So it’s come out that YandereDev’s victim may have been intentionally baiting him all this time. She allegedly has a Discord server that revolves around setting up honeypots, and she may have even been 18 all along after all (though all of her posts found on 4chan and Discord claim different ages, so there is no way to know for sure— *yes*, as far as we know, that is definitely her Discord and definitely her posts on 4chan.)
My opinion on it is this: it doesn’t matter if this was a honeypot all along, and it doesn’t even matter if she is 18 or older after all. It is entirely true that this entire time, Alex thought she was 16 years old. Now that he has admitted to this, there is no way to take it back. He’s still a pedophile, even if he *did* fall for a honeypot (and if anyone wants to debate me on this, I’d just like to ask them if they think that the people on TCAP “aren’t actually pedos” because they were also fooled by a decoy that isn’t actually underage. Not to mention his other underage victims.)
I’m posting this for the sake of transparency and fairness. Usually, I would not entertain rumors that a victim who claimed to be underage may have actually been an adult attempting to trick Alex all along. This, however, has highly substantial evidence (the victim has posted her Discord username/honeypot server on these 4chan posts, has posted identifying unique photos of herself along with those posts, and all those posts are linked to her ID number.)
If you’ve heard already, you probably know what I’m talking about, and if not, I’m not going to post the evidence here to be on the safe side as well as for victim privacy, as this is still a developing situation.
Also, 35 + 18 is still a harmful age gap regardless, so….yeah. Just because 18 is the legal age of consent doesn’t mean that isn’t creepy and gross regardless, even if Alex DID somehow know that she was 18 all along (which he didn’t, and which still isn’t confirmed.) It also doesn’t mean that the victim isn’t actually, you know, a victim.
I wanted to address this before it gets out of hand. My opinion remains the same: Alex’s actions do not suddenly change just because of the intent of his victim. He’s still a pedo.