrolling through “weird game dev Twitter” really shows how much @clowdergate affected the game’s potential success. Ideally they would have marketed the game as “led by the guy behind Middens and Gingiva” but with the shit levied against Clowder, there’s no way they could do that. At best, Where They Cremate the Roadkill can only be successful through word of mouth and even then I feel that people may change their mind on the game after seeing what one of the lead developers was accused of.

[scitydreamer]

How not to handle criticism: featuring John Clowder

Today, we’re going to talk about something practical. This is intended to be game dev device from one amateur, but really, this is applicable to anybody that makes things for people to consum…

I wrote a few game dev tips on how not to handle criticism, based off the greatest thread on rpgmaker.net ever.

[scitydreamer]

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT “WHERE THEY CREMATE THE ROADKILL” RELEASED THE VERY DAY I WROTE THIS

I DIDN’T MEAN TO ROAST CLOWDER ON THE DAY HE FINALLY RELEASES HIS GAME BUT LMAO GOOD

[scitydreamer]

i'd desperately advise anyone interested in where they cremate the roadkill to pirate it when possible. don't give clowder a dime.

[clowdergate]

Minor updates

Changed the icon and the background so mobile users don’t have to look at that damn cat and spaghetti anymore. I also made sure to use an appropriate icon. 

We’re currently waiting on the shipment of the laptop containing the skype logs. 

The victim is currently safe, but could use support. M has made a blog and I will link it in this post as soon as we have confirmed that the blog is safe, has tracking, and also when it is ready to talk openly. 

We’ve received a message from a blog made 3 days ago over messenger that we suspect to have been Meyer. For this reason we’re turning messaging off. 

Found out belatedly that Meyer also has the username “Takamo” on GameJolt with the games uploaded under that pseudonym. 

If you have any support, questions, or relevant information please do contact us. This blog was created with the intention of warning others of Meyer’s predatory behavior. 

[clowdergate]

Can we please stop using the tag #clowderverse?

It’s Rose again. 

I’m the original creator of the term “clowderverse” and the tag creation. 

If you don’t know this already, John Meyer (known online under multiple pseudonyms, most commonly John Clowder) is an emotionally abusive pedophile. 

This isn’t just an accusation. I have been in contact with his victim for half a year now. 

Meyer attempted to manipulate me as well when news came up that he was a pedophile. 

At the least, recognize and acknowledge my own wishes. I created the term to describe the verse of Gingiva & Middens as well as the Rift. It was because my own series at the time were going to be a part of the ‘clowderverse’ in their lore. This no longer holds true. 

As we are still in the process of reporting him to the authorities, and that the victim has been continually struggling in coming forward about the incidents, I ask that everybody wait before I post/reblog a full report of his behavior. 

Please stay wary and do not trust him. 

[2016willbegoodiswear-blog]

#MiddensGate for real

If you didnt know already, John Meyer was outed (by me) for being a pedophile. He is 28 and the victim is 17. Unfortunately, people did not see my post as genuine. SO, i will make another post. John Meyer’s girlfriend/wife (who will remain nameless) also contacted the victim trying to defend him and tell the victim to stop. I jumped in and proved her wrong, but she insisted that no nudes were ever sent, this is not the case

the screenshots will be under the cut

Keep reading

[clowdergate]

This is irrelevant as hell, but I always thought this was funny. He never once gave me or anybody a clear answer on Middens. I always read it as backpedaling for the sake of remaining pretentious. I still do. 

Update, on a review in 2015 when his game was properly given criticism about it's failure as an rpg, he wrote: "You just don't get it. You're tone deaf and not hearing the notes. You want me to describe music to you? If you cant perceive it...you can't perceive it."

[clowdergate]

Full Conversation w/John Meyer (John Clowder/Bjorn M. Boe/Coyote) [skype chatlogs]

Related to the previous post. 

Under a cut because it’s long, please read the whole thing. 

(TW: Emotional abuse, lying, gaslighting, sexual abuse, solicitation of minors)

(Here’s the first set of screencaps, light blue is John Meyer, dark blue is the victim.) 

(There’s no reliable timestamps date-wise on these screencaps he gave me.)

(Note that this screencap is February 1st, which is far past the time that Meyer had been soliticing his victim who I will refer to as ‘M’ until she can safely confirm her status once more as John Meyer’s victim.)  

(More screenshots that are conveniently taken out of context and also missing timestamps from John Meyer’s end) 

Here’s the gyazo image link - as well as the screenshot from the 2015 Waubonsee Xcelerate Summer Program that links John Meyer to John Clowder & Middens.

And the reason I know he’s officially 28, no matter what he says, is because of the note in that description that says he had been with Xcelerate since the first year. 

This is a link to a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for Waubonsee Community College.

Within the report the Xcelerate program is mentioned.

(link to picture, sorry for visibility problems) 

Xcelerate was established in 2009. John Meyer is supposed to be a part of it for this year in 2016.  Here’s a screenshot of this year’s pdf brochure

This is just in regards to his conversation with me to try to cover up and discredit M’s callout and confession post in which she discloses her relation as a victim of emotional and sexual abuse by his manipulation. 

John Meyer remarks that we are ‘friends’, but I do not show sympathy or tolerance for pedophiles or abusers and I made that clear from the beginning. He also has been rude to me before to the point of acting like an eight year old throwing a tantrum because I wouldn’t let him call me ‘love’ when I was saying goodbye during a conversation. He’s told me a story about how a 17 year old begged him to have sex with him out of the blue (and told the same story to M over a rabb.it call), as well as an incident where he assaulted a barista when drunk (he threw his drink at her) and was arrested. 

Currently he has been sending M unpublished anons to try to discredit her and has been cyber-stalking her excessively. 

There’s a few other things that have come up - 

Shaina Nordlund is either his fiancee or his wife and he has a child with her. After finding out about M, she got a hold of her phone number and began yelling at her as well as M’s girlfriend. She has sent M’s girlfriend a picture of her breastfeeding.

John Meyer has also sent pictures of his child to M. 

Apparently John Meyer confessed to M that he has a child with an unknown mother.

He’s confessed to me about sleeping with ‘someone questionable’ and needing an STI test for it.  (The context was I was talking about my own issues with birth control, and Meyer remarks that he’s never used birth control and never had a problem with it [which, since we were still acquaintances, I automatically questioned whether or not he had tested himself for STIs]

Honestly this is just me speculating entirely on if he’s been cheating on Shaina with more than one person, and if those people are also online, to see if they also will come forth. 

Aside from Meyer soliciting nude pictures from M, he also was emotionally abusive to her during the span of his manipulative relation with her. I will leave the chatlogs up to M to post on her own. 

I will post other relevant chatlogs later and keep an archive of this situation. It’s not anything questionable anymore - John Clowder/Meyer abused and solicited nude photos from a minor. 

Personally, I am furious that he thought he could use me to discredit M’s claims, given that I’m also a survivor of online-related emotional abuse and that for that sole incident was the only reason I had ever contacted him to begin with. But my sympathies go entirely to M for having to deal with this man’s manipulation.

More information will come later, especially when M is in a safer situation. 

[clowdergate]

john meyer is fucking sending anons to the girl he abused pretending to be both some random guy whose grandfather married a young girl acting like it’s “normal” and also pretending to be a friend of his “visiting him in the mental ward” to try and make the situation less of his fault and he literally doesn’t realize that 1) hes so obvious it hurts and 2) we can see his fucking IP