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Two weeks ago it was revealed that the moderator known as Stephen Teague had released and talked about several different player's chat messages in voice chat with his inner circle of friends in the guild named Mercy? (Not every member, as I'll later show examples of, just the ones he liked) Most of these incidents had been covered up for a long time, though he messed up when it came to my messages and sent them out in private messages to a few different individuals. Stephen has been corrupt for a very long time, though every single attempt to convince any other member of the moderation team of this has led to the same dead end statements about there never being any proof of it. This time however, Stephen was confronted by Scarecrow and had a nervous breakdown over it. This led to him sending a friend request to me and coming to my private messages out of fear of his corruption being leaked out with a confession and apology already copied and pasted. This is his confession here:
As you can see, Stephen admits to committing a serious offense and breaching rules of sharing privacy that no moderator should be allowed to breach. The issue with his apology however, is that it's completely fake and insincere. Stephen isn't apologizing for breaking a rule and sharing privacy while causing drama, he's apologizing because he was caught for it. I responded to him calling him out in an essay that respectfully picks apart this false sympathy he's pushing:
It is quite a long read, though I highly advise reading every word of it to better understand what sort of individual this is. Unsurprisingly, he didn't even make an attempt to respond or debunk anything I said in all of this. He ignored it and has tried to carry on life as if this has never happened. I mention several different incidents in this essay here, that I later gathered evidence of all and sent in to MMDR and John Foulroberts. For whatever reason, likely due to Stephen being a benefactor for TLOPO, all the overwhelming evidence I provided was merely "passed on for inspection" with nothing being done about it. So for the sake of the community to know what's going on behind the scenes in my own personal experiences, I am posting all the evidence I was able to gather of the incidents mentioned for public view to see.
To begin, I'd like to start off with this video that I'm sure many people already know about as it has hundreds of views on YouTube:
This video itself is already an example of Stephen abusing moderation powers, as he's using a toggle to go invisible and untargetable during Muertos Moon and shooting people with a pistol. My reason for including this though was due to a comment left on the video, that after sending in to John Foulroberts was coincidentally removed from the video. This basically confirms Stephen was informed of all the evidence I sent in, as this comment was up for 6 months prior to being deleted a day after I exposed it for being him. This was the comment here before being deleted:
This comment is crucial because for one, Stephen has some odd obsession with mentioning and shifting the blame to ROT whenever he's trolling (I'll later have an example of this), and two because this profile picture that this YouTube account is using just so happens to be the same profile picture a troll forums account known as "The Deckswabber" used. The Deckswabber is Stephen's alias alt that he would attempt trolling me on back in 2018 (as mentioned in the essay earlier). To be 100% certain this is Stephen though, I'll provide a quick piece of proof:
The reason Stephen begged Scarecrow not to tell anyone is because in every community I've ever been a part of, no moderator who is supposed to be in a position to cease drama and solve problems has ever gone around trolling on secret aliases to ignite more drama. Now that it's confirmed the Animosity YouTube channel is Stephen, we can see this profile picture is also shared by a forums account named "Menacing". This account used to be called The Deckswabber, but Stephen likely changed this name due to the fact he had a falling out with a friend who knew the identity of The Deckswabber. Unfortunately the only forums evidence I can find of this account proving to be The Deckswabber, is this joke reference made by a comment that Menacing replied to here:
If you actually search Menacing on the forums, you'll be able to find a troll thread titled "Cancel Hollowed Woods", which has the same extremely similar writing and embarrassingly unfunny humor as Stephen's troll threads he makes on his main account, which just all the more confirms it. Now that this forums account is confirmed to be linked to The Deckswabber, I managed to get an invite and dig deep into the Level Seven Discord, which is a guild and Discord Stephen played a prominent role in awhile back. This led me to come across Stephen mentioning something about The Deckswabber to a former friend of his known as Mercury:
To understand what exactly Stephen was referring to here, I actually asked Stephen's old friend what the context to this was:
This confession from Stephen's old friend is actually one of the most despicable acts of moderator abuse imaginable. Not only would Stephen seek attention from me on a hidden alt, he would also track down someone who was an easy target in 2018, teleport to them, and begin harassing them when the person had no way of even seeking a safe haven due to being found repeatedly through moderation powers. Regardless of your opinion of the people mentioned in these screenshots, a moderator's job is to avoid drama and harassment of other players. Despite this, Stephen not only failed his duty to prevent harassment and bullying, but instead partook in it for humor while abusing powers meant to help others.
As you can see, Stephen admits to committing a serious offense and breaching rules of sharing privacy that no moderator should be allowed to breach. The issue with his apology however, is that it's completely fake and insincere. Stephen isn't apologizing for breaking a rule and sharing privacy while causing drama, he's apologizing because he was caught for it. I responded to him calling him out in an essay that respectfully picks apart this false sympathy he's pushing:
It is quite a long read, though I highly advise reading every word of it to better understand what sort of individual this is. Unsurprisingly, he didn't even make an attempt to respond or debunk anything I said in all of this. He ignored it and has tried to carry on life as if this has never happened. I mention several different incidents in this essay here, that I later gathered evidence of all and sent in to MMDR and John Foulroberts. For whatever reason, likely due to Stephen being a benefactor for TLOPO, all the overwhelming evidence I provided was merely "passed on for inspection" with nothing being done about it. So for the sake of the community to know what's going on behind the scenes in my own personal experiences, I am posting all the evidence I was able to gather of the incidents mentioned for public view to see.
To begin, I'd like to start off with this video that I'm sure many people already know about as it has hundreds of views on YouTube:
This video itself is already an example of Stephen abusing moderation powers, as he's using a toggle to go invisible and untargetable during Muertos Moon and shooting people with a pistol. My reason for including this though was due to a comment left on the video, that after sending in to John Foulroberts was coincidentally removed from the video. This basically confirms Stephen was informed of all the evidence I sent in, as this comment was up for 6 months prior to being deleted a day after I exposed it for being him. This was the comment here before being deleted:
This comment is crucial because for one, Stephen has some odd obsession with mentioning and shifting the blame to ROT whenever he's trolling (I'll later have an example of this), and two because this profile picture that this YouTube account is using just so happens to be the same profile picture a troll forums account known as "The Deckswabber" used. The Deckswabber is Stephen's alias alt that he would attempt trolling me on back in 2018 (as mentioned in the essay earlier). To be 100% certain this is Stephen though, I'll provide a quick piece of proof:
The reason Stephen begged Scarecrow not to tell anyone is because in every community I've ever been a part of, no moderator who is supposed to be in a position to cease drama and solve problems has ever gone around trolling on secret aliases to ignite more drama. Now that it's confirmed the Animosity YouTube channel is Stephen, we can see this profile picture is also shared by a forums account named "Menacing". This account used to be called The Deckswabber, but Stephen likely changed this name due to the fact he had a falling out with a friend who knew the identity of The Deckswabber. Unfortunately the only forums evidence I can find of this account proving to be The Deckswabber, is this joke reference made by a comment that Menacing replied to here:
If you actually search Menacing on the forums, you'll be able to find a troll thread titled "Cancel Hollowed Woods", which has the same extremely similar writing and embarrassingly unfunny humor as Stephen's troll threads he makes on his main account, which just all the more confirms it. Now that this forums account is confirmed to be linked to The Deckswabber, I managed to get an invite and dig deep into the Level Seven Discord, which is a guild and Discord Stephen played a prominent role in awhile back. This led me to come across Stephen mentioning something about The Deckswabber to a former friend of his known as Mercury:
To understand what exactly Stephen was referring to here, I actually asked Stephen's old friend what the context to this was:
This confession from Stephen's old friend is actually one of the most despicable acts of moderator abuse imaginable. Not only would Stephen seek attention from me on a hidden alt, he would also track down someone who was an easy target in 2018, teleport to them, and begin harassing them when the person had no way of even seeking a safe haven due to being found repeatedly through moderation powers. Regardless of your opinion of the people mentioned in these screenshots, a moderator's job is to avoid drama and harassment of other players. Despite this, Stephen not only failed his duty to prevent harassment and bullying, but instead partook in it for humor while abusing powers meant to help others.