The Brony community can do great things.
It can also do great harm. Without the community properly maintaining itself, it will be possibly the worst fandom.
Gabriel Brown, AKA Black Gryph0n, groomed minor Claire Corlette. She voiced Sweetie Belle in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
This thread will retread other threads already made, though not exclusively. Here is one of those threads, for credit.
When people voiced concern and support for Ian; Claire's father, popular Brony fandom members started belittling and insulting supporters.
They did not clarify why they felt so strongly against Ian. They only bashed those who expressed empathy for the only story that was given.
Claire Corlette is now estranged from her parents, who went publicly with their concern when they were not invited to her wedding with Gabriel Brown.
This is extremely common with grooming victims. Being fully isolated from anyone who doesn't support the abuse. Even family.
In the past, people have been hesitant to call this grooming outright.
I am not hesitant.
Claire Corlette grew up with an adult fan going on trips and family dinners with her since she was at least 14. This alone, without the future, is abnormal.
Gabriel Brown ( Black Gryph0n ) is currently 33. His now wife, Claire Corlette, is now 24.
They met a decade ago.
Gabriel would hang out with her, and other young minor girls such as Michelle Creber, extremely often while in his mid 20s, and often.
Cases like Miranda Sings show us that abusive grooming can take many different appearances. And yet, this one is the default idea of grooming people already have.
Gabriel Brown hung out with minors for a decade, and one of them ended up marrying him.
When called out for this, Claire Corlette decided to joke about "wishing Gabriel groomed her".
Gabriel Brown responded by sarcastically calling that "her creepy fantasy".
To Gabriel, and also too many in the fandom, this was normal. After the fact of them dating was leaked, they came out about it when she was 20 and he was 29.
Gabriel Brown believes that because the minor he groomed asked him out first, he could not have groomed her.
Claire later gave her version of events.
To me, they do not paint the picture she believes they do. They seem to reaffirm that her parents were trying to get her out of an abusive relationship, and Gabriel lead her to resent them for it.
Gabriel Brown also has a past of spreading Covid misinformation, barely veiled racism, and more.
This thread will be isolated to only his grooming. However, expect a separate thread about the rest in the future.
We don't know for sure that nothing happened between them earlier than when she was 20. But we know she couldn't legally drink, while he had been for 8 years, when the public first found out about their relationship.
"Separate fandom bubbles"
Sethisto's bubble is nazis and general right wing nutjobs.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you don't belong as the head of EQD. You don't even belong in this fandom.
He knows he's always welcome to come back of course. I still think most of our issues were just general misunderstandings from being in separate fandom bubbles. But I think at least for now this is healthy.
Gabriel Brown married the girl he knew since she was 13, or possibly even younger.
That is a fact. That is why this hasn't stopped being talked about.
This will never be okay.
I should have included Gabriel Brown AKA Black Gryp0n's racism in the initial thread.
Fixing that now.
Gabriel Brown, in the midst of people attempting to stand up against continued police brutality and murders, was liking alt-right accounts and claiming "white marginalization"
Here are a few more screenshots of Gabriel Brown AKA Black Gryph0n being inappropriate with then-minor Claire Corlette.
Keep in mind; this wasn't their start. Their start was when she was barely a teen. This is further evidence of grooming, not the smoking gun.
If you have any issue understanding what's wrong, just do this exercise.
Think of any 13 year old you know. Any one.
Now, if you can't say you'd consider dating them when they turn 18 without shame, then you already understand why Gabriel Brown is a freak.
He believes that people are discriminated against simply because they are white.
And he decided to preach this when people were attempting to bring attention to murders and brutality against black folk.
It is *extremely* telling why he would be upset by people fighting racism.
Because SaberSpark is at a con this weekend, a reminder that he stands with his racist, groomer friend.
I never talked about it, but he also very recently victim blamed one of the people effected by Kyle Carrozza AKA the Mighty Magiswords creator.
Many have implied that Ian was actually abusive towards Claire.
I do not know how valid these claims are. For this reason, I have never said anything in this thread implying he's innocent.
But if true, it doesn't make Gabriel innocent. It just means there are 2 abusers.
Once proven otherwise, Katie did not have a change of heart.
Every screenshot prior to those 3 came after the proof that they didn't know the situation well at all. And Katie, aggressively, still defends a groomer.
And this is also not mentioning how they're defending a racist.
Now, let's talk about
@KatieBlueprint
.
Katie is the creator of the game
@BillieBustUp
. In it, Gabriel Brown voices a prominent character.
Katie has continuously spread blatant misinformation about this situation.
The bottom line for
@Saberspark
is, he himself outright said he was putting his reputation on the line.
He said that, defending a racist groomer.
Saber has no right to be upset that his reputation is destroyed. It was his call, in no uncertain terms.
@woot_master
I rarely get involved in these things but if my reputation is worth anything at all then I'll use it to say the following: it was all on the level. You're right, Claire had a crush on Gabe but Gabe never reciprocated until she was around 20 or so. It's weird but it was legal
As for Katie's claims; they say that they have evidence that would prove Gabriel Brown's innocence.
But his guilt is public. It isn't assumed, or unproven.
Gabriel Brown knew Claire Corlette since she was barely a teenager, and talked all the way to her adulthood.
In the previous screenshot, Katie implies I'm part of "targeted harassment by an abuser". I believe they mean Ian James Corlette; Claire Corlette's father.
I do not know Ian. I've spoken to him once, at a con, years ago. I do not get my information from Ian. It's all public.
These posts from Katie were before they were shown this video:
Katie claimed they did plenty of research, and found no evidence Gabe new Claire this early, insisting I was confusing Claire with the *other* minor Gabriel Brown hung out with regularly.
@RapeMares
I don't feel like I need to be the one to tell you this, but the nazi "RapeMares" defending Sethisto is helping him about as much as if Harvey Weinstein frolicked in with Joseph Stalin to speak on behalf his character
I accidentally only mentioned this in replies. Let me add it to the thread proper.
This video is supposedly the first time they met in person:
She was barely a teen with this man who could already legally drink for years. That's her husband.
@Shazbotabing
@CalpainEqD
Tolerance, no matter what, as a fandom motto. People started tolerating the intolerant. And then the intolerant started complaining whenever someone didn't tolerate them. And in this fandom, that works.
It's come to my attention that people actually still believe the "They only ever really talked after she was of age" angle.
So the following posts will be documenting even more instances of them together before Claire wasn't a minor.
Let's start with a big one:
Anyone saying that Gabriel Brown AKA Black Gryph0n is innocent is only saying that because other people are claiming he's innocent.
Nothing has been debunked.
People talking at length about how upset they are that he's being called out isn't proof that what he did, he didn't.
If you were having trouble finding where Gabriel shows up, don't worry. He is the top comment for the video, directing right to it.
This is how he would always message the minor he'd later marry. Are you going to argue this isn't creepy, *especially* in hindsight but not only?
Here's another video of Gabriel Brown surrounding himself with his minor friends, hosted by SaberSpark and ACRacebest.
Why is he hanging out with them? If you're going to argue it's just for the video, then *how* does that come about? Why??
People who defend Black Gryph0n, claiming that him marrying the girl he knew and was hanging out with since he was 24 and she was 14, is insane.
But it's also insane how they just ignore how he's also a racist antivaxxer.
From no angle is he innocent.
At this con, Claire was a special guest, which meant at certain times she'd be in a designated autograph hall.
Gabriel was *not* in the same category of guest, but as a community guest, which did not use the same room.
Except Gabriel still did. He shared *Claire's* table.
Gabriel Brown was the only one not on the special guest list to sign autographs in this room.
He shared Claire's table, while her father's table was on the opposite end of the room.
No one else shared a table.
I know this, because I was there *personally*.
Gabriel Brown is talking here about how it wouldn't be illegal for him to date a 16 year old. On two separate occasions.
This reminds me of SaberSpark's "it's definitely weird, but not illegal."
I don't care what Canada's laws are. Or America's. Don't justify dating children.
The difference between Dr. Disrespect AKA Herschel "Guy" Beahm and Black Gryph0n AKA Gabriel Brown is only that Gabriel went physical with it in the end
It seems like Gabriel Brown wants to portray himself as something similar to the character Spencer from iCarly. Grown adult hanging out with kids, but just to be wacky and part of the gang.
But Spencer was a family member. And he didn't go on to marry Sam.
Just so we're all on the same page.
This message would come off as creepy, no matter who it was for.
The context is it's to a minor.
The greater context is it's to the minor *he'd go on to marry*.
Here's another video Claire provides of them together when she's a minor.
The video ends with her and the other VA minors in their hotel room, alone with who I strongly believe is Gabriel Brown recording them.
@GojiraW49063
It doesn't matter if you agree or if you insult me. All that matters is the truth. I'm sorry someone you enjoyed turned out rotten, but they are a racist groomer whether you see it that way or not.
Here is yet another video provided by Claire herself of them together.
In it, Gabriel asks Claire if she "just asked if they want to make out".
I hope any doubts of what happened between these two are gone by this point.
@Shazbotabing
@CalpainEqD
Tolerance, no matter what, as a fandom motto. People started tolerating the intolerant. And then the intolerant started complaining whenever someone didn't tolerate them. And in this fandom, that works.
@RapeMares
"Look how far more civilized I am" it says as it continues to use the holocaust as a little gag at best.
I'll never understand how the worst people imaginable, who relish being purposely awful, pretend everyone else is worse. This was your goal. At least stop half-assing.
Another video showing Gabriel and Claire together.
The narrative that they "barely knew each other until she was of age" really falls apart when there are so many well documented instances.
How many more just aren't uploaded online?
@TrulyStarGazing
@Shazbotabing
@CalpainEqD
"Accept everyone no matter what" has *never* been a moral taught. Because that'd be insane.
"Girls! We can't stop Chrysalis! She just has different ways of doing things!"
"Maybe we should leave Sombra be! This isn't our land, after all!"
I don't recall this reality.
@woot_master
I rarely get involved in these things but if my reputation is worth anything at all then I'll use it to say the following: it was all on the level. You're right, Claire had a crush on Gabe but Gabe never reciprocated until she was around 20 or so. It's weird but it was legal
@AmyNewBlue
These screenshots though, as bad as they are on their own, do prove that Seth is simply lying about caring.
When confronted with the information that it's a nazi pony, his response is "they're cute" and "it's impolite to judge fictional characters on their cutie mark"
More weirdness.
What I have yet to mention, as I do not have definitive proof yet, is that Gabriel Brown *lived* with Michelle Creber while she was a minor.
Believe it or don't, but here is some evidence towards it. Expect more in the future.
A reminder that the narrative is they barely knew each other before she was an adult.
I shouldn't be able to find so much documented footage of them together, then.
And it's not just them at the same con; they're always hanging out together on camera.
To me, this situation is textbook grooming. You couldn't get more on the nose if you tried.
But not using that word doesn't make Gabriel Brown innocent. He's still factually a racist man who hung out with kids for years, and later married them.
Get a new idol.
Another instance of them together when she was a minor.
Notice how none of these con videos exclusively has them together in the actual con, but they're also together in other spaces.
Gabriel was always hanging out with this minor.
@RapeMares
"It's just a character. But if you really want me to say slurs or wish people death, I'll be more than happy to."
It's not a character. You're just a freak.
@Antonomasia_art
@Animaxiz2
@BillieBustUp
Katie has denied any wrongdoing on Gabriel Brown's fault, and has strongly defended him. In these posts, she states misinformation and then when corrected decided to double down anyways.
@Sethisto
This defense might have held some power if you seemed to feel any embarrassment for retweeting a nazi named "RapeMares".
People who aren't freaks would respond "oh wow, I didn't notice that! That's awful, and I should have been more mindful."
Stop pretending to be oblivious.
@P0PCORN0FFISH
That is what grooming is, yes. If he didn't wait, it wouldn't be grooming, it would just be pedophilia.
Don't speak on important issues that you do not understand.
It's time for us to talk about
@tarastrong
;
A racist.
An islamophobe.
An NFT and AI shill.
An antivaxxer.
Someone who promotes incest to her large following of various ages...
And a killer.
Let's start with this thread. Read through it all.
Tara strong was and still is a raging islamophobe. Shes a raging zionist who is extremely racist and went on rants calling all arabs terrorists, retweeting vile things about muslims and then cried when she was dropped from projects. She claimed antisemitism but shes just a bigot
If you understand that Dr. Disrespect did wrong, then you NEED TO understand that Gabriel Brown did.
The Dr. Disrespect situation is *tame* compared to Gabriel Brown. But I cannot emphasize enough; *still awful*.
I might as well include this here too.
In this video Claire makes the joke that she's drinking wine in early celebration of her 19th birthday.
She then says it's just a joke, and proceeds to drink actual beer, documenting herself on video, at 18.
It has been brought to my attention that someone has attempted to add Community Notes to these posts.
What's interesting is that they link to the Billie Bust Up Instagram. These leads me to believe these could be made by Katie Nelson, the game's creator/repeat Gabriel defender.
Another video of them together.
While I believe she is 18 in this video, it still contradicts their narrative of them "not hanging out before she was 20-ish".
I'll say it again.
Gabriel Brown, AKA Black Gryph0n, knew and repeatedly hung out/talked with Claire Corlette since she was a preteen and he was in his 20s.
This is a fact.
There are things that make this worse. But this should be enough for you to know he's not innocent.
@AmyNewBlue
As a minor who looked through the daily art threads on EQD over a decade ago, I saw plenty of things that were blatantly explicit. All that's changed is they've gone mask off.
@Sethisto
I do hope so.
My goal isn't to destroy people. It's to stop the awful behaviors the fandom has normalized.
I may be skeptical based on your track record, but I would like to see you improve.
The grown ass man, Gabriel Brown, hung out with minors often. Not their parents, or people associated with them. He was there for them.
And after years of that, he starts dating one of those then minors.
None of that is untrue. None of that is assumed, or debatable.
@8BitRay
What about it?
Everything I just said remains true. There's even video proof, on Claire's own channel.
Nothing in this document can change that.
And that's not even mentioning his blatant racism, which is also egregious.
If you want to act like that's normal, then I will not hesitate to consider you a freak.
And like everyone who defends him, none of this addresses how Gabriel Brown is also a racist. They get so absorbed in arguing the definition of grooming, that they'll defend a racist blind.
@KEPLER_DRAWS
@Khoifishintree
@JoeySkyde
@Saberspark
"More people would be calling him out if he was actually guilty" is a horrible way to view situations. It is not a way to judge guilt, in any shape or form.
Also, he met her years before she was 15.
I will not put words in Calpain's mouth, but from his words it seemed very clear to me what the issue with EQD was that lead him to leave.
And it didn't surprise me.
If you genuinely cared, I don't think you'd be on the defensive right now.
Gabriel Brown should not have been going to the homes of minors, to meet with said minors and hangout with them. I don't care if it was for YouTube views.
Gabriel Brown should not have been in their hotel rooms at cons.
Gabriel Brown should not have considered dating Claire.
As someone who personally came from an abusive household, I take these accusations very seriously.
This is why I have not once claimed that Ian is guaranteed innocent.
But there is no evidence of him being guilty currently, either. And this note is written with great pettiness.
None of my thread is speculation. You can't handwave every linked video and screenshot as an "assumption". They exist. You can see them.
If you don't want to call it grooming, fine. Call it Gabriel being a freak who married the kid he hung out with as a grown ass man.
@MorgieMango0199
@TheAutisticArt
No it wasn't.
People only said "this isn't true" and people believed them, despite all the concrete proof of what happened.
Starting at the beginning is the repeated "Claire was the one to ask Gabriel out, therefore grooming is impossible" line.
No, that does not disprove grooming. Both can be true.
What matters is their initial friendship was inappropriate, and their dating only made it more so.
This note is my personal favorite.
It serves no purpose. The point of the post it's responding to is not about drinking, and is instead about how young Claire was.
Coupled with the last post, this just shows how drastically childish this poster is.
@AmyNewBlue
I even tried to message the moderators once about a post. It was Twilight drinking the potion of white liquid that Zecora gives her, but you can guess they took it farther and how.
The mod said it wasn't suggestive. Acted like it was innocent.