🪦 Deceased Byuu / byuu_nyan / setsunakun0 / Near / David Ginder - "Non-binary" furry programmer who wrote a Super Nintendo emulator, tried to blackmail Null into removing his thread, and is probably actually dead lol

[Rudolf's Friend]

I'm trying to remember but did anybody figured out what person (or group) that led up to David commiting Byuucide since something made him want this thread removed?

Wasn't it Hector Martin who found out and tried to blackmail him into getting his thread deleted or am I remembering things differently?

 

[Aidan]

Wasn't it Hector Martin who found out and tried to blackmail him into getting his thread deleted or am I remembering things differently?

Going off of fuzzy memory here but I think Hector was privately making a big deal out of Byuu's thread, making Byuu feel bad about posting here and using Byuu as a pawn in the grander #dropkiwifarms effort. In any case, Byuu had it in his mind that his thread here was doing great reputational harm to him, meaning people had told him as much and bullied him over it.

I believe that the retro emulator community trannies were the ones privately harassing Byuu since he was a recluse and no public evidence of anyone caring about his inactive thread has been found. This happened at a time when trannies smelled blood in the water and were repeatedly attacking the site and it lines up with why the last person Byuu apparently talked to was Hector Martin himself, who has gone on to make an ass out of himself in the wider open source community where he mentioned using shaming as a tool. Hector Martin is a bully.

💪 Tough Guys Opublikuj w wątku „Hector Martin / Héctor Martín Cantero / @marcan42 / マルカン / @marcan42x / @marcan@treehouse.systems / Asahi Lina / Asahi Linux"

4 Paź 2025

The usual.

https://vt.social/@lina/115293185132353531 (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/lunafoxgirlvt.foxgirls.gay/post/3m2aczujbl22x (archive)
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Here's the Linus post since it's very hard to read. I'm sure it's already in this thread, but it's a fun review.

Here's the original, original... now we see why "Luna" blacked out "Lina's" name.

Spoiler: Text

From Linus Torvalds <>
Date Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:58:36 -0800
Subject Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add...

• DavidS877

Reakcje: x 5 x 3 x 3

 

[Croppered]

Also he fucking ruined the reputation of Bahamut Lagoon lol.

I hate that I can't read anything about SNES emulation or Bahamut Lagoon without this guy getting mentioned. People treat him like it was Akira Toriyama or Kentaro Miura dying, like he was some "taken from us too soon" martyr.

Dude wrote an SNES emulator and translated a game through the power of autism. Get over it.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Wasn't it Hector Martin who found out and tried to blackmail him into getting his thread deleted or am I remembering things differently?

Going off of fuzzy memory here but I think Hector was privately making a big deal out of Byuu's thread, making Byuu feel bad about posting here and using Byuu as a pawn in the grander #dropkiwifarms effort. In any case, Byuu had it in his mind that his thread here was doing great reputational harm to him, meaning people had told him as much and bullied him over it.

I believe that the retro emulator community trannies were the ones privately harassing Byuu since he was a recluse and no public evidence of anyone caring about his inactive thread has been found. This happened at a time when trannies smelled blood in the water and were repeatedly attacking the site and it lines up with why the last person Byuu apparently talked to was Hector Martin himself, who has gone on to make an ass out of himself in the wider open source community where he mentioned using shaming as a tool. Hector Martin is a bully.

💪 Tough Guys Opublikuj w wątku „Hector Martin / Héctor Martín Cantero / @marcan42 / マルカン / @marcan42x / @marcan@treehouse.systems / Asahi Lina / Asahi Linux"

4 Paź 2025

The usual.

https://vt.social/@lina/115293185132353531 (archive)
https://bsky.app/profile/lunafoxgirlvt.foxgirls.gay/post/3m2aczujbl22x (archive)
Wyświetl załącznik 7997798Wyświetl załącznik 7997803Wyświetl załącznik 7997808

Here's the Linus post since it's very hard to read. I'm sure it's already in this thread, but it's a fun review.

Here's the original, original... now we see why "Luna" blacked out "Lina's" name.

Spoiler: Text

From Linus Torvalds <>
Date Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:58:36 -0800
Subject Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add...

• DavidS877

Reakcje: x 5 x 3 x 3

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I think this is a fitting theory, but sadly there's not much evidence for it. Only Hector or Byuu's friends truly know and they have been tight lipped ever since the FOIA dropped.

 

[A Deer In Headlights]

Some highlights from r/emulation (archive)

 

[Hostile Takeover]

Byuu's 5th year of an eternity in hell. Hope it was worth it, you extorting attention seeking faggot. Also, your gay ass N64 emulator would've been pointless anyways, decomps and native ports are now what's in and don't require a $5000 computer to run.

 

[Not Real]

Some highlights from r/emulation (archive)

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It's been 5 years and people still believe he killed himself over the dead 13-page thread which only got active again once he started engaging with it and not the fact that he was a lonely mentally ill non-binary ABDL furry autist (yes I know pretty much all the other things there already imply autist) living as a foreigner in a country which hates foreigners, with "friends" who think Internet clout is more important than saving a friend from killing xirself...

Total Redditor Death can't come soon enough

 

[Let's Get On With It]

I seethe at the word murder being used to describe trans suicides. Who is responsible for it (if it happened), other than themselves? It makes about as much sense as "stealing" a naturally occurring resource on your own land.

 

[BinaricHate]

Some highlights from r/emulation (archive)

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nigga

 

[byuuWasTaken]

I'm trying to remember but did anybody figured out what person (or group) that led up to David commiting Byuucide since something made him want this thread removed?

Byuu somehow became very distressed when people (mostly from outside KF) began looking for lolcows in the emulation community. He claimed this had happened around the time he came to KF in peace (Feb 2020):

In February 2020, someone claiming to be from your site posted a dox list on Pastebin of several of my friends to 4chan's /emugen/ board. I lost one of my best online friends of ten years to that. https://twitter.com/talarubi if you must know. Yes yes I know, trans furry etc. I doubt you'd sympathize but the relationship meant a lot to me. She got so upset by having her personal information revealed that she blamed me and we haven't spoken since. In July 2020, Basil and Retrocrab on your board were trying to make a thread on another emulator developer, Arisotura, because of me, while she was suicidal. I know, again, trans, again, I don't expect you to care about these people. But they were my friends and they spent years helping me with my software.

Arisotura is a French communist troon. His thread never left PG and was archived at page 2. The OP left KF at the end of 2020. Markass did research on the Pastebin byuu mentioned, it was more of a list of names than a full-blown unmasking.

Now, my speculation: at the end of his life, byuu believed that he was the one responsible for the 'persecution' of LGBTP+ individuals in the emulation community. Maybe he was convinced of it by the sickos in the list. Maybe he persuaded himself of it on his own.

 

[The Fatriarchy]

Yeah, sure, Kiwi Farms did that, not you. Not you fair-weather friends who attacked him for daring to come anywhere near the website. What magic did we use to isolate him? He spoke with the forum users and left on a relatively positive note. What spells did we cast? Not a single one of these tards has the events correct and not a single one of these tards wants to come look at the forum and see for themselves. They STILL insist that he was doxed before death, and retards still eat it up, because that's all they are and that's all they ever will be. If they were smart and read more they wouldn't be raging progressive retards to begin with.

Byuu's 5th year of an eternity in hell. Hope it was worth it, you extorting attention seeking faggot. Also, your gay ass N64 emulator would've been pointless anyways, decomps and native ports are now what's in and don't require a $5000 computer to run.

No, retard, decomps take forever and it's on a per-game basis. You make one emulator passingly accurate and it plays all games.

 

[The Pulverizer]

It's been 5 years and people still believe he killed himself over the dead 13-page thread which only got active again once he started engaging with it and not the fact that he was a lonely mentally ill non-binary ABDL furry autist (yes I know pretty much all the other things there already imply autist) living as a foreigner in a country which hates foreigners, with "friends" who think Internet clout is more important than saving a friend from killing xirself...

The thing I'm curious about is whether or not Byuu would want this site to be blamed for his death. If I recall correctly, there may be a post where he says something among those lines, but I'm not sure. If he actually wanted to use his death to turn the impotent emulation community against the Farms, then that would be incredibly sad. The vast majority of people that use emulators don't engage with the discussion surrounding it, and the same goes for a lot of developers. I doubt anyone here or anywhere else actually cares about r/emulation.

 

[AnOminous]

If he actually wanted to use his death to turn the impotent emulation community against the Farms, then that would be incredibly sad.

The emulation "community" actually did bully him, unlike us.

 

[The Pulverizer]

The emulation "community" actually did bully him, unlike us.

They're also tearing the maintainer of DuckStation to pieces because he changed the license of his software. Are they trying to increase their kill count and claim the soul of another poor developer? What a merciless, brutal group of people.

 

[Markass the Worst]

The thing I'm curious about is whether or not Byuu would want this site to be blamed for his death. If I recall correctly, there may be a post where he says something among those lines, but I'm not sure. If he actually wanted to use his death to turn the impotent emulation community against the Farms, then that would be incredibly sad. The vast majority of people that use emulators don't engage with the discussion surrounding it, and the same goes for a lot of developers. I doubt anyone here or anywhere else actually cares about r/emulation.

In the Twitter thread he posted as his suicide note, he explicitly calls out Josh by name and blames him not taking down this thread for his impending death.

Unless you think he was somehow coerced into posting that, that's as clear as it gets. He blamed this site for his death.

 

[Aidan]

I think he was coerced into hating Kiwifarms because of his dead thread.