Sorry for posting this later than I hoped. This is a follow-up post to my previous announcement about boycotting Dandy's World due to the piling allegations against Qwelver and how my experience in Dandy's World had been worsening over time from all the griefing and toxicity from my teammates during runs and the poor decisions in the game like forcing grindy RNG quests during holiday events or some poorly-thought-out stat distribution or abilities for certain Toons (most notoriously so for Ginger and Soulvester). At the time of the post I also deleted my Roblox account given my boycott of the game since there were nothing else to do in Roblox and that all the toxic players from said game got me a 3-day chat ban.
It has recently came to my attention that Qwelver has released a statement 2 days ago, in fact the second statement after the one from mid-July that was perceived by many (myself included) as insincere or failing to properly address the allegations and the actions done by the team. The recently-released statement included Qwel's mention on how she made many mistakes before but she's willing to grow from them, she admitted that she felt regretful about how she unintentionally made others feel horrible when at the time she defended or still was friends with RoxSerpent (a former co-owner of the game that got outed as a pedophile in October 2024) and didn't realise the consequences at the time, and how because of all of this she couldn't come to terms with how she was actually groomed and manipulated in the past. Regarding the cease and desist letters sent to Rox's victims, while many have perceived it as Qwel herself "refusing to take criticism and silencing the victims", the letters were actually sent by BlushCrunch Studio's legal team, acting in the interest of the company to protect the business, although Qwel did not instruct the legal team to send out such letters to the victims and had to tell the legal team to stop, unless "they absolutely have to based on persistent harassment and attacks".
To end the statement, Qwel announced that she would stepping down as the lead on the Dandy's World game until further notice, where she would focus on accountability, personal growth, healing and support.
Honestly, this is a much more sincere apology coming from Qwel and it wrapped things up together with last month's statement. When all the Qwel drama started in late June 2026 after my university exam on June 18 ended and I wrapped up my 5-day hiatus from the game during the Finn Toon-of-the-Week event when I was focusing on my exam revision, I initially refused to believe those allegations because sure, Qwelver and BlushCrunch may not have the best decisions when it came to content for holiday events, or even depending on your view, the gameplay (I also think that the Swimmy Barnaby machine is a horrible decision because the screen showing the Swimmy Barnaby game blocks your view and you cannot check your surroundings for Twisteds (which is dangerous since you cannot check for other surrounding Twisteds and checking your surroundings while extracting is important to reduce risk of getting caught by Twisteds) and especially for low skill-check Toons like Scraps, the gap is a bit too small and you're more likely to fail and alert the Twisteds to the machine's location), but I believed Qwel would never intentionally do some bad things like knowingly defending and supporting a predator like RoxSerpent. Even while the drama was going on, part of me still thought at the time that Qwel might have been hiding something or trying to cover up for her actions behind the scenes that eventually culminated in me boycotting and leaving the game entirely. I felt that it would've ended up in a similar situation as Blaize Mayes, the owner of the once-popular and now-inactive Undertale fan-mod, "Undertale: Bits and Pieces", who on November 2023 got arrested for charges in relation to CSAM, is slapped with a prison sentence for that and now had to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Thankfully, everything is addressed and the drama can now fully wrap up from here (hopefully).
Given all of this, I'll be happy to finally resume my Dandy's World fan artworks after nearly a month, and as usual I can balance that with some Rhythm Heaven fanart as well, given that last month, with the recent release of Rhythm Heaven Groove, I was anticipating for a new Rhythm Heaven game and the game also has some cute characters that I would love (such as Li'l Miss Reeds and Drak), aside from the amazing music and the funny moments that can come out from the minigames, hence joining the Rhythm Heaven fandom. Regarding on whether I'll return to the game itself, I'm still thinking about it for the moment. My old Roblox account is gone and can no longer be recovered at this time and I'm still a bit worried that by returning to the game, I would have to continue to play with other players that are toxic or awful. Also given the controversies Roblox itself have been in since they wrongfully banned Schlep on August 9 last year when Schlep did the right thing by arresting six predators on the platform and then the poor decisions from Roblox that ruined gameplay, like completely taking away the chat feature for the most youngest players, isolating age groups so they can only chat within their own age group (which was why Qwel now had to rely on stickers more to allow for communication, which is vital in team runs for Dandy's World) or their Engagement Based Payout system where developers get more income if players play their game for a longer duration, which eventually led to the grindy RNG quests in the holiday events. I'm not sure on whether I can still support Roblox after all of this but I still think I'm ready to finally come back to Dandy's World. I really miss Scraps too, the cute paper-craft cat girl.
