Introduction.
General Disclaimer.
General trigger warning and content warnings for mentions of grooming, manipulation and overall generally talking about the Rox situation.
Any other specific trigger warnings or content warnings in a section will be specified.
I would like to emphasize that everyone who is writing their accounts of what they’ve gone through have a variety of experiences across the past few years in relation to BlushCrunch Studios. This includes relations to BlushCrunch Studios, Qwelver and to RoxSerpent. They are all being given their own sections in which they can discuss what they are comfortable with, any trigger warnings or content warnings that they’d like to tag in their sections alongside providing their own proof or testimonies.
This document aims to do the following:
- Move many threads on X/Twitter onto a Google Doc so that it can get more outreach, as per request of the victims and many people who wish to learn of the situation.
- Give personal accounts and experiences of those affected by BlushCrunch Studios to allow them to have a voice.
- Allow for further closure and comfort for those affected.
- Give the public a fuller picture so they may form their own opinions. (We all strongly suggest everyone does their own research before coming to any conclusion.)
- Hopefully make Qwelver finally take accountability.
The people of this document condemn the following:
- Harassment of any form to anyone (bullying, DOXXing, botting people and the like)
- Misinformation (fake “leaks”, blatant disinformation/misinformation)
Many people here at one point were friends or close with Qwelver or RoxSerpent. Others were in BlushCrunch Studios Discord server and wish to speak up about their experiences there and some have requested to stay anonymous. I can verify that everyone here is no longer associated with them and does not support them. Screenshots or recounts of what happened may refer to Qwelver or RoxSerpent. Due to how they both operated, most conversations were done via voice calls by both of them. We believe this to be so they lack a papertrail to make situations like this more difficult to prove. Some evidence here will be with as much readily available information that the people can give in relation to testimonies to fill in as much context as possible. Some people in this document are under Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and will tread carefully with what they can or cannot share after reading over their contracts. Disclaimers to such retellings will be expressed in their appropriate sections if applicable.
Furthermore, as I am gathering these people for the document, I know that we have verified their testimonies by either having been there for their experiences, witnessed it or it is publicly noticeable to the general audience in proximity to the server or people being spoken about in this document. I will be helping with formatting of the document alongside tabs and sub tabs for every section necessary so that it is easier to read and understand, alongside easy to navigate. More testimonies are being written up and will be added to this document throughout the upcoming days due to such, and again, if you’ve had an experience that would fall under what was spoken of above please reach out.
Changelog.
(6/28/2026) - Published document + Added Pringle’s testimony.
(6/30/2026) - Testimony 1 updated & sent in, added to document as per requested.
Gary
Recounting of events.
Content & trigger warning for: mentions of CSEM material,
Hi, I'm Gary. Also known as gecbomb.
I want to give a heads up as to what this pertains to because I’m one of Rox/Jake’s victims from 2021, notably the one he ended up making CSEM of alongside someone else from Pixel-bit.
Screenshots are provided in the Screenshot section of the document.
I met Qwel in 2020 when I saw her art and brought her along to work on my Tower Heroes map submission with some other friends. I saw this as a collaborative exercise to get myself introduced and acquainted with the Pixel-bit community/Discord. I’d share most of my progress in public voice chats. She ended up doing the enemy designs for the map when it was added and also got the most of the publicity despite her contributing nothing else to the project but those designs. I want this to serve as a preface to how I got to know her personally because after that point it had always been a transactional sort of collaborative endeavour with anyone she was working with. She had gotten to know Rox from his Honeycomb Heist map submission, personally vouching for him to the rest of the contributor team at the time. I imagine their friendship blossomed there. Shortly after the release of their first map together (Sacred Shrine), The contributor/staff team was warned by a bunch of people who claimed to be from Databrawl who attempted to warn us about Rox’s predatory behavior in that community the year prior. Much like everyone else at the time, we didn’t acknowledge what they were trying to say because it looked like they were raiding the server, and Rox would tell us they’re bad actors trying to sabotage him since he was younger. A few months later, A few people would leak the unsavory art Rox had made in the public media channels. This is when I, and most of the contributor team at the time, found out about what Rox was up to behind our backs, this being that he would make CSEM of people he disliked, that being Me and another Victim. The mod team promptly banned him, the rest of the contributor team collectively agreed on this and we cut ties with him. Qwel however, did not.
Like Joji and other staffers from BCS have stated numerous times in their own testimonies, Qwel is a notoriously difficult person to talk to because she avoids direct confrontation, does most of the talking in voice calls which have very rarely been recorded because this is a pattern we weren’t privy on picking up on until it was too late and the evidence had become impossible to trace back without someone at the time having been thorough enough to record every single interaction they had with her. I’ve personally seen a lot of people talk about how the evidence against her has been fabricated and point out a “lack of evidence” and witness testimonies as proof that WE, collectively, are making this up to frame her out of jealousy or hate. This has never been the case. There’s also the fact that most of the private conversations had been withheld for one reason or another in private contributor-only channels in the Pixel-bit discord that I personally have not been able to provide myself because I no longer have access to those channels but also because a few were deleted due to how redundant and full of spam they were (I think well over 50k messages in a few months). Thankfully, The pixel-bit staff team have been able to provide the logs with screenshots that were relevant to when the second incident of Rox trying to make his way back into the community happened.
I do want to highlight this more than anything but there seems to be this consistent argument that’s been made in an attempt to disprove or slander the value of my initial claims back in 2024 when I rightfully called Qwel to take accountability for what had happened to our knowledge at the time of making the video Duck Adam posted. This comes from a misconception that both Spookiner and Qwel were completely unresponsive to give support to me and the other victim when they were made aware of the content that Rox was making, which was just never the case. Qwel has never personally reached out to either victim, whether that be through DMs, contributor chat or calls that we can recall about the nature of her knowing about it or even showing an ounce of remorse. Not even once, I had to go through 4 years of message history to find anything remotely similar and the only thing that came close was something entirely unrelated. The information we did receive of her proving she knew about it, we only found out publicly in 2024 because Spookiner had been directly reaching out to me and other people about the nature of that. Take it this way, Qwel has been completely unresponsive to take any accountability back then and has refused to contribute to any meaningful conversation or effort to remove Rox from her team until it was legitimately forced upon her as a threat. Regardless, I wanted to write this now because I do have textual proof and evidence of me confronting Qwel about Rox in 2021 after all and I remember how the call went, despite her claiming it was too long ago to remember.
At the tail-end of 2021, me and some other people are made aware of a suspicious channel uploading seemingly insignificant Tower Heroes fan animations that showcase a familiar artstyle (That being Rox’s at the time). I genuinely forget how but We were able to confirm our doubts and lo-and-behold, Rox was trying to weasel his way back into the community under a new alias. Immediately after this, I confronted Qwel and someone else in the contributor-chat to unfriend him, cut contacts because for 1. He made CSEM of people in the server. 2. He was no longer welcome regardless and we had established that from the moment we banned him.
What followed was a 22 minute call with Qwel where I very bluntly tell her that as a Victim I am ashamed to have someone I consider a friend still keep this predator around, to which she said something along the lines of:
“ - You [Gary] know that he made that stuff [CSEM] because he was hanging around those people [Artists who shared their smut in Pixel-bit] - I’m hoping that me [Qwel] keeping him in a smaller, contained friend group of mature people [Her friend group*] would fix him in a way, change him for the better. - We [her friend group*] mostly just play games and talk about Jurassic Park. - He [Rox] told me [Qwel] that he wanted to get back into art and since he really cared about Tower Heroes he missed creating content for the community.. I told him to keep making art [The “fan-videos” he uploaded to an alternate account on youtube] - and I thought that he wouldn’t go further than that [Creating the videos]. As far as I was aware, no one else but us [her friend group*] was supposed to see them. - I will have a talk with him so that he stays away from Tower Heroes..”
That’s as much as I remember from the call. I never found out who was in that close friend group back then. Regardless, that call was just her trying to convince me she would “fix him”, but not that she would ever cut him off despite me pleading with her to do so multiple times at that point. She ended up creating Blush Crunch Studios with him the following year because the Pixel-bit team didn’t want to work with her anymore due to her association with him, she claimed she was “creatively stunted” by the team despite the real reason being a reasonable dislike to want to work with her since she didn’t contribute anything to the game other than concept art for her character contributions, the brunt of the work was always done by someone else, whether it be Hiloh or Rox. My involvement with her pretty much ceased until 2022 when I was contacted by her to make a map for Flavor Frenzy, something I never got any follow-up on and I introduced her to a producer friend of mine for the game’s soundtrack and she low-balled him for a full soundtrack for 20$. That last part is real. I swear to god I’m not making this shit up, it was that outrageous.
Screenshots are provided in the Screenshot section of the document. from 2022 to 2024 there was little to no contact between me and Qwel until the release of Dandy’s World, where I gave her some feedback on the game but I ultimately found out about her knowing about the CSEM before anyone else and not telling me. She’d later claim that this was because she was anxious about telling me due to the nature of the images but even then, that didn’t stop Spookiner, the rest of the contributor team, other people who were there who genuinely cared the slightest amount to show that they were upset with what they saw and felt sorry. She purposefully avoided bringing up Rox or anything he made at all but chose to just keep me in the dark for years for seemingly no reason at all. She downplayed a lot of things back then and even now as i’m still currently learning from her acquaintances but when I finally decided to speak up about what I went through and how I experienced it she decided to villainize and straight up target me by defamation to remove any credibility I had, not just for speaking up about Rox but from what I gather primarily because I criticized her incompetence. To do so, she deliberately lied about how I interacted with the then-staff of the server to find out more about what they actually knew about Rox since xtriel’s document was currently going around and I was conveniently banned and silenced out of the discussion in the server despite me having no means or intentions to be a threat to the server. They had deliberately twisted the public narrative to present me and my friend as blackmailers who had gone after one of their mods for nefarious purposes. They used this to discredit me and my involvement in the case mostly because I was the person who made the original video that covered the information that Duck Adam posted to his channel, slandering the messenger would make me seem less important and untrustworthy after the fact.
Here she is slandering my name by bringing up my association with someone else’s document claiming I was encouraging people to just say anything bad about her when that was never the case, aiming to make me seem like an untrustworthy source who’s a “danger” to her community knowing full well we had been friends for several years up to that point and my intentions were very clearly stated to be from a place of worry and awareness rather than whatever she claimed I was. Here she is claiming I am a danger to the community despite me never actually partaking in said community to the extent she claimed I was. To the extent of what I actually did and how she portrayed me, instead of having any form of conversation with me by herself or with someone else as a matter of fact, she had preferred to assassinate my character by creating unrelated ties to spokespeople who defended an entirely different opinion and claim from me at the time.
Chronologically, this is where my personal recounting of relevant events end. At the time of me writing this in June 2026,I am showing support and corroborating the validity of a video released by Duck Adam that showcases Qwel being aware of Rox’s nature months before doing anything to kick him out of BCS, I also am showing my support and highlighting many other victims who I believe are truthful that are speaking out against the same behavior I warned people about in my initial video in 2024.
Personal Takeaway.
This is the reason why I'm writing the document in the first place and it's my takeaway from all the information you (as a reader) should have gathered by these other victims’ testimonies.
Qwel is a generally untrustworthy person who, as of writing this, has yet to take any accountability herself whether that be from actually contacting any of the victims, saying anything publicly, refused to acknowledge any of her fans real gripes with how she’s handling the situation, all the while she’s shutting down any and all discussion on the topic in all of her fanspaces, essentially pissing away both the development team of her game and the staff for her community who has been basically unable to do any meaningful work for the last week and a half.
She has basically thrown away every single friendship she had trying to protect her “image” even if those friendships were basically her only PR, dating all the way back to how she treated me(personally) in Pixel-bit when she found out about what Rox was capable of. This is someone who simply does not care about anyone else but herself and has been unable to prove the opposite to be true in the slightest, but we now have multiple testimonies spanning the last 3 years and going as late as a few months ago that just showcase how poor her character really is.
This is someone who will legitimately throw anyone under the bus to make herself look better on paper, regardless of if it takes falsifying statements, making up evidence, slandering other peoples’ names for the sake of remaining in a position of power. She weaponizes misinformation to get away with acting like a carefree imbecile even though she’s a direct enabler, manipulator and most of all opportunist. I cannot in good faith continue to pretend like there is an ounce of good will in her because even if she began most of her friendships with a good nature she naturally seeks to get the highest most important role in all of her relationships, whether they are creative endeavours or communities, declares herself judge jury and executioner but does everything in her power to avoid any and all responsibility for what happens as a result of her incompetence.
Truth be told, had she cut Rox all the way back in 2021, This document would not exist. She genuinely would not have had the opportunity to enable him to become a recognizable figure again and protect his inappropriate behavior behind closed doors. I do not care in the slightest at the “fate of Dandy’s World if Qwel is gone” because the truth is the game, which is not that important, would do fine, if not better without her at this point. She is a genuine liability risk both for the safety of her community members after what ended up happening with members from her server who went to her for help and also for the staff who have to listen and follow what she says and orders them to do, who are mind you, not there to defend her and shield her from harm, but to make sure her community is safe in the first place.
In my years witnessing these events unfolding and not knowing what to make of it until it was ultimately too big for me to scale alone, I have never seen someone act as selfishly and incompetently and expose as many people as she has to danger, ever.
Additionally and I can’t believe I have to say this but in no way am I, will I or Did I ever defend any of what Rox did. From the very beginning of my involvement with the matter I have been steadfast on the fact that both Qwel AND Rox are to blame for everything that happened because one person was able to prevent it from happening altogether from the very beginning and yet she refused to take any action whatsoever out of cowardice. Not fear, not manipulation, not gaslighting or paranoia, just straight up cowardice. Cowardice so great that when she offered to reach out to apologize to me, she didn’t even tell me herself, she had someone else TELL me to ask her to apologize, and even then she never followed up, not even once. Radio silence since April 2024 which was when she had blocked me initially. I genuinely despise Rox but I also straight up hate her for being fully aware of what he was capable of, ignoring everyone else's pleas including mine and going through with it, only ever actually cutting him off when she realized he made her a little less money.
Screenshots.
Call that happened in december 2021
aftermath of the call, 4 hours later
Contributor chat reacting to said channel being found
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Me immediately trying to reach Qwel
Me trying to talk to qwel about it, a week prior due to my doubts
Qwel dismissing any of my suggestions
Joji
Disclaimer.
My original 15 page document with evidence which has my most experience and document here.
You can find my X/Twitter account here.
Quick content & trigger warning for: power imbalance, grooming, mentions of RoxSerpent.
I’d also like to point out that quite a few people in regards to my previous document were saying that I cannot be groomed because I was 23 and Rox was 21 at the time. I would like to remind everyone that grooming isn’t just between a child and an adult. He was my boss. He had power over me, both socially and financially if he so pleased. He actively emotionally abused me. He and Qwel would talk often on calls that if they were successful, we would see success as well. He knew about my financial situation and would play into talking about it, he took advantage of my mental health and failing physical health as well.
Never once did I claim I was sexually groomed nor did I imply such or leave any opening for such to be implied. I explained exactly what I went through in my previous document and made no mention of myself being groomed sexually. I even specifically express how I was groomed by him and gave exact context as to why I was vulnerable during those times to be taken advantage of. I do not just say that to say that. My own therapist has told me that I was groomed by him. If you’d like to argue semantics, you’re more than welcome to on your own time but to throw it in my face to belittle my trauma with that person who caused me so much pain and only amplified my anguish is just deplorable. I am a victim of his, he made many of them of all ages and different circles. This is not news to anyone.
On that note, there’s been rumors of me somehow in cahoots with Duck Adam and RoxSerpent, which might I remind you, he was my groomer and abuser. In regards to Duck Adam, I refuse to speak to him due to his past of mishandling situations and causing a lot of animosity during 2024 when I moderated then. I have even gone on record asking different people to tell him to leave me alone and had blocked him when he reached out to me before his video was made. I also wasn’t alerted to his video. I speculate he wanted to contact me to get a first hand account from someone who was around during that time, but that is just that- speculation.
The only conversation I’ve ever had with him is as follows:
He later tried to contact me on Twitter/X which I have yet to even accept because, again, I do not want contact with him.
As for the theory that I’m working with RoxSerpent, here’s my last DMs with him which were, if I recall, a few hours before we found out the truth in October. This should be exactly a day before he was publicly fired.
Alongside this, Void has made a Twitter/X thread debunking this since RoxSerpent had reached out to him to show the screenshots that Rox would later post onto Twitter/X. Rox’s thread will be put in my section in an imgur link in case anyone would like to review it themselves.
The X/Twitter thread itself posted on June 25th, 2026
The Imgur link has all images referred to in the thread.
Now that all of that is out of the way, let me continue with some things I’ve been wanting to get off my chest.
Why Qwel & I cut ties.
Huge content & trigger warnings for: mentions of cancer, abandonment, emotional distress, emotional manipulation, mentions of mental crisis, mentions of suicidal ideation.
I will discuss why Qwelver and I are no longer friends. I referenced it in my main document here:
For some context as well, I must also explain that Qwelver would begin to distance herself from our mutual friend group to the point that people grew concerned about her and would reach out to me about it. And this was not just some random friend group, but one she would interact with nearly everyday and hang out with multiple times a week.
Whenever she and I would call since I stepped down November of 2025, Qwel would begin to become strained with me. She would often ask me if there is anything negative going on in my life or in that friend group, framing it as a friend who wanted to genuinely know if there were any issues there and even offering to help if there was. It quickly became a pattern in which I would inform her of something, she would give me a spew about how she hopes it gets better and that she will make an effort to be around more before she would do the exact opposite, growing cold and distant with me. I later found out she would also actually use this to bad mouth me behind my back to others. I would begin to notice this behavior around mid January, so by the time I fully confronted her about this next serious situation that we found out about on March, 6th 2026 and I would follow up within the week to call her and express the severity there was already strain from me noticing her pattern already. I believe this information is necessary for you, the reader, to understand before I move forward in this explanation because it hit very close to home for me and upset me greatly.
A very close friend of mine was diagnosed with a very serious cancer. This friend of mine was friends with Qwel for over three years, they met the same time she and I met because we were apart of the same friendgroup. They bonded over being a month apart in age, similar interests, all that. During the Rox situation, Qwel would seek comfort from that friendgroup. This friend of mine who I'll call Erick was among those people who would sort her head due to their timezone benefiting when Qwel would have sleepless nights over the Rox situation.
Erick was there for her every step of the way alongside the rest of my friendgroup. They were there with Qwel when she was wailing over the Rox situation, they were there and praying over Qwel on calls. Anything and everything you can imagine a good friend would do to someone in that scenario, Erick did and more. Erick himself describes himself as "never having gotten close to her" because of how distant Qwel would later become, but conveniently, she would always call Erick a good friend whenever she needed validation or a means to distance herself from what's going on in her life.
I'd like to remind everyone, also, Qwel was with me throughout the tail end of my cancer treatment, my remission and then when it was finally cleared on November, 6th 2025 and saw the long lasting effects on my body. Hell, I am still actively recovering from all the trauma my body went through. She was even around when I had my recent cancer scares. She knows how cancer has been a prominent and loud enemy in my life, how it's affected my body and mind and how it has left me and continues to haunt me.
When Erick told me their diagnosis, I was catatonic. I put on a brave face and the moment I left that conversation I felt absolutely miserable because I know what that's like to go through. I didn't know if Erick would've wanted me telling anyone, but I did to some close friends because I needed comfort and I needed those close friends I reached out to to be there for Erick, as well. I know how lonely and miserable you get on chemotherapy. I needed to help avoid Erick from going through what I went through which tanked my health more. I have had in my head that if they knew I had told others, they may cut me off for spreading their information before they were ready for it. I came to peace with that because I understood in my head that it was for the greater good and to make sure they were looked after.
This is the exact exchange I had with the Qwel & Imgur link.
On following calls or conversations, I would emphasize she should reach out to Erick. That even if she shouldn't know about their exact diagnosis, that they’ve been open about being in/out of the hospital. That she should reach out to them and the friendgroup because we were all grieving what might happen, we were all so worried that Erick would turn for the worse or that their body would reject chemo, that it would kill them quickly. I told her explicitly on multiple occasions things like "You need to reach out because I don't think you can live with yourself knowing that the last conversation you had with them was something as stupid as a character you're writing for roleplay with them".
Everytime I'd bring it up, she would get distant. I later found out from Void that she used this as an excuse to distance and speak poorly of me to him. She said something to distance herself from the gravity of the situation. Something along the lines of, "Everytime I talk to Joji, it's always something heavy. I just found out that Joji's friend has cancer. What am I supposed to do about that?" This absolutely sickened me to hear. Your friend you met when you met me was just “Joji’s friend”? I even had a full blown mental crisis over it because it opened up a lot of trauma I went through during BlushCrunch Studios as the Team Manager. I'm not sure who exactly tipped her off that I wasn't doing well, because she started texting me during the crisis but when I came back from it I confronted her about it. She gave me her whole spiel which I will show here. Again, due to the context above and how I was doing mentally during this, I was reasonably incredibly upset when interacting with her.
Our exchange & Imgur link.
When she refers to money here, it was because Void pointed out how financially bleak my future looked and she agreed she would pay me compensation for the last year I worked for her as Team Manager, though please know this was after I retired. You can tell this rather easily since I stepped down in November 2025 and she mentions “the next 6 months of money”. That all being said, you can see here that I never tried to reach out for money or to “extort” her. I am aware that’s a common narrative people are slinging around to try to slander me. I do not want anything from her since finding out about the Duck Adam video that isn’t her apologizing and owning up to what she’s done. Before, the door was open for a possibility for her to apologize for how she treated me during that. When that Duck Adam video came out, that completely and utterly burnt that bridge because I cannot in good faith forgive and forget someone who has done such vile things in my eyes. If she wants to reach out to apologize to Erick or the friend group she abandoned, my DMs are open and I will gladly forward a message for their sake.
Continuing on, as I said earlier, since I retired from BlushCrunch Studios, she formed a habit of asking me if there was anything bad happening in our friend group instead of checking in with them herself. When I would tell her, she would distance. I would call her out on this behavior from since I retired from BlushCrunch Studios up to the boiling point here. I did not appreciate her deflecting everything and refusing to take accountability when she herself has self admitted multiple times that she is a forward and blunt person who prefers to be told if she messes up. Which, prior to me leaving the staff team, she would allow me that grace that two adults should have for one another: “If we disagree, let’s talk it out”. It quickly devolved after I left to focus on my health, and it honestly felt because I wasn’t providing anything for her and instead I was holding her accountable for things, it was easier for her to just cut the rope off the bridge.
Because of how sudden it was, I admit fault here: I did not respect her wishes to not be contacted again. I had a mutual group chat with her and sent her this final message. She left the group chat with the “Don’t alert anyone” feature.
Note: It was edited for grammar purposes but if that changes how you view the validity of this screenshot in particular, that is completely fair.
I was absolutely livid. I think anyone in their right mind would be given the context that I’ve lived through what Erick has, and the cancer Erick has now is far worse than the one I had. I was not going to make this public for a very long time because I didn’t want this somehow getting back to Erick and causing his health to heavily decline due to stress. Again, I know first hand how much that can kill you. Yesterday as of me writing this section on June, 24th 2026 did they tell me their treatment is going well. Well enough that, with my own experience, I felt I could no longer withhold this from them any longer given how everyday this situation is unresolved the more it festers and eats away at me. Today on the 25th of June 2026 I told them everything, tip-to-tail, and they gave me permission to post this so long as I keep them anonymous.
I wasn't the only one affected by her actions. Very close friends of hers at that time also tried to reach out and she did much the same, like Void and another friend who I will call Vernon. Vernon has given me permission to post their screenshots here, please know that he was just told about how Qwel treated me during the situation with Erick and Vernon would often advise Qwel since he was an older member of the friendgroup.
Images Vernon provided:
Anyone who would confront her about it, she blocked and cut off. She wouldn’t even give them the time of day. People who have known her for years and have been with her through thick and thin. People she would say “meant the world to her”. Reasonably, people were upset. Her blocking people extended for those who had well intentions and those who were simply confused because of it. From my friend group alone that counts thirteen people she’s known for over three years she much rather completely abandons than owns up to the fact she left us all in a time of upset over a mutual friend. Many of us, which she would often call her found family. She then went ahead and cut many more people off due to this situation getting to a couple of close friends of mine who were previously associated with BlushCrunch Studios, the primary one who comes to mind is Void who no longer wished to be her friend after what she did.
I hope you all understand now why I want closure so much and why I in good faith cannot accept an apology from her. She not only did me wrong, she did my close friends who are considered family to me wrong. She did my staff team when I worked there wrong. She did the community that I was a part of and I moderated for wrong. She even did the people who opposed RoxSerpent back then wrong by openly disregarding them and helping harbor RoxSerpent. These experiences hit too close to home for me given I have fought cancer. She was there for me during that and I could not wrap my head around why she could not be there for our mutual friend.
If this changes your opinion on me or why I am outspoken about all of this, that is fine. But I am not the type to be quiet when I see something wrong. I have never been that person and I won’t start being that person now just because the reader might feel a bit cross with me. These are experiences I’ve had, that my friends have had and those around me have had with her. I remind you all that the persona you know her as and who she actually is are two separate entities in of itself. It is an act. She will feign ignorance, she will feign innocence. She will act up that she “doesn’t know any better” and publicly have people infantize her as a “silly quirky girl who can do nothing wrong”. She is a mutli-millionaire woman who will turn 22 in July of this year. The thing with Erick happened two months ago, the things she did to me or allowed to happen to me happened two years ago. These aren’t things she did when she was a child. This is new. This is recurring, it is her pattern.
Threads from X/Twitter.
These sections going forward I will use specifically to put my X/Twitter threads onto a Google Doc so people can more easily access them. I have said just about everything I am comfortable saying via my previous document linked above and/or via Twitter threads. If any of the threads I post onto here require more context that I may offer on this document, I will. If you’ve kept up with my X/Twitter, I take no offense if you skim over my section, though bolded text in the middle of any thread is addendums for further context and/or correcting grammar, though abbreviations will be written in full without bold text for ease of reading.
I will also link any sources or references alongside clarifying anything that is put into this section. Any threads that have a continuation that will be transcribed here will also have language like “Answer in thread” / “Question in thread” -- this is for those who are not on X/Twitter and/or may have missed such to be able to read it here.
“Evidence is old!” thread.
Original tweet thread here posted June, 16th 2026.
Reads as follows:
I'd like to remind people that the new evidence proves that she left ya'll in the dark for two months about knowing about the Rox situation. She lied to all of you to your faces and let Rox around for two additional months where he could've caused more harm and he got paid for it by someone who actively endangered children. As someone who was tasked with the safety of her community and staff I am absolutely disgusted by this and I am upset that she lied to me and my staff team at the time about this. So many of us harassed, so many of us manipulated.. for what? I will be contacting other victims in regards to this and moving forward with a more cohesive post.
I sincerely apologize to those in BlushCrunch Studios who I was supposed to help protect and guide. I didn't know that she knew in advance. I would've made a statement sooner. I hope you are all well.
In regards to Rox’s thread.
Original tweet thread here posted June, 19th 2026.
If you cannot open X/Twitter, this is the Rox thread that is referenced: Imgur of Rox’ thread.
Reads as follows:
I was being told that people are arguing about Rox's thread. If you look over the evidence and understand its legitimacy, it's not a moral argument of "taking sides". I believe the thread is simply there to confirm the pattern which she operates from and to prove it has been happening for a long time.
I do not support either of them. But the reason that thread upset me so much is because it confirmed even further that there were even more lies told to me and in turn, the rest of the public as well. It isn't productive to go in circles about moral high grounds in regards to just.. simply the truth. I'm sorry if I worded anything here wrong. It has been a very long few days.
To clarify, this doesn't absolve him of anything. I do not forgive him. I am not "siding" with anyone. I implore people to look over the information and form their own opinions, and please do not harass anyone. Thank-you for reading.
Cont.
Question in thread: Did you check out this thread (referring to Rox’s thread)? It does confirm some stuff to be misinformation such as FF files being given immediately and them still being in contact. Still doesn't resolve Qwel from any responsibility but wanted to send this just to inform. From what it seems, Qwel just exaggerated about the difficulty of getting Dandy's world for idk pettiness? But yeah FF files she could just not notice (Considering we don't know when message was edited and rox actually did get blocked by her)
Answer in thread:
My statements about files were in regards to Dandy’s World files. People were spreading misinformation and saying he somehow could've withheld it from her, which was misinformation. Legally and from public knowledge (since she was copyrighting it, see take downs of Dandy’s World clones) he could not hold onto those files even if he wanted to. Even people from outside of the company in public could piece that together, so when I saw people lying about him "holding Dandy’s World files hostage to force himself to stay on the project for two more months", that wasn't the case. It is also why I stated that in regards to said files, what he said and what he did are two completely different narratives.
The core of that thread was to show his compliance and cooperation in regards to Dandy’s World files and how she kept contact further than that, which is what I am pointing out is the most important take away, as it proves her patterned behavior. I hope this clears it up if there was any confusion on my personal stance and opinion on the matter as a victim in this. She also openly claimed she was "fighting tooth and nail" for the Flavor Frenzy files. She did no such
thing, either. You can see the logs from him, yourself. I have no doubt that if she demanded the files from him, he would've felt as if he needed to budge due to possible legal pressure.
Question in thread: What's your end goal for Qwel? When we say we want a response is it an apology we're looking for or?
Answer in thread: Just because I as one of the victims have decided I will not accept her apology doesn't mean that every other victim is on the same page as me. I want the other victims who are harmed by this to have their closure. I also want the closure of her taking accountability. We deserve that much. Forgiveness from me will not be offered to her due to many layers of what she's done to me and what was revealed. Before the Rox thread, I was willing to accept an apology. Now it is strictly for closure on my end that I want her to take accountability. I also have openly spoken up about wanting people to form their own opinions and not harass anyone, I know many other victims also do not want harassment sent to anyone. I can speak for myself strictly or what other victims have told me.
Question(s) + comment in thread:
A, asking in thread: You don't find it even a little suspicious Rox "randomly" gave back the Flavor Frenzy files after Dandy's World got into an expo and suddenly there's a hate campaign with tons of unproven evidence to paint Qwel as worse? He wants revenge and is virtue signaling to hide his true intentions.
B, replying to A: This is baseless conjecture to defend Qwel. Like it or not Qwel is guilty.
A, replying to B: I have seen zero videos or texts of her directly defending or covering up anything Rox did but yeah she's guilty by association. Rox had the chance to expose her alleged cover ups but he focused on her saying his models are ass. If Qwel's response is trash I will concede.
Answer in thread at A: If my memory serves me right, he reached out to another victim to try to give the files to the victim and have it delivered to Qwel. It aligned with when he first uploaded a document about updating how he's been and reflecting, there was a thread in which someone questioned him about the Flavor Frenzy files. I believe that lines up with him attempting to give the files this year to Qwel. It aligns with the story that I can confirm from my end, what I've observed from his profile and what he claims. I do not think it was done to "make him look better". I do sincerely believe he was trying to give them back.
That being said, again, to reiterate, I do NOT support him. I state all of this as me retelling what has happened as a matter-of-fact.
Botting victims thread.
Original tweet thread here posted June, 20th 2026.
It is quote retweeted here with more context on June, 24th 2026.
Reads as follows:
Very odd that someone is botting to attack victims. This is a common thing for people who wish to silence others, by the way. They'll buy bots to try to swing the narrative and discredit people they dislike on platforms. It's called platform manipulation. Not a clue who's doing it, though. If you cross reference any of these, you can see they're all NFT bros that either post about their "products" or are very maliciously politically charged.
The best way to handle those bots is to block them. Do not engage with them. They are trying to bait people into engaging so they can gain traction and do platform manipulation. Block and report so whoever is paying money to harass me and other victims has to pay out of pocket, hit ‘em where it hurts
Images in Tweet for reference:
These were under my posts.
These were under Pringle’s tweets.
Cont., quote retweet:
More bots. Remember platform manipulation is against TOS of Twitter. If you see any bots, remember to simply block them and ignore -- this makes whoever is buying 'em have to pay more money. You can tell it's a bot by their post history and/or date it was created.
Commenter: One of the accounts literally pushes NFTs in 2026 these are definitely bots.
Reply: Platform manipulation from folk who don't want me to have a voice, very strange. I mostly show this so ya'll know what I'm going through and so ya'll don't fall for it. There's also been people just sending mass amounts of hate to myself and other victims. It's a lot.
Image in Tweet for reference:
Again, under my Tweets. It also appears they’re botting likes (10 likes to 3 views)
Cont., quote retweet:
More bots. This is actually pretty funny because it follows the narrative exactly to a certain Reddit user who's been spewing the exact same things. Take my message here with a grain of salt as it is just speculation, but it is very odd.
Image in Tweet for reference:
Alleged off Reddit thread.
Original tweet thread here posted June, 21st 2026.
Reads as follows:
BlushCrunch Studios higher ups (allegedly) slandering me and other victims by saying we want extortion money. I'd love actual proof of these claims because as far as I'm aware not a single soul has demanded or asked for a cent. Qwel, do you think anyone who opposes you is in it for cash?
Considering how Qwel is with things, this would not surprise me if someone on staff leaked this genuinely to this person, by the way. Let it be known, I have NEVER asked BlushCrunch Studios for "settlement money" or demanded some sort of "extortion" money. That is SLANDER. That's ILLEGAL.
Image in Tweet for reference:
Comment from Pinkie: Mind you, I never made a single dollar from BlushCrunch Studios, during or after my work there. YES, if you severely screw someone over and manipulate and traumatize them, they WILL speak out against you! That's how it goes! Oh no, the consequences of one's own actions…
Reply to Pinkie: Ditto, I was never hired as a staffer to receive payment nor am I doing this for money. I've literally told people on staff before I signed an NDA that I wouldn't want money because it complicates the position I was being given. What are we genuinely waffling about?
Commentor: Why are they calling you narcissistic? Oh my God.
Reply to commentor: Apparently this is what I look like (allegedly) "orchestrating a plan" with Duck Adam (who I am openly not a fan of). I cannot emphasize enough how genuinely this angers me and upsets me.
Image that was attached to reply for reference:
“DW over Victims” thread.
Original tweet thread here posted June, 22nd 2026.
Reads as follows:
I'm a bit disheartened that a lot of people are starting to shift into the mentality that the game is more important than actual living, breathing people. I understand that some of you may have hyperfixations or a deep connection or love with the game, that is okay. But I have been seeing more and more comments about how "I hope this isn't true so I can enjoy the game" or, "well, if she speaks up about it I will accept the apology".
I need to make something clear from my standing on this: We are people who have been hurt by this situation. This is a very harmful situation that has hurt many folk. The apology she may or may not make is NOT for you all to accept aside from lying for two months, as that she deliberately lied to all of us collectively. What she and Rox did to me is for me and me alone to accept (which I have openly said I simply want closure, I am NOT accepting an apology).
What she did to the victims who she lied to is for them and them alone to accept. What we should not be doing is speaking over those affected. We should be uplifting them. and I ask you please, I am not your caretaker or voice of reason, but please do not say such things that dismiss us. It is painful to all of us involved. Again, send no hate to no one and please educate yourselves. Form your own opinion as well and please stay safe and well during this.
Pringle
(I beg of you, read the other testimonios too. This part is a recap from twitter of my thoughts throughout the situation. However, there’s some new stuff but not entirely “new-new”.)
Hello, I’m Pringlecreak, or just Pringle. You know me as Chip on twitter, and today I will be archiving my thread from twitter.
My perspective on the situation:
In this document, I will be telling you in a periodic order of the following events through my lens. Keep in mind, this isn’t an expose document of Qwel. I made this document to show what caused this situation to spark in the first place. Please don’t contact any of the people here. I will be including calls, but through memory, as I can’t record stuff in general since my PC breaks a lot.
Here is all of the evidence (including a few videos) regarding qwel through a single folder. Imgur link if you can’t access filegarden.
Just a disclaimer, I will refer to different people in the situation with other names: Roxserpent as Jake. Tom (another victim of Jake back in databrawl) as Tori (requested by her).
I wasn’t entirely close to Qwel, nor did I work in BC in any way. However, I was friends with her for a year after the Jake DW situation happened. We were aware of each other due to Jake being friends with me, and her at the time at Pixel-bit. We know each other, but we’re both distant.
When Blushcrunch was starting, the other Jake victims and I (Not from Pixel-bit) were rightfully mad at both Jake and Qwel. As Dandy’s world was starting to gain popularity, I kept fighting and spreading awareness about my friends and me. We HATED that Jake was given a platform. We assumed Qwel was a defender of Jake, but we didn’t do raids on Blushcrunch or any of that. I just spread it around on Twitter because I wanted to go with a respectful route.
On October 5th 2024, Qwel made the decision to get rid of Jake. Friends who knew Jake and the victims of Jake celebrated when the decision was finally made. We were all happy that such a terrible person had finally been removed from the team.
On the 8th of October, a friend of Qwel came into an Anti-Jake/Qwel server after the decision was finally announced to the public. His name is Void, and he helped Qwel a lot in the situation. We were told how Jake made excuses that made it harder for them to fully understand the situation. How Qwel knew some parts but not all of it, and since they didn’t have any contact with old victims, it was harder to get information.
Now, since the server was deleted, most things are lost. However, my old messages with void have revealed a story to it.
I mentioned before that I was given an apology by a friend of hers, which you guys now know is Void. At the time, she was dealing with a hurricane. I was fine with not getting an apology until later because her life was endangered, and I would rather have her be safe.
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me: “Honestly though, I do wish I contacted you before. I dont have contact with [BLANK 1] but I do have a lot of the other victims”
Void, Deleted User: “It’s ok. I know Xtriel is working with Qwel to try and get her in contact with the victims. If she wasn’t being subjected to a hurricane she’d get in touch sooner”
me:”I really hope shed be okay. Is she in the spot where the hurricane will hit?”
Void:”i believe so in terms of the area itll hit”
Me:”Shit”
Void:”i think she’ll be ok but i appreciate the sentiment”
[Youtube Ver.]
A year has passed, this is when the duck adam against Qwel was starting up. I wanted to make a defense of Qwel because, at the time, I was under the belief that Qwel did tell the full truth. I asked Tori if Qwel gave her an apology in private since I wasn’t given one. She said yes, but in a GC, she assumed I was in.
Me:”btw question. did qwel actually apologized to u directly. cuz for some reason people think qwel still has contact with jake 😭”
Tori:”I think in the gc they abologized”
Me:”r u still ther”
Tori:”maybe? u remember what it called”
Me:”bro i was not there. 😭they never apologized to me in specific but one of her friends did”
Tori shows the screenshot with her and qwel. “this was in a gc with a few others i think”
Qwel:”ty! And yeah he villinized a lot of individuals to me, I believe now this was to better hold his narratives and lies up. making anyone else untrustworthy. we’ve been digging a bit on him and its actually a crazy amount of time he’s knowingly done this type of behavior, really concerning things ive seen for sure. Hopefully he will never have a platform again truly.”
Tori:”that’s the hope at least. I honestly just wish he doesn’t move onto anymore fandoms after this, but that might be wishful thinking. I should also say thank you, I appreciate you sharing though. I hope I’m not coming off as rude or anything”
Qwel:”Of course not rude at all, I just appreciate having the chance to let you personally know I do care deeply when it comes to making sure he has no platform like that again. I’m not one for drama. Mostly in a public space, I believe communication can really help but if I do know he is attempting to reach into the roblox fandom at all again I’ll be sure to do what I can 🙏”
I mentioned in my original thread that I’ve never received an apology from her, nor do I have proof now that I was given an apology from Void. I do have his testimony during the situation, here. I’ll admit I was a little sad regarding the fact that I wasn’t given an apology from her. I didn’t complain since she’s a busy person, and I felt bad about bothering Void regarding it. It’s still been two years since that, and I have already moved on.
However, something you can notice is that in the quote that she mentioned, she’s “not one for Drama, mostly in a public space.” I find irony in this, especially with the moderators mentioning how avoidant she can be. I recommend reading more into Joji’s document. I will link it here.
Regardless, I’m going to go into more detail about the Qwel defense doc that others and others attempted to make. In the details of what the original document was supposed to look. This is how it was supposed to go.
- Start the thread/doc with witness testimonies, both regarding Duck and his behavior.
- Explain recent events and how Duck Adam is lying publicly to save his image.
- Go into the details of how he isn't a reliable narrator, how he gets facts wrong and timelines mixed up, etc.
- Conclude with Qwel's statement on the matter
At the beginning of the first day after the video was released. People wanted Qwel to respond; I told Void about it since he had contact with her. Unfortunately, I got told this.Void: “Hey, so I am talking to Qwel rn. The only concern with making a doc/reply is that Qwel doesn't really want to directly give this guy more attention by posting it in her server, especially since most of the server members are kids who we personally don't think need to be exposed to this. We made that mistake before with the whole reply video ordeal and that was the wrong move, and I think he is wanting that attention given he's bragging about the video's metrics.
If you plan on making any sort of follow-up thread against his video, would you be interested in posting a document written by Qwel where she details her response to this and talks about the situation? I know that's a bit of an ask, but Qwel doesn't really have Twitter or other social media, just her YouTube and TikTok, and we don't really want to throw a vid together. I hope this makes sense. She is 100% on board to talk about this; we just aren't 100% on how to deliver the message at the moment.”
So I was on board with making a document, along with having a Qwel statement on it too. I got three others on board with this as well, since they trusted me, since I was considered “closer” to Qwel.
A few hours later on the same day, Qwel wanted to get on a call with me. Void made a group chat for both Qwel and me, while I got my boyfriend in on this as well, since I was nervous. Proof that the GC did exist (luckily, I’m still in it).
In the call (both void and my partner can vouch for this), she bailed out on the statement for the document. She didn’t want kids to give attention to Duck Adam, which I understand. It’s Duck Adam, he tends to be an unreliable narrator. However, what made it more difficult was that she didn’t want to get dms from Jake.
While I did respect her choice, not only did this make things a lot harder to understand her side, but this was also her responsibility. We didn’t want to pressure her further, but due to the decision, there were more roadblocks as we went into the Defense document.
The whole time, my partner and I have been running back and forth with Void to gather evidence defending Qwel. I would ask Void what he knew about the situation because he was the only source I considered. Our writers, who were also Jake’s victims, began to grow stressed as we progressed further into the next few days.
Red:[Cut off] “until you get more info”
me:“this will be an impossible task because all of this took place 4 years ago. im sorry. we cant do anything about it.”
Red:“Qwel cant access dms??”
Blue:”we mean from qwel”
me, responding to red:“not likely”
Gold:“we can still ask though”
Blue:“qwel needs to supply her own screenshots otherwise this is a hearsay situation. and hearsay is not good enough”
Gold:“i mean all of the information again was given from adam was regurgitated information from october and can be disproven with the same information. because hes just taking old stuff and making random claims with it”
Red:”I see. well”
Blue:“i think the most important detail though is we cant. disprove alot of things without some resources from qwel”
This whole thing caused so much stress between Red and Blue. Red was scared and thought people would take us as liars, while Blue was worried for red. What we both agreed on is that we really needed help from Qwel herself.
The next two days, while Red was going through a lot as they kept writing and I didn’t have a stable connection, my partner would ask Void if Qwel could provide any past experiences with Jake to debunk any evidence.
Gold:”Peeps asking if there’d be anyway to show these statements or conversations” They showed an image regarding what I said prior.
Void:”all of the screenshots ive sent to pringle yesterday were in GCs with Qwel. Qwel is not forwarding direct dms she does not want to be directly involved”
In the end, we were stuck. A lot of us believed in Qwel at the time being but not a single evidence from Rox is what really concerned us. We really wanted to show her credibility since we were all very forgiving of Qwel. We did make the document, however I advise you NOT to use it to defend Qwel. Not a single ounce of evidence was directed by her, only purely by Void himself.
To explain why I was so defensive and knight guarding over Qwel, I will have to open up a bit regarding my situation with Jake.
When I was around 14, I met Jake when he was 17. He and I would open up pretty easily, though there was an obvious time he wanted to date me while I was dating someone else. He was my best friend, just like Qwels. In the situation regarding Tori, my friend group and I split Jake off in our own ways. However, after that situation I became really lonely. My partner at the time broke up with me and I had no one else to talk to. This mindset became increasingly more difficult to handle and it got to a point where I kept falling back into nostalgia. At around 15 years old, I sent Jake a frq. [Youtube ver]
In a way, when Qwel told me her experience with Jake and how much of a creep he was, I felt seen. I can’t tell if I was projecting onto her or not, but she went through the same experience as me. I can’t help but feel so much empathy at the time. As I told others who knew Jake or is Victims of Jake, we all felt empathy regarding the situation between Her and Jake. All of us knew how Jake acted around the time periods (Databrawl, Pixel bit, etc), so when we heard that she went through the same tactics he used on her, we all felt really bad. Especially me, someone who went back to their groomer despite him making me feel uncomfortable. I am just as hypocritical as Qwel, the only difference is I cut him off as soon as he got exposed in Pixel-bit. I was too blind to see that she knew because of my own empathy.
On April 20th of this year, Void reached out to me regarding Qwel. It was about Erick and Joji’s situation (though never revealed any further until now). I was greatly concerned, I didn’t want to believe it at first but I didn’t dig further. I was dealing with college at the time.
On May 2nd is when he finally told me that Qwel lied to me.
Throughout this being revealed to me, I’ve never grown such an empty hole in my life. I feel guilty that I failed my friends, victims of Jake I don’t even know, people who knew Jake beforehand. I feel horrible for falling for her lies again and again. It felt like that trust meant nothing to her and I hate it. I hated that I fell for it again. I hated how weak willed I became because of her lies. I just hated that I formed this personification of Qwel and how she’s this goody shoes.
My heart skipped a beat.
There’s no words to describe how I felt.
I’ve wanted this situation to spark in the first place, not because of jealousy, not because of Duck adam, but because of my friends being treated and lied to all our faces. This needed to come out, it’s been rubbing me the wrong way ever since I was told this information. It just stings me that me and my other friends who knew Jake trusted her. Even if I have less experience with Qwel, I’m doing this because of those who are affected by her. I feel horrible for everyone who has to relive through this and I don’t want them to go through this alone. This is why I wanted to spread awareness, for my friends.
I take everything back to what I said in my original thread, Qwel. Don’t try to contact me, I don’t want your pity apology. Just leave me and the other Rox victims (MY FRIENDS) alone.
Sam
Sam’s testimony.
Trigger warning & content warning for: Mentions of darkship/proship, recording without consent.
I had met Qwel at the start of December in 2024 after she'd noticed my modeling work and asked if it was for VRChat. She asked if I could show them to her in a game, which marked the beginning of our friendship. The majority of our conversations and hangouts were over calls, with little to no actual text aside from her asking to get on VRChat or a call to hang out. We had established very early on that I was a minor in our friendship, but it did not end.
Qwel did not groom me. There were very clear boundaries set after we had discussed my age, and she acted accordingly as a result.
Over the course of our friendship, Qwel had turned into a sort of trusted adult for me. She gave me advice and even helped me get away from one of my abusers at the time. Afterward, I confided in her about my struggles with being around bad people, and she offered a lot of advice and even suggested I join her friend group if it would help me get away from them. I never did get to join those groups, so after I had successfully cut them off with Qwel and Joji's support, I found myself alone.
An old friend that I had split off with after friends group issues had come back into contact with me a bit after I cut off my original abuser. I confided in this friend about a lot of different things, and he began trying to persuade me into indulging in proship/darkship material. He would tell me it was safe to use as a coping mechanism. He eventually began offering me his own spaces to cure my loneliness. Out of fear of being even more alone, I took his offer, joined some servers on an alt account, and began talking about those thoughts on a private Twitter account he was present on. He learned about my friendship with Qwel quite early in our reconnection, and he asked me to ask her why one of his alt accounts was banned from Blushcrunch. This was the first time she found out about this friend and what he was doing. After I asked, she looked into it and found that he was posting proship art on servers and had been reported for it.
Qwel immediately told me I should question them about it, which scared me. I lied about a conversation I was having with him, where I was confronting him. She told me, though, that there was "no use in trying to reason with those people" and told me to just block him, but I was scared to. He had already offered me a sense of security I had never felt before, making the prospect of leaving terrifying. I dodged around the subject a bit, and the conversation quickly drifted away from him.
She already considered him someone who was trying to take advantage of me after that encounter and was well aware of his existence.
He was brought up every now and again in other conversations where we would joke about my abusers, poking fun at them. He would also come up when I tried to ask her about the friend group she’d offered to introduce me to. She would constantly dance around the topic, despite having originally offered this to help me stray away from bad people.
A few months later, Qwel began asking me one morning about making a Twitter account, in an attempt to get me to spill my vent account. She then asked me when I was available to call after not giving her a satisfactory answer. I found out during said call that she had received a report from someone at BlushCrunch about my presence on these servers and the existence of the Twitter account. Terrified, I had immediately begun to tell her everything about my relationship with him and what had happened between us. But in my fear of her leaving, I lied about not being in contact with him. She asked for proof that I had left him, and I couldn't provide proof that I had when she told me to. We ended the call since she claimed she was still talking with others regarding the situation, and she eventually sent me a message a few minutes later, cutting me off.
I was only informed recently, after reconnecting with Joji during the peak of the Qwel situation, that she had been recording this call and had been flaunting it to her close friends. She claimed that she was "proud of her confrontation" on that call. While I did lie about my contact with my groomer, I had been confiding in her about those thoughts and what he had been doing to me, almost on the brink of tears. Even then, I could tell she didn't believe me, even when I told her those things, which is why I lied about still being in contact with him, out of fear of losing one of the most important people to me at the time.
About three months later, I encountered Qwel in a VRChat lobby. We moved into a private lobby where I tried to apologize for everything that had happened and once again tried to confide in her about the abuse I was experiencing. She said we couldn't get back into contact for her own safety. Even before I asked if it would ever be possible. I apologized profusely for what I did and for hurting her. I don't know if she was recording this as well. I am just saying this to further that she was well aware of the abuse that caused my actions.
A few months after this encounter, I had gotten word from many different people that she had been spreading to my fans and people she was working with that I was "a bad person" and that she was avoiding people who would wear my models. Learning this after everything I told her hurt. She clearly didn’t care about what had happened to me and was twisting narratives to others to purposefully make me out to be some predator. She would omit the fact that I was a minor and other major details about the situation to spew the narrative that I was a danger to people.
Snail
Intro:
Hello, my name is Snail. I was a tester for BlushCrunch Studios for a sizable chunk of 2024.
Given the recent developments and information revealed, as well as having reconnected with some ex-staff members, I decided to create this document with my own experiences involving Qwelver.
I want to make it clear that my experience with her wasn't as involved nor severe as it was with other people who have recently come forward. My testimonial is meant to help give further evidence for the harmful pattern of behavior Qwel has expressed towards anyone who gets involved with her, regardless of closeness, as well as show how her harmful behavior extends to people outside of her inner circle.
Throughout the years, Qwel has created a system that allows her to jam constructive communication between the player base and the BlushCrunch staff. She has gotten away with washing her hands of multiple incidents, no matter their severity, and has tacitly encouraged the Dandy's World community to blame her failings as a game developer and community owner on her staff team. She will ignore any problem, refuse any feedback, and avoid any type of confrontation.
This inaction is deliberate and not just the result of incompetence. Anyone who tries to speak up, regardless of what it is they're talking about, will be cut off and Qwel will proceed to defame them among staff, ensuring communication is severed. She is fully aware of how many issues she has mishandled, but she'll remain radio silent about them in order to seem unaware and thus, letting the blame fall onto someone else. She's aware her fanbase is highly reactive and idolizes her, but hasn't taken any efforts in reigning them in due to the fact their aggressive reactions are useful against anyone willing to air her dirty laundry.
Please, keep in mind that my testimonial involves a situation where I, too, fell for this shifting of blame and ostracizing. A lot of what happened to me was posted to public websites, so you might stumble across the original posts. Read those posts knowing that I did not have the full picture, I mistakenly blamed multiple people who I now know had their hands forced into deliberately cutting communication with me and treating me as hostile.
Background and Role as Tester:
I was approached by Qwel to become a tester during May of 2024. At that point Dandy's World wasn't released yet, so the reason I was picked as a candidate was due to my time playing Flavor Frenzy (BlushCrunch's previous game). At the time, I was an active member of the BC Discord server, and was high up in the game's leaderboards (which, IIRC, was listed in a voice call as the reason to consider me a candidate).
Obviously, this was a very exciting opportunity, so I accepted. I knew going in that it'd be mostly volunteer work, but since it was for a game that I was already deeply invested in, this didn't feel like a downside. Keep in mind, as well, that during this time BC was still a small studio and Flavor Frenzy was their only game, so apart from the excitement I was also being realistic.
I was part of the last two playtesting sessions Flavor Frenzy would get, as well as the pre-release session for Dandy's World, which doubled as a way for Qwel and Rox to record footage for the release trailer. I do not recall the exact amount of payment I received for any of these sessions, as my Roblox account's transaction history doesn't date that far back and I forgot to take screenshots of the actual amount. It, however, wasn't much each time. Keep in mind, again, that this didn't raise any red flags for me, I knew going in that financial compensation wasn't the goal, and this was right before Dandy's World exploded in popularity and the money truly began to pour in.
As for my involvement with staff and the inner workings, I can say that there really wasn't much. As someone who was only a tester, all I had access to beyond the public channels was the testing text and voice channels. In a sense, yes, I technically had easier access to other staff members than a regular player due to having access to a private channel, but I was never privy to anything internal beyond what other staff members with access to those two channels were willing to share.
After the third and last playtesting session, which was about Dandy's World, there would never again be another session to test further updates to the game (while I was still part of the team), or at the very least none that I would be included in. The text channel would still remain somewhat active, though, as me and other staff members would occasionally discuss game balancing and feedback.
At the lack of anything concrete to do, I decided to make the best of it and "test" the game out of my own accord. I'd play nearly daily, mostly in public lobbies and the occasional organized runs that would get hosted in the BC Discord. I'd familiarize myself with the mechanics, talk to people on the BC Discord (especially in a channel meant for questions regarding the gameplay), take notes of what people would point out the most, as well as what I considered could be improved, and every now and then relay my findings to the staff over at the testing channel.
Reaction to this feedback was minimal, really. Every now and then a staff member would opine on it, or bring up a topic themselves, and I would engage in a discussion. But, as far as I recall, neither Rox nor Qwel ever approached me nor meaningfully interacted with whatever I'd propose or relay from player feedback. It was radio silence on their end, doubly so after the events of October of 2024 transpired and Qwel was left as the sole owner. The only thing I can recall ever contributing to the game proper in terms of balancing/gameplay was the sprint toggle feature, which probably was due to the fact that it was one of the very last posts submitted to the BC server's suggestion forums before they were permanently made inaccessible, and later unceremoniously deleted/privated.
Eventually it was decided that the role of tester was no longer needed, and anyone that wasn't yet part of staff would be "laid off" and their roles removed. It was sad, but given how there had been no proper playtesting sessions, and I was basically the only one with the role that wasn't also a staff member that was still active, it made sense. At one point I tried to apply to contributor, wanting to still help work on the game but feeling I wasn't someone that could've handled another responsibility such as moderation. I sent Qwel a quickly-made portfolio and nothing really came of it, as she mentioned that contributors as a position weren’t her immediate priority.
I didn't try to press for the testing role to be kept. In fact, it didn't even occur to me that my volunteer work should've been compensated, until the only other non-staff tester, Rubik, pointed this out to Qwel and demanded some kind of severance pay, since we were not included in any official playtesting session despite Dandy's World exploding in popularity. I'm not aware of the amount of robux Rubik received, but I received what I believed was an alright sum, and was officially taken out of the testing position under what I assumed were good terms.
The “AI Ticket” Incident:
Learning more about the situation behind the scenes regarding the ticket, I now doubt the use of AI was involved, but this is the name that stuck in the minds of the players that were around to learn about it. Not everyone knows about this issue, as it came and went relatively quickly, but ask anyone in the fandom who read about the issue, and the name "AI ticket" is what'll probably jog their memory.
The context for this one is a bit lengthy, and it involves a lot of technical knowledge of the game at the time, as well as general knowledge of how the competitive scene for Dandy's World was back then, so please bear with me (and apologies in case I misremember any details).
Throughout 2024 and into the very early months of 2025, Dandy's World didn't have any rules regarding the usage of glitches. There were rules against exploiting, of course, but the way the staff interacted with players, there was this general sentiment that glitches weren't considered into those rules. The game, at the time, was notoriously buggy, with most every glitch reported at the time only serving to hinder players during runs depending on what aspect of the game they broke.
One such glitch was what would be dubbed the "stealth glitch", named so because it would mess with a player's Stealth stat during a run, leaving them a few decimals below their actual Stealth stat. The glitch was not news at that point, it had been reported since roughly the Sprout update and received consistent attention from players that would use the bug-report channel. It should also be noted that for most of the glitch's existence, triggering it would negatively affect players. For a while, the player base wasn't sure what triggered the glitch, until it was discovered that it involved using a Gumball and two Stealth Candies in quick succession.
Given the fact that, at the time, rules regarding gameplay didn't include glitch usage as exploiting, a competitive team tried their hand at a Glitched WR run, which they streamed. The players weren't shy about their usage of the glitch, disclosing publicly that this run shouldn't be counted as glitch-less, and at one point explaining what caused the glitch to trigger. The run got up to Floor 400, at the time a huge milestone, no matter the type of WR. However, at the end of the run, the entire team was met with a series of bans from part of the BlushCrunch staff. Everyone on the team received a month-long ban, except for one of the distractors, who received a permanent ban.
Naturally, this caused a lot of upheaval among the player base. I found out about the incident through the uproar in the BC Discord server, as well as through third-party servers for competitive runs I was a part of. Panic spread amongst the player base due to the reason that was issued for those bans, as well as the sudden change in the wording of the rules, now including the usage of glitches as part of exploiting the game. It wasn't that players were upset they could no longer "cheat", it was the sudden 180 in the staff's stance on what counted as "cheating", which felt like something players that held grudges against other players could abuse to bully them off the game.
It was that latter sentiment that made me get further invested into the situation, which would cause me to get into contact with the permabanned player and their teammate, as I wanted to help in any way I could. When it was clear the stance on what counted as exploiting wasn't changing back, we settled on creating an appeal document to, at the very least, change his permaban to a month-long ban like what his teammates had been issued. Another thing to note is that the players already had tried to approach the staff with tickets of their own, but had been stonewalled.
Thinking I could help out by being around as someone the staff knew beforehand, I messaged Qwel asking if it was possible to have multiple people in one singular ticket, which ended up being a bad idea for multiple reasons. For one, multiple players could be added to a ticket anyways, and on the other hand, this apparently created the idea in Qwel's mind that I was a self-aggrandizing asshole that thought they had power over her.
Did I actually think that? Fuck no. If anything, I went in knowing that I was gonna "cash out" whatever standing reputation I had with Qwel and other staff members. I got involved because it didn't sit well with me that the team had gone through the normal channels and gotten a door slammed in their face. I even tried to appeal to the issue of "players could use these tools to bully others" on a ticket of my own which didn't amount to much. Obviously, hindsight is 20/20, and all of these decisions were mistakes on my part, but it is what it is.
(Please note that this was the very last correspondence I had with Qwel before she’d go on to block me.)
The ticket got made, and one important thing to note is the cordial tone of the staff that responded to us at the start. We sent the appeal document for them to read, as well as discussed other topics with them. The three of us were in a group chat discussing the way the ticket was developing, and the tone at the start felt hopeful. But then, we were made to wait roughly three days for a response.
When the ticket resumed, the attitude of the staff had done a complete 180, and we were subsequently stonewalled. As it was going down, we still didn't develop the assumption AI was being used to generate responses, as we were focused on trying to appeal against the sudden change in tone, until finally giving up at the request of staff.
Finding the whole thing troubling, and knowing the ticket would become inaccessible to us once it was closed, we screenshotted the entire thing and began to share the situation to our friends. This is where the idea that the staff was using AI-generated responses came from, as once we settled down and began reading the responses with friends, we began to see a lot of phrasing and formatting options that didn't line up with the way the staff was previously replying to us. What reinforced the assumption on our end was that a friend of mine asked ChatGPT to generate a rebuttal to the appeal document we had made, with the result reading similar to some of the responses we were receiving.
The whole situation felt frustrating. Given how the ban didn't budge, I was given the go-ahead to publish what we thought we had found in public, explaining the context of the ticket as well as making the appeal document public. I wrote a post about it on the game's subreddit, which got moderate attention. Two youtubers, independent of me or the team, covered the situation as well over the course of a few days. The permabanned player eventually also linked to my post on his YouTube channel, and within a few hours, his team and myself had been banned from the BC Discord server.
The ban was saddening, but in a way I was already preparing for it, given how I made the ticket situation public after communication with the staff fell apart. I made a follow up post on the subreddit, both due to the ban and due to the fact I discovered Qwel blocked me during the whole ordeal, even though she claimed she wasn't going to get involved. I should mention that nobody from staff contacted me nor engaged with my post, the ban was sudden and didn't even extend to my Roblox account, as I could still play the game.
I was definitely miffed about the whole thing, who wouldn't be? If prompted I would tell fellow players to be wary about the draconian rules, lest something similar to what happened when I got involved occurred. At the time, the fears I had about the way the ticket system was being handled were somewhat vindicated when people within the community would express the issue of bad faith actors attempting to use the stricter moderation to try and bully other players off the game.
In hindsight, the way staff was prevented from communicating with me and the two other players for days, only to then resume communications in a very dismissive and corporate manner, should’ve been a red flag. Another thing that I should’ve caught onto sooner is how Qwel claimed to not get involved in moderation affairs, yet seemingly had no problem doing me a favor and was one of the very first people in staff to sever ties with me. I would later discover that she encouraged staff members with whom I got along with to distance themselves from me, eventually cutting full contact.
Aftermath of My Experience:
In the year since the ticket controversy and my subsequent ban from the BC Discord, I would remain part of the Dandy’s World community and would continue to play the game. My opinions of how the BlushCrunch staff managed things would gradually sour, and I became a vocal critic of various decisions that Qwel would take regarding the game and community.
I chalked my experience on the team and in that small controversy as me simply being the weakest link in staff, someone who, due to not being part of the inner workings of staff, was never truly part of the in-group and thus an annoyance.
However, with the information that has come to light recently, as well as having had the opportunity to reconnect with a lot of ex-staff members, I’ve come to the realization that, despite my small role, behind the scenes Qwel ran a defamation campaign against me, pressuring other staff members into changing their opinion about me, as well as attempting to shut down conversation whenever I was mentioned, claiming I brought her great stress. Here are some screenshots shared with me showing how she talked about me behind closed doors, even before my removal from the BC Discord server:
(Mind you in the screenshot above I was still technically part of the team. Other staff members in the screenshot were wondering why I was excluded from that private chat.)
(How she actually felt about “helping” with the ticket. Compare this to the tone she used while DMing me.)
(Qwel’s fabricated image of me, for whatever reason, began to center on the idea that I wanted to marry/have sex with Dandy. I wish I could make that up. People that have reached out to me mentioned that this was an obsessive, recurring bit Qwel would spout during voice calls unprompted.)
(Complaining about my public criticism regarding the poor LGBT+ representation included in the game. She immediately jumps to point at my age as a way to delegitimize my criticism.)
(It’d be until August of 2025 that she would, seemingly, get tired of people in the staff talking about me, and begin shutting down conversations where I was mentioned. While her phrasing is pathetic, keep in mind this is a common manipulation tactic, and she would go on to use it on other staff members.)
You might have noticed that other staff members in the screenshots would play along with her in defaming me. Keep in mind that this is by design. This type of manipulation coerces people into agreeing with the person lobbing these claims, and, if it fails, pressures them to stay silent under the excuse that not going along with it causes the manipulator emotional pain.
I do not blame anyone on staff for this other than Qwel herself. People I reconnected with apologized for their involvement and were generous enough to share this information with me. Qwel can’t say the same.
With all of this information brought to light, all I can think about is how Qwel, intentionally or not, set up the perfect system for keeping both staff members and the player base in the dark and as uncommunicated with each other as possible. She’s created a system that forces staff to isolate from members outside the team, which, in turn, fuels hurt and resentment from part of the broader community.
And I fell for it, too. After all, without the context of how Qwel operates behind the scenes, the idea that I was simply not valuable to a clique that didn’t exist was the closest thing that made sense. Despite seeing through some cracks, at the end of the day I still fell for the lie that situations like the one I had been in were a team effort instead of one person strongarming their staff into formulating the type of responses that she wanted to send, all the while being too much of a coward to actually come down and get involved directly. Instead of pinning the blame into the sole person responsible for how poorly handled the ticket situation was, me, other players involved, and the members of the community that saw the situation go down, fell for it and distributed the blame mostly around the staff members that were forced to concoct those responses, keeping Qwel as blameless as possible.
In a vacuum, her reaction to my actions and how she would go on to push her slander is pathetic, laughable behavior. However, the reason I'm sharing this is because: If this is how she reacted to me stepping out of line, imagine how much worse she has treated ex-staff members, ex-friends, and victims who were much closer to her and were roped into helping her in more serious affairs. She resorted to pushing for a fabricated idea of my character because I wasn’t close enough for her to have anything she could use as ammunition. If this is how Qwel treats strangers and acquaintances, please consider how she treats people closer to her, how much worse that behavior would be. Please read the testimonies from everyone else, as what they give a glimpse into is appalling and inexcusable behavior.
Void
Introduction
CONTENT WARNING: This document contains discussions about drawn CSEM, manipulation, grief and loss, animal death, grooming, mentions of cancer and more. Please read at your own discretion.
Hi my name is Void, I have also temporarily gone under the alias Martin.
This document has undergone many revisions and forms, because the situation seems to be an ever-evolving thing. I was originally going to use this document as an opportunity to expose Qwel’s lies, but I personally feel this is no longer necessary. Not only am I not going to risk violating my NDA, I think it's clear and apparent to anyone who has read the recent information drops that this is pretty obvious.
I was a long term friend of Qwel, we had a close friendship lasting well over 4+ years. Qwel at the time was very close to Rox, and eventually she introduced me to him. I detailed this experience in my original document My Testimony on Rox, but Qwel was the reason I ever connected with the guy in the first place. Connecting with these two people proved to be one of the greatest mistakes I have ever made in my 29 years on this earth.
I not only was friends with Qwel, but eventually I worked for her, initially as a part time tester, only to graduate into the role of Quality Assurance Lead, meaning I was in charge of the entire testing and QA department.
This document is going to be my testimony on everything that has happened. I have been holding this information close to my chest for months now, and in some cases even longer. I was unsure if I should ever talk about this publicly, given some of the information is extremely personal to me, and was afraid I would receive backlash from the community. Now it seems like more people are receptive to hearing our voices, so I feel comfortable speaking about everything.
This document is primarily going to be a testament about my experiences, and some portions will be pretty emotional. Please keep that in mind going in.
Why did I stop being friends with Qwel?
Qwel and I ceased being friends in April of 2026, ending a 4+ year long running friendship, due to a personal disagreement that I had with how she treated a close friend of mine, and how I was treated at the company. The details of this can be found in Joji’s section, but I essentially became aware of what happened with Erick and was disgusted with how she treated Joji and overall how she handled that situation.
After she cut off Joji, Qwel ended up leaving a bunch of servers, cutting off a bunch of people, and essentially pushed away any person that called her out for this behavior. This all happened a few months back, so if you think Qwel is this new great person compared to how she used to be, you are mistaken.
I found out the night before Joji was cut off by Qwel, and I also discovered that instead of responding to Joji’s inquiries, she was playing Overwatch instead.
The next day at 3:20pm, through an honestly insane coincidence, Qwel asked me if I wanted to play Overwatch with her, when I knew everything was going on. The next day I sent her a message about everything, which you can see below or see here.
The censored out portion was in regards to something I wanted done on the game end, which is not public so I will remove its mention totally. She didn’t even bother responding to anything in the first paragraph.
I mentioned earlier in this message that I was going to remain neutral to her after quitting. That is because I quit the team only a few days earlier, ironically enough.
While I stated in that message that I wanted a break, Qwel began blocking other people who attempted to reach out to her, including close friends of many years she had. As a result I genuinely became concerned for her well being. I was very angry at her at this time, but I tried to muster up as much empathy as I could and sent her this message to try and figure out what was going on.
Unfortunately this message fell on deaf ears, as she proceeded to block me and never even bothered to give me a response. This was the last time I ever interacted with Qwel. I sincerely wanted to know if there was some external factor causing her to lash out like this, but unfortunately there was none. This is just how she decided things should be, and it caused a lot of pain among the many people who cared about her.
Looking back on this makes me feel sick. Even after she supposedly discovered Rox did horrible things not disclosed to her, she treated him better than me, saying things like this to him. The idea that she treated me worse than a literal pedophile makes me more upset than I can reasonably express.
Working at BlushCrunch Studios
This section is going to be vague, and unfortunately won't contain as many screenshots or citations. When I signed up to work at BlushCrunch Studios I signed an NDA that binds me from sharing any non-public company info. As a result, I will be retelling my experience, not specific company details or proprietary knowledge. I intend to honor my NDA to the fullest of my ability.
I began working at BlushCrunch in March of 2025 as a part time tester. The team at that time was very small, consisting of only a handful of guys working on the entire game. They wanted to begin rolling out more content and needed more testing overhead, and Qwel offered me the job. I eventually created an account called Tester_Testington, which served as my primary account for testing the game.
This account even to this day is linked to my bloxlink on Discord, proving the account was mine. You can even see this clip of me testing out the stickers feature over a year ago here.
Eventually, in June of 2025 I was promoted to the position of Quality Assurance Lead, which was a massive opportunity for me. I was incredibly excited for this job prospect, the pay was fair, and I was very passionate about the game and strongly wanted to see it be the best version of itself it could be. This was the first time I ever worked in a lead position at a game development studio, and they were aware of this before hiring me. As a fan of games like Diablo, Hades, and other delvers, I really enjoyed the direction Dandy took the genre and was very enthused to be a part of this project going in.
Only a few months into the job, the cracks began to show. While I was the lead for QA (aka testing) for the game, from June to September I had very little help beyond the other developers working on the game. The testing department at Dandy’s World, in my opinion, was highly understaffed for a project of this size. Given that I had no prior experience working as a QA lead, this really magnified the level of stress and pressure I was under in a short span of time.
Updates began to scale more, this coupled with the game’s flimsy engine (that for some reason was not overhauled earlier), made it incredibly difficult for me to keep up. Updates like Dyle for instance were incredibly challenging and difficult, and while my passion for the game still existed at the time, saying I was stressed out was an understatement.
In mid September, I came forward to Qwel and Joe (the current president of the company) about the issues I was facing as a worker. They recognized this and helped onboard a bit more help. Unfortunately the amount of help that was gained from this was not adequate for testing an 8 player, multiplayer game with 30+ characters with interleaving mechanics. Between late September and the day I quit, no additional resources were directed to my department.
If you have ever wondered why Dandy’s World has always struggled with multi-year long bugs and technical issues, this is the greatest reason. From my perspective, it felt like the QA team never grew to match the scale of the project, and the project suffered as a result during my time there. By the time me and my assistant left the company, only four accounts were designated as “testers” under their Roblox community page. Keep in mind this is an 8 person experience. Two of these accounts appear to be alts, and one account is a Roblox employee.
Near the end of September, a very significant event happened in my life, and it was the passing of my dog to cancer. He was diagnosed suddenly, it was totally inoperable, and he crossed the rainbow bridge less than a day after he got a proper diagnosis. My dog was my world and I was absolutely shattered. I spent almost the entirety of my 20s with him and to this day miss him heavily, and always will. There will always be a German Shepherd sized hole in my heart.
My dog helped me through some of the worst moments of my life. He had an instinct that helped him sense when there was something off with me, or others. I personally feel if I didn’t have him in my life during a few critical moments, I most likely would not be alive to type out this document. He was my world.
The following week of his passing, work on the Halloween 2025 event ramped up significantly. I was already mourning for the loss of my pet, and because the new help wasn’t even completely onboarded yet, the workload was very difficult to manage. While this week was difficult, it would be the week of the update that nearly pushed me to my breaking point.
On the week of the update, Qwel and the president Joe decided to take a trip to New York Comic Con to meet fans and sign cards, along with networking with other businesses. In my experience Joe was always the one coordinating things, as a president does, leaving the team with very little supervision or direction during one of the most critical update weeks of the year. Halloween was hyped up going far back as July of 2025, and people had very high anticipations for what was to come.
I was afraid of taking time off as it could have potentially put the launch of the update in jeopardy, and I did not want to potentially risk being fired. If I were to re-approach this whole thing, I would have taken the risk instead of continuing to work. Since Joe was largely absent in all of this, I had to pick up a lot of the managerial duties with the other developers to help keep everything on track and try to hold everything together. I was having to manage multiple parts of the team, test massive amounts of content, and somehow do that on top of losing one of the closest pets I have ever had. I could tell Joe was genuinely trying with the little time he had available to him (and a stable internet connection, for that matter) but it is simply a situation that should never have been allowed to happen. That week I was having anxiety attacks every day, and spent a lot of time crying over my loss during work hours. The stress was unbearable.
Then the update came out, and Twisted Gourdy was totally broken on launch for hours as there simply was no time to actually test anything. I got only a few hours of sleep on launch day, as I had a night terror involving my dog. At around 5pm I left our development call altogether, and passed out in my bed as I simply could not keep going any further than I did. I hit my limit.
I understand working on a big project is going to be stressful, hell I knew that when signing up for it. But everything about this situation could have been prevented with basic scheduling practices, like not releasing an update at the same time you decide to go on a trip to meet fans. If we formed a stronger QA team earlier on, I could have taken some time off and not worry about things getting done. There were many ways all of this could have been avoided.
Afterwards, the following Tuesday I had a call with Qwel talking to her about everything. I’ll admit that within 5-10 minutes of the call I was sobbing, as the entire situation put me under an enormous amount of stress that no person should ever have to go through. I was in a lot of pain and still viewed Qwel at this time not just as a boss, but as a close friend, and felt she’d understand what I went through and help make things better moving forward if she just knew how this all hurt me.
But nothing actually changed. Nothing about my work life improved. During that call Qwel didn’t even so much as give me an apology. There were many vague promises about potentially bringing in new people, having a new testing program, ect. But nothing ever actually materialized or changed between that nightmare and the time I quit. As a result, I will admit I built up resentment towards Qwel and Joe over how I was treated, and how they did absolutely nothing to rectify it.
Over the course of months, I tried burying it and distracting myself with work. When some time passed in later October I saw how much the fans loved Gourdy, the event, the music video, everything. I tried focusing on that. I felt like even if I had a bad experience with Halloween, if the fans and broader community loved it then in some ways it became worth the effort. I focused on that and it kept me going for a long time as it brought me a lot of joy seeing so many fans love the content I and others made possible.
But obviously that does not actually deal with the real emotional issues I dealt with at the time, and I really began feeling the effects of the work + this experience in early January. I began experiencing both physical and mental health issues as a result of burying this and trying to manage the impossible workload I was being put under. As a result, the quality of the updates declined along with my mental health. January and February’s updates were littered with bugs despite all my effort to try and improve what I could, but it just wasn’t enough. It was becoming obvious to me that something wasn’t right and that I wasn’t doing ok.
I decided to talk to some friends and realized the core issue was my experience with Halloween and my workload, and never really getting any actual closure. It was also the fact that my brain built this association between the Halloween content and my dead pet, and every time I saw anything from that event it would remind me of my loss. This happened every single day, so I never was able to move on. Eventually, multiple other friends reached out to me around this time, as I became distant with everyone. They were genuinely worried about my mental health and I realized I couldn’t ignore it anymore.
I decided I needed to do the most mature thing I could, which was to talk it out with Qwel.
This call did not go well. At all. A large chunk of it consisted of Qwel either downplaying the impact her choices had, or outright lying to me by claiming she “didn’t know” that her actions impacted me in the way it did, even though I directly told her about it when it happened. She also attempted to justify the decision numerous times, telling me she “couldn’t have done anything about it” and that it “had to be this way.” Qwel did give me an apology, but it was possibly the most insincere apology I have ever heard from a person in my life. At the time I was temporarily relieved, but as I thought more about the conversation and what took place, I realized that it only made me more upset.
So in February, I decided that I was going to work there until around May of 2026 and resign. As I continued working there, nothing improved and I only felt like I was forcing myself to do a job I no longer had any passion in, for an owner who clearly did not actually care about my wellbeing. After the conversation I noticed Qwel became more distant with me. We called less, talked less in general, and she’d take longer to respond to my messages even if they were work related. I understand she is busy but this was enough that I noticed her becoming more and more distant with me as time went on.
However the Easter Event happened, and it was received terribly. That thing I mentioned earlier about fans enjoying the content did not apply here. This event was criticized by everybody, rightfully so, for being a rerun of Christmas 2025 and for mostly just being another skin grinding simulator. The last thing I really had to anchor me to the project was now gone, and I was already facing major burnout. On April 7th 2026 I could not bring myself to even sign in, let alone do any work, and that afternoon I resigned from my position at BlushCrunch.
I was incredibly scared to leave. I did not have a job immediately ready to move to, and it was an incredibly risky move for me to take financially. Everything that happened with my work experience, plus what happened to Joji, significantly made me realize that Qwel was not the person I thought she was.
I thought back on everything with Rox and began to see the pattern. Just like she pretended to not know how halloween impacted me, she pretended to not know about things relating to Rox. I began connecting those patterns and realized that this was a strategy, not a simple mistake.
Aftermath.
After everything took place, I began noticing changes. The physical health issues I was facing, like light headedness, severe fatigue, bad sleep, and more, were improving much quicker than they were before. I spoke to my physical therapist about it and he advised that the stress I was under relating to work was possibly the reason why I was not recovering properly from whatever initiated the health issues to begin with.
Things also began improving for me mentally. The mental health issues I developed working there like extreme paranoia, anxiety, and depression began lifting. Between December and April I almost did not engage in any of my personal hobbies, as I was so exhausted and demotivated all of the time due to the stresses of work. I felt trapped. Even a few weeks after everything took place, I found myself enjoying my hobbies again, and I just felt…better.
It was very hard for me while I worked there to move past my dog’s passing, but after I quit I finally found some closure as I was not being exposed to material that was triggering my grief any longer. I finally found peace in what took place.
I talked to my friends extensively about what had happened, and once I shared my experience in detail with them they began telling me about similar experiences they had with Qwel, and we all began noticing a pattern of behavior. Qwel’s primary way of escaping accountability is to feign ignorance and pretend to not know things that are going on. If someone brings these issues to her, she will distance herself or outright cut you off, and proceed to talk smack about you in private either to close friends or otherwise. I know for a fact she has already done that to me.
After months working with my physical therapist (from March to June) and time spent simply decompressing from everything, I was able to finally return to a close to normal state of health. I am still dealing with mild symptoms of what I had struggled with, but it is far less severe than it once was. I realized about a month later from quitting that if I stayed at BlushCrunch my health issues most likely would have gotten worse, and quite possibly could have led to longer term damage than what I experienced. All of this to say, do not take high stress positions lightly! They will damage your quality of life if you are not careful!
Simply put, while quitting the studio was a serious choice to make, it ended up being the best choice I have ever made. I regret nothing. Even if I had good times there, the bad times and issues inherent to the work structure there were simply far too great.
Final words.
Talking about the stuff with my dog, and frankly any of this has been incredibly difficult for me. I’ve been hugely conflicted on talking about any of this publicly, but with more victims of Qwel’s neglectful and distasteful behavior coming out, I finally feel comfortable sharing my experience to the world.
I feel like I was completely taken advantage of by both Rox and Qwel. I was essentially their archivist when all of the 2024 drama happened, and spent a lot of time trying to help them at that time. To prove it, here’s an image of my dataset from the time, containing over 500+ files I have had at my disposal since. I tried my hardest when I worked at BlushCrunch, but I feel like they took advantage of me and kept overworking me so they didn’t have to pay for more hires. I don’t truly know if that is the real reason and I am only speculating, but I was never actually given a reason for why we never grew and made a real team, so your guess is as good as mine. I feel like my trusting nature towards Qwel was completely abused for years on end. I am sure the others feel the same way who were close to her.
Please, be respectful and kind when handling this situation. Do not harass anybody or attack anybody because of this. This situation has caused me and so many people behind the scenes so much pain, and I really just want the public to be informed so this can be put to rest. Do not harass anyone at the BlushCrunch team as I doubt they know much if anything about how far this stuff really goes. This situation is not about the game. This is not about the characters. This is about Qwel. I don’t want to see Dandy’s World die, I want to see Qwel resign from her position as owner of BlushCrunch Studios, as in my opinion she is not fit to run a company of this scale.
This message is for Qwel as I am sure she will see this. Qwel, please own up to what you did here. Apologize to me, the victims, and the multitude of staffers that were wronged by your actions. My invitation to talk is still open even now. I am more than happy to resolve my end of this with you privately. Please talk to us and do the right thing. Staying silent forever or hiding while playing Overwatch is not going to save you. I truly implore you to see reason and make the right call.
Thank you all and have a great day.
Anon Testimonials
Testimonial 1
Trigger warnings for the following: Manipulation, Harassment, Mentions of SA, PTSD, and Emotional Distress.
Hello, I am one of Qwel’s victims and I have asked to stay anonymous for my own safety as I do not handle situations like this very well, and have GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) as well as ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder.) I wanted to rewrite my testimonial as I felt it looked rushed and sloppy, as well as missing some important context and details. I want to make it clear that this testimonial reflects my personal experience and perspective as a former fan of Qwel. I am not involved with the Rox situation in any way. Before you might dismiss me as I am not involved, I do have a story to share that exposes Qwel’s behavior to other people behind closed doors. As others have said in their own sections of this document, please do not attack nor harass anyone mentioned nor involved. Also as a disclaimer, yes, Qwelver does indeed play VRChat and there are people who can confirm it. When I first saw Joji’s document, it gave me the courage to speak out about my own experience with Qwel and opened my eyes to behavior I deemed was okay with even though it didn’t feel so deep down. Here is my story.
Back in late November of 2025, I was on VRChat participating in a group public instance of a Dandy’s World experience. The leader of said group warned us to be on our best behavior as Qwelver herself actually joined. At first, people were mostly doubtful that it was actually her. I had gone up to her myself and asked, only for her to look at me then walk away without saying anything. It rubbed me the wrong way, but I just assumed that she was shy and hadn’t played on VR in quite a while, so I didn’t let it bother me too much. Around 5 minutes later, I was helping the moderators and leader keep everyone from crowding Qwel, as I knew people would very quickly get out of hand and swarm her if no one had stepped in. We were free to ask her questions as long as they weren’t about Dandy’s World lore, a reasonable request. People in the instance chatted with her and shared their stories of how through her game, they met their friends, partners, friend groups, etc. I was one of those people. I vividly remember apologizing to her in advance if I seemed jittery or nervous, due to my stimming and vocal tics. Qwel shared some insight as to what was to come in regards to the second Christmas event, including Ginger and Bobette’s ability rework, Bobette’s trinket rework, and a new map.
I am aware some of you have been asking why the video of the group meeting Qwel is a bit low-quality. This is due to the fact that I got the video second-hand from a friend of mine who was the one recording. I had not recorded Qwel as I do not like recording people without consent, it just feels wrong to me. However, that is just my own personal standpoint. I had also been too anxious at the time to ask her myself. There are screenshots I took in the instance of Qwel’s artwork as more proof that she was indeed there and not an impersonator. The photos will be on the next page.
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Qwel’s artwork is on the LEFT SIDE. The right side is fanart that someone drew.
After the initial meeting of Qwel, many of us decided to draw either her Dandy’s World characters or our own AUs and such. I had drawn Glisten, Vee, and Teagan, making the joke that they were the “Slay Squad” as all three were very fashionable. Qwel had been nearby and came over, scoffing unnecessarily loudly and saying in a snide tone of voice “What, is that your weird fanfiction or something?” This was completely out-of-pocket considering I had done nothing to provoke Qwel nor anyone around me. If anything, I had been making sure she wasn’t uncomfortable nor crowded the entire time she was there. I had also barely spoken to her as my anxiety was still overwhelming for me. I’m not sure why she responded the way she did and I’m still baffled that she talked to me that way completely unprompted even now. After she spoke to me, I ended up having to take a 10 minute break off the headset because I was crying a lot and I didn’t want to believe what I had heard from someone I idolized and looked up to. I still hope that was a miscommunication, but after hearing and seeing how Qwel acts behind closed doors, I’m starting to believe that less and less. I was completely humiliated in front of my friends.
Not even 20 minutes after I had come back from my break, I was genuinely convinced that I was the problem and that I was overreacting, thinking maybe she was just joking and I took it the wrong way. I re-joined the crowd of people and once-again tried to keep everyone from overwhelming Qwel. I spoke a lot less to her after what had happened, but she turned her attention back to me and pulled me aside. At first, I thought she was going to apologize for how she came off for what she said earlier, but instead started venting to me about people on TikTok using AI on her face and pretending to be her, as well as telling me, a complete stranger, that the previous instance she joined had someone trying to touch her and kiss her. I was completely bewildered at this information. Once again, I am a complete stranger to Qwel, I never met the woman before in my entire life. Yet she pulls me aside and talks about such intense topics such as SA without giving a single warning. I am a victim of SA in real life. I do not take this topic lightly and I’m heavily traumatized from my own experiences with it. There is absolutely no reason to be venting about these topics to complete strangers, let alone trigger-inducing topics such as SA. The weirdest part is that she almost sounded proud telling me all of this. She sounded amused with my concern for her well-being, almost as if she enjoyed someone worrying for her. This behavior isn’t okay and I really wish that Qwel either told a close friend about this or at the very least gave me a trigger warning and asked if I was okay with her venting to me at all. Not only that, but she kept drawing attention to my arm flapping, a bodily stim due to my ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) that I cannot control. It made me really self-conscious how she kept bringing it up, I cannot help it. For those who don’t have it, that’s the equivalent of telling someone to stop sneezing. We cannot control when it happens and have a hard time suppressing bodily stims when we are overwhelmed or excited. Qwel later left the instance to go to bed.
With all that said, there is a lot to unpack here. One of the most important things I have to say is that Joji is right. We do not know what Qwel is like behind closed doors like they do. How she acts around fans is just a facade. Even when I first met Qwel, I felt something off about her. I really hope the other victims get the support and closure they need during this. As for me, I used to be one of Qwel’s biggest supporters. I’d play Dandy’s World nearly every day for hours, meet so many amazing and wonderful people through that game, bought a Dandy plush and a First-Edition Sprout plushie that I don’t know what to do with now, and even getting to floor 100. But I need you all to remember something. Dandy’s World is just a game at the end of the day. Qwel and Rox are real people who have hurt real individuals with their careless, selfish, and heartless actions. I won’t go into anyone else’s situation with her and Rox as it is not my domain to engage in. But, I implore everyone to read the other victim’s sections and listen to their experiences. I hope everyone gets the closure they need and has a wonderful day/night.