I want to preface everything I’m about to say with: I 100% believe and support the victim and I felt horrible reading through the thread. I also apologise that it took me a few hours to write this as I wanted to talk with people who were around during a lot of what I am going to talk about, so I could make sure, that I have an accurate timeline of events. Most of what I am covering in this took place between 2017 and 2018
In the thread that surfaced today(
https://twitter.com/y2m3k0/status/1310874391710965760 ) this person details their experience with Roscripts, the brother of Quackity and in one of the tweets they say they tried to talk to me about it but I asked them not to go to Alex(Quackity) because of them being siblings.
I never spoke to this person directly(I am not saying this to discredit anything they’ve said, like I said I believe their thread 100%), which in retrospect was wrong of me.
As far as I am aware, I was never approached by them directly, but I should’ve searched for them even if there was an inkling of anything inappropriate. I was approached by a moderator, who was approached by someone the victim knew.
The information I received was not to the extent of the twitter thread we see today and I perceived it as vague and wanted to know more. a perception which I no longer agree with.
I was not aware of a lot of the information I read today and this is my fault. I should’ve pursued and pushed this a lot more.
Men, especially, need to be louder than anyone when speaking up regarding issues like this. I did not live up to this here and I am very sorry to everyone I have disappointed. By not dealing with this head on and not being more assertive about all of this I became apart of the problem and I am very sorry about that.
I have since then learnt a lot more about dealing with situations like this and continue to learn every single day. Helping victims get the voice they deserve is very important, we as bystanders need to be apart of this process otherwise we become a part of the problem.
I deeply regret my part in this.
Before I started making videos in the second half of 2018, my friends and I played a big part in running the Quackity Discord.(One of these friends, Owen, has made a thread revealing more information that people have come forward with today
https://twitter.com/Donalds28__/status/1419813432862429185 ) This was somewhere between 2017 and the first half of 2018. I stopped being active in it, once I started to make my own content. (This was at the end of the summer, 2018)
Roscripts and I have basically never been on good terms and neither was the rest of the staff. I was never exactly sure why we had problems at the start, but they quickly developed as we all tried to work on the server together. At a certain point it lead to a lot of us quitting our positions in the server, because Roscripts, at one point, was temporarily installed as the owner of the server and wanted to establish an NSFW channel.
A lot of us felt that this was completely inappropriate with the server having a lot of very young people. Roscripts was very persistent on this.
That combined with the fact that all of us felt very uncomfortable with a lot of Roscripts’ activity in the server lead to a lot of us making it known that we would refuse to work on the server as long as Roscripts played a part in it.
This lead to Alex talking to Roscripts with the conclusion being he would remain as admin but would stop being active in the server. I have not spoken to Roscripts since then(besides a very brief ‘hello’ when I met their family in passing in 2019). Considering a lot of what has surfaced today happened in the same year as the events i described prior(2018), I should’ve pushed even harder and had him completely removed from the server. I was way too passive in a position of power.
I feel terrible about everything i’ve talked about here. I am completely disappointed in myself and I apologise for not doing enough when it was most necessary.
If you or anyone you know has been affected by a similar situation, please reach out to the people around you. We need to make sure victims are heard and helped.