Last week allegations of sexual misconduct against NeoGAF owner Tyler “Evilore” Malka rocked the popular gaming forum. After several days of forum drama, the full Evilore statement is now available. In it, Malka says that the allegations are untrue, and that it “doesn’t reconcile logically with the facts.”
Here’s the full statement from Malka:
Hi.
An allegation of sexual misconduct has been made against me by an ex. It’s not true, the individual making the accusation isn’t credible, the story doesn’t reconcile logically with the facts, and there’s plenty of evidence and witnesses to corroborate that. It’ll be a process.
All allegations of this nature are serious, of course. I first got word of it on Wednesday when a screenshot of a Facebook post was handed to Voat. I immediately talked with my mod team about the contents of the screenshot and clarified that it was baseless and explained some of the details concerning my former associations with her, and tried to ensure any concerns from the team were addressed fully and transparently to everyone’s satisfaction. On Thursday I heard that she had deleted the accusation from Facebook, and wasn’t entirely sure how to proceed from there or how this would all play out in the public space at that point. Then, Friday morning, the screenshot made its way to NeoGAF and chaos ensued. I was in the process of writing a statement that entire day to address form...