Exploring the Game that Glorifies Stalking

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honestly the game is a lot of wasted potential and could of actually been good if it werent for yandev

To be honest, I always knew that this guy was shady as fuck. Even if he wasn't a sex pest and had actually completed the game's development, there was still a whole lot of skeletons in this guy's closet.

what’s sad too is in the yuka story, the guy wasn’t even her bf, he was a host at a host club she became obsessed with and had delusions that her and him were in love. she stabbed him nearly to death but thankfully he lived.

The whole situation with Yuka Takaoaka terrified me, like I don't have a problem with enjoying fictional stories featuring Yanderes, but an actual criminal? What do people even see in her? She's just as bad as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer!

I take stories like this as a lesson to everyone. Yandere Dev was told by his role model that his coding was bad, instead of listening to him, he got upset. That was the first sign he showed to everyone he didn't want to improve. He didn't want to master his craft. He wanted to do the bare minimum to make something work. He didn't want to finish the game because that means he'll have to move on with his life. He didn't make his game because he was passionate about it, he made it as a poor excuse to get paid to make his own fantasy game. He never added a female sempi because that's not part of his fantasy even though something like that could bring in a bigger audience. Moral of the story, he was a person who refused to improve and grow up. Everyone else continued to live their life while he was in an endless loop for 10 years. Don't be like him.

I remembered asking my mom if i can download this game when i was in fourth grade and she said no I really wish parents could monitor their children and protect them from things like this

Yandev honestly had it coming, 10 years down the drain

The most frustrating part imo is how the voice actors decide to pull out NOW instead of ages ago when Alex was caught doing the same shady things (but was able to hide it better), and they'd only stick their fingers in their ears whenever people would try showing them evidence. Everyone involved in this project were beyond irresponsible.

i read somewhere that senpai is supposed to be yandere dev’s self-insert. we were all so much younger when he started developing that we were almost desensitized to how gross it was until alex started getting exposed (and exposing himself) more

Yuka and Phoenix weren’t even dating. She thought they were dating and tried to kill him because he worked in a host club. The worst part is that the famous bloody photo of her and the man she loved half dead, is the photo that people romanticized and called beautiful. It’s quite sickening.

We all hate yandere simulator. But saying it glorifies stalking is like saying COD glorifies war or the sims glorifies torture.

The only thing worse than yandere simulator is its code

I'm not sure why Yuka Takaoka case is here... As much as I know, she has nothing to do with the Yandere simulator or Yandere dev. She was mentally ill and her obsession with another host and wish to give him money made her go into sex work, which pushed her sanity even more. Obsession of public with her also has nothing to do with game. In Japan term "yandere" appeared much before the game did. So it's weird to say "this game pushes it's audience to do bad things in life" and then put a case that has no ties with the game. Yuka's victim (Luna) survived and later stated he have forgiven Yuka. If he'd known how far she went (prostitution) to subsidize his work as a host, he would've stopped her. However since he didn't know he felt a bit of a guilt that because of his profession this went so far. Both of them were hosts in "host clubs" in Japan. Both of them knew that even if they meet outside the club it's not a real relationship, but just a business practice. Still, Yuka fell in love and after some time became too obsessed. She was found guilty and was sentenced to 5 years, but then reduced to 3,5 years in prison. Probably due to her and Luna having a settled lawsuit for medical bills for 40k$. Rotten Mango had an hour long video about this specific case about 2 weeks ago.

After everything that's happened, everything that Alex caused with his arrogance and depraved ways of thinking, at this point, it would be best if Yandere Simulator just ended altogether. Even if a whole new developer took over the project and finished the game, it would be forever tainted because of YandereDev himself. Also, I'm getting REAL tired of creeps using poor mental health to justify their predatory behaviors. Nah. It's called therapy, meds, and touching grass. Being a Cupcake Bandit isn't the answer.

The pantie shot feature was getting very uncomfortable for me. I didn't know how weird it was until somebody pointed it out. Now I hate it I wish we can just do tasks or quests to earn points.

this game was actually somewhat fun, i liked conquering the buggy mess it was. but the whole concept had so many problems, like panties being a core mechanic to the game about highschoolers that were barely of age. the worst part was that this game had such a large child audience, and that also meant he was able to get away with it for longer.

It was funny when I saw people being genuinely surprised when Alex was revealed to be a groomer. Even if you only played the game, it has all the red flags lined up right there within the first 10 minutes of playing. It’s like someone being surprised that the sun is hot.

I've been saying this for a week now. This game probably would've been remembered fondly and probably stayed as a cult classic indie game if the game was only either Mission mode with some tweaks, or 1980s mode with future updates adding minor things to overall improve the game.

I was a fan of Yandere Simulator in my late primary (in America elementary) school years, I was 9-10 I think and I remember being bullied by others in the fandom (especially older fans) on amino for a lot of reasons. The main reason being was that I was accused of supporting Yandere dev (this was around the time people started to realise he was a massive creep), I was only 9-10 and just liked the game so I literally had no idea about the bad stuff yandere dev had done, I remember saying I liked the game and thought yandere dev was so talented for making such a cool stealth game (obviously I know now he barely did anything for the game but again, I was young and didn't know about all of the crap he had done) I was then harassed by so many people for supporting yandere dev, they were accusing me, a then 9-10 year old of being an incel, a creep, a n*zi, a p*do (I barely even knew what half of those words meant) and from then on I was scared of interacting with others in the Yandere Simulator fandom. Another time I made some cringe fanart of the character Mida (who if you don't know is the character who is a teacher at the school in the game who seduces the teenage boys and one of Ayano's "rivals", but as a kid I didn't support that behaviour but I liked her design so I thought it would be okay to draw a character that was definitely not a good person but also clarify you didn't support what they did in the game, and also many others older than me had already drawn her and didn't get any backlash) Again I got bullied and was accused of being a p*do for drawing her (they were literally accusing a 9-10 year old of being a p*do on amino for drawing a character from a video game 😭) And another time I can remember being accused of tracing, I remember drawing the character Osana as Sailor Moon since she had a similar hairstyle, I used one of the iconic sailor moon poses as a reference. When I was done I posted it to amino and not half an hour later someone had accused me of tracing, I hadn't traced, I had used the sailor moon pose as a reference but hadn't traced a thing. I was harassed by angry yandere sim fans for about 2 days, telling me my art was cringey and bad (which to be fair true, I was 9-10 so of course my art at the time sucked), calling me horrible names, telling me to kms, the average stuff. Then I was just like "Okay people in this fandom are just dumb I should just delete this because it isn't worth it" I also remember countless times being bullied for my fanart, like I mentioned before my art sucked and was very cringe back then, but when you're young and you inspire to be a great artist and there's people (especially people older than you and with better art) constantly mocking your art and calling it cringe it really hurts, it's definitely not as bad as some other things that happened though lol. Yeah the yandere simulator fandom was not the best for young cringey elementary schoolers who just wanted to enjoy the game and not want to get involved with all the drama 😬 Edit: hey I know its been a few months since I first posted this but due to some replies I've received I think I should clarify these things 👍🏻 Majority of the people in this amino group knew I was 9-10, which honestly makes it worse because they didn't tell the moderators "Hey there's a literal child in an amino group based around an 18+ game please remove them" Speaking of that, the reason I was on amino and liked yandere simulator as a 9-10 year old was because I was an idiot kid who had basically unlimited internet access and because of this I had already watched YouTubers play violent and gorey video games such as resident evil and fran bow therefore I was desensitized to this sort of violence as long as it was fictional This was in the mid-late 2010's when people were starting to realise Yandere Dev was a weirdo, but as a kid I thought the reason people didn't like him was because he took too long to update the game because thats something many of my friends (who also liked yandere sim) said when asked why people didn't like him so I just assumed that was the reason Also thanks for all the support to the people who were nice to me in the replies, to all the people who were trying to blame me for what happened despite me being a literal child at the time (I mean now I'm a teenager, I'm smarter and obviously don't like Yandere Dev anymore, but even now people don't expect me to act all perfect like you guys are expecting a literal 9-10 year old boy to act) then just leave and don't waste your time getting all pissy over a kid