Just getting it out of my system before the forum is Kill for Reals I guess. I think it's more of a dialogue about how "in hindsight, this was hell of a red flag that sailed over 15 year old me's head so here's what those look like". It's not 'im still feelin as raw about it as when I posted last', it's more 'okay that sucked but I think I can use what happened as an education/talking point'.
http://owforums.net/blog.php?b=5089 Post follows up on this
So the tl;dr for that link: Venks existed on the forums, was three years older than me and thought things like dating a 15 year old at 18, godmod raping their OC's and going "w/e i wont let rp rulez limit my artistic expression in MSN one-on-one rp" was some kind of defense when literally shown an article about why that was wrong. Laundry list of creepiness, could be there all day with examples. This was sometime over a decade ago but it sucked enough for a processing delay vent and 'headsup this was Fucked Up Actually' years later.
Anyway.
Venks was a pedo, like "oh I'm attracted to kids but I wouldn't like actually touch them for realsies so it's coo' right?". What the modern twitter hellscape would call a noMAP. Except like most 'maps' that aren't all that critical of what they do beyond "well I didnt diddle a kid in the parking lot on the way to tesco's so im gucci" they wind up offending or quasi-offending anyway because oops, feel-good uncritical validation that a person with the worst impulses wants to inhale at the first opportunity and nothing in the way of professional treatment isn't actually the way to go about it.
"but zozo, why were you friends with a guy that admitted pedophilic attraction in general over MSN" because I was a dumbass kid.
In any case this post is more about "things he posted to the forum that could've red-flagged but fell into 'oh x is just edgy/kidding/clueless/whatever, right?' " obscurity or they just weren't visible.
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Making the DMs into a pastebin because it's getting tl;dr, its more vaguely ehh than directly ehhhh in places and I feel like I'm either gonna bore people or be dismissed at 'doesnt count', idk.
https://pastebin.com/beeT1AXq
I'll slap the forum stuff in a pastebin too.
https://pastebin.com/VXx4zHea 'nother wall of text.
It's all long and boring so if you want something fun then idk, hit up webtoon's archive of webcomics or something.
In looking at the venks2 (Don't brigade, I just don't want the entirely unrelated lowercase venks profile being caught up in that) deviantArt page it throws up an unauthorized message aka "DeviantArt's layout is broke as hell or you're blocked" so I guess he's aware at this point unless I'm the dumbass that blocked and forgot. Did find it kind of suspicious that he was favouriting art blatantly done by kids+adding them to his watch list. I dunno, felt like they were being buttered up at that point.
I've been at this for hours and feel like I'm bordering close to stalking or pulping a dead horse even though I shouldn't feel like that's the case but eh. I don't think I'm gonna check back for responses on this one or followup because there's nothing more to say or effectively cover. I've got enough going on as it is and I phased out of Oddworld and the forums by proxy years ago.
Anyway, don't go chasing folk down but don't super extend your trust either is my take, peace.
