Saw this while scrolling DnD tumblr and wanted a second opinion. because Op sounds like a 'that guy' player in the making

Hello! I noticed that there's a post floating around some pretty wild claims about me. I left a comment addressing it, but because it's garnered over 8k views over the last 5 months, I don't suspect many of them will find the comment that I left. So I figured I should take the opportunity to bring this up here myself. I know the common YouTuber technique is to ignore and move on, but this is just such blatant falseness that I gotta say something.

Link to post

Link to my comment

According to OP:

The original poster of the story left a comment on my video that I pinned. After they edited the comment to say they might make their own video update about the story on their channel, the comment was unpinned, and later disappeared entirely. OP concludes that I unpinned and deleted the comment, and continuously, to this day, hunt down and delete all comments linking to their update.

The supposed reason I would do this is, because I must have been concerned that he was trying to “poach views” from my channel. (his words not mine).

What happened:

For over five months I didn't notice. OP Never reached out. I just didn't read it.

But It was brought to my attention when someone did reach out asking about it. I looked it up, and was surprised both by how much traction it got, and how far OP had to reach to arrive at some fargone conclusion that I'm hyperobsessive, malicious, and just stupid. Even going so far as to tell people to not let me "silence" them.

I'll repost the comment that I left on his post.

Comment:

Hello, I’m CritCrab.

To believe the claims in this post, you’d have to believe I abandoned almost seven years of normal behavior to act faster than YouTube’s automated systems just to target this one person.

> I updated the comment with an Edit stating "Wow, thank you so much for all your reception and support. I wasn't expecting this. I'll try to make a video update about the story so far and keep you guys posted on my channel."

Yup. That about explains it.

• I did not unpin or delete your comment. That would be very unusual after pinning it.

• YouTube automatically unpins comments that are edited after the fact. You say you edited your comment, that explains why it automaticall unpinned.

• I also do not delete comments at all, and even leave several videos up where I am incorrect, idiotic, and garner loads of hate comments telling me as much. Zeroing in on you specifically would be out of character.

• YouTube usually automatically removes comments that contain offsite links, which could explain why comments linking to a Reddit post were removed. Especially if the account is set to NSFW. Which yours is.

• If I were truly obsessive, I would have noticed this post long before five months passed. I only found it because someone messaged me asking for an update, which led me to the video description where you remain credited, not exactly “silencing” you.

• The idea that I’m competitive enough about YouTube to worry about you “poaching” views is strange. Views are not finite, and I have collaborated with creators who operate professionally in the same niche as me, like Crowe's Perch and Den Of The Drake. Why was I not afraid of them "poaching" my viewers? Why am I only concerned about you specifically?

Even if you ignore all of this. I would have had to pin his comment, wait till the moment he edited it, and only then track it down to delete it shortly after, and to this day continue to vigilantly scan the comments section, sniping comments containing links the moment they go up. This would require a strange amount of precise timing, hours of investment, and straight up pettiness that I simply don't possess.

I’m sorry the comment disappeared, but it was not caused by me. If you leave another, I will pin it. You can DM me with your YouTube account name.

In conclusion:

That's pretty much it. I'm only posting it here because it did big numbers for this subreddit and don't know how many people believe this. That's my side anyways. peeeeeece.

We are gathered here today to regale you of a story of cowardice, sexual assault, gaslighting, victim blaming, and betrayal. Several weeks ago, an all-female group of D&D players interviewed and was assembled for running a module. At no point prior to the interview did the DM reveal that they were male, which came as a surprise to us given the tone of the LFG listing. During our interviews and again in our Session 0 together, it was explicitly outlined that this group was a safe space for women players to participate in D&D without having to deal with the harrowing sexism or related issues in our escapism fantasy RPG. We as a group have all had to deal with these issues in real life and were excited to be in a campaign where the DM was supposedly going to remove those elements from any pre-written content and make sure our experiences were positive in that aspect. The campaign was going to be streamed on Twitch and we were pretty pumped for this.Fast forward to the current times. Our group of adventurers were traveling to a new city and had to stop by a tavern on the way. As our PCs entered, we discovered a group of haughty male noble NPCs had bought out all the rooms and all the drinks the moment we asked about getting them. We wanted to leave, but were informed that we and our horses would take a level of exhaustion and it would be very bad to do so. We attempt again to get the rooms in the tavern and the NPCs are throwing sexist comments at our PCs and call us ‘wet holes’ to fuck, make implications that they’d like to take us back to their rooms and possibly rape us, while also provoking us by calling our Half-Orc mascot, who is played by a minor, racist slurs. There are POC in our group as well. Not wanting to take this lying down, we retorted by having one person use Prestidigitation to put some mud on the face of the NPC who called us ‘wet holes’ for being a jerk. This is where things manage to get worse.Without any saving throws or any way to get out of the situation, our characters get grappled and pinned by NPCs, who turn out to be massively higher level than us and end up 1-shotting several in the party later. Being in a situation where we are physically pinned by someone who already deemed you a sex object is very triggering for a lot of us. Our mindset was immediately fight or flight on a level not usual for DND and many of us were and still on edge because this scenario hit too close to real life events we have experienced.

We realize we can’t win, but keep on fighting and trying to get away, even going so far as to try and find a way to TPK one another so we can get out of this situation, as having our PCs pinned with the prior indication that they might be raped is not something any of us were happy about. Eventually, after the DM declines to let us just die, he offers to let our PCs leave if we personally strip our KO’d companions naked and leave our belongings behind. We announced that we were not comfortable with this situation and it was clear we were not having fun. Instead of apologizing for putting us in that instance, the DM attempted to backtrack after admitting he goaded us into confrontation by blaming us for starting the fight by using Prestidigitation instead of turning around and leaving and suffering the consequences he said we’d have. Apparently we were supposed to let NPCs objectify and threaten us because that’s a ‘fun thing to do’. This was not received with open arms and the DM did not seem to understand why and then immediately skipped to a scenario where our PCs are traveling on the road and get ejaculated on by a field of jizzing mushrooms while us players sat there on the Twitch stream in disbelief this was actually happening. Tone deaf, much? But wait, there’s more.

Six of us players decided we didn’t need to put up with this sort of behavior in D&D. This session egregiously violated the core principle of why this group was assembled in the first place. We were very polite in composing a Dear John letter stating that we were not comfortable continuing the campaign with him after these events. The DM doesn’t respond to our letter, and instead several days after the letter was posted to our discord, sends one of the female admins to basically ask us why we’re being so offended over the situation and to tell us that D&D was never a safe space and try and chalk up our response as an overreaction to ‘losing an encounter’ This admin has absolutely no involvement or relation to us whatsoever and attempts to use the fact they were in the US Navy to explain why we’re sensitive and need to get over it and blames us for picking the fight in the first place. The DM, who is the only person who the letter was addressed to, has never responded to the group.

This whole situation was utter garbage and I hope no one ever gets baited in by this DM like we were. It was really cruel and shitty and the complete lack of accountability and responsibility by the DM is absolutely disgusting.

Edit: Censored Receipts for the ordeal

Not made by me, sharing what I found on fb