The Eren/Answerseeker/Canonseeker Raising Project
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DO NOT INTERACT. Block on sight and move on. Your time is worth more than his.
Before we begin, you might have run into some of the names mentioned in this document. At some point you might’ve thought it horrifying that there’s this many different weird troubling people in the RWBY community.
Don’t worry, they’re all the same person.
To that end, we’ve decided to draft this document. In it you will find a catalog of the various misadventures of one Eren and his many fake accounts across the internet sphere, primarily the RWBY fandom, generally causing trouble wherever he frolics.
Think of it as a rough guide and/or crash course to understanding who you’re dealing with. This shall serve as a means to best identify his modus operandi, and telltale behaviors that should make identifying him an absolute breeze. From there it is your decision on how to proceed, but we would advise against harassing him. Don’t feed into his habits.
It can also double as a particularly interesting afternoon read while you have coffee. With many a tale of subterfuge, scandal and tragedy, it’s a banger to be sure.
Our main goal with the community action this document recommends is to force Eren to get off the internet altogether via a mass deplatform, so he may live his life productively and prevent himself from being what can only be described as the burgeoning successor of Chris-chan, with all the dreadful business that entails. Be assured, we have no shortage of spite for this man. But after understanding the sheer scope of trouble that he is in, we no longer wish to spend anymore time discussing him beyond what is productive for a larger community.
As a brief introduction: Eren is a grown adult who is terminally online and chronically dependent on toxic online habits, to the point of endangering his own livelihood and IRL reputation - and has not made any genuine effort to improve himself or his behavior. As such, blacklisting him from the fandom and the internet should hopefully cut off all avenues to his addiction and force him to go out and be a productive member of society. But that’s all up to him from there.
Why Eren Is A Problem
Some of you may already know who this man is, and what he has a penchant for doing. Those of you might not need anymore evidence. But here’s the rest of it anyway.
You might be thinking that there’s a limit to how terrible one person can be in the context of a RWBY community. Afterall it’s not like he’s committed murder or anything.
But… well… you be the judge. He is quite a character. Quite a few characters, actually. As in several.
Multi-accounting, ban evasion, bigotry, spending addictions, targeted harassment, deception, doxxing himself, causing countless pointless comment wars… Eren has run the gamut of numerous internet no-nos, and he has a special talent for pissing off nearly every person he meets.
Buckle up, because just like an onion, this stinky boy has quite a few layers.
FAQ
Before we begin, some questions or statements we foresee being asked and wish to address.
Who is Eren/Answerseeker/Canonseeker?
In short, Eren is a toxic fan, who primarily participates in the RWBY fandom, whose modus operandi is using multiple alt accounts to stalk and harass others while claiming to spread positivity in the fandom. He is also a compulsive spender, porn addict and Islamophobe. All of that will be covered here.
Why should he matter? Why not just leave him alone?
He is an active detriment to the RWBY community, as well as others. He actively promotes conflict and division in the fandom wherever he goes while professing to want unity. The negatives of letting him do as he wishes far outweigh any possible positives.
How do I know this isn’t just a hate piece by a member of the RWBY hatedom against a fan?
We don’t care about the disagreements between fans and critics. We would not compile a huge document like this solely out of pettiness - this is all compiled evidence meant to inform others and give the full picture that Eren is a toxic influence, regardless if he is a fan or a critic. We ask that if you are skeptical, to give us the benefit of the doubt and see the evidence for yourself.
What is the RWBY “hatedom”?
The HTDM, or “hatedom”, is composed of those who criticize the popular American web animation, RWBY. What the “hatedom” means (and who counts in it) varies from person to person, but it usually just means those who criticize (or “hate”) on RWBY.
Usually, at the very least, the RWBY hatedom includes:
- RWBYtubers on YouTube who criticize the show (Vexed Viewer, FatmanFalling, Twiins Iink, Judgemental Critter, Hbomberguy, etc.)
- RWBYtubers on YouTube who dislike or “hate” the show (Adel Aka, Hero Hei, etc.)
- r/RWBYCritics (and sometimes r/CharacterRant) on Reddit
- The #RWDE (pronounced “rude”) hashtag on Tumblr and Twitter
- Various individual RWBY critics (CJ Black on Twitter being one example)
The “hatedom” is mentioned numerous times in this document, as it is what Eren seeks to “save” the RWBY fandom from.
This sounds like a you problem, how does this affect someone outside of the RWBY-sphere?
Unfortunately for both of us, Eren isn’t uniquely isolated to just RWBY alone. He’s quite prolific in anime communities and other animated shows too. Needless to say, that is indeed him as MultiShipperFa3. You’ll learn about his multi-account shenanigans soon enough. He’s sorta made it his personal mission to get involved in everyone’s business, apparently.
Do you really expect me to read all this?
Not really. That’s why we included a handy table of contents so you can find whatever you need in order to inform yourself.
Why all the memes? Should I be taking this doc seriously?
Compiling this doc has been quite the rollercoaster. Rather than stewing in the absolute mental drain that surrounds Eren, we decided to approach the doc with an air of levity, to make the experience of writing this more bearable and to punctuate and ground the sheer madness of this doc and all its compiled evidence with some much-needed humor. In short, the memes are for us more than they are for you.
What sort of action are you expecting from the fandom in light of this document?
You can read the So What Do We Do? section for details on this. In short, we want to get Eren off the internet. Not to cancel him, or to destroy his life, but because quitting the internet is the one thing we think he utterly, desperately needs. If you don’t agree with this line of thinking, we hope you’ll begin to understand as you read a compilation of his obsessive and addictive behaviors online.
Eren is needlessly and hopelessly stuck in a loop of his own toxic actions, and only cutting him off from all online interaction altogether will wean him off of it, as it’s clear he will do whatever it takes to keep coming back and repeating the cycle.
Table of Contents (you’ll need it)
For ease of navigation, you can pick and choose which disturbing rabbit hole you’d like to dive into.
Prelude: The Champion of the True Fandom
Targeted Harassment & Smear Campaigns
Judgemental Critter & Twiins Iink
Eren’s Enablers (Read: Toxic Friends)
He’ll steer towards certain topics.
He’ll target prominent figures (or his approximation thereof)
He’ll make bold claims, usually to overstate himself
Prelude: The Champion of the True Fandom
To offer some context to much of Eren’s posts, we’ll have to briefly touch on his views on RWBY and his favourite topics.
Eren is a self-proclaimed champion representing all that is good in the RWBY fandom, standing against the HTDM (a nickname for the RWBY “hatedom”) and critics. (Note: We are aware this does not reflect at all on how most fans are and want to stress we do not lump all positive RWBY fans into this line of behaviour.)
But in Eren’s case, what this actually translates to is a blind worship of RWBY and its creators, paired with an irrational hatred for anyone with even a remotely critical or dissatisfied opinion about the show or its creators.
Eren famously comparing the RWBY fandom to the autism spectrum. Given how strongly he views RWBY “haters”, this implies that there is “good autism” and “bad autism”, which he would lump the haters under.
At the heart of his concerns are the Xiao Long-Rose family, the family of two of the main protagonists and their dad, Taiyang Xiao Long. Eren has a blazing passion for this character and feels a sort of injustice was done to him by the show, its creators and its audience.
Yes, this is still Eren.
Note: By “worked on”, Eren means he commissioned it from an artist.
You can see Eren has no problems playing the “Monty card”, a general no-no in the fandom of using Monty’s name - the late creator of RWBY - as a figurehead to justify one’s opinion on any RWBY-related matter, citing “Monty’s vision” and “Monty’s intentions”.
You can also see he mentions commissions, comics and SFMs. He’s a fan of commissioning artists for art of Taiyang, and is a self-proclaimed “investor in the fandom”. More on that later.
Taiyang himself is a fairly likeable, if underutilised, character in the cast, who beyond his role as Ruby and Yang’s father figure, is treated little more by CRWBY (RWBY’s creators) and the fandom as the bumbling well-meaning dad stereotype. By Eren’s own admission, he believes that Taiyang is severely underrepresented and deserves better from the show and its fandom.
Rest assured though, Eren will staunchly defend Taiyang’s honour and make sure that everyone else, (including Rooster Teeth), acknowledges all that he’s done to place Taiyang in the spotlight and reward him by giving him the prominence he deserves.
One thing he always harps about is the “integrity of the Xiao Long-Rose family”, and if it’s one thing he absolutely despises, it’s the ship between Summer and Qrow. He views it as a betrayal of Monty’s original intent for the show and a deliberate move to oust Taiyang from the narrative, not understanding that people simply can just like a ship, or think that Qrow is way more interesting than Taiyang (by virtue of screen time if nothing else).
He goes on about Taiyang’s role as a father to Ruby and Yang, and their undying love as a family. This all sounds very pure and wholesome, right? Remember this - it’ll come back in a delightfully sickening way later.
Toxicity
No one likes a toxic person. Especially online where a layer of separation from polite company encourages some people to truly act their worst. Eren is no different, spending most of his time online starting meaningless conflicts online and calling others horrible things for the simple crime of having different opinions from himself, i.e. the wrong one.
‘Toxic Positivity’
If you’re not familiar with RWBY, it has a unique fandom that has quite a clear schism between its “positive” and “negative” sides who enjoy the show and criticise it, respectively.
While each side has its own nuances, Eren is the perfect embodiment of the toxic fan that discredits all he stands for: he is unwilling to listen to feedback, strawmans all critical fans into one monolithic “hatedom”, and will fight them on every little detail while preaching about seeking fair discourse. We shall see these traits in full display throughout this doc.
One of Eren’s more infamous tweets, overinflating the term “toxic positivity” to the same level as real words of discrimination used against actual marginalised people. If it makes him angry, that must mean it’s a slur, right?
Note that AnswerSeeker3, Eren and Mikhail Vassilia are all the same person. More on that soon.
YouTube comment section. Note Eren’s use of “you people” to generalize anyone he talks to into a singular strawman. He does this very, very often.
Screenshot taken from Eren’s Tumblr asks, where anonymous users can drop messages to a blog.
Note that #RWDE refers to the hashtag that RWBY-critical users on Tumblr use to keep critical content away from more typically positive content on the main #RWBY hashtag. However, Eren and his buddies love hijacking the #RWDE hashtag to rant about them - something he chooses to do instead of… minding his own business and not frequenting the hashtag.
We don’t know about “cult leader”, but for more context about “genocide apologist” you can check the General Bigotry section for Eren’s anti-Muslim views.
Pictured: Wishing failure on a free, fair use fan project just for spite; Casual misandry and assuming anyone who dislikes Yang’s character is automatically sexist
Eren holds this warped idea of positivity in such high regard that he made a list of 100+ “Positive channels” on YouTube, essentially dictating which content are made by “true fans” of RWBY and which are not.
The number of channels on this list has constantly been in a state of flux - it was 215 at an earlier point, then dropped to 111, almost half its original number, then up to 172. As you can expect, with a personality as mercurial as Eren’s, whose views of whom is worthy of respect spinning on the dime of his emotions, this is no surprise - which makes you wonder just how much time he has in his day to spend arguing senselessly online and to constantly search and review YouTube content for his list.
This is not even going into the reasons for his list. Nevermind the fact that these YouTubers are all widely varying in their content and even most RWBY-critical fans don’t like all of them or have even heard of them, which is just further grouping of critical fans into a single entity.
To be fair to the list, the majority of the channels on the list do point to many great creators and help highlight some lesser known channels, though the fact that he just starts listing NSFW MMD channels (softcore porn basically) towards the end of his public list (and with no NSFW disclaimer at the start of the post) is eyebrow-raising. This sort of strange fixation on NSFW content will come back in a big way later (or just in the Degeneracy section if you wanna skip there).
Argument Threads
He has a habit of getting into really long drawn out arguments over the most pointless, subjective shit. We’re not talking about thoughtful discussion, that would imply that there’s good faith, and that there’s room for minds to be changed. This gets especially egregious since he comes after people who for all intents and purposes, are minding their own business. Have a look for yourself:
Eren has also been muted from the comments section of numerous RWBY fan videos, but like a poop-stained footprint, its distinct shape and stink are recognisable. His comments are now hidden but the replies to them are not.
Rather than looking at whose opinion holds more weight here, we’d like to point out just how doggedly persistent Eren is at prolonging arguments and bickering with others in endless circles, reaching no true understanding or compromise - it’s just inciting conflict for the sake of it. Many of the RWBY-critical channels have muted him not because he’s positive about RWBY, but because he’s disruptive to any and all conversation and brings down the overall quality of any comment section he participates in.
Stalking & Harassment
Eren cannot, for whatever reason, leave others alone. He seems to seek out and pursue arguments solely for its own purpose. Which, when done to people who have no intention of engaging with him, constitutes harassment. These include parties who previously engaged with him and then found it to be a waste of time, as well as parties who never had any intention of engaging with him to begin with; most notably fanfic authors.
The following is an exchange between Eren and the author of fanfiction called RWBY: Scars, which is an Alternate Universe that explores a lot of mature themes such as self-harm, abuse, and worst of all: Qrow being Ruby’s father.
You can read the full context of this conversation here, as the screenshots are too wide to be legible in this doc: [1] - [2] - [3]
Rather than ignoring fanfiction he doesn’t like and moving on with his life, Eren decides to talk about spoilers in the comment section of Chapter 1, and refuses to stop spoiling even when reprimanded by the author, going so far as to instead accuse them of projection just because of a perversion of canon, in an alternate universe story. It shows he has no respect for you if your views oppose his.
Clutching pearls at mature themes and characters having flaws?
Refusing to respect spoilers because he decides the author and their work is not worth his respect?
Accusing them of some very serious, fucked up things saying that that person is projecting onto their story out of malice?
Shitting on a very real author’s wishes in order to defend imaginary characters, showing a severe disconnect from reality?
Hardly nice, indeed.
Not content to leave it at that, Eren also gripes about RWBY: Scars on Reddit as well.
Calling others’ work garbage and a product of hate. There’s a lot of spite and vitriol going on here.
General Bigotry
Includes examples of: Misogyny, Islamophobia
The following are various sexist statements by Eren towards female RWBY fans who have critical opinions of the show. According to Eren, this female fan’s opinions are not her own, formed through their own experience and conclusions, but rather, parroted from male content creators who decide her opinion for her.
Context: Hero Hei, CJ Black and Voicing Dragoon are male RWBY critics who voice their opinions through videos (in the case of Hero Hei) and Twitter posts (CJ Black and Voicing Dragoon).
Next are Eren’s political opinions.
The following is an argument he had on Facebook with another user, who is Muslim. The full tweet can be found here along with separate images: [1] - [2] - [3]
As shown here, Eren is not one for healthy and respectful debate. Rather than try to reach a mutual understanding with the Facebook user above (or better yet, walking away from the argument), Eren instead posts fear-mongering false information and propaganda from Internet memes as proof of his beliefs.
Below are Eren’s tweets talking about Zionism.
Egotism
As stated above, Eren is known within the RWBY fandom for commissions; hundreds of works (artwork, AMVs, etc.) of Taiyang Xiao Long and his various pairings (such as Taiyang x Summer). It’s normal to pay someone for the work they’ve done. It’s poor form to think that they owe their livelihoods to you afterwards. It’s also misrepresentative to overstate one’s own contribution to any sort of creative project, as we’ll show later on.
Eren speaking to an artist he wants to commission as if he’s a billion-dollar investor lifting them from poverty into greatness. After going into the Debt section, you’ll see why this is BS.
Commissions
Eren likes to believe himself responsible for a large majority of art commissions out in the fandom. While this may be true in some sense - he did pay for them after all - it’s a different thing entirely to claim creative ownership of the resulting art that ensues. Especially when it’s largely created by artists whose first agenda first and foremost is completing work for payment.
How much you might ask? There’s a very easy way to identify this. Eren has an obsession with Taiyang Xiao Long, a character in RWBY who doesn’t get a lot of screentime (which doesn’t really narrow it down as far as RWBY characters are concerned). Taiyang is largely unproblematic as far as most things in RWBY go, but Eren seems to have latched onto him for some reason.
There’s no easy way to put this, but Taiyang is the main focus of a lot of Eren’s commissions. Those commissions often feature other characters too - we’ll get to what this means in a bit - but the usual underlying theme that connects all of them is that Taiyang is usually present, or the focus in some case, in a very irrefutable way. There’s a high chance that nearly all existing Taiyang fanart that exists in the RWBY fandom (as in 95% of it) was commissioned, requested, or otherwise supported by Eren in some way.
As of March 29th, 2022, Eren’s deviantART account has almost 400 deviations (402 as of April 14th), all of which are reuploads of the commissions he buys from different artists online. This is not even all of them, as his more NSFW commissions (see below) that are not posted on deviantART would drastically increase that number, which are more commonly found on Twitter.
The vast majority of these commissions are about, you guessed it, Taiyang and his happy family (or having sex with them, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves).
Obviously, this all costs a great deal of money. He also has CORE membership on deviantART (anywhere from $40 to $150 a year), and has purchased Fragments (something like deviantART’s version of Reddit awards) for other members and artworks he likes, which also cost real money.
Moving backwards or downwards would be more accurate.
In Eren’s world, having money means he can dictate how creators should direct their work.
A comic dub commission Eren was particularly fond of talking about - probably due to it being possibly his single most expensive commission (that he’s publicly spoken of). And yes, doereymi, unclechuckles and justanotherfan are all him.
Eren commenting on a RWBY rewrite project on deviantART, showing that he buys deviantART Fragments as well.
We’d like to make it clear: Eren having money and using that money on commissions is not the problem. Eren can use his own money however he pleases. However, our concern is his motivations for doing so - hoping to saturate the internet with commissions in hopes of “silencing the critics”, or that Rooster Teeth will notice and take his spending to heart and change RWBY’s writing just because he’s spent thousands of dollars. It comes off as incredibly childish logic from someone so obsessed with fiction that it warps their own priorities in real life. We hope you’re beginning to understand the comparison to Chris-chan.
Debt
It is expensive to commission that much art. Fanart, comics, various other creative pieces. This stuff is costly, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped Eren. If what he says is to be taken as true, then it’s likely that Eren has spent so much on pursuing this goal of bringing more light onto Taiyang that he’s literally gone into debt.
Eren in a public tweet talking about credit card debt to an artist he wishes to commission - further proof he has no filter on his privacy whatsoever.
The following is an exchange between Eren, Mona (u/genshinfantasy7) and u/JannisT in a Reddit group chat from 8/24/2021.
Main takeaways from this conversation:
- Eren has spent over $7,000 on commissions, with many more well on the way. Note how forthright he is about giving such financial details away.
- Was doing consulting work for the express purpose of commissioning more stuff, as an end goal for where all his hard-earned money is going to.
- Was willing to pay an artist in $250 installments over 4 months instead of $1000 upfront, again indicating he’s not equipped to handle the snowballing costs of his hobby.
- Attempts to rope other people in to help him finance/pay for these commissions.
- Is starving himself and depriving himself of meals, thus painting the offer in point 4 as an act of desperation, as if to help alleviate the costs for this great endeavor of his.
- Wants to artificially bloat YouTube with “positive” videos instead of fostering actual goodwill. There is a consistent theme that Eren thinks that throwing money at a dream will make it so.
- (Please also note that YouTube’s own rules state that creators on YouTube who’ve been paid to make content would have to disclose that it is sponsored content. Otherwise they would be breaking YouTube’s TOS by essentially tricking their audience.)
- Has a very skewed view on what constitutes good investments and fair returns.
It’s strange enough to dedicate so much of your own money towards commissioning art of a fictional character, even going so far as to forego basic amenities. It’s worrying then to see a person willingly take on debt, no matter how small an amount, for such a mundane reason. It calls into question how much self-control he has over his finances.
Keep in mind that this Reddit conversation was only between a few people. Because on public platforms like Discord servers, Eren has pointedly underplayed this financial struggle, in order to reassure others that he isn’t wasting his savings away.
An exchange between Eren and SYTOkun on the latter’s server, where Eren underplays his dire financial straits.
Even without considering the debt, it’s sad to think that Eren would make these huge lifestyle changes just to buy more fanart. It’s an unhealthy fixation that implies he likely has an addiction to this hobby - with seeing art made of his favorite character and believing he is making a change in the fandom - and is willing to forego all his other basic needs in order to service it.
Targeted Harassment & Smear Campaigns
Eren frequently likes to make up and present facts that he either knows aren’t true, or that he fails to verify and prove for himself. Frequently this is done to tarnish the reputations of the people he doesn’t like, usually on his Tumblr, as well as his Twitter and YouTube posts. His targets include:
Hbomberguy
Hbomberguy is a YouTuber who created a popular video exploring RWBY’s flaws and possibly the person Eren has the largest hateboner for. Given that the video, “RWBY Is Disappointing, And Here’s Why” has 4 million views as of writing, Eren probably views the video as a severe threat to the integrity of the fandom and as the hatedom taking over (as opposed to the video having so many views may be a symptom of the fandom’s current reception of RWBY, rather than the cause).
Below is his alt account arcaneislife throwing a fit over a throwaway comment Hbomber tweeted about how he found the recent announcement of RWBY: Ice Queendom quite cool:
So much for that.
If this is what Eren (using his alt account Yehuda) considers positive RWBY content, a YouTube thumbnail comically beheading a YouTuber he doesn’t like just because he said things about his favorite fictional cartoon… then the hypocrisy sort of just speaks for itself.
As for Eren having a dangerous habit of accusing people he doesn’t like of doxxing and other things, we’ll get into that soon as well.
Judgemental Critter & Twiins Iink
Judgemental Critter and Twiins Iink are two sisters who make RWBY content on YouTube and are considered part of the RWBY critics community. Eren has repeatedly entered heated spats with them on Twitter. He has a history of being blocked by either or both of them, using alt accounts to continue stalking them. Critter even knows it’s him, she’s told him to stop too.
The irony is rich here.
From Eren’s Tumblr.
Celtic Phoenix & Fixing RWBY
Fixing RWBY (FRWBY for short) is a fanmade RWBY rewrite project by Celtic Phoenix and a team of other fans, namely artists. Eren has a huge disdain for rewrite projects due to believing they distort and destroy canon events, and Fixing RWBY is probably his biggest target. He has repeatedly targeted various members of the FRWBY team, and has been a recurring pimple on the comments section of every new video, picking fights with commenters and misrepresenting information in the rewrite, showing clearly that he was never interested in engaging with those videos genuinely; he’s just looking for more scraps of tinder to start fires with.
He also went to the lengths of making a very, very long “callout post” on Tumblr disparaging Fixing RWBY and its creators, which is rife with misinformation and strawmanning. The full post can be read here - saved as an image because Eren loves changing his Tumblr URL to prevent people from finding and posting links of his stuff.
The post and various points have already been debunked by Celtic Phoenix himself along with many other members of FRWBY - who keep in mind, are just a group of fans trying to make a non-profit project free for others to watch and ignore at their choosing. There is an excellent (and thankfully concise) breakdown of Eren’s Tumblr post by user Gigaguy, which you can read here if interested.
Below are a selection of screenshots of Eren popping off in the comments sections of various FRWBY videos. The list is relatively exhaustive, if only to show how unhinged his obsession is with fighting people over the pettiest shit. Keep in mind this is a 34-year-old, working adult who by all means, should have better things to do with his life.
Funny thing to mention, when RWBY has killed nearly all their attractive ginger characters year after year, which sounds like an overall shitty deal for gingers everywhere.
If that’s not enough, Eren’s alt account Mikhail Vassilia also has many things to get off his chest.
Funny that Eren mentions Calxiyn when he has been actively deceiving her, evading bans in her server and eventually turned on her. More in the Testimonials section.
Switchback Channel
Switchback Channel is a YouTube channel by SYTOkun and a team of fans also making a RWBY rewrite project, RWBY: Remnants. They also have a Discord channel, which Eren was a member of.
After getting banned from the server due to knowledge of his multiple accounts and ban evasion, Eren took to Tumblr to get his narrative out there first, for whatever it’s worth. More details about this banning incident and his stint in the Switchback Discord will show up in later sections.
Multiple Accounts
Across Discord, Twitter and YouTube, he frequently changes his name whenever he gets discovered or found out. To date (17 April 2022), the names/aliases he has gone by include:
- Canonseeker (deviantART, Tumblr and Rule34 - yes, seriously)
- Answerseeker3 (Main Twitter, deleted. Pixiv is answerseeker, still up)
- Eren (Main YouTube account)
- yeh uda/Mikhail Vassilia/Alicia Garske, Vernon Dokon (YouTube alts)
- Justanotherfan (Discord, busted)
- unclechuckles (Discord, busted)
- RedisbetterthanAsh (Discord, busted)
- whatisaname (Discord, busted)
- Youredoxxingmemaddie (Discord, busted)
- DecedantJack
- FallingLeaf4 (Twitter, deleted)
- arcaneislife (Twitter alt, busted & deleted)
- pineapplejudge1 (Twitter alt, deleted)
- fandomsarescary (Discord, busted)
- cordelinebear (Discord, busted)
- doereymi (Discord, busted)
- criticsvsfans2 (Twitter alt)
- humanitydisappoints; 2020wasthebeginning; stoplyingclemandcrimson; winecheeseandcrackers34; hot-dogs-or-hamburgers (Tumblr URL changes)
- darknewbie2 (Tumblr alt)
- loonyhawaiianpizza (Discord alt)
- Onesheeptwosheepandachicken (Tumblr alt)
- Controversialopinionstake2 (Tumblr alt)
And the list goes on. It’s unclear to us just how many accounts he truly has, but we can clearly discern the reason as to why there’s so many.
Eren admitting to having alt accounts. [source]
Ban Evasion
The main reason Eren switches names so often is usually so he can evade detection by server admins, and/or whoever is responsible for policing bad behavior. On Discord, he does this to evade detection from Server Moderators and/or Admins. On Twitter, he does this so he can unsuspectingly harass or interact with people who have otherwise blocked his main accounts.
Calxiyn’s account of Eren using alt accounts to evade bans. [source]
Deleting his own messages to falsify innocence, or privating his tweets so it’s not always easy for the average passerby to realize that he’s essentially harassing people online. Ergo making it more difficult to report his behavior and get him taken down. And when all else fails and goes down the drain, he’ll just make a new account.
We don’t believe we need to explain why that’s a bad reason to make alternate accounts; explicitly duplicating accounts for the purpose of harassing/attacking other people is obviously morally compromised.
Echo Chambering
Given the number of times he’s renamed, remade and rebranded his accounts on various platforms, it’s no surprise to find out that he’s upset and has been rebuked by a number of different users. So much so to the point where he’s built up a long list of people that he recommends blocking before you step foot onto any of the various social platforms. We’re not sure if he updates this leaderboard regularly but here’s an archived version you can refer to; for personal pride.
Fun game you could play, see if your name is anywhere on this list. Toxicity leaderboard lmao.
He frames it as though he’s doing you a favor, but in reality it’s more likely that he just wants to keep his ‘followers’ from obtaining 2nd opinions on the kind of antics he gets up to in his spare time. If nothing else, the extensive list indicates how deaf he’s made himself to the people he’s harassed.
Furthermore, here is a list of various channels he ‘approves’ of. Take note before you go clicking, some of these channels probably can’t be viewed at work, or in any polite setting for that matter. We’re not sure how he goes about deciding these, but presumably some of these people aren’t too different from him; we haven’t fully verified that other than some of the more vile mutuals. Some of which you’ll see later in this doc.
Sock-Puppeting
For deceptive reasons, Eren usually likes to have his various accounts gang together, usually to win some stupid argument in a comment section somewhere. This is intended to deceive others to believe there are different people exchanging ideas, when really they are all just him.
The typical pattern is that Eren is more of the “toxic fan”, being more aggressive and petty, while his alt account yeh uda (later changed to Mikhail Vassilia) is somewhat more of the diplomatic, “let’s all get along” type. Granted though, the difference between them breaks down the more his act gets discovered by people.
Eren and yeh uda posting in the same comment thread doing their “good fan bad fan” routine. Note how yeh uda replies to Eren to keep up the charade that they are two different people.
Two of Eren’s sock puppets on a RWBY fanart video - coincidentally the two most downvoted comments.
Fraud and Deception
Despite being caught multiple times, the man just won’t stop living the lie. He’ll lie often, and often for no good reason. Sometimes even forging false personas, backstories and experiences simply to sell the fiction so he can get you to believe what he wants you to believe.
As time goes on, he’s stopped trying to sell fiction to the people he knows have caught onto his bull. At which point you can expect him to clear off your chat histories and move on to making another fake account with another fake narrative. Especially if you converse with him through Discord or any other private messaging platform that allows deletion of messages after they’ve been sent.
In Private DMs
Calxiyn’s experience with Eren trying to deceive her with multiple accounts; full story found on her Tumblr and Twitter. You can also read her testimonial here.
Note that RedisbetterthanAsh, aka Eren, is speaking about Answerseeker, also Eren, while pretending they are separate people. The lengths he will go to sell the idea that he’s not just controlling all of those accounts is astounding.
This is far from an isolated incident, as Eren has also attempted to deceive another RWBY creator, SYTOkun regarding his YouTube identity, DMing SYTOkun on Discord to deflect action against one of his YouTube accounts.
At this point in time, SYTOkun was not aware of Eren’s multiple identities, and so assumed, even amidst the weird coincidences surrounding the situation, that Eren, yeh uda and justanotherfan were all different people.
“Let me try showing him our conversation. In fact, he’s reading it right now! Wowzers.”
“Because I share his ship choices…”
After a disagreement over hbomberguy’s RWBY video, he would continue pretending to keep watch on himself.
Note how he balks at the mention of his alt being muted, and how he sells this little charade as a “psychology project”.
Note the pattern:
- Eren pretends to be someone else
- Eren approaches a RWBY creator with the intent of gauging the standing of his alt accounts on their channels and in SYTOkun’s case, preventing his alt accounts from being muted (take note that just randomly taking an interest in some rando and bending over backwards to defend them to such lengths is already really pointed behavior in itself)
- Eren promises to somehow reprimand and improve that alt account’s behavior
- Eren modifies his alt account’s behavior
- Eren uses that as evidence of improvement, in an attempt to gain trust with the creator and prevent action against the alt account.
The sprinklings of German are also a nice touch. Let it not be said that Eren puts no effort whatsoever into playing his different personas. Perhaps he was pretending to be a student of the great psychologist Sigmund Freud… although Freud was not even German; he was Austrian.
In hindsight it did seem pretty foolish to have fallen for this in the first place - the obviously fraudulent “psychology project” excuse reeks of juvenile delusion. The odd benevolent gesture to monitor one very specific person, the unbelievably generic justanotherfan username giving massive “I am not suspicious” vibes - it probably also further emphasizes just how utterly unhinged it would be to even think such a situation was real in the first place: a guy asking you if he could keep an eye on himself and another person, who was also himself, while pretending to be someone else for all three people.
This is what Eren gets to, this is what he spends his day doing, and it’s clear he’ll do it often if given the chance. We are of the humble if controversial opinion that this grown-ass 34-year-old man should not be let anywhere near an online connection.
In Public Discord Posts
Eren deceiving others that an impersonator (actually himself) is spreading disinformation about him online. [source]
Nevermind that it’s not doxxing when all the personal information he reveals is by him freely and openly.
Interestingly, LavenderRare would make a callout video on Eren soon after.
The following is his stint on SYTOkun’s Discord server, where SYTOkun and a moderator confronted him about his numerous alt accounts and misadventures.
At the time of this conversation, Eren was using the alias justanotherfan - his username is doereymi here as it is his current Discord username as of April, when these screenshots were taken.
You can; you just can’t use them for ban evasion - or change your username to deliberately hide your identity on a server. (That statement of his also did not age very well, lol)
Continuing to deflect the topic instead of addressing his multiple identities. Any normal person would have already denied these allegations or asked “Who are these names you keep mentioning?”
Again, not actually directly denying or confirming these statements - he doesn’t see these names are just gibberish or unfamiliar to him; because of course they’re not.
After this, Eren was given an ultimatum to either confess to his sock puppeting or be outed in front of the entire server. Eren continually denies all evidence of his multiple accounts, and plays dumb till the very end, stubbornly sealing his own bitter fate.
Note the manipulative behaviour of playing the victim in order to gain sympathy, rather than actually face any of his actions.
If you’re asking yourself if it’s right to do this in a public chat as opposed to DMs, you have to ask yourself first: Why should someone known for ban evasion and making fake accounts be given the courtesy of privacy, when he is known to exploit that silence to deceive others with no consequence?
SYTOkun pinging every member of his server to inform them of Eren’s antics.
Seems like abit of a harsh thing to do, alerting an entire public Discord just to make a parade out of one person.
Yeah, being taken for a sucker and treated like a plaything in an unhinged man’s make-believe tea party with his imaginary personas can have that effect on someone.
Eren would remove himself from the server and delete all his messages in private DMs between himself and the mods barely an hour after that post was made - essentially confirming that his behavior was indeed sussy as hell. Barely a week later, he would make his own callout post on Tumblr, spinning his own narrative of the situation.
3 few days prior on another RWBY Discord server, Eren lamented his tribulations of his own making by pinning it on the actions of his previous persona.
There appears to be a pattern of Eren assuming a new persona upon joining a new Discord server, deny all allegations of his past accounts, getting banned, and then joining a new server crying that an imposter (actually himself) has been taking all the effort of targeting him and dragging his good name through the mud.
Far be it for us to judge the validity of these claims, but there’s something to be said about someone who spills personal information like this to a group of strangers for no good reason. Call it distrust, but we have to remain critical about a person’s agenda. Especially when we have no prior knowledge to fall back on.
Note that many of these Discord posts are dated at the end of March 2022. Some further proof of Eren’s sock puppets is yet another Twitter alt created in April, shortly after he was mass-outed on Discord. Observe the following and watch the narrative unfold:
The account was shortly deleted after everyone familiar with Eren’s antics sniffed it out. Seems like proof to us.
Now at this point you may be saying, “Come on, isn’t this just bullying at this point? He’s just trying to retweet and enjoy stuff and everyone is playing cat and mouse with him. What else can he do?”
Keep in mind this person:
- Tried to deceive Calxiyn, a prominent member of the RWBY community, about his multiple online identities
- Only admitted to it after being pressed by a team of moderators
- Has never apologized for it, and instead just retreated to Tumblr where he can say whatever he wants with little repercussion
- Made an alt account on Twitter and had to gall to comment on Calxiyn’s post under yet another false identity, essentially attempting to deceive again and proving he’s learned absolutely nothing
- Simply nuked his Twitter alt account after being found out instead of apologizing to Calxiyn and other people he’s stalked, and facing his actions like a real adult.
Eren is not interested in coexisting with the community. He is not interested in making amends. All he wants to do is to run around and get away with whatever he wants, scot-free.
The following is an exchange he had using this sock puppet account during its short-lived life:
It’s clear he isn’t interested in “minding his own business” or enjoying the fandom in peace. The moment he makes a new account, he deliberately seeks conflict and will do anything to find and escalate it, even if it means playing an ignorant “Huh, who’s that? They sound kinda sketchy” act and then promote his own posts to an unsuspecting person while pretending to be someone else.
It doesn’t matter if he is championing the right cause. It doesn’t matter if he’s trying to promote positivity. It doesn’t matter if he’s targeting people you think deserve it or not.
This is not how a healthy fan engages with a fandom. It’s not healthy behavior for any person, period. Eren is no longer a case where we need to discuss if his actions are justified if he is one of the fans or one of the haters. He is just a toxic person and an actual parasite to any online community, full stop.
I just want to share cute fanart and be a positive influence, but also be toxic, and stalk people I’ve blocked, and trick them that I’m someone else, and insist that I’m always right; why won’t these people leave me alone, why won’t they leave me in peace, why do my toxic and obsessive actions have actual consequences UUUUUOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaAAAaAAAAaAAAAAAAAA
This is juvenile, childish behavior, which gets especially worse when you know that Eren is supposed to be a professional, grown adult.
Which brings us to the next point.
Degeneracy
We all have our vices, but it’s a bit strange to go about announcing it to the world, or even polite company. This is his main YouTube channel, which on the front page just consists largely of lewd RWBY MMD videos that he’s favourited. Do note this is his YouTube account listed in his professional LinkedIn account.
Eren being hopelessly horny on main.
Incest Fetish
Now, what kinks someone has isn’t always an indication of their actual IRL actions. However, Eren’s incest kink with Taiyang’s family - despite touting him as the perfect father figure and will defend so to the point of verbally throwing down for hours - is more than just a touch hypocritical.
Eren taking a great amount of pride in his dedication to cataloging RWBY smut. See, Eren doesn’t commission incest porn at all! He doesn’t enjoy them, you sicko. He just painstakingly downloads and reuploads them to porn sites.
Eren’s comment on a Rule34 animation, specifically of Taiyang with Yang and a sleeping Ruby.
Context: A group image featuring group sex involving Taiyang, Qrow, Ruby and Yang. While not commissioned by Eren, it was reuploaded by him.
Context: An image of Taiyang with Ruby and Yang, reuploaded by Eren.
Note while he may not have outright commissioned incest porn of Taiyang with Ruby and/or Yang (he is known to outrightly deny this), he does clearly endorse and engage with it nonetheless, given that he painstakingly reuploads a vast amount of them onto Rule34.
If you’re talking about group pics between Taiyang and the Branwen siblings, however…
Threesome artwork involving Taiyang and the Branwen twins.
Eren commissioned a continuation of an art piece featuring Tai and his entire team, including a genderswapped Qrow with Raven. The first part was commissioned by a different person.
Rather than the fetish itself, the greater condemnation lies with his utter moral hypocrisy; given how much he loves to preach about championing the integrity of the Xiao Long-Rose family.
Largely Commissions Porn
Remember the commissions we mentioned earlier? A large chunk of those are porn. Not to say that porn is bad, but there’s a strange obsession here with how he postures to have Taiyang be some sort of sexual beast that sleeps with virtually every other character in the show, short of his own children (which given what Eren endorses, casts even that into doubt).
Note: Every single screenshot here with the exception of two is from a different art piece, most of them commissioned and reuploaded by Eren himself. We decided to be exhaustive so you can see just how much he spends on these commissions and just how much of his day is spent with porn on his mind.
Context: Image of a threesome between Taiyang, Summer and Raven in a hot tub.
Context: Chikaretsu is a RWBY NSFW artist. Eren is known to commission art from many different artists.
Context: Image of Taiyang with Summer and Raven.
Again, Eren loves talking about this one comic dub he commissioned, and will talk about how much he spent on it anywhere, and we do mean anywhere he goes.
Above two from the same image.
Again, none of this is meant to condemn his fetishes, but rather his self-aggrandizing nature; and how forthright he is about revealing his spending habits to people on the internet.
The pattern of all these comments seem to imply that Eren is also doing all this partly to chase some sort of validation from his online “friends”, on Rule34 no less. He has numerous conversations with people there who have come to be familiar with him due to how often he posts there; in a way it feels like Eren is almost buying their friendship by continually commissioning hentai for them to enjoy and talk about, and expressing disappointment when his commissions receive a lukewarm reception from them. This is your reminder of how foolish it is to chase clout on the internet, especially a hentai hosting site, of all places.
Context: Image of Taiyang with Raven.
Context: Image of Taiyang with Pyrrha.
Seeking canon takes less precedence than seeking validation for the self-proclaimed Seeker of Canon, apparently.
If you are wondering just how much time Eren spends on this site, not to worry - his lack of internal filters will make sure that all of us know, whether we want to or not. The following two posts were made under two drawings involving James Ironwood, one of the RWBY characters, and a Beowolf, which is essentially a giant werewolf monster. Yes, you read that right.
It’s hard to even tell whether he likes the picture, or he’s simply on Rule34 every waking hour of the day (when he’s not managing his sock puppet empire and going on multi-post long arguments on Twitter and YouTube) just to comment on whatever RWBY or other hentai he finds.
Is it not concerning you yet that Eren spends way too much time online when:
- This is his 18,000th post on Rule34
- He was actually keeping track of his post count
- He takes great pride in reaching that goal
- He feels the need to announce that milestone to everyone
- He decided to make his big momentous comment on a picture of hardcore werewolf porn
- This is only his number of posts on Rule34, and not including all the other posts he’s made on all his other social media??
Oh, but don’t worry. He still cares about preserving the sanctity of the Xiao Long-Rose family, even while uploading gangbangs and incest of that same family on a porn site as he does so. Like such:
Eren’s bleeding heart for Taiyang still finds its way into his Rule34 comments. The ladies love a sensitive man.
It takes someone truly full of himself to stand on a moral soapbox about his fictional character not getting enough action, on a porn hosting site, while going into debt to commission as much art of this character getting laid as possible, while uploading incest pics of that character, all with no self-awareness whatsoever.
We think you may understand now why we are insisting Eren needs to unplug and go outside: We’re not trying to ruin his reputation; he’s doing a 10/10 job of it himself. We want to stop him from embarrassing himself any further than he is now.
“So what? If he wants to spend all his money on porn and isn’t hurting anybody, just let him.”
We would, if he wasn’t doing so on the fast track to potential homelessness. He’s hurting himself, at the very least - not in an immediately obvious, physical way but definitely in a financial way that will affect his long-term wellbeing. Nobody cares about a pervert getting into his kinks, it becomes a problem when you know he is being irresponsible with his own life choices, and we aren’t at the very least telling him to wake the fuck up and get a grip.
“So what? He’s an adult, let him make his own choices even if they’re bad ones.”
We would like to. Which is why anything that happens past this doc is out of our hands. We can only ask that you the reader handle this information responsibly, and hope to god Eren by some miracle wakes up and cleans himself up, but we cannot do anything more than that.
True to what we said at the beginning of this doc: Eren has many layers, like an onion. And the more you peel back, the stinkier it gets. Each layer that is peeled back only reveals a bigger stink. We don’t think we need to do him the courtesy of showing us any more. The onion needs to unpeel itself before it just becomes a rotten husk of itself.
Please. I had to read through his porn comments and I went through an entire emotional journey of amusement, confoundment, disgust and profound pity for this sorry person all in one night.
Just… make it stop. Make it all go away.
Eren’s Enablers (Read: Toxic Friends)
The following is a brief section about Lilith Fairen/HLRT, an online buddy of Eren’s who uses much of the same tactics as Eren and is a similarly bad influence on the fandom.
Lilith Fairen/Team HLRT
There’s not much to say about Lilith, as she is largely a one-trick pony in her crusades. Lilith has spent the past several years getting into internet slap fights over magical girl shows, with a particular grudge against popular 2011 series Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Lilith routinely accuses people who enjoyed the series of having a fetish for seeing girls suffer (link to a since-deleted blog where she accused the show’s fanbase of “Getting off to the suffering of girls,” and one person’s account of Lilith saying they were “Fetishizing gay women” by liking the show) or just being crass misogynists, with multiple posters encouraging just blocking Lilith as she routinely refuses to change her mind on the series. Lilith even has gotten into arguments on Twitter with established, published, award winning authors like NK Jemisin who casually recommended Madoka Magica. Lilith gained such a reputation for her anti-Madoka rants that the moderators of r/magicarecord permabanned her as a preemptive measure. Lilith’s hatred of Madoka Magica runs so deep that when it was announced that RWBY: Ice Queendom had Madoka Magica writer Gen Urobuchi onboard as a story supervisor, Lilith immediately made a post referring to him as a “misanthropic misogynist.”
Her history of hostile reactions to criticism goes back to 2019, wherein Lilith went to bat for the commercial and critical flop, Anthem. Lilith routinely was hostile to people being critical of the game, going as far as to tell one person that she hoped they were hit by traffic.
Lilith has also tried writing her own magical girl series, the Glint Saga. Among the reviews of those who have read it, the story is not very good and at times read as accidentally ableist due to the protagonist’s narration painting negative thoughts of a person they were caring for.
Lilith got into RWBY in April 2021, despite around that time admitting point-blank to not even caring for the series or being part of the fandom and just looking for a new outlet to get into arguments with. This manifested as the blog Team HLRT (pronounced Hilarity), which largely concerned itself with strawman attacks and deliberately malicious framing of criticisms and posts by critics to make them look as bad as possible, alongside reaching to the stars in an effort to frame any RWBY criticism as coming from a place of misogyny. One of the biggest times this blew up was in December 2021 when Lilith made an account on the forum Sufficient Velocity. Within a month she had gained numerous infractions for hostile argumentation including blanket calling people misogynistic, including the moderation team. In January 2022, the mods not only permabanned Lilith from the forum, but later deleted her account entirely. Lilith’s response was to whine on Team HLRT about this in a since-deleted post where she acted like she was the victim.
Her inability to admit to wrongdoing also extends to being unable to admit to mistakes. In July 2022, Lilith got into a spat regarding the Fixing RWBY rewrite project, labeling the Branwen tribe's redesigns as being from Romani culture and using a derisive slur. Despite being told repeatedly that she didn't even get the culture right (the crew of Fixing RWBY have said that the Branwens drew from Ainu culture), Lilith insisted that she was in the clear to use the slur as “I only used it in quotation marks.”
What makes Lilith’s particular breed of anti-intellectualism and harassment in regards to RWBY criticism notable is that it’s particularly hypocritical in the context of her history with Madoka Magica. Lilith routinely engaged in activities and behavior that she would go on to condemn when it pertained to RWBY, including following fans of the show just to harass them and try to guilt-trip them for liking the series. Additionally, Lilith’s habit of talking over others manifested regularly as she dismissed any criticisms of RWBY possible, including repeated defense of the White Fang plotline despite dozens if not hundreds of POC fans of the series taking the plotline to task. For instance, Lilith bears a particularly vitriolic hatred for Dextixer, one of the head mods of the r/RWBYcritics subreddit. This has appeared as Lilith repeatedly sending people to brigade posts Dex makes and strawman any criticism posts he makes as being from places of misogyny. In April 2022, Lilith made an account on the main RWBY subreddit named SeeKuurunRun, which made several posts regarding her usual attempt to invent double standards and call critics misogynists. She later moved to decrying Dex being simply allowed to post his criticism essays on the RWBY subreddit, before transitioning into whining about the moderators taking down her screeds.
In April 2022, due to the reputation that had spread regarding Team HLRT and following the widespread callouts of Eren from content creators such as Calxiyn and Judgemental Critter, Lilith deleted Team HLRT. She continues her anti-criticism tangents from personal blogs and Twitter, with her biggest blow-up since this point being in June 2022. On the day RWBY: Ice Queendom premiered, prominent fan Arnold “Murder of Birds” Delgado posted a Twitter thread criticising Rooster Teeth’s poor PR handling of the show- they were notably late in releasing the premiere on their website compared to Crunchyroll, had to suddenly delay the dub due to not realizing the difficulties of simuldubbing, and were already in hot water over a contentious plan to charge people to watch RWBY’s RTX panel livestreams. Lilith would respond by dismissing Arnold as a member of the hatedom then later tried to use the news of Roe vs Wade being overturned to cover for Rooster Teeth, saying “If you're whining more about #RWBY or Rooster Teeth right now than you are about #RoeVsWade, then your priorities in life are fucked beyond belief.”
One must be thankful that Lilith doesn’t care for international conflicts or else she likely may have tried to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to cover for Rooster Teeth earlier in the year. That would have been darkly funny to see.
Lilith is a person with a chronic inability to admit to being wrong, which fundamentally leads to her downfall any time she comes close to achieving a hint of clout. Despite spending a near-literal decade nursing a grudge at more successful magical girl shows and repeatedly launching harassment campaigns against other women-led projects in the industry despite claiming to be championing feminism, she continues to dig a grave of her own creation where her bad attitude and constant narcissistic need to put others in their perceived place kills any potential of her writing career taking off. She wallows in misery and repeatedly acts the contrarian by defending unpopular media, only to expose her toxic nature by immediately resorting to attacks of character because she inherently knows she has no real argument and has to resort to just hoping being The Lilith Who Cried Misogyny will actually work this time outside of the small circle of Tumblr followers who segregate her takes without a hint of irony. As time goes on it becomes clear that Lilith has all the consistency of a bad internet connection. She will go back on prior words in her desperate attempts to provoke controversy and get eyes on her and her works, all while she otherwise has no real impact in her fandoms of choice outside of when she launches into another screeching tantrum. She’s ultimately little more than another shock-jock who incites controversy, and much like other shock-jocks, there’s nothing interesting beneath the surface of her bad takes.
As the final nail in the coffin regarding Lilith’s tastes in media, she may unironically like Morbius or at least finds Morbius-posting unfunny. How wretched.
Identifying Eren
Now that all this is said and done, how do we spot Eren exactly? What sort of behaviors should we be on the lookout for? We’ll walk you through it. Keep in mind that all information is a double-edged sword. Once this document makes its rounds, it’s highly likely that Eren will find some new way to obscure himself. This is why it becomes prudent for us to remain vigilant in our dealings with strangers online.
He’ll steer towards certain topics.
As seen earlier, he can’t stop himself from talking about RWBY, or Taiyang, or generally preaching about Toxicity even though he is frequently the one in breach.
He especially loves playing the overly generalizing “You people™” card.
He’ll target prominent figures (or his approximation thereof)
Particularly prominent content creators in the “RWBY Critics” community, or anyone who is known for having a critical opinion of the show - yes, even if they only ever made one video on the topic. Most notably going after Hbomberguy for his lengthy video essay on RWBY. Subsequently going after Calxiyn after she made her Cinder Rewrite video essay. This isn’t to say that everyone who targets negative criticism of RWBY could easily be Eren, rather that it’s a staple of his behavior from what we’ve observed.
He’ll talk about himself
Whether it’s through the mention of his commissions, his spending, his lifestyle. Or even through talking about some vague life experience that’s meant to garner sympathy and trust for his situation. Eren will often tell you himself who he is.
He is very quick to bring up his own experience, usually unprompted. Using personal anecdotes (which may or may not be false) as a means of justifying his way of thinking, or beliefs. The abuse victim part is especially egregious, since it’s disrespectful to actual abuse victims.
Which leads us to the next identifiable trait.
He’ll make bold claims, usually to overstate himself
Oftentimes with no substantial evidence to back it up. This includes some of the lies/false information he cites in attempts to smear other people. As you’ve seen above, no doubt.
So What Do We Do?
This man is a danger to his own wellbeing.
The longer he stays online, the greater detriment he brings to himself simply because of his complete lack of any filter or self-control. This man loves to slink around under different names, and also worms his way into other communities like Arcane, She-Ra, or so on. It would appear there is nothing stopping him from becoming invested into another community and repeating the cycle anew.
He boasts about his wealth, broadcasts his spending habits, and personal details online and on public platforms. He has no sense of personal privacy and is incredibly vulnerable to being exploited by anyone who wants to troll him, doxx him or scam him for his life savings.
So, as for what’s actionable from you? Block him on sight. Report him any time you catch wind of his alts. Do not waste your time trying to engage him, because he will waste your time instead. And he has all the time in the world to do so.
Artists, comic dub channels and other creators, we recommend you do not accept any commission work from him. This man has no qualms going into debt to commission art and has no business flushing his livelihood down the toilet for a fictional character. Do not enable his self-destructive habits.
As shown in the screenshot above (from Reddit on 8/24/2021), Seeker will initially agree to spend a large amount on a commission ($1,000 in this case) but then have to back down and only pay $250 a month. While this may not be necessarily criminal, this is detrimental to any artists who only take a certain number of commissions in a period and expect payments in full. Promising to pay in full and being unable to fulfill that promise can be detrimental to artists who count on earnings from commissions to survive.
Community moderators and admins, keep other community leads informed; as well as every other member in your community, within reason. The last thing you will want to allow is any situation where someone less informed engages with him out of good faith, something he’s shown time and time again to be incapable of reciprocating.
A Cautionary Tale
Come a certain point, you must be wondering how this came to be. When you dig up more about his background and past, you don’t immediately get the impression that this same person is capable of so much vitriol, this much poison. Either he was hiding it all this time or he turned out this way after certain events.
To tell you the truth, we have no idea what happened to him. We have no clue what sort of specific events led to Eren becoming the kind of person he is today. It goes to show you just how far a person can fall, and what he can suddenly become capable of, if he’s not careful.
This mass deplatform is meant only to steer him away from a downward spiral he clearly cannot control. As much as we would like to chase off any old piece of shit off the internet, each person is entitled to their own stupidity.
Sad, funny, frustrating. No matter what you think of this whole debacle, let it be a grim reminder.
That no matter how sane you might believe yourself to be, how little you tread from the straight and narrow; that can all just go down the toilet very very quickly. It goes to show how quickly all that goodwill can just disappear.
We’re sure at this point that had it not been for RWBY, he might have continued being a productive member of society. Or perhaps that’s just wishful thinking; If it wasn’t RWBY it would have been something else.
Probably.
To add to all that, perhaps it's also a little bit frightening to consider.
Not everyone could be Eren.
But Eren could really be anyone.
Testimonials
If you want more reading regarding Eren’s behavior towards others, there have been plenty of other posts/threads made about him by other people. I’d be listing as many as I can in this section, so feel free to browse at your leisure. We’re not asking you, the reader, to believe us unilaterally. Rather, we are asking you to look at all the proof, the screenshots, the evidence, the explanations, and other people’s experiences and make your own decisions from there. If you don’t believe us, the ones who created this document, that’s fine. There are plenty of other people who have also spoken out against Eren’s behavior. I’ve linked a number of them below.
- In the event that some of these posts are removed/deleted, we do have PDF backups of these callouts as well (if needed).
Calxiyn’s callout (created 4/12/2022).
- Twitter link
- Tumblr link
- Twitter link (second callout created 8/1/2022).
TheFloofArtist’s callout (created 4/15/2022).
Judgmental Critter’s callout (created 3/20/2022).
GoldenNick’s callout (created 4/13/2022).
JeremyNoirVA’s callout (created 4/13/2022).
Dani’s callout (created 4/12/2022).
Kitty Kalamari’s callout (created 4/14/2022).
Gigaguy/FRWBY/Fixing RWBY’s callout (created 12/17/2021).
Cyngapra’s callout (created 3/25/2022).
Clemprime13’s callout (created 4/17/2022).
TheMultishippersWorld’s callout (created 4/19/2022).
Credits
Written and edited by SYTOkun and Tylandor, with evidence compiled with the help of Mona, Celtic Phoenix, Floof, Librastrai, Biistrunflaar, Lewdnep, and Dani.
SYTOkun
I’m SYTOkun, a RWBY fanartist and content creator. Eren entered my community server due to my fan project, RWBY: Remnants, which is an Alternate Universe/rewrite.
As mentioned in the doc, Eren has repeatedly picked fights in the comments section of my videos, DMed me on Discord under an alt account with the intent to deceive, and has generally been a two-faced miscreant all around.
This doc was made as a response to the mountains of evidence piling against him every day that begged to be documented, as a way to archive his shenanigans and inform others so they can prevent themselves from getting embroiled in his stupidity. It was also made to hopefully slap some sense into him or otherwise force him to face the reality of his actions, so that he can finally
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Scouring Rule34 for Eren’s comments was also not a fun experience overall.
Tylandor
Hello, Tylandor here. Not quite a content creator, but I love writing original stories, speculative fanfiction, and more recently, critical analysis on the shows/media that live rent free in my brain. I too discovered Eren in SYTOkun’s server; I’m sort of a moderator there.
I don’t have much prominence in the RWBY community - or any community for that matter - I’m more of a lurker, outside of the Switchback server. I’m also not really that crazy about RWBY, but I do occasionally make small snippets of content for the IP’s that catch my fancy. Which during this time, included RWBY.
It was partially my idea to make this Doc in the first place, I thought it’d be a fun little productive exercise but it’s very quickly become the bane of my existence to study this guy in his entirety. I generally don’t care about the actions of a single troublemaker but this one was an exception, clearly. I’m very grateful to everyone who helped chip in with their evidence, testimonials and citations. I’m not sure how SYTOkun or I would have managed on our own.
And I’d be lying if I said there was no vitriol motivating my decision. The act of doing a good deed by writing about this man can only get you so far. Hopefully it hasn’t gone to waste.
Mona
Hello, my name is Mona. I’m not a RWBY content creator but I commission a lot of RWBY fanart so you may know me from that. My poor experience with Seeker started when he asked me (and others) in a Reddit group chat to help him fund his own RWBY commissions. I politely declined but ended up in his harassment campaign anyway. Seeker seems to greatly dislike me despite us only having a few conversations in total.
I’m usually not one to make (or help make) long “expose” documents like this. However, Seeker is a toxic (at best) and downright dangerous (at worst) person to be around. His ego, inflexibility, arrogance, and generally rude personality are hidden by his faux-kindness at first. If you do everything he asks of you, if you take every suggestion he gives you, if you agree with his every opinion, he’ll like you. But step out of line and he will not hesitate to send you anonymous death threats, falsely report your account, and spread lies about you to anyone who will listen.
Many people have experienced his poor behavior and have distanced themselves from him because of it. Seeker is unable to take criticism (whether valid or invalid) of RWBY as anything other than a personal attack. To him, the show is the best thing since sliced bread and any dissenting opinions are harassment-worthy.
While Seeker did harass me and make my life hell for a short while, I actually don’t hold much ill will towards him. He is clearly mentally ill and struggling, and as someone with mental illness too, I understand (not condone) his actions. However, I think the best thing for someone like him to do now is to log off from the Internet until he’s able to treat others better. My goal in helping write up this document is to show others (in the RWBY community and outside of it) the kind of person he is, and to help others recognize the signs of an account of his so they can take steps to avoid him if needed.
Again, I’d like to ask those who read all 90+ pages of this document to not blindly take one side or another, but to genuinely look at all the facts and evidence, and then form their own opinions based on that. Thank you to those who committed their time and energy in helping us gather evidence for this document, and thank you to those who read it as well. Stay safe and stay well.