tcaz2 posted... Yeah. He messed up for sure but it was no where near as bad as some things like this get. There was no actual physical component, no threats, just a dude overstepping his boundaries while talking to women online about a fetish. It was repeated and not okay to happen, but when it was brought out he genuinely seems like he's gone about getting help and apologizing and explaining his pov pretty correctly.
It's pretty clear it was just him screwing up and that there was no malicious intent, to me. Things happen, people make mistakes when dealing with the opposite sex (or whatever gender they're into). If he learns from it, doesn't do it again, and becomes a better person then I at least absolutely forgive him.
The tldr is Chugga creeped out several women by going too far with foot/shoe fetish roleplay and didn't realize they weren't into it. They cut ties with him and it eventually got out on social media, causing a big controversy.
Various bits of evidence and he said/she said things came out and caused a war online etc.
Yeah even before his response I did not think what he did deserved to tarnish him completely. I'm honestly upset at how this all played out, although I got even more upset when I found a YouTube video deeming both Lady Emily AND MasaeAnela liars and someone questioning why Chugga was asking people not to harass YouTubers who tried to take him down...because that's totally how it works.
I don't personally particularly need The Runaway Guys to keep making new Let's Plays but the fact this stupid thing potentially ended them forever sucks. That being said, Chugga also apparently hadn't even begun work on his next Let's Play due to feeling stress from a number of unrelated issues even before the misconduct allegations broke out, which is why he checked into rehab in the first place. Even if he does return to the YouTube community, he'll have to second guess everything he says (considering his tendency to say inappropriate and/or dirty crap in his video content, ESPECIALLY in TRG - see "Should we do Daisy on hard?" for instance - got him into this mess in the first place) and I don't know if he wants that. Poor guy.