Hypnotist Sappho

Valorie "Val", better known online as Hypnotist Sappho (formerly VR Hypnosis), is a former American YouTuber who primarily makes videos about herself in VRChat. She currently goes by the name Sappho.
==Content==
Val created her YouTube channel on September 20, 2015, and her first video was uploaded on June 11, 2021. It centered around her befriending and meeting new people in VRChat, and she would upload videos with similar content. However, most of Val's videos have been privated or deleted after she was exposed for sexually predatory behavior. Her oldest non-deleted video, titled "VRChat Hypnosis 1", was uploaded on July 10, 2021.
==Controversy==
===Zoophilia and beastiality===
In September 2021, Val uploaded a video titled "Coming Out About Things", where she admitted that she was a zoophile and attempted to justify beastiality. She said that she was specifically attracted to dogs, and also compared being a zoophile to being a member of the LGBTQ+ community. A re-upload of the video can be found here.
Val received major backlash from YouTubers such as Nawnii, Turkey Tomhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=AgtXlWe1fT8, AugustTheDuckhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=p0YZacfP5vs, HarleyTBShttps://youtube.com/watch?v=4ianlJw4DBU, and READY TO GLAREhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=1bsVn8OCfxM, who called her out and made videos on her. Val would respond with a video titled "For the Haters", and disabled likes and dislikes on her channel. However, comments were still allowed, though most of them were negative. The Twitter community was also present in some outrage after she added both "ζ" (the letter Z in the Greek alphabet) and "MAP" (an acronym for Minor-Attracted Person) to her bio.
Val also had a lewd AD (After Dark) account on Twitter, where she posted NSFW and zoophilic art. Most of it was cub art of young furries interacting in sexual scenarios with someone older. On December 18, 2021, this account was suspended, alongside her main Twitter account.
In response to the suspension of her Twitter accounts, Val had made her own Mastodon instance called "zetamu.club", which was shut down on January 6, 2022. However, it redirected to "sappho.rip", which she said that she is "killing off" the Hypnotist Sappho persona.
===Return===
On August 6, 2022, Val announced through her channel's community tab that "her time was up" and that she would be attempting suicide by shooting herself. Although some people encouraged her to seek help and tried to convince her not to do it and talk her out of it, others had suspected that she was feigning her suicide, possibly to "leave behind her online persona".
The following month, in September 2022, Val would resume her online appearance, automatically proving she had not died from suicide. She also retired from her "Hypnotist" persona and changed her channel name to Valerie Sappho, also announcing that she had decided against going through with her suicide attempt. She explained that she was still getting professional help from her attraction to children and requested to her remaining audience to not idolize or search for information about her anymore, as being on the internet was harmful for her mental health.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxVfb470v7KKWlhoAZtsPbsVoZ4uGuhO02
However, Val would soon publish another community post of her verbally attacking HarleyTBS and Coyote Lovely, as well as someone referred to as "Oranges", referring to them as "special ed". She stated that she wanted to resume her online presence and "swing back twice as hard", seemingly out of nothing but spite, demonstrated that she had not changed, despite everything that had happened to her.
On December 10, 2022, Val would make a new YouTube channel going by the name Glowing Brightlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wct_ze1Re_E, which focuses on cybersecurity topics.
==Gallery==
VRHypnosis.jpg|Former YouTube icon.
==Trivia==
*According to the description in her first video, Valorie studied Neo-Ericksonian hypnosis from Mike Mandel at the Mike Mandel Hypnosis Academy (MMHA).
==References==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015