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  1. Let's start with the very beginning of the story.
  2. [Exoneration videos - the beginning caption.png]
  3.  
  4. Now, I'm obviously not American, but I'll be using Eastern Time so the tweets I show have more relevant timestamps.
  5. [footage of me setting my Windows timezone to Eastern Time]
  6.  
  7. Of course, any archived tweets I show will use the timestamp of the archiving service.
  8. [http://archive.is/]
  9.  
  10. On the 29th of August 2012, a woman named Karissa offered to show Chris Priestly and David Gaider of BioWare around DragonCon,
  11. [https://twitter.com/TheEvilChris/status/240944065330434050 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/240946967377760256]
  12.  
  13. one of the largest fan conventions in North America
  14. [https://sdccblog.com/2013/09/how-does-dragoncon-stack-up-against-sdcc/]
  15.  
  16. which takes place across 5 different hotels
  17. [https://www.dragoncon.org/travel/hotels/]
  18.  
  19. in downtown Atlanta, Georgia,
  20. [DragonCon - hotels listed as being part of DragonCon, fullscreen without extraneous visual elements, plus checkmarks.png]
  21.  
  22. on Labor Day weekend.
  23. [https://www.dragoncon.org/mediarelations/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DragonConFactSheet2012.pdf]
  24.  
  25. Karissa was staying at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
  26. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/239220403485167616 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243173015548989440]
  27.  
  28. where she was sharing a room with a fellow cosplayer named Melanie.
  29. [https://twitter.com/geekyfit/status/230855955238240256]
  30.  
  31. Because they were staying in the hotel's Radius Tower,
  32. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/250690929097310208]
  33.  
  34. they had a very small room with a single bed.
  35. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243176002585497601]
  36.  
  37. At 20:09 on the 30th of August – the evening before the convention officially started – Karissa was going to a meetup with the N7 Elite cosplay group for Mass Effect in the Marriott Marquis Hotel when she ran into Chris Priestly and David Gaider.
  38. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241326789195091968 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241330487086415873]
  39.  
  40. A short while later, David was at the Pulse Bar where he also ran into Chris Avellone and Steve Jaros.
  41. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241356321830600704]
  42.  
  43. Karissa was also at the bar.
  44. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241356774798680066]
  45.  
  46. They started quoting the silly banter they were having.
  47. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241366602942124032]
  48.  
  49. Steve felt betrayed that Chris wasn't flirting with him anymore.
  50. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241367377093226496]
  51.  
  52. Another exchange made Susanne Saville say David was going to get lucky that night.
  53. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241371194526420992]
  54.  
  55. Karissa retweeted the exchange,
  56. [https://twitter.com/user/status/241371895881142272]
  57.  
  58. leading to her first ever mention of Chris Avellone on Twitter.
  59. [https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Asjbsmama%20chrisavellone&src=typed_query&f=live]
  60.  
  61. David said he was on the third or fourth Midori Sour bought by Chris Avellone.
  62. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241372911850627072]
  63.  
  64. Chris Priestly said he couldn't stay up all night to drink with them.
  65. [https://twitter.com/TheEvilChris/status/241379789007642624]
  66.  
  67. David then said he couldn't feel his nose anymore.
  68. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241381104504946688]
  69.  
  70. When Felicia Day showed up, David asked Chris to buy another round of drinks.
  71. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241389443926335488]
  72.  
  73. The next morning, Steve Jaros said his first day at DragonCon was a reminder he'd never be as cool as David Gaider, Chris Avellone or Chris Priestly.
  74. [https://twitter.com/SteveJaros/status/241516031934345216]
  75.  
  76. At noon, Karissa said she could remember who had gotten her back to her room, but not how.
  77. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241559726092062720]
  78.  
  79. Chris misspelled the name of the tower Karissa was staying in.
  80. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241559726092062720]
  81.  
  82. David said he had to become the adult in the situation.
  83. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241565295964221440]
  84.  
  85. Karissa said she couldn't remember much, but told them they were the best.
  86. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241575997726679040]
  87.  
  88. Steve asked if the adventure was continuing.
  89. [https://twitter.com/SteveJaros/status/241622202859012096]
  90.  
  91. That night, they joined up again for karaoke,
  92. [https://twitter.com/TheEvilChris/status/241739442803585024]
  93.  
  94. and David posted this upside down photo of them where Chris Avellone was singing,
  95. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241741009514545154]
  96.  
  97. with Karissa standing next to him.
  98. [Chris Avellone - photo of him with Karissa and Gaider from 2012-08-31 where he was singing You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'.png]
  99.  
  100. Chris Priestly asked the ladies to pick between Clark Gable and Chris Avellone.
  101. [https://twitter.com/TheEvilChris/status/241746036203335680]
  102.  
  103. Karissa picked Avellone, wondering how it was even a question, and wanted him to come back.
  104. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241746308656947201]
  105.  
  106. Later that night, she posted a photo of herself with Chris Avellone, calling him one of the few gentlemen left in the world that still drink.
  107. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241779002333884416 / https://twitpic.com/apues7]
  108.  
  109. The next night, Karissa was inviting the guys to her hotel's bar since it was still serving.
  110. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/242151615631605760]
  111.  
  112. After the con ended, she pointed out that drinking was fun
  113. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/242679475115012097]
  114.  
  115. and she really missed her drinking buddies.
  116. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243193566111870976 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243343192697741314]
  117.  
  118. When asked to list her top DragonCon experiences, she listed "every night" as #1,
  119. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243014637753364480]
  120.  
  121. and then also placed her time with Chris Avellone and Steve Jaros at #5.
  122. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243021929081090048]
  123.  
  124. She asked her followers to follow David, the two Chrises, and Steve, so they could also love them forever.
  125. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/244072949085241345]
  126.  
  127. Near the end of November, she interviewed Chris together with her friend Phil and called him a "wonderful creature" at the end of it.
  128. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/273552602988441600]
  129.  
  130. *show Karissa calling Chris a wonderful creature from 59:04 to 59:20*
  131. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLj3YcpbV5U]
  132.  
  133. The next year, she looked forward to having ALL the drinks with Chris Avellone, Chris Priestly and Steve Jaros at PAX East.
  134. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/312699082420400129]
  135.  
  136. A month later, she told Chris that the way he looked in a web series gave him a +25 increase in hotness.
  137. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/326134160722903041]
  138.  
  139. Before DragonCon 2013, she said she would rage if she did not see Chris Avellone and Steve again soon
  140. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/358011588315324416]
  141.  
  142. and was sad her drinking team would be missing David Gaider.
  143. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/360502826549510144]
  144.  
  145. She said her first night at DragonCon 2012 made for a great story
  146. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/367820701404651522]
  147.  
  148. and added that she didn't remember much from it firsthand, but that she was told about it the next night.
  149. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/367821232055386113]
  150.  
  151. She then got excited that David Gaider was able to make it the new DragonCon after all, encouraging his desire to get very drunk.
  152. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/369946649528774656]
  153.  
  154. They seem to have had a great time.
  155. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/373443235857043456]
  156.  
  157. She wished Chris a happy freaking birthday in September.
  158. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/383601971661262848]
  159.  
  160. In March 2014, she noted that him not being at PAX East was the worst news of the day.
  161. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/444306514803564544]
  162.  
  163. In April, she said she was always surprised by stories of abuse and harassment from other women because she simply did not have one of her own.
  164. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/459458441069604865]
  165.  
  166. She went on to clarify she meant any kind of harassment or abuse,
  167. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/459458778757201920]
  168.  
  169. noted that she never accepted any harassment on the rare occasions when some did come her way,
  170. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/459466069292249088]
  171.  
  172. and then pointed out that she usually got it from women instead of men.
  173. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/459466114745901057]
  174.  
  175. In a related story, meeting Mass Effect actors at DragonCon 2012 had given her the idea of providing them with cosplay costumes,
  176. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243370142476685312]
  177.  
  178. and she found volunteers to make the costumes in the N7 Elite cosplay group.
  179. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/243371131040579585]
  180.  
  181. She started a project called the Mass Effect Cast Cosplay initiative in September 2012
  182. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/244921265096376322]
  183.  
  184. and started taking donations for it
  185. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/245315290206978048]
  186.  
  187. providing a list of participating actors on its website.
  188. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120926042944/http://masseffectcastcosplay.com/participating-talent/]
  189.  
  190. In October, she went to Tennessee to help a volunteer named Leah with the one of the costumes,
  191. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/257036442948235264]
  192.  
  193. with Leah livestreaming part of their meeting.
  194. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/257149851853275136]
  195.  
  196. Karissa was excited that they got a lot done.
  197. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/260405836709507073]
  198.  
  199. However, twelve days later, she said she had never been more frustrated with people working with her.
  200. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/264571678208692224]
  201.  
  202. One of her donors started warning other donors about the project later that month
  203. [https://rebel666.tumblr.com/post/36490085589/regarding-the-donor-list-for-the-mass-effect-cast]
  204.  
  205. and Karissa complained that other people were trying to take control of the project.
  206. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/272597855926104064]
  207.  
  208. Karissa's new friend Jackie, who had started talking to her a lot because of the project, assured her there were plenty of other people who could make costumes.
  209. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/272599765676597248]
  210.  
  211. As we later found out from a blog post made by Leah in January 2014, Karissa cut Leah out of the project at the beginning of November 2012, shortly after receiving her costume,
  212. [https://geekoutlet.tumblr.com/post/73288246975/a-word-of-caution-about-the-mass-effect-cast, first part]
  213.  
  214. because Leah had started asking too many questions about what the donations were going towards
  215. [https://i.imgur.com/HI5xCui.jpg]
  216.  
  217. and why they had been moved to Karissa's personal bank account.
  218. [https://imgur.com/a/d90Bv]
  219.  
  220. Karissa also threatened another volunteer with legal action when he sent a prop directly to the actor it was meant for instead of going through her.
  221. [https://geekoutlet.tumblr.com/post/73288246975/a-word-of-caution-about-the-mass-effect-cast, middle part]
  222.  
  223. As you can see in this screenshot collage given to me by Leah when I contacted her for more information, this led to a stand-off between Karissa and the N7 Elite cosplay group, with Karissa telling them she wasn't affiliated with them and did not need to answer to them, which got her banned from the group.
  224. [Leah's original post screenshot 006.jpg]
  225.  
  226. Karissa ended up confiscating Leah's costume, but claimed to the actor meant to wear it that Leah was simply pulling out for personal reasons.
  227. [https://geekoutlet.tumblr.com/post/73288246975/a-word-of-caution-about-the-mass-effect-cast, bottom part]
  228.  
  229. By the time Leah made her blog post, there had been accounts
  230. [https://poopsthecat-blog.tumblr.com/post/73327805466/a-word-of-caution-about-the-mass-effect-cast]
  231.  
  232. of other sketchy behavior regarding the Mass Effect Cast Cosplay project
  233. [https://angeleena.tumblr.com/post/73289848429/a-word-of-caution-about-the-mass-effect-cast]
  234.  
  235. and it was known that only a few of the actors had decided to stick with it,
  236. [https://tifaia.tumblr.com/post/80354766538/a-word-of-caution-about-the-mass-effect-cast]
  237.  
  238. but – as commenters pointed out on Reddit – Karissa kept collecting donations on behalf of the actors who had pulled out
  239. [https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/1v6exk/a_word_of_caution_on_the_mass_effect_cast_cosplay/, PKBitchGirl's post]
  240.  
  241. and simply claimed on the project's website that not all the actors listed would have the necessary availability to make the big event.
  242. [https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/1v6exk/a_word_of_caution_on_the_mass_effect_cast_cosplay/, undercover-n7's post]
  243.  
  244. By the end of March, with less than two weeks to go before PAX East 2014, their Facebook page and their website still had no mention of any actors pulling out.
  245. [https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/21s9vs/mass_effect_cast_cosplay_screw_up_yet_again/]
  246.  
  247. Karissa finally updated the list of participants on the website at the last moment, but claimed on the page that the other actors had pulled out due to work or family commitments.
  248. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140529144803/http://masseffectcastcosplay.com/participating-talent/]
  249.  
  250. When doing an Ask Me Anything on Reddit a week later,
  251. [https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/23gzpp/we_are_the_mass_effect_cast_cosplay_team_ask_us/, original post]
  252.  
  253. Karissa was asked for a breakdown of all the donations and said it would be posted on the project's website in the next few weeks. She never posted it.
  254. [https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/23gzpp/we_are_the_mass_effect_cast_cosplay_team_ask_us/, top comments]
  255.  
  256. She had posted one at the end of 2012 for the 5000 dollars she'd made in 4 months up to that point, but there was never anything similar posted for the 14 months afterwards.
  257. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130429181130/http://masseffectcastcosplay.com/2012-year-end-statement/]
  258.  
  259. She did update the FAQ to say crowdfunding wouldn't be used in any subsequent events so as to ensure that all the money actually went to charity.
  260. [https://masseffectcastcosplay.wordpress.com/faq/]
  261.  
  262. There were no subsequent events.
  263. [https://twitter.com/OliverHorschel/status/550129398322823168]
  264.  
  265. Karissa's friend Jackie had been the Talent Coordinator for the project for most of its existence.
  266. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/296011568641110016 / https://geekyfriedriceguild.com/2014/04/16/after-a-year-of-preparation-the-mecc-panel-finally-happened/]
  267.  
  268. She had been introduced to Chris Avellone at DragonCon 2013
  269. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/373465578574729216]
  270.  
  271. and seems to have had an on-and-off long distance relationship with him
  272. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/447765113089437696]
  273.  
  274. joking about him on Twitter in ways that a lover would
  275. [https://twitter.com/SunriseSauna/status/451886166837854208]
  276.  
  277. occasionally driving down to California from Vegas and meeting with him.
  278. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/450851915832639488]
  279.  
  280. Karissa was still on good terms with Chris Avellone shortly before DragonCon 2014
  281. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/479308492935663616]
  282.  
  283. and so was Jackie right before it.
  284. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/501872103193190400]
  285.  
  286. At that DragonCon, Chris was drunk and went to the wrong panel about crowdfunding for video games. This seems to have been a major reason for him not being invited again the next year.
  287. [https://twitter.com/nicolespag/status/505862215183114240]
  288.  
  289. *show Chris talking from 39:16 to 39:26*
  290. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Qa9kr4Lps]
  291.  
  292. As he clarified the following year when it was brought up again, he couldn't believe there were two similar panels at the exact same time.
  293. [https://twitter.com/nicolespag/status/594278217864720385]
  294.  
  295. Karissa stopped mentioning Chris on Twitter after August 2014.
  296. [https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Asjbsmama%20chrisavellone&src=typed_query&f=live]
  297.  
  298. In a series of tweets from right after DragonCon, Jackie seemed to recount part of her argument with him,
  299. [https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ageekyfriedrice%20since%3A2014-09-03%20until%3A2014-09-04&src=typed_query&f=live]
  300.  
  301. and she also stopped mentioning him after that
  302. [https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Ageekyfriedrice%20chrisavellone&src=typed_query&f=live]
  303.  
  304. with a handful of exceptions that she has since deleted,
  305. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/633155861892829184]
  306.  
  307. but for which we still have Chris' replies,
  308. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/647405852769415168]
  309.  
  310. including the time she wished him a happy birthday two years after their breakup.
  311. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/780838192329035776]
  312.  
  313. Chris was not at DragonCon 2015
  314. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/633155981954813952]
  315.  
  316. and stopped mentioning DragonCon afterwards.
  317. [https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Achrisavellone%20dragoncon&src=typed_query&f=live]
  318.  
  319. Jackie and Karissa went on to become best friends,
  320. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/829501062725918720]
  321.  
  322. with Karissa telling Jackie she would always be on her side, and that she would muster every bit of profanity and aggression required to stand up for her.
  323. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/1057987991594041344]
  324.  
  325. Kelly AKA GlitterBroker was another very close friend of theirs.
  326. [http://archive.vn/oPCF2]
  327.  
  328. On the 18th of June 2020, Karissa was upset by seeing an interview with Chris Avellone pop up in her Twitter feed and made an initial brief accusation that received little attention.
  329. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1273482071957266433]
  330.  
  331. She went into more details the following evening,
  332. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175397337411586]
  333.  
  334. saying he once got her blackout drunk on Midori Sours and then he and two friends got her back to her room, where he pounced on her in front of the other guys, who left after a few moments.
  335. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175398985768966, scrolling down from previous]
  336.  
  337. She claimed she was only able to refuse him because she was on her period, and re-emphasized that it was the only reason.
  338. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175401078685696, scrolling down from previous]
  339.  
  340. Given Karrisa's choice of words, everyone read this as meaning that they were in her hotel room, possibly on her bed, and that she barely resisted having sex with him.
  341. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200620103619/https://twitter.com/David_the_Wavid/status/1274289460117676032]
  342.  
  343. Some people immediately started calling him a rapist
  344. [https://twitter.com/Nishirii/status/1274257863981047808]
  345.  
  346. without doing the slightest amount of investigation.
  347. [https://twitter.com/TheDStecks/status/1274330685927456768]
  348.  
  349. Karissa said she saw him do the same with other women, disappearing with one or another and then coming back later. She claimed she did not get drunk with him again.
  350. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175402001534980, scrolling down from previous]
  351.  
  352. She then went on to introduce him to Jackie, who she claims endured a year of heartache, gaslighting and emotional abuse at his hands
  353. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175403758882818, scrolling down from previous]
  354.  
  355. before he finally walked out on her while they were having dinner at a restaurant during a major convention. Jackie went out looking for him afterwards because she was afraid he'd get hurt.
  356. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175404648140800, scrolling down from previous]
  357.  
  358. She claimed he was blacklisted from the convention based on her testimony about his behavior.
  359. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175405692538882, scrolling down from previous]
  360.  
  361. She then said the events she witnessed herself happened between 2013 and 2015, even though they had actually happened between 2012 and 2014. Perhaps she wanted people to have a harder time doing research into them.
  362. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175410876661760, scrolling down from previous]
  363.  
  364. Shortly afterwards, however, she made a Facebook post linking to the tweets with her accusations. Her Facebook profile is no longer publicly visible, but I archived the post while it was.
  365. [http://archive.is/BcKOQ]
  366.  
  367. In the comments, Karissa tagged Melanie, her roommate from DragonCon 2012, asking her to remember about the night when she fell asleep on the floor. Melanie was unaware Karissa had been in any trouble that night and was just now hearing about it for the first time.
  368. [http://archive.is/0OoiA]
  369.  
  370. According to Karissa, Melanie was asleep in the room the whole time.
  371. [http://archive.is/0OoiA]
  372.  
  373. Lower down in the comments, Karissa said she hated Chris more for what he'd done to others than for what he'd done to her.
  374. [http://archive.is/ZBt1a]
  375.  
  376. In another comment, Jackie thanked Karissa.
  377. [http://archive.is/ayBpn]
  378.  
  379. When a woman apologized for not realizing what had happened at DragonCon 2012, Karissa pointed out that not even the two other men who'd helped her get to her room
  380. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274212054308737025]
  381.  
  382. who we know were David Gaider and Steve Jaros
  383. [https://twitter.com/davidgaider/status/241565295964221440]
  384.  
  385. had realized it despite seeing it with their own eyes.
  386. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274212054308737025]
  387.  
  388. Karissa's friend Kelly AKA GlitterBroker then made her own accusation against Chris Avellone, saying he had groped her repeatedly at the Pulse bar at DragonCon 2014. According to her, Chris was trying to get her to his room for sex whenever Karissa and Jackie weren't looking. It's unclear how this could have happened without it being immediately found out by everyone.
  389. [http://archive.vn/yiQD9]
  390.  
  391. But she said her friend Scott had apparently given Chris the dirtiest look, getting him to stop. She said shaking Chris' hand when they were first introduced was all it took to make him behave that way. I initially read this as meaning that this happened when they first met.
  392. [http://archive.vn/BqPGe]
  393.  
  394. But let's go back in time and look at her tweets from DragonCon 2014 to see what actually happened.
  395. [https://animecons.com/events/info/4226/dragon-con-2014]
  396.  
  397. She's hidden her tweets but we still have archived versions of them.
  398. [http://archive.is/AuImJ]
  399.  
  400. When she first met Chris at the Pulse bar, she took this photo of him and Scott, with Scott holding and kissing his head. This was her only ever mention of Chris on Twitter until recently.
  401. [http://archive.is/BwdMz]
  402.  
  403. 2 hours later, she said that what happens at DragonCon stays at DragonCon, which is a strange thing to say if she had just been groped by someone.
  404. [http://archive.is/Wsm73]
  405.  
  406. She stayed in her room the next evening,
  407. [http://archive.vn/VFk0Q]
  408.  
  409. then went to Pulse again the evening after that
  410. [http://archive.vn/5MyHx]
  411.  
  412. and ended up being the only woman at a room party, saying she was thankful she was fat and able to defend herself.
  413. [http://archive.is/2zS8p]
  414.  
  415. When she went to the bathroom, she started hearing smack talk about who had brought her there
  416. [http://archive.vn/yUotU]
  417.  
  418. and she walked out without saying goodbye.
  419. [http://archive.vn/DwfoF]
  420.  
  421. She said there was no one of consequence there
  422. [http://archive.vn/gIaW2]
  423.  
  424. and was still upset about it the morning after.
  425. [http://archive.vn/2foAX]
  426.  
  427. That evening, which was the last evening of DragonCon 2014, she said she was going to need a lot of psych meds before she agreed to come to that con again, but added that she felt terrible she was such horrid company.
  428. [http://archive.vn/FwF2g]
  429.  
  430. When her friends started talking about their friends being assaulted and groped, Kelly said that stuff hadn't happened to her because she was fat and that was kryptonite to the frat boy element there.
  431. [http://archive.is/Ayy6X]
  432.  
  433. Twenty minutes later, she said she was now drunk and was going to start hitting on everyone.
  434. [http://archive.is/Ss7WR]
  435.  
  436. She claimed she was only tolerable in real life when she was extremely drunk
  437. [http://archive.is/7WNQx]
  438.  
  439. and then went to the Pulse bar for the last time.
  440. [http://archive.is/VjNPP]
  441.  
  442. The next day at noon, she was waiting for her ride out of DragonCon with Jackie.
  443. [http://archive.is/oFu2A]
  444.  
  445. This means that, according to her own words, her time at DragonCon 2014 can be divided into 2 periods:
  446. [http://archive.vn/hhRCE]
  447.  
  448. the period when no one had groped her, which lasted for the entire con until the last evening,
  449. [http://archive.is/Ayy6X]
  450.  
  451. and the last evening where she claimed to be hitting on everyone.
  452. [http://archive.is/Ss7WR]
  453.  
  454. However, when she accused Chris of groping her, she claimed Jackie was still Chris' girlfriend at the time
  455. [http://archive.vn/yiQD9]
  456.  
  457. even though, according to Karissa, Chris and Jackie broke up on one of the nights of DragonCon 2014.
  458. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175404648140800]
  459.  
  460. It's rather strange that Karissa never knew about any of this despite being good friends with Kelly for many years, and it's the kind of story that would really benefit from Kelly being willing to answer questions about it,
  461. [http://archive.is/4b87F]
  462.  
  463. but she's been blocking everyone asking them on Twitter.
  464. [https://twitter.com/glitterbroker]
  465.  
  466. Her unwillingness to talk may be explained somewhat by her state of mind.
  467. [https://www.reddit.com/r/askwomenadvice/comments/hi65li/when_to_bring_up_a_mood_disorder/fwf6pn5/]
  468.  
  469. This was Chris' first comment on the accusations, almost 4 hours after Karissa had made them and an hour after Kelly had added her story. Chris seemed to believe that Karissa was mostly upset about what had happened between him and Jackie.
  470. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/with_replies / https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274234945985118208]
  471.  
  472. He then tagged Jackie to tell her he was sorry for how things had worked out between him and her, saying he'd cared very much about her.
  473. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274241491196538881]
  474.  
  475. He asked a fan named Stella to just let him apologize.
  476. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274244712317087744]
  477.  
  478. He then tagged Jackie a second time saying he should have been better,
  479. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274244818114248704]
  480.  
  481. adding that he did try very much.
  482. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274244936460713985, scrolling down from above]
  483.  
  484. When asked to provide his account of things, Chris replied that there was nothing to say, and that he and Jackie had continued to see each other for years after their first meeting.
  485. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274246726774190080]
  486.  
  487. He said he was almost in the grave already when Stella offered some support,
  488. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274247511318777856]
  489.  
  490. but clarified that he just meant he was old.
  491. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274248599174393856]
  492.  
  493. He then told Stella that she was showing too much care towards him and that it gave him hope for human nature, but asked that she cancel him at once regardless.
  494. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274248870768205824]
  495.  
  496. When another fan offered support, Chris melodramatically asked to be allowed to die in his sleep, but reiterated that he did care very much about Karissa's friend and did not want to diminish it even if it did not end up in a good place.
  497. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274252171702177792]
  498.  
  499. He added that he still felt bad about the breakup.
  500. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274252603111563264]
  501.  
  502. He told Stella that Karissa hates him and is right to feel that way, and that he can't fix it as much as he'd like to.
  503. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274252996117848071]
  504.  
  505. A minute after that, Karissa replied, asking Chris to spare her the lies and non-apologies and confess to what he'd supposedly done to countless women.
  506. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274253275827757056]
  507.  
  508. Chris tagged Karissa and Jackie telling them he was doing his best to apologize considering he was blocked.
  509. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274255726991429633]
  510.  
  511. When someone cast doubts on Karissa's story, she told him to research what assault and abuse are.
  512. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274257092589821952]
  513.  
  514. Chris then told a fan that his work on games was not an excuse for hurting someone he should have communicated with better.
  515. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274258723129573376]
  516.  
  517. Karissa added that she did hate him, claiming he'd assaulted and abused her friends and made life hell for dozens of fellow industry members.
  518. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274259057080180737]
  519.  
  520. When asked by someone if he'd changed, Chris replied he did try to be responsible when dealing with people romantically.
  521. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274259364270899200]
  522.  
  523. He still hoped his relationship with Jackie was not a bad one overall, despite its bad ending.
  524. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274260160609873921]
  525.  
  526. When a thread was started on Reddit with this title,
  527. [https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/hch253/tw_sexual_harassment_chris_avellone_accused_of/]
  528.  
  529. Karissa replied that the title went beyond what she had said and there was no need for embellishment.
  530. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274260235440607232]
  531.  
  532. Chris replied to Karissa asking her to talk to him, saying he'd never meant any harm, and telling her he thought things had ended well between them all up until seeing her off.
  533. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274261663290548225]
  534.  
  535. When someone asked Chris not to tag specific people, Chris suggested once again that his experience with Karissa's friend had triggered Karissa's accusations.
  536. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274267651993243653]
  537.  
  538. In his final comment, Chris said he doubted any of his fans would defend him, since only 2 people know what happened. He then avoided all social media from that point on.
  539. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274269170226487301]
  540.  
  541. When someone told Karissa her experience wasn't assault, she had a mocking reply, telling him he was an entitled white boy for telling a woman she didn't experience what she experienced.
  542. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274363581795098624 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274363581795098624]
  543.  
  544. She also pointed out that she was never on a date with Chris and that the incident between her and him happened when she first met him.
  545. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274370577428557828]
  546.  
  547. Galarian Holly Green then claimed she could somehow confirm Chris' behavior because he had once hit on a friend of a friend of hers at a party and then looked her up on Facebook.
  548. [https://twitter.com/winnersusedrugs/status/1274378034636718080]
  549.  
  550. Strangely, she'd only ever had words of praise for him in the past.
  551. [https://twitter.com/winnersusedrugs/status/956315352329105409]
  552.  
  553. When someone asked Karissa to stop getting blackout drunk, she said she rarely drinks and she'd rarely ever been tipsy.
  554. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274396021343354882]
  555.  
  556. Samantha Wallschlaeger made a few tweets about Chris that she then deleted, saying she felt she ultimately had no story to tell, and that Chris had made her uncomfortable through a few messages,
  557. [https://archive.is/KqteC / https://twitter.com/StillNotSam/status/1274430136574595073]
  558.  
  559. but that it wasn't even close to what some of these people went through.
  560. [https://twitter.com/StillNotSam/status/1274430470290239488]
  561.  
  562. Karissa then claimed intimidation doesn't work on her and said that fear won't keep the truth quiet anymore.
  563. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274451323124101130]
  564.  
  565. Three hours later, Jacqui Collins posted a dirty text Chris had sent her in 2014, mistakenly writing 2013 at first. She claimed she forgave Chris for it at the time, but never forgot about it. She said she was in a relationship at the time and Chris knew that. The text showed her asking Chris for a third-wheeling exit strategy, along with Chris' reply, without providing additional context for the conversation.
  566. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274509359427383304]
  567.  
  568. She explained her reaction to the text, saying it made her feel sick and upset.
  569. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274512006725304321, scrolling down from above]
  570.  
  571. When asked what she meant by the third-wheeling exit strategy, Jacqui Collins provided the follow-up of her conversation with Chris from 2014, showing him apologizing profusely and saying he had completely misunderstood what she meant. Apparently, she was out with a friend who was making out with a guy and she was trying to get away from there.
  572. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274521754015129602]
  573.  
  574. When asked why she forgave it only to bring it up years later, Jacqui Collins claimed she was doing it to speak to his character at the time.
  575. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274753773001306112]
  576.  
  577. She added that this is how Chris talked to her when they had no romantic or sexual relationship whatsoever.
  578. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274774580800806914]
  579.  
  580. Half a year before the dirty text, Jacqui Collins had called Chris her boyfriend in another life.
  581. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/399457209865613312]
  582.  
  583. On Christmas, she advised people to send Christmas greetings to everyone in their contacts and delete whoever replied with a dick pic.
  584. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/416026277921832960]
  585.  
  586. She said something gave her the feeling Chris Avellone was going to send a dick with a Christmas on it now,
  587. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/416027912018460673]
  588.  
  589. but clarified that she made that statement in good fun, because Chris wasn't a pervert, just a drunk like her, and that's what made them biffles,
  590. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/416028428911931392]
  591.  
  592. best friends for life.
  593. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=biffles]
  594.  
  595. In April of 2014, she noted that Chris was one of the greatest friends on this earth.
  596. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/456991366279876608]
  597.  
  598. A month later, and about a day before getting Chris' text, Jacqui Collins said she wanted to use Tinder out of sick-minded curiosity despite not being available.
  599. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/470022961626628096]
  600.  
  601. Shortly before getting the text, she said Chris Avellone and another person were her people now, but she forgot to put in a verb in her first sentence in this tweet.
  602. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/470455852420591616]
  603.  
  604. The next day at noon, she'd read Chris' text and was upset about it, posting it on Twitter for the first time, but with his name blacked out, asking why things like that happened. This time her screenshot included the conversation she was having with him right before his faux pas.
  605. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/470603559684542464/photo/1, overlay "faux pas" on screen when getting to it in narration]
  606.  
  607. You can see a higher quality version of her screenshot by changing the URL like this.
  608. [copy-paste image fromo above and turn URL into https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BofrcZQIgAAI3Bk?format=jpg]
  609.  
  610. She was upset by one of the commenters somehow blaming her for the unwanted advances.
  611. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/470716000967884801]
  612.  
  613. A few weeks later, she said that OKCupid messages were both comedy gold and facepalm material,
  614. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/486716710901547008]
  615.  
  616. and a month after that she was deleting pictures from her phone that had been taking up too much space
  617. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/497508302310633472]
  618.  
  619. and comparing the differences between OKCupid and Tinder on her Ask.fm page based on her experiences with them.
  620. [https://ask.fm/jacquicollins_/answers/115829609181]
  621.  
  622. She pointed out she wasn't dictating that everyone's relationship should be an open one.
  623. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/500312032697393153]
  624.  
  625. When asked about sexting, she said it was a modern marvel if you're good at it.
  626. [https://ask.fm/jacquicollins_/answers/116284999645]
  627.  
  628. She seemed to receive an unusual number of inappropriate pictures.
  629. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/513091686583795712]
  630.  
  631. In early 2015, she encouraged people to not be overly judgmental of someone who is openly sexual
  632. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/568868227792687105]
  633.  
  634. and claimed that she and her boyfriend had been on the same page for a while about having an open relationship before they finally cracked and told each other.
  635. [https://ask.fm/jacquicollins_/answers/125414000349]
  636.  
  637. At the end of 2015, she said she sometimes accidentally got too flirty and then felt bad hours later once she'd realized it.
  638. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/676256437878652928]
  639.  
  640. She pointed out that, if she was friends with someone, there was a 50/50 chance she'd be down to sleep with that person.
  641. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/676265098231472129, scrolling down from above]
  642.  
  643. She said she'd probably be cool with it, and told her friends to just ask.
  644. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/676265454030098432, scrolling down from above]
  645.  
  646. By the end of 2019, people were still sending her pictures that confused her but did not seem to bother her all that much.
  647. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1207157425473818625]
  648.  
  649. Ultimately, it's unclear why she singled out Chris and left out so much of the very relevant surrounding context,
  650. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274509359427383304]
  651.  
  652. especially considering she kept getting along fine with him for years afterwards.
  653. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/579726924840185856]
  654.  
  655. When she saw Chris' dirty text, Megan Fausti – who was Chris' fellow writer on Jedi: Fallen Order – was very upset with him for treating Jacqui Collins that way.
  656. [https://twitter.com/khoriander/status/1274522570264424449]
  657.  
  658. Jacqui apologized to Megan for not telling her before, saying she thought Chris had changed after getting married, with so many years having passed.
  659. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274523495657926656]
  660.  
  661. Megan Fausti then tweeted she never saw Chris' behavior herself and that he was always kind and professional to her, but that she believed the women coming forward.
  662. [https://twitter.com/khoriander/status/1274525171576004609]
  663.  
  664. 8 hours later, Christy Dena – a 47 year old game developer from Melbourne, Australia – said she hadn't realized Chris had an intentional pattern of behavior and that she needed to add her own name to the list from the same kind of scenario in 2013. She did not go into details in other tweets.
  665. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/1274648240613289984]
  666.  
  667. When someone encouraged women to come forward, but only if they're 100% positively genuine and have evidence, Karissa replied that there shouldn't be restrictions like that, and that she was lucky there were multiple witnesses in her case.
  668. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274796583742308353]
  669.  
  670. Gato Studio made an official statement on the 22nd of June, although Chris' contract with them was already finished.
  671. [https://twitter.com/GatoStudioGames/status/1275156488143564800]
  672.  
  673. Techland made an official statement an hour later, saying they treat matters of sexual harassment and disrespect with the utmost care and that they'd decided to end their cooperation with Chris Avellone.
  674. [https://twitter.com/TechlandGames/status/1275169717196554240]
  675.  
  676. Karissa thanked them.
  677. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1275171050255519744]
  678.  
  679. She then became unprecedently hostile to anyone asking her anymore questions. She replied with insults to this person and said none of Chris' victims owed him anything and that victims don't owe anything to their abusers.
  680. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1275219225058201600]
  681.  
  682. She claimed there were hundreds if not thousands of victims of Chris' brand of BS.
  683. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1275222071073701895]
  684.  
  685. When someone said Kelly's story made little sense, Karissa simply had this reaction.
  686. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1275406349137072129]
  687.  
  688. Most of the news articles that came out just repeated statements from the tweets and reported on studios cutting ties with Chris, without investigating further.
  689. [https://www.pcgamer.com/chris-avellone-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women/]
  690.  
  691. The exceptions were the articles from Kotaku, Bloomberg and Business Insider.
  692. [https://kotaku.com/multiple-women-accuse-games-writer-chris-avellone-of-se-1844135498 / https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/video-game-industry-rocked-by-outpouring-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations / https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-avellone-video-game-designer-accused-sexual-assault-karissa-2020-6]
  693.  
  694. The Kotaku article came out first, on the the 23rd of June, and mentioned the accusations from Karissa, Jacqui Collins and Kelly, but only Karissa was willing to go into more detail when contacted. Her wording was vague again, referring to her hotel room as though they were in it, without mentioning the roommate. The two witnesses,
  695. [https://kotaku.com/multiple-women-accuse-games-writer-chris-avellone-of-se-1844135498]
  696.  
  697. David Gaider and Steve Jaros
  698. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/241575997726679040]
  699.  
  700. were not mentioned by name in the article. They left at "some point" after they had repeatedly tried to get Chris to leave with them,
  701. [https://kotaku.com/multiple-women-accuse-games-writer-chris-avellone-of-se-1844135498]
  702.  
  703. which contradicts the previous statement that they left after a few moments and suggests they saw most of what happened.
  704. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175398985768966]
  705.  
  706. The Bloomberg article from the 24th of June started out about sexual misconduct allegations in the gaming industry in general, but said that some of the most detailed allegations were brought against Avellone. The article went on to mention the accusations from Karissa, Christy Dena, Jacqui Collins and Kelly, but only the first two responded to requests for more details.
  707. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/video-game-industry-rocked-by-outpouring-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations, top part]
  708.  
  709. Karissa's accusation sounded unusually mild this time, saying Chris had a hand down her pants, she told him it wasn't a good idea, and he stopped. He was a perfect gentleman the rest of the weekend and it never occurred to her that something had gone wrong that night until she saw other women coming forward with their stories. Karissa said her friendship with Chris ended after he had a difficult relationship with her friend.
  710. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/video-game-industry-rocked-by-outpouring-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations, section about Karissa]
  711.  
  712. The article then provided the only details found anywhere about Christy Dena's allegation, claiming they met up at a convention in Melbourne in 2013. She went out drinking with him and other friends and he kept buying drinks for the group. She says she took Chris back to her hotel room and then woke up next to him with no clothes on, but with him telling her they hadn't done anything. Why would he say that and why is she quoting him instead of saying what happened? Is it possible they were drunk enough that they decided not to do anything?
  713. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/video-game-industry-rocked-by-outpouring-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations, section about Christy Dena, focusing on her night spent with him]
  714.  
  715. She kept in touch with Chris, but decided to speak up when Karissa's accusations made her think Chris had a pattern of behavior. She's had other uncomfortable incidents involving drinking with other men at video game industry events and it's taken her a long time to learn that people are not in a consenting state when they're drunk.
  716. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/video-game-industry-rocked-by-outpouring-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations, section about Christy Dena, focusing on the aftermath]
  717.  
  718. Let's look at some old tweets for more context.
  719. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/185607923668496384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E185607923668496384%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html185607923668496384]
  720.  
  721. Given that these tweets pertain to Australia, I'm switching my timezone to GMT+10 just for them.
  722. [footage of me setting my Windows timezone to GMT+10]
  723.  
  724. First, it's important to note that there are no mentions of Chris ever being in Australia in 2013
  725. [https://twitter.com/search?q=since%3A2013-01-01%20until%3A2013-12-31%20chrisavellone%20australia&src=typed_query&f=live]
  726.  
  727. or of him being in Melbourne.
  728. [https://twitter.com/search?q=since%3A2013-01-01%20until%3A2013-12-31%20chrisavellone%20melbourne&src=typed_query&f=live]
  729.  
  730. He specifically said he wasn't at PAX Australia 2013
  731. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/355132735611867136]
  732.  
  733. and someone who was at Game Connect Asia Pacific 2013 and who was friends with Christy Dena was sad he wasn't there.
  734. [https://twitter.com/jazzrozz/status/391686048557699072]
  735.  
  736. He was in Australia in 2014
  737. [https://twitter.com/search?q=since%3A2014-01-01%20until%3A2014-12-31%20chrisavellone%20australia&src=typed_query&f=live]
  738.  
  739. but only in Adelaide,
  740. [https://twitter.com/search?q=since%3A2014-01-01%20until%3A2014-12-31%20chrisavellone%20adelaide&src=typed_query&f=live]
  741.  
  742. not Melbourne,
  743. [https://twitter.com/search?q=since%3A2014-01-01%20until%3A2014-12-31%20chrisavellone%20melbourne&src=typed_query&f=live]
  744.  
  745. and there were no interactions between him and Christy Dena on Twitter that year.
  746. [https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Achristydena%20chrisavellone&src=typed_query&f=live, scroll down to place where 2014 would be]
  747.  
  748. However, he was in Melbourne for Game Connect Asia Pacific 2012,
  749. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/245712079229681664]
  750.  
  751. with Christy Dena happy that he was coming
  752. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/259528655326298113]
  753.  
  754. and having no problem with him by the time he was leaving.
  755. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/261637033796182017]
  756.  
  757. That's probably when Christy Dena's story actually happened,
  758. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/261377365807079424]
  759.  
  760. considering Chris tweeted about getting drunk at different bars in Melbourne.
  761. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/261984371110735872]
  762.  
  763. Christy Dena assumes Chris had an intentional pattern of behavior with women,
  764. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/1274648240613289984]
  765.  
  766. but, when getting drunk at a party in 2011, she claimed she was leaving early because she was a good girl in certain seasons
  767. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/61050314102546434]
  768.  
  769. and then added that they'd decided to be drunk, but good girls that night. At least back then, she regarded herself as having enough self-control when drunk.
  770. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/61057509997281280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E61057509997281280%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html61057509997281280 or https://twitter.com/christydena/status/61057509997281280]
  771.  
  772. In case it's unclear what she was talking about, the guy she'd been flirting with was sad she'd left early
  773. [https://twitter.com/elroyonline/status/61044486423326720]
  774.  
  775. with Christy Dena's friend Giselle saying she needed to be more girly for a girls' night.
  776. [https://twitter.com/jazzrozz/status/61045786963738624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E61045786963738624%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html61045786963738624]
  777.  
  778. The guy hoped he'd reach at least second base with her the next time he saw her in a bar,
  779. [https://twitter.com/elroyonline/status/61984557238468608]
  780.  
  781. but seems to have gotten all the way with her a few days later
  782. [https://twitter.com/elroyonline/status/63162752725823488]
  783.  
  784. with them praising each other in unusual ways, but leaving little doubt about what had taken place.
  785. [https://twitter.com/elroyonline/status/63225169820385280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E63225169820385280%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html63225169820385280]
  786.  
  787. She also had a pattern of getting very drunk with her friends before Chris ever entered the picture, referring to doing three bars in one night as not even being hardcore.
  788. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/94578134871056384 / https://twitter.com/christydena/status/185958094226993153]
  789.  
  790. Additionally, while she hardly ever spoke with Chris on Twitter, she was always very nice to him after the alleged incident,
  791. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/281547268019077120]
  792.  
  793. was amused by the idea of him packing drinks,
  794. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/372918021779517440]
  795.  
  796. and asked him to do a talk in 2017 for her website and game design event.
  797. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/872656398437408768]
  798.  
  799. *show Christy Dena saying the talk was lovely and thanking Chris very much from 17:43 to 17:48*
  800. [Christy Dena - Chris Avellone's talk for her game design event.mp4]
  801.  
  802. She stated the talk was super awesome.
  803. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/873154699746095105]
  804.  
  805. She has since taken down the talk with Chris from her Medium blog
  806. [https://medium.com/crafting-intangibles/videos-8eb8d36ca6d5]
  807.  
  808. but the Internet Archive shows that it was there at the end of last year.
  809. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191111122028/https://medium.com/crafting-intangibles/videos-8eb8d36ca6d5]
  810.  
  811. Also last year, she noted that she had observed herself and other women and found some significant flaws.
  812. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/1169504963388592128]
  813.  
  814. In August of 2020, this person who is friends with Chris pointed out that there was even a third person in the room with Chris and Christy Dena on the night that Dena talked about, and that this is why – as Chris was quoted saying by Dena – nothing actually happened.
  815. [https://twitter.com/TheCancerThati1/status/1295778838740230150 / https://twitter.com/TheCancerThati1/status/1295779020223549440]
  816.  
  817. Still, after reading Christy Dena's story in the Business Insider article, Karissa wrote on Facebook that it was proof of what would have happened to her as well if she hadn't been on her period that weekend. She once again forgot to mention the roommate sleeping in her room.
  818. [Karissa Barrows - Karissa reacts to Bloomberg story on Facebook.png]
  819.  
  820. On the 24th of June, Chris' former lover Jackie posted her own statement on TwitLonger.
  821. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/1275923022919217153]
  822.  
  823. She claimed the crowd that demands proof would never be satisfied with anything any emotionally abused person provided, so she was simply going to state some facts to show the type of character Chris had. She pointed out that she had only seen Chris from September 2013 to September 2014. She then complained solely about the fact that he had mentioned her on Twitter, suggesting his apology to her somehow had negative intentions.
  824. [https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sr9o9b]
  825.  
  826. For the Business Insider article from the 3rd of July, Karissa was quoted as saying that Chris forcibly kissed her and tried to put his hand down her pants. Two friends of Karissa's confirmed they'd heard the story in the past: one of them had heard it in 2014 and the other had heard it in 2012 a month after it happened.
  827. [https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-avellone-video-game-designer-accused-sexual-assault-karissa-2020-6, first part of article]
  828.  
  829. Karissa went into more detail, saying Chris had assaulted her on the first night they met at a convention in 2012. This was the first time in any tweet or interview where she said the incident had happened outside her hotel room,
  830. [https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-avellone-video-game-designer-accused-sexual-assault-karissa-2020-6, second part of article]
  831.  
  832. probably because the presence of the roommate was being mentioned on Twitter by that point.
  833. [https://twitter.com/davidcernat/status/1278768115065729024]
  834.  
  835. But she still did not actually mention her roommate, using vague wording about refusing him to suggest something worse could have happened. She claimed she found out about what had happened by talking to Chris and one of the witnesses and that she was shocked and offended by it,
  836. [https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-avellone-video-game-designer-accused-sexual-assault-karissa-2020-6, second part of article]
  837.  
  838. even though her tweets from that period show no trace of this.
  839. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/244079977757286402]
  840.  
  841. She claimed she saw Chris escorting three different cosplayers away from the bar area towards exits,
  842. [https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-avellone-video-game-designer-accused-sexual-assault-karissa-2020-6]
  843.  
  844. adding slightly more clarity to her previous insinuations, but making it unclear how she was at the bar with him for so long without drinking with him.
  845. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1274175402001534980]
  846.  
  847. The article went on to mention the text posted by Jacqui Collins
  848. [https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-avellone-video-game-designer-accused-sexual-assault-karissa-2020-6, third part of article]
  849.  
  850. without going over any of her contradictions from the past.
  851. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/500368045995724800]
  852.  
  853. It was also another article that completely mischaracterized Chris' apology to Jackie for their bad relationship by not even mentioning Jackie.
  854. [https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-avellone-video-game-designer-accused-sexual-assault-karissa-2020-6, fourth part of article]
  855.  
  856. When Karissa was confronted with the fact she had a roommate when her incident with Chris happened, she claimed that she herself had said that her roommate was asleep the whole time in a soundproof hotel room. But she had never said that anywhere.
  857. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1280343887849099266]
  858.  
  859. She had only ever mentioned the roommate on Facebook when talking to her.
  860. [Karissa Barrows - Facebook post about Avellone.png, conversation with Melanie]
  861.  
  862. Later that month, in response to tweets that were critical of Kotaku for their lack of tact regarding other stories, Karissa noted that she had insisted on having complete control over how any journalists interviewing her used her words in their articles, and that she would have revoked their permission to use any information from her if they hadn't agreed to all of her demands.
  863. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1283415424089182211]
  864.  
  865. She believed most journalists are unable to handle such stories responsibly and implied that those who did not accept what they were told at face value were being shady.
  866. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1283418486199529472]
  867.  
  868. She then called herself a survivor who could advise other survivors on how to deal with the press.
  869. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1283419702048555011]
  870.  
  871. So what's the conclusion? What really happened here?
  872. [Exoneration videos - the what really happened caption.png]
  873.  
  874. Well, it looks like Karissa has decided to completely reinterpret past events between her and Chris
  875. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/363040601148628992]
  876.  
  877. so she could score points with the people around her.
  878. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/1275981992216219649]
  879.  
  880. This is hardly the first time she's done something like this.
  881. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/272597855926104064]
  882.  
  883. In fact, it seems to be a pattern of hers.
  884. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/272672932407410689]
  885.  
  886. For instance, during the Ferguson protests of 2014
  887. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/498848893375766529]
  888.  
  889. which happened right next to where she lived
  890. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/498984106135257088]
  891.  
  892. she claimed the protesters were just idiots
  893. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/498849371367043072]
  894.  
  895. looking for an excuse to wreak havoc.
  896. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/498849430112456704]
  897.  
  898. She said the police were entitled to a little show of force to intimidate people,
  899. [https://twitter.com/meesherbeans/status/499065564950970368, hovering from Karissa's first reply to her second and clicking on the second]
  900.  
  901. she claimed crowds were rioting half of the time and were inspired to do so by the cameras rolling,
  902. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/499379939284496385]
  903.  
  904. and she said people should believe her take on events because she lived there, had firsthand accounts of what happened and had friends whose family members were cops responding to the nonsense.
  905. [https://twitter.com/Desert_Bell/status/499380090090684416, hovering from Karissa's previous message saying she lives there, then hovering from Karissa's first reply to her second one and clicking on it]
  906.  
  907. She was accused of talking only about the ways in which the situation was personally inconveniencing her,
  908. [https://twitter.com/Desert_Bell/status/499382286664466432, hovering from Karissa's previous message saying she couldn't get groceries because of the "protests"]
  909.  
  910. and of focusing mostly on her groceries.
  911. [https://twitter.com/Desert_Bell/status/499382964774375424]
  912.  
  913. A few days later, she claimed not many – if any – of the looters were actually opportunists from other locations.
  914. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/500531390014697472]
  915.  
  916. When activists from Black Lives Matter created a mirror casket as a symbol of the Ferguson protests,
  917. [https://mirrorcasket.com/support]
  918.  
  919. she started complaining about it, saying that – considering how violent some protesters had been – it very easily might be meant as a threat.
  920. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/520844814758469633 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/520845853217796096]
  921.  
  922. Six years later, she had decided it had actually been white supremacists and plain clothes policemen causing property damage that gave the police an excuse to use force at Ferguson.
  923. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1266761570312507393]
  924.  
  925. The reason for this is that her political views have changed massively in that timeframe.
  926. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/155474100435959808]
  927.  
  928. She recently claimed, just two tweets apart, that she used to be a "staunch conservative" and a "left-leaning centrist," seemingly unable to make up her mind.
  929. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1282358674799964162 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1282358678495076352]
  930.  
  931. Either description seems inappropriate for some of the views she used to have in her mid-to-late 20s,
  932. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/4996804713]
  933.  
  934. such as her claim that Obama just barely escaped her death-wishing
  935. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/7293633618]
  936.  
  937. or that he had forged his birth certificate.
  938. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/65115433266716672]
  939.  
  940. She kept harassing him on Twitter for years
  941. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/367397694299324416]
  942.  
  943. and complained about his supposed abuses.
  944. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/384897071167184897]
  945.  
  946. She also wanted God to destroy her former boyfriend's relationship with another woman
  947. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/20700155293]
  948.  
  949. and asked God to use lightning to smite her off the face of the earth
  950. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/84852769609093121]
  951.  
  952. in-between wanting his entire family to die.
  953. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/24979390780]
  954.  
  955. She said Jesus should always be the model and that it was the drift away from the Word that was getting people in trouble
  956. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/27782645614120960]
  957.  
  958. and she hoped she'd have at least two more kids before Jesus came back.
  959. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/323564551968792577]
  960.  
  961. She also had a lot of opinions that were quite reasonable,
  962. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/339545914769305600]
  963.  
  964. but she had completely reversed them by the end of the decade, often in extreme ways, saying that men are trash and that white strangers are usually racist.
  965. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1034657995089690624 / https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1034666213484453888]
  966.  
  967. She called supporters of Bernie Sanders toxic
  968. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1235947779106709506]
  969.  
  970. and went as far as calling Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey a white supremacist,
  971. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1027044712958631936]
  972.  
  973. asking for him to be banned and for people to resist Twitter.
  974. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1037563130619027456]
  975.  
  976. She accused Jack Dorsey of using Twitter to push a fascist agenda.
  977. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1037739863729217537]
  978.  
  979. Yes, this guy.
  980. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/technology/jack-dorsey-donate-1-billion-coronavirus.html]
  981.  
  982. Somehow, this woman right here is the one who got Chris Avellone cancelled.
  983. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1037739863729217537]
  984.  
  985. She remembered that Chris apologizes for everything
  986. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/749303406246768640]
  987.  
  988. and anything
  989. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/588737195420176384]
  990.  
  991. all of the time
  992. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1115042194681786368]
  993.  
  994. even when it doesn't make any sense.
  995. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1184594031495368704]
  996.  
  997. He tried to apologize to Karissa for why he thought she was actually upset with him, ignoring what she was actually saying, which led to his words being entirely mischaracterized.
  998. [https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1274260160609873921]
  999.  
  1000. She realized he's met thousands of people considering how many places he's been to in his career, so she figured at least one or two women must have had a problem with him somewhere sometime and that she could use this to make her own story stick.
  1001. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1275222071073701895]
  1002.  
  1003. Everyone had a knee-jerk reaction
  1004. [https://twitter.com/emilybuckshot/status/1274376944499318784]
  1005.  
  1006. instead of doing a basic background check on her.
  1007. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/459458441069604865]
  1008.  
  1009. Her longtime friend Kelly, wanting to help, chimed in with a story that made no sense, perhaps put up to it by Karissa herself,
  1010. [http://archive.vn/yiQD9]
  1011.  
  1012. and was disproven by her own past tweets.
  1013. [http://archive.is/Ayy6X]
  1014.  
  1015. Jacqui Collins, whom Chris still regarded as a friend, decided she believed Karissa and threw in an ancient text that she claimed she had long ago forgiven Chris for,
  1016. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/1274509359427383304]
  1017.  
  1018. leaving out all the context,
  1019. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/399457209865613312]
  1020.  
  1021. pretending she'd forgotten all the other things she'd said over the years.
  1022. [https://twitter.com/jacquicollins_/status/676265098231472129]
  1023.  
  1024. Christy Dena, whom Chris also still regarded as a friend, also believed Karissa and decided Chris had a pattern of behavior,
  1025. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/1274648240613289984]
  1026.  
  1027. despite the pattern of behavior having been hers.
  1028. [https://twitter.com/christydena/status/61057509997281280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E61057509997281280%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html61057509997281280 or https://twitter.com/christydena/status/61057509997281280]
  1029.  
  1030. The fact that Chris had also hit on a woman once and then looked her up on Facebook
  1031. [https://twitter.com/winnersusedrugs/status/1274378034636718080]
  1032.  
  1033. and had an ex with nothing to directly accuse him of other than the fact that he'd mentioned her on Twitter
  1034. [https://twitter.com/GeekyFriedRice/status/1275923022919217153]
  1035.  
  1036. led to the notion that there were multiple women with similar stories about Chris, even though none of the stories are actually similar and none of them indicate that anything non-consensual actually ever happened.
  1037. [https://twitter.com/SJBsMama/status/1279433467135172609]
  1038.  
  1039. Someone who meets thousands and thousands of people will certainly run into a few who can change their opinions drastically about anything even when the facts haven't changed at all.
  1040. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)#Relationships]
  1041.  
  1042. Unfortunately, Twitter mobs engage in the kind of mass hysteria that was already falling out of fashion in Europe in the 17th century,
  1043. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period#Decline_of_the_trials:_1650%E2%80%931750]
  1044.  
  1045. and even the Magna Carta from 1215 was based on deeper thinking than what's been exhibited here 800 years later by these people who think they're cultured but still haven't grasped the usefulness of basic legal principles like due process.
  1046. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process#Magna_Carta]
  1047.  
  1048. Thankfully, Chris' fans are beginning to see the light
  1049. [https://twitter.com/datdude_graham/status/1287587912905895937]
  1050.  
  1051. and they understand that Karissa's accusations completely undermine the stories of real victims.
  1052. [https://twitter.com/years_late/status/1287815666339209216]
  1053.  
  1054. Chris Avellone has been a writer on many of the best-written video games of all time. Unsurprisingly, his fans are great at sifting through large amounts of information, and that information shows us that he's completely innocent of the absurd exaggerations thrown in his direction. So please, dear viewer, join up with the rest of us and help us exonerate him.
  1055. [Chris Avellone - collage of box art of games Chris has worked on.png]
  1056.  
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