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This is my first post so if I do some shit wrong please do tell
Intro
For those who aren’t in the cesspool that is the Danganronpa fandom, Aeris Akamatsu is a 21-year old Australian autistic nonbinary youtuber who frequently uploads Danganronpa-related content while also being a massive cunt towards anyone who disagrees with her views. Having hit it off with two videos on Yandere Simulator about how it’s bad game design but also sperging on about ableism, she’s one of those Danganronpa fans who takes pretty much anything from the series but makes them gay/trans.
Though her normal videos are just the usual video essays as well as Danganronpa meme videos, the real salt mine begins with her community posts. When she feels particularly salty she makes community posts ranting about transphobes and she's made videos on the topic in the past. She always stresses about how her pronouns are they/them, even going so far as to making her profile picture that of the nonbinary flag (now a mask) and adding the pronouns onto it. Despite all this, her voice and avatar clearly show that she’s a women, yet she insists that she’s queer and spergs out whenever someone dares to misgender her.
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Quick descriptors of her identity (some in her own words)
- Autistic
- Nonbinary
- Transgender
- Queer
- Agender
- Disabled
- Neurodivergent
- White
- Polyamorous (with two partners)
- Panromantic
- Asexual
- Host of a OSDD-1b system (Self-diagnosed)
- Too obsessed with Danganronpa
Community posts...but make them more queer!
As said previously, she frequently makes headcanons of Danganronpa characters being “queer”, or just trooning them out all the time. A lot of her headcanons don't make sense with the characters, sometimes using the excuse of “this character's color palette is that of the [insert pride flag here] so he/she/it is trans!”
“He/They Transfemme Demiboy” Chihiro Fujisaki, because dressing as a girl while not explicitly referring to yourself as one means you actually are a...feminime boy?
MTF Miu Iruma, because... her design has the colors of the trans rights flag.
Nonbinary Celeste, because renaming yourself something fantastical makes you not a male or female, but something else entirely!
She projects on this character the most, other than Kaede Akamatsu.
She also made a post about a dress she'd think Celeste would wear and aptly pinned this comment when people didn’t comment as much, somehow going through the mental gymnastics that... not many of comments on a post that refers to Celeste with they/them pronouns = transphobia.
Some other of her headcanons include but are not limited to...
MTF Miu Iruma, because... her design has the colors of the trans rights flag.
Nonbinary Celeste, because renaming yourself something fantastical makes you not a male or female, but something else entirely!
She projects on this character the most, other than Kaede Akamatsu.
She also made a post about a dress she'd think Celeste would wear and aptly pinned this comment when people didn’t comment as much, somehow going through the mental gymnastics that... not many of comments on a post that refers to Celeste with they/them pronouns = transphobia.
Some other of her headcanons include but are not limited to...
- Kazuichi Soda - FTM
- Leon Kuwata - Demiboy
- Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu - FTM
- Peko Pekoyama - Demigirl
- Mahiru Koizumi - MTF
- Kaito Momota - FTM
- Mondo Owada - FTM
- Nekomaru Nidai - FTM
- Sayaka Maizono - Demigirl
- Shuichi Saihara - FTM
- Miu Iruma - MTF
- Kirumi Tojo - Genderqueer/Not sure "but not CIS"
Kazuichi Soda
Leon Kuwata
Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu
Peko Pekoyama
Mahiru Koizumi
Kaito Momota
Mondo Owada
Nekomaru Nidai
Sayaka Maizono
Shuichi Saihara
Miu Iruma
Kirumi Tojo
Leon Kuwata
Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu
Peko Pekoyama
Mahiru Koizumi
Kaito Momota
Mondo Owada
Nekomaru Nidai
Sayaka Maizono
Shuichi Saihara
Miu Iruma
Kirumi Tojo
When she said that she's not taking criticism, she meant it.
In the replies of this post specifically she made the claim that people were gaslighting her because people headcanoned him as just a guy, even though they simply disagreed with her but respected her opinion - pretty much misusing the term gaslighting.
She even threatened someone to “pretend you are a donut, and go roll into a nearby lake” if they weren’t a trans ally, in true DR fan fashion.
Archive:
All this sparked some drama and caused her to backtrack on the whole thing and delete the whole thread.
"#transganronpa"
She had attempted to start a challenge aptly named the “#transganronpa” challenge, because the infamous Butch Hartmann had the audacity to draw some of his characters as though they were from Danganronpa. Just some crossover stuff. Granted the art was shit, but Aeris took so much offense (with him being “anti-queer” as she said) she decided she wanted to get back at him by drawing...DR characters with pride flags.
When people disagreed with her headcanons on that video she made a second video ranting about it, citing all the characters she currently thinks are trans. Her reasoning for having so many headcanons is 1. she's a tranny, and 2. since her ex-friend was transphobic she has deep rooted "internalized transphobia" that she needs to work through.
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Continuing on with her community posts, she made an entire “joke” tier list about whether or not Danganronpa characters would run over a transphobe. Anyone who knows about the characters even just slightly would realize that the list is completely out of character for all of these. The Danganronpa subreddit caught onto this and when Aeris saw the post, she made a comment on how she got reddit mad.
Before this, however, when someone made a joke video about ranking characters from straightest to gayest, she flipped her shit and made a community post ranting about it, saying it erases canon LGBT characters while while not even watching the video at all. The community post has since been deleted.
She also believes...
- Kaito Momota/Maki Harukawa is forced heterosexuality when in the Japanese version of Danganronpa V3 the guy is openly homophobic.
- Anyone who ships Kokichi Ouma/Himiko Yumeno is homophobic because Kokichi is canonly gay.
- Anyone who headcanons Kokichi, Nagito Komaeda, Tenko Chabashira, or Rantaro Amami as anything other than gay, lesbian or ace (Rantaro) respectively is advocating for queer erasure.
- MOGAI / Xenogenders are valid and should be respected!
- It’s okay to make fun of Christianity but not other religions because it's racist!
- Pewdiepie and Notch are racist and antisemitic.
- Referring to fictional Asian characters as “rats” is racist! (Archive)
- Killing off Kaede Akamatsu in V3 is misogynistic because her death gave Shuichi Saihara character development. (Archive)
Artwork
There isn’t much to say about her art, other than her proportions and shading are all over the place in some pieces. However that doesn’t mean she hasn’t drawn some works that could fit right in the SJW art thread, and I just couldn’t ignore this piece of hers and the ones below.
The rest of her artwork is just an attempt at the Danganronpa style that almost always falls short because of said glaring anatomy issues and shading.
Polyamory
Aeris has two partners, being polyamorous and unable to commit to one person and all.
One is a nonbinary demigirl (Archive) who sounds like a guy, but Aeris nevertheless refers to him as her girlfriend. He sometimes appears in Aeris's livestreams and he also was in one of her videos (complete with pronouns).
Her other partner is an autistic pansexual guy with PTSD. (Archive)
Again, not much to say, I may dig more into the two later on, but I wanted to cover all the bases I can.
OSDD-1b self-diagnosis
On December 2020 Aeris had announced that she was a system with more than 20 alters. Most of them seem to just be Danganronpa fictives with a dash of genderspecial and your typical Danganfag. Unsurprisingly she simply slapped that “diagnosis” onto her list of
A list of her known (Danganronpa) alters:
- Angie Yonaga (They/Them)
- Fuyuhiko (He/They)
- Hiyoko Saionji (She/Her)
- Junko Enoshima (He/She/They)
- Kaede Akamatsu (They/She)
- Kirumi Tojo (They/She)
- Kyoko Kirigiri (Any pronouns)
- Leon Kuwata (He/Him)
- Maki Harukawa She/He)
- Mikan Tsumiki (They/She)
- Miu Iruma (She/They/He)
- Mukuro Ikusaba (Any pronouns)
- Ryoma Hoshi (She/They)
- Sayaka Maizono (He/Him)
- Shuichi Saihara (They/He)
- Tenko Chabashira (She/They)
- Tsumugi Shirogane (She/Her)
She also has an alter who goes by xe/xem pronouns, who apparently won’t front because... it's its personality.
She sometimes posts as the current Danganronpa alter that's fronting, even listing their pronouns. These are mostly found on her "Ibuki Friday" posts.
She then also claimed Reddit were trying to "t pose and establish dominance" by said pronouns. I looked on the Danganronpa subreddit, as well as her Discord for anything on it, but I found nothing, so I can't say for sure if she's lying or if I'm being the retard here.
Drama
As par on course with any person who’s in deep into the spergatory side of the Danganronpa fandom, Aeris has a tendency to get into drama. And as per usual with your average cow, she does not respond well when shit hits her way.
Bijuu Mike
In 2020 there was some drama about Bijuu Mike's Let's Play on the Danganronpa series. I don't know much about this, apparently he was called ableist because he said Nagito Komaeda psychotic and Toko Fukawa crazy (a character with a split personality who is a serial killer), supposedly shipping Togafuka (Toko x Byakuya) and just kind of laughing at all the dark shit that happened in the series.
So naturally Aeris had her own take on the drama, making a community post about it. She also linked her tumblr post about it which is too long and the drama is long past anyway despite some of her Discord seemingly haven't moved on from it. (Archive)
There's this part though that I found particularly amusing.
I'm pretty sure that is related to this post because of the 'annoying vegan' part. Take a shot everytime she says queer or any variation of the word.
Herself
Someone made a callout video on Aeris regarding the whole "roll in a lake" ordeal about a month ago, as well as talking about various things already mentioned in the OP. Unlike the other callouts this one is very well received by those not in too deep into being an Aeris orbiter.
Archive:
Aeris saw this video and made a community post on it, apologizing for making the suicide threat but brushing aside everything else as those details were exaggerated in her eyes.
Her final response, though? Deflect and deny everything while telling her fanbase that this girl is a clout chaser, saying that the lake thing being a suicide threat is reaching, and painting herself as the victim. Didn’t even mention the channel name again, all the while saying this will be the last time she will address the drama while not adressing shit. (Archive)
It’s a long read, but here are some screenshots.
"Muh queer erasure!"
“I’m not homophobic/transphobic, I have friends who are gay/trans!”
"White" Christianity
You will always be a woman.
Sperging.
“I’m not homophobic/transphobic, I have friends who are gay/trans!”
"White" Christianity
You will always be a woman.
Sperging.
The comments on the post are coddling her just like your typical drama, and there are far less comments on the communiy post than the others. However, there is this stray comment thread where Aeris says that she won't take a non-trans person's critisism because they wouldn't understand the struggles of being a troon.
Since then Pregame herself had made a video regarding the whole situation, though she doesn't talk about the whole "suicide threat" thing until around the 6:45 mark.
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She hasn't responded to it (yet), but on her Discord she talked about it while venting.
As well as a tumblr meme.
Before that video though there have been prior callout videos that have gotten flack because the creators dared to refer to Aeris as a woman. Admittedly, the videos could have been better produced.
(Video won't upload for me, unfortunately)
Archive (in case it gets deleted again):
Her fans also have been tracking the amount of hate videos and believe they don't make any points at all. (There are six in total made by 4 different people, and only one of them, GamesJernst can maybe considered right-wing because of his Gina Carano video on his channel.)
Discord
Aeris has a Discord server for fans and such, though it's only accessible through the rare video or two that has an invite link to it (note that they have limited uses). There isn't much to say about it other than she larps as her personalities on there, but there's a few amusing screenshots I've gathered.
When simply "friend" isn't genderneutral enough...somehow
The channel is really just taking existing characters, slapping a pride f(l)ag background and declaring them troons.
Hmm, now why does this sound familiar?
And some sperging ft. Aeris
Links
Unfortunately archive.md is being a bitch (especially towards the community posts) so I’ll edit them in later when I can. If you see anything that isn't archived above that's why.
Archive of our own | (Archive)
Art Tumblr | (Archive)
Instagram | (Archive)
Patreon | (Archive)
Reddit | (Archive)
Tumblr | (Archive)
Twitch | (Archive)
Twitter | (Quit since 7.1.2020) Has been deleted so no archive, unfortunately
Youtube | (Archive)
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