When I was younger – in my late teens and early twenties – I did a lot of stupid and embarrassing things. I wrote a lot of whiny posts about feeling lonely, having no self-confidence, and worrying that I’d never have a girlfriend. When I streamed video games, I would often yell at my viewers and throw temper tantrums at games. I was immature, cringey, and embarrassing in just about every way imaginable.
As I entered my mid-twenties, I realized that I wasn’t proud of any of my behavior, and did my best to change myself and turn my life around. I got a job at a video game company, I made friends, I stopped basing my self-worth on my relationship status, and I did my best to drop all of the habits that I was ashamed of. I became a much happier person. In 2013, I realized that I had acquired the skills necessary to independently develop video games, so I left my job to become an indie dev.
Around 2014, I pitched the idea for Yandere Simulator on 4chan’s “/v/”, a message board about video games. Everyone who posted in the thread loved the idea of the game, so I began working on it. For a few months, everything was wonderful – we were having fantastic threads and having a great time planning out every aspect of the game. But eventually, people realized that “YandereDev” was actually that cringey guy from back in 2009 who was always either whining or raging.
Slowly, the focus of the threads stopped being about my current project, and started being about my former self. Instead of discussing game design, game mechanics, and gameplay, the threads became exclusively about ridiculing me for who I was in the past. /v/ no longer wished to support me or my project, even though I had spent months building a game for them. It was incredibly disheartening, especially when I had put so much effort into improving and rebuilding myself.
Around that point in time, Yandere Simulator was discovered by big YouTubers like Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, and PewDiePie. The game got a new audience, and I got a fresh start. I continued developing Yandere Simulator, but the entire time, I was fearful that the past would repeat itself. I was worried that one day, my new audience would learn about all the stupid cringey things I did in my youth, and turn on me just as the 4chan audience had.
There are people in this world whose hobby is shaming and ridiculing other people. Digging for dirt in other peoples’ lives is their favorite past-time. Humiliating their victims is like a recreational activity for them. They’ll go as deep as they possibly can into your personal life and look for absolutely any quote, screenshot, or chat log that can be used against you. They’re not doing it for any noble reason; they just enjoy the cruelty of it.
These people heard about me, and decided that I seemed like the type of person who would provide them with lots of entertainment. They get amusement from shaming and ridiculing people, so they choose to perceive me as a shameful, ridiculous person. They judge me based on things that I said over a decade ago, and use ancient chat logs and out-of-context screenshots to convince themselves that I’m a cartoonish caricature of who I actually am.
I’m a human being with emotions, I’m frequently put into very unpleasant and stressful situations, and sometimes my judgement is clouded by frustration and anger. As a result, there have been times when I was be short-tempered and rude; these moments account for less than 1% of my interactions with other people. These people judge me exclusively on those 1% of regretful moments; it validates what they want to believe. They’re not interested in truth or reality; just shame and ridicule.
They want to maintain a mental image of me as a pathetic, whiny, cringey loser, because it facilitates their hobby of mocking and humiliating other people. They want to cling to a warped and twisted perception of me, because an exaggerated caricature is much more fun than a boring person with normal flaws. They grasp at straws, make mountains out of molehills, jump to conclusions, believe people without evidence, and convince themselves of things that never happened.
Imagine that there was a time in your life when you weighed 500 pounds, but then you went on a diet and achieved a reasonable weight. Now, you only eat a candy bar once a month. However, some weird people stalk you and take photos of you whenever you eat a candy bar, and try to spread a narrative that you’re a fat pig who is constantly stuffing your face with junk food. That’s the situation that I’m in, except instead of portraying me eating candy, they portray me as my old self from the past.
It wouldn’t be a big deal if some weirdos wanted to gossip about me quietly in their little corner of the Internet…but instead, they sought to colonize as many sites as possible. They created blogs about me on Tumblr, threads about me on Reddit, videos about me on YouTube, etc. They’re committed to spreading Anti-YandereDev propaganda as far as possible, and convincing my fans that I’m a lazy slacker, or a scam artist, or a pedophile, or whatever other fantasies they believe in.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been constantly worried that one day, their propaganda would spill out into the mainstream and begin to change the hearts and minds of my followers. I knew that some of my fans were aware of the propaganda, but I didn’t know how many, or if it was the sort of thing that people actually cared about. I didn’t know if the propaganda was going to spread slowly over time, or if it was going to spread rapidly as the result of some controversial event.
On June 1st, I uploaded a video about the Photography Club. I saw the usual comments – jokes, memes, constructive criticism, etc – but I also observed that a significant number of the comments were insults coming from people who had been brainwashed by Anti-YandereDev propaganda. I realized that this nonsense was starting to poison peoples’ minds, and that I would have to start addressing the issue. I decided that my next video would be about Osana.
When I uploaded the Osana video, the comment section was invaded by the Anti-YandereDev crowd, determined to turn fans into haters by bashing me and describing me as a twisted caricature of who I actually am. There were also lots of people asking about tinyBuild and spreading ridiculous theories about why the partnership had ended. Every other comment was either an insult, ludicrous misinformation, or questions about tinyBuild that I was afraid to answer for legal reasons.
I didn’t want the Yandere Sim fanbase to see all of that nonsense, so I started deleting abusive comments, and removing comments about tinyBuild. When fans noticed that comments were vanishing, they accused me of “censorship” and “not being able to handle criticism” – even though I was only deleting insults and misinformation. I realized that I was in a lose-lose situation; I didn’t want propaganda and misinformation to poison anyone’s mind, so I simply disabled the comments altogether.
Stupid.
This turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made. A lot of fans were absolutely pissed about comments being disabled; it was interpreted as an attempt to “silence criticism”, rather than shut down abuse and misinformation. Rather than protecting my audience from propaganda designed to make them doubt me, I unintentionally gave my audience a good reason to doubt me. I’d never been in such a situation before, and I was at a complete loss for what to do.
When YouTube comments were no longer available, the conversation continued on my blog, now with more accusations of censorship. I panicked and closed comments on my blog. This left the fanbase with two choices for where to discuss Yandere Simulator: in the comment sections of videos that are bashing me, or in subreddits/Discord channels operated by people who explicitly dislike me and are delighted to see people talking trash about me.
As a result, a huge portion of my audience has now been exposed to content from people who think I’m a villain, who are trying their best to convert fans into haters. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it’s probably the worst thing that possibly could have happened. I’ve had a few days to think everything over, but the next course of action still isn’t clear. This is primarily because…there’s no easy way to confirm how many people actually care about any of this.
My most recent video has 68k likes and 8.5k dislikes. If we attempt to use these numbers to determine how the Yandere Simulator fanbase feels right now, then approximately 12.5% of the audience has turned against me, and the remaining 87.5% of the fanbase is still on my side. (We also have to consider the fact that many of the people leaving dislikes on the video were never fans to begin with; those dislikes are just coming from the crowd of people that ridicule others for fun.)
Over the past few days, I’ve received a countless number of supportive and encouraging messages from fans, assuring me that they don’t care about any of this dumb drama and that they’re still on my side. (I’m extremely grateful to everyone who e-mailed me with kind words!) The ratio of fanmail to hatemail has been 95% / 5%. Perhaps this means that all of the hate and ridicule is only coming from a very vocal minority; perhaps only 5% of fans are susceptible to being converted by propaganda.
Of course, if you check subreddits or Discord servers operated by people who strongly dislike me, then you will see a lot of people shredding me to pieces, because the people operating the subreddits/servers love seeing it. However, that wouldn’t be a very accurate way to gauge the overall sentiment of the entire fanbase; it’s obvious that you’d see a lot of hate and ridicule in places that encourage it, operated by people who want to see me torn down.
Some people are immune to drama, gossip, and rumors; it bounces off of them like bullets bounce off Superman. They simply don’t care. There are fans who think it’s absolutely absurd to judge me based on cringey things I did a decade ago. There are fans who would never judge me based on an out-of-context screenshot from a previous phase of my life. There are fans who can be understanding and forgiving with me for losing my temper during times of intense stress. There are fans who don’t have any interest in stupid rumors and character assassination propaganda.
Let’s say that there are two types of fans: “Type A” and “Type B”. (This time, I’m staying away from biased terminology like “Chill” and Heated”.) Type A would be the crowd that doesn’t care about drama, doesn’t care about gossip, doesn’t care about rumors, doesn’t care about ANY of this, and just wants me to get back to work on the game. They simply want to see me make progress, and aren’t going to give a second thought to any stupid propaganda. Type B would be…the opposite.
“YandereDev streams video games for 3 hours a day!”
Type A: So? There are 24 hours in the day. Even if you play video games for 3 hours, there is still plenty of time to be productive and get lots of work done.
Type B: Wow, what a lazy piece of shit!
“Development is taking a long time!”
Type A: That’s to be expected. Most ambitious indie games made by small teams take around 5 years to be completed.
Type B: Wow, he must be a scam artist who is intentionally dragging development out for as long as possible because he’s trying to milk his Patreon!
The question is: what percentage of the population is Type A, and what percentage is Type B? Is it 95%? 87.5%? 50%? If the people who care about stupid rumors are the majority, then I may actually have to go through the trouble of publicly debunking every stupid accusation that has been leveled at me. But if they are actually just a very tiny minority, then I can simply ignore it all and get back to work on the game. Right now, I’m not actually sure about the best way to determine this.
Instead of focusing on what I don’t know, all I can do is focus on what I do know. First, I know that this entire situation could have been avoided if I had simply been more transparent about tinyBuild much sooner. So, the first lesson to be learned here is that I should do a better job of communicating important facts like this to the fanbase, to avoid situations where rumors and misinformation are flying around.
Second, it has become apparent that if there is not an official place to discuss the game, then people will go to unofficial subreddits and unofficial Discords that might be operated by spiteful people who hate me, where they will be unable to have meaningful or productive discussions. I need to create an official place to discuss the game; an environment where people can talk to one another with civility, respect, and dignity, instead of having drama and trash-talk dominate every thread.
With this blog post, I hope that I’ve clarified the situation for a lot of people – people within the fanbase, and people outside of the fanbase who are wondering what all the controversy is about. My next course of action will probably be to set up an official subreddit for the game, followed by getting back to work on Yandere Simulator. I apologize for everything I’ve done that made this situation turn out as badly as it has.
If you’re still interested in the game after everything that’s happened, then I’d like to thank you for following the development of Yandere Simulator.
EDIT: I regret suggesting that there are only two categories of people, “A” or “B”. I acknowledge that there is an entire spectrum between the two opposite extremes. It wasn’t my goal to portray this as a purely black-and-white situation, but that’s definitely how it came off. Another mistake made, another lesson learned. I’m sorry.
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I want to try to believe this. Everyone deserves more than one chance. Just keep trying to be the best you you can be, I’m sure you’re making progress on yourself as well as this game. Good luck!
Everyone has done stuff in the past that they’re not proud of, that’s what makes us all human! People like to prey on others weaknesses and flaws probably to ignore their own. Don’t let them stop you doing what you’re doing because a lot of us are still on your side no matter what! We care about the game and its progress but we also care about the man behind it all who puts all his time into developing it. You keep doing what you’re doing because we still love you Yan-dev don’t let anyone stop you now, you’ve been working so hard on this game for years and I love seeing all the progress made on each build you put out! You do you my dude.
Just dab on the haters!
*Yandere Dev stabs me*
Ok… I deserve that…
I’m gonna level with you and apologize upfront. If I get banned or down voted to oblivion, I won’t get angry, in-fact I’d rather encourage it. And the reason is simple.
I believed them.
I frequent the /v/ board of 8chan often and…well… to put their words in this comment box would probably get me banned. It was bad. At first, I didn’t care. I mostly went to that board for…scientific…purposes and to keep an tab on the pirate/cracking scene. But when they spoke about you closing comments, and other things, I was personally offended. Most of the devs I know that do this, do so from a corrupt angle. Digital Homicide, Dentola studios, and many more asset flippers and jerks as far as the eye could see. Personal experience taught me that people only do this to hide something, to cover up saying something dumb, or to kill discussion. Which made their “records” of you seem more valid in comparison.
Now in my defense, I didn’t do anything wrong. The worst thing I did was downvote the Osana, which I feel is fair as its both a viable and non-abusive method of showing discontent.
You have my support for your game, and when it’s finally finished I’ll buy it regardless of its quality. (Hard to believe, given my earlier admission to piracy)
May it turn out fantastic. And to you Yandere Dev, Good luck with your future endeavors beyond this game.
You’re doing great man. Every time I saw a propaganda vid in my recs I deleted it cause they never sat right with me. You’ll get through this, just keep your chin up ❤
Everyone has a past self that’s really immature to them, including the people that post shit about you. Even though I’m in grade school, I at least know what to do and what not. Not even sadists like me go this far. I dunno when this started, and I’d be lying if I said I was an obsessive fan and comments first on your videos (I’m actually pretty late here, too) but I certainly enjoy your videos and your personality NOW. Anyways, I just wanted to say that the game is looking good and I’m actually looking up to you now (more), because of how you changed. No, I’m not pointing out that your older self matters, but I’m saying that it was a great change and I admire you for that.
No, you don’t need to take your time to ‘clean your name’ for the sake of the fans. SHOW with facts that you are actually making progress. Proof is always the one to give you the point, but you don’t have much proof. Shut the haters with real advancements, stop making silly excuses, even if it does time some time to develop, one would think (with reason) that you have covered most of the basics for a smooth performance.
Agreed
I knew about the propaganda. I also knew most of it was nonsense, and the things that could’ve been true weren’t a big deal. I didn’t care, basically. What I do care about is all the hard work you’ve put into improving your life, improving your game, and the insights into game development you share with us. Also you like Pokemon which does automatically make you awesome 😀
So don’t let the mean people get to you. The vast majority of us are on your side! And while I can’t speak for anyone else on this, Im looking forward to supporting you and your game on Kickstarter, as soon as you think it’s ready!
I hope people who are spiteful of Yandere dev can put themselves in his shoes for a few moments and think about what he has to deal with. People need to enter these arguments with a neutral, open mind rather than an automatic spiteful mindeset in order to create your own opinion. Yes, you may agree with some of the things the opposing side says, but Yandere Dev is not a perfect person, and that’s fine because nobody is. Yandere Dev is making a game and updating you for free, so why do people even feel the need to attack him? He’s doing something for us, and the haters are attempting to shoot down this gift to his fans.
I like you
I like your game.
Please keep up the good work, do not let others tell you who you are or what you can do. Do not let it affect you.
Just remember that you will always see the hater comments because your brain categorizes them as a threat and pays special attention to them. What you don’t hear about are the middle 90% of people who are relatively unnoticed. That’s where I sit. Personally, when the comments turned off I understood it was to stop hate messages because I remember when Pewdiepie did it a few years ago. It’s true that deleting comments is never a good idea, but you learned from your mistake and that’s just life. I honestly had no idea you were a cringy teenager, but that fact you were says more to your personal improvement than anything else. I was too, and I hate who I used to be.
We love you. Just remember that sweetheart.
I guess I’m type A then, cause honestly I don’t see how any of this has anything to do with the game. I couldn’t care less what hideo kojima does in his personal life, mgs is still one of the best games in existence. ZUN is a genius in music and bullet hell games but not really a sociable guy in real life and who cares, everyone loves touhou. Apparently the author of rurouni kenshin was a pedophile but does that make his creation any lesser than before? No, it’s still a great piece of art.
I don’t care about people’s personal lives like some desperate housewife with nothing better to do then gossip. I personally look down on those who only know how to talk behind someone’s back, just say it to my face directly or get lost cause no one cares. Just my two cents, I’ll wait for this game as long as needed and you shouldn’t care about the vocal minority either because at the end of all their bitching they will come back to play the finished game anyways and if they don’t, all the more reason not to pay them any mind.
Hey there. I know my english is not good enough but i feel that i have to try.
I’m from Russia and in our little yandere-fanbase we don’t really knew whats going on in the entire fanbase. In fact, most of the russian people don’t use tumblr/reddit, so noone talked about those rumors about tinyBuild things and other stuff. We just… Didnt know it lmao. I knew that there were people that always whined about osana or ‘yandev is such a lazy person’, you know. But i never really knew that there was this big opposite side of fanbase… Till one Day. Few days ago i found a video on YouTube when some guy tried to explain why he hates you. When i started watching this video i was like ‘meh another person whining about osana, right?’. But the main video was not about osana, it was about tinyBuild rumors and other things about you (like your sex kinks lmao). When i finished with this video i was shocked, i didnt know how to react to this information. Then i went to read comments, hoping that someone will disprove all of the ‘bad’ information… But all of the comments were like ‘finally someone told the truth’ and ‘i was the fan of yansim before this video… thanks for opening my eyes’. I didnt know What to think, i was so confused. Ive been following Yandere Simulator since 2015 and i just couldnt believe that my fav gamedev is such a ‘not good’ person…Dont get me wrong, this video was spreading a lot of shitty info about Alex (like the things he wrote on Internet…bad things). The guy from this video was talking about tinyBuild situation and he said that ‘yandere dev fired the programmer cause new code was too difficult for him’. I couldnt get it Cause like??? ‘Did Dev REALLY do this?’ I was thinking about all of this situation and then i decided to visit tumblr to find some more information about all of this. But tumblr gave me this ‘anti-yanderedev’ posts and i were even more confused. Day later you posted new video about scooby-club and when i saw that the comments were disabled… I was really upset cause i didnt know what to think… I was like ‘so many people talking shit about him … i guess there must be a reason :(((‘
But today i decided to visit your blog and finally i felt better. Im really sorry that i have this doubt about you, Yandere Dev. Im really sorry and for know i see how stupid i was, believing those rumors. But i think its important to say that you don’t have to hide things from your fans. Because sometimes we want to hear things not only about game development, but you. Because you matter, Alex. I think that the whole community is feelings that you have difficult time right now. And you have to know, that we are here and we are going to support you! From all the world, people are here to say that we care about your condition. We care about you. You don’t have to hide things from us, cause we understand everything. I regret i was listening to opinion of haters instead of waiting for your, clearing the things. For now, i want to say, that our little russian family worry about your emotional condition. All of the world do. Take your time if you need, have a break. Take care of yourself. Because you are the most important part of game development, not osana. Thanks for telling the truth, Alex. We aprecciate it more than you think. С любовью, Россия❤️
If you where to go ahead and debunk these accusations they would twist it to say that you don’t do any work at all. However as someone who has tried making video games it is incredibly hard to make them. I understand that you are struggling doing this alone. How much work you put in the game already is amazing. If fans are truly loyal they’ll stay and wait for the game. I saw this game in a youtube video about 2 years ago and I still love it.
Wow. I actually have been binge watching the hate videos and they are all full of lies and misinformation. It bugged me so much that I was tempted to leave hate comments on their videos…but I refrained from making it worse than it already is. I will say the only reason I am in this fan base is to follow the development of this game. But now, I am here for you too. Thank you for spending so much time on Yandere Simulator! I honestly think it is going to turn out great. 🙂
Hey, if it means anything, I just think the rage videos are funny because it’s goofy. I don’t think it means anything bad about you, man. We’ve all raged once in a while, and it’s hard not to think of it as funny.
Glad to see you clarifying some things, but you didn’t mention the information about unity store assest and alleged stolen assets in yandere sim. I regonized these animations and models are mostly likely place holders, but I think putting out a statement about the assest drama would be helpful as it more directly affects yandere sim.
That’s because I addressed it way back in October 2017.
Please watch starting from the 4-minute, 49-second mark:
Thanks for taking the time to reply! I hadn’t seen that video before and posts I’ve read failed to mention it. Looking forward to seeing the final visual look of the game and good luck to those working on the assets!
What ever happens, I will still support you and your game… ( ˘ ³˘)
Just as a littleness note for anyone on the more “B” side, remember that he is human. He has needs. If he worked 24/7 he would be under so much physical and mental stress it would be chaotic. I don’t watch his streams but he likely plays games to release stress and let his mind clear out.
Sorry for putting words in your mouth Yanderedev lol
Yandere Dev, i think you are pretty awesome. You wanted to change and you did, you wanted to make a cool game and you are! You put so much hard work into it and it shows, even just sharpening the shadows had a huge effect on how the game looked. I’ve been growing along side this game looking forward to every little update you do. It’s amazing how many people are supporting you… i was sad i wasn’t gonna be able to post anymore comments, and honestly i don’t post alot because i never know if what i say is something i should, But i understood. Those people are bullies and bullies are hard to live with…. sometimes the emotional trauma is worst than the physical kind… bruises fade but those thoughts stay with you and eat at you…. I’m sorry you have to go through such hardships…. If those bullies don’t like you then fuck ’em, You are too awesome for them….. the people who love you and what you do out weigh the people who don’t! Don’t let those ungrateful assholes get you down! Stay healthy….. And thank you for continuing the development of yandere simulator (OwO)
I still love the game and will keep on loving the game. Those people who are up in arms about you taking long haven’t developed a game themselves and should actually learn how long it takes. So I’ll still be here even if it takes 10-20 years for you to finish the game dude. Keep strong and keep doing your passion with love dude!
I’m definitively type A: fuck it if he was an enraged emo, everybody was a piece of shit in their teens in some way, heck I’m full of hate ’till this day. Just keep trying being a better person and making progress in the game and in your life. Have a good day YanDev
Hey Yandere dev, I know things have gotten a bit rough for you these past days with so many people digging up dirt of your past and how it’s recently become a cesspool of hate but I want you to remember that there are still people out there supporting your work. I hope everything settles down soon and that your fans will come back to you eventually or people will understand later the situation that you are in. Unfortunately sites like reddit and 4chan tends to be full of spiteful people so to have yandere sim originate from there seems to have taken a toll in the later years and I’m absolutely baffled at how people can criticize you in every aspect imaginable. But there are always going to be people out there still supporting your work and believe in you. I do not think there is any solution to this problem as anything you say could always be backfired and misinterpreted to be used against you- or if possible you could always try to prove them wrong but this will not be easy. I just hope it all ends well, thanks for showing us the development of yandere sim, yandere dev.
People can be stupid. I never did anything SUPER cringy but I will admit I was a brat online at times when I was younger. The past is the past and judging people on it is dumb.
So don’t worry dude I at least am someone who completely understands.
I will say though I am very dissapointed the Tinybuild partnership didn’t work out. I was hoping the extra professional support would help reduce your workload a lot and speed up development a bit. I understand if it just didn’t work out but it’s still a shame.
Huh, i’m sorry for the complicated fanbase Yanderedev. While it’s true that all fanbases have their toxic apples, there are particular games that amass baskets full of them. It’s a pity.
Still, I can only hope that you do not displace the good comments and the people still with you due to the waves of haters. We’ll do our best in our end,okay?
I don’t care about those haters and dirty people talking trash about you YanDev
actually, i don’t even know about any of this shit that people are saying about you :’) it supprise me that something like that happend. From what i know, you’re a great person, you are funm cool and are creating a great game that i love, so, man, don’t even give a shit to those haters, i don’t give a shit either, and i’m sure the majority loyal Fanbase don’t give a shit too :’) so don’t worry, we’re in your side YanDev (don’t ever doubt of your loyal fanbase, you’ve came so far, i’m a fucking brazilian fan, dude haha HueBR)
My suggestion would personally be to address any criticisms or deliberate misinformation about the project. We’re ostensibly here to follow the game’s development and get accurate information. Stick to talking about the project. Don’t give the personal attacks and drama any legitimacy by addressing them.
also, GET A COMMUNITY MANAGER. Two reasons:
1-They can act as a barrier between yourself and the negativity endemic to the internet, so you actually have space to decompress.
2- to address the public on delicate issues relating to development in a way that removes your own personal biases (or heated emotions) from the equation. (You’d be surprised how much this helps.)
Community Manager doesn’t sound like a bad idea
I agree with this. A third reason for having a community manager is that, since the community manager would be responsible for reading comments and webpages and such, you could focus less on doing those things and focus more on the game.
Hey, I just wanted to say, you’re doing great! I’m not good at writing these types of comments, but honestly, I just want to say you have my full support, the vocal minority that still actively attack you and your work are just scum who have nothing better to do than attacking people who have achieved more than they have. Yandere Simulator is coming out amazingly btw, I’ve introduced it to some of my friends and we had a great time playing it in our discord. I’ve also watched some of your twitch streams, you’re a great (and sometimes funny) person who should be admired for their game making skills, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! Im a proud follower of the devlopement of Yandere Sim, keep up the amazing work :).
M8, dont sweat that shit. I still support you, and all these fuckers do too. Developing a game aint easy, and i dont blame you at all for who you were years ago. Hell, we were all assholes years ago. I dunno if you’ll read this, but if you do, keep strong, man.
Man, people like to bash on YandereDev because they are self conscious about their own ugly heart. Anyone that is satisfied with themselves won’t take the time out of their lives to try and bash another human being. I really think you just got caught up in the fire of what is going on, in a couple weeks I think people will calm down and just give it up. I watched a video of someone criticizing you, liking to see both sides of an argument to make sure I don’t live in an echo chamber, and it was just stupid. Of course it’s going to take long to make a damn VIDEO GAME. Many people including myself and major YouTubers LOVE playing around on the debug builds because we just love the concept and the gameplay. The whole experience is fun, getting new updates every few weeks, getting to explore and see all the new things added. Some people even feel like it’ll be bitter sweet when the game is completed because we’ve seen it since the beginning stages and when it’s completed that’s it, it’s finished. While the amount of supporters outweighs the amount of haters sometimes it feels as though the haters are the loudest. Humans don’t like criticism, especially people who like to make other people happy. Yandere Sim will make for a good redemption story at least!! ❤️❤️❤️
I think u do amazing job and u have to be more confident. We love ur work and we’ll be patient because we know it is hard to do this, but u have to stop looking on cancer ppl, they just want to talk bull**** coz nobody love them and they must take off on somebody. Take care Yandev! We love ya ❤
I actually found out about Yandere sim from the old /v/ posts on 4chan, I was actually really young at the time (around 11 or 12 lmao) when I first saw the thread and was immediately fascinated by how much effort was put into it. after playing one of the early builds of the game I fell in love with it.It also helped shape my love of gore and horror type things today. Around the beginning of my discovery of the game, the anti-YanDev propaganda almost immediately jumped to me after reading the original posts and threads suggesting the idea of the game. Even back then, I knew to judge people by my own personal experiences and not by other peoples words,so I naturally ignored it and continued my research about the games development,around 3 weeks or so later,I noticed in my sub feed on youtube that Markiplier had played the game,and almost screamed. After watching the video I actually saw one of your old development videos and binged what little you actually had on there. over the course of the next few years,watching Yandere Sim videos became apart of my usual routine,and in late November of 2015 I began commenting ideas that I thought would be interesting to be apart of the game,and some of my ideas (although most likely suggested by a lot of other people) became apart of the game. Once I saw the comments on the Photography club and Osana videos,I tried my best to shut down as much of the propaganda as I could up to when you disabled the comments. When you did disable them,I completely understood why you had done it. Meanwhile, Contrary to my thoughts on the matter, the friends that I i n t r o d u c e d the game to were pissed. They thought you were being excessively immature on the matter,and some of them actually boycotted the game altogether. I’m glad you finally decided to address this matter,so I can try to help clear your name of these false accusations that have been made of it. I hope to have another great 4 years of me following the games development.
Well, there’s this video about ‘exposing’ you as being lazy and stuff, and when I watched it.. I feel like it was stupid.
Honestly, I don’t really care about the drama thing and to judge someone based on what they’ve done in the past is.. Immature, to say the least. I honestly hope that this’ll not put you down and discourage you. Please take some rest also. I’m looking forward to this amazing game!
It’s okay. I know you’re worried about the numbers in the end, but really once the game is released it’s success will have little to do with how well you’re liked and much more to do with how good of a game you’ve made. Just look at Hello Neighbor. I followed it once I saw Jackaboy play it. Loved it; couldn’t wait. Now? I wouldn’t buy it. It’s not what I signed up for.
That said, I do like you. I don’t know what you used to be like (though from the sounds of it, it also seems that I wouldn’t want to find out :S ) but whenever you present yourself now you seem very calm and thoughtful. You’re honestly trying, and it’s evident in how you speak, the types of videos you put out, the subjects you cover, and how you interact with your fanbase.
People can grow and change. I for one am very glad you did, otherwise… look what we all would have been missing out on!
Keep going. You’ve got this.
I’ve always supported the game and always supported you Yandere dev. I can’t say anything that would actually important to hear… Just wanna say that if I could hug you and support you more, I would do it.
Hey, I hope you’re doing ok, YandereDev. I know all this is very stressful for you, and I hope you know there are still lots of fans who support you.
I’ve seen the “yandere crits” (not a lot though since I don’t really look for it) and a lot of the people I see criticizing you seem rude and immature. They act racist and rude, and I think that says more about them than it does about you. They just like being mean to other people, they get joy out of “calling out” (aka bullying) others. I know it’s hard, but try to take what they say with a grain of salt. They don’t know how you are now, they only like focusing on the negative.
If people saw old accounts that I had around 2012, people wouldn’t like me either. I was immature too. Most people are when they’re young. The haters need to realize that most people change for the better over time.
If it helps, I’m still a huge fan of you and the game. I really look up to you, you’re working hard to make something that’s entirely your own. That’s amazing,
Best wishes,
-some random fan
People can be shit sometimes, just remember the type A group is still out there YanDev. The type B group are just timid people, immature( I don’t think age defines if you are immature or not btw, there are a lot of young people who are pretty mature themselves) or had a bad day, that they feel it’s alright to bash a random person on the internet for no reason, or who get triggered pretty easily.
I, and many others, may not know the pain you are in at the moment, but we’ve all had a slice of that cake. Just because a small percentage of people think you are shit, doesn’t mean you should give up, we’ll be the safety net under the tightrope you’re walking on, so don’t give up. #TeamYanDev
K bye-
You’re my 2. Favorite game developmenter and I knew that all of these rumor’s are just fake. I love your game and love the fact that you work 24/7 for this game<3
I’m just glad you’re okay, I was worried something was wrong when I couldn’t comment anymore. I’m glad I know the reason now, but it didn’t bother me.
If I was bothered by someone being an idiot in the past than there would be no one I didn’t hate. Everyone makes mistakes, not everyone tries to fix them. You did good friend, just know your health (mental and physical) are also important. Do what you need to.
Honestly I’m neither person A or person B, if I’m against something I just keep it to myself, no likes, no dislikes, with the whole drama that has been going on I chose to ignore both sides, hates and fans, I’ve known about the drama for so long, though I kept being quite a fan of YanSim since early 2014, it was fun to watch update videos and such, I remember how sad I was when the school changed, because I liked it, but then I came to realize that it’s way better now.
Regarding the drama, I think you should make a full video, but disable likes and dislikes, make a video in which you explain what you said in this post, then maybe everyone will acknowledge it.
I understand how hard it must be to develop a game, I tried modeling a fricken coffee cup in blender and couldn’t, so I can’t imagine how it is to develop something. Anyway, I’ll still support you and this game, yeah, the past DOES reflect who you are in a way, but the present is more important and that’s what makes you, well, you.
Hey.[Sorry for my English, I don’t know it so well] I live in Russia and we don’t use Reddit or Tumblr and we didn’t even know about the various rumors (but some peoples use 4chan). A few days ago, I noticed a lot of videos that say bad things about you. I was surprised, but I didn’t change my mind about you. Under the Russian video about Yandere Simulator No bad comments (as well as under your video, only translated into Russian) , everything is fine. I decided to watch other videos, only in another language , I was a little shocked to see so many bad comments and rumors. I thought, like, ” Wow, Russian fandom missed so much! Yay, we don’t understand!” In the recommended videos have started appearing with the video “revelations Of YaNdErE DeV!!!11!!!!!.” I JUST DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT ALL HAPPENED HERE?! Still, this blog post explained a lot to me. Yeah, I’d write a smarter comment, but I don’t know much English and I can’t Express much in it. I hope that the situation will stop and everything will be as it was before.
You know what YandereDev ? I just have one thing to say HATERS GONNA HATE, PLAYERS GONNA PLAY, let them hate ! If some of your fans got drive so easily in “the dark side” this means that their trust in you wasn’t so strong to begin with… The real, intelligent and mature fans of Yandere Simulator will always remain there as long as you MAKE PROGRESS. This is all we want, even if the development is slow, as long as you work on the game we’ll be here !
I’m a Type A that’s been following this game’s development since the /v/ days and all I want is to play a super sweet game as a yandere girl. Fuck the drama, fuck the haters, just make the best damn game you can make.
We all had a cringy side from our teens. Heck, I’ve said things online I would pay good money to delete from existence. Point is, those people aren’t worth even acknowledging. Any fan with half a brain will realise that most of their claims are unfounded and just spiteful conjecture. I have never believed these rumours because that’s what they are. Pure rumours with no proper evidence backing them up. We all love you Yandere Dev, we don’t care whether you stream for 8 hours a day. All we want is for you to work your best and stay healthy.
I know how it feels like when people take your words out of context and twist them around to make you seem like the bad guy. I’ve seen countless artists and writers and otherwise rise and then fall due to the same type of people that are doing this to you. I never believed what the antis were saying because I knew their type and I know that working on a game, especially when it’s by yourself, takes a long ass time. For the past two years I’ve been following yansim’s development, and I always get so excited whenever I see a new video come out. But I understand that things take time, and I think it’s great that you take the time to show the development progress in the first place. I’m cheering you on, Yanderedev!
When I first heard the rumors and saw that someone made a documentary, I didn’t want to believe it, but I also wasn’t going to brainlessly support someone I only know from some videos(if the rumors turned out true). I didn’t look into the rumors, I wanted to hear your response first, so I don’t know exactly what kind of crap has been going around, but after this article, I think it’s safe to ignore the rumors. Sending lots of love and support 💕
I’ve been following the development of Yandere Simulator for about year now… funnily it’s less about following the development but rather I just like your videos and watching them. (And your streams too when I get a chance) The game will get done when it gets done, and if it doesn’t then that will suck but I’ll move on. Maybe finally pick up a demo build and play that for a few hours. In that way, I am rather immune to drama and rumors and the like. Hell first thing I thought when you shut down comments on your video was because people was being annoying or assholes. Kinda got that feeling from following your for a while now. (And to be honest I thought I had made it worse by making a joke comment and then hiding a supportive line behind the “read more” button lol. Last thing I want to to is be negative in any way.)
Anywho, I am glad to hear what’s been going on and as always, I’ll patiently wait for your next video. And patiently wait even longer for the game. Hope I can catch a stream soon!
YandereDev, don’t worry!!! I saw a couple of comments and videos about “YandereDev Drama” but I don’t think that anything of what was said is true and I don’t think like those people. I fully support you and the game, I cannot wait for it to be completed!!!! This is probably my most favourite game ever (welp, I must include my lovely horror games too xD)
Don’t let any of this bullshit bother you in any way, just focus on yourself and your work so you can shut them once Osana is released! Then they won’t have anything to say 🙂
Just don’t overdo yourself! You need to think about your health too, OK? ^-^
Oh thank God, I nearly though you went the way of “close all outside voices” for a second. that never ends well for anyone, too many rumors and no way to keep them in check.
Either way, whether whatever drama happens, what may or may not be true, the product will speak for it’self. In the mean time, we’ll see how the end product turns out. That’s what I’m sure 80% of us are here for. (hey, drama is tasty for the other 20% apparently)