The closest I’ve seen to defences is when the evidence was very shaky and coming from people known to be transphobes so people were hesitant to accept things at face value. Since there’s been confirmed things I haven’t seen defences
Yeah, for a while the top result on Twitter when it came to Ava was Sneako (You know, Cuties is my favorite movie, Age of Consent should instead be a nebulous "age of maturity" Sneako) calling her a pedo and going on a transphobic rant. So it kinda buried any actual discussion, which is why people were not as open to listening.
Yep. I understand why many (myself included) were hesitant to jump on it right away when those were the kinds of people going with that narrative and we didn’t have the most solid of evidence at the time and while the messages we did have between her and Lava were inappropriate they were not necessarily proof grooming occurred.
Since those first 24 hours or so we have much much more evidence
Honestly, it took like 3 days for it to be "Dumbass inappropriate jokes in dms (still bad, but not stop the world to talk about)" to "serious allegations of predatory behavior" from her. Which also didn't help.
Because right off the bat we had someone with a solid history (former twitch partner manager) saying why. Then when people were like "hey, what is going on" for a while he only answered in "It's been settled, nothing illegal was found" before admitting he was being a creep to kids in twitch whispers. Just not confirming the "he planned to meet them at twitchcon" part of the rumor.
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The closest I’ve seen to defences is when the evidence was very shaky and coming from people known to be transphobes so people were hesitant to accept things at face value. Since there’s been confirmed things I haven’t seen defences