TW!! GROOMING, SEXUAL CONTENT OF MINORS, PEDOPHILIA, SEXUALIZATION OF DISABILITIES, ( typical von warnings)
Hello! I make a lot of posts like this now hm? Well... Gah this feels weird to talk about, I only just processed everything that happened today thanks to the lovely people of the Kamimura Server! It's honestly a bit sickening to think back on now...
I hope you'll all listen to my experience, thank you!
I started watching Tetro during October 18th 2024, the day [Yanagi on Thin Ice] dropped! I joined the discord the next day. It was nice! Me and my friend @acefanat1c (PLEASE SEE HIS EXPERIENCE WITH VON TOO, ITS ON HIS BLOG) But... things got weird a little bit in...
Von would join VCs when it was just the two of us, and we didn't see anything wrong with it at the time! The creator of our favorite series wanted to talk with us? COOL! But... Looking back it seems like Von was targeting us? Like... Okay... she was joining VCs with two OPENLY 15 YEAR OLDS to talk about her series... and sometimes tease us?
For example, she'd tell us, "Ohhh Theres this art of Ken and Yanagi I'd love to show you guys but you'd freakkk out" like..?
It also doesn't help the fact that I would OPENLY talk about being disabled and my experiences with autism... Idk... as a young boy with a disability... and knowing Von has a FETISH for that and was seeking out me and him? ughhhh... it's disturbing to think about.
One of the big events
On December 2024, Von Babbit sent THIS in Tetro Spoilers infront of possible hundreds of minors
As you can see, some people started pinging me bc yk... I'm a well known Ken fanatic! Also I have made some slightly suggestive jokes about Hasegawa in the past (pls keep in mind I was 15 and much younger than ken!) and I jokingly said "Haha me and that person share a braincell!" and everyone played along and freaked out like "WOAHHH"
Yet... I said it infront of Von and yet didn't get chastised in the slightest?? Everytime I made jokes about ken... She'd let me get away with it?? Scott free...
A part of me is genuinely scared that she let it past bc... she LIKED the way I'd talk about ken... she liked hearing a disabled little boy talk like thag or something... god it makes me sick js typing this.
And I know I'm younger than Ken and it's okay for minors to make those jokes about other minors (especially fictional + older than them!) but... I can't help but feel disgusting knowing the reason I was encouraged was possibly so a woman 10 years older than me could get off...
I feel like I should've seen how wrong it was and that I was walking right into it.... I can't really do anything now. The past is past I guess.
THE SECOND INCIDENT
Me and Abolish got into a slight argument, and decided to take a break from our friendship for a bit! I didn't want any drama so I informed Von of it in a ticket.
I was told later that Abolish was saying rude things about me in voice chat, this lead to him eventually getting banned. I felt incredibly guilty for the matter after and a lot of our mutual friends started dming me if I had anything to do with it.
Now, because of what Von had told me, I thought they were all against me and was extremely paranoid for quite an amount of time.. however it turn out
HE NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABT ME AT ALL???
I was successfully isolated from a lot of my friends, purposefully or not. I was alone.
It was scary!
I just can't look back on a lot of these fonder memories without feeling gross knowing that she might've been sexualizing and fetishizing me AND my disabilities...
...
Thank you for listening to my experience, I'm still processing all of this so maybe I'll rb with more I remember!
I... really don't wanna believe I was possibly being groomed for almost a whole YEAR yk? I wanna believe it was a mistake but...
Knowing the person Von is... I can't say she's innocent...
ANY REBLOGS ARE APPRECIATED!!! I want people to take my experience, and we able to learn about the type of person Von Babbitt is, and hopefully be able to protect themselves!
Please be sure to spread awareness abt this topic and again, thank you so much for listening💖
"I'll be your bodyguard, and when someone inevitably snaps me in half, you can stick me back together.
Get out of your own head."
"I don't know if I want to. I think I'd rather...
stay alert."
"Who could blame me?
If you saw the look on that face,
you wouldn't be able to judge me..!"
so. i promised hirosoda and here they are!! with karma of all things. admittedly i don't actually know if this will be accurate considering how the previous affair with bodyguards went (looking at miki and ken) but i think it'd be fun if what the fandom thinks will happen gets subverted bc then i'd have predicted SOMETHING accurately. for once. (asides from ch 1 hitomi culprit and ch 5 ken culprit but i digress)
anyways the idea i had behind drawing this post was basically "what if isoda gets fatally wounded while protecting hirose and he tries to save them in a bout of desperation and guilt" so. do with that what you will :)