Oh, hello. Shmorky's schizo ex-girlfriend, Amanda here. Have not watched yet, but just commenting to let people know I'm still here. I'm still schizophrenic, but I handle it better now. I still have a laugh at videos like this. I actually still replay my meltdown every now and again and laugh hysterically at it. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 11, so what was recorded in that video is not that much of a unique state for me. Not the screaming and yelling - but that's why when I say to people "I need to be alone, take some deep breaths, and sort my head out for a few minutes - you'd better let me do it. Yes, I've been on my meds for a while and have managed to stay out of Psych Jail almost a year now. That's good for me. I rarely think about Shmorky in recent years. I mostly just remember the good times I had out in Missouri and Washington. I've forgotten most of my time with Shmorky. Anyway, just thought it was funny this video came up in my recommended feed today. Always a surreal moment to be scrolling on your phone and see a video about YOU come up. I'll watch it in full when I get a chance, looks like it'll be a fun watch. Kudos to the producer. (Side note: I have a Twitch channel that I stream on sporadically, should anyone be so inclined to drop by sometime): www.twitch.tv/amadeusdoesdanmaku
Oh damn, its always a trip to see someone from the video appear in my comments. I joked a lot in the video about it, but it is nice to see you're doing way better (I hope you like the video when you finally watch it) I just have one question for you though Amanda: Do you think Shmorky did the deed of leaving this mortal coil, or do you think he's still clinging onto life somewhere out there?
@@magicmush1998 Nah, he doesn't have it in him to un-alive himself. The answer is probably (and unfortunately) the most boring one: He's still living with his folks in Mineral, Virginia. Which, if he actually cleaned up the place, is actually a pretty cozy trailer. I'm sure it's still ratchet as fuck from nobody cleaning though. It's just wild how the guy straight up disappeared in a way that's pretty difficult to do in this day and age. Back in the 70s/80s/90s you could with not so much difficulty go off the grid and vanish from everyone you knew. Nowadays, and especially with Shmorky's non-stopped internet use (when I lived with him) it's crazy to me that he's never (provably) popped up somewhere online. Also - it will never not haunt me that while he was in his room on his PC (where I idiotically thought he was working on animations or gaming) he was grooming actual fucking teens. While I was feet away in the other room. Had I seen what he was doing...things would have ended much, much worse for him.
hearing that recording just showed me how delusional Shmorky was. Why would you want to record that and have other people hear that? That was just foul to listen to, as she was very clearly in such anguish.
Hiding the meds of someone you supposedly love and then releasing the audio of their mental breakdown on the internet is probably one of the most disgusting, awful things I can think of.
Yeah that made me recoil and cringe in disgust as soon as Magic said it. Its a betrayal on many levels because Amanda trusted him enough to open up about her D.I.D. (It's not described as schizophrenia anymore, its Disassociative Identity Disorder), and he uses that agaisnt her, in something as petty as an argument. That's not okay, and could have exasperated her conditions further, and likely did, especially if he hid her f-ing meds. What a piece of work that person is, has all the morality of Harvey Wienstien.
@@InVinoVeratasschizophrenia is definitely still called schizophrenia. DID is what multiple personality disorder is called now. They are very different things. Not criticising you, just informing!
There is a youtube video titled 'Shmorky is daiper fur' that is 17 years old now. Check for yourselves. So some people knew all this about Shmorky way back in 2006~2007... Thats impressive.
There was diaper fur art he drew floating around since forever (the most famous picture is even included in that video), but Shmorky always delfected that it was just commissions he did when he had no money. So ultimately it had no real consequences for him other than some trolls bringing it up again and again. Nobody knew how deep the rabbit hole really went back then.
Not only that, but in the audio he keeps telling her to "STOP PRETENDING" and shit, as if schizophrenics only act out for attention, just like he does Funny how he's accusing her of seeking out attention from her hallucinations, yet turns around and records her to seek out attention
This is something Onision would do, I mean he did something somewhat similar with his girlfriend Shiloh who suffered from seizures and she had one of her episode what does Greg do? He record her post the video instead seeking medical aid.
How can someone have such a lack of self awareness? It sounds like a parody but he's 100% genuine. I'm not surprised that he ended up in a mental institution. His gf might have been schizophrenic, but he was way more mentally ill. Good thing she got away from him
@@SpringDavid Someone going completely 180 in their political beliefs is not as uncommon as you may believe, espacially with internet people *cough cough* sinfest *cough cough*
I'm sorry but Amanda's schizo rant about how the Jews are after her and Shmorky trying to gaslight her with his Mickey Mouse voice is unintentionally a masterpiece of dark comedy
I have schizophrenia, and I would LOVE if people wouldn't throw around "schizo" with the connotation of an insult, as if suffering from bouts of psychosis is a moral failing on our part. But unfortunately social phenomena have a strong effect on the themes of our delusions, so now schizophrenia is known as "the mental illness that makes you into an antisemite," and that really doesn't help our case that it's not a moral failing.
The “Shmorkys Girlfriend” section was like a slap in the face. It somehow got worse every second with absolutely no warning. No like “so yeah Shmorky turned out to be abusive” to preface it. Just straight from “he got a gf” to “the gf has schizophrenia” to “shmorky hides her pills”. And to top it off the audio is some of the most fascinatingly horrifying shit I’ve ever heard. What sounds like two cartoon characters shrieking at each other, each trying to top each other in being annoying. While one is gaslighting the other. The latter of whom then out of no where shrieks “THERE IS NO ANSWER TO THE JEWISH QUESTION!” Like is Shmorky hiding her meds, and feeding her 4Chan posts?
He was also going to be on Steven Universe being buddies with Rebecca Sugar and she most likely knew of what Schmorky had done before then. Which begs the question why.
@@2-Way_Intersectionbro there are so many WORSE examples of people that were hired at nickelodeon. One of their employees was legitimately filmed on TCAP and they were REHIRED. Not saying Dan Schneider isnt weird but my god i wish more people could just talk about other people besides him because he’s not the only one. Look up the Ren and Stimpy creator and his misdeeds, they are so much worse.
shmorky is like the first major example i think of when i think of "renowned online artist thats exposed as a creep", the predecessor to every John Bob and Puppychan out there
Wait wait wait, wasnt puppychan that one person Antoon kept on bullying or something and was being defended by white knights? You are telling me puppychan ended up on the shit side?
Schizophrenia is one of the most painful mental illnesses to have, I feel bad for what Amanda went through, but seeing her comment, I am glad she doesn't seem to think negatively of it. Still though, hope anyone with Schizophrenia has gotten the help they need and is living a good life.
When i got the right medication (Haloperidol is the drug poepple describe turning them into zombies and that made me feel worse) my lufe turned for the better
@@markhirsch6301 I know right. I was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and spend 2 years taking haloperidol. My abusive negligent doctor made me take so much haloperidol that i had an overdose(anti-psychotic overdose is worse than death). I'm happy that i'm in a point of my life that i'm almost free of medication
My mom is schizophrenic its very painful to witness. It's hard to deal with a parent seeing delusions, crying, and being distressed over imaginary things, they're delusions are so strong and so real in their perspective that they ruined their lives over it. I'm always worried she's gonna have another psychotic break and start wandering the streets She says she has it under control now but still.
The one silver lining to schizophrenia is that it is technically a temporary condition. If someone can survive it, it does eventually burn itself out. However, that can take over a decade and who knows how badly your life will be messed up in the meantime...
@@adrianpaul1985 In what way? Cause it's not as fun as it used to be? It's always been shit but I've gotten way better discussion off there than Reddit or Tumblr
@@adrianpaul1985 meh. It's just a pretty boring site. The only people who think 4chan is anything but boring are the people who've never visited the website.
I used to watch Garbage Gaming for a time and now it’s really haunting to watch their old videos. Not because of Shmorky, but Lotax having committed suicide. After all of that, Lotax actually tried to get in contact with Shmorky again, because he missed him. His life was in the shitter, and he ended and nobody so much as shed a tear, just shock and moved on. Now add on to the fact that Shmorky hasn’t returned to the internet since, and Garbage Gaming is just the most haunted and cursed channel ever. Playing fever dream games by dead people.
@@yoursonisold8743 Lowtax abused his spouses, but not his girls, as far as I know. It’s just sad to watch videos of them together knowing that the girls don’t have a dad anymore, even if he was an awful person.
Fuck….i grew up on something awful and loved garbage gaming for its charm and was so easy to watch while doing things or bored at work….i rooted for lowtax, that hurt.
I didn't know he committed suicide. I used to watch Gaming Garbage as well, and actually didn't care that Schmorky had an annoying voice. Sucks they were both garbage people. I remember all of the drama surrounding Lowtax's situation with his ex wife but haven't thought about it until now. Cursed channel indeed.
Dark Fact: Schmorky was also one of the main people who created those weird comics with garfield, peanuts characters and etc becoming monstrocities, known as the ZALGO comics, THAT'S RIGHT, Schmorky was involved in the creation of *FUCKING ZALGO.*
I feel so bad for schizophrenics. Its the only mental illness that can be openlly mocked. I knew someone with it and he talked about an episode where he was convinced people had his mother for ransom. It must be a living nightmare to not be able to trust yourself.
Oh my god, hiding her meds is fucking vile, I don’t have schizophrenia, I got bipolar disorder which sometimes will make me psychotic when I’m manic, I can not imagine someone hiding my meds and then recording my eventual breakdown. That’s so fucking awful.
Same. I have bipolar too. I used to be a big fan of his too. Just now watching this and I'm like woah 😮 what a mean ruthless person. If I didn't have my meds I'd be sobbing.
it's not just the animation/entertainment industry, it's very often in real life. Look at most serial killers and other deviants of this kind. They were often abused themselves before turning the knife on innocent people, becoming much worse than their own abusers Anectodal but I was abused mentally a lot by my mother and my siblings, and I was a bully during my childhood and my teens. I regret having brought this pain upon others but I believe the reason for my violence was the violence I felt myself
one of the unfortunate realities of abuse is that it's a cycle; statistically the vast majority of those that abuse have been on the receiving end of it themselves, most commonly during childhood. it takes a hell of a lot of strength for someone perpetuating that cycle to break it.
I've never seen anything good happen in darkness. The persona of Schmorky and the somewhat anonymous nature of platforms like Discord made it easy for him to become a huge creep.
There's some dark psychology behind it. You get abused, and in order to understand it and maintain a level of control in a world that seems so wicked, you become an abuser yourself.
It would definitely not be.. too out of character for Nick. Though I hear he was so obsessed with trying to make the show ABOUT gender identity. Like not even featuring it, that was the MAIN PREMISE he wanted. So they pulled back their request.
I would like to just clarify for any interested that the schmorky situation wasn't responsible for lowtax's passing. Lowtax was "forced" to sell Something Awful and coasted off the money from the sale, he wasted all of that money feeding an opioid addiction and frivolous spending. At the same time he was divorced twice and both wives fled accused him of abuse and one of which took refuge at battered women's shelters with their kids because he allegadly was holding her passport. The breaking point was when he failed to gain custody of his children and faced payments he couldn't hope to pay back.
@@MrManProductionThe explanation is a bit long cuz it has a lot of background on the forum history, but as Something Awful got older Lowtax became less and less involved with moderation, running the site, or even posting. SA developed a culture that was radically different while lowtax was gone and it became very Tumblr esq in it's lean to the left compared to the people who originally found Chris Chan and it's user base had a poor reputation across the internet for being feral picks from that earlier era. When the whole schmorky situation imploded Lowtax was active on KF and tried to go back to Something Awful but found it's user base was insufferable, it was going in circles loudly defending schmorkys kinks, talking about how schmorky might be a p@do who wants to have his diaper changed and to eat the poo poo but you shouldn't miss gender him, ect. Lowtax didn't like this and wanted to reclaim SA from what he thought was a minority of users by kicking some of the mod team who largely had been running the website in his absence and the whole website revolted. The userbase hated Lowtax because they saw him as exploitative, they were the ones to build and sustain the website for years while he sat back for years without updating the forum, coasting off ad revenue, and account money and he tries to come back and change them and fire employees who were running the website. Not to speak ill of the dead but Lowtax was the type of person who couldn't stand confrontation and would run away from his problems, when faced with having a hostile userbase, change moderation, update the forum software, ect or take the money that the forum raised to buy itself from Lowtax. Lowtax choose the money, he wasn't "forced" to sell the website but at the end for Lowtax there was no way for him to continue owning the website as it was.
Man that audio snippet of Amanda’s breakdown was hard to listen to. She sounded so disoriented and terrified.. My sister is schizophrenic so I am projecting a bit (her episodes were different: really withdrawn and difficult to get through to. thankfully responded well to meds but is still very very anxious, some autoimmune issues popped up too), but hearing him taunt his obviously distressed girlfriend like that makes my blood boil. And while I do feel horrible for the abuse he suffered throughout his youth, what he did later just makes him a pathetic, disgusting, waste of space.
@@theeskrunglyIt is tbh. youre putting your partner in danger by taking away their medication as someone who takes medication for bipolar- and the times where i forgot to take them were one of the worst days of my life. i cant imagine being forced to withdrawal on my medication like that. pure evil
i said this already on TheGreaseWizard's video about Shmorky, but saying this here anyway in the MCU Spider-Man movie, the laptop of the character Ned Leeds has a sticker of the "This is Fine" meme, the thing is that the image comes from the Shmorky version and not the original Shmorky is canon in the Marvel Universe
There was a reason why Shmorky being accused of being a furry was a big deal on SA. Due to many, many negitave issues with furries in the forums. Lowtax made either being a furry or mentioning them a bannable offense. It was strictly enforced, but Lowtax was also notorious for his inconsistency with ban enforcement and would have made an exception for Shmorky. Which would have pissed everyone off and caused the NSFW board FYAD to spill out into the rest of the site.
@@fredericksaxton9782this is the early/late 2000's we're talking about mate. For most of the internet, furries were perceived as sex addicts with a thing for eating shit and nazism. It was, to call it something, bizarre.
man lol, you really undersold the horror of the recorded conversation. The genuinely sad and disturbing schizophrenic condition.. and then Shmorky's high pitched voice didn't remove tension at all - actually worsened it. Two individuals, suffering their own conditions, that are not at all equipped to deal with each other's. kind of an existential nightmare. hope they got the help they needed.
It's rela sad I'm gonna be honest, I didn't know much at all about Lowtax before this other than him being the creator of the SA forums. I got attached to him, and then... I learn he killed himself at the end of this video. I hope his kids are fine now.
The "Stonetoss is Shmorky" theory is so entertaining because another theory that goes about is that Stonetoss is another comic artist named redpanels, who rebranded after the comic presumably started losing steam. meaning that if both these theories are true, Shmorky, whilst presumably doing toilet diaper RP, managed to rebrand 2 times within 3 years, once while still going under shmorky before shit came to light, and each time not only managed to start a relatively clean slate, but also managed to garner moderate to massive success on all of his alias's Huffing diapers really does something to you hot damn
If that's the case then tf does this person even believes at this point? He just goes for whatever culture looks nice to him instead of something he believes in, he just get influenced so easily
Redpanels did recently a comic about Pride where a poop fetishist ruins everything by spraying everyone with septic tank and yelling 'Scat Pride Worldwide'. Very Shmorky. 😅
i really doubt redpanels is stonetoss. they have different sets of humor (they may be *slightly* similar but not at all stonetoss' humor. also the theory is grasping at straws. shmorky being stonetoss makes more sense
That's pretty much what happens when they discovered a Grifters who's happens to be "Trans" I put quote on quote there because most problematic trans i have seen lately are people who using being trans as an excuse or clout chasing.
that argument recording brings me at this uncomfortable expression between feeling utter horror at amanda's schizophrenic rant and absolute howling laughter at shmorky's stupid voice. it's like your brain is fighting with itself knowing that it isn't funny, but the laughter at the haha mickey mouse person's voice is trying to burst out of you.
The argument audio between Shmorky and his girlfriend sounds like double D from Ed Edd n Eddy as the villain of a psychological horror game tormenting the exhausted protagonist
I'll put money on mental hospital. I recently had a relative go missing for several years, and we were all worried she may have been murdered or something, but then she popped up in a mental health ward. They don't really inform people they're in there for safety reasons.
Mostly for social stigma. If you are mentally ill then you are deemed unworthy of being alive. Getting a job is impossible and having a life is a nightmare when everyone treats you like you're not human. I had to abandon my life and restart with new people even though I didn't do anything to them. I just told them I was mentally ill. I act the exact same way with the new people. They just don't know anything. And therefore treat me well
15:20 Amanda Screaming in horror and Shmorkie with his screeching Michael Jackson voice trying to calm her down is one of the funniest things i ever heard
Nickelodoen is infamous of how poorly they treat their creators, cancelling nearly every show they own if it isn't in their top 3 most successful as soon as it's released. Turning them down is very understandable, just look at how they treated Greenblat (The guy who made most of the most acclaimed Spongebob episodes ever)
Tbh wanting creative control is good but with how “interesting” politics in media has become I think Nick definitely dodged something. Also a second Dan Schneider LMAOOO
Only good reason to do so is if Cartoon Network or Disney make you a better offer or if you have an actually lucrative, valuable IP and you rightly distrust them for the way they've treated other creators (Making Fiends, anyone?)
Never seen any of those animations and I've been terminally online since 2005. It always amuses me how much of internet bullshit you can miss even being online way too much.
Yeah tell me about it. I didn't really start playing flash games until like late middle school, so a lot of the Certified Childhood Classics are unknown to me. Same with AVGN and Nostlagia Critic. Kinda happens when you didn't have a computer for quite a while.
@@Calvin_Coolage I didn't really play flash games at all period. Just alot of RuneScape and youtube once it was out and le internet meme browsing on the 4chins so I saw alot of the early animations that went viral but every so often I come across one of these 'internet documentary' type channels and see entire meme crazes and e-famous types I didn't even know existed.
I had this realization when I decided to check top 100 gaming YT channels from socialblade and recognized maybe 10-15. I'm pretty much terminally online and at any time there's good chance something from that sphere is playing on my second screen. That's probably the area of social media I'm most familiar with. And apparently I don't know shit even about that. None of us have seen anything but a small fraction of everything that internet has to offer.
Dear god, Amanda was losing her mind due to her schizophrenia and Shmorky is just talking to her like a fucking cartoon character That's actually fucked up.
Holy fuck, the fact that the guy that is partially responsible for 4chan's origin is dead. not gonna lie, it made me lean backwards on my chair having to think about what i just heard today.
@@norikofu509 It makes it so much more convincing. A lunatic "made up" a corrupting eldritch being? Too goddamn convenient. Zalgo is what drove Shmorky over the edge
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943almost all people who are unhinged on the internet who spiral out of control "invent" a character before the decent of the their madness... Sonichu and Zalgo are actual eldritch demons.
@@commetsftw Exactly. Don't forget the Ember Ghost Squadron either. There was a Japanese serial killer who had an alter ego called Ratman. There are multiple cases of this
Now I understand why someone like Zone has very little traces of their real life on the internet. As legendary as they are, we don't know a whole lot about them besides 'they do porn animations, worked for lab zero, and then went back to porn'. No real name, no place of birth, no hobbies or interests, nothing.
There are actual ways to train and make your voice sound feminine, idk whatever the fuck Shmorky was aiming for with that voice but I don't think they used any of those methods.
"sandypants" was actually in a skype group chat i was in with a bunch of my friends all the wayback in 2009. i thought she was incredibly strange but never thought much of it at the time. this whole fiasco still fucks with me to this day one thing i will comment on is she wasn't pretending to be 13. she claimed she was somewhere in her late teens or early 20s, don't remember what age exactly since it was such a long time ago but definitely not 13
Shmorky is like the lord voldermort of the online animation community. The uttering of his name brings up horrible memories of fetish art that goes against Christ. On a side note, Stonetoss Vs Shmorky is a fight I’d pay to see. My moneys on Stonetoss.
Hiding someone's meds is fucking despicable. I hope anyone with schizophrenia (or any other commonly demonized and misunderstood disorder) who sees this is doing alright.
One of the things that makes it hardest to piece together the exact saga of Shmorky is that even apart from himself, almost all the people who knew him best and ever had anything to say about him have turned out to be unreliable narrators in some form or another. Amanda was by her own admission paranoid about continuing her regimen of medication, took Kratom (known to induce anxiety and psychosis), and was told by Shmorky in at least one of their chatlogs, "There are people that are so anti-pill that it makes me annoyed. Telling someone to 'go off their meds' is bad advice. Always." So it's entirely possible the accusations by the paranoid shizophrenic were... accusations made by a paranoid schizophrenic. Lowtax was in a sharp downward spiral heading into his second fairly messy divorce (and ALSO recorded and posted a 15-minute argument between him and his spouse looking for sympathy points after Shmorky did it, Jesus Christ). Carefully was more than happy to let the narrative of her being underage during those ERP's unfold which was the bomb drop that actually turned everyone against Shmorky the hardest including Lowtax. Weird diaper cub roleplay shit is a red flag and making your gender your entire identity is offputting, but this would've crossed the line into actual, practicing, danger-to-people pedophile territory. Except, she went back on that almost two weeks after the fact, once the damage was already done and Shmorky had been run out of every community and (allegedly) made an attempt on his own life. People have dug through the logs more thoroughly than me and come up with plenty of evidence to suggest she was 19 at the time, so the most damning thing that can actually be said about what transpired (other than a bunch of weird fetish crap) is that Shmorky was in his late 30's and clearly didn't mind going after women half his own age. Carefully also dropped several other accusations about cheating and so forth that turned out to be BS and at this point I'm starting to get the impression she just saw an opportunity to get some attention by dunking on someone she felt was a bit of a creep and took it too far. There are some even greyer areas; there's evidence pointing in every possible direction that Peaches and Sandy might be the same person who _isn't_ Shmorky, or _one_ of them might be Shmorky, or Soliloqueef might be Peaches mugging for attention. There was at least one other video covering this in a little more detail and it's confusing as hell. To add even more confusion, the Sandy account made a post at the same time as Shmorky was supposed to have been institutionalized for his unaliving attempt a few days prior. So either Shmorky isn't Sandy, he somehow got free-reign internet access to update himself on _very_ recent Kiwifarms drama and log into an Inkbunny account despite being confined for his own safety, or he wasn't even institutionalized for the brief period that he was seemingly confirmed to have been. It was also a running gag on the SA forums that Shmorky had paid rent with BJ's at one point, because he had let that slip and at the time seemed firmly unbothered by it. One of those "yeah, that was a time in my life but hey at least it makes for a funny story" things -- until in his final months of relevancy when he made that autobiographical comic (which was dug up after being posted under a sockpuppet somewhere IIRC) during the height of his diva phase, when suddenly it was this horrible abusive arrangement in retrospect. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, and I know trauma is a hell of a thing but Shmorky absolutely loved playing the victim in his post-tumblr years so it's difficult to not view it through that lens after having treated it as a joke for most of his life. And the theory I'd heard about where he ended up was that, fresh out of connections, occupations, and funds, he didn't really have any options left but to move back in with his abusive family. Much as I'd like to believe he was institutionalized long-term and that's been doing him some good, he lives in the US. Who would even be paying for it? Although really, the thing I'm most disappointed this video missed its opportunity to highlight is the one immortal line dug up from that nightmare abyss of ERP sessions: "I [blank] your [blank] and do a particularly good job in that aspect of the scenario." To this day my brain can't quite process that that was an actual chain of words spoken by a sentient person.
>who would be paying for it? Taxpayers of course, and I don’t even mean that in a bad way Someone’s gotta oversee the particularly bad cases where they’re a danger to society but their brains are just shot and they don’t even know what a family is much less the name of someone in theirs y’know Had a family member that worked for a state-run mental hospital in Hawaii and it was really rough man, untreated schizophrenia + years of chronic meth use destroys them If Shmorky is enough of a basket case the state would rather root the bill than let him back out, I don’t even think they had to get into the gender and poop obsession, just hearing the voice would’ve been enough to sign the form and lock him away forever
@@HomelessFish139 What if all the theories is true? Instead of stonetoss being one person. It actually a group of people who goes under the same name?
There's a part of me that wants to feel sorry because it's clear as piss Shmorky was having serious issues and kept putting them under the rug, on the other hand the brainlet shat the bed and covered himself in his shit-stained covers, and only thing he did was cause genuine harm to others (possibly even minors) Shmorky is a warning that you should take care of your mental health, and that the internet can really change a person in the worst ways possible condolences to everyone Shmorky has wronged
The way I see it, he had an addiction and a serious one at that. So much of his life just revolved around trying to find new ways to express his kinks. He let them consume his relationship, his professional life, he started surrounding himself with people interested in same stuff etc. To me that's frighteningly close to for example being addicted to drugs. If watching some weird porn is comparable to smoking couple of joints at your home, this motherfucker was snorting coke and taking LSD at the same time in some drug-fueled rave. And as we all know, addicts aren't exactly known for being stable and making good life choices when they can't get their fix. Of course this still doesn't explain everything and he definitely wasn't a good person to begin with and by no means does this excuse anything. Everyone's still ultimately responsible for what they do, regardless of why they do it.
What happened to Shmorky is kind of depressing, it's rather hard to see someone who made so many iconic memes and animations turn into a disturbed individual on the same level as Chris-Chan. I've seen many major internet figures over the years go downhill and turn into awful people (especially if they were ever active on Tumblr at one point or another), but I don't think anyone plummeted as far down as Shmorky has.
That last patreon message along with that final comic made it clear af; this guy is dead. Those conspiracy theories about him changing for the better or about him becoming StoneToss are too """good""" (?) to be true, he's just dead. Heck, I'm so sure he un-alived himself that if he actually was StoneToss, I'd honestly be more surprised about him being alive than about him being StoneToss.
Wouldn't ehre be evidence of it then (ie, notice of death considering his legal name is public knowledge) or are we assuming he became a John Doe somewhere?
Prior to this, I basically had zero knowledge about this guy, but when I saw 4:30 I felt like someone decked me with a brass knuckle. And now after having watched the entire thing, all I can say is wew. This dude made me feel both absolutely vile and sorry for him at the same time. When you mentioned that he also joined Tumblr during its peak cancer years, I knew it was over for this guy. My condolences towards Lowtax and the years that were shaved off his life when he found out what creep was standing near his children without him even knowing. Also the Stonetoss theory made me chuckle a bit, even though I think it's reaching harder than Mr. Fantastic. Hopefully Shmorky's still in that mental institute getting the help he needs.
@@jessip8654 nobody wins in internet stories like these. nobody ends up being right. it’s just degen vs degen, and somehow, they always allow the lowest parts of themselves to come out towards others.
I actually LEFT tumblr during the peak cancer years and while I've made every other poor choice known to man, I am glad that at least I didn't let that ruin me more
15:16 Hearing 2 seconds of Shmorky's voice after his GF freakin tf out put me in shock for 2 whole minutes, I couldn't even laugh I was just trying to muster the air to fuel my brain after the amount I lost listening to this cartoon mf dear god HOW TH IS THIS MF REAL??????? ROFLMAO
One of the most appalling/uncomfortable things to me personally is the... blatant disregard Shmorky had for consent. Plenty of people are talking about him being emotionally abusive already or just saying "lmao look at his weird fetishes", but like. He was pissing himself in front of his girlfriend despite her fully expressed firm discomfort. He was guilting people into roleplaying with him and accusing them of kinkshaming when they said no-- that person also happened to be a minor, but given that they lied about their age, I don't know how much I can really blame Shmorky for that. I'm just flip-flopping between disgust and sympathy. Shmorky was clearly mentally troubled and being blasted online a-la Chris-chan absolutely didn't help. If he's still alive, I hope he gets the help he obviously needs and learns how to engage with his fetishes and his gender identity in a healthy way. And, y'know, to not guilt and force people into engaging with his fetishes with no regard for if they actually want to. Part of me wonders if his early days of taking commissions he was personally uncomfortable with screwed up his own idea of what consent looks like, but that's just speculation.
Even if the person lied about their age it's Shmorky's responsibility to check and confirm that they're as old as they say they are, don't blame the child.
@@Treeeee2008 From the way it's presented I'm assuming that Shmorky DID ask for their age, and they lied and said they were 18. I don't know how you'd expect him to verify beyond that-- faceclaim, an ID? Faces are unreliable for determining age, and something like verifying via ID is only a good idea *in person,* because sending it over the internet (even censored) is a massive security risk unless the other person is trained to handle sensitive info, which... Shmorky absolutely isn't. People can lie very easily on the internet, and that's why people (especially kids) do in order to do things they shouldn't, even though I'm sure part of it is also the fact that Shmorky pressured them. Which, granted, is still bad, but the point is Shmorky didn't KNOW they were a child, and that surprised me since most of the recountings I heard framed Shmorky as a pedophile outright. I'm not saying it's the child's fault since they were absolutely still pressured into doing something they didn't want to do, regardless of their age. I just find it interesting (and also somewhat unfair) that some people framed Shmorky as an outright groomer, when in reality (to anyone's knowledge) he did not deliberately go after children for sexual interactions.
@@shrimpdan2557 I actually heard something like people were accusing shmorky with interacting with a minor, when the person who was a "minor" wasn't actually a minor when she interacted with shmorky. But she waited a week after the rumors spread to clarify the truth that she was over 18 when they interacted. I am not sure if you are talking about that person. But there was evidence that she was 18 or older like how she had tweeted she had a lease for an apartment, etc. so she had to be 18, and then she eventually confirmed that info.
That's the takeaway I think a lot of people are missing; There are a lot of nasty ass fetishes out there but whether we like it or not it's fair game as long as the people involved are consenting adults, and whatever people are into isn't our business. So that said, yes his fetishes were gross but having them in itself wasn't really the issue, it's that he continuously ignored people's discomfort towards it and villainized them for wanting nothing to do with it. Remove the fetish aspect and that's still someone who's relationship with intimacy and consent is clearly unhealthy.
@JohnSmith-mc2zz idk man , look at Matt Walsh. Also the fact that confederate and Nazi furries exist and right wing femboys exist just makes it a possibility.
@@b2serious Stonetoss does this weird "I'm being rational and leftists are silly" thing that's the total opposite of Schmorky. Stonetoss is probably making bank and I wouldn't be surprised if he stole Schmorky's design.
That's everybody who has ever lived. Are you the same person you were 10 years ago? We all die and reinvent ourselves, we just still have the same aging, wrinkling shell. Not defending Shmorky, btw, just stating what your comment made me think lol
Goddamn, I had NO idea this is what happened to Shmorky. I was born in 86, so I was there for all of it, the rise of the internet, SA, I remember watching his animations on my friends laptop when we would all chill. I never would’ve guessed THIS is what happened
The thing I remember best from Shmorky was his part in Neil Cicierega's seminal Newgrounds work, Hyakugojuuichi Forever. "I'm Shmorky, eating Porky! Whitey rapping sure sounds dorky!"
The craziest thing is that since Lowtax sold off the forums they've been a really super chill place to post and actually gotten new users for the first time in years.
One time I was watching Xavier Renegade Angel with some friends (pretty funny show) and in one of the episodes of season 2 they got a bunch of animators to make a collab of all their stuff in one episode, and there was a moment that was only like 5 seconds long but was without a doubt unmistakably Shmorky's style and it felt like whiplash seeing them again after so long and knowing they were a creep. I audibly shouted "SHMORKY! THATS SHMORKY!" as if anyone there knew what the hell I was on about lol
That is such a sad story, for everyone involved. It's a shame that most people never learn how to deal with the trauma they were given, and pass it on to others.
There's no indication that anyone other than Amanda had to deal with real mental trauma. They were handed a better deck than most and wasted it by embracing their lowest instincts and degeneracy.
i was so disappointed when the dox hit twitter and it wasn’t shmorky it would’ve been the perfect postmodern farce lol somethingawful used to have this concept of wingnut welfare, basically if you’re even somewhat comedically talented you can make bank by pretending to be far-[insert political ideology here] and peddling your shit to political loonies. it would’ve made too much sense that shmorky TFd her internet persona into a mysterious dogwhistling cartoonist when it hit that her reputation both on and offline was destroyed forever and she needed stable income
This man almost had a nickelodeon show. This man could have influenced a generation. Maybe it could have been MY generation. But his complete and total obsession with gender actually saved the kids, ironically enough.
People who didn't know about Shmorky before the video: Why are you using the Rugrats opening I don't get it? People who DID know about Shmorky before the video: Oh my god you clever bastard...
I’m not even schizophrenic and I think hearing that voice during a serious convo is enough to make me lose my sanity. Like how do you not think they’re messing with you when they talk like that and actually took your meds? psychotic or not thinking shmorky wants to harm her isn’t that crazy of a conclusion to reach. Taking her meds from her is just the worst thing someone could do to her.
A person with schizophrenia staying on their meds should be a point of pride for the person and anyone helping them. I don't have that condition but was recently put on a high dose of a drug usually for bipolar and schizophrenic people. Sometimes they can help with depression I guess. I think it helped me somewhat but the side effects really blew, and that was just one drug. Gave me a lot more sympathy for schizophrenic peope who go off them, but then they're in such bad shape. Hopefully newer drugs have fewer side effects. If Schmorky did actually hide drugs from their SO who was trying to be compliant, that's pretty fucked.
My doctors just cut off ALL my meds at once which includes my heavy dose of antipsychotics I've been on for a year and it's caused me to lose my job and hit my lowest point yet. Idk where I'm going with this comment but yeah ugh shits ass. Hopefully things can only go up from here. It's a confusing illness and I'm still new to it
My SO is schizo-effective and doesn't take meds because they either over medicated or undermedicated him. It's not fun. I felt very sad and horrified for Amanda
i get that the breakdown is serious, but oh my goodness at 15:21 his nasally cartoon character voice chiming in made me start cackling to myself. why would he EVER think thats a good idea. the whole argument plays out like a family guy bit because of it.
28:32 As a Touhou fan, I found that clip *painful.* THAT'S NOT EVEN THE RIGHT CHARACTER! The "History Eater" is Keine, and the character onscreen is Mokou. Mokou and Keine are friends, yes, but they look NOTHING LIKE EACH OTHER!
Oh, hello. Shmorky's schizo ex-girlfriend, Amanda here. Have not watched yet, but just commenting to let people know I'm still here. I'm still schizophrenic, but I handle it better now. I still have a laugh at videos like this. I actually still replay my meltdown every now and again and laugh hysterically at it. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 11, so what was recorded in that video is not that much of a unique state for me. Not the screaming and yelling - but that's why when I say to people "I need to be alone, take some deep breaths, and sort my head out for a few minutes - you'd better let me do it. Yes, I've been on my meds for a while and have managed to stay out of Psych Jail almost a year now. That's good for me. I rarely think about Shmorky in recent years. I mostly just remember the good times I had out in Missouri and Washington. I've forgotten most of my time with Shmorky. Anyway, just thought it was funny this video came up in my recommended feed today. Always a surreal moment to be scrolling on your phone and see a video about YOU come up. I'll watch it in full when I get a chance, looks like it'll be a fun watch. Kudos to the producer. (Side note: I have a Twitch channel that I stream on sporadically, should anyone be so inclined to drop by sometime): www.twitch.tv/amadeusdoesdanmaku
Oh damn, its always a trip to see someone from the video appear in my comments. I joked a lot in the video about it, but it is nice to see you're doing way better (I hope you like the video when you finally watch it)
I just have one question for you though Amanda: Do you think Shmorky did the deed of leaving this mortal coil, or do you think he's still clinging onto life somewhere out there?
I live in your walls
@@obamagaming7579I live in your balls
@@magicmush1998 Nah, he doesn't have it in him to un-alive himself. The answer is probably (and unfortunately) the most boring one: He's still living with his folks in Mineral, Virginia. Which, if he actually cleaned up the place, is actually a pretty cozy trailer. I'm sure it's still ratchet as fuck from nobody cleaning though.
It's just wild how the guy straight up disappeared in a way that's pretty difficult to do in this day and age. Back in the 70s/80s/90s you could with not so much difficulty go off the grid and vanish from everyone you knew. Nowadays, and especially with Shmorky's non-stopped internet use (when I lived with him) it's crazy to me that he's never (provably) popped up somewhere online.
Also - it will never not haunt me that while he was in his room on his PC (where I idiotically thought he was working on animations or gaming) he was grooming actual fucking teens. While I was feet away in the other room. Had I seen what he was doing...things would have ended much, much worse for him.
It's good to see you're doing better these days!
So just to clarify: Smorky didn't make the "This is fine" meme. They just did the animation
wasn't it done by kc green or something
@@Carp_surfer1558 yes
Kc Green I think also did the writing for a webcomic called “Back”.
Yep, the comic was made by KC Green. His comics have become memes a few times. The most famous one before this was the "dick butt" comic.
he
That argument... The poor woman was seeing demons while Cow from Cow & Chicken gaslit her.
I'm SCREAMING. Thank you for this comment lmao
Motherfucker
I'm at that part and I scrolled down to not completely lose my shit but I guess that's not on the books right now
FUCK, MY SIDES
hearing that recording just showed me how delusional Shmorky was. Why would you want to record that and have other people hear that? That was just foul to listen to, as she was very clearly in such anguish.
I will remember you when St. Peter stops me at the Pearly Gates. Bravo, sir.
CHICKEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
Hiding the meds of someone you supposedly love and then releasing the audio of their mental breakdown on the internet is probably one of the most disgusting, awful things I can think of.
I’m just glad Amanda his ex commented on this video and seems to be doing better. No one deserves to go through something like that.
Yeah that made me recoil and cringe in disgust as soon as Magic said it.
Its a betrayal on many levels because Amanda trusted him enough to open up about her D.I.D. (It's not described as schizophrenia anymore, its Disassociative Identity Disorder), and he uses that agaisnt her, in something as petty as an argument. That's not okay, and could have exasperated her conditions further, and likely did, especially if he hid her f-ing meds.
What a piece of work that person is, has all the morality of Harvey Wienstien.
It's really Something Awful
@@InVinoVeratasschizophrenia is definitely still called schizophrenia. DID is what multiple personality disorder is called now. They are very different things. Not criticising you, just informing!
And yet, it isn't even the worst thing Shmorky has done.
There is a youtube video titled 'Shmorky is daiper fur' that is 17 years old now. Check for yourselves.
So some people knew all this about Shmorky way back in 2006~2007... Thats impressive.
I just saw that. It’s like looking at cave paintings depicting a prophecy. Insane
There was diaper fur art he drew floating around since forever (the most famous picture is even included in that video), but Shmorky always delfected that it was just commissions he did when he had no money. So ultimately it had no real consequences for him other than some trolls bringing it up again and again. Nobody knew how deep the rabbit hole really went back then.
I too am a goon
God, Shmorky hiding his girlfriend's medication when she's a diagnosed schizophrenic is literally insane, then recording her breakdown for sympathy??
Not only that, but in the audio he keeps telling her to "STOP PRETENDING" and shit, as if schizophrenics only act out for attention, just like he does
Funny how he's accusing her of seeking out attention from her hallucinations, yet turns around and records her to seek out attention
He should have went to jail for it.
Onision moment
This was so fucked up to do to someone.
This is something Onision would do, I mean he did something somewhat similar with his girlfriend Shiloh who suffered from seizures and she had one of her episode what does Greg do? He record her post the video instead seeking medical aid.
It's so hard to take the argument clip seriously when shmorky sounds like a goofy comic relief side character from a forgotten children's cartoon
How can someone have such a lack of self awareness? It sounds like a parody but he's 100% genuine. I'm not surprised that he ended up in a mental institution. His gf might have been schizophrenic, but he was way more mentally ill. Good thing she got away from him
Bro sounds like a Simpson's character.
@@CarlM 100% genuine? As in, he sees NOTHING weird whatsoever about that voice??? Like, he legitimately thinks that voice sounds normal....?
bugs bunny to be exact
@@madnessboysgames3478 more like spongebob
The fact Shmorky kept up the voice during an argument with his girlfriend is... something.
Probably because he knew he was recording 😭😭 AND WAS GONNA POST IT 😭😭😭
some people dont deserve vocal cords
Awful?
Wow; I saw your comment right when I got to that point of the video, and...yeah, this is hard to listen. This guy is another kind of garbage.
It was legit is real voice xD
If Shmorky really did become Stonetoss, it would be the twist of the goddamn century.
"You became the very thing you sought to destroy!"
It would not be surprising in the slightest, all their political positions were incidental, and stonetoss is equally obsessed with gender and poop
He did tho
Unfortunately this theory is incorrect, stonetoss got doxxed and he looks like big Jack Horner
@@FloofMother yeah, i saw that, a shame but man that would’ve been fucking amazing
He went from sounding like a teenager to an American trying to dub a kid character in an anime.
And doing a very bad job of it too.
It doesn't sound as a "try"
That's plain dub, fully unadulterated.
This idiot nailed the "s$E dub" voice alright
Sounds like an old man trying to sound like a kid
he sounds like a spongebob imitator
👆Why americans should never be voice actors.......ever. 😁
Shmorky becoming stonestoss would possibly be the greatest plot twist in history of internet.
I kinda want it to be true so that we can mock Stonetoss for his fetishes
Honestly it would be the perfect desguise, something so opposite of his former self that it wouldnt bring in attention
@@SpringDavid Someone going completely 180 in their political beliefs is not as uncommon as you may believe, espacially with internet people *cough cough* sinfest *cough cough*
Stone toss is also a furry, something you wouldn't normally expect her to be.
Current Sinfest reads 100% like a left-lib trying to impersonate how they think a right-winger thinks.
I'm sorry but Amanda's schizo rant about how the Jews are after her and Shmorky trying to gaslight her with his Mickey Mouse voice is unintentionally a masterpiece of dark comedy
I do not remember the Jewish rant but hearing it made me laugh. I feel bad.
Kinda says something about the people who say that kind of stuff on a regular basis lol
Everytime he spoke up I died laughing 🤣🤣
i damn near croaked hearing that LMFAO
I have schizophrenia, and I would LOVE if people wouldn't throw around "schizo" with the connotation of an insult, as if suffering from bouts of psychosis is a moral failing on our part. But unfortunately social phenomena have a strong effect on the themes of our delusions, so now schizophrenia is known as "the mental illness that makes you into an antisemite," and that really doesn't help our case that it's not a moral failing.
The “Shmorkys Girlfriend” section was like a slap in the face. It somehow got worse every second with absolutely no warning. No like “so yeah Shmorky turned out to be abusive” to preface it. Just straight from “he got a gf” to “the gf has schizophrenia” to “shmorky hides her pills”. And to top it off the audio is some of the most fascinatingly horrifying shit I’ve ever heard. What sounds like two cartoon characters shrieking at each other, each trying to top each other in being annoying. While one is gaslighting the other. The latter of whom then out of no where shrieks “THERE IS NO ANSWER TO THE JEWISH QUESTION!” Like is Shmorky hiding her meds, and feeding her 4Chan posts?
shmorky almost getting a nickelodeon show makes so much sense knowing how infamous it is for having perverts working there
ok, lets not compare a guy just having a fetish to people like dan schnieder
He was also going to be on Steven Universe being buddies with Rebecca Sugar and she most likely knew of what Schmorky had done before then. Which begs the question why.
@@2-Way_IntersectionThere’s a theory that Dan Schneider was the reason the Nickelodeon logo was a foot for a while.
@@2-Way_IntersectionYeah a fetish for KIDS
@@2-Way_Intersectionbro there are so many WORSE examples of people that were hired at nickelodeon. One of their employees was legitimately filmed on TCAP and they were REHIRED. Not saying Dan Schneider isnt weird but my god i wish more people could just talk about other people besides him because he’s not the only one. Look up the Ren and Stimpy creator and his misdeeds, they are so much worse.
How did you do research on this without being hospitalized
crack
How can you know that he is not hospitalized?
Because after this video, I can say for sure that I am.
I always think the same thing for Turkey Tom.
im... currently... at m-my... final breathe...
Hey! It’s chug-a chug-a Chazington!
(Like your vids man)
shmorky is like the first major example i think of when i think of "renowned online artist thats exposed as a creep", the predecessor to every John Bob and Puppychan out there
The first animator in general to be exposed for that was John K, and he technically did make some of the earliest animations that were posted online.
Don't forget AnimatedJames as well.
Wait wait wait, wasnt puppychan that one person Antoon kept on bullying or something and was being defended by white knights?
You are telling me puppychan ended up on the shit side?
@@leeeroyjenkins555 She groomed a minor on Discord
whos puppychan?
I don't think we paid enough attention to how Shmorky would HIDE A PERSON'S MEDS because he was mad at them. Holy shit.
unrelated but woah this is the last place id expect to see you
I mean. All progressives say anyone who disagrees with them deserve to lose everything. It's consistent.
@@bluedistortions What were you trying to say??
@@scr_686 shmorky is a progressive. His partner disagreed with him. Therefore he has a right to violence. According to progressive ideology.
@@bluedistortions entonces estás de acuerdo con quitarle su medicina a un enfermo sólo por su posición política? XD
Schizophrenia is one of the most painful mental illnesses to have, I feel bad for what Amanda went through, but seeing her comment, I am glad she doesn't seem to think negatively of it. Still though, hope anyone with Schizophrenia has gotten the help they need and is living a good life.
When i got the right medication (Haloperidol is the drug poepple describe turning them into zombies and that made me feel worse) my lufe turned for the better
@@markhirsch6301 I know right. I was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and spend 2 years taking haloperidol. My abusive negligent doctor made me take so much haloperidol that i had an overdose(anti-psychotic overdose is worse than death). I'm happy that i'm in a point of my life that i'm almost free of medication
My mom is schizophrenic its very painful to witness. It's hard to deal with a parent seeing delusions, crying, and being distressed over imaginary things, they're delusions are so strong and so real in their perspective that they ruined their lives over it. I'm always worried she's gonna have another psychotic break and start wandering the streets
She says she has it under control now but still.
The one silver lining to schizophrenia is that it is technically a temporary condition. If someone can survive it, it does eventually burn itself out. However, that can take over a decade and who knows how badly your life will be messed up in the meantime...
Schizophrenia is terrible to have when you realize everything they see is real and none else can perceive the nightmares.
I’m sorry but the sentence, “4chan was a byproduct of something awful” is the funniest thing ever.
Because it is true
@@adrianpaul1985 Half-true. Most of the people sick of SA moved to 4chan but m00t and Snax always had a love for 2chan
@@zombiewafle no i'm saying it's true in the sense that 4chan is literally awful. It's a deplorable website.
@@adrianpaul1985 In what way? Cause it's not as fun as it used to be? It's always been shit but I've gotten way better discussion off there than Reddit or Tumblr
@@adrianpaul1985 meh. It's just a pretty boring site. The only people who think 4chan is anything but boring are the people who've never visited the website.
I used to watch Garbage Gaming for a time and now it’s really haunting to watch their old videos. Not because of Shmorky, but Lotax having committed suicide. After all of that, Lotax actually tried to get in contact with Shmorky again, because he missed him. His life was in the shitter, and he ended and nobody so much as shed a tear, just shock and moved on. Now add on to the fact that Shmorky hasn’t returned to the internet since, and Garbage Gaming is just the most haunted and cursed channel ever. Playing fever dream games by dead people.
Gaming Garbage was lots of fun back before I knew about Lowtax' abuse. It's especially sad to watch the clips of Lowtax LPing with his girls.
@@KM-hv1jg Wait, did Lotax abuse his daughters? Or was he abused?
@@yoursonisold8743 Lowtax abused his spouses, but not his girls, as far as I know. It’s just sad to watch videos of them together knowing that the girls don’t have a dad anymore, even if he was an awful person.
Fuck….i grew up on something awful and loved garbage gaming for its charm and was so easy to watch while doing things or bored at work….i rooted for lowtax, that hurt.
I didn't know he committed suicide. I used to watch Gaming Garbage as well, and actually didn't care that Schmorky had an annoying voice. Sucks they were both garbage people. I remember all of the drama surrounding Lowtax's situation with his ex wife but haven't thought about it until now. Cursed channel indeed.
Well, we now know that Stonetoss isn't Shmorky.
How
@@ELTABULLO Stonetoss was doxxed.
@@justsomeguywholikesmangoes1363 Ain't that just convenient?
he's a gringo instead
@@justsomeguywholikesmangoes1363 Sounds like a red herring to me.
Amanda: WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?
🐭: what do you want from _me?_
A Skaven Ratman has more dignity than Shmorky
I’m laughing out loud.
It’s okay. I see and hear things that aren’t there too. That’s why it’s so funny. 😂😂😂😂😂
🐿️ what 🐿️ do 🐿️ you🐿️ want🐿️ from🐿️ me🐿️
@@DoxxBoxxLOL🐿️
Dark Fact: Schmorky was also one of the main people who created those weird comics with garfield, peanuts characters and etc becoming monstrocities, known as the ZALGO comics, THAT'S RIGHT, Schmorky was involved in the creation of *FUCKING ZALGO.*
A man-made horror made by a man-made horror... Makes sense
I'm sorry jon...
*BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP*
That means that Pibby wouldn't exist without this guy. Take that how you will.
@@Hugelag Oh lord...
@@Hugelag I can live with that, I do not care much for Pibby anyways.
I feel so bad for schizophrenics. Its the only mental illness that can be openlly mocked. I knew someone with it and he talked about an episode where he was convinced people had his mother for ransom. It must be a living nightmare to not be able to trust yourself.
Mocking schizophrenics is a red flag. No one who does that can be a decent person.
@@maskingtables what if the mocking person is schizophrenic? Than mocking him would be mocking a schizophrenic.
@@vampirecount3880 There is a difference between mocking someone WITH schizophrenia, and mocking someone FOR having schizophrenia
Oh my god, hiding her meds is fucking vile, I don’t have schizophrenia, I got bipolar disorder which sometimes will make me psychotic when I’m manic, I can not imagine someone hiding my meds and then recording my eventual breakdown. That’s so fucking awful.
Same. I have bipolar too. I used to be a big fan of his too. Just now watching this and I'm like woah 😮 what a mean ruthless person. If I didn't have my meds I'd be sobbing.
I feel like Schmorky is just a textbook example of how abused people become the abuser in the animation/entertainment industry.
it's not just the animation/entertainment industry, it's very often in real life. Look at most serial killers and other deviants of this kind. They were often abused themselves before turning the knife on innocent people, becoming much worse than their own abusers
Anectodal but I was abused mentally a lot by my mother and my siblings, and I was a bully during my childhood and my teens. I regret having brought this pain upon others but I believe the reason for my violence was the violence I felt myself
one of the unfortunate realities of abuse is that it's a cycle; statistically the vast majority of those that abuse have been on the receiving end of it themselves, most commonly during childhood.
it takes a hell of a lot of strength for someone perpetuating that cycle to break it.
I've never seen anything good happen in darkness. The persona of Schmorky and the somewhat anonymous nature of platforms like Discord made it easy for him to become a huge creep.
There's some dark psychology behind it. You get abused, and in order to understand it and maintain a level of control in a world that seems so wicked, you become an abuser yourself.
@@MajoraWaffleIt probably goes way back to parental figures who don't realize how much they mess up their kids.
I hate the context but incorporating the Great Mighty Poo into the video was a stroke of genius
It really captures what shmorkly had become at this point.
@@johngulster7787 More like how he was all along
Shmorky always loved corm
yeah me too.
At least the great mighty poo has a magnificent voice
Recently, the Shmorky = Stonetoss theory got debunked. Sad because that was a really funny theory
At least we have Sinfest, which is basically that except we saw the transition in real time.
I can't get over Shmorky's "feminine" voice, is the most accurate imitation of spongebob I've ever heard in my life.
Or a prototype Penny Parker (aka, Snapcube)
Shadow chris chan
as someone tryna feminize their voice, im glad people like Shmorky exist as a prime example of what to fucking not do
@@toecurlersupreme that’s just stupid, just be yourself man.
@@ablancer3582 yes
I hear Shmorky was doing so well with professional work, he almost had a cartoon on Nickelodeon. What a huge bullet dodged.
Well if they did hire him, it wouldn’t be the first time they hired a creep
It would definitely not be.. too out of character for Nick.
Though I hear he was so obsessed with trying to make the show ABOUT gender identity. Like not even featuring it, that was the MAIN PREMISE he wanted. So they pulled back their request.
I would like to just clarify for any interested that the schmorky situation wasn't responsible for lowtax's passing. Lowtax was "forced" to sell Something Awful and coasted off the money from the sale, he wasted all of that money feeding an opioid addiction and frivolous spending. At the same time he was divorced twice and both wives fled accused him of abuse and one of which took refuge at battered women's shelters with their kids because he allegadly was holding her passport. The breaking point was when he failed to gain custody of his children and faced payments he couldn't hope to pay back.
Genuine question why put "forced" in quotes?
@@MrManProductionThe explanation is a bit long cuz it has a lot of background on the forum history, but as Something Awful got older Lowtax became less and less involved with moderation, running the site, or even posting. SA developed a culture that was radically different while lowtax was gone and it became very Tumblr esq in it's lean to the left compared to the people who originally found Chris Chan and it's user base had a poor reputation across the internet for being feral picks from that earlier era. When the whole schmorky situation imploded Lowtax was active on KF and tried to go back to Something Awful but found it's user base was insufferable, it was going in circles loudly defending schmorkys kinks, talking about how schmorky might be a p@do who wants to have his diaper changed and to eat the poo poo but you shouldn't miss gender him, ect. Lowtax didn't like this and wanted to reclaim SA from what he thought was a minority of users by kicking some of the mod team who largely had been running the website in his absence and the whole website revolted. The userbase hated Lowtax because they saw him as exploitative, they were the ones to build and sustain the website for years while he sat back for years without updating the forum, coasting off ad revenue, and account money and he tries to come back and change them and fire employees who were running the website. Not to speak ill of the dead but Lowtax was the type of person who couldn't stand confrontation and would run away from his problems, when faced with having a hostile userbase, change moderation, update the forum software, ect or take the money that the forum raised to buy itself from Lowtax. Lowtax choose the money, he wasn't "forced" to sell the website but at the end for Lowtax there was no way for him to continue owning the website as it was.
Citation?
@@LordProteus There's an entire video by Bernievidz which goes into more depth about LowTax called LOWTAX: Empire of Dirt.
Thanks for the info 👍
Man that audio snippet of Amanda’s breakdown was hard to listen to. She sounded so disoriented and terrified.. My sister is schizophrenic so I am projecting a bit (her episodes were different: really withdrawn and difficult to get through to. thankfully responded well to meds but is still very very anxious, some autoimmune issues popped up too), but hearing him taunt his obviously distressed girlfriend like that makes my blood boil.
And while I do feel horrible for the abuse he suffered throughout his youth, what he did later just makes him a pathetic, disgusting, waste of space.
Agreed. You don't do that to someone you care about. Makes me skeptical about his past, considering his willingness to inflict it on others
Taking away someones meds as some sort of weird petty punishment is so fucked especially with schizophrenia
It’s like taking a kids inhaler away
I consider it a form of abuse honestly
@@nqk_0662or insulin from a type one diabetic.
@@theeskrunglyIt is tbh. youre putting your partner in danger by taking away their medication
as someone who takes medication for bipolar- and the times where i forgot to take them were one of the worst days of my life. i cant imagine being forced to withdrawal on my medication like that. pure evil
@@theeskrunglySchizophrenics are the biggest dangers to themselves when having a psychotic episode so it could definitely have to lead to her harm
i said this already on TheGreaseWizard's video about Shmorky, but saying this here anyway
in the MCU Spider-Man movie, the laptop of the character Ned Leeds has a sticker of the "This is Fine" meme, the thing is that the image comes from the Shmorky version and not the original
Shmorky is canon in the Marvel Universe
Thank you, I hate Spiderman now
iirc it's also in fortnite, meaning goku exists in the same universe as shmorky
The person who added that image did not do their research before choosing that one lmao
Never thought I would hate MCU Spiderman more than I do now
There was a reason why Shmorky being accused of being a furry was a big deal on SA. Due to many, many negitave issues with furries in the forums. Lowtax made either being a furry or mentioning them a bannable offense. It was strictly enforced, but Lowtax was also notorious for his inconsistency with ban enforcement and would have made an exception for Shmorky. Which would have pissed everyone off and caused the NSFW board FYAD to spill out into the rest of the site.
So you could get banned...for a hobby????? Typical. I'm curious to know these "negative issues".
@@fredericksaxton9782this is the early/late 2000's we're talking about mate. For most of the internet, furries were perceived as sex addicts with a thing for eating shit and nazism. It was, to call it something, bizarre.
@@fredericksaxton9782Probably Zoofilia & or Pedofilia, that’s what the negative issues with furries usually are 😭
@@aamateur-artistfurries and sex crimes go together like PB and J.
For a site centered around being edgy and offensive, banning people for saying or mentioning something you don’t like is top tier kek.
man lol, you really undersold the horror of the recorded conversation. The genuinely sad and disturbing schizophrenic condition.. and then Shmorky's high pitched voice didn't remove tension at all - actually worsened it. Two individuals, suffering their own conditions, that are not at all equipped to deal with each other's. kind of an existential nightmare. hope they got the help they needed.
I remember loving "gaming Garbage" with Lowtax and Shmorky. It's so weird to see what has become of them both.
It's rela sad
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't know much at all about Lowtax before this other than him being the creator of the SA forums. I got attached to him, and then... I learn he killed himself at the end of this video.
I hope his kids are fine now.
Same. Watched all the time as a kid.
It was hard to watch, gaming Garbage was honestly really funny.
I miss lowtax and his streams so much. I was watching right up to the end.
if gaming garbage provided you even a morsel of entertainment you are absolutely deranged
The "Stonetoss is Shmorky" theory is so entertaining because another theory that goes about is that Stonetoss is another comic artist named redpanels, who rebranded after the comic presumably started losing steam. meaning that if both these theories are true, Shmorky, whilst presumably doing toilet diaper RP, managed to rebrand 2 times within 3 years, once while still going under shmorky before shit came to light, and each time not only managed to start a relatively clean slate, but also managed to garner moderate to massive success on all of his alias's
Huffing diapers really does something to you hot damn
If that's the case then tf does this person even believes at this point? He just goes for whatever culture looks nice to him instead of something he believes in, he just get influenced so easily
Redpanels did recently a comic about Pride where a poop fetishist ruins everything by spraying everyone with septic tank and yelling 'Scat Pride Worldwide'. Very Shmorky. 😅
i really doubt redpanels is stonetoss. they have different sets of humor (they may be *slightly* similar but not at all stonetoss' humor. also the theory is grasping at straws. shmorky being stonetoss makes more sense
I thought Stonetoss was a black woman
Why did you make me read that last sentence
Shmorky singlehandedly united both trans people and transphobes in how much both of the parties hate his voice
Trans allies too!
The True Unifier
Shmorky for President!!
That's pretty much what happens when they discovered a Grifters who's happens to be "Trans"
I put quote on quote there because most problematic trans i have seen lately are people who using being trans as an excuse or clout chasing.
It's not okay if that guy identifies as a woman and puts on this voice...But when people claim to be "trans" or "non-binairy" that's okay?
My first thoughts on seeing Shmorky in the makeup was "Oh, LeafyIsHere"
Glad I wasn’t the only one!
that argument recording brings me at this uncomfortable expression between feeling utter horror at amanda's schizophrenic rant and absolute howling laughter at shmorky's stupid voice. it's like your brain is fighting with itself knowing that it isn't funny, but the laughter at the haha mickey mouse person's voice is trying to burst out of you.
Almost like you wanna laugh to cope with the emotional dissonance, a chuckle of disbelief
that's horrible
that's fucking hilarious
It evens out for me I felt nothing too much contradiction
The argument audio between Shmorky and his girlfriend sounds like double D from Ed Edd n Eddy as the villain of a psychological horror game tormenting the exhausted protagonist
messy messy messy...
Someone need to make a fanart of it!
I'd draw this but I don't want to get cancelled out the ass :P
@@tessfabled4115 You're making fun of someone on the internet, anyone who'd try to ruin your life over that is a psycho
Like actually
There's something so awkward about Amanda having a schizophrenic meltdown and Shmorky is _still_ doing the high pitch voice.
its malevolent. when someone has a psychotic break like that, freaking them out with weird voices makes it so much worse.
Ugh that's so fucked up 😭😭
“everyone who was involved in this story fucking lost” is a great way to wrap things up
I'll put money on mental hospital. I recently had a relative go missing for several years, and we were all worried she may have been murdered or something, but then she popped up in a mental health ward. They don't really inform people they're in there for safety reasons.
Mostly for social stigma. If you are mentally ill then you are deemed unworthy of being alive. Getting a job is impossible and having a life is a nightmare when everyone treats you like you're not human.
I had to abandon my life and restart with new people even though I didn't do anything to them. I just told them I was mentally ill.
I act the exact same way with the new people. They just don't know anything. And therefore treat me well
The moral of this story is don't start balding in your 20's.
I should be fine then, i started balding at 14…
@@The_Cooler_Naribeating the game before it begins
Low testosterone leads to early hair loss in men. It's why it's so common in progressive soy jacks.
Uh oh.
@jl7566 21 and it's receding to shit 🙏
15:20 Amanda Screaming in horror and Shmorkie with his screeching Michael Jackson voice trying to calm her down is one of the funniest things i ever heard
That’s ignorant
I hope that's his real voice cause if he faked that for his recording then thats probably worse in my opinion.
@@darth_autismohe totally fakes it 😭
Looks like Stonetoss wasn't Shmorky after all.
context?
@@digilici951Stonetoss was doxxed, so it confirms they’re two different people
@@digilici951The true StoneToss was the friends we made along the way
i literally can't imagine turning down a nickelodeon gig. most braindead decision i've ever seen
Probably would have been canned in pre production after he tried getting a shitting scene in a kids show.
Wanting creative control over YOUR OWN creation is a totally fair thing to want. I don't blame him for turning it down for that reason.
Nickelodoen is infamous of how poorly they treat their creators, cancelling nearly every show they own if it isn't in their top 3 most successful as soon as it's released.
Turning them down is very understandable, just look at how they treated Greenblat (The guy who made most of the most acclaimed Spongebob episodes ever)
Tbh wanting creative control is good but with how “interesting” politics in media has become I think Nick definitely dodged something. Also a second Dan Schneider LMAOOO
Only good reason to do so is if Cartoon Network or Disney make you a better offer or if you have an actually lucrative, valuable IP and you rightly distrust them for the way they've treated other creators (Making Fiends, anyone?)
Don't watch this while eating.
My god
I've watched worse. You don't scare magicmush man
Thanks for the warning
You can't stop me
watch me
Never seen any of those animations and I've been terminally online since 2005. It always amuses me how much of internet bullshit you can miss even being online way too much.
It's extremely surprising what we missed over the decades.
Yeah tell me about it. I didn't really start playing flash games until like late middle school, so a lot of the Certified Childhood Classics are unknown to me. Same with AVGN and Nostlagia Critic. Kinda happens when you didn't have a computer for quite a while.
@@Calvin_Coolage I didn't really play flash games at all period. Just alot of RuneScape and youtube once it was out and le internet meme browsing on the 4chins so I saw alot of the early animations that went viral but every so often I come across one of these 'internet documentary' type channels and see entire meme crazes and e-famous types I didn't even know existed.
I had this realization when I decided to check top 100 gaming YT channels from socialblade and recognized maybe 10-15. I'm pretty much terminally online and at any time there's good chance something from that sphere is playing on my second screen. That's probably the area of social media I'm most familiar with. And apparently I don't know shit even about that. None of us have seen anything but a small fraction of everything that internet has to offer.
Dear god, Amanda was losing her mind due to her schizophrenia and Shmorky is just talking to her like a fucking cartoon character
That's actually fucked up.
The foreshadowing with the Rugrats intro and title cards was amazing. This is a great vid on a completely disgusting degenerate.
Holy fuck, the fact that the guy that is partially responsible for 4chan's origin is dead. not gonna lie, it made me lean backwards on my chair having to think about what i just heard today.
Fellow made in abyss pfp!
I shrugged
Kind of surprised that you didn't talk about Zalgo. Zalgo was one of Shmorky's earlier internet creations.
>That moment when something that you had fear for was made by a literal shit-eater
@@norikofu509 It makes it so much more convincing. A lunatic "made up" a corrupting eldritch being? Too goddamn convenient. Zalgo is what drove Shmorky over the edge
HE MADE WHAT?!
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943almost all people who are unhinged on the internet who spiral out of control "invent" a character before the decent of the their madness... Sonichu and Zalgo are actual eldritch demons.
@@commetsftw Exactly. Don't forget the Ember Ghost Squadron either. There was a Japanese serial killer who had an alter ego called Ratman. There are multiple cases of this
I legitimately think this video is a prime example of why children should not be allowed on the Internet.
100%
Now I understand why someone like Zone has very little traces of their real life on the internet. As legendary as they are, we don't know a whole lot about them besides 'they do porn animations, worked for lab zero, and then went back to porn'. No real name, no place of birth, no hobbies or interests, nothing.
Being Anonnymous on the Internet is never bad
as it should be for anyone planning to go the nsfw route. Weirdo shit or vanilla.
that's a smart choice.
I think we can at least guess some of their "interests" from their work.
lol Zone hasnt been legendary or relevant in decades. Nowdays hes just some twitter idiot defending censorships.
There are actual ways to train and make your voice sound feminine, idk whatever the fuck Shmorky was aiming for with that voice but I don't think they used any of those methods.
maybe dude wanted to sound like a girl or something... considering their kinks
@@shart8008 I heard people voice training for transition, fetish and trolling purposes... NONE of them sounded remotely like Shmorky.
@@shart8008 No thats not a girl voice
thats like
if Tom Kenny had a stroke
With his obsession with klurfs, part of me thinks he was trying to sound like one of his fictional cartoony creatures
What are these ways? Asking for a friend
People think Stonetoss is Shmorky?? Shmorky is probably what Stonetoss thinks of the entire LGBTQ+ community.
it could be that he now blames the left for turning him into a "freak" even though is was completely his fault and now aligns himself with the right
@YoYo-zo2kzPretty much
I'm a leftist and everytime i want i can just act like a republician to fool some people. It's not that hard genuinely.
@YoYo-zo2kzdo not
@YoYo-zo2kz for this long of a time without a slipup
@@YOURWORLDSAFANTASY ì think you just think you pass, common for leftism
I’m sorry but Shmorky’s dumb high pitched shrill squirrel voice is so funny I genuinely cried when he kept speaking up
"sandypants" was actually in a skype group chat i was in with a bunch of my friends all the wayback in 2009. i thought she was incredibly strange but never thought much of it at the time. this whole fiasco still fucks with me to this day
one thing i will comment on is she wasn't pretending to be 13. she claimed she was somewhere in her late teens or early 20s, don't remember what age exactly since it was such a long time ago but definitely not 13
Shmorky is like the lord voldermort of the online animation community. The uttering of his name brings up horrible memories of fetish art that goes against Christ.
On a side note, Stonetoss Vs Shmorky is a fight I’d pay to see. My moneys on Stonetoss.
Say his name three times, and he shows up in the dust of baby powder
Well that and AnimatedJames
@@cynoflads Shmorky Shmorky Shmorky
@@Dullsonic3 well shit the omori fan summoned shmorky
@TheDismantler AnimatedJames is nowhere near as bad as Shmorky. At least he isn't a diaperfur...
Skipping forward during Amanda's rant directly into "there's no answer to the Jewish question" what a trip
Hiding someone's meds is fucking despicable. I hope anyone with schizophrenia (or any other commonly demonized and misunderstood disorder) who sees this is doing alright.
One of the things that makes it hardest to piece together the exact saga of Shmorky is that even apart from himself, almost all the people who knew him best and ever had anything to say about him have turned out to be unreliable narrators in some form or another. Amanda was by her own admission paranoid about continuing her regimen of medication, took Kratom (known to induce anxiety and psychosis), and was told by Shmorky in at least one of their chatlogs, "There are people that are so anti-pill that it makes me annoyed. Telling someone to 'go off their meds' is bad advice. Always." So it's entirely possible the accusations by the paranoid shizophrenic were... accusations made by a paranoid schizophrenic.
Lowtax was in a sharp downward spiral heading into his second fairly messy divorce (and ALSO recorded and posted a 15-minute argument between him and his spouse looking for sympathy points after Shmorky did it, Jesus Christ). Carefully was more than happy to let the narrative of her being underage during those ERP's unfold which was the bomb drop that actually turned everyone against Shmorky the hardest including Lowtax. Weird diaper cub roleplay shit is a red flag and making your gender your entire identity is offputting, but this would've crossed the line into actual, practicing, danger-to-people pedophile territory.
Except, she went back on that almost two weeks after the fact, once the damage was already done and Shmorky had been run out of every community and (allegedly) made an attempt on his own life. People have dug through the logs more thoroughly than me and come up with plenty of evidence to suggest she was 19 at the time, so the most damning thing that can actually be said about what transpired (other than a bunch of weird fetish crap) is that Shmorky was in his late 30's and clearly didn't mind going after women half his own age. Carefully also dropped several other accusations about cheating and so forth that turned out to be BS and at this point I'm starting to get the impression she just saw an opportunity to get some attention by dunking on someone she felt was a bit of a creep and took it too far.
There are some even greyer areas; there's evidence pointing in every possible direction that Peaches and Sandy might be the same person who _isn't_ Shmorky, or _one_ of them might be Shmorky, or Soliloqueef might be Peaches mugging for attention. There was at least one other video covering this in a little more detail and it's confusing as hell. To add even more confusion, the Sandy account made a post at the same time as Shmorky was supposed to have been institutionalized for his unaliving attempt a few days prior. So either Shmorky isn't Sandy, he somehow got free-reign internet access to update himself on _very_ recent Kiwifarms drama and log into an Inkbunny account despite being confined for his own safety, or he wasn't even institutionalized for the brief period that he was seemingly confirmed to have been.
It was also a running gag on the SA forums that Shmorky had paid rent with BJ's at one point, because he had let that slip and at the time seemed firmly unbothered by it. One of those "yeah, that was a time in my life but hey at least it makes for a funny story" things -- until in his final months of relevancy when he made that autobiographical comic (which was dug up after being posted under a sockpuppet somewhere IIRC) during the height of his diva phase, when suddenly it was this horrible abusive arrangement in retrospect. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, and I know trauma is a hell of a thing but Shmorky absolutely loved playing the victim in his post-tumblr years so it's difficult to not view it through that lens after having treated it as a joke for most of his life.
And the theory I'd heard about where he ended up was that, fresh out of connections, occupations, and funds, he didn't really have any options left but to move back in with his abusive family. Much as I'd like to believe he was institutionalized long-term and that's been doing him some good, he lives in the US. Who would even be paying for it?
Although really, the thing I'm most disappointed this video missed its opportunity to highlight is the one immortal line dug up from that nightmare abyss of ERP sessions: "I [blank] your [blank] and do a particularly good job in that aspect of the scenario." To this day my brain can't quite process that that was an actual chain of words spoken by a sentient person.
>who would be paying for it?
Taxpayers of course, and I don’t even mean that in a bad way
Someone’s gotta oversee the particularly bad cases where they’re a danger to society but their brains are just shot and they don’t even know what a family is much less the name of someone in theirs y’know
Had a family member that worked for a state-run mental hospital in Hawaii and it was really rough man, untreated schizophrenia + years of chronic meth use destroys them
If Shmorky is enough of a basket case the state would rather root the bill than let him back out, I don’t even think they had to get into the gender and poop obsession, just hearing the voice would’ve been enough to sign the form and lock him away forever
aint readin all a that sorry
@@pastaroni8683 Your loss!
This is one hell of an addendum to the video: it's like the ending of the Joker movie.
@@moldyshishkabob hokers trick
Well said. It'd be easy to jump on the Shmorky is a pedo bandwagon but it's hard to say whether he's fetishizing children or the childhood experience.
'Stonetoss is actually Shmorky' is one of my favorite schizo theories.
If that's a schizo theory then lock me up beacause i 100% want to believe it.
I had no clue who Shmorky was before this and as soon as their art was displayed I thought it was gonna be about stonetoss
what about the theory that stonetoss is a black women
It's true.
@@HomelessFish139
What if all the theories is true? Instead of stonetoss being one person. It actually a group of people who goes under the same name?
There's a part of me that wants to feel sorry because it's clear as piss Shmorky was having serious issues and kept putting them under the rug, on the other hand the brainlet shat the bed and covered himself in his shit-stained covers, and only thing he did was cause genuine harm to others (possibly even minors)
Shmorky is a warning that you should take care of your mental health, and that the internet can really change a person in the worst ways possible
condolences to everyone Shmorky has wronged
The way I see it, he had an addiction and a serious one at that. So much of his life just revolved around trying to find new ways to express his kinks. He let them consume his relationship, his professional life, he started surrounding himself with people interested in same stuff etc. To me that's frighteningly close to for example being addicted to drugs. If watching some weird porn is comparable to smoking couple of joints at your home, this motherfucker was snorting coke and taking LSD at the same time in some drug-fueled rave. And as we all know, addicts aren't exactly known for being stable and making good life choices when they can't get their fix.
Of course this still doesn't explain everything and he definitely wasn't a good person to begin with and by no means does this excuse anything. Everyone's still ultimately responsible for what they do, regardless of why they do it.
this entire video was a constant roller coaster of "oh well thats not actually morally bad or anyth- oh-.. OH-..."
What happened to Shmorky is kind of depressing, it's rather hard to see someone who made so many iconic memes and animations turn into a disturbed individual on the same level as Chris-Chan. I've seen many major internet figures over the years go downhill and turn into awful people (especially if they were ever active on Tumblr at one point or another), but I don't think anyone plummeted as far down as Shmorky has.
That last patreon message along with that final comic made it clear af; this guy is dead. Those conspiracy theories about him changing for the better or about him becoming StoneToss are too """good""" (?) to be true, he's just dead. Heck, I'm so sure he un-alived himself that if he actually was StoneToss, I'd honestly be more surprised about him being alive than about him being StoneToss.
Wouldn't ehre be evidence of it then (ie, notice of death considering his legal name is public knowledge) or are we assuming he became a John Doe somewhere?
Prior to this, I basically had zero knowledge about this guy, but when I saw 4:30 I felt like someone decked me with a brass knuckle. And now after having watched the entire thing, all I can say is wew. This dude made me feel both absolutely vile and sorry for him at the same time. When you mentioned that he also joined Tumblr during its peak cancer years, I knew it was over for this guy. My condolences towards Lowtax and the years that were shaved off his life when he found out what creep was standing near his children without him even knowing.
Also the Stonetoss theory made me chuckle a bit, even though I think it's reaching harder than Mr. Fantastic. Hopefully Shmorky's still in that mental institute getting the help he needs.
probably the most reasonable take i’ve seen in this comment section so far 👍
Don't feel too bad for LowTax. He was apparently horribly abusive towards his family.
@@jessip8654 nobody wins in internet stories like these. nobody ends up being right. it’s just degen vs degen, and somehow, they always allow the lowest parts of themselves to come out towards others.
Where'd you get this?
Maybe he broke down himself.
Would explain his pretty sudden commitment.
I actually LEFT tumblr during the peak cancer years and while I've made every other poor choice known to man, I am glad that at least I didn't let that ruin me more
17:58 that scared the hell out of me
omg that transition
Same. I had my headphones up extremely high and I wasn’t expecting it and I think I nearly went into cardiac arrest.
Right? I had this shit on my tv at 11 at night. Fucking hell…
15:16 Hearing 2 seconds of Shmorky's voice after his GF freakin tf out put me in shock for 2 whole minutes, I couldn't even laugh I was just trying to muster the air to fuel my brain after the amount I lost listening to this cartoon mf dear god
HOW TH IS THIS MF REAL??????? ROFLMAO
Honestly, always saw Stonetoss' art as being based loosely on those old onion emoticons. Anyone else remember those? The Japanese onion guys?
No bru
One of the most appalling/uncomfortable things to me personally is the... blatant disregard Shmorky had for consent. Plenty of people are talking about him being emotionally abusive already or just saying "lmao look at his weird fetishes", but like. He was pissing himself in front of his girlfriend despite her fully expressed firm discomfort. He was guilting people into roleplaying with him and accusing them of kinkshaming when they said no-- that person also happened to be a minor, but given that they lied about their age, I don't know how much I can really blame Shmorky for that. I'm just flip-flopping between disgust and sympathy. Shmorky was clearly mentally troubled and being blasted online a-la Chris-chan absolutely didn't help. If he's still alive, I hope he gets the help he obviously needs and learns how to engage with his fetishes and his gender identity in a healthy way. And, y'know, to not guilt and force people into engaging with his fetishes with no regard for if they actually want to. Part of me wonders if his early days of taking commissions he was personally uncomfortable with screwed up his own idea of what consent looks like, but that's just speculation.
Even if the person lied about their age it's Shmorky's responsibility to check and confirm that they're as old as they say they are, don't blame the child.
@@Treeeee2008 From the way it's presented I'm assuming that Shmorky DID ask for their age, and they lied and said they were 18. I don't know how you'd expect him to verify beyond that-- faceclaim, an ID? Faces are unreliable for determining age, and something like verifying via ID is only a good idea *in person,* because sending it over the internet (even censored) is a massive security risk unless the other person is trained to handle sensitive info, which... Shmorky absolutely isn't. People can lie very easily on the internet, and that's why people (especially kids) do in order to do things they shouldn't, even though I'm sure part of it is also the fact that Shmorky pressured them. Which, granted, is still bad, but the point is Shmorky didn't KNOW they were a child, and that surprised me since most of the recountings I heard framed Shmorky as a pedophile outright.
I'm not saying it's the child's fault since they were absolutely still pressured into doing something they didn't want to do, regardless of their age. I just find it interesting (and also somewhat unfair) that some people framed Shmorky as an outright groomer, when in reality (to anyone's knowledge) he did not deliberately go after children for sexual interactions.
There is no healthy way
@@shrimpdan2557 I actually heard something like people were accusing shmorky with interacting with a minor, when the person who was a "minor" wasn't actually a minor when she interacted with shmorky. But she waited a week after the rumors spread to clarify the truth that she was over 18 when they interacted. I am not sure if you are talking about that person. But there was evidence that she was 18 or older like how she had tweeted she had a lease for an apartment, etc. so she had to be 18, and then she eventually confirmed that info.
That's the takeaway I think a lot of people are missing; There are a lot of nasty ass fetishes out there but whether we like it or not it's fair game as long as the people involved are consenting adults, and whatever people are into isn't our business. So that said, yes his fetishes were gross but having them in itself wasn't really the issue, it's that he continuously ignored people's discomfort towards it and villainized them for wanting nothing to do with it. Remove the fetish aspect and that's still someone who's relationship with intimacy and consent is clearly unhealthy.
The use of the Rugrats intro and title cards is the most horrifying foreshadowing I've ever seen
I think one of my biggest regrets was eating a chocolate ice cream cone while the section about Schmorky's fetishes came up.
We'll remember you fondly 🪦
I was making dinner and this was my background noise, and when I finally sat down to eat that part started playing 😢
Yepp, I'm eating chocolate ice cream right now too lmaoo
Poor seth
ngl i want shmorky to be stonetoss because that would easily be the most batshit thing to happen on the internet in a while
Their personalities seem like they wouldn't even be able to imitate each other let alone actually be the same person.
Hey, maybe Amanda's Jew rants rubbed off on him.
@JohnSmith-mc2zz idk man , look at Matt Walsh. Also the fact that confederate and Nazi furries exist and right wing femboys exist just makes it a possibility.
@@b2serious Stonetoss does this weird "I'm being rational and leftists are silly" thing that's the total opposite of Schmorky. Stonetoss is probably making bank and I wouldn't be surprised if he stole Schmorky's design.
@@b2seriousRIGHT WING FEMBOYS LMFAOO WHAT
i was just eating and went "why dont i see any of those smurf ripoff animations anymore" and found this video
15:22 I try not to make fun of people. But I can't when Lois Griffin from family guy is causing a schizophrenic meltdown to someone
It sounds like the “you burned my house to the ground” thing.
That or a furry
That’s foul 😭
It’s weird how some people trying to find themselves…end up losing themselves
That's everybody who has ever lived. Are you the same person you were 10 years ago? We all die and reinvent ourselves, we just still have the same aging, wrinkling shell.
Not defending Shmorky, btw, just stating what your comment made me think lol
Goddamn, I had NO idea this is what happened to Shmorky. I was born in 86, so I was there for all of it, the rise of the internet, SA, I remember watching his animations on my friends laptop when we would all chill. I never would’ve guessed THIS is what happened
43 year old Shmorky is so weird to imagine.
The thing I remember best from Shmorky was his part in Neil Cicierega's seminal Newgrounds work, Hyakugojuuichi Forever. "I'm Shmorky, eating Porky! Whitey rapping sure sounds dorky!"
@StardianAs someone who can't stand Adam Sandler about 95% of the time, I can't relate.
Honestly, I fully subscribe to the theory that he turned into Stonetoss. It's just way too funny for me to believe it's false.
The craziest thing is that since Lowtax sold off the forums they've been a really super chill place to post and actually gotten new users for the first time in years.
That rugrats intro is so fucking perfect when you know the context
what's the context
@@HomelessFish139 babies.
@@HomelessFish139 Poop
@@HomelessFish139 *You don't wanna know*
@HomelessFish13he likes diapers and poo
I like how in this story the most sensible person is also the one that was clinically diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic.
One time I was watching Xavier Renegade Angel with some friends (pretty funny show) and in one of the episodes of season 2 they got a bunch of animators to make a collab of all their stuff in one episode, and there was a moment that was only like 5 seconds long but was without a doubt unmistakably Shmorky's style and it felt like whiplash seeing them again after so long and knowing they were a creep. I audibly shouted "SHMORKY! THATS SHMORKY!" as if anyone there knew what the hell I was on about lol
"How is Babby Formed" animation and the "This is Fine" Adult Swim Bump being by the same guy threw me for a loop
That is such a sad story, for everyone involved.
It's a shame that most people never learn how to deal with the trauma they were given, and pass it on to others.
There's no indication that anyone other than Amanda had to deal with real mental trauma. They were handed a better deck than most and wasted it by embracing their lowest instincts and degeneracy.
I don't get why they can't just keep it between adults.
26:55 the joke ending is not canon confirmed
i was so disappointed when the dox hit twitter and it wasn’t shmorky it would’ve been the perfect postmodern farce lol
somethingawful used to have this concept of wingnut welfare, basically if you’re even somewhat comedically talented you can make bank by pretending to be far-[insert political ideology here] and peddling your shit to political loonies. it would’ve made too much sense that shmorky TFd her internet persona into a mysterious dogwhistling cartoonist when it hit that her reputation both on and offline was destroyed forever and she needed stable income
This man almost had a nickelodeon show.
This man could have influenced a generation.
Maybe it could have been MY generation.
But his complete and total obsession with gender actually saved the kids, ironically enough.
he just started to early. he would have fit right at home these days.
@@megamike15 you can’t see, but I’m doing the jerk-off hand motion right now
@@megamike15 Naw, even people nowadays don't tolerate scat fetishes and creeps.
Gender? You mean their fetishes, right? because the fetishes are by far the worst bits here, not to mention the creeper shit
We got Schnieder instead, which is a way worse outcome, as he used IRL actresses/actors for his barrly disguised fetishes.
People who didn't know about Shmorky before the video: Why are you using the Rugrats opening I don't get it?
People who DID know about Shmorky before the video: Oh my god you clever bastard...
Dude changed his look from office worker to an aged feminine leafyishere.
He looks like that guy from scary movie 2
@@killrama2222 the professor?
DAMN
"Feminine"
Unironically it was somehow an improvement
well after some events, we can definitely confirm stonetoss is not shmorky now
it was really funny while it lasted but I guess we know now that Hans Kristian Graebener isn't shmorky 😔
no shmorky just got multiple surgeries to become stonetoss
woman in mental anguish
shmorky: "stop screaming! 🤓"
I’m not even schizophrenic and I think hearing that voice during a serious convo is enough to make me lose my sanity. Like how do you not think they’re messing with you when they talk like that and actually took your meds? psychotic or not thinking shmorky wants to harm her isn’t that crazy of a conclusion to reach.
Taking her meds from her is just the worst thing someone could do to her.
A person with schizophrenia staying on their meds should be a point of pride for the person and anyone helping them. I don't have that condition but was recently put on a high dose of a drug usually for bipolar and schizophrenic people. Sometimes they can help with depression I guess. I think it helped me somewhat but the side effects really blew, and that was just one drug. Gave me a lot more sympathy for schizophrenic peope who go off them, but then they're in such bad shape. Hopefully newer drugs have fewer side effects. If Schmorky did actually hide drugs from their SO who was trying to be compliant, that's pretty fucked.
My doctors just cut off ALL my meds at once which includes my heavy dose of antipsychotics I've been on for a year and it's caused me to lose my job and hit my lowest point yet. Idk where I'm going with this comment but yeah ugh shits ass. Hopefully things can only go up from here. It's a confusing illness and I'm still new to it
My SO is schizo-effective and doesn't take meds because they either over medicated or undermedicated him. It's not fun. I felt very sad and horrified for Amanda
i get that the breakdown is serious, but oh my goodness at 15:21 his nasally cartoon character voice chiming in made me start cackling to myself. why would he EVER think thats a good idea. the whole argument plays out like a family guy bit because of it.
28:32 As a Touhou fan, I found that clip *painful.*
THAT'S NOT EVEN THE RIGHT CHARACTER! The "History Eater" is Keine, and the character onscreen is Mokou. Mokou and Keine are friends, yes, but they look NOTHING LIKE EACH OTHER!
Jesus how many touhou fans do i have
@@magicmush1998we are 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
i feel ashamed to be even slightly associated with that man
a LOT more than you think@@magicmush1998
@@magicmush1998YO