Man my last comment on this whole yogs situation,
but I hate this idea of ‘if anything really happened they should have reported it to the authorities’
because HOW even do they do that? how do you go to the cops as a teen in a different fucking country and say ‘an adult man in another continent is talking to me in a sexual manner and asking for inappropriate photos’ and have them even understand or take you seriously.
it’s not a viable option. the logical thought is ‘report it to his superiors/aka the yogscast directly because theyll understand and have the power to punish him’. in my eyes thats entirely the right thing to do and the best option if youre in that situation, and its what a lot of the victims did.
but they didn’t do anything. Lewis and whoever else had the power and knew just said ‘tumblrs overreacting let it blow over’ instead of taking the situation seriously.
and then get surprised and upset when people keep coming forward and telling the Internet, because theyre letting other fans know ‘be aware be safe’ because the Yogscast didnt wanna do their job and handle employees.
its not 'making a mountain out of a molehill’ or 'ruining sjins career’, its warning other fans and potential victims that sjin is a manipulative predator and fucking bless every person who spoke out and tried to help others.
They let the problem fester and that is the worst response i could imagine. These people are some of my favourite people and to find out they not only defended a paedophile and let him keep a job, but asked others to remain silent and make jokes about the whole thing? sickening.
I defended Sjin way back on this blog, because i thought it was rumours and lies. As the yogs didnt make any response to it at all i thought it was all fake. I liked sjin and appreciated him as one of the more featured yog and thought it was honestly people looking for a fight.
To find out that it was true sickens me. I would apologise for defending him but then, we were meant to be under the impression that it was fake - that’s the idea they sent out by asking hannah and co to be silent and shrugging off the victims and putting minty in a bad light just so sjin can keep a fucking job.
It sickens me to see Lewis (and on a lesser note turps) to make this decision to remain friends with sjin and instead of taking action against a paedophile he chooses him. It sickens me that Sips and Lewis are making jokes about this. It sickens me that presumably Turps and Duncan and who knows who else are okay with Sjin being a paedophile. It sickens me that those who are not were either vowed into silence (hannah, kim) or laid off (minty, teutron - both not as a direct result of this matter but it seems shifty the yogs put out a job vacancy for their jobs only 4 months after letting them go due to “cut backs”).
I - as well as many, MANY people - want Sjin to face justice. I want a proper investigation held and i want justice.
edit:
Sips even made a sick joke about it that lewis posted to his twitter.
Hannah says she was uncomfortable remaining silent on the matter and supported Minty, and Teutron says the issue was under damage control back in 2012 and “discussed over drinks” (as if it’s a childish fuckin gossip and not a paedophile manipulating victims)
- mod peculier