The guy he's mentioning was
Will/Liam/DeadCrescendo, a former moderator here whom he knew in real life(they both used to live in Michigan). ROMate's someone else entirely(a former roommate of mine).
Judging by the response you got, YTF's still in drama mode.
From my perspective, here's what happened
in brief:
1. This one guy whom I don't remember happened to be a fan of YTF's site, so he created the first Bakunyuu Baka forum, of which YTF, myself, and JG00 were members of.
2. That site ended up closing down on account of the webhost disappearing. That affected me also since I had hosting with that company at the time. Lost out about $50 on that stint. Mother fucker! More importantly, there was now no Bakunyuu Baka forum.
3. I ended up finding hosting somewhere else and in addition to bringing Hyperguy.net over to it, I went and made a forum, because A) this was when I was most interested in forums and B) I felt like I could do a better job than that one guy who set up the original Bakunyuu Baka forum(that is, customize it and generate discussion as opposed to just have a vanilla forum). There were a couple other reasons also. No Viper forum on the web at the time, and no good hentai forums. Were there good hentai forums on the web at the time, I would have joined them instead of making one.
4. The forum became moderately popular and saw a lot of changes that year. We changed the name from The H-Forum to Congress of Awesome, changed the forum software from phpBB to SMF, and things like that. Posting was at an all time high. Meanwhile, I believe another Bakunyuu Forum was created at some point, but for whatever reason it ended up collapsing, which left its members with no place to post about giant breasts and the like.
5. One day I was talking to YTF over AIM and offered forum space if he ever needed it. Seeing as how we do share similar interests and our forum users were similar enough, it sounded like a great idea the time.
6. As such, the Bakunyuu Baka subforum was created, with YTF as the moderator in charge of it. I pretty much let them do as they pleased within it, and let YTF know that if he ever had any trouble with anything to let me know about it. This is probably the most important thing I ever told him in regards to it, because even as bad things were happening, they never messaged me about any of it.
I could have taken care of a lot of the problems members were having had they been brought to my attention. At the time I was working multiple jobs on top of a full courseload so I didn't really have the option to read every single thread.
7. Things eventually came to a breaking point when via team effort of some forum members being critical and other forum members victimizing themselves a fallout occurred. Not everyone was affected really. Just the people who were insensitive to other's tastes(the offenders) and the people who were sensitive to other's criticism(the perpetual victims). Much drama ensued.
At its culmination, YTF got fed up and
declared that they would delete all of their boards. That's when I had to step in and revoke YTF's moderator status, and "rescue the board from deletion" as it were.
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After that, YTF had pretty much had his fill and stopped posting altogether. Even his supporters thought deleting the Bakunyuu Baka forums out one giant dramatic swoop was just a bad idea. I'd imagine the whole bit left a bad taste in his mouth, so he probably feels resentful about a few of the things that transpired.
Resentful of Will, for on one hand being their friend in real life, yet being the opposite of one online, resentful of any criticisms of the "bakunyuu baka lifestyle"* or nonpandering to victimization, and maybe even resentful of me, for not doing as much as I could have without someone nudging me to tell me what's wrong. Maybe even a little embarassed once he realized how much things had been blow out of proportion, especially since his supporters were coming back down to earth and realizing that it's not that end of the world if people on the internet disagree, and that entire forums shouldn't be deleted because of it.
But I'll never really know, and at this point in time, don't really care. It's all in the past now.
And I feel like I've told this story at least 6 times by now.
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*Bakunyuu Baka is Japanese for "explosive breast idiot", that is, a person who's an idiot for large breasts. That's it. It's a fetish. But, the whole Bakunyuu Baka thing on these forums were essentially people allowing themselves to be defined by their fetish, and as a result, to claim personal injury whenever the fetish--not the person, was criticized or questioned. In other words, a perpetual victim who felt that they were always being judged or mistreated by people who didn't also like large breasted 2D women.
