@@xx-bu1hxas a Canadian, I must say, it’s an exhaustive effort on our part to be the mandated partners of so many Americans, but we take our duty seriously 🫡
I miss my fanfiction era. It was black-hole-implosion levels of cringe, but I was so unbound by the fears of what people would think and just indulged in my creativity, and I miss being that free with my writing. I may be a better writer than young me in terms of the technical aspects, but she really blew me out of the water with her imagination and passion.
judging by the star trek fanfic I'm following that just updated yesterday, this is 100% true. their house got reposessed WHILE updating the chapter... apparently.
This whole thing really reminds me of the whole HIV living scandal on tumblr where this girl completely made up having hiv and being a person of color and her supposed girlfriend, all while writing Hamilton fanfics in the setting of the 1980s aids crisis
it’s so funny that in addition to the fabricated lives he also added the detail that all three of these women were in a relationship with him. gives real “me and my three weed smoking girlfriends” energy
Hii Turkish girl here 🙋♀️ I’m here to say this is insane but also Turkish people are not Arab lol turns out Susan actually does not know which race she is 😅
Ikr? This part took me out, esp. since she is claiming to be an immigrant and not US-born. I understand, that all Muslim countries look the same from w. usian pov but literal wars were fought over these "small details".
Someone from Turkey being named Susan Banks and writing Arab on the other is a red flag in itself if you know anything about Turkey or people from there 💀
Exactly 😂 and she's also supposed to be Muslim? Please forgive and correct me if I sound ignorant here but Susan Banks is the least Muslim sounding name I have ever heard 😂 yes, I've heard of people who converted to Islam and didn't change their names but even if that was the case here I find it difficult to buy this name 😂
There are actually quite a lot of Arabs living in Turkey, especially since the Syrian civil war started. Turkey's a large country with quite a diverse population. But I somehow doubt Coti knows Arab and Turkish are different ethnicities. No idea if he had a backstory for why his fake Turkish Arab partner had an English name.
i love how D’Angelo is spamming us with videos, it has the same vibe as a friend who sends you reels about random internet stuff and spams you loads of vm about it.
Yes! And this feels very much like the friend that you didn't talk with for a while, but when you reconnect it's better than when y'all hung out before. I know I don't know him, but seeing him thrive and making stuff he wants to talk about makes me genuinely happy.
About the race part: That can easily be explained by white people who has white privilege want the clout and attention of PoC and other marginalized groups receive for overcoming systemic problems
I wonder that too, and they’re making those of us who go through real struggles looks so bad. I was kind of sad within the first like 10 minutes when D’Angelo was like yeah, that doctors visit thing sounds fake… Unfortunately sounded completely believable to me because I am black/Latina and blind, and I’ve literally had a doctor. Ask me if my ears work properly, and if I could hear their instructions, say that there was no way I was sexually active, and I knew that because of my disability, and questioned how I was biracial when I so specifically look like insert thing that I have not at all. People really think if you’re disabled, they can infantilize the F out of you or talk slower or do whatever and they’ll genuinely think they’re doing it for a good reason or to help and all it does is condescend and crush you and sometimes become low-key racist or offensive in some larger political way.
Same energy as that one taylor swift update account who became inactive and then came back months later like "oh yeah I got arrested and went to jail bc I refused to serve in the idf"
For those who don’t know, Gallaudet (4:30) is THE deaf university in America. Like the ONLY university catered specifically towards the Deaf community. It’s insane they thought they could get away with faking that
I took a couple classes there and like 98% of the undergrads are Deaf, and something like 70% of graduate students there are Deaf. They like… straight up won’t admit you if you aren’t Deaf or hard of hearing. Even Deaf students who grew up in English speaking schools are encouraged (almost required) to learn ASL, because even all the teachers are Deaf. You’d need an interpreter to be hearing there for sure
I like how people that clearly have no idea about the ethnicities and cultures of Europe and Asia, with all their nuances, insist on cosplaying these ethnicities and more often than not get it wrong. That would have been my first clue.
Cause people know so much about ethnicities and cultures of Africa, Asia, Latin America…lol that’s not a uniquely Eurasian thing. 💀 People are dumb af about that especially towards POC bfr.
This sounds very similar to that one tumblr fandom person that was faking being a black queer disabled immigrant + rose to prominence in the community there to the point of being a primary gatekeeper.
We had one too. Also black, and queer, and disabled, and an immigrant. They were massively popular, until the proverbial shit hit the fan. They tried to dox me multiple times, going as far as trying to fish my real name, address etc. from people I knew OUTSIDE tumblr. Just because I didn't delete my fics from AO3. They didn't like the ships I wrote. God, what a mess that was.
Fanfic writers are still unhinged. A friend of mine apologized for a chapter being late due to a cancer diagnosis. She would give updates on that whenever she updated that fic, giving everyone a real emotional rollercoaster after the emotional rollercoaster that was her actual writing. She's cancer free now. I myself once apologized for a chapter being late due to a death in my family.
I can't believe I struggle to brag about myself in a job interview when there are people out here making up fake characters and credentials for attention
I read about this. There was a similar case in the German disability twitter space a few months ago, where it turned out some old guy faked a young disabled woman and her disabled daughter because he had a f*tish about the personal and intimate hygiene needs of disabled people. It was a shock to many in the space.
"Stay away from Indigenous people right now!" is now my favorite D'Angelo quote I'll remember from years on. That was so real! On a more thoughtful note it is wild how many different ways white people will wear your skin if you're a person of color and try to get by on so many different identities. It's just lunacy
So true! I'm white Canadian but live on the lands of of multiple coast salish nations that were never signed over (even by force) to the Canadian government so I've grown up with alot of respect for the struggles of native people so I was like "those are fighting words" and I will go to bat for my native brothers and sisters Lol
Yeah it’s even worse if you are part of the the booktok community… I swear most of the It’s just corn and less plot Bro I just want to write my wild kratts x tf2 crossover I don’t want to fake every aspect of my life and post mean comments on anonymous accounts 😮💨
I used to work with someone who is a Turkish Muslim who could read and write Arabic. Her name was Turkish, Arabic-derived. Not something like “Susan Banks” lol
I'm a black woman who not barely two months ago loss my white male friend to colorectal cancer. That part made me understand the feeling of being "triggered" for the first time. I literally burst into tears. I know my actual life sounds eerily like a Craven contrivance, but I'm not about to start deleting my profiles, so...
I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. Your life doesn’t sound like a contrivance, it just sounds like life being it’s chaotic and sometimes deeply cruel self. I wish you well, grief is one of the hardest things a person can go through.
your life definitely does not sound like a contrivance. this craven guy's stories made it so far because people really do go through these things. like, disabled arab queer muslims exist, and just because craven made people up it doesn't mean any of the real people who exist with all the same identities and disabilities and life experiences are less worthy of their story being heard. i'm so so sorry for your loss, i'm sending love to you
OMFG, I ugly laughed when you said, "NOOOO, stay away from the indigenous people right now!" Thanks for looking for looking out for your indigenous cousins, we love you. 🖤
I was reading how this guy was married to a fake woman and then the story keeps going, and he invented another wife later whose picture was just an edited stock photo. Its such a crazy story.
I am blind and black and have seen this person’s reviews and shit around the community since it is so small. We don’t have comparable disabilities so they usually weren’t specifically for me, but I liked knowing there were these types of people in the community looking out. Anyway, I say all this to say it really does make me wonder as a member of the community he wanted into so bad what could this man have done that made it so that none of us actual real blind women of color wanted him??? No shade to my disabled Gurleys but it’s not like we have the deepest dating pool on earth and although I love my solitude and low-key have to be convinced to give that up for someone, there are a lot of us who would love a non-disabled partner, who really does want to understand and doesn’t want to patronize and wants to support you and your activism. So, like what did he do that was so disgusting or offensive or whatever That he couldn’t just get a real person???
@@daniellecowan459 The problem with having a real partner is they actually have emotional needs and don't exist simply to be the front for your career as a disability advocate. And after he started down this road, how do you even transition to having a real partner take over? "Hey babe, I need you to become really cool about a lot of deeply fucked up shit that personally victimizes you and your community, then I need you to go from cool to on board yeah?"
@@SurrealGoats That’s honestly the most concerning thing about this oddly enough. I’m not deaf but I am autistic and have had my fair share of people who’ve viewed or treated me as an accessory for their virtues instead of just being my friend. After a while, it just gets tiring and I’d much rather just be called the r word than ago through all that again. I wish Craven had just advocated himself from the stance of being an ally. He probably would have done a decent job from that angle.
This kind of advocacy is so important. I hope a real person can come forward and do this. I work at a specialty children’s hospital that works with a lot of disabled kids and they want to play video games too! I’ve seen some really cool adaptive controllers where someone can use their head to hit controls instead of their hands. It’s super cool!
When just being racist isn't enough. When mocking people isn't enough. When exploiting people isn't enough! We have Craven here, making fake people, going through this whole masquerade, spending countless hours, days, months, YEARS of his life effectively making racist fan fiction, exploiting the lack of representation to his own ends, almost like a long troll attempt that actually worked for awhile. I have nothing but contempt for this.
I mean, pretending to be a different race when people actually see you means either getting found out ASAP or copious amounts of dodgy body paint. We still have Hilaria Baldwin tho 😅
Tubi is Susan's sister, met Coty in 2012, but met Susan for the first time in 2017 ??? And he dated Susan BEFORE Tubi??? He fucked it up all on his own
I think the two biggest concerns/questions for me are: 1. Why did he feel the need to lie about it? As a disabled HH person with PTSD, I would be 100% fine with a white abled dude just trying to help out. He did NOT need to present himself as a series of fake Deaf women of color. 2. No one questioned that this side dated three Deaf queer disabled women of color in a row? I think it's great for people to date within those demographics. I personally am HH, disabled, and queer (white though). But if someone approached me to date and told me all the of their previous girlfriend were Deaf, disabled, and queer, it would come across as a little fetishizing. Like, that's a red flag to me, IDK.
@@felesnocis tldr: an author of a hamiltion fanfic that took place in a 1980s highschool during the AIDS crisis faked being a HIV positive chinese muslin pakistani immigrant who was a sex trafficking survivor who escaped with and married a transgender indian woman who was the daughter of a US dipomat and also had HIV. In reality it was a white lesbian (?) woman pretending to be both people so she could justify writing about HIV, and harassing people she didn't like using her identity as a shield. The cannibal fic is ultimately a sidenote. The person who exposed hivliving had written a satircal cannibal mermaid lin miranda fanfiction, and hivliving harassed them over it.
That story was so awful it broke D’angelo’s brain 😔 Why does every POC character that Coty weirdo imagines have to be going through something so heavy all the time? Not only that, it trivializes very real struggles that people are actually enduring. Sheesh
this is so disgusting, i went and read the article before watching the video and the database thing is so much more sinister than it looks on the surface. being VERY generous with his intentions, originally I figured maybe he thought he wouldn't be able to get people on board to fund an accessibility tool like a trigger/accessibility feature database as a white man without disabilities, but what you didn't mention is that he *tried to sell it to Amazon*, and the fact that he deleted a resource that real people put time and effort into because he knew he was going to get exposed is vile. at least hand it off to a prominent contributor or an organization within the accessibility in gaming community. he really showed his true colors with that one
How these people can lie so much?? Once I lied to my mom (told her I was going to the movies with friends she knew, but actually I went with an online person who I hadn't at the time met personally yet. Kids, don't do this, IT'S DANGEROUS), and as soon as she called me asking why I wasn't home yet I spilled everything out 😭
It's wholesome and hilarious at minute 17:34 when D'Angelo's eyes widen while reading the tweet asking about Native people, "No! Stay away from Indigenous people right now. Put it down, Cody!". I can't stop laughing. You tell 'em D'Angelo 😆
I mean, why seek out people with unique life experiences and abilities in order to improve the biggest entertainment industry in the world in meaningful and inclusive ways when you can just make them up, I guess? It's crazy somebody advocating for this stuff could be so racist and ableist in their method. Especially with how, uh... sensitive certain members of the 'gamer community' are about the existence of diversity in the medium in the first place. Don't give those weirdos ammunition to deny the existence of the people who are REAL by making up fakes ones.
Dude could’ve spent that energy making video game characters. I for one wouldn’t name a Turkish character (or anyone really, that’s a boring name) Sarah Banks
Also the fact that she said WHERE. As if Amy Adams wasn't born in Italy or Lee Pace didn't grow up in Saudi Arabia. The physical location you are born isn't really an indicator of your race. Like. At all.
@@iwillnotusethegothfont9312 America is a country full of multiple races of all sorts of skintones. So the average turkish person is lighter in complexion than the average American, which has Black, South Asian, Mexican, mixed race people etc
As a disabled person, I am outraged. I've used those resources! Those names sound so familiar. I'm almost positive I've interacted with "Susan Banks" at some point
As an Arab, the form story isn’t that crazy. A bit more aggressive than my usual experience, but I’d believe it if someone told me that happened to them. I’ve had people tell me to just check white fairly often and a teacher in school didn’t believe me when I asked what I should check if I’m Arab. She told me “you should just check what you actually are” like I was asking a hypothetical.
Why did so many people believe this? Why was someone who did such a bad job at faking people so successful? He didn't even bother to have any deep fakes made or anything. I can do way better job of this. Not that I'm going to, it's a hell of a hobby. I barely have enough energy to keep myself active online, let alone feign activity for all these other "people".
Because accusing someone of not existing is wild. Like, most people do not consider "this person who I have talked to and who is a pillar of my community does not actually exist" as a concern they have to consider, and it's even harder to convince other people because, as preciously stated, it's a wild claim, true or not.
And, as mentioned in the article, it is extremely normal for Deaf/HoH people to use entirely text-based media for conversations, and it's also extremely normal for progressive activists from marginalized identities (especially in the gaming space!) to be very cagey about personal information. As D'Angelo said, an anonymous gamer troll stirring up shit by falsely claiming a prominent woman of color doesn't exist is a lot more plausible than it being true.
This is so crazy! I'm persuing a master's in digital game development and, for my accessibility (in gaming) class, I came across 'Can I Play That' and made reference to it as being a useful resource in understanding what games have done right, what might be missing and how to improve. It is, indeed, a great resource. Ethical and racial considerations aside, wtf was the purpose of this?
im not even surprised about this even more, we have had so many authors faking their race this year, but the more you explained or read of the article, i was actually flabberghasted
As someone in the games industry, with a passion in Accessibility, this really shook our community. It’s frustrating that a “prominent voice” played pretend and took away opportunities for incredible voices in our community. It’s going to make it so much harder for people to take Accessibility seriously.
i knew someone on fb (thankfully never met lol) who was, as we would find out YEARS LATER, a white cuban girl pretending to be afro cuban and lebanese. i also knew their roommate (also on fb, but knew them more) and they were so fucking shocked that the afro was a wig 😭😭😭😭😭 the lore was SO DEEP, like with some DEEP CUTS abt lebanon and cuba. it’s fucking insane.
Something about the fact that Susan Banks was a Days of our Lives character who pretended to be her sister to marry her fiance and also thought she was having Elvis's baby...Great choice.
1:26 if d'angelo ever streams on twitch or starts a gaming channel, i'll be one of the first in line 🎮 i can see you being a lover of kingdom hearts, final fantasy, resident evil, and cozy games.
I don’t even understand this. He’s clearly talented and knows what’s needed, but I don’t understand wanting attention so badly. It would have been cool to have an abled person creating these tools and databases because it shouldn’t be only on disabled people to create them. He still could have been very appreciated in the community. It just seems like a shame.
This hit close to home. My WoW guild leader was disabled and an avid gamer, along with being an accessibility advocate. Sadly, she passed away last year. This enrages me so much, how dare you Craven.
5:19 unfortunately not far fetched. syrians and lebanese people always get mistaken for “caucasian” (that term is so wrong and outdated i hate it) but they are arab, and many turkish and iranian people also get mistaken for caucasian: my issue here is that turks.. are not arab, and are often self identify as white. in the US, middle eastern people are correctly censused as “white”, there was a proposition to add “MENA” (middle eastern north african) in 2020 but the good old orange cheeto got rid of it. regardless, people east of iraq are not considered arab, and turks are not EVER considered arab… instant red flag if she’s turkish
Just deleted a my own comment about it “not being far fetched”. Mine wasn’t as detailed as yours. I knew I should’ve glanced through the comments before posting my own especially since this video is a couple days old
People faking disability online like this really sucks for those of us who not only are really disabled, but also have traumas and major anxieties about being doubted to the point we start to believe it and minimize our own issues. Like, it fuels the cultural doubting of disabled people that's so prevalent that we'll literally doubt ourselves.
Lying about who you are online is common, but this is on a different level. How does someone even get the idea to do this? Did they watch Fight Club and go, "What if I did that but for accessibility in video games?"
This makes me so sad. Grant is an amazing journalist and I'm so grateful for his work. I followed Craven before he changed his name, and never saw this pattern, which frustrates me. Can I Play That was such an important resource and he set video game accessibility back so much
Really enjoy your takes. I have to admit I laugh at the end when you say, "A layman would ask you..." because my brain keeps hearing, "A lame man would ask you..." ROFL. Keep up the good work.
the final evolution of "you don't know her she goes to a different school"
She doesn't even go here! She doesn't even exist! 😂
Or worse, "this is my s/o, they're a supermodel and live in Canada so you wouldn't know them". 😂😂
@@xx-bu1hxas a Canadian, I must say, it’s an exhaustive effort on our part to be the mandated partners of so many Americans, but we take our duty seriously 🫡
@@yikes2540Thank you for your service
@@xx-bu1hx Lmao
D'Angelo fails to realize that fanfic writers are still unhinged enough to write their 50k chapter in the midst of their house burning down
Exactlyyyy
The amount of “sorry this is late I just gave birth” notes on ao3 I’ve read… well let’s just say it’s not zero
Precisely at this point it’s normalised likeeee I’m shocked when I don’t get the I’m sorry note
I miss my fanfiction era.
It was black-hole-implosion levels of cringe, but I was so unbound by the fears of what people would think and just indulged in my creativity, and I miss being that free with my writing.
I may be a better writer than young me in terms of the technical aspects, but she really blew me out of the water with her imagination and passion.
judging by the star trek fanfic I'm following that just updated yesterday, this is 100% true. their house got reposessed WHILE updating the chapter... apparently.
This whole thing really reminds me of the whole HIV living scandal on tumblr where this girl completely made up having hiv and being a person of color and her supposed girlfriend, all while writing Hamilton fanfics in the setting of the 1980s aids crisis
You're so right! I was thinking of msscribe the whole video but HIVliving is much more similar.
I was thinking the same thing!
OH MAN THAT WAS WILD
i thought this video was going to be about a DIFFERENT author who faked being latina, why does this happen so much ?? 💀
That's what this reminded me of! Really hoping this is the last even remotely similar case.
only a few minutes in but i immediately got war flashbacks to the tumblr account that faked being an hiv+ lesbian indian couple
Lmao me too! Hivliving, we hardly knew you
and it was so she could write a fic where alexander hamilton lives in the 80s and gets hiv
LMFAO WHAT
My thoughts exactly
💀 this cnt be real 👀
it’s so funny that in addition to the fabricated lives he also added the detail that all three of these women were in a relationship with him. gives real “me and my three weed smoking girlfriends” energy
AND they have cancer 😊
the weed smoking girlfriend at least were funny
Jory 2.0 over here
Smorking*
This whole story just gives such early-mid 2010s tumblr energy
Hii Turkish girl here 🙋♀️ I’m here to say this is insane but also Turkish people are not Arab lol turns out Susan actually does not know which race she is 😅
You clearly haven't met all the turkish Arab queer Muslims named Susan Banks out there lol
Ikr? This part took me out, esp. since she is claiming to be an immigrant and not US-born. I understand, that all Muslim countries look the same from w. usian pov but literal wars were fought over these "small details".
Girl, i lost my mind you dont even know...
Yes, that was so weird, because she could still be an Arab born in Turkey, but then she goes "I know where I was born". Nope, not a real person.
a lot of americans think they are the same thing💀😭
Someone from Turkey being named Susan Banks and writing Arab on the other is a red flag in itself if you know anything about Turkey or people from there 💀
My 1st question would have been to explain her name bec. I know, I would have been in for a whole story!
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Suzan Bakar was right there
Would have been a much more believable turkish name
Exactly 😂 and she's also supposed to be Muslim? Please forgive and correct me if I sound ignorant here but Susan Banks is the least Muslim sounding name I have ever heard 😂 yes, I've heard of people who converted to Islam and didn't change their names but even if that was the case here I find it difficult to buy this name 😂
some people will change their name to integrate into whatever country they are immigrating to, but the second thing is definitely a sign she was fake
There are actually quite a lot of Arabs living in Turkey, especially since the Syrian civil war started. Turkey's a large country with quite a diverse population. But I somehow doubt Coti knows Arab and Turkish are different ethnicities. No idea if he had a backstory for why his fake Turkish Arab partner had an English name.
i love how D’Angelo is spamming us with videos, it has the same vibe as a friend who sends you reels about random internet stuff and spams you loads of vm about it.
except 100x better
it scares me. i’m not used to this
Yes! And this feels very much like the friend that you didn't talk with for a while, but when you reconnect it's better than when y'all hung out before. I know I don't know him, but seeing him thrive and making stuff he wants to talk about makes me genuinely happy.
I’m that friend.
Im scared of getting used to this tbh
“Do y’all remember early fanfiction internet culture?” Of course I remember My Immortal
I'm not related to Gerrard Way but I wish I was because he's a major f**king hottie.
Wattpad fr made the middle school years lmfao
Even those of us who were kids at that time grew up hearing about Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way. 😂
The SCREAM I SCRUMPT
girl please I go back and watch that Sims video to my immortal like once every few years lmfaooo
Why are there so many writers faking their race? And how do you even fake your existence?! Let alone multiple!?!?!
Agreed! How do you do that?!
They're racist and think minorities have an easier time getting their books/articles published (lmaooo) so they create fake people to act as
It’s so disgusting
About the race part: That can easily be explained by white people who has white privilege want the clout and attention of PoC and other marginalized groups receive for overcoming systemic problems
I wonder that too, and they’re making those of us who go through real struggles looks so bad. I was kind of sad within the first like 10 minutes when D’Angelo was like yeah, that doctors visit thing sounds fake… Unfortunately sounded completely believable to me because I am black/Latina and blind, and I’ve literally had a doctor. Ask me if my ears work properly, and if I could hear their instructions, say that there was no way I was sexually active, and I knew that because of my disability, and questioned how I was biracial when I so specifically look like insert thing that I have not at all. People really think if you’re disabled, they can infantilize the F out of you or talk slower or do whatever and they’ll genuinely think they’re doing it for a good reason or to help and all it does is condescend and crush you and sometimes become low-key racist or offensive in some larger political way.
im so glad bro is on his grind he's been carrying me through the school year 😭
The school year just started RIP
literally my lunch hour youtuber
RIGHT😭😭 God bless
NO Literallyyy
fr i woudlve dropped out
I remember years ago on ao3 someone said “sorry this update took so long I got arrested” and I was like huh. Ofc it was danganronpa.
I used to write danganronpa fanfic and. Yeah. I definitely had some odd authors notes (I got hit by a cyclist and had to go to the ER)
Thanks for reading my fics. 😂😂😅
Danganronpa's community is such a wild ride. Great games though
Same energy as that one taylor swift update account who became inactive and then came back months later like "oh yeah I got arrested and went to jail bc I refused to serve in the idf"
@@desantemeh2122 the games are alright, i wouldn't call them great. the community is... definitely something though
The first part of the title made me go “oh yeah, must be a Tuesday” and then the second part hit me like a truck. Like EXISTENCE???
IKR?? I’m like-HUH?? Fake life and fake death??
But I still have to finish the video so let’s see…
My first thought was 'this has to be AI related'
L kk
For those who don’t know, Gallaudet (4:30) is THE deaf university in America. Like the ONLY university catered specifically towards the Deaf community. It’s insane they thought they could get away with faking that
I took a couple classes there and like 98% of the undergrads are Deaf, and something like 70% of graduate students there are Deaf. They like… straight up won’t admit you if you aren’t Deaf or hard of hearing. Even Deaf students who grew up in English speaking schools are encouraged (almost required) to learn ASL, because even all the teachers are Deaf. You’d need an interpreter to be hearing there for sure
As soon as I saw Gallaudet I was like… yeah you’re not getting away with this BS coty
I like how people that clearly have no idea about the ethnicities and cultures of Europe and Asia, with all their nuances, insist on cosplaying these ethnicities and more often than not get it wrong. That would have been my first clue.
Yep, the Turkish woman named Susan Banks who ticks Arab on her health forms. Totally checks out 😂
Cause people know so much about ethnicities and cultures of Africa, Asia, Latin America…lol that’s not a uniquely Eurasian thing. 💀 People are dumb af about that especially towards POC bfr.
This sounds very similar to that one tumblr fandom person that was faking being a black queer disabled immigrant + rose to prominence in the community there to the point of being a primary gatekeeper.
is this the same person who lied about having aids or someone else?
2 different people. This keeps happening somehow
@@charliegibson4016 idk if this makes me miss the Tumblr era or be glad it's mostly over
We had one too. Also black, and queer, and disabled, and an immigrant. They were massively popular, until the proverbial shit hit the fan.
They tried to dox me multiple times, going as far as trying to fish my real name, address etc. from people I knew OUTSIDE tumblr. Just because I didn't delete my fics from AO3. They didn't like the ships I wrote. God, what a mess that was.
I think there's 2 instances of people faking being Asian too (Pakistani and adopted Chinese-American IIRC)
Fanfic writers are still unhinged. A friend of mine apologized for a chapter being late due to a cancer diagnosis. She would give updates on that whenever she updated that fic, giving everyone a real emotional rollercoaster after the emotional rollercoaster that was her actual writing. She's cancer free now. I myself once apologized for a chapter being late due to a death in my family.
My condolences. And congrats to your friend for beating cancer!
I don't have excuses... I'm just living my life between updates lol
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Thank you, both me and my friend are fine, we kind of make a joke out of it all now, calling it 'the fanfic curse'.
The author of one of my fav fics got into an accident that caused her brain damage and was like "sorry if the writing quality deteriorates" ????
@@RoseWilderbless you both 😭🤣💜
As someone who watched the Spy Kids deep dive I can assure you a gaming video would be watched.
fr i would eat it up!!
I can't believe I struggle to brag about myself in a job interview when there are people out here making up fake characters and credentials for attention
I read about this. There was a similar case in the German disability twitter space a few months ago, where it turned out some old guy faked a young disabled woman and her disabled daughter because he had a f*tish about the personal and intimate hygiene needs of disabled people. It was a shock to many in the space.
That’s straight up nasty
OH GOD THATS WORSE
🤮🤮🤮🤮
"Stay away from Indigenous people right now!" is now my favorite D'Angelo quote I'll remember from years on. That was so real!
On a more thoughtful note it is wild how many different ways white people will wear your skin if you're a person of color and try to get by on so many different identities. It's just lunacy
turkish people are white dude.. wtf
So true! I'm white Canadian but live on the lands of of multiple coast salish nations that were never signed over (even by force) to the Canadian government so I've grown up with alot of respect for the struggles of native people so I was like "those are fighting words" and I will go to bat for my native brothers and sisters
Lol
@@piggletimpact then leave, be true to your word and leave, stop virtue signaling and just fucking leave their land?
I mean, might not be white.
Between Freydis Moon, Kim Chi, and the whole Cait Corraine thing, writing is an unhinged field
Yeah it’s even worse if you are part of the the booktok community… I swear most of the It’s just corn and less plot
Bro I just want to write my wild kratts x tf2 crossover I don’t want to fake every aspect of my life and post mean comments on anonymous accounts 😮💨
you gotta admit tho, you need to have huge balls and a lot of delusion if you think kim chi would pass off as a real name
@@alexv3372fr booktok is just full of gooners😭
Don’t remind me about Kim chi😭😭😭
Kim Chi and Cho Chang are girlfriends pass it on
First red flag was her writing Arab if she was Turkish
not the fact that her name was Susan Banks? LOL Like they couldn't even come up with a remotely turkish name?
Some Turkish people ( especially Muslims) can write Arabic!
To be fair some arab people are born in turkey. But yea actual turks would rather die than be associated with arabs in any way lmao
I used to work with someone who is a Turkish Muslim who could read and write Arabic. Her name was Turkish, Arabic-derived. Not something like “Susan Banks” lol
@@MorganVsTheInternetyeah ofc but Turkey(Türkiye?) isn’t an Arab country lmao.
I'm a black woman who not barely two months ago loss my white male friend to colorectal cancer. That part made me understand the feeling of being "triggered" for the first time. I literally burst into tears. I know my actual life sounds eerily like a Craven contrivance, but I'm not about to start deleting my profiles, so...
I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. Your life doesn’t sound like a contrivance, it just sounds like life being it’s chaotic and sometimes deeply cruel self. I wish you well, grief is one of the hardest things a person can go through.
your life definitely does not sound like a contrivance. this craven guy's stories made it so far because people really do go through these things. like, disabled arab queer muslims exist, and just because craven made people up it doesn't mean any of the real people who exist with all the same identities and disabilities and life experiences are less worthy of their story being heard. i'm so so sorry for your loss, i'm sending love to you
@@petrichorbones I think that was why it bothered me. It was like he slapped me n my grief in the face.
@@user-rz3nu3lm5r thank u very much. I appreciate the support n understanding.
@@user-rz3nu3lm5r thank u 💚
Also about Munchausen missing the proxy, people have begun using the term Munchausen by Internet for this exact reason
Munchausen by internet: less psychopathic but more pathetic
OMFG, I ugly laughed when you said, "NOOOO, stay away from the indigenous people right now!" Thanks for looking for looking out for your indigenous cousins, we love you. 🖤
I was reading how this guy was married to a fake woman and then the story keeps going, and he invented another wife later whose picture was just an edited stock photo. Its such a crazy story.
I am blind and black and have seen this person’s reviews and shit around the community since it is so small. We don’t have comparable disabilities so they usually weren’t specifically for me, but I liked knowing there were these types of people in the community looking out. Anyway, I say all this to say it really does make me wonder as a member of the community he wanted into so bad what could this man have done that made it so that none of us actual real blind women of color wanted him??? No shade to my disabled Gurleys but it’s not like we have the deepest dating pool on earth and although I love my solitude and low-key have to be convinced to give that up for someone, there are a lot of us who would love a non-disabled partner, who really does want to understand and doesn’t want to patronize and wants to support you and your activism. So, like what did he do that was so disgusting or offensive or whatever That he couldn’t just get a real person???
damn I wonder if there was somewhere I could learn more about that, maybe a youtube video or something
@@daniellecowan459 The problem with having a real partner is they actually have emotional needs and don't exist simply to be the front for your career as a disability advocate.
And after he started down this road, how do you even transition to having a real partner take over? "Hey babe, I need you to become really cool about a lot of deeply fucked up shit that personally victimizes you and your community, then I need you to go from cool to on board yeah?"
@@SurrealGoats That’s honestly the most concerning thing about this oddly enough. I’m not deaf but I am autistic and have had my fair share of people who’ve viewed or treated me as an accessory for their virtues instead of just being my friend. After a while, it just gets tiring and I’d much rather just be called the r word than ago through all that again. I wish Craven had just advocated himself from the stance of being an ally. He probably would have done a decent job from that angle.
This kind of advocacy is so important. I hope a real person can come forward and do this. I work at a specialty children’s hospital that works with a lot of disabled kids and they want to play video games too! I’ve seen some really cool adaptive controllers where someone can use their head to hit controls instead of their hands. It’s super cool!
thats so cool!!!
Laura Kate Dale talks a lot about accessibility in gaming. Her channel is full of suggestions and tips.
yeah, it’s a good thing to advocate for but not like this 😭
When just being racist isn't enough. When mocking people isn't enough. When exploiting people isn't enough! We have Craven here, making fake people, going through this whole masquerade, spending countless hours, days, months, YEARS of his life effectively making racist fan fiction, exploiting the lack of representation to his own ends, almost like a long troll attempt that actually worked for awhile. I have nothing but contempt for this.
Lives up to his last name truly
Why does race-faking seem to be a thing that is specific to writers, that keeps reoccurring every few months
There seems to be a belief among white writers that faking their race will open more doors.
I mean, pretending to be a different race when people actually see you means either getting found out ASAP or copious amounts of dodgy body paint. We still have Hilaria Baldwin tho 😅
because people want to cosplay oppression
1:47 I would for sure watch you do let's plays
same!!!
Me too!!!!!
Need to gon' head and drop the VOD channel
This needs more likes
YES
Tubi is Susan's sister, met Coty in 2012, but met Susan for the first time in 2017 ??? And he dated Susan BEFORE Tubi??? He fucked it up all on his own
Ok also he said he dated Susan’s sister after Susan DIED?
Thank you for having full captions upon publishing!!
its absurd how big of a W d'angelo truly is
Could you imagine not having them on a video about disability though? He would never
no homework?! yay!!
wtf Craven, there are SO many talented writers who are in marginalised groups who could have actually taken these jobs!!
this is like if HIVLiving did more than upload 1980s era AIDs inspired hamilton fanfiction and use their fake identities to start tumblr turf wars
I think the two biggest concerns/questions for me are:
1. Why did he feel the need to lie about it? As a disabled HH person with PTSD, I would be 100% fine with a white abled dude just trying to help out. He did NOT need to present himself as a series of fake Deaf women of color.
2. No one questioned that this side dated three Deaf queer disabled women of color in a row? I think it's great for people to date within those demographics. I personally am HH, disabled, and queer (white though). But if someone approached me to date and told me all the of their previous girlfriend were Deaf, disabled, and queer, it would come across as a little fetishizing. Like, that's a red flag to me, IDK.
damn i haven't seen a lie this elaborate since the hivliving hamilton cannibal fic debacle. truly a lost art
Yeah thanks to that situation I wasn't even shocked by this 💀 writers can be so unhinged
….the what now
@@felesnocis If you do look it up? Good luck and prepare to go down one heck of a rabbit hole. Its almost up there with the sixpence event .almost
@@felesnocis tldr: an author of a hamiltion fanfic that took place in a 1980s highschool during the AIDS crisis faked being a HIV positive chinese muslin pakistani immigrant who was a sex trafficking survivor who escaped with and married a transgender indian woman who was the daughter of a US dipomat and also had HIV. In reality it was a white lesbian (?) woman pretending to be both people so she could justify writing about HIV, and harassing people she didn't like using her identity as a shield.
The cannibal fic is ultimately a sidenote. The person who exposed hivliving had written a satircal cannibal mermaid lin miranda fanfiction, and hivliving harassed them over it.
That story was so awful it broke D’angelo’s brain 😔
Why does every POC character that Coty weirdo imagines have to be going through something so heavy all the time? Not only that, it trivializes very real struggles that people are actually enduring. Sheesh
I *think* he does it bc ‘who is going to question xyz from this person bc they have been through so much’
Its 12:30pm d'angebros we're tapped in
edit: upload a gaming video lets see if you got motion D'Angelo
9:30am for me :D
11:30🎉
11:33 am 🫡
11:30 x 2😎
You know it!
this is so disgusting, i went and read the article before watching the video and the database thing is so much more sinister than it looks on the surface. being VERY generous with his intentions, originally I figured maybe he thought he wouldn't be able to get people on board to fund an accessibility tool like a trigger/accessibility feature database as a white man without disabilities, but what you didn't mention is that he *tried to sell it to Amazon*, and the fact that he deleted a resource that real people put time and effort into because he knew he was going to get exposed is vile. at least hand it off to a prominent contributor or an organization within the accessibility in gaming community. he really showed his true colors with that one
D'Angelo did in fact mention that he tried to sell it to Amazon. It's in the video
How these people can lie so much?? Once I lied to my mom (told her I was going to the movies with friends she knew, but actually I went with an online person who I hadn't at the time met personally yet. Kids, don't do this, IT'S DANGEROUS), and as soon as she called me asking why I wasn't home yet I spilled everything out 😭
Was the internet person fun at least?
We can't just brush past the whole "I dropped a Cuisinart on my foot and had to get both my legs chopped off" thing
it's so thoughtful of d'angelo to sum up every video in a single word for those of us who only watch the first 4-8 seconds
That's nothing, I've been pretending to exist since 1985
Same
jerma?
It's wholesome and hilarious at minute 17:34 when D'Angelo's eyes widen while reading the tweet asking about Native people, "No! Stay away from Indigenous people right now. Put it down, Cody!". I can't stop laughing. You tell 'em D'Angelo 😆
i am obsessed with this second channel and the shorter form content bc all of these topics are so wild love u d’angelo
I mean, why seek out people with unique life experiences and abilities in order to improve the biggest entertainment industry in the world in meaningful and inclusive ways when you can just make them up, I guess?
It's crazy somebody advocating for this stuff could be so racist and ableist in their method. Especially with how, uh... sensitive certain members of the 'gamer community' are about the existence of diversity in the medium in the first place. Don't give those weirdos ammunition to deny the existence of the people who are REAL by making up fakes ones.
Dude could’ve spent that energy making video game characters. I for one wouldn’t name a Turkish character (or anyone really, that’s a boring name) Sarah Banks
The race formulary thing is what gave it up to me… only an american would not know that turkish people is even WHITER than americans
Also the fact that she said WHERE. As if Amy Adams wasn't born in Italy or Lee Pace didn't grow up in Saudi Arabia. The physical location you are born isn't really an indicator of your race. Like. At all.
Turkish people wouldn't identify themselves as Arab since they're a whole different culture!
what does “whiter than americans” even mean?😭
A Turkish person saying they're Arab is what did it for me.
@@iwillnotusethegothfont9312 America is a country full of multiple races of all sorts of skintones. So the average turkish person is lighter in complexion than the average American, which has Black, South Asian, Mexican, mixed race people etc
As a disabled person, I am outraged. I've used those resources! Those names sound so familiar. I'm almost positive I've interacted with "Susan Banks" at some point
Dead internet theory but instead of bots it’s just like 5 guys larping as people from oppressed groups.
4 of those guys are also Coty Carven
Its giving Thomas Jefferson Miku Binder
Its giving HIV Living
You know, most people move on from the whole "my girlfriend totally exists, she just goes to a different school" thing.
Strange Aeons made an incredible deep dive a while back about Ms. Scribes (i recommend). This story sounds SOOO similar.
I second that video, it's so similar to this
How does stuff like this happen more than once 😭??
Because wild people like this are all around us
There are billions of ppl lol
Turk named Susan Banks? Questionable. Turk who puts down “Arab” on any demographic questionnaire? Impossible.
7:32 "Munchausen by proxy" without the proxy is just "Munchausen" lol
4:54 Turkey is not an arabic country , any country that speaks arabic is an arabic country and Turkish people don't speak arabic they speak Turkish
how do you fake your life and death so convincingly they have an award named after you. what level of tricknology is this
As an Arab, the form story isn’t that crazy. A bit more aggressive than my usual experience, but I’d believe it if someone told me that happened to them. I’ve had people tell me to just check white fairly often and a teacher in school didn’t believe me when I asked what I should check if I’m Arab. She told me “you should just check what you actually are” like I was asking a hypothetical.
‘thank you, D’Angelo,’ we all say in unison as we put on our newsie caps and beige sweater vests, opening our laptops with bloodshot eyes
WOAH I caught a d’angelo video as it was uploaded? I’m blessed today truly
Why did so many people believe this? Why was someone who did such a bad job at faking people so successful? He didn't even bother to have any deep fakes made or anything. I can do way better job of this. Not that I'm going to, it's a hell of a hobby. I barely have enough energy to keep myself active online, let alone feign activity for all these other "people".
Because accusing someone of not existing is wild. Like, most people do not consider "this person who I have talked to and who is a pillar of my community does not actually exist" as a concern they have to consider, and it's even harder to convince other people because, as preciously stated, it's a wild claim, true or not.
And, as mentioned in the article, it is extremely normal for Deaf/HoH people to use entirely text-based media for conversations, and it's also extremely normal for progressive activists from marginalized identities (especially in the gaming space!) to be very cagey about personal information. As D'Angelo said, an anonymous gamer troll stirring up shit by falsely claiming a prominent woman of color doesn't exist is a lot more plausible than it being true.
As well as what the people above have said, this was years ago. AI wasn’t really a thing back then.
This is so crazy! I'm persuing a master's in digital game development and, for my accessibility (in gaming) class, I came across 'Can I Play That' and made reference to it as being a useful resource in understanding what games have done right, what might be missing and how to improve. It is, indeed, a great resource. Ethical and racial considerations aside, wtf was the purpose of this?
Are we sure this person is not also making up deaf and trans Craven? Maybe its even worse?
3:27 D’ANGELO DEAD AT [WHATEVER AGE]. NOOOOOO!!!!!
FINALLY a video about polygraphic microplastics
im not even surprised about this even more, we have had so many authors faking their race this year, but the more you explained or read of the article, i was actually flabberghasted
omg so glad you’re done a video on this I heard about it not that long ago and it’s actually insane the way some people think 💀💀
As someone in the games industry, with a passion in Accessibility, this really shook our community. It’s frustrating that a “prominent voice” played pretend and took away opportunities for incredible voices in our community. It’s going to make it so much harder for people to take Accessibility seriously.
19:25 "when not writing, he is usually screaming" same man. same
Sometimes I wake up and I’m worried there won’t be a d’angelo video for me to procrastinate to
i knew someone on fb (thankfully never met lol) who was, as we would find out YEARS LATER, a white cuban girl pretending to be afro cuban and lebanese. i also knew their roommate (also on fb, but knew them more) and they were so fucking shocked that the afro was a wig 😭😭😭😭😭 the lore was SO DEEP, like with some DEEP CUTS abt lebanon and cuba. it’s fucking insane.
This reminds me of the whole hiv hamilton fanfic author drama on tumblr. truly the past repeats itself
Something about the fact that Susan Banks was a Days of our Lives character who pretended to be her sister to marry her fiance and also thought she was having Elvis's baby...Great choice.
1:26 if d'angelo ever streams on twitch or starts a gaming channel, i'll be one of the first in line 🎮 i can see you being a lover of kingdom hearts, final fantasy, resident evil, and cozy games.
Flashbacks to when he did stream on twitch
I don’t even understand this. He’s clearly talented and knows what’s needed, but I don’t understand wanting attention so badly. It would have been cool to have an abled person creating these tools and databases because it shouldn’t be only on disabled people to create them. He still could have been very appreciated in the community. It just seems like a shame.
This hit close to home. My WoW guild leader was disabled and an avid gamer, along with being an accessibility advocate. Sadly, she passed away last year. This enrages me so much, how dare you Craven.
6:31 Not the ao3 author notes😂
This D'Angelo run is Olympic
I'm living for these daily D'Angelo drops 🤩
Is D'Angelo Wallace actually Coty Craven? Am I Coty Craven? Are you Coty Craven????
we are all coty craven and this is the cravenverse
Bruh not him pretending to be the Mother too 😭😭😭☠️☠️
2:07 BRUH that person should write a movie w that premise bc that would be _thee_ plot twist of the century
This is the most advanced form of roleplay I have ever seen 😭
5:19 unfortunately not far fetched. syrians and lebanese people always get mistaken for “caucasian” (that term is so wrong and outdated i hate it) but they are arab, and many turkish and iranian people also get mistaken for caucasian: my issue here is that turks.. are not arab, and are often self identify as white. in the US, middle eastern people are correctly censused as “white”, there was a proposition to add “MENA” (middle eastern north african) in 2020 but the good old orange cheeto got rid of it. regardless, people east of iraq are not considered arab, and turks are not EVER considered arab… instant red flag if she’s turkish
Just deleted a my own comment about it “not being far fetched”. Mine wasn’t as detailed as yours. I knew I should’ve glanced through the comments before posting my own especially since this video is a couple days old
People faking disability online like this really sucks for those of us who not only are really disabled, but also have traumas and major anxieties about being doubted to the point we start to believe it and minimize our own issues. Like, it fuels the cultural doubting of disabled people that's so prevalent that we'll literally doubt ourselves.
Lying about who you are online is common, but this is on a different level. How does someone even get the idea to do this? Did they watch Fight Club and go, "What if I did that but for accessibility in video games?"
17:43 “is this thanos” sent me 😭
"Is Cody Craven a person of...no. You knew from the very beginning he was not" 🤣 that hit me hard
Okay but D'Angelo is now king of lunchtime after taking down codeeko
Waiting for Cindy to make a video on this as well 👀
im so sorry for her 😭 can people stop being shitty
Yes please!
I was going to make a joke about collecting races like thanos once the native people were mentioned but D'angelo did it for me LOL
This makes me so sad. Grant is an amazing journalist and I'm so grateful for his work. I followed Craven before he changed his name, and never saw this pattern, which frustrates me. Can I Play That was such an important resource and he set video game accessibility back so much
Seeing this 57 seconds after its posted, I've been trained LMAO
thanos of race SENT ME
i’ve literally never been so early….my d’angelo addiction increases daily
Really enjoy your takes. I have to admit I laugh at the end when you say, "A layman would ask you..." because my brain keeps hearing, "A lame man would ask you..." ROFL. Keep up the good work.
Craven specifying that his made up partner dropped dead while gaming broke me, oh my god
13:27 “tubi or not tubi, it’s not even a question, bye ” i’m cackling lmfaooooa
i wasn’t reloading your page for todays lecture for the past hour or anything.. 😂😂
I don't know how much ❄ you're on to be releasing this much high quality content this fast but I thank you for your service