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From what I remember, he was in Japan when he claimed to have committed suicide. Japan publishes data on US citizens who have lost their lives in that country, and that year, they reported that nobody died. The only "proof" that there was that Byuu took his own life is a picture of this strange-looking urn https://ibb.co/jw4xC0q

No records, no funeral, nothing

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I assume by "that year", you mean this year, since Byuu's (sigh, "alleged") suicide note was posted in June. But frankly, the notion that there was an entire year in which not a single foreign citizen died in Japan is absurd on it's face. Surely you can point me to that press release, and maybe some news coverage of that statistical miracle.

There's also a statement given to USA Today by their employer confirming their death, including their full name (previously not public), and a new photograph of them. I suppose that was part of the con, or hell, maybe USA Today is in on the conspiracy.

https://news.yahoo.com/respected-developer-died-suicide-expe...

The things some people are willing to believe in order to absolve their own sense of guilt...

On June 27, 2021, Near posted a suicidal note on Twitter, disclosing the extent of the harassment they had faced from the website Kiwi Farms. Héctor Martín Cantero later announced he had confirmed Near's death with the police. One month later, their death was confirmed by their employer to USA Today.[12] Near was non-binary.[13][14][15][12]

I found this on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higan_(emulator).

I believe the "he faked his death" theory was started by those same people on Kiwi Farms: https://kiwifarms.net/search/11124242/?q=byuu&o=relevance

> I believe the "he faked his death" theory was started by those same people on Kiwi Farms:

It absolutely, 100% is. Kiwifarms is absolutely vile, and will spread any lie that serves their purpose and masks how despicable they are.

Trust absolutely nothing that comes out of Kiwifarms.

Really naive question here, but... what _is_ their purpose? Do they have some sort of binding ideology?

LE: I just... googled them and looked at the wiki. What the fuck? This is just... way worse than I imagined, at first glance. They seem to celebrate their targets commiting suicide and their whole goal is harassing people. In this, i think they are waaay worse than politically motivated harrassers, at least the politically motivated ones want some sort of end result that is, in their twisted view, better than the status quo. Kiwifarmers seem to just want to destroy people. What the fuck.

It is absolutely sick. And they build up these huge elaborate structures of lies to convince themselves that actually, they are the good guys and whoever they are going after deserves it. They don't care at all about truth when doing this, they will just latch onto anything and twist it to justify what they are doing.

It's basically a shared mental illness enabled through the internet. Absolutely terrifying.

First off, "that year" is this year, so you're boldly claiming there's a document claiming a lack of deaths in a whole year that hasn't ended yet.

But even assuming such a document exists, do you have evidence that he hadn't naturalized and therefore would have given up US citizenship as part of that process?

Are you claiming he faked his own death to escape his harassers? It is true it's hard to find concrete evidence of his death - the sole source of information is a twitter thread from "Hector"[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137

>the sole source of information is a twitter thread from "Hector"[0].

Mate, Marcan is not just some guy called Hector.

He's one of the most respected guys from the homebrew scene, and semi-(in)famous in electrical engineering circles too!

Not saying the thread is true, but the guy sharing it isn't a nobody.

There is no evidence aside from a Twitter image, and heresay with no records.

What records would you expect there to be that aren't there?

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