The Edge Of The Earth and their problematic history they tried to cover up.
TW: Transphobia, Homophobia, Alleged Racism, Guilt-tripping, Queer Baiting, And Fetishization. If any of the topics listed here are triggering to you, proceed with caution or click off the doc if you must. Thank you.
In April of 2024, Raffles, K0ZY/Damien, And Borzi joined The Edge Of The Earth discord server. In the hope of supporting an up-and-coming clown myth, we were instead met with disheartening comments about the LGBTQ community and other acts. In this Document written by the three of us, we will go over our experience with HAM0ER and Seylew (Also known as Bratbug, B0ZS0, And FQ0L) to spread awareness on these issues. We have noticed them garnering support recently and we feel that it is important to notify new fans of their history.
Others that are not working on this doc will be blocked out for privacy.
Seylew
Transphobia
On June 27th of this year Seylew accidentally misgendered K0ZY/Damien a Trans man, this would not have been a problem if he had apologized afterward. I also feel it is important to note that beforehand K0ZY was asking for their mod permission back after Seylew had removed it from them for no reason (he did this multiple times). K0ZY was helping out with the EOTE project and was given mod perms by HAM0ER himself. Here are screenshots below of this incident.
As seen in the image he also mentions K0ZY’s/Damien’s voice as feminine to make an excuse for misgendering him. Everyone in that server called K0ZY/Damien “he” way before this happened.
After this, K0ZY privately messaged him about his ignorance and this was his response
He only apologized near the end because of all that was going on, very bad apology
Homophobia
He would frequently only delete any media sent that was either two men kissing or just anything gay. But would not delete any actual inappropriate content a mod sent because “they were of the same power as him.”
(You can delete mods messages as a mod)
For example:
This gif making a sexually explicit joke was never deleted from chat.
While this next GIF that was sent minutes afterward featured two gay characters...
Was not only met with a rude comment but was promptly deleted.
Age-old saying. Anytime anyone would say their headcanons of the Circus In The Sky characters he would be very annoyed and complain. This happened a few times in the server but we never took screenshots because we didn’t want to start any drama with him. He also deleted channels often after any issues with him were started in said channels. (Usually general chat)
This next part can be taken with a grain of salt. But this is how we felt when this went down.
Queer Baiting & Manipulation.
From the start of FQ0L’s introduction he has always been made out to be this “queer-coded” character. He would wear dresses, Reference gay icons, Very VERY frequently talk about how petite and feminine he is, Flirt with HAM0ER’s character and Seylew’s character, etc. But whenever fans would ask FQ0L if he’s gay in a lighthearted fashion he would ignore them. No one is obligated to come out. But FQ0L... Is not a real person. He is a character. If you are making a character explicitly queer then go all out and make them canonically gay instead of “vaguely gay”. It's even more obvious as to why Seylew wouldn’t want to canonize him as gay. Judging from his past opinions on homosexuality. As this issue progressed, We began to realize that Seylew was the one behind FQ0L and that Seylew had likely recognized that the small audience they had was made up of impressionable/vulnerable queer teenagers. Queer teenagers who desperately had to headcanon the actual CITS clowns as gay because we have nothing else. He created FQ0L to gain the fans' trust and to get them to like him (Seylew). Me, Kozy, And Borzi had previously made it pretty obvious that we didn’t like Seylew and how uncomfortable he made us. So he thought if he could make a “semi-gay” character for us to fawn over THEN we would like him. This was further proven during the argument where he revealed that he was FQ0L all along. Again, This claim is just an allegation with no concrete proof. Queer baiting is a very deep and intricate matter that is rarely ever taken seriously. Everyone writing the doc is queer and has the right to feel like we were being queer-baited.
(The referencing of Freddy Mercury is important because he is a well known queer icon. Honestly extra disrespectful to use his likeness to queer bait via ur roblox myth.)
This screenshot may seem unimportant but in actuality it goes so deep. Borzi states “Okay i’m gonna go fool, I need to draw u in drag.” Drag is a fashion art form very popular in the queer community. Well known to pretty much anyone walking the earth right now. He then replies by saying “Slay~”. Slay is a term very well known term used in the drag community. This all lines up to the queer baiting issue because he is actively acknowledging and playing into this queer character that people perceive him as. All while not canonizing the queerness of the character. He is using the queer/gay experience/“cosplaying” as a gay man while being a cishet man. And looking back on it, FQ0L is a shittily done caricature of gay men.
(Him admitting to be Fool in order to befriend a bunch of random teenagers, More screenshots related to this are in the “Guilt Tripping” section of the document.)
Alleged Racism
Seylew is Mexican and not mixed with black.
Calling K0ZY’s/Damien’s Hair “Ice Spice” style hair, basically making fun of K0ZY’s natural hair, and excusing it. It's very rude to see any black person’s afro and call it “ice spice hair”.
Note: Even though the first image is Alleged and has no evidence, it is still important to bring up.
Guilt-tripping
Seylew has had some trouble in the past with this (2019-2021) but I will only be talking about recent occurrences
This is Seylew on the FQ0L account, he had messaged K0ZY randomly just to guilt-trip.
Again, this would have all been avoided if he had apologized at first.
Here is the full conversation
Note: It has never been confirmed that Yato was 16 (Also yato has nothing to do with this, she's been gone for years at this point. To add on, no one said he deserved whatever happened between him and Yato. Anyway..)
Fetishization
This section of the doc is a whole can of worms. This is all sort of alleged, So you can do with this information what you will and deem it irrelevant. Its complicated. Basically, during the argument Seylew claimed that he identifies as a “Femboy”. Not only did he use this as a way to excuse his transphobia (despite the term “Femboy” not being an actual trans identity and originally being used as a derogatory term towards trans women), But it also played into the whole FQ0L being a feminine gay man bit.
Now the term “Femboy” isn’t exclusively a fetish term, And feminine presenting men should not only be seen as a fetish. However.. The term femboy is commonly used as a fetish term. Most conservative femboy content (Seylew is conservative) IS fetish content. And not only is it fetish content, It panders towards ageplay too. I won’t include images of femboy fetish slop because.. you can look that up yourself. But it doesn’t end here, What convinces me even more that FQ0L was a fetish character and that Seylew fetishizes feminine men is that allegedly he has a power kink. And was feeding into his power kink by abusing his mod perms over us, A bunch of teenagers.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, The person who gave me this information backed down on it actually being a kink. However.. He really was crazy about his authority over the server members, even calling us “Brats”.
Again, You can say i’m looking too deep into this. And I might be. But the term “Brat” is a type of bdsm label (commonly referred to as Brat Taming), Which is a category of power play. So!… It just doesn’t look good when you do all of this shit. It makes it seem like you created a fetish character for teenagers to make fanart of unknowingly pandering to your fetish. There's no concrete proof of any of this, But its so incredibly sketchy and made everyone uncomfortable.
Proof of Being a Trump supporter
I don't think I need to explain why this is bad, but Trump is a literal felon and a rapist himself.
HAM0ER
After everything that happened with Seylew, K0ZY decided to message HAM0ER about the situation with empathy. He instead led us on and completely dismissed the situation. Below is our evidence of this.
Messages to HAM0ER
For context, Nichole made a group chat for HAM0ER to basically watch the whole situation of what went down with Seylew.
Below are screenshots of said group chat.
Then after like a day, he left the group chat and kept Seylew in his server and myth.
His excuse was he did not want any drama, but keeping him there will cause more problems than it should, and previous screenshots showed that others would gladly take his place and have the skills to keep the myth alive.
To conclude, Seylew and Hamoer are both extremely sketchy and untrustworthy members of the myth community. They refuse to take responsibility for their actions, Are disrespectful to the people who want to make things right for them, And have questionable opinions on all kinds of minorities. I doubt this doc will get them booted from the community, But if you are reading this the one thing I suggest is to not trust them. Thank you for hearing us out.