Things don’t go terribly wrong inside game studios, apparently in their very own communities too or at least that is what seems to happen recently to Phasmophobia devs after being accused of covering an admin on its official discord server for harassment and racism.
Kinetic Games was accused of housing a “sex pest by Twitter user @CrownedCoIIider with a thread that was still updated as of yesterday, October 1. There he explained that although he had not been the victim, a friend of his was and was still dealing with the fallout of it all.
So who else knew that the phasmophobia devs are housing a sex pest in their official discord by keeping him admin and refusing to take any claims against him seriously bc I sure do now
— MARKED BY AN ORACLE (@HellsEgress) September 28, 2022
He asked people to stop playing Phasmophia as the devs refused to take any claims against the admin called Charcoal Salamander. Apparently, the admin in question shared nudes without permission and made racist comments on the server for which @CrownedColider provided proof:
I've been given the okay to share this! So I'm going to. This is from the mouth of the lead artist. Apparently it is A-okay to leak nudes to your friends, according to him! I will share more as it is given to me. (Note: nudes of my friend were not shared, but someone else's were) pic.twitter.com/1kXpn2ogvq
— MARKED BY AN ORACLE (@HellsEgress) September 29, 2022
hi everyone i have videos. 2 of them, in fact. unedited convos w/ the racist admin (same one that leaked nudes, also) pic.twitter.com/rnxfk2BjL9
— MARKED BY AN ORACLE (@HellsEgress) September 30, 2022
After this, a group of users tried to bring attention to this on the official SubReddit and the Discord server, however, they ended up banned or their posts completely scrubbed off from both platforms.
What did the devs say?
Things took a terrible turn when @CrownedColider, shared a CJ, Lead Artist for Phasmophobia message where he seemed to dismiss the allegations calling it “2 lads having a normal convo taken out of context.”
All right i am back. CJ has me unblocked and is saying the screenshots i posted about "2 lads having a normal convo" were taken out of context. heres a full video of the entire exchange. i will have more to post also, later on if any of them want to claim that they werent aware. pic.twitter.com/ZH7KKIAdTm
— MARKED BY AN ORACLE (@HellsEgress) October 1, 2022
Of course, the pressure grew and eventually, Charcoal Salamander was demoted and banned from the discord server. However, things didn’t stop there, users start sharing emails and directs messages of reports made since June and how well they knew this was happening.
You guys said 6+ months ago to me, I was the issue when bringing these & other issues to light. Then told me to cooperate & dm you. I was threatened multiple times in the discord, told off on the reddit, etc.
— Lokim23 (@Lokim23) October 1, 2022
Now that it became a massive issue that was allowed to grow.. pic.twitter.com/YrMsvCBqKe
Completely mishandled…
In the end, the Phasmophobia team shared a statement explaining everything that went down and offering an apology for the mishandling of the situation.
Our response to recent events. pic.twitter.com/3nihbzau4b
— Phasmophobia (@PlayPhasmo) October 1, 2022
CJ also shared a statement apologizing for his poor choice of words and noted that he will not let a situation like this happen again in the future.
An apology from me, and explaination of recent events. pic.twitter.com/zwGyYuSM8T
— cjdxn (@_cjdxn) October 1, 2022
Sadly for the studio their community is not happy with these statements as they keep sharing more proof of how some dev members enabled predatory behaviour. Truly a terrible moment for any community.
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