YouTuber Pyrocynical hits back at grooming allegations Instagram: PyrocynicalYouTuber Pyrcocynical has hit back at allegations that he groomed a 15-year-old in a statement posted on his official subreddit. [jwplayer smynPnSq] Pyrocynical is a 23-year-old UK based commentary YouTuber with 4 million followers, who began posting on the platform back in 2014. Pyro is associated with other commentary creators including Dolan Dark, WillNE, and ImAllexx. On October 29, the creator was accused of grooming a 15-year-old fan in a Twitter thread by a Twitter user called Ivory Rasmus. The thread claimed: \u201cPyrocynical groomed me and I have screenshots to prove it. I\u2019ve been sitting thinking about this shit non-stop, being angry, confused, and sad that I\u2019ve had to accept this since I was 15, but I never said anything cause I felt powerless.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIovebird\/status\/1321798971275251712?s=20 Ivory claimed that Pyro sent explicit content and asked them to compile it together, the user said they did it because they were \u201cjust happy to be talking to him,\u201d and shared screenshots from a chat on Discord. The YouTuber has now responded to the accusations on his subreddit, publishing a statement that read: \u201cAs some of you may have seen, it has been claimed \u2013 back in 2016, when I was 19 years old \u2013 that I \u2018groomed\u2019 an individual who was 15 years old at the time. I want to set the record straight with you all and share the truth. This accusation is 100% false and incredibly irresponsible. \u201cI am not denying that in the past, I took part in conversations with others that many of you will understandably consider to be weird and distasteful (probably an understatement). It was careless of me not to consider who was behind the role-play \/ art sharing, and I take full accountability.\u201d Pyrocynical went on to say that the conversations were fully consensual and that the accuser never disclosed his age until a year later. He also pointed to evidence of similar conversations between Ivory and others and an interview in which they confirmed Pyrocynical never sent any IRL content. Ivory has since reacted to Pyrocynical\u2019s statement, tweeting: \u201cThis situation is a perfect representation of why victims don\u2019t come out about their experiences,\u201d and that, \u201cpeople telling me I was egging it on when the entire point is that no matter how I was responding [Pyrocynical] was talking to a child.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIovebird\/status\/1326708042344304640?s=20 Pyrocynical\u2019s statement has amassed more than 18,000 upvotes on Reddit since it was posted on Wednesday, November 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Pyrocynical hits back at grooming allegations Instagram: PyrocynicalYouTuber Pyrcocynical has hit back at allegations that he groomed a 15-year-old in a statement posted on his official subreddit. [jwplayer smynPnSq] Pyrocynical is a 23-year-old UK based commentary YouTuber with 4 million followers, who began posting on the platform back in 2014. Pyro is associated with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}