Two days later, we still do not have this passport scan or any evidence he has killed himself besides the testimony of a Twitter user, citing an anoynmous third party. In his emails to me, he promised a trusted friend would deliver a scan of his passport on Twitter within 5 hours of him killing himself as proof. He did not wait even 24 hours after his first email before closing communications and deciding to go through with his plan at 3am my time. I told him I would have to consult an attorney regardless.
#NEAR BSNES SOFTWARE#
He also offered me his services helping write software for the Kiwi Farms. I saw this as a legally and morally dubious offer at best, entrapment at worst, so I declined. Byuu claimed that if I did not delete all information about him on the forum, he would kill himself and blame me. He is completely anonymous and even now it is not possible to do a wellness check on him.īyuu emailed me before posting his tweet chain. Even after years, nobody knows his last name. There is a claim that Byuu was 'doxed', then harassed in real life. He made a post on his forum (which has since been deleted) accusing a rival emulator developer named Squarepusher from Retroarch of doing the same. It does not pass any level of scrutiny and is not told in a way that makes sense.īyuu has a history of accusing people of stalking and harassing him. Consider that this person is supposedly an real life friend of Byuu (when Byuu also claims he had no real life friends), and consider that he did nothing for half an hour, but could remember the call well enough to describe an obscure French metal song playing in the background. The last call with Byuu described in the accusation does not make sense. The person claiming to know he has died refuses to elaborate or provide evidence. The document claims that Byuu took his own life. Last year, Byuu said in this thread directly that he was not affected by the thread in any way. 13 pages on the Kiwi Farms is an extremely small amount of discussion, especially for a thread as old as Byuu's. You can read the thread in archives here. No evidence of this harassment exists.īyuu had a 13 page thread on the forum. If you're a regular, I promise the site will be back up this week, probably sooner rather than later.Ī Twitter user published a Google Doc explicitly blaming the Kiwi Farms for harassing Byuu. Since I can define this error page, I will use it to relay some information. You may be looking for information on Byuu / Near.
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While the Kiwi Farms and everything on it is legal, DoS attacks are a federal crime. A list of international suicide hotlines can be found here.Someone is currently paying money to DoS attack the forum. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline in the U.S. Thankfully, there are institutions that are willing to help victims of harassment and help them get better. However, harassment on the internet continues to cause pain and death, with harassment being widespread and increasingly toxic. Their work in emulation spanned almost a decade, with projects bsnes and higan being successful efforts in video game conservation. Kiwi Farms has been linked to the deaths of Chloe Sagal in 2018 as well as being implicated in the sharing of live streams and videos of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings. Kiwi Farms is an American Internet Forum focused on trolling, harassing, and doxing people they deem to be “lolcows,” or people that can be milked for laughs.
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I never deserved any of this.” Joshua Moon is the owner of Kiwi Farms. That’s on every last person who pushed me to this point and didn’t let up.
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“I would have kept going if Joshua Moon had shown me just the tiniest bit of compassion,” Near tweets shortly before their death. The escalating harassment experienced by Near, particularly by Kiwi Farms, led to their death. Based on the account (TW: suicide, self-harm), as well as on Near’s Twitter account, they have experienced harassment from the internet – ranging from bullying to doxing. “I have spoken to the police department in charge of the investigation,” Martin tweets, “and they have confirmed that Near passed away yesterday, June 27th 2021.” Hector Martin, a friend of Near, tweeted a Google Doc detailing the events leading up to the untimely death. Near, the creator of SNES emulators bsnes and higan, has died.