Hello everyone. It's been a long time since I posted on gaf, but now I'm here in an attempt to clear out my name. I'm not a native English speaker so sorry for the few mistakes.
I thought long about this too, and despite being told that it would be better to just not engage conversation, I have hopes that people here will understand my arguments in good faith. I will not talk in names of the others, but only of mine. Because I'm a victim of misinterpretation. I'm not here representing anyone else but myself.
This server, which I was part of, was made to discuss video game sales numbers. It's what fuelled the conversation most of the time. It's not affiliated to era but usermade. It was not a server made for prominent members to make discussion with the staff. It's all there is to it. The reason why you may recognize some popular names is because they're all sales-related. It was a big place to discuss video game sales (be it Famitsu numbers, NPD, Media Create, PAL charts…). We never had any input in any kind of moderation issue. Most of the time we actually disagreed with the moderation, and a lot of us (including myself) got banned multiple times. I even considered going back to GAF at one point. The reason our server was private is because we didn't want any console warring in it
Some discussions went off-topic, notably when it concerned moderation (as we often disagreed on it) and one of those is screencapped in OP, where a thread about GTAV and rape was made which caused many bans of Era members. From that point, we discussed legal perspectives and legal dispositions regulating those matters. That's all there was to it. We discussed the difference between the age where you become a legal adult and the age of consent, which I mixed in the course of the discussion because, as I said, I'm not a native English speaker and definitely not well-versed in that field.
As for the threats OP claimed she got, I'm deeply sorry about the aggressive tone I may have conveyed. I just went out of school when someone linked me the thread and I was immediately filled with anger that someone I once considered a friend (and of which I thought it was reciprocal) accuse me of the sort. I sent a discord DM (the one OP screencapped) asking what the hell was going on and why would she do that. It ended abruptly as I was angered and saddened at the situation. I want to precise I didn't threaten anyone of legal actions. My last sentence was very much made because of worries that OP, knowing her difficult situation, could be put in danger if someone took all of it very seriously and decided to sue her for defamation. I apologize to OP if I came across as threatening, but that wasn't my intent.
For the LuigiBlood post, I believe he already explained his situation (which was tied to me merely because I was talking about the Metal Gear Solid 1 French dub).
As for my recent era name change, it was in hope that people would just forget about me. I didn't want to come post here because I don't like the attention. I'm no one important, just a rando like anyone here. I'm not affiliated with era or anyone else. I was just spending time on a discord server talking about games sales and anything that was discussing in general chat. I never expected that anyone could have interpreted my posts like that. I'm not a pedophile, nor was I ever interested in underage people. I'm still at university. My part of this situation is a big misinterpretation and I really want to prove it.
I've already cut ties with the server, and the people this thread rightfully pointed out as potentially very suspicious once their twitter account was digged out. I'm not affiliated at all with those people. I only talked with them in the context of game sales and what topics came in the general chat. I don't know most of the people outside of that, and definitely not those affiliated with pedophile content. I'd also like to point out that nowhere did the server endorsed even remotely such content. Two of the people (the two most of this thread is about) got banned/kicked from the server and that nobody ever posted endorsement of pedophiles nor imagery of underaged people in the server and that the moderation would have taken action upon that without a doubt.
I'm no different than any of you, I'm just a random internet user fanboying over some games and ranting about others. I really want to clear out my name. I understand why you people would pursue people suspected of diving into pedophilia and other illegal fields, but I'm really not one of those people. I hope this was enough of a statement to at least testify of my honesty.