TIRED OFFICE WORKER COMPLAINS ABOUT "VICTIMS"
*Please don't come after me for the title I'm just so tired of how everything has gone and how people have been acting and I wanted to catch your attention lol*
I've been following along with everything thats been going on with the victims since the very beginning and honestly any and all worry I've had for them has been completely drained now with how they've been dealing with everything.
I'll be so honest while I never spoke out or responded to anything as I was devastated when the news initially came out since I and my best friend initially missed our chance to see Qwel at LVLUP and we never got to finish our goob and scraps cosplay we'd been working on for the convention.
It was a blow to how I felt about the game anf her because as someone whose been on the internet enough I've had my fair share of content creators come out as shitty people and having to drop them out of respect to victims and my own morals. (*I was in the Minecraft scene in early 2010s and a SkyDoesMinecraft fan so yes I know what's it's like to be smooth baby brain and have to drop a person*)
In this case I was a little more hopeful since it seemed like all the victims wanted was an apology for what happened to them since it was the backlash of her knowing about things beforehand and harboring Rx for longer than she should have.(*Which honestly I initially thought that was fair at the time since yeah kinda sucky thing to find out after the fact*)
Though once Joji and Void started speaking about their experiences as 'victims' it was kinda threw me into a loop, sure it seemed kinda shitty at a glance of what they went through but it kept feeling off the more I started to look into it.
Reading through a lot of Jojis doc felt like personal grievances with a friend who also was a boss and it started to get lost on me why I should I care about someone's personal falling out, sure it's ok to want an apology you are allowed to feel wronged but not everyone's relationship is gonna stay the same or is someone gonna wanna interact with a group of people anymore. People drift, it's especially natural for someone coming into their own person hood to start having different wants and have it radically shift from people you were connected to for a long time, legit happened to me to the people I grew up and knew since I was 17, I grew close during Covid enjoyed my time and experiences but we just all started growing and heading our own different ways. I'm not sure about the ages of the friend group she had with Joji and Void, though if they all were older than her I can only assume they probably didn't change much in comparison to her since she had to deal with going into adulthood, creating a new company and having to finally accept she had been manipulated by a close friend who she thought had changed and told her everything. (*Plsss I know that last part makes me sound like a fucking Qwel glazer but I swear I'm just thinking about it as having to deal with that as someone whose close in age*)
Actually rereading Jojis specific parts in the doc/personal doc again made me feel anxious in a different way in hindsight. It reminded me a lot of how an ex-friend used to talk about a close friend of theirs who left them at the time. It felt so eerily similar especially with how my ex-friend would talk especially when Joji brought up how it couldn't believe that Qwel would ignore someone who 'meant the world to them' because while idk what happened in that friend group but sometimes people don't feel safe to fully communicate some issues because of the environment that the friend group cultivates. Specifically the final conversation in DMs that was had was super triggering to me specifically cuz it had a lot of similar things that my ex-friend had said with how they hated how distant I was getting especially when they talked about their life stuff and then bluntly telling me they almost committed. While I don't know how those two interacted in private VC with the friend group or alone just that fact that it sent me back into that anxiety from reading it was not a good feeling for me.(*Which mind you I only was avoiding my ex-friend because I fr tried to do things with her in vc it usually was just things she wanted to do/eventually turning into a vent session/starting off 'jokingly poking at me for not being there all the time' plus getting mad I don't wanna talk much when I have told her time and again I get tired from my job that is purely interacting with people*)
Shoot I even went back to that abysmal video Rx made to defend himself where Joji made a testimony where it clearly stated the medication they took at the time made them had bad memory/memory loss. After hearing that I took anything it says with a grain of salt because it is acting and defending itself the same way my ex-friend, who was on medication that sometimes made her forget stuff, would do bad things/say bad stuff and not remember at all and only remembered because we had to tell her about what she did. (*Genuinely it hurt dropping that friend since she was sweet but I never knew what version of her I was gonna get and it stopped feeling like a friendship and more like coddling a child. So yeah I feel a bit more bias to that since if Qwel had a similar experience I get it*)
And at least on the work side of things, well with Qwel being very hands off and not as involved as she should with the mod team... I'm not gonna complain about that I'll give that point to Joji since as much as I don't like them and get an ick I can agree that stuff like that should have been taken more seriously cuz modding is a thankless job when you're doing it properly and the community can drain the energy you have from having to deal with so much. Especially when they did stop a massive strike that was gonna happen because of that negligence, in this kind of case having someone else who has a sinilar authority as her over the mod team and server would have been good just to not spread mod team thin and bottle neck the process. (*I'm a complainer not an idiot. I can say when someone has a good point even if I don't like them*)
Oh god though after analyzing and reading Void's testimonies from right after 2024 and recent ones I have absolutely no ounce of respect for him. The work stuff was just him assuming things that they would have wanted him to do and yeah obviously the team was a bit smaller than it should have been since the company had been only been existing for only over a year and a half by the time he left, honestly out of all those things of the team not being fleshed out more is definitely a failure Qwel had but that's more due to inexperience of running a business and roblox dev teams being notoriously small no matter what community. The issue should have been taken up with an HR department and if there isn't one (which would be concerning but then again not all 'small' buisnesses have an in house HR) should have brought it up with the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC for short) or with the state labor department if he was in the US.
Another specific thing that also bugs me is yes there are times an update or thing is not gonna be met with wide spread appeal to a community. Void specificly sites that what destroyed and killed the drive for him was that so many people hated the Easter/Christmas event and said it became a grind fest which sure it can be but that's also cuz a lot of those people were new players who never played the damn event before and wanted to get every skin instead of just grinding for the skins they wanted and just casually get the others as the event goes on. Besides a job is a job, sometimes especially during big events a job is gonna suck and you have to roll with the punches with the high volume of issues or complaints your gonna get.(*Personally I actually loved the updates that were done for the Easter event and wish I could have played more especially since it was so fun and scary distracting the twisted on the fever floors and avoiding bassie's new attack*)
Ugh ok but fr tho the other thing that gives me the ick for Void is the fact that he was weirdly close to Qwel even before 2021 cuz he literally said in his last message to her that he also gets depressed when he has the desire to flee and run away from a more stressful situation since thats what he did to her back in 2020. Which huhhh..?? What happened then that caused that kind of reaction?? And if it was a bad thing on Qwels part why would you want to be back to being friends with her only a year later?? And the fact that he was friends with her when she was 15-16 at the time and he was 22-23 over the internet is kinda ew to me. Especially with how close they got, cuz even the minors I have interacted with on dandys before the whole roblox age group stuff I still treated them nice enough but kept that barrier of adult and child since I didn't want that kind of close relationship with a minor.(*Genuinely the one minor I've texted over on discord, I have a similar age gap with them as Void and Qwel do, I still keep them at arms length but am an open shoulder to since that poor kid needed someone to vent to but I also understand that I am AN ADULT AND SHOULDN'T BE SUPER EMOTIONALLY INVESTED WITH THAT RELATIONSHIP TO THE POINT I RUN AWAY FROM THAT DEPRESSED BECAUSE OF STRESS AND A DESIRE TO FLEE*)
Aight but main thing that bugs me about this guy... HE WAS IN THE SAME DAMN CALL IN AUGUST 2024 QWEL WAS IN, STILL STUCK BY RX AND DIDN'T CONDEMN HIM TILL THE DAMN PHOTO THAT WAS SHOWN IN OCTOBER 2024 WHICH WAS WHEN QWEL ALSO PROPERLY GOT RID OF HIM. HE WAS THE ADULT IN THAT SITUATION, HE COULD HAVE EASILY USED HIS DAMN THINKING CAP TO GO 'hmm maybe this guy is disgusting and I should talk and have a 1 to 1 with Qwel to get it through to her as a friend and adult that this is wrong' CUZ APPARENTLY EVERYONE NOW IS SAYING THATS WHEN SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN RID OF RX AT THE VERY LEAST IF SHE DIDN'T WANT TO LISTEN BACK IN 2021. SPEAKING OF 2021 VOID STILL BECAME RX'S FRIEND BACK IN 2021 AFTER DOING AN INVESTIGATION ON HIM FOR WHAT HE DID IN PIXEL BIT BUT NOOO BECAUSE RX SAID 'nah I changed and so sorry I did that shit' HE FORGIVES AND JUST IS FINE WITH THAT, LIKE WHAT!?!? AND WHATS WITH THE XENOPHOBIC REMARKS AGAINST RUSSIANS MY GUY CMONN!! PLUS DELETING YOUR WHOLE TWITTER ACCOUNT AND TESTIMONY OOO SO MATURE MAN, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU FEIN IGNORANCE FOR DOXXING QWEL BY BRINGING UP HOW TO FIND HER *UNPROMPTED* TO NIVOUTY DURING THE INTERVIEW IS CRAZY ESPECIALLYWHEN YOU KNOW HOW RABID THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN!!(*ok big explosion over hi sorry bout that*)
Aight moving on to those that are actual victims. However not victims of Qwel but Rx's victims, you know the guy whose no longer on the team but still kind of obsessed still with Qwel and Blush Crunch as a whole and more than likely only did that public apology shit just because the people weren't actively going after him and would probs make Qwel look bad for not apologizing cuz you know he's a known manipulator. (*I swear people been using that damn apology as a gotcha that Qwel hadn't apologized as if Rx wouldn't want to look better than Qwel while she's getting lambasted for everything he did*)
At least with Chip I don't really have any big gripes with them they're honestly from what I can see kinda just there, giving a testimony answering with what they know and just being decently normal about this but it just sucks they still go along with what the other victims want instead of standing their own ground and letting them make those staments on their own even if they say they haven't been forced to do that it's just how it feels as an outside perspective my guy I'm sorry.
Gary just needs to back up and get off the internet or at least stop interacting with everyone about the situation anymore. Yes it's absolutely fair and valid to be angry about not being believed and dragged about what happened but keeping it going like that is gonna eat away at them in the long term and even regress them waiting for that apology. I get it honestly I really do, I was groomed for literally a decade since I was 11 and only got out of that situation a few years back. I genuinely hated and was enraged at anyone and everyone who was still in connection with my groomer, especially my own brother and sister who had a harder time fully believing/letting them go even after 2 years of me letting them know what happened to me. And in those 2 years I wasnt getting any better because I kept myself in that same rage and anger for people who didn't even do much but not fully believe the extent of what happened/kept quiet for what happened. Life is messy and these kinds of things suck but don't misdirect anger for something that has been already delt with lest you keep yourself in that same cage your groomer put you in. (*And yes I know the trauma isn't ever gonna go away for what happened, I still have nightmares of being back in my groomers arms again at my grown age. But the joy it brings me to see him specifically be ousted from my brother's home and even be ignored by my sister now will be all I need for now while I get therapy cuz seeing the people who defended/stood by him also gradually shun him later gives me hope*)
And finally the actual closest thing I can count to a "victim of Qwel" is Sam. Well that's what I would say if they weren't a whole other can of worms of issues and concerns wrapped up in one being. First oof yes yikes why are we being xenophobic to Russians, the 'just minor' excuse is not saving you from that its just plain bad no matter what. Now personally the big thing that gets me with them is that Qwel stopped being friends after they lied about not being in the darkshipping scene and leaving their groomer who got them into it, while yes it sucks and hurts I must remind the public they were darkshipping Sam Mclaughlin (a toon handler) and Sprout (a toon) whilst actively garnering a community that was normalizing a lot of incest/grooming/darkshipping that could have easily made the rounds back to the greater Dandy's World community. Now picture this, genuinely what would have happened if Qwel didn't drop Sam then, especially not so long after protecting Rx for so much time for the art and actions he did, she absolutely would have been dragged back down into that same pit and if anything we probs wouldn't have this situation. We most definitely would have had a Sam and Qwel expose post of Qwel getting close to reprehensible person again and in this case someone who is a minor that makes darkshipping art of her characters, so now not only is she getting close to a minor but now also a hypocrite since she is friends with one that makes darkshipping art of her characters that is out right banned in the server. Especially since before their Twitter got removed by them, their apology for the darkshipping was mysteriously unpinned and they had been recently interacting with people who were exposed to be making dandys world darkshipping art. I will say tho please do not go and attack those people if you find out who they are, they were groomed into making that art work but this point is more in the fact that Sam hadn't fully left behind darkshipping and was still interacting with people in the sphere as early as 3 days ago. So yes of course now especially I am going to have some concerns and not harshly judge Qwel for recording the conversation when they clearly lied to her of leaving darkshipping and even when they themselves publicly left it they still went back. I will take the comments of Qwel being proud of confronting Sam with a grain of salt since it is hearsay from Joji who was told by Void of those comments. While I do think that video does exist I think the context of it being showed and her comments is more than likely misconstrued. Also that last bit in their testimony where Sam says they felt hurt she was painting the narrative that they were a bad person and not safe to be around is a bit crazy to me because yes they were, even if they were a minor they were still cultivating and hard defending a community of darkshippers which only recently is gone ,(maybe) because they publicly removed and apologized for that very recently at the beginning of June 2026. (*Yeah it sucks that someone who got groomed into darkshipping had to deal with that but cmon man there was no way them or Qwel were gonna come out unscathed if she stayed unless they fully purged everything and actually stayed away from darkshipping*)
Also just so I'm not looking like an absolute glazer to Qwel I will say she still made her fair share of mistakes. Yes absolutely she should have not stayed friends with Rx when the initial stuff back in 2021 happened along with listening to the victims sooner when they were telling her again of what he did but I am chalking that up again to manipulaton on Rxs part for ignoring until the picture in October 2024 was shown (*not an excuse just an observation cuz its the only logical thing especially if the people hard siding with the victims are using that exuse for Void*). She definitely has an issue with avoiding fixing the issues her employees are having whether it was that strike for the mod team since they weren't getting any answers/help when they needed her to step in when the community was gettign rowdy to not having a sufficient amount of people on Quality control for the game so it's not as overwhelming to her staff when they have to check for stuff during the Event blocks. Heck even the fact that she showed only herself as the sole person behind it all is a mistake since it would have been better for her to do as their doing now and showing the people behind the scenes so that people know its not just her and a handful of devs and mods now.
If anything from seeing all this unfold her stepping back was the best course of action. And it should be the course of action the victims should be taking to better reflect and heal on their own time again. The deadline for that apology while I know its just supposed to be a way for them to close the book for now until she makes an apology in private is kind of dumb in my opinion since they're basing off the fact of her apologizing 14 days after she got rid of Rx. This was blown way bigger than I'd ever seen for someone who just did the right thing of ridding someone a lot later than they should have, not being that good of a boss for a company thats still new and not being the best friend she could have been.
TLDR: The victims have a lot of issues and need to work that out and so does Qwel but man they all just need to step back and get therapy.
Edit: Quick fix on the Sam part they didn't go back to their original groomer but a second separate groomer who was blocked in the BC server and them asking Qwel why that person was blocked is what even got Qwel to look into the circles they were in again. (this doesn't change my point but I'd like to make that clarification)