I’ve been treated like this for seven straight years to the point where I have no inhibitions about standing up for myself anymore.
Yes, I abused people I cared about. I also took responsibility, rehabilitated myself, apologized to every single person I had ever hurt in any way, was punished for my mistakes and worked harder than I ever had in my life to earn my redemption. Coincidentally, very much like the characters in my art; my show, that you have created an entire RP account in tribute to, that you cannot, no matter how much you revile me, you cannot erase the fact that I created.
You are objectively incorrect; 15 years after the creation of the show and 7 years after my controversy, to this day, I get TOME fans continuing to support me, not only because they love the show, but because they are proud of the work I did to become a better person. You and whoever in your circle CELEBRATE treating me like I’m less than human as if you’re doing the world of surface, you are no better than me, the very person you’re persecuting. My mistakes are not a definition of who I am.
As much as your needlessly mean-spirited post has upset me, I still implore you to read my statement here that actually sheds light on the full story, because yes, as much as people don’t like widen their perspectives about things like this, there is more to the story than just “Chris Niosi is an abuser and he should die and stop existing”. I hope maybe you’ll take a look and maybe open your mind to feeling differently. I would love for you to still be able to enjoy TOME without also feeling a level of satisfaction over hating the person who made it.
you may have heard people discussing how hiring him was a fucked up choice. if you don’t know why, here’s a summarized explanation with sources
this is just a screenshot from wikipedia, but here’s a web archive of his tumblr blog from that date, since the original posts have been deleted
here is a post from a previous girlfriend of his, here’s a post from a former friend, and another very long post with a few former friends talking about their experiences with him.
i really recommend looking at the posts yourself, but here are some important excerpts.
this is the beginning of his own (now deleted) post (it can still be accessed through reblogs if you cant get the web archive to work, here’s one)
these are from his ex girlfriend, in the post which i linked above (this one)
and, here is a tweet from today (July 18th 2024) from an ex friend who says he has NOT changed at all, nor was the worst of the abuse ever made public.
please reblog for exposure and look into sending feedback to hyv if you do NOT want to play a game that has someone like this cast in it.
This post is being made for awareness, not as a call to action. Do not harass any parties mentioned.
I'd like to remind everyone, especially the Deltarune community at the moment, who Christopher Niosi is. TLDR: He's an abuser trying to re-enter the public eye unnoticed.
Christopher Niosi, known online as Kirbopher, is a voice actor and animator who has been on the internet for a very long time. He is most known for creating the TOME series and being the English voice of Arataka Reigen in Mob Psycho 100. He also had multiple voice roles in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
About 6 years ago, he publicly admitted on his Tumblr blog that he had sexually, emotionally, and financially abused past partners. The post has been archived and can be found here. You can also look up his name and find people talking about what he's done, it has been 6 years so the information is out there. A lot has happened since then, including newer responses to the allegations, but the fact remains that he did do all those things. Feel free to do your own research on that. He was subsequently removed from many of his voice acting roles.
After this he sort of fell out of the public eye, especially with the modern internet. This is especially since this really only came to people's attention when he was chosen to voice a Genshin Impact character. Fans of the game are usually not old enough to remember or have even been around when he was at the height of his online fame.
Because of this, a lot of people are seeing his name for the first time. One of the places this is happening is YouTube. I speak for myself when I say that after watching a lot of Deltarune related content, I have gotten his videos in my recommended feed. You may have seen these, and they're often advertised as "Reigen's VA does [character, usually Spamton or Tenna]". I will not be linking these videos, as I don't want to give him any views. Many users seem to be completely unaware of his history and are supporting these videos, even making animatics using the audio from his videos.
I do not blame these people for doing this because they clearly have no idea who Niosi truly is. But I hope that by posting this, people will stop supporting his new content and allowing him to continue his career after abusing women and never properly apologizing or being punished. It's been long enough since then that I unfortunately don't think he will be receiving any kind of formal punishment any time soon, so the least we can do as justice to his victims is to not support his content.
Thank you for reading all the way to the end, if you did. Please reblog and share this where you can. Knowing that this man could come back and possibly harm more people is extremely saddening, so I hope that we as a community can try to prevent that from happening.
I figure it’s worth putting on the Tumblr radar since much of this is current discussion of Niosi is happening on Twitter.
(content warnings for sexual assault, abuse, manipulation, and otherwise taking advantage of people)
On Chris Niosi, and Kyle McCarley’s defense of him:
Recently Chris Niosi (aka Kirbopher), who has admitted to abusing people around him for at least a decade, was cast in Honkai Star Rail as the character Moze. Five years have passed since his public apology, where he addresses some specific callouts from victims to debatable effect, but unfortunately he’s lied about apologizing to all of his victims (1, 2), and the specific apologies he has written are now deleted from his tumblr, calling his efforts into changing for the better into his question. Furthermore, as he has a history of taking advantage of his fans even in his more underground days (1+2, 3), putting him in a situation where he has access to more fans to put him on a pedestal is dangerous. Other users have iterated much of this already on tumblr, where it was already discussed in previous years, so this is just some context.
But I’m here to talk about something related that hasn’t gotten any Tumblr coverage. For example, people here have talked about Griffin Puatu’s reddit post defending him already. But nobody has mentioned Kyle McCarley defending him yet.
On July 19, 2024, in the replies of Moze’s introduction tweet, he had this to say:
He addresses his use of “bad boyfriend” downplaying legitimate abuse later. I don't think it's great but we’ll get to that. However, “the court of public opinion” is a concept that he does stand by, perhaps reinforced by the backlash he received for this. Some of this was vitriolic, given the kind of person he was defending from further criticism, but others did try to reason with him, including some of the above and more as evidence that Niosi isn’t being entirely truthful about his atonement, and overall most responses expressed disbelief and disappointment more than anything else.
Still, he deactivated his account the following day, on July 20, 2024.
Unfortunately, our story doesn’t end there. In the early morning of July 21, 2024, he made an announcement in his Discord server.
So here's the thing about Niosi not being a confirmed sexual abuser or rapist or pedophile. I don't have everything, with this being such an expansive case so this is off what I've found. You know the time he planned to take advantage of his girlfriend at the time while said girlfriend was intoxicated (plus this follow-up where he attempted to cover for himself)? Drunk people cannot consent, especially not when drunk sex is already a hard boundary. Although this technically doesn't make him a rapist, to my knowledge, if you're gonna argue semantics it'll just sound like "well he didn't ACTUALLY rape someone so it's not as bad". Is it not already terrible that he tried to and still downplayed it when called on it? Besides, as mentioned in Lighty's testimony linked above, he's let other in his sphere groom minors under his watchful eye, and his other ex Audrey had things to say about how he weaponized sexual favors too. If someone actually has more on a history of sexual abuse and pedophilia, though, please bring it to my attention. I'll add it to this post.
Either way, we don't know what he knows. At best, Kyle has a very incomplete picture of the situation, and at worst he does have a complete picture and he just doesn’t think it’s valid or up-to-date criticism. The person who first brought this to people's attention on Twitter also mentioned that her messages in the server were being deleted when she spoke up to provide evidence, so for someone who welcomes others to share evidence how open he actually is to it is questionable. (UPDATE: There's more to this part of the story but we'll get to it in a future update.) His final message a couple of hours from these just solidifies it.
Having joined the server myself to see, around the time of the announcements seems to have been scrubbed clean, but there is some current discussion of the topic as of this post. Furthermore, someone there has stated that they're compiling sources to send his way to give him a better understanding of the situation (even if they're not sure if he still wants to talk about this), so maybe this will finally get him to reconsider his stance! Only time will tell.
Overall, though, I stand by my point that if Niosi makes a living, it should be somewhere far away from the public eye. Don't give him a platform to find new fans to take advantage of. Don't give his victims the opportunity to be retraumatized whenever they start a new game of show. He's been given more than enough chances. It's time to turn over a new leaf instead of digging his heels into the ground.
Still, I don't know if Kyle will change his mind at this point. I want him to - I tried, back when his Twitter was still up - but even at this stage he's doubled down on a situation he knows he might not have the full story on and I'm not sure if I can trust that. For any other fans, give this some thought - keep an eye out for any future developments if you still want to have faith in him, move on from him if you can't stand it. I just want him to at least hold his friend accountable instead of trying to shield him from the lasting consequences of his own actions.
(I'll be linking future updates here: #1, #2 and #3 for now.)
If you see any of Niosi's VA friends claiming that he's changed for the better because he supposedly went to therapy, know that they're full of shit.
None of his victims have forgiven him and the only reason he's still getting any work is because of his industry connections.
Also, if you're wondering how he managed to get cast in a major franchise despite the fact that he broke NDA back in 2019, it's because MiHoYo games are non union.
So yes, while he didn't get paid the standard union rate for this project, he's still being given a massive platform.
Please don't stay silent about this, let MiHoYo know that they've made a big mistake by hiring this piece of shit. And even if they don't recast him, let every con that is willing to invite him as a guest know that you don't want him there.
