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Note: This has nothing to do with the PredatorxVish/GamingxVishy situation; I just wanted to talk about my own personal grooming experience I had while playing Sky. I was 18 going on 19, and "N" was 22. And yes, adults can groom adults.

During early 2022, I started playing Sky for the first time. I ended up meeting a person who later became my friend and introduced me to their group of friends. They eventually introduced me to their friend "N." She came off as sweet, and we both became fast friends. A couple weeks later of talking with "N," she had proposed the idea of dating each other since she was slowly growing feelings towards me, to which I agreed since I was developing feelings for her as well. It should've bothered me that in only a couple weeks she wanted to start dating. Which is something I blame myself for.

After about one week, "N" had started slowly showing her true colors. "N" started asking very perverted questions and told me stuff she would do to me if we ever met. I didn't tell her that this made me feel uncomfortable because even if it did, I thought this was normal between couples. (Since this was my very first online relationship.)

A week later I eventually tried standing up for myself and told her that what she was telling me made me uncomfortable, to which she apologized for and promised not to bring up dirty stuff with me. It worked for the most part, and I thought she respected my wishes, but after a couple days she went back to making suggestive comments and sex acts she wanted to try with me. It got to the point that our conversations would slowly shift into sexting for the next couple of weeks, which I still was uncomfortable with.

I stood up for myself again, telling her that I didn't like the way she was talking to me and how she was talking about my body, to which she apologized again. Every time I told her to stop it seemed to go in one ear and out the other. Eventually I stopped because I figured that this was just her sense of humor. (This is called boundary testing and it is most often used by groomers where they gradually test the limits of what a vulnerable person is comfortable with, often through inappropriate jokes or physical contact, to gauge their reaction and determine how far they can manipulate or exploit them.)

There were times where I would be too anxious to open the game again just to bump into her. My heart wasn't beating fast because of love; my heart was beating fast because I was scared. I was scared because no matter what I said, she would easily go against my wishes. And at that point I felt like I didn't matter.

Our relationship ended after I experienced a mental breakdown over everything sexual she made me do to myself. I told her that I had felt miserable being with her, told her how she made me feel like shit and how she had groomed me into thinking that what she was saying to me was okay.

I blocked her on Sky and deleted the app during the season of performance and shattering. Multiple times between 2023 and 2025, I would redownload the game and try playing it again while avoiding certain areas in Sky that brought back trauma. That spark I used to have when first playing it wasn't there anymore, and I have stopped playing entirely. I've been nervous about wanting to share my story for so long, and I'm glad to finally have the chance to.

And the sad part is that "N's" account has not suffered any repercussions or account deletion.

I found this review by a Youtuber named puppyhelictriangle aka Patricia Taxxon. Do not send any harassment towards this Youtuber. I just want to add my two cents and point out stuff that I don't agree with in their video critique. This is a very long post so I made timestamps and quotes you can read from.

2:17 - 2:28 "A big part of this video is focused on age play and Melanie using her art in excuse to perform a kink. Huge stretches of the video or just going over instances of Melanie being a sexy outfit well being at child character and bulking in disgust."

An adult woman dressing in sexy outfits when her persona is a literal child is weird. Even if she was an adult, she was portraying her Cry Baby persona, who is a child, and having this persona wear outfits that are deemed sexy is gross.

3:18 - 3:31 "I don't think Melanie was doing age play with her music. I think she was 19. Like I feel insane pointing it out. She was a teenager with teenage fans And that's the stage of life where you're receiving all those mixed signals developing sexuality and gaining new responsibilities while still having the agency of a toddler."

Correction: Melanie was 20 when she released Cry Baby. And even though by law she was an adult, she could still feel like a teenager during this time. But you also have to make way for when you're growing into an adult. You have to be a role model for your teenage fans. Also, I don't think comparing an adult woman to the agency of a toddler was written well since both individuals are in different stages of life and can't be compared to one another. I'm not sure what angle this YouTuber was going for here.

4:06 - 4:15 "But as far as this video is concerned Melanie Martinez is engaging in age play so we also get lengthy asides about the practice and how grossed out Danielle is by it. So I guess I also have to defend age play."

You don't have to defend age play??? You're not obligated to defend age play because of Melanie. But if Melanie does have those kinks, she should've kept hers to herself instead of making music surrounded by them for her young fans. Age play, in a sense, is controversial because it is the consensual exchange of power dynamics between two adults, with one acting as the adult and the other a child. It's definitely something that should be done behind closed doors instead of flaunting it in public and in her music. This goes for all kinks in general like BDSM and DDLG.

4:30 - 4:39 "When Danielle says pedophilia she means actionable motivation to exploit children. She saying that ageplay or desire to partake in age play is itself indicative of predatory motive."

This is something that I actually agree with this YouTuber about. Participating in ageplay is simply a kink that two consenting ADULT PARTNERS can do in private. It can become predatory when an adult like Melanie performs these kinks to a child/teenager audience. (Examples: Performers touching themselves, Melanie dry humping the stage, etc.) I'm not trying to be a pearl-clutcher, but this is something young kids shouldn't be seeing since they might want to replicate the same thing that their favorite artist is doing.

5:04 - 5:31 I don't have anything to say here since they tell a personal story of their own assult and how them telling people online made it worse. I'm so sorry you went through something like that and I hope you are getting the help you need.

7:25 - 7:29 "The real reason that kids cannot consent to sex with adults is because an adult has a power position over them."

This is something that reflects on Melanie even though she is an adult. As I stated before her character Cry Baby is a child and even though not a real child she puts her child persona through adult scenarios that no child should be put through.

(Note: You can skip this section and move on to the next timestamp if you wish but I thought this was interesting to point out.)

This is something that reflects on Melanie even though she is an adult. As I stated before, her character Cry Baby is depicted as a child, and even though not a real child, she puts her child persona through adult scenarios that no child should be put through.

(Note: You can skip this section and move on to the next timestamp if you wish, but I thought this was interesting to point out.)

My example of which comes from 'Pacify Her.' The protagonist, Cry Baby, expresses her frustration over wanting a boy who is with another girl. She believes the boy doesn't truly love his girlfriend and urges him to leave her, reflecting a sense of entitlement and rivalry.

In the music video, Basic Bitch is playing with Blue Boy. Cry Baby gets jealous and tries to get Blue Boy's attention in different ways until he's interested and wants to play with her more than Basic Bitch. By the end of the music video, when Blue Boy wants to play with Cry Baby Basic Bitch gets in the way and lifts up her top, revealing her breasts to Blue Boy. Blue Boy becomes interested in Basic Bitch again, and both leave the playpen.

Basic Bitch, Blue Boy, and Cry Baby are all depicted as children, and the adult scenario is Basic Bitch lifting up her top to expose her breasts to Blue Boy. Blue Boy was put into an adult scenario he did not consent to nor did he have the ability to consent to because the character of Blue Boy is a child. This is all to say that children cannot consent to sexual situations with another child or even an adult because children can’t legally give full consent. Melanie depicting this so badly is gross on Melanie's part.

8:15 - 8:31 "I'm not a kid I'm not subject to ageism. Everyone who engages me sexually is accepting all of the accountability that comes with sex with an adult, no matter how convincingly I act like a kid and use my magic powers to make daddy and uncle rub their butts together because I don't know what sex is. And you know what? I think my king partners like it that way."

I literally have no words.

8:32 - 8:39 "So what do you say when someone claims that Melanie Martinez sexualizes children? Well, she was 19 so at least you were close."

Because she did sexualize children, and no, she wasn't 19; she was 20. On July 27th, 2015, when asked what her favorite episode of iCarly was, she posted a photo to her Tumblr of a deepfake shirtless Jennette McCurdy, who was 17 playing a 16-year-old character during the filming of that particular scene.

9:54 - 10:14 "Excuse me ma'am I don't struggle with age regression I'm actually very good at it. But since Melanie's art is an explicit And she has never expressed an interest in age play publicly, Danielle has to stretch things a lot in order to make the case that Melanie is endangering her child audience And this is the part that video where it really gets under my skin."

People experience age regression in different ways and since you mentioned having age regression and didn't struggle with it doesn't mean the next person that has it isn't going to struggle with it. So ultimately you're saying that age regressors don't struggle with their age regression. This comes off very insensitive to actual people who go through age regression.

11:24 - 12:16 "Just the multiple tiers of victim blaming here. Firstly tweens and teens are going to dress in ways that are attractive to them because there are ages between 8 and 18. This is not an invitation for sexual attention from adults. But also, Danielle is blaming Melanie for what? Not preventing hypothetical child molesters from attending her concerts because she didn't tell her child audience to dress more conservatively. Again this what happens when you let disgust drive your morals. Teens choosing to dress quote on quote provocatively makes adults feel uncomfortable because of the superficial resemblance to child exploitation, even if no is actually being exploited. And if you don't interrogate this, then you will accidentally turn fucking evangelical to preserve your own comfort. And I hate to do this but, but if Danielle is going to tokenize her own assault to legitimize her arguments, I'm going to say given what she has been through she should know better than to simply control children's bodies even more."

Saying that Danielle is reducing her own assault to make her own argument is fucking gross. As you mentioned before, you are a victim yourself, and telling another victim that their arguments against Melanie don't matter is disturbing. Danielle isn't being too emotional or trying to choose what kids wear. She's looking out for children who go deeper into the ageplay rabbit hole that Melanie is opening up for them. A kid wanting to dress like Melanie may stumble upon ageplay sites and fashion. They'll grow curious, and it continues from there.

13:14 - 13:29 "I'm not going to say that Melanie represent the subject perfectly, but Danielle isn't leaving room for authentic depictions of child sex abuse either. Like, how are we going to depict grooming, coercion and the like if we aren't allowed to show the positive feelings that the child might be having?"

Because that would be considered glamorization. There are NO positive feelings of getting groomed or being coerced. It is something that sticks with you. As a victim of grooming and coercion myself, it is not glamorous. It makes me sick to think about what happened to me, and their words are a massive fuck you to victims such as myself.

15:24 - 15:43 "I'm sorry for getting a little heated but this video has over a million views. This woman presents herself as someone who exposes child and she had an extremely easy target. Allow me to express a little annoyance that she struck out and fell ass backwards reactionary moral panic under zero pressure and no one noticed." *Proceeds to show the thumbnails of two Reilly Alaina videos resolving around Melanie Martinez.* These videos are stupid as shit too. Thanks for watching."

You may be mad that multiple Melanie Martinez critique/rant videos are pulling in more views than your videos But that doesn't mean that their points aren't valid.

Update: Turns out Patricia Taxxon is a pretty disgusting individual. Post

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