Deplatform Mangs for sexual assault, NDA violation leaking, and other hostile behaviors

The Issue

Mangs & July 2020 (this video outlines key problems, but not all of them)

In July 2020, YouTuber "mangs1337", known as "Mangs", real name Magnus Hestveen (as displayed at multiple points on the "Mangs & July 2020" video), had been called out for various hostile behaviors, including sexually assaulting "Goosaphone" in a hotel room for an anime convention called Anime North. The various behaviors have left the victims of "Mangs" traumatized, particularly made heinous by one of his female victims having her Stress Vomit ignored, and said behaviors are so far reaching as to even involve prejudicial behavior that left one such user, not even directly related to the allegations but rather a victim of continued harassment by supporters of "Mangs", attempting to call out "Mangs" before the allegations even came out for said harassment and eventually testify about the entire problem in fine, active detail. Furthermore, "Mangs" had leaked Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp details well before its first intended release date and later interviewed his source of information, an employee of WayForward Technologies, Inc. who had just been laid off at the time, to harangue Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp.

Despite this, "Mangs" enjoys a YouTube channel with over 130,000 subscribers to this day, a marriage (his wife being just as much of a sadist doesn't change enough at all because of the ever superficial public perception), and the support of the Advance Wars communities in their own right-leaning policies where they already have supported Stop Having Fun Guys, looked the other way when they mock lust-induced murder victims, centered their culture around telling newbies how much they "suck", and deleted posts like the one on May 29, 2020 by Nyvelion calling out Yandere behavior. (Post is deleted on the non-Web Archive version.) Meanwhile, the Fire Emblem community wants to stifle any discussion about "Mangs", and if you want to call out the cobra effect in such a notion, you need to be prepared to deal with mockery images portraying you as an African-American woman stereotype banging on the car door of a Persona character who is just tuning her out entirely, screaming that the (proven) complaints about racism by "Mangs" are just hypocritical lip service. It doesn't help that other sites don't care about anything "Mangs" did, with Fandom even granting a Wiki for his ROM hack that basically says that gals who are their own persons instead of giving us guys pleasure for free are in the wrong.

The precedent set by this is that a person can do things like sexual assault and Non-Disclosure Agreement violations in the interest of hedonism, and get away with it all. This would only serve to empower further bad behavior if left unchecked. This has been particularly aggravated by false accusations all around toward OTHER parties, including toward "Mangs"' opponents in an attempt to discredit them and their efforts, either to exploit the #MeToo Movement for clout, or simply to frame the opponents as hypocrites allegedly worthy of being punching bags to preserve the "entertainment" involved. This cannot go on.

What can be done with this petition is to spread the word to people who can and will call for action by both YouTube and WayForward Technologies, Inc. to punish "Mangs" and his supporters for their abuses. With the direction the country is taking, it's important to have this handled before the situation gets any further out of control and have more cases like "Mekkah" thinking about July 2020 every day in broken friendship, or "Ryntai" witnessing her friend being pressured to leave her comfort zone while under the weather, with too much evidence of the already existing problems at risk because of things like the volatility of TwitLonger and the Internet Archive.

Something needs to be done, and the sooner the better.

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The Issue

Mangs & July 2020 (this video outlines key problems, but not all of them)

In July 2020, YouTuber "mangs1337", known as "Mangs", real name Magnus Hestveen (as displayed at multiple points on the "Mangs & July 2020" video), had been called out for various hostile behaviors, including sexually assaulting "Goosaphone" in a hotel room for an anime convention called Anime North. The various behaviors have left the victims of "Mangs" traumatized, particularly made heinous by one of his female victims having her Stress Vomit ignored, and said behaviors are so far reaching as to even involve prejudicial behavior that left one such user, not even directly related to the allegations but rather a victim of continued harassment by supporters of "Mangs", attempting to call out "Mangs" before the allegations even came out for said harassment and eventually testify about the entire problem in fine, active detail. Furthermore, "Mangs" had leaked Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp details well before its first intended release date and later interviewed his source of information, an employee of WayForward Technologies, Inc. who had just been laid off at the time, to harangue Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp.

Despite this, "Mangs" enjoys a YouTube channel with over 130,000 subscribers to this day, a marriage (his wife being just as much of a sadist doesn't change enough at all because of the ever superficial public perception), and the support of the Advance Wars communities in their own right-leaning policies where they already have supported Stop Having Fun Guys, looked the other way when they mock lust-induced murder victims, centered their culture around telling newbies how much they "suck", and deleted posts like the one on May 29, 2020 by Nyvelion calling out Yandere behavior. (Post is deleted on the non-Web Archive version.) Meanwhile, the Fire Emblem community wants to stifle any discussion about "Mangs", and if you want to call out the cobra effect in such a notion, you need to be prepared to deal with mockery images portraying you as an African-American woman stereotype banging on the car door of a Persona character who is just tuning her out entirely, screaming that the (proven) complaints about racism by "Mangs" are just hypocritical lip service. It doesn't help that other sites don't care about anything "Mangs" did, with Fandom even granting a Wiki for his ROM hack that basically says that gals who are their own persons instead of giving us guys pleasure for free are in the wrong.

The precedent set by this is that a person can do things like sexual assault and Non-Disclosure Agreement violations in the interest of hedonism, and get away with it all. This would only serve to empower further bad behavior if left unchecked. This has been particularly aggravated by false accusations all around toward OTHER parties, including toward "Mangs"' opponents in an attempt to discredit them and their efforts, either to exploit the #MeToo Movement for clout, or simply to frame the opponents as hypocrites allegedly worthy of being punching bags to preserve the "entertainment" involved. This cannot go on.

What can be done with this petition is to spread the word to people who can and will call for action by both YouTube and WayForward Technologies, Inc. to punish "Mangs" and his supporters for their abuses. With the direction the country is taking, it's important to have this handled before the situation gets any further out of control and have more cases like "Mekkah" thinking about July 2020 every day in broken friendship, or "Ryntai" witnessing her friend being pressured to leave her comfort zone while under the weather, with too much evidence of the already existing problems at risk because of things like the volatility of TwitLonger and the Internet Archive.

Something needs to be done, and the sooner the better.

The Decision Makers

WayForward Technologies, Inc
WayForward Technologies, Inc

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