Recently, on the channel- and by recently I mean two weeks ago because I forgot to upload. I'm a
terrible person, please understand, I have *things* going on in my life that I'm very excited to
bring to you. Recently on the channel, I discussed the Hyojin allegations, surrounding allegations
that they had raised their hand towards their partner and mistreated them in the relationship
both emotionally and physically. These allegations at the time had not been conclusively proven but
there was a lot of evidence that supported them and the testimony from their partners
seemed pretty rock-solid. However, as of recently Hyojin released a response which I'm going to be
very careful in covering because when Bowblax covered it, he got a strike. As a disclaimer this
video is going to touch on some heavy subjects however I will be very careful to censor this
video and make sure this video falls under all of YouTube's guidelines and monetization
policies. This video will not include graphic language imagery or otherwise hateful content
that could otherwise influence you in a negative way but if just the mention of these subjects is
too much for you, I perfectly understand, feel free to click off of the video now. That being
said, this video will cover Hyojin's response to the allegations in which they confess to practically
everything they were accused of and say they're getting help to make sure they never treat anyone
like this again. The validity of these statements we have no idea of because I'm not Hyojin's mother
I don't know what's going on in their private life but we can give vague assumptions and we
can take a look at the apology and dissect it without accepting or declining the apology on
the behalf of the victim. Though, I will say this apology is pretty short and pretty poorly wrote.
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ego, and allow me to achieve a childhood dream all at the same time. That being said, let's get right
into it. As a quick recap for those who weren't aware, Punk Duck, Hyojin's ex-partner and also a
YouTuber in their own right, released a public statement alleging that their ex-partner Hyojin,
was both emotionally and physically ab*sive to them between 2019 to 2021, berating them, putting
them down, and raising their hands against them. The post would go on to elaborate on three
major claims, that after the first six months Hyojin would start constantly arguing with them
and blaming all of the arguments on Punk Duck. Punk Duck would highlight these problems with
Hyojin, and Hyojin would emotionally manipulate them and make accusations that they were doing this to
make Hyojin feel stupid and that Hyojin would say they should just leave them then. Punk Duck
would always be apologizing in these situations and would constantly be blamed for everything
that happened in this relationship. At one point, Hyojin would verbally berate Punk Duck, saying
they were f*cking useless and forced them out of their room so that Hyojin could stream and raise
money for a flight to get back out of Australia because of C*VID. Punk Duck's mother would then
pay for Hyojin's flight and Hyojin would only pay the mother back an entire year later. But
the most major allegations surrounded the events of January 3rd, 2020 where Hyojin had received an
early-press copy of a game and asked Punk Duck to help installing it and after them failing
to figure it out, Hyojin would verbally berate them and then tell them to f*ck off. And while
Punk Duck was sat under bed on the verge of tears, Hyojin would go into a Discord call and act like
nothing had happened. Punk Duck was shocked and mustered up the courage to say, "Are you actually
doing this?" only for Hyojin to deafen the call and after Punk Duck complained a little more, raised
their hand towards them and att*cked them, causing Punk Duck's head to literally bounce off of the
wall. Hyojin would then cry and storm out of the room as Punk Duck would then register that they
were in a physically ab*sive relationship. Punk Duck would then make efforts to get out of this building as
soon as possible to escape Hyojin, calling up an ambulance and then calling one of their friends to
ask if they could go live with them. Hyojin would walk in on Punk Duck packing though and then raise
a knife towards them, pointing it at Punk Duck and then themselves. With Punk Duck lunging to try and
disarm them and then Hyojin scratching up Punk Duck's arm pretty bad. Hyojin would at this point
continue to manipulate Punk Duck and make them feel like this was their fault, until eventually
Punk Duck would escape this relationship and now release this allegation. They also attached a lot
of screenshots which I went over in my previous video, so if you watch that one you'll get all of
the information but this is the basic summary. And that catches us back up to where we are right now.
Two weeks from the initial allegation with Hyojin finally responding. Though, the more keen-eyed amongst you
might have noticed that I left something out. And that's the fact that Hyojin's current response
isn't the only response they've made to these allegations. As Punk Duck highlighted the initial
allegation, Hyojin and themselves would get back in touch a couple months after they broke up and
Hyojin would even join a Discord server with a bunch of Punk Duck's friends. And after Punk Duck
reflected on the experience they had with Hyojin and decided they wanted Hyojin to leave, Hyojin
would send thinly-veiled threats and remove Punk Duck on every social media. And a week later, after
Hyojin had found out that Punk Duck had started telling their close friends what Hyojin had done
to them, Hyojin got mad called them 'childish' and attempted to convince them that they were never
ab*sed in the first place. Only for them to 24 hours later, apologize for everything they did to
Punk Duck and explained that they WERE completely in the wrong and Punk Duck was completely right.
In this apology, Hyojin would say the following, "Let me start this off by saying that I don't need you
to reply. I get it. What I say doesn't matter but regardless I'm sorry. I owe you a very big apology.
I hope it doesn't come off as calculated or ingenuine, just need you to see it because
it's the least that I can give you. It doesn't mean anything, I know, but just know that I am genuinely
sorry for everything I've done. Sorry for how I acted when you asked me so nicely to leave the
server. It seems my entitlement and anger hasn't changed since you've known me. I took your patience
for granted, mistreated you, and took advantage of you in the entire relationship. I don't think
there was a single thing you've ever done wrong. I regret not talking about what occurred on New
Year's more, I feel like that's something we should have talked about and you definitely
had every right to do what you did. I'm sorry for not ever being apologetic for that. I'm sorry for
misplacing my anger on you about other people in general. Misplaced anger is a problem I need to
sort out. Everything you felt about me is deserved, you deserve to talk about it and I sent what you
said to me to almost every one of my friends just to force myself to self-reflect. I've lost a lot
of trust from them but that's okay because nothing that ever happens to me will ever undo what I did
to you. I'm never gonna excuse what I did to you. You met me at a time where I never wanted
to take responsibility, I'm toxic, paranoid, and horrible in general. I'm sorry for how I treated
you whenever you got hurt, treating everything like a joke, making people uncomfortable on purpose just
because I got a tiny laugh out of it, etc. I'm sorry for hitting you over nothing, again, angry
at something, misplaced it on you. Feels like a lot of stuff that happened always fell back on you. You
were always the fall-back to my moods. Nothing can undo what I've done. This message is not to
rekindle anything, as far as I know I'm dead to you which is what I deserve. I don't deserve a reply, I
didn't take this up to weapon as a v*ctim complex, which I did a lot before. I think I do that in a
lot of scenarios actually, which is why I reached out to literally everyone I've done wrong to. I
reached out to most of my friends, some ex-friends, and even some others. Just want to let you know
that even though this bridge is burned, I'm not planning on hurting anyone like that in the future
again. Thank you for doing what you did, I think you saved a lot of people from how horrid I am.
I see the person I am now *clearly*. I'm narcissistic, ab*sive, and I misplaced my anger and hurt everyone
around me. I'm codependent, I weaponize my mental illness, and again, my v*ctim complex is huge.
There's no excusing anything. I'm the root of my own destruction. I've believed for so long that it
was the world against me but I was the problem and it's sh*tty that it's taken this to realize that.
So again, thank you for doing this, if you hadn't I would have fallen back into the same pattern
of earning validation by lying and acting like a v*ctim, hurting people by continuing to never
change, and lose more people. I've lost people and that's completely okay. Everyone has their own
limits and I'm not asking to be forgiven at all, I just want to change and I'm sorry it's taken
this long and this much for me to wake up. I don't want to hurt people any more than I already have."
Though this apology falls flat as Punk Duck says because it came 24 hours after they'd called Punk
Duck 'childish' and tried to gaslight them into not believing there'd been ab*sed and also weeks before their
breakup, Hyojin had told Punk Duck that they lied throughout the entire relationship about
seeing a therapist and being medicated because quote they "lied to make Punk Duck feel better".
Punk Duck says they have no intentions of ever reconnecting with them and in a following tweet
they say, "Whether there's a response or not, whether people believe me or not, I don't care. I wanted my
friends and family to know about my three year long d*ck flattening t*rture and this is what I
got. As for me, I'm moving on. This is the last time I'll speak about this and I want to put it behind
me for good." So who knows how Punk Duck is gonna take Hyojin's response, but their new response
reads the following, "Ed I want you to know that I'm sorry. I've been going to therapy for a bit
and I'm still on that journey. I've seen progress in myself but I still want to push for more change.
I'm sorry for not making that change earlier as it would have prevented so much pain that
I caused. I'm sorry. You had every right to post about this because v*ctims are allowed to talk
about their ab*sers, especially if it'll help with the healing process. I'm not saying that this fixes
everything of course, I just know it needed to be posted. This is all completely fair and justified.
I felt like my private apology to Ed was sincere but I get why it didn't come across that way and
my snap reaction was just me being a bad person. There's nothing I can do to undo the things I've
done and I've disappointed, angered, and sickened people with what I've done. I'm sorry. I don't want this to
happen again. I look at the person I was a couple years ago and even if I have changed, those were
my actions and I understand that this is deserved. Actions have repercussions and every bad decision
I've made has hurt people. I know that no matter how much I change in the future, I'll still be
that person in people's eyes. I'm sorry for all of that. There isn't much more I can say other
than that I'm sorry. I'm gonna reflect on this for a long time and take a very long break. I'm
not going to come back till I'm better, I just hope I can show that change clearly for people to see
in the future." And this response is a confusing one, because it's very obviously not directed to
the audience and very clearly directed towards Punk Duck also known as 'Ed'. This apology seems to
reinforce the idea that they're going to therapy and that they are working to change but it's also
countered by the fact Ed had said Hyojin has lied about going to therapy before. Hyojin's made many
mistakes like this and it's very hard to pretend that they can just come back like none of this
has happened and act as if they've learned and changed in a few months time, but I do have to
acknowledge that it is difficult to write a good response and apology and I respect that
Hyojin did apologize and didn't try to counter this or try and disprove the allegations Ed made.
I respect that they made the effort to actually acknowledge what they did wrong and are admitting
it. Even if this post was vague and doesn't exactly explain what they did, to people in the audience
who don't already know. Hyojin acknowledges in this post that they were ab*sive and I think
it's important that that's there because it means that what Ed said is true and it gives
Ed that validation that what they said has been heard and that people are listening to them and
supporting them through the struggle they're going through. Being in an ab*sive relationship must be
unimaginably torturous and I can't imagine what Ed had to be put through and act as if Hyojin deserves
to be able to walk back onto their platform like nothing has happened after this. And I do think
this apology is missing a lot of things that should have been in it. It feels like it's way
too vague to ever possibly explain what they did to their audience and I feel like they should have
taken longer before posting it. I think two weeks is a good time to collect your thoughts but I
don't think the time between this post and Ed and Hyojin's last conversation where they apologize,
is enough time for Hyojin to have changed from when they gaslighted Ed and tried to convince
them they weren't ab*sed in the first place. I think if Hyojin returns to their platform and
somehow does prove they've changed, that would be interesting to see. But I don't think this is
my apology or anyone else's to accept other than Ed's. And regardless, I don't think it means Hyojin is
ANYONE who should be respected at this current time. As I said, apologies are hard to write and
this isn't one of the worst apologies I've ever seen and I think it does most of what they could
have done to correct the situation without trying to pass blame, acknowledging what they did and
without phrasing it in any kind of manipulatory otherwise misleading context. I think it's a fine
apology as apologies go but I don't think because they made a good apology it means they're a good
person or otherwise deserve to come back because they've seemingly learned. At the end of the day,
most apologies are PR stunts and we have no idea what's going on behind the scenes in Hyojin's mind.
But with that being said, I think I'm gonna end this video here. If you have enjoyed this video or
otherwise expanded on the situation, I'd appreciate if you could subscribe to the channel to help me
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