The DM saga: A retrospective
Dedicated to Duck. Thanks for requesting.
This wouldn’t be a Quinton Reviews blog if we didn’t at least mention the event that put him in the radar of many. It all started with one tweet:
Replying to herself Sarah would tweet this message came from a male YouTuber that would mention in video when she wasn’t replying to his messages.
Then Lindsay Ellis adds another six messages from the same guy.
Everyone suspects Quinton. Those are the components of this saga everybody knows.
Three years later, some people still say Quinton's involvement is merely a rumour and some even try to spin it as Quinton being the victim. Sounds familiar.
Here are some facts that only sickos knew about.
Sarah mentioned the original message was from a male YouTuber that mentioned in his videos when she didn't reply his messages.
At 56:35, Quinton mentions that he couldn't reach Sarah (who played Irma in a previous video reading Garfield strips).
Lindsay's reply contains three pairs of messages. Two of those pairs line up with times Quinton was in Anaheim.
July 2019: VidCon 2019. Quinton attends a panel held by Ellis, tags her in a tweet.
February 2020: Quinton goes on a trip to meet with friends and use his soon to expire Disney Land annual pass.
There were also attempts by forensic photo editing aficionados to prove it was Quinton.
If these tweets among others didn't pick up more traction at the time it was because the moment it became very obvious it wasn't MovieBob then people started to say it wasn't their place to speculate since the male YouTuber hadn't been named directly.
You can probably figure Quinton wasn't going to react directly, but in very Quinton fashion he had to make his feelings known.
But someone just so happened to notice and subtweet.
Quinton disappears of the Internet for a week, while most people either already know it was him or are doing mental gymnastics to say it suddenly doesn't matter.
It could have ended right there, but it didn't. Some context will be necessary. Quinton has two Discord servers: one of his Patreon (Quinton's Quarantine Quew), where all the parasocial talk comes from, and Quanto Analysis, from where he runs his channel with his friends and closest allies (until this controversy you only needed six dollars to enter). Someone leaked the latter in a html file for all the comments around the DM saga.
He would go to say other things like how the Mumkey Jones nontroversy prevented him from reaching 1M, mock Ellis by saying "stop me if I ever make a long video after I get cancelled", that he needs to suffer to make 'good art', complaining about his weight or expressing surprise when his channel broke the free fall it was in to make the way to the current state of his channel.
Now and then people accused Quinton of harassment and even labelled him worse things. None were true, he is just a cringelord that still acts like he is in high school. For that very reason, I took enough issue to write about the Flowergothic saga and revisit this one. Because I know Quinton incapable of being a creep, but he is one heavy prick who has bent the truth before and would do again.
