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I've never heard of any Korean webcomics that blew up on Tumblr.
I have faint memories of hearing of something called Killing Stalking that did well with fujoshits, but google tells me it didn't start publication until 2016.
If memory serves me correct, It did start making the rounds on tumblr around that time or early 2017, I have memories of everyone shitting their pants about how le problematic it was and how bad it was, plus the infamous backslash post about how bad you are a person you are for liking it.
 
If memory serves me correct, It did start making the rounds on tumblr around that time or early 2017, I have memories of everyone shitting their pants about how le problematic it was and how bad it was, plus the infamous backslash post about how bad you are a person you are for liking it.
I mean they were right, but for the wrong reasons. Being a fujoshi coomer = being a bad person.
 
Crosspost from the Youchew thread:
 
I always thought he was of sandnig ancestry due to his brownish skin tone, but this could well be him being a late stage amerimutt.
To be honest there are many interesting things about his background:
>Born in Manchester New Hampshire to an episcopal family meaning he's very possibly is of a wealthy liberal background
>Extremely smarth & talented, created and composed his own hitgame mostly alone, able to establish connections with the AAA gaming industry and hang out with Sakurai himself, hans't done any retarded shit that would got him doxxed
>Associates with some of the most retarded and prominent internet leftists and yet he hans't gotten in shit

Toby is an enigma that keeps me awake, we know virtually nothing about him and although he made some honest to god amazing stuff the world gets worse under it's influnece, is an internal conflict that involves liking the things he makes but disliking his agenda
same here, I've done some research on Toby but he is extremely resilient to the usual techniques, even the sharty wasn't able to grab any more than some shitty free lookup site dump. It's clear he is kind of terrified of the western community and wants as little face-to-face interaction with them as possible, but is a little more comfortable with the japs, strong possibility he might reside in japan now?
 
but is a little more comfortable with the japs, strong possibility he might reside in japan now?
Very possible if we take into account he was able to personally visit Sakurai and his recent collaboration with various japanese games mainly in the soundtrack department, even going as far as to compose the song for Houshou Marine's incredibly thirst trap song "I'm your treasure box" under the alias "U.Z. INU", so if that where to be true Toby should be living in Japan since before 2019 according to this tweet

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I skimmed through the Homestuck thread for anything on Toby, and the most I could find was an old post about how Toby once dated Shelby Cragg:
I wanna say the reason she got onto the art team has gotta be because she dated Toby Fox.

I think this was around 2010/2011? If not even earlier. They started an online relationship, and that's how she first got on Hussie's radar outside the scope of "just a fangirl". At some point Shelby flew out to stay with him for a week, I'm 90% Toby took her Vcard and then some time later they break up and she's a lesbian. Much later she self admitted that she was "probably terrible girlfriend" or something along those lines at the time because of the aforementioned depression.

Hilariously, for years after she was dating a girl Jo (unrelated to Homestuck crew) and they got engaged. Meanwhile she was planning her webcomic with her now-wife, and I think it was like a month between her last mention of Jo and her and Amber getting together. Quietly never mentioning her once fiancé ever again, I have to think there was some emotional cheating going on.

Unfortunately this was all glenned from her tumblr at the time (wecansexy.tumblr.com) which she wisely deleted upon trying to become a professional.
Related post:
So Shelby made yet another tweet about her role in the comic.

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Pretty much all but confirms what I've said before about her relationship to the comic. Her reasoning for joining on the team is very vague and I'm sure there's a lot more corrupt to it than just "lol I was a huge fangirl."

Side-note: I'm planning on updating the OP soon for newer readers. Not everyone viewing this thread cares about Homestuck, or knows the people behind it. Having a brief intro for new people who don't know much about the comic or the people behind it might help clear things up for them.
It kinda feels like the Homestuck thread is just as in the dark about Toby as we are.
 
I skimmed through the Homestuck thread for anything on Toby, and the most I could find was an old post about how Toby once dated Shelby Cragg:
Good bit of info, first I'm hearing of Toby ever being in any kind of relationship.

It's worth noting that there was an effort to intentionally cover up Toby's pre-Undertale online presence. His posts on starmen.net got mass wiped (probably in collusion with the admins?) and only have spotty archives on the wayback machine, his old personal site where the halloween hack was posted was taken down and completely excluded from wayback.
 
there was an effort to intentionally cover up Toby's pre-Undertale online presence. His posts on starmen.net got mass wiped (probably in collusion with the admins?) and only have spotty archives on the wayback machine, his old personal site where the halloween hack was posted was taken down and completely excluded from wayback.
It seems Toby knew things in his past that would be considered problematic could affect his future public career and decided to act preventively , we also had to consider his close relationship to Hussie that by proxy linked him to Zoe Quinn herself, because deleting Wayback archives is a very extreme measure that i have only seen in another prominent but more obscure figure...Habermann...
 
we also had to consider his close relationship to Hussie that by proxy linked him to Zoe Quinn herself, because deleting Wayback archives is a very extreme measure that i have only seen in another prominent but more obscure figure...Habermann...
For those who don't recognize that name, these vids should help you get caught up:
 
It seems Toby knew things in his past that would be considered problematic could affect his future public career and decided to act preventively , we also had to consider his close relationship to Hussie that by proxy linked him to Zoe Quinn herself, because deleting Wayback archives is a very extreme measure that i have only seen in another prominent but more obscure figure...Habermann...
I checked. You can still find it in the Wayback machine, osrt of, from a saved page of Starmen (which by the way, they're assholes for intentionally memory-holing Radiation-Fox's stuff). There's also that LP in LParchive and some let's plays on YouTube, so it's not all gone.
Nevertheless, it's telling Toby-man tried to delete his past whenever possible.
 
I checked. You can still find it in the Wayback machine, osrt of, from a saved page of Starmen (which by the way, they're assholes for intentionally memory-holing Radiation-Fox's stuff). There's also that LP in LParchive and some let's plays on YouTube, so it's not all gone.
Nevertheless, it's telling Toby-man tried to delete his past whenever possible.
Can you post the links to them here?
 
I tried to dig a little bit deeper into the archived starmen.net stuff. Some of the pages of Toby's list of posts are archived showing the thread and the first few words of each post, but figuring out what is actually viewable is a pain in the ass between only the root URLs of threads getting archived, them changing URL schemes over the years and wayback being perpetually slow as hell.

I haven't found much of substance yet, but I thought this was kinda funny (source: https://web.archive.org/web/2009021...et/forum/Site/Discussion/People-that-you-miss)

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because deleting Wayback archives is a very extreme measure that i have only seen in another prominent but more obscure figure...Habermann...
To be fair Toby is way smarter than the average e-leftist and makes sure to avoid spergery. It's very telling he avoided getting hit by controversies considering his associates and niches he is in. At most he got a faildox from the soyjak community, and they are absolute tards more autistic than the Undertale/Deltarune fandom.
Besides even if his "Radiation" is not considered halal for his fanbase or even the wider internet at large, it would be easily memoryholed due to his titanic prestige as long as he avoids a streisand effect or if the people trying to expose it are spergs.
 
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To be fair Toby is way smarter than the average e-leftist and makes sure to avoid spergery. It's very telling he avoided getting hit by controversies considering his associates and niches he is in. At most he got a faildox from the soyjak community, and they are absolute tards more autistic than the Undertale/Deltarune fandom.
Besides even if his "Radiation" is not considered halal for his fanbase or even the wider internet at large, it would be easily memoryholed due to his titanic prestige as long as he avoids a streisand effect or if the people trying to expose it are spergs.
this, Toby's trajectory is probably what most of us imagine doing if we accidentally got e-famous, just stay the hell out of the public eye and don't get involved in anything that could remotely be considered controversial. but that definitely gives him a bit of an allure, like you just know he's got to have some kind of messed up secret.
 
It seems Toby knew things in his past that would be considered problematic could affect his future public career and decided to act preventively , we also had to consider his close relationship to Hussie that by proxy linked him to Zoe Quinn herself, because deleting Wayback archives is a very extreme measure that i have only seen in another prominent but more obscure figure...Habermann...
it's also worth mentioning...

Toby mentions in the livestream that - in making graphics for the Flowey fight - he used a web application by "Christine Love", an early troon who was a darling in the indie journo sphere.
He also used a font by "Anna Anthropy" in the Napstablook fight. (https://w.itch.io/world-of-fonts) Much the same case as the previous specimen.

That article on the demo that I saw in Kotaku around 2014 - I don't think it was by chance...

A good question would be what kind and why does the sharty has a beef with him?
They found his parents' house. Where he used to live.
Nusois hate xim because UNDERTALE "is le troonslop o algo".
The - at the time - owner, Root, shut the thread down for obvious reasons. It's unknown what the staff actually think about him but a successful hit would essentially bring the entire internet down on the sharty. Game Over.
 
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