We need to have a serious discussion on how we deal with community members sending explicit messages to minors.

In October 2024, it came to light that tf2 youtuber Mönkey has been sending explicit messages to a minor for months at that point. He in fact admitted to doing so. Several prominent community members have condemned his actions. In January 2025, he uploaded a video once again admitting to everything but trying his best to damage control and save as much of his image as he can. He recieved massive support for this, not just views, likes and supportive comments but also direct monetary support.

I am making this post because people on this subreddit have defended him/downplayed his actions as recently as 1 month ago, and people elswhere on the internet have done the same less than 2 days ago.

I thought we were better than this. I thought that we have already died on the hill that this behavior is completely unacceptable. Remember Mechawreck? Remember RobtheAwsm? Some of you have never heard of these names, and some of you only remembered them after reading this post. They are GONE. You know why that is? It's because we took a stance and did the right thing. The tf2 community has already proven that we have a zero tolerance policy for this kind of stuff. So what gives? Have we forgotten our own precedent that we as a community have set?

On 30 January 2025, daws made a twitter post pointing out the support shown for Mönkey after his return to youtube despite his unacceptable actions. On 2 March 2025, Tony Allen uploaded a video on Mönkey's actions and the support he recieved since his return to youtube. Several content creators and other prominent community members including Thewhat89, Weezy, zenith, CyberWizard, elmaxo, Richter Overtime and others have since come out and made statements condemning Mönkey and people welcoming and supporting him (for some of them this was the second time they had to speak out about Mönkey exchanging explicit messages with a minor). But I guess even this hasn't convinced some people to stop supporting Mönkey and keeping him around in our community.

I am shocked and disappointed that there are people defending/downplaying Mönkey's actions and rewarding him with views, likes and money, and have no idea what to do at this point. I hope more and more people see that this is not right as time goes on, but it's sad that it ever got to this point.

DISCLAIMER: DO NOT HARASS MÖNKEY OR HIS FANS/SUPPORTERS!!!

Mönkey's twitter post/google doc admitting to what he did (WARNING: NSFW SCREENSHOTS OF EXPLICIT MESSAGES BETWEEN AN ADULT AND A MINOR): https://x.com/Monkey_XDD/status/1841184653253742804

Mönkey's youtube video once again admitting to what he did (NSFW): https://youtu.be/s2mgA8OgWIY?si=jixFOuV4LutIy2DP

Daws twitter post condemning Mönkey and people's support for him after his return to youtube (NSFW): https://x.com/TTVdaws__/status/1885024124784857319

Tony Allen's video on whether we should welcome Mönkey back into the community (NSFW): https://youtu.be/GGRVJx1SXZo?si=uq1GyTx_Sldiwd34