After thinking about this for a long time, I've made a choice to post this, and I'm sorry to anybody who wasn't expecting this. Have a lovely day.
Nate Schoonover (this is not a doxx, their real name is available publicly in multiple places and they're fully aware of that), known on tumblr as @/charadreemurr, @/whirlibirb, or, more popularly, @/draikinator, is a very manipulative and awful person.
You ever hear of the Warrior Cats fandom? Nate was kicked out of the fandom the moment they sent porn to a 14 year old while they were angry in order to prove a point. They said it was an accident, but contradicted themselves in stating that they did send it on purpose.
Many minors were their friends, and became unsafe around them. Aside from the situation above, they've told a minor to get hit by a train, send their fans to attack anybody who calls them out, and lie in order to manipulate the story in a way that will make them sound in the right.
They'll delete anything they can so their fans don't get information on what they did, and despite saying how many times that they'll change, they never do.
They promised to stay out of the Warrior Cats fandom, but came back about 6 months later with a story about how they couldn't stop creating content for the series and just HAD to share it. So. They broke their promise, and that's all the community asked for.
When joining a Warriors MAP (multi-animator project), they left the link to the MAP Call in the description. People who saw immediately commented on the call, requesting for them to be removed. Even the participants were dropping out, feeling unsafe in their presence. Later Nate deleted the link to the call, complaining about how they were ashamed that people went to the call and got them kicked out. They said they didn't want the host to get harassed. They were the one who left the link and let it happen.
When they did post their apology video back before they rejoined the fandom, they apologized to their fans. Not the people they directly hurt. They did end up removing their apology video later, claiming it was old news and that their fans already knew about it, and I'm not sure if it's back up at the moment.
Here is a link to a thread with multiple people talking about their personal cases with Nate.
Now: the reason why I'm choosing to discuss this here is pretty important to me.
Nate was the one who got me into Transformers with their videos about it. I followed their advice and watched Prime first. I followed their word when it came to the franchise and basically worshipped them for their views.
Of course, they probably don't even know I exist, and only ever interacted with me once in a comment I made on one of their videos, but it's a big deal for me. I idolized them. They were one of my biggest inspirations and I tried to get into whatever they got into just so I could keep up with everything they did.
They're the whole reason I got into this franchise and it absolutely disgusts me that something I love to dearly came from somebody like this.
And I'm saying this as well because I can see their posts being reblogged and I can see people talking with them and it just reminds me how almost nobody knows who they are and what they've done. You can call this an overreaction from me, but this is something I feel so strongly about.
The fact that somebody like this can just escape to a larger fandom where nobody's aware of what they've done in order to escape the criticism and the harm they've caused to other people.
I'm saying this because I just want some peace of mind. I'm saying this because I just want to know at least who I should avoid or who might cause me harm.
I know it's selfish and I never wanted to bring up anything like this, but I just want people to know. If you know, then that's that. If that's the case then I can know who to avoid at least.
Will this get me excluded from the tf fandom for bringing up drama that might not be necessary here? Yeah. Probably.
I just want people to know.
Edit: I should mention, this all took place second half of 2019, early 2020. So it's very recent.
