His old domain, byuu.org, is also excluded from the Wayback Machine, although another of his websites, setsuna.the2d.com (about one of his translations) is available on Wayback as well as archive.md. I'd suggest if we want to dox this motherfucker to discredit this hoax, starting with his earliest Internet presence might lead back to his actual identity.
He's always had pretty good opsec but he has to have fucked up somewhere along the line, and early is the most likely.
I did a little bit of digging on the archive of sestuna,the2d.com. Dunno if it will bring any leads to his dox but it gives some insight into byuu and his early internet history:
Near has prior to 2004 had gone under the online names byuu, setsuna, ayamaru, and lin xioaling.
Byuu and Setsuna we know about obviously, but because troons keep hitting the site I don't know if anyone has found Ayamaru or Lin Xioaling. (
Archive)
In December of 2004, and it can be assumed the rest of 2004 prior, Near was living in Columbus, OH
I'm pretty sure this is also common knowledge, but an interesting tidbit to add to that is that Near claims that he was a neet at this time, and that he was unable to get an unemployment tugboat because he was not "technically a resident" of Columbus, which to me means that he either 1. living with his parents or 2. living with someone that had their name listed as the resident of a Columbus address. Near being a neet, I would lean toward the former rather than the latter. (
Archive)
Byuu was a member of the translation/emulation scene at the time
Again, common knowledge; but we may have some leads of people to contact who knew Near at the time.
One being a guy Named Mr. D, someone who also had a the2d.com domain, and who Near had linked on his webzone. (
Archive)
Going to Mr. D's page interestingly enough brings up a nice amount of contact info, although I would imagine the email and ICQ are out of date. What isn't out of date is the dox Mr. D listed about himself:
I have no idea of Derrick Sobodash is still alive or even still has an online presence, as I have only looked into stuff I could find from the setsuna.the2d.com archives, but he may be a potential person to contact in regards to finding Near's dox.
Also a little side note to end this with just to show autistic Byuu is, he hates April Fool's jokes:
I don't know if any of this will be helpful, just what I was able to find looking through one of his old sites. I can also look at archive.md as well unless someone else already has.
gizmodo.com
www.newshub.co.nz
getindianews.com
linustechtips.com
tvdotgame.wordpress.com
j99news.com
