Marc Lovallo / SuperSmash3DS
Hello, everyone. I'm sure you've heard about me posting about my groomer finally being exposed and finally having the courage to speak up, and I'm ready. Once I heard Marc, former Eddsworld movie director who also got the privilege of working on official content such as the comics and eddisodes, got called out for his actions fairly recently, I knew this was my signal to step forward and finally share my experience with him.
One more thing before we get started- the screenshots provided were taken in deviantArt notes, READ FROM BOTTOM TO TOP !! Also Rad-Toucan is me, as that was the username I went by at the time.
About 10 years ago, at age 13, I was currently in the Eddsworld fan base- very active on deviantArt, favoritinging and drawing Eddsworld stuff and following Eddsworld artists. Marc was one of them. I was quite fond of his work and I complimented one of his pieces to which he replied to me saying thank you. A few minutes after he sends me a note, seeming to wanna start a casual conversation, he wasn't following me at all but I thought it was cool that one of my fav Eddsworld artists was talking to me so I obliged. It started off pretty normal, we asked each other questions about each other, including him saying he was 16 at the time. Recap; I was 13. We had a three year age gap. He didn't know as I wasn't allowed to put my age up online at the time for safety, and he didn't bother asking.
Then he randomly starts bringing tickling into the convo, egging me on to ask him if he was ticklish.
Once I asked, he then turned and started projecting his tickling on me.
Literally 50% of what we talked about after this was this, he also started showing signs of having a stomach fetish along with the tickling.
Soon he asked for a picture of me, and yet when I told him I couldn't and why I couldn't, he still kept begging me.
To note, this all happened on the same day. By the end of the day, he started giving me hints that he was attracted to me soon fessing up.
He asked me if I felt the same, and because I was a child, not knowing how to think of it, said I did. He then wanted to start a relationship. After at least a day of chatting, we became boyfriend and girlfriend. I was excited because it was my first relationship and I couldn't wait to experience it.. Before I went to bed, aside from the tickling he told me how he wanted to give me foot massages and lured me into a sorta detailed foot massage roleplay?
We dated for a month, but only really spoke to each other for a week, maybe even less. 95% of it was him projecting his fetishes onto me; along with his nonstop tickling fantasies, he couldn't keep his hands off of my stomach and was so utterly detailed about it.
I was starting to get really confused and uncomfortable and I tried not engaging back with his fetishes. Yet he kept trying to find ways to have me engage, even straight up asking why I never did it to him back.
The day after we got together was the worst for this, and it got too much for me to bear. At the end of the day I was in tears. Going back to it now I never recalled him asking if it was okay that he'd do this to me or basic consent, he'd just do it at will. I was a child, I didn't know how to say no properly.
I naturally just stopped sending him notes after about a week because I couldn’t handle it anymore. I believe we may have spoken briefly again a week or two later, but it was nothing special but of course he kept on with his tickling fetish. At the end of the month he broke it off, most likely because he was talking to another girl as he posted about it shortly after. The whole experience felt bizarre, and I didn't know how much it affected me til shortly ago. I still remember how I felt during the time we were together. Confused, scared, helpless. Because I was a child, I didn’t know what he was doing was wrong, I only thought it was his way of affection and that this was normal for relationships. If I knew from the start that what he was doing was wrong, I would have exposed his actions with me much earlier. So because of this, it's impaired my ability to have other relationships, since it was my first relationship I could never break away from the vibe he gave me. I've had two relationships since his and almost got into a few others, but the relationship anxiety got too much during them because I kept remembering Marc. During these relationships I could never understand why I got this type of anxiety, this was before I knew how much of an effect he had on me.
It wasn’t until I was 18 when I realized what he did to me was harmful, and it gradually got worse from there. When my 20’s started, I realized that every once in a while memories of him would start having a seriously negative impact on me, such as having nightmares about him and feeling anger that could last for as long as a little over a week. At age 22, when it got to be too much, I got diagnosed with PTSD. I’m still on the road to recovery but sometimes I fear I may never be able to have a peaceful relationship in the future because this all just stunted my ability to feel any intimacy.
Before i change the subject; here’s a link with more proof on Marc’s tickle fetish.
This was my story. Now onto another crucial event where he was first called out… Yes, he was only 16 when he did this to me. But he continued this on well into adulthood, proven by another victim who was targeted by him while they too were a minor:
According to many users in the Eddsworld fanbase, what got him expelled from the community was an incident where he groomed yet another minor, WHILE HE WAS AN ADULT, sending them a photo of his bare stomach and having said minor send him feet pics via dms, which got leaked. (Check @MarcLovalloExpo on twitter, which compiles the heinous shit he’s done including what i just described) To make things more clear, it’s unknown when the events in the dm’s happened but they got exposed at least during 2020, then again in 2021. In response to his actions being exposed, he made a video (LINK) trying to defend himself and make the victim out to be in the wrong, but in the end all it did was make things worse on his part and admit his actions. Nevertheless, some people still forgave him, and he continues to be platformed. I assume he deleted his Twitter due to this, but he still remains very active on Youtube with over 10,000 subscribers.
A few comments I wanna make on Marc's video, obviously he tries to defend himself saying his fetishes were simply 'interests' and because he meant no ill will he was okay for indulging them with a minor. But guess what? Gore can be an interest. Pornography can be an interest. Topics that kids should obviously not be seeing can be interests and we adults have a responsibility to keep said topics away from them. Marc masking his fetishes as interests does absolutely nothing. If you stop and ask yourself 'is showing my bare stomach to/asking for pictures of feet from people, unlimited to minors, a harmless interest?' even then it clearly doesn't sound right.
One other comment, the message he's giving here especially to his younger audience is awful. They're basically being told that, as long as they don't mean harm, adults are allowed to send them anything. Not to mention it enables this behavior to people who are easily influenced that may be following him.
Marc also posted this on the Eddsworld Fan Movie tumblr account again attempting to defend his actions.
I wasn't able to find what or who he was replying to, but I'm assuming OP mentioned his fetishes and him using them in much of his content/Eddsworld content he worked on as he brought that situation up here.
- How old were these close friends? And did you specifically know they were alright with it? One could take one look at the screenshots of your convo with me when we were 'dating' and assume I was okay with it, but hearing my side of the story proves this is not the case.
- You wanted people to notice you so you resorted to fetish pics? This could be understandable especially if you were a kid, but there were far more ways to grow your audience on deviantArt (ie. groups, promotions from point accounts, etc.).
- I don't know much about this situation so I can't comment on it unfortunately.
- When you’ve actively harmed minors, this excuse doesn’t do shit. Me along with god knows how many others were affected by your actions, while we were kids. You can’t simply move on from something as alarming as that. Also, the fact you tried to make yourself look innocent in the above video and later deleting it doesn't help.
- This too is understandable, probably the only correct defense you've listed so I won't comment on it; however many who favorited may have not been aware of your intentions.
- There is a difference between putting this sort of stuff into media every now and then as gags, and putting it in so much you're making it clear you do indeed have a fetish. Obviously you did the latter, so much to the point where Tomska himself noticed and was concerned about it.
- Probably the most disgusting thing said here. No, we don't want a ""trophy"" from exposing you, we want people to be aware of the type of person you are and what you are responsible for. Also claiming you won't let such callouts stop you from creating content even though you've ADMITTED YOURSELF you've done all this, as well as calling it 'childish' and 'immature' for warning others about you like you said so in the last paragraph. I think this says enough about you. And again “that was in the past and now i’m focused on the future” YOU SEXUALLY HARRASSED KIDS
Also stating you 'aren't the same person you were when you were 14'. You met me when you were 16. You pulled the disgusting actions on said minor when you were an adult.
I was given permission by someone wishing to be anonymous to post their own doc about Marc, so i highly recommend giving it a look as well.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DrjXx-HdU6LoXAbSgPojEsBkEE7dWThG?usp=sharing
Lastly, I will now provide his socials. Please stay safe.
Youtube: MarcLovallo
Deviantart: Supersmash3DS + MarcLovallo
Instagram: MarcLovallo
Twitter: Supersmash2ds + MarcLovalloArt + OoC_MarcLovallo (inactive here, but these are his remaining accounts. As stated earlier, he deleted his main account.)
Patreon: MarcLovallo