Dev has lied and manipulated Reddit (as well as the rest of the YanSim fandom).
Itās about time I made another one of these; apologizes for entering the main tag.
On this reddit comment chain, Dev speaks about how heās been having to deal with this and that, and if you donāt like how heās using Easter eggs to cope, then you should just not follow the development. While that in itself is sketchy, if you continue through the chain and see Devās second comment, he says one thing in particular:
How do I know itās a lie, might you ask?
Well, the last three days (and tonight, as Iām typing this), on my discord server I programmed a Mee6 bot to watch for when both YandereDev and EvaXephon go live.
āBut Dev doesnāt go by EvaXephon anymore!ā
Oh, but his account is pretty active. YandereDev typically streams around 11 PM EST, (my timezone) which would be 8PM his time; excuse my language in the evidence, but this clearly shows that EvaXephonās twitch is still active:
Clearly, EvaXephon is being used still, especially as displayed in tonightās example.
Iām not surprised considering he wouldnāt want his dear loyal fans finding out that he streams longer than he claims.
So, why canāt you see his previous streams on EvaXephon, you may be asking?
Well, thatās because you need a special invite to get into the stream; I happened to get my hands on this, and the first thing to pop up is a disclaimer:
āThis is a private webpage. The only people who should be here are a handful of my close friends.ā
You may call this an āinvasion of privacyā, but I call it exposing a manipulative liar.
Oh, he isnāt a manipulative liar? You see, thatās where youāre wrong: I already shown him lying directly to Reddit, which is a manipulation technique itself which enables them to wrong-foot their victim and confuse them, but his other manipulation techniques are also easy to identify.
1. He isnāt willing to change or take blame for his own actions. Constantly makes excuses for himself and denies he did any wrong, as well as bends the truth.
This has clearly been shown in situations such as the Art Theft incident, Chidiscourse, Mei Mio Hair discourse (his wording in a wordpress blog made him sound annoyed about having to change Meiās hair back to the bun from negative response), Ex Volunteer incident, and other similar caliber.
The Chidiscourse incident also includes victim blaming, which is a common manipulation technique used where they make the victim defend themselves while the manipulator is masking their own manipulation techniques. This shifts the focus on the victim, not the accuser. It can also make the victim feel guilty of their actions, constantly apologize, and try to redeem themselves, which typically is an after effect of being manipulated.
He doesnāt officially apologize to the victims here, and even bends and leaves out facts within the truth by being vague in an anti-harassment post. Not telling the entire story is also a common manipulation technique to put their victims at a disadvantage.
2. He constantly minimizes the damage of his actions, plays victim, and completely dehumanizes those who criticize him.
You can see this in action through the prior mentioned Art Theft post; Let me focus on the end part.
He states that his actions are ānot a big dealā āa trivial matterā, and a ānon-issueā. Saying this three times (which is unnecessary) by itself is suspicious, but the act itself is called minimalism, to which they make their actions not as much of an issue as they really should be.
He also continues to state that those who criticize himās mission is to ācharacterize everything he does as an evil, immoral actā, that we would ācrucifyā him, that those who questioned him were being āirrationalā.
He plays the victim, saying that critics and anti-devs are hellbound to make him miserable. Saying that ātheyāre just starting drama for no reasonā. That those who question him are āconvincing themselves that everything I do is an unforgivable, evil crime.ā
The vocabulary used here is purposely exaggerated in order to characterize critics and anti-devs as absolute monsters. Words are powerful, and those words can change someoneās view 180Ā° depending on how they are described. This isnāt any new technique, either: books you read do this, articles attempting to sway arguments will do this; itās a simple way to make the mind feel a certain emotion.
The fact this is at the end of a post on the art theft situation shows he is not only unexpectedly changing topic (another common manipulation technique to confuse the victim), but heās also shifting the problem away from him and onto critics/anti-devs, putting blame on them while at the same time making himself the victim.
3. He flatters and rewards those who follow him while punishing those who donāt: This can be referred to as human conditioning.
Remember how Dev constantly shamed us for sending him emails? Well, this was our punishment: nagging us about our actions, and offering reward for obeying him by promising the gameās development to go twice as fast.
This is just one of many times where he used this technique, practically saying at times that as long as you obey, you wonāt have any trouble with him.
I would go into further detail and make more specifications, but that would make this post way longer than it needs to be: Iām going to leave it here, and also provide a link to the wiki for Psychological Manipulation, which has a list of manipulation techniques.
Alex Mahan wants you to believe he is innocent and always in the right. You probably have already stated that his actions are moral, and have defended him countless times, and that is exactly what he wants.
If this has not gotten through to you, you may be in denial of my words. If it does, you will be upset and angry. Both of these reactions are part of the 5 stages of Grief, to which a victim either doubts themself or othersā words, as well as become angry when they finally realize they have been wronged.
I went through the same thing, and I denied constantly anything that hurt my manipulator; the same I expect to happen here. Once I found out I was being manipulated, it hurt and angered me. I denied it at first, saying āthere must be a reason why theyāre doing thisā, and, after it finally clicked, all I wanted to see was them getting the karma they deservedā¦ but none-the-less: I know you all must be upset at me or Dev, whoever you think is wrong or right, but please consider every detail.
This is exactly what he wants.
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