There are many people on the Internet who enjoy abusing and harassing others for fun. Although that type of behavior is normally considered to be unacceptable, it is possible to convince yourself that it is the "correct" course of action. With a narrative that paints a person as a villain who has done bad things and deserves to be punished for it, you can make any kind of bullying seem justified, and make any type of harassment seem warranted.
Because there are many people who wish to engage in cruel and sadistic behavior online, there is a very large audience that wants to be fed a narrative that someone is an evil villain who deserves daily mistreatment. Essentially, there is "market demand" for a specific type of "product" - a person to hate; a person to get outraged about; a person to harass and abuse without feeling guilty.
If a creator has a large following, and you upload a video to YouTube with that creator's name in the title of your video, the YouTube algorithm will recommend your video to all of that creator's subscribers. The more people click your video, the more money you'll make through ad revenue - and the best way to get people to click a video is to make shocking accusations about recognizable figures. This means that there is a massive financial incentive to make big creators look as bad as possible, to maximize the chances of your video going viral and making you tons of money.
Because the most effective way to get clicks and views on the Internet is to make scandalous accusations about a person with a lot of followers, there are YouTubers who have made an entire career out of producing clickbait videos where they disparage large creators. Because I developed a game that got noticed by a lot of people, I became a target for YouTubers who earn a living by making shocking accusations about creators with large followings.
Drama YouTubers recognized that if they made videos with clickbait titles like "YandereDev EXPOSED!" they would get millions of views and make thousands of dollars through ad revenue. So, drama channels created videos depicting me as a horrible monster, because they knew that such videos would be guaranteed to go viral.
Those videos were full of false accusations and easily-disproven misinformation. However, millions of people eagerly believed every word in those videos. As long as a video can provide sadistic people with a sense of justification in abusing and harassing another person, they will blindly believe everything they hear in the video, no matter how outlandish or untrue it all is. My reputation has been determined by what people *enjoy believing,* rather than what is *actually true.*
As a result of drama YouTubers misleading their audiences into thinking I am a horrible monster, my life has been completely destroyed. People have prank called my phone, sent weird things to my house, posted my personal information online, hacked into my accounts, sent me lengthy essays telling me why I should kill myself, tried to convince my team members to stop contributing to the project, submitted false reports to the police in an attempt to get the SWAT team to show up at my house, and spammed me with gifs of people being killed, dead bodies, pictures of mutilated genitals, gore, scat porn, bestiality, animal abuse, gifs of animals getting killed, etc.
This harassment has been happening for over 8 years now, and only has intensified with the passage of time. It's safe to assume that I will continue to be abused every day for the rest of my life. There is no reason for me to have any hope for the future. I don't even have a future anymore. It's very clear that the harassment isn't going to stop until I'm dead.
Being treated like garbage on a daily basis for almost a decade has made me severely depressed and robbed me of all motivation to work on the game project that I've dedicated over 9 years of my life to. It's nearly impossible to be productive while experiencing abuse and mistreatment every hour of the day. The game that I'm developing definitely would have been finished by now if I had never been made the target of a multiple-year-long mass-harassment campaign.
Even when I keep my head down and don't do anything to attract attention, people constantly invent new reasons to harass me. Every day, there is a new impostor saying horrible things while using my username and avatar, or a photoshopped screenshot meant to frame me for something I've never said or done, or a completely baseless false accusation that motivates people to harass me further. My life is ruined and can never be repaired.
If everything you know about a person comes from watching a drama video about them, then you don't actually know anything about that person. If everything you believe about me comes from a drama video that you watched, then the mental image of me that exists inside of your imagination is completely unlike the actual me who exists in real life.
You should never get your information from people who shame and ridicule other people for monetary gain. These people are financially motivated to paint the worst possible picture of their target, so you should automatically assume that they are exaggerating about their target in an attempt to make their video go viral. You cannot and should not trust anything that such people say in their videos. They have zero credibility, and are not valid sources of information.
If you're interested in hearing the actual truth about me, please check out the links below.