This is a MASSIVE problem on VRChat. I will be following up sometime in the future with not only more To Catch A VRChat Predator videos, but I am also collecting data on what percentage of the people we speak with are okay with doing this sort of thing. The results are very concerning thus far. Make sure you're subbed and stay tuned for more in the future.
this really makes VRC look bad because these people think its ok to do this. a friend said that i was in the background of one of your videos so i got curious but unfortunately i found a truth about someone i thought a good person and wanted to thank you for letting us know about this. i... just still cnt believe this. this is a side of VRC that i wish can be stopped because it makes ppl who enjoy it like me and so many others look bad. thanks again. i guess I really don't know someone that well...
@VasaVRC agreed on all that. My comment was just about how i thought i knew a person. Ppl like this and ppl who think they can do all of this are disgusting.
This guy is possibly one of the one of the worst people I've dealt with, he used to stalk me on vrc for a few years, gaslight me and only a week or so after meeting me would try lure me to stay with him in an air bnb dropping the "I know famous streamer lines" as my first red flag. His favourite thing to do is try to prove he's a good guy by making people meet "their favourite streamers" (that they never even ask for) and talking about his time in the army to prove hes a "nice guy". I am beyond relieved that he's finally gotten caught, good riddance.
@@MewwDiePie nah bro, you weird, they agree to do it with the clear purpose of getting something happening to stop it, its self sacrifice for the greater good.
Idk who dyrus is at all, but hey man glad you purged that human from your friends list. Tho he is a disgusting disgraceful human being, he is still human non the less, hopefully he has learned from his wrong doings.
Well this is extreme depressing to wake up to.. As one of the 'founders' of the OGVR group, we definitely don't condone this kind of thing. That being said, I'm not sure much can be done from my side in regards to the group. I haven't been active in it for a while now, and even though i have a founder role in the discord, i dont have any admin abilities (i can't even see the admin channels that were previously accessible). I think he's got full control of the group on discord & vrchat, so if i had to guess it's probably going to dissolve. The most i can do from my side to help is reach out to the other founders, passing this video along to them.
I was friends with this man forever ago, and i was 15 or 16 around that time, and he was super adamant with me going to live with him, also coming to my city to come visit me, and i have a video of him saying it as well, but luckily i got away from him and never spoke to him again.
Ngl, what the fuck is wrong with either of you to get involved like that with an adult. He's scum, but both of you are too tbh. Go see a fucking psychiatrist, because there is definitely something wrong with you two as well.
One thing is predators are dumb, and other part is this is so common in VRchat people don't think it's wrong. The biggest problem is when they want to meet up.
@@nobodyimportant4690sounds like your buddy was a pedo the whole time. Makes one wonder why this is "your boy", what do you have in common, huh? Yuuuuup.
As disappointed as I am to see an OG behave like this, thank you UrghBla and Lorena for the work you put into this. I'm...very sickened by this. Having a hard time formulating words to convey.
People in power abusing their following is the most disgusting and disturbing thing to me. I physically shuttered and audibly made noises of disgust when I heard him say certain things. The over use of "Good girl" is so cringe "That'll be perfect for putting you into certain positions" "I never actually taught or trained anyone before" "I can teach you how to service a man and be a proper woman" DUDE.. YOU'RE LITERALLY EXPRESSING YOU WANT TO GROOMING A CHILD INTO KINK??? The sudden change of topics and veiled panic and discomfort in his voice when he went "I'd be careful about that.." The laughing, the immediately leave and attempted wiping of his entire crime speaks volumes about his level of guilt. You and the decoy did an amazing job on this. Documenting things, especially where you're showing him literally deleting messages. Thank you.
Right. Its when men are sick having to much over power even probably making themself corrupted being stuck being behind bar and its gonna be most hardest life ever, just nasty and like you said about it. Getting young girls where dont understand even alot just dealing with it the sick pig and being sweet talking it get the girl also just way being nice whoever the underage fall in there trap. Its always saying catching a dirty rat there always bigger one when are behind the bars had a life, messed up so bad and being a crimminal behind bars probably get beating and its harder life for themself.
Worked with him on VRCon a couple years ago, barely spoke to him but he never gave me any bad impressions. I hope you've reported this to the proper authorities, keep up the good work 👏
what the fuck i've always felt like he was a nice guy- known him for so long- was very involved with some of my early performances during the start of vrcon honestly would've never expected this from my interactions with him- thank you for sharing and conducting this investigation!
I don't think I've ever seen a video before that has actually activated my fight or flight response. I'm just sweating out of stress trying to watch. This is absolutely disgusting and I cannot applaud the decoy enough for being able to interact with this guy long enough to get this evidence. Massive props.
Dude this has been the worst 2 weeks. First i find out one of my gun buddies committed suicide close to Christmas and now this. I was friends with him for years on VRchat. Met him at the Tulsa State fair this past year in Oct. Man this really sucks.
i've known Don since 2018, and when i saw this i was shocked and extremely disappointed. there was a call today in the OGs server where Don was given a chance to explain himself and people were able to ask questions or speak their piece directly to Don. he left after about the 4th person (there were over 60 people in the vc and myself and at least 15 others had things we wanted to say to him). Don transferred ownership and left the server. There's not much else i believe the staff could have done, and i'm so sorry that they had to go through all of this. no one knew that this was going on, otherwise i'm sure people would have confronted him earlier
I found out while I was at work about this. As soon as I got home I imminently resigned my position as Event Team Lead (admin role) and left the group. I can not condone this type of behavior and even embarrassed that I was friends with this man. I'm also embarrassed and infuriated that I introduced my friends and brought them into the group while this was going on behind my back. I just can't believe I trusted this man as far as calling him my brother.....I really hope he gets punished severely for these actions and behavior!
This is so upsetting. There are so many people out there like this, especially on VR chat, and imagine if one of them get there hands on an actual minor, it is sooo scary to think about. And especially his mindset, putting that mindset into a young impressionable mind is horrifying.
This was extremely hard to watch knowing that I spoke to the guy and played with him not realising what he actually was like, Goes to show you can't really trust anyone, even if you think you've known them for years. Honestly felt sick to my stomach!
As a VRC OG myself, Don does not represent anything regarding the OG's, I never got the chance of meeting him and I am certainly glad I never did or ever will, this video has been a highlight to me and I will spread it around further and share the message with everyone I know. This kind of behavior is just down right creepy and disgusting, I hate it. Thank you for making this video UrghBla x.x
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. I am disgusted. This dude used to be a friend of mine but he said and did a few things that rubbed me the wrong way. I am absolutely livid and my thoughts are with those affected. If you wanna expose more pedos-- HMU. I have a LIST of the predators in VRC not brought to justice.
Yeah I could have informed anyone on this but I am really glad you consolidated this and exposed the way you did. Thank you for doing this but also shoutout to Lorena for having the level head through everything. I really hope this cracks open the pandoras box of the problematic people in VRC that I even unfortunately have known and have dealt with personally regarding people he has approached. Thank you again for compiling this and for running through things like this.
The worst part is that there probably is more prominent members that are just like this or worse just they are able to conceal their actions and recognize bait
I think you should talk to all the people he doesnt talk to anymore... This creep met my parents. People never believed half the things I said about him. Maybe now people will. Thank you.
Great work, next time when you're recording DMs, copy their UID and paste it in the message box preview, you don't even have to press send. That makes it 100% indisputable.
I think this is the hardest watch ive had yet, thank mate, had to pause so I didn't throw up this guy is a mega freak. Best wishes to those of you in the comments who had to bare being near this monster.
I knew Don for a while after I got into streaming VRC. He seemed similar to many others I'd met so I didn't think too much about things (VERY naïve of me), we did add each other for a short while but it was more just because we kept seeing each other rather than actual interactions. Once I got told by a few people about what he was like I immediately removed him, didn't want that sort of person around me or my friends.
I'm really getting tired of seeing shit like this in VRC. As another real OG vrc player, it sickens me how often this happens in a social platform I love so much. Now to see it from someone I actually know, yeah, just disgusting. All I can say is, this does not represent VRC players as a whole, there's just a lot of bad actors in between though unfortunately. That's the same for anywhere you go on the internet tbh.
Hi. It's Arnie or Arnie_VR. I have nothing but disappointment towards Don.. Through out the years we've known each other. He was a friend I could of trusted back then.. we shared really good memories here, and IRL. The actions that he acted upon did nothing but demolished my trust, and respect of the foundation of our friendship I had with him. No matter what he does, he can't build those back with me. Have a good life, and good luck. He would be a perfect politician. I said my peace. Have a good day or evening everyone.
Idk if it has be done but if you know his irl, he could be reported to the authorities maybe ? Or show people close to him so they can prevent irl predator behavior
😭yo ain’t no way. This was so hard to watch cause he was literally one of the first friends I made in vr and we literally shared an Airbnb at twitchcon my brain is literally blown like wtf
I hope he can get serious help. He lives in my home state, and I don't wanna feel endangered knowing there's someone that I could run into EVEN IN REAL LIFE. I pray that never happens. Thanks for giving more people awareness about these weirdos. This is what VRChat really needs.
man this one hurt to see, saw them a few times while around friends and always appeared as a well rounded person. Thankfully we have people like you in the community to expose people's true colours... feel sick just thinking that there might be actual minors that he done this too... keep doing god's work man
I actually knew him a couple years back. I always thought he was just super awkward and never really thought much of it. But seeing this brought CHILLS! I never expected to hear these kinds of things... im truly horrified and disgusted by his behavior. Going to make sure he's blocked on all accounts now!
I haven't been on vrchat for long and have only dipped my toes into the surface as I wasn't able to buy a vr headset in like 2017, but I understood the amount of creeps that are on vrchat, and the second don started talking I got a weird ass vibe from the way he talked, to the tone he would do it at, and how one of the first things he asked is if she liked head pats, this dude is beyond messed up and I'm glad you were able to confront him and put this news out to the public, I think the worst part about it though is how you can tell this is not his first time doing this, as he started to ramble on about what he would do to her, even though he knew she was a minor.
Incidentally I was also involved with 2 vrcons (the 1st and 2nd one). Made Worlds there. Along with this dude, vrcon failed due to bad leadership. Before its ultimate demise most of the staff started up a community called PJKT, none of the shady characters found there. And the staff did most of the work at vrcon anyway. PJKT got a yearly con and a bunch of events throughout the year. I never talked to Don directly though, since I never went to the meetings lol. btw good practice to make it very clear what age the decoy is supposed to be, that way there can be no ambiguity.
Well this is really sad to see tbh, considering he was kind of an old friend of mine and to close people of mine as well. Only goes to show that you cant trust everything online. Thanks for showing this, really disappointed to see this kind of behavior with someone I thought were better though.
First I can't believe people like this actually exist. And second I could not take him serious squatting half body in his ps2 mobster looking ass model like who wears that??
This is very unfortunate, while I was in the group, I never really participated in events, it was mainly used as a badge saying "i'm an OG vrchat player" Now that this has come to light, I want nothing to do with the group, and it's very depressing.
I do not have the mental capacity to talk to this guy for more then 35 seconds before lashing out in disgust. Props to this decoy for even being able to stay with this guy.
As an OG of vrchat playing since 2016, I've seen this time and time again... It's unfortunate to see someone I was friends with, act like this to a minor behind closed doors. I was almost in disbelief that he even knew it was a minor, but to see the dms and have it confirmed really sucks. The worst part about it all and what most people won't realize is that his behavior is definitely not exclusive to him and others out there do this. Sadly even some with a following get away with too much. Hope you can shed to light more people like this and even make aware the dangers of being a minor in a degen-filled game like VRChat..
I'm very happy to hear you're collaborating with Nevermet on these kinds of videos. I also strongly hope that Nevermet is forwarding information and evidence towards proper authorities.
I don't think they are. I have spoke with detectives for people in the past but the lack of communication makes it feel like this kind of stuff doesn't get taken seriously at least legally. We as a community at the very least can hold these people accountable but until these people do even worse things, they likely wont face consequences.
@@UrghBla Yea, I get you. I've also seen firsthand the lack of proper action from law enforcement regarding predators, and It's pretty disheartening. Don't really know if it's people not caring, or a problem systemically in what would be considered actionable offenses. Just from the DMs you scrolled through in the video, can pretty clearly see Don initiated contact and didn't drop it the second she said she was 15. As a newer vrchat user, I'm just kind of catching up with the Don Italiano stuff, but I think you made a good video and you guys did good work on this.
I'm glad I never met this man all the years I've been in VRChat especially after a lot of the awful things that have happened to me in this game. Children shouldn't be in the same game as this man or any man like this man. I love the friends I made in vrc but hate the awful characters I've seen and unfortunately met. For those who know Maze Marrlow too I'm sorry for what we've experienced.
I'm beyond lost for words... he was one of my first friends in VRChat like 6+ years ago... Hell, I was rooming with him at TwitchCon this last year... We need an apology and would probably be best for him to go on permanent leave from VRChat. Breaks my heart, but you play stupid games you gonna win stupid prizes.
Speaking for the Original Group "2017 VRChat Community", this is fucking gut wrenching, foul, and just overall something we dont stand for. I only met Don about a year ago and he had is heart set one so many things, but i always had the feeling i could never trust him. In the first 8 seconds of watching this video and realizing it was really him made me throw up in my mouth. To any victims with this that came from my community, i am sorry and i will do better to protect you from vile people like Don. The Original community of VRChat is not this, not will it never be.
Well as a VR OG since 2017 As well I find his behavior disgusting of what Don did,really disgusting and I’m disappointed. Can’t believe there are freaks out there on vrchat still. Thank you for putting this out there.
Normally I'm pretty critical of your work, but this was actually a good video. I like the idea of going after the people who advertise themselves sexually (like on nevermet). People who put themselves out there in a sexual way need to be adults, have some self control, and keep in mind their avatar. Lot of people are creeps in the hypersexualized place that is vrchat. I avoid all that crap entirely for a reason.
Think I’ve seen this guy on one or two occasions but didn’t stick around too long to interact. I’ve met my share of creeps on VRC. One of the main reasons why I tend to avoid public worlds nowadays 😦
Damn, this guy is filthy. I barely interacted with him over the course of last year when I was invited to the TwitchCon discord but god damn. If I knew back then, I would've acted way differently. This disgusting behavior needs to leave the community, thanks for bringing light to the situation. I will be watching your career with great interest, take care and keep going with your work
Honestly never got to know him that much, all I knew was he was friends with alot of my friends and og's of vrc. But seeing this means that I'm glad he never added me. this is fucking disgusting. Thanks for showing this and making vrc a little bit safer
I had a feeling about Don. I met in the OG days of VRChat. I had a bad feeling about him. Did not do say anything because there was no evidence. Even avoid him when doing VRCon and hangs out that he would show up in. Though it makes more sense on why he stuck up for Furtrap. When the VRCon staff had enough of Furtraps shit. Not like a little. He was like saying the directors and managers where the bad guys for even voting against him. Really brings some light to why he would stick up for a PoS. Because he is a PoS. Took him a full year to hand over the VRCon accounting accounts to Furtrap. Makes me wonder what he did during that year.
I'm actually so disturbed, I met this person at one of the events since well of course he was the host. crazy how you can never imagine these things from face value. I hope the group goes under new management soon I appreciated it's existence but under someone like this I'd rather not be associated. super disappointing to see this.
My day be so fine....then boom...vrchat I dead ass can't even finish watching more than 4 minutes in, it's so fucking awful. I feel physically repelled by what im seeing lmao
This is a MASSIVE problem on VRChat. I will be following up sometime in the future with not only more To Catch A VRChat Predator videos, but I am also collecting data on what percentage of the people we speak with are okay with doing this sort of thing. The results are very concerning thus far. Make sure you're subbed and stay tuned for more in the future.
Ya did good, Real good. Keep standing for those who can't defend themselves or don't know how. Don't stop and keep going.
hi i one the People from the Group but i want to talk to about this my main discord got hack but if that is fine with i just want know More
i was staff in there just want to give my 2 cents on this
this really makes VRC look bad because these people think its ok to do this. a friend said that i was in the background of one of your videos so i got curious but unfortunately i found a truth about someone i thought a good person and wanted to thank you for letting us know about this. i... just still cnt believe this. this is a side of VRC that i wish can be stopped because it makes ppl who enjoy it like me and so many others look bad. thanks again. i guess I really don't know someone that well...
@VasaVRC agreed on all that. My comment was just about how i thought i knew a person. Ppl like this and ppl who think they can do all of this are disgusting.
ew dude, i know him. thanks so much for getting him out of here.
I feel so bad for you 😭🤮
Uh oh💀😭
thx for this info, I left The OGs of VRChat group
Glad it's reaching people that are involved in that community, thanks!
Thank you, little boy
WHY U NO POST ANYMORE??
This guy is possibly one of the one of the worst people I've dealt with, he used to stalk me on vrc for a few years, gaslight me and only a week or so after meeting me would try lure me to stay with him in an air bnb dropping the "I know famous streamer lines" as my first red flag. His favourite thing to do is try to prove he's a good guy by making people meet "their favourite streamers" (that they never even ask for) and talking about his time in the army to prove hes a "nice guy". I am beyond relieved that he's finally gotten caught, good riddance.
And if you got into streamer circle parties without bringing him, he'd be upset
I am honestly disgusted that I used to think of him as a friend...
Aye lass, I remember the whole thing with you, he told me himself and I thought something isn't right with that.
This, I remember all of this going down back then, hopefully noone got roped into doing any of that.
lelafipo ns1!11!!!1!!1!
I feel so bad for the decoy 😭
frrrrr
She luv it
@@MewwDiePie nah bro, you weird, they agree to do it with the clear purpose of getting something happening to stop it, its self sacrifice for the greater good.
I WAS FEELING SO AWKWARD WATCHING
The headpats part made my eyeballs retract within my skull.
thank you, he would always req and inv me and now i finally have a reason to purge my friends list
haha no problem
Wait. No fucking way it is THE Dyrus. From TSM???!?!?!
@@TheUnavaliablecan’t believe it either lmao. Based
Idk who dyrus is at all, but hey man glad you purged that human from your friends list. Tho he is a disgusting disgraceful human being, he is still human non the less, hopefully he has learned from his wrong doings.
I literaly spit out my drink, no way THE dyrus is here
I’m impressed by the decoys badass composure like gawd dam
Dead ass would of been saying the most vile shit to that duder after his 2nd sentence 😭
Why? Don comes across as a stuttering beta. She dominated him lmao
i needed a reason to puke today. omg....ffs :(
Post bro🥶🥶
Wtf you doing here
Well this is extreme depressing to wake up to.. As one of the 'founders' of the OGVR group, we definitely don't condone this kind of thing. That being said, I'm not sure much can be done from my side in regards to the group. I haven't been active in it for a while now, and even though i have a founder role in the discord, i dont have any admin abilities (i can't even see the admin channels that were previously accessible). I think he's got full control of the group on discord & vrchat, so if i had to guess it's probably going to dissolve. The most i can do from my side to help is reach out to the other founders, passing this video along to them.
It is Depressing
So what ever happens to the group? I don't see it much anymore, did he delete it?
Excuse after excuse
I was friends with this man forever ago, and i was 15 or 16 around that time, and he was super adamant with me going to live with him, also coming to my city to come visit me, and i have a video of him saying it as well, but luckily i got away from him and never spoke to him again.
He did the same thing to me. Showing me his house. Trying to get me to move out on my 18th birthday...
Ngl, what the fuck is wrong with either of you to get involved like that with an adult. He's scum, but both of you are too tbh. Go see a fucking psychiatrist, because there is definitely something wrong with you two as well.
Dude decided to do this on his main account thats well publically know and socially connected lol. Brilliant.
One thing is predators are dumb, and other part is this is so common in VRchat people don't think it's wrong. The biggest problem is when they want to meet up.
old friend of mine, thank you for putting this out there. extremely off-putting hearing someone that i recognize that well in this way
The fact he uses an avatar of a guy with a suit and fedora makes it worse. Its vr chat and he chose to look like that
Why is that bad?
Look what the VR chat pedos did to my booooi 😢
@@wristy3163it's funny how decided to look like the Discord mod meme in vrchat
@@nobodyimportant4690sounds like your buddy was a pedo the whole time. Makes one wonder why this is "your boy", what do you have in common, huh? Yuuuuup.
Nah bro that's a 10/10 decoy I could never go through a situation like this without cringing or being uncomforatable etc this decoy is a keeper fr.
The intro made me spit out my coffee
haha my b I apologize for his actions
As disappointed as I am to see an OG behave like this, thank you UrghBla and Lorena for the work you put into this. I'm...very sickened by this. Having a hard time formulating words to convey.
8 minutes of physical pain
lmaoo bro, youre not even lying, I cant fucking take this...
People in power abusing their following is the most disgusting and disturbing thing to me.
I physically shuttered and audibly made noises of disgust when I heard him say certain things.
The over use of "Good girl" is so cringe
"That'll be perfect for putting you into certain positions"
"I never actually taught or trained anyone before"
"I can teach you how to service a man and be a proper woman"
DUDE.. YOU'RE LITERALLY EXPRESSING YOU WANT TO GROOMING A CHILD INTO KINK???
The sudden change of topics and veiled panic and discomfort in his voice when he went "I'd be careful about that.."
The laughing, the immediately leave and attempted wiping of his entire crime speaks volumes about his level of guilt.
You and the decoy did an amazing job on this. Documenting things, especially where you're showing him literally deleting messages.
Thank you.
Right. Its when men are sick having to much over power even probably making themself corrupted being stuck being behind bar and its gonna be most hardest life ever, just nasty and like you said about it.
Getting young girls where dont understand even alot just dealing with it the sick pig and being sweet talking it get the girl also just way being nice whoever the underage fall in there trap. Its always saying catching a dirty rat there always bigger one when are behind the bars had a life, messed up so bad and being a crimminal behind bars probably get beating and its harder life for themself.
He does such excillent with his youtube videos having so much docements backing up everything, we do need more people like him.
its crazy that you actually caught him in real time deleting the messages, glad to know this info is out there now,
Worked with him on VRCon a couple years ago, barely spoke to him but he never gave me any bad impressions. I hope you've reported this to the proper authorities, keep up the good work 👏
Speaking for all staff members of The OG of VRChat we do not condone this type of behavior and will act accordingly
^Completely agree earth!
so true oomfie@@yaaangoat
I totally agree.
Good work acting quickly Earth!
Also as a staff member of The OG of VRChat we do not condone this type of behavior and will act accordingly.
what the fuck
i've always felt like he was a nice guy- known him for so long- was very involved with some of my early performances during the start of vrcon
honestly would've never expected this from my interactions with him- thank you for sharing and conducting this investigation!
appreciated
oooph... that's gonna be a big yikes from me. I couldn't get through the video... I feel gross just listening to it.
Fucken hell it is true then
the decoy is a TROOPER bro i can't imagine how uncomfortable this must have been
I don't think I've ever seen a video before that has actually activated my fight or flight response. I'm just sweating out of stress trying to watch.
This is absolutely disgusting and I cannot applaud the decoy enough for being able to interact with this guy long enough to get this evidence. Massive props.
Dude this has been the worst 2 weeks. First i find out one of my gun buddies committed suicide close to Christmas and now this. I was friends with him for years on VRchat. Met him at the Tulsa State fair this past year in Oct. Man this really sucks.
I am sorry for your loss. ❤️
"you belong to me now" made me physically cringe
i've known Don since 2018, and when i saw this i was shocked and extremely disappointed. there was a call today in the OGs server where Don was given a chance to explain himself and people were able to ask questions or speak their piece directly to Don. he left after about the 4th person (there were over 60 people in the vc and myself and at least 15 others had things we wanted to say to him). Don transferred ownership and left the server.
There's not much else i believe the staff could have done, and i'm so sorry that they had to go through all of this. no one knew that this was going on, otherwise i'm sure people would have confronted him earlier
KATE YOU KNEW HIM TOO???
@@gore4ux yeah. Knew him since mid 2018 and I was in the same bnb as him for twitchcon 2023
@@gore4ux WAIT I JUST REALIZED IT WAS YOU HOLY FUCK. I’ll dm you bb girl
I found out while I was at work about this. As soon as I got home I imminently resigned my position as Event Team Lead (admin role) and left the group. I can not condone this type of behavior and even embarrassed that I was friends with this man. I'm also embarrassed and infuriated that I introduced my friends and brought them into the group while this was going on behind my back. I just can't believe I trusted this man as far as calling him my brother.....I really hope he gets punished severely for these actions and behavior!
This is so upsetting. There are so many people out there like this, especially on VR chat, and imagine if one of them get there hands on an actual minor, it is sooo scary to think about. And especially his mindset, putting that mindset into a young impressionable mind is horrifying.
Huh?? That intro from that predatory creep was unhinged af
This was extremely hard to watch knowing that I spoke to the guy and played with him not realising what he actually was like, Goes to show you can't really trust anyone, even if you think you've known them for years. Honestly felt sick to my stomach!
As a VRC OG myself, Don does not represent anything regarding the OG's, I never got the chance of meeting him and I am certainly glad I never did or ever will, this video has been a highlight to me and I will spread it around further and share the message with everyone I know. This kind of behavior is just down right creepy and disgusting, I hate it. Thank you for making this video UrghBla x.x
Brand new to the vr chat genre I feel like I’m about to go down a deep rabbit hole
Turn back while you can
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. I am disgusted. This dude used to be a friend of mine but he said and did a few things that rubbed me the wrong way. I am absolutely livid and my thoughts are with those affected. If you wanna expose more pedos-- HMU. I have a LIST of the predators in VRC not brought to justice.
i wish we could have been friends
I would be interested in helping to bring these people to the surface. I am on VRchat, and I abhor this behavior. Yuck. Farking yuck.
This makes me sick to my stomach, I knew this guy back when I was still playing VRChat from 2018 to 2020, thank you for putting it out there.
Met Don at Twitchcon '19 and '22, sick to my stomach right now.
Yeah I could have informed anyone on this but I am really glad you consolidated this and exposed the way you did.
Thank you for doing this but also shoutout to Lorena for having the level head through everything.
I really hope this cracks open the pandoras box of the problematic people in VRC that I even unfortunately have known and have dealt with personally regarding people he has approached.
Thank you again for compiling this and for running through things like this.
The worst part is that there probably is more prominent members that are just like this or worse just they are able to conceal their actions and recognize bait
Exactly. You know what they say birds of a feather flock together
I think you should talk to all the people he doesnt talk to anymore... This creep met my parents. People never believed half the things I said about him. Maybe now people will. Thank you.
Seems a few people have been able to have their voices heard in result of this which is awesome and I definitely encourage anyone to come forward
The predators in these videos are unlocking a different type of creepiness bro.
Great work, next time when you're recording DMs, copy their UID and paste it in the message box preview, you don't even have to press send. That makes it 100% indisputable.
Fair, although I don't think there's any talking his way out of this one haha
I think this is the hardest watch ive had yet, thank mate, had to pause so I didn't throw up this guy is a mega freak.
Best wishes to those of you in the comments who had to bare being near this monster.
I knew Don for a while after I got into streaming VRC. He seemed similar to many others I'd met so I didn't think too much about things (VERY naïve of me), we did add each other for a short while but it was more just because we kept seeing each other rather than actual interactions. Once I got told by a few people about what he was like I immediately removed him, didn't want that sort of person around me or my friends.
I was in a server he had ran for a minute and had even gone to comic con with this dude! I knew something about him was creepy..
Damn, didn't think he'd do that. Glad this got put out there!
I'm really getting tired of seeing shit like this in VRC. As another real OG vrc player, it sickens me how often this happens in a social platform I love so much. Now to see it from someone I actually know, yeah, just disgusting. All I can say is, this does not represent VRC players as a whole, there's just a lot of bad actors in between though unfortunately. That's the same for anywhere you go on the internet tbh.
Hi. It's Arnie or Arnie_VR. I have nothing but disappointment towards Don.. Through out the years we've known each other. He was a friend I could of trusted back then.. we shared really good memories here, and IRL. The actions that he acted upon did nothing but demolished my trust, and respect of the foundation of our friendship I had with him. No matter what he does, he can't build those back with me. Have a good life, and good luck. He would be a perfect politician. I said my peace. Have a good day or evening everyone.
Idk if it has be done but if you know his irl, he could be reported to the authorities maybe ?
Or show people close to him so they can prevent irl predator behavior
Bro your account is amazing I was shocked to see it didn’t have a few mil subs
I appreciate that, maybe one day!
@@UrghBla bro you gained 400 subs overnight
😭yo ain’t no way. This was so hard to watch cause he was literally one of the first friends I made in vr and we literally shared an Airbnb at twitchcon my brain is literally blown like wtf
Oh my god i send my condolences 😭
i don't think i've ever felt this uncomfortable while watching a predator exposing video, this guy is sick, thank you for exposing him.
and somehow vrc staff never banned him...
I hope he can get serious help. He lives in my home state, and I don't wanna feel endangered knowing there's someone that I could run into EVEN IN REAL LIFE. I pray that never happens. Thanks for giving more people awareness about these weirdos. This is what VRChat really needs.
man this one hurt to see, saw them a few times while around friends and always appeared as a well rounded person. Thankfully we have people like you in the community to expose people's true colours... feel sick just thinking that there might be actual minors that he done this too... keep doing god's work man
As a player of vrchat and an head over of a group, this is DISGUSTING!!! Great job on bring the pervs like this to justice!! Keep up the great work
I actually knew him a couple years back. I always thought he was just super awkward and never really thought much of it. But seeing this brought CHILLS! I never expected to hear these kinds of things... im truly horrified and disgusted by his behavior. Going to make sure he's blocked on all accounts now!
I haven't been on vrchat for long and have only dipped my toes into the surface as I wasn't able to buy a vr headset in like 2017, but I understood the amount of creeps that are on vrchat, and the second don started talking I got a weird ass vibe from the way he talked, to the tone he would do it at, and how one of the first things he asked is if she liked head pats, this dude is beyond messed up and I'm glad you were able to confront him and put this news out to the public, I think the worst part about it though is how you can tell this is not his first time doing this, as he started to ramble on about what he would do to her, even though he knew she was a minor.
Hahah this is absolutely wild
Yikes. I've seen this guy around on the game in the past too. You truly never know who they really are behind closed doors.
Knew this person back when I went by a different name years ago. This makes me glad I never got closer to him...
Incidentally I was also involved with 2 vrcons (the 1st and 2nd one). Made Worlds there. Along with this dude, vrcon failed due to bad leadership. Before its ultimate demise most of the staff started up a community called PJKT, none of the shady characters found there. And the staff did most of the work at vrcon anyway. PJKT got a yearly con and a bunch of events throughout the year. I never talked to Don directly though, since I never went to the meetings lol.
btw good practice to make it very clear what age the decoy is supposed to be, that way there can be no ambiguity.
GOD this video hurt me everytime he called her a good girl makes me want to pull my spine out!!!!
Well this is really sad to see tbh, considering he was kind of an old friend of mine and to close people of mine as well. Only goes to show that you cant trust everything online. Thanks for showing this, really disappointed to see this kind of behavior with someone I thought were better though.
14:25 WOW you can feel the panic trying to quit what a terrible vibe
I can’t believe people like this actually exist respect for the decoy she’s brave 😭
VRC is filled with creeps like this.
Please keep exposing them 😂
that decoy is such a strong woman......
First I can't believe people like this actually exist. And second I could not take him serious squatting half body in his ps2 mobster looking ass model like who wears that??
lmao
The internet just made it easier for people like this to get away with their disgusting acts
This is very unfortunate, while I was in the group, I never really participated in events, it was mainly used as a badge saying "i'm an OG vrchat player" Now that this has come to light, I want nothing to do with the group, and it's very depressing.
I do not have the mental capacity to talk to this guy for more then 35 seconds before lashing out in disgust. Props to this decoy for even being able to stay with this guy.
As an OG of vrchat playing since 2016, I've seen this time and time again... It's unfortunate to see someone I was friends with, act like this to a minor behind closed doors. I was almost in disbelief that he even knew it was a minor, but to see the dms and have it confirmed really sucks. The worst part about it all and what most people won't realize is that his behavior is definitely not exclusive to him and others out there do this. Sadly even some with a following get away with too much. Hope you can shed to light more people like this and even make aware the dangers of being a minor in a degen-filled game like VRChat..
I'm very happy to hear you're collaborating with Nevermet on these kinds of videos. I also strongly hope that Nevermet is forwarding information and evidence towards proper authorities.
I don't think they are. I have spoke with detectives for people in the past but the lack of communication makes it feel like this kind of stuff doesn't get taken seriously at least legally. We as a community at the very least can hold these people accountable but until these people do even worse things, they likely wont face consequences.
@@UrghBla Yea, I get you. I've also seen firsthand the lack of proper action from law enforcement regarding predators, and It's pretty disheartening. Don't really know if it's people not caring, or a problem systemically in what would be considered actionable offenses. Just from the DMs you scrolled through in the video, can pretty clearly see Don initiated contact and didn't drop it the second she said she was 15. As a newer vrchat user, I'm just kind of catching up with the Don Italiano stuff, but I think you made a good video and you guys did good work on this.
This is absolutely foul. Keep up the good work exposing these freaks.
im so glad i never talked to the guy. very disappointing that this happens
I'm glad I never met this man all the years I've been in VRChat especially after a lot of the awful things that have happened to me in this game. Children shouldn't be in the same game as this man or any man like this man. I love the friends I made in vrc but hate the awful characters I've seen and unfortunately met. For those who know Maze Marrlow too I'm sorry for what we've experienced.
The decoy pov was such a hard watch
You are doing god's work catching these freaks online 🙏
appreciated, huge props to our decoy on this one though for sure. Can check out her twitter in the description
bro chill out jesus lmao
I'm beyond lost for words... he was one of my first friends in VRChat like 6+ years ago... Hell, I was rooming with him at TwitchCon this last year...
We need an apology and would probably be best for him to go on permanent leave from VRChat.
Breaks my heart, but you play stupid games you gonna win stupid prizes.
Speaking for the Original Group "2017 VRChat Community", this is fucking gut wrenching, foul, and just overall something we dont stand for. I only met Don about a year ago and he had is heart set one so many things, but i always had the feeling i could never trust him. In the first 8 seconds of watching this video and realizing it was really him made me throw up in my mouth. To any victims with this that came from my community, i am sorry and i will do better to protect you from vile people like Don. The Original community of VRChat is not this, not will it never be.
Well as a VR OG since 2017 As well I find his behavior disgusting of what Don did,really disgusting and I’m disappointed. Can’t believe there are freaks out there on vrchat still. Thank you for putting this out there.
Wow, this is some crazy stuff to learn about someone I knew before I stepped away from the game.
This was hard to watch ngl homie been on VRChat a good 5-6 years good vid homie.
appreciated
This is crazy! I been on on VRC since 2017 and i was considering joining this group this is, god I want to puke.
damn ive been apart of vrchat of 2017 and never heard of this guy, but to know that someone like this was well known and was like this is disgusting
Normally I'm pretty critical of your work, but this was actually a good video. I like the idea of going after the people who advertise themselves sexually (like on nevermet). People who put themselves out there in a sexual way need to be adults, have some self control, and keep in mind their avatar. Lot of people are creeps in the hypersexualized place that is vrchat.
I avoid all that crap entirely for a reason.
This is sad to see. Thanks for bringing this to light.
Mordecai caught lacking 💀💀💀
Think I’ve seen this guy on one or two occasions but didn’t stick around too long to interact. I’ve met my share of creeps on VRC. One of the main reasons why I tend to avoid public worlds nowadays 😦
i literally just met this guy in a friends+ world on New Years Eve, holy crap...
my heart broke when she went to open the menu to switch worlds and shes shaking.
Damn, this guy is filthy. I barely interacted with him over the course of last year when I was invited to the TwitchCon discord but god damn. If I knew back then, I would've acted way differently.
This disgusting behavior needs to leave the community, thanks for bringing light to the situation. I will be watching your career with great interest, take care and keep going with your work
Thats a lot to take in..
Am I still the worst person to exist in the community, olly?
Honestly never got to know him that much, all I knew was he was friends with alot of my friends and og's of vrc. But seeing this means that I'm glad he never added me. this is fucking disgusting. Thanks for showing this and making vrc a little bit safer
I had a feeling about Don. I met in the OG days of VRChat. I had a bad feeling about him. Did not do say anything because there was no evidence. Even avoid him when doing VRCon and hangs out that he would show up in. Though it makes more sense on why he stuck up for Furtrap. When the VRCon staff had enough of Furtraps shit. Not like a little. He was like saying the directors and managers where the bad guys for even voting against him. Really brings some light to why he would stick up for a PoS. Because he is a PoS. Took him a full year to hand over the VRCon accounting accounts to Furtrap. Makes me wonder what he did during that year.
I'm actually so disturbed, I met this person at one of the events since well of course he was the host. crazy how you can never imagine these things from face value. I hope the group goes under new management soon I appreciated it's existence but under someone like this I'd rather not be associated. super disappointing to see this.
damn i thought that he was a chill dude, its crazy to hear this about him. Definitely not something the VRCOGS condone.
Thanks for the hard work and bringing this to light, people like this are disgusting. Some still stalk around but this is a great step thanks again
OMG I think I came across this creep in the past at the Pug!
is... your decoy okay?
That’s actually a good question I wanna know now too
My day be so fine....then boom...vrchat
I dead ass can't even finish watching more than 4 minutes in, it's so fucking awful. I feel physically repelled by what im seeing lmao