YouTuber Pyrocynical slams \u2018lying\u2019 accusations over grooming scandal Pyrocynical on YouTubeAfter he denied allegations of grooming a 15-year-old, English YouTuber Pyrocynical has called a public Google Document, which aimed to dispute his claims, \u201cdisingenuous.\u201d On October 29, commentary YouTuber Pyrocynical was accused of grooming Twitter user Ivory Rasmus when they were 15 and he was 19. He promptly denied the allegations in a video posted to his channel, where he said: \u201c[The] accusation is 100% false and incredibly irresponsible.\u201d Ivory Rasmus described Pyrocynical\u2019s response as \u201ca perfect representation of why victims don\u2019t come out about their experiences\u201d and added: \u201cMy hope with talking about this on a public platform was that I could progress the conversation around weeding out exploitation of minors.\u201d Since then, a statement written by a YouTuber called \u2018Turkey Tom\u2019 has been released, which refutes the claims made by Pyrocynical and \u201cdebunk every common counter-argument\u201d made against Ivory Rasmus. https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIovebird\/status\/1326708042344304640 Pyrocynical condemns \u2018lying\u2019 Google Doc In his latest video, Pyrocynical reiterated that the allegations were \u201ccategorically untrue\u201d, and said: \u201cI truly believe that the evidence I provided was enough, and for a time it was.\u201d He described the Google Doc as \u201cpoorly written\u201d, adding: \u201cThis Google Doc is disingenuous, manipulative, and it fails to include so much of my original statement. \u201cIt makes insane assumptions based on limited and broken evidence.\u201d Pyrocynical described their exchanges as \u201cfantasy role play\u201d and added: \u201cThere was no sexual interest. There were no nudes exchanged, his name, his appearance, just weren\u2019t important to me.\u201d However, Pyrocynical admitted he was \u201cnegligent\u201d in failing to verify Ivory Rasmus\u2019 age. \u201cI may have been young myself, but I was still old enough to know better.\u201d \u201cI had absolutely no idea he was 15.\u201d Read More: Tyler Oakley taking YouTube hiatus – While he continued the correspondences with Ivory Rasmus when he turned 16 \u2013 the legal age of consent in the UK and in Ivory\u2019s home state of Pennsylvania \u2013 he added that he didn\u2019t see the age gap as unethical because \u201cit was just fantasy, furry garbage.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t want anyone to find out I was a degenerate and into this furry, role-play s*** \u2013 anyone would be embarrassed by that. \u201c[The document] is a severe case of tunnel vision, trying to right a perceived wrong.\u201d Pyrocynical apologized to Ivory directly, admitting: \u201cIt was stupid of me to message people about this furry stuff without taking into account the influence of my platform.\u201d Ivory Rasmus is yet to comment on Pyrocynical\u2019s response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Pyrocynical slams \u2018lying\u2019 accusations over grooming scandal Pyrocynical on YouTubeAfter he denied allegations of grooming a 15-year-old, English YouTuber Pyrocynical has called a public Google Document, which aimed to dispute his claims, \u201cdisingenuous.\u201d On October 29, commentary YouTuber Pyrocynical was accused of grooming Twitter user Ivory Rasmus when they were 15 and he was […]<\/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-65970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65970","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=65970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}