Yakirisu

Mary (born: ), better known online as yakirisu, yaki or taiyaki, is a Lithuanian-American independent cosplayer and VTuber.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1291818972803993607https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1606093156394467329/photo/1 She primarily streams on Twitch.
==Content==
Her YouTube channel is dedicated to clips and highlights of her Twitch streams.
On Twitch she has streamed herself playing Stardew Valley, Splatoon 3, Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, Mario Party Superstars, Among Us, Genshin Impact, Hades and Final Fantasy XIV. She also hosts Smash or Pass streams of characters from video games, such as Pokemon and Monster Hunter Rise. Her other content includes hosting chatting streams.
==Design==
Her model was designed by Tommie.https://twitter.com/thetommietomm/status/1488745904899301379/photo/1
==Twitter hashtags==
*#artirisu - fanart
==Personal life==
Mary lives in Michigan.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1171936933100081153https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1605966890244788228 While she lived in South Michigan for a large apart of her life, she would frequently travel to other states due to their proximity.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1217593012257161216 She has a brother.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1200189738218655747 She also has a chihuaha and two cats.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1482783611522883590https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1608558193311125505/photo/1
===Health issues===
She has a weak immune system.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1250476822367735809 She also suffers from ADHD.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1606418847615131648
==Controversy ==
===Ultima's statement===
On May 30, 2023, ARUUU came forward with a Google Doc that alleged abusive behaviour by Yaki with statements from Ultima, Fadel and herself. In Ultima's statement, he revealed that he was roommates with Yaki, offering to house her when her ex left her. While they were roommates, Ultima was yelled at, pushed around, forced to pay for things, strong armed by Yaki to pay out of his pocket to take care of her cat (not only for food but for medical treatment that saved the cat’s life all while Yaki extended her trip in LA to mingle with other creators), pressured into signing a 15 year long loan for a new house, often berated by making him feel incompetent, verbally abused and berating him whenever he would edit youtube videos for her. Ultima added that he was dictated to basically whisper whenever she was around to not “ruin her content,” and made to pay for gas on his car whenever she would use it for her own needs. ARUUU also posted Discord DMs between Ultima and Fadel/Gamescage where Ultima confessed that he felt trapped in the relationship and was scared that Yaki would "cause problems" to him if he ever came out about the abuse due to her many connections in their friend group.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5rwAbnoa0tfU6fTu4MopMc4C-qsfgnPbPn-GAa3pp0/edithttps://twitter.com/UltimaShadowX/status/1663955578995998720
===ARUUU's statement===
In her own statement ARUUU revealed that Yaki used her relationship with Alpharad against her, Izzy, Ultima and Gamescage. She had ARUUU uninvited from dinner, abandoned in a house full of three men she didn't know, and was so verbally abusive it resulted in her having to go to therapy.https://twitter.com/DeputyARUUU/status/1663625968576258048
=== Mahado's statement ===
In Mahado's doc, he revealed that Yaki had commissioned him to edit her "Smash or Pass" video about Pokemon. She gave him no deadline, and when he finally edited it, she called his work sloppy and rushed. This caused him to be under a lot of stress and for his own mental health he offered to refund her half of her commission price ($60).https://twitter.com/mahadopower/status/1663841293171130369https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ok-lH0IGvT6XGZFg6znONHHE8juAC0qwLuxoIBKXxWs/edit
=== FrostyKlondike's statement ===
FrostyKlondike was one of Yaki's former patrons. She subscribed to her $400 tier, and was promised exclusive content, but Yaki failed to deliver these on time and delayed the reward for months. 
When FrostyKlondike was facing financial issues, she downgraded her tier, and messaged Yakirisu asking about the other rewards she promised her. Yaki offered a refund but paid FrostyKlondike the incorrect amount. When this was pointed out, Yaki got angry, blocked her Patreon, removed her from her Twitch chats/Discord, and used her connections to have FrostyKlondike removed from the Twitch chats/Discords of other creators as well.https://twitter.com/FrostyKlondike/status/1663714145441546242https://docs.google.com/document/d/13L3mAQbuKRFo0cGWLk1m-sfiF5PlRN-sLzNMtWVTyQU/edit
===Tommie's statement===
Tommie stated in her Google doc that she used to be Yaki's best friend of 3 years, and he designed her VTuber model for free because she was going through a breakup at the time and he didn't want to add to her suffering. Tommie would also design her future models for free. She was told there was no deadline but let Yaki know it would take 5-6 months, and also told her to commission another artist if she was too slow. However, due to being inexperienced, she messed up the rigging. This would upset Yaki and she accused Tommie of breaking her "promise" of making her models. 
She also stated "In her arguments, she pointed out how much she’s done for me (i.e: doing my make-up for a convention) and how I don’t return the same energy. Essentially saying I do not prioritize her as #1. This is not true and hurt me to hear her say that. I was with her the entire time she had her break-up with her ex, I donated to her dog’s surgery, I am a subscriber on her Twitch channel, I have re–tweeted her cosplays, donated to her streams, I bought her a charm at the convention, have drawn full-on illustrations for her or with her in mind. These are all superficial things, I am aware but to say I never returned the energy is completely false. As her best friend, I have always made an effort to be there and help her out. And that is a hill I will die on. I never saw our friendship as transactional, I did those things out of kindness for her. I felt like she only cared for the model that was done free of charge and didn’t really look at what I was dealing with. If it was paid for and I was given a specified deadline, I would’ve put more focus on it but there wasn’t. I linked a snippet of our DMs below. I can provide the entire log but it was truthfully a lot of back and forth and repeating stuff."https://twitter.com/thetommietomm/status/1663988683073024001https://docs.google.com/document/d/1loHz0OGdxCDVeorv55PoM5tj2ChRN5JOHNaRIC1Q7xc/edit
===rodentblade's statement===
After ARUUU came foreward, it inspired many others to do the same. One of these people was rodentblade, a former friend of Yaki's. In his doc, rodentblade stated that he used to be known as @ratbarf and @mousevomit on Twitter, but Yaki bullied him so badly he deleted those accounts. He claimed to have witnessed Yaki abusing her partners verbally and making one cry during a game of Among Us. rodentblade also stated that years ago he had a girlfriend, but when they split up, he would threaten suicide if she didn't date him and even repeatedly messaged her despite her asking for space. His ex-girlfriend was friends with Yaki and would vent to her about his emotional abuse. His ex-girlfriend asked Yaki to keep it secret, but Yaki told their mutual friend group which caused them to cut contact with him because they were disgusted by his abusive behaviour.
Unlike most people who put foreward statements about Yaki, many weren't sympathetic to rodentblade because he admitted to threatening suicide and harassing his partner, and that Yaki was right to expose him.https://twitter.com/rodentblade/status/1663786895414030341https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mA7osAl-jgn04ikr7vbV23GMYHadyuLGgLAm9N9893Y/edit
=== Yohane "Hazel" Tsushima's statement ===
Yohane Tsushima came forward with a doc that stated "Firstly, I just want to say I completely support Ultima and anyone else who was affected by this. I dated Yaki from 2017-2021 and lived with her from 2018 until 2021. During this time, many of the same things outlined that happened to Ultima happened to me. As I lived in the same home, these were all IRL convo so I don’t have much in the way of screenshots. In the last few years of the relationship, Yaki became more controlling about my life and finances. In the summer of 2020, she pressured me into purchasing a home with her, something I did not plan on doing as we were not married. 
At this time, she was not working, and I was the majority of the income. She was previously getting covid unemployment payments, however, when those stopped she became more reliant on my income. I was often paying for our mortgage payments, as well as driving Yaki wherever they wanted to go. As Yaki became more popular on Twitter and Twitch, she began treating me worse. I was often reduced to basically a house cleaner and not a significant other. Yaki often berated me horribly, telling me things like everything I did was fucked up somehow, blaming me for anytime things went wrong. This got to me, and I started believing her. Around this time, Pinto was attacked by the other dog that we had at the time, and this is when we broke up. I wanted to try to train the other dog, as Yaki had not trained it at all, and I was busy with full-time work and college classes. 
We eventually broke up over this, and Yaki began dating Ruby, one of her(or Fadel’s? unsure) Twitch mods. Around this time, the abuse only worsened in the home, with Yaki locking me outside of the house, physically assaulting me, and making me pay for more things. I was also afraid to leave, as my parents did not know about my sexuality/gender, and Yaki would tell me that they would not take me back to live with them. As far as I know, I am still on the mortgage for this home she lives in.
Due to being locked out of the house multiple times and the physical and emotional abuse, I attempted suicide. Due to this, on May 12th of 2020, I was admitted to the emergency department. 
I had taken sodium nitrite, which the hospital did not detect. I did survive and was released in the morning, and told Yaki I just had a “panic attack” as I feared what she would do if she found out. The abuse continued to escalate, and I moved out on June 11th. I also took our cat, Gil, as Yaki had been physically abusive to him in the past. She had thrown the cat multiple times, locked him in closets multiple times, and generally confined him to a very small room and left me to take care of him completely. I apologize for not explaining more, as my memories of these events are very poor, and I have done my best to forget the abuse that was done. 
My heart and support go to anyone else who was affected by her, especially Ultima, and wish all of them the best and hope they are able to recover and move past this."https://twitter.com/YohaneTsushima/status/1663652754898690050https://docs.google.com/document/d/1onc7kCVYCUyPGYFs0vrgmbkSbugKnjDjStNoEtkmWfI/edit
=== Sean's statement ===
In Sean's statement, he revealed that Yaki had falsified claims of him being a scammer something Gamescage confirmed. In 2018, Sean was disowned by his parents, kicked out from his home, lost his job as a computer technician and experienced a laptop crash that resulted in him losing his data. However, he planned to move into a new area with some college friends. 
Sean stated that he was taking commissions for his art to pay rent, but Yaki spread rumours saying that it was all a ploy for sympathy and in reality he was spending his money from commissions on gacha games. Because of this, he was removed from many Discord servers (thus cutting off chances of meeting/collaborating with other artists), lost several potential clients, and was ostracized by mutual friends he shared with Yaki. As Sean couldn't pay rent, he had to move to a hostel of lower quality where he was subjected to constant harassment and abuse by his roommates (one of which was racist to him), until a former roommate of his offered to accomodate him. Hazel, Yaki's ex, also revealed that Yaki would document screenshots of Sean's Twitter and accuse him of "e-begging" whenever he talked about his financial situation and made alt accounts to spread the rumours. Sean stated that while he did spend a lot of money on gacha games, it was before he was disowned and when he had disposable income.https://twitter.com/H1meya/status/1664499239353741315https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WA-yDuN-xtZwoIu4xHvcykO3j_bv4q4jyPylje1HPho/edit
===Gamescage's statement===
In his Google doc, Gamescage/Fadel stated "At this point A LOT of you have seen the recent story that’s popped up about Yakirisu. If you’re unaware of the full context, I 1000% urge you to go read Aruuu’s original post, which details a lot about Yakis abuse & bullying, & harassment towards Ultima, Aruuu & Myself. At this time even more people have come out expressing their stories with Yaki including her ex who detailed accounts of physical abuse, animal abuse and how Yaki drove her to a suicide attempt. My story is nowhere near as severe (which is why I don’t get why her document was mostly about me instead of the victims) but I would still like to tell it.
It was something that when it was affecting me & just felt like a friendship kinda just dying out, I was okay with just being quiet and staying in my own lane. But as I saw some of the most important people in my life be affected severely, as well as really understood the gravity of how much harm she was doing to my friends, to my brand & how she assassinated my character to other big creators, I think enough is enough. 
To give some context, Yaki’s original reason for being upset with me, from what I understand is the fact that I didn’t “support” nor “pushed” her content when she started streaming. Which was a weird one because she started off promoting her streams in my streams, and also @ing “everyone” in my discord server on days she’d go live and sometimes while I was even live on my own stream. I had to tell her one day I wasn’t comfortable with her doing that, not only because it began to feel like I was being used for my hard work in building my own community but she was actively and almost constantly promoting herself on my streams which I didn’t like. I’m still confused because I would raid her from time to time and often gave her advice on content whenever she asked. I genuinely don’t know why she paints a picture that I tried to sabotage her streaming career.
So anyways, I put a stop to that, and that’s when things started feeling awkward. She actively would make me feel really guilty for even addressing the topic even when I told her it was due to my own insecurities and not her fault, because again, I didn’t want her to chew me out for asking her to stop with the constant self promo. Then eventually, we wouldn’t show up on each other's content as much, but we were still friends in group chats, at least I thought because it seemed like everything was okay.You already know now from Yaki’s and Aruuu’s documents that the cheating was fabricated. It never happened. However, Yaki ends up telling Aruuu that I cheated on her which was FAR from the truth and completely out of left field. Not only did this turn into a messy lie, but she also told Aruuu I said vile shit about her and humiliated her in my group chats when that never happened (Ultima and Johnny can attest to this). This ruined my relationship and to be transparent, had completely fucked my mental health and even that wasn’t enough for Yaki.Once friendships split up more, Yaki started getting close to Alpharad & his friend group.Yea I shitted on Alpharad, but him and I talked in a call shortly after Aruuu told him what happened that weekend in LA and we are good and there are no negative feelings.I found out during that LA trip to see the Mario movie with my friends Johnny & Adam, specifically at Izzy’s party that Yaki was going around to her entire new friend group of mega content creators that are part of Alpharads group, and CONTINUES, the false narrative that I was a cheater, manipulator and overall an evil human being, which not only kept me from being invited to some events like Mario Party summit or stream award n such, but it got to the point where I wasn’t even invited to my friend Izzy’s (@izziibel) birthday party, because of the fear Yaki instilled about me. Yaki continually painted a narrative that things would “blow up” if any of her friends saw me at this party. Furthermore, she humiliated Aruuu constantly by painting a narrative that it was shameful for her to still talk to me considering I “cheated on her” which is incredibly fucked up considering Aruuu went on that LA trip and spent money out of pocket to spend time with Yaki, who she thought was her friend. Here are the texts of Izzy inviting me to the party later that night: https://imgur.com/a/Mj93QYs 
When there was a big friend award show in LA, Yaki slandered my character to as many people as she could. She also told Aruuu that if she really wanted to, she could ruin my connections within the industry by telling her SEGA friend she can make it so they never work with me or interact with my content and since Sonic is my “bread and butter” I would be “left with nothing”... Izzy and her friends later confirmed this
By the time this trip was over, I was completely done with Yaki and wanted nothing to do with her especially considering I had seen how much she had hurt Aruuu & Izzy during that entire thing. After Aruuu told Alpharad about that trip, Yaki contacted me to suddenly clear the air between us. It was especially weird considering she was saying things like “love u” and acting completely normal after everything she did to me behind closed doors. I now know based on the other stories, this was Yaki’s way of trying to manipulate me into thinking things were okay and that she had done nothing she was accused of. Here are those texts: https://imgur.com/a/mLxAfjo 
She told me she wanted to continue to be friends and I cut this off completely which was then followed by her telling me not to sabotage Ultima’s streaming career like I did to hers. We agreed to keep each other’s names out of our mouths and as you saw from Ultima’s screenshots, she immediately began trashing me to a handful of her friends once we got off call.
About a month after these events, I found out she was abusing and exploiting Ultima. I wasn’t surprised at all when I was told these things because when Ultima and Yaki came to Montreal to visit about a year ago, I was incredibly uncomfortable with the way she treated him. The way she spoke to him was similar to how someone would scold a misbehaving dog, as insane as that sounds. I have always felt uneasy with Ultima staying with Yaki but never had any idea of how bad it really was until recently. I’m sorry Ultima, I wish I had known sooner. 
Please, if you haven’t, read his story here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s5rwAbnoa0tfU6fTu4MopMc4C-qsfgnPbPn-GAa3pp0/edit 
To be frank, I feel I’ve been more than patient throughout this entire ordeal. I have put my friend’s needs ahead of my own countless times these past couple months. I’ve done everything in my power to make sure they both were in a good spot mentally, and done my best to accommodate them in any way I can. However, the mental turmoil I have battled with, the absolute betrayal from someone I thought of as a best friend. It has genuinely scarred me in ways I have never experienced. I never wanted things to get to this point, but it has begun to spill from me to those who choose to associate with me, and in this case, one of the closest people within my circle. I am hurt, and I am angry. I support the victims that have come forward talking about the abuse they’ve suffered from Yaki. Please give your support to Ultima, Aruuu, @YohaneTsushima and those who continue to share their stories.https://twitter.com/OnTheDownLoTho/status/1663999136906072068https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VwIY5GzjbLwB4RFJ3cFGJXFOFdXZubgF-DDIjWhD1NY/edit
===Nathan's statement===
In Nathat's doc he revealed incriminating DMs where Yakirisu had messaged him under the guise of needing money for repaying student loans and fixing her car, which resulted in Nathan sending her $3682. However, once Ultima learned of this, he knew Yaki was lying about needing the money because she never got her car fixed until he moved out and she had recently bought a new one.https://twitter.com/NSuperGamerGuy/status/1664353834892771330https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s3j7ingpklqrMSKgdZBMqqM8ON9d7McOLHslLRJ1J3I/edit
thumb|250x250px|right|Alpharad's statement on Yaki
===Alpharad's statement===
In June, Alpharad finally discussed Yakirisu during a Neon White stream, after social media pressure to do so as Ultima mentioned him in his Google Doc; specifically that Yaki used to weaponise her friendship with him for her own personal benefit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwIprvK7UrM
In his statement he apologized for not having the mental energy to draft a proper statement, but said that while Yaki used to be a close friend of his, that did not dismiss the allegations of abuse from all his mutual friends. He stated that he did not support her behaviour and had read all the statements presented so far and as a result, was no longer associating with Yaki as a result of the allegations. 
===Yaki's response===
Yaki responded with a doc of her own that stated she gave ARUUU the correct address to the house and had no idea that she was abusing Ultima, providing screenshots of her conversations with them. 
In reponse to the allegations that she abused Ultima, she stated "ARUUU claims that I "threatened Ultima that if he tells anyone about the abuse he suffered while living with me" then we would "have a problem." I did say that "we would have a problem," but I meant that as I would be upset as a friend if my trust was broken with him over gossip. (I had told him about the situation between me and Fadel, but we didn't talk about it much because people are allowed to have friends who don't get along.) If Ultima felt threatened by this, I deeply apologize to him as I have previously. Ultima and I had typical roommate issues. He would be too loud sometimes and I would ask for him to be quiet, I would sometimes forget to move my laundry so he'd have to bug me about it, etc. As Ultima being loud became more of a recurring issue at various times, I got more and more upset and more short with my requests for him to be quiet, which we previously talked about and I apologized for. Here are screenshots of my text messages regarding me being upset about this noise level. I did yell at Ultima for making too much noise on one occasion, at a stressful breaking point of 6 months asking him to be quiet and respectful of my stream time and when I slept. I immediately apologized afterward, acknowledging that I shouldn't have raised my voice in the stress of the moment and felt bad. At that point, I told him that we needed to either get move forward with the bigger place soon or he needed to move out since it was clearly affecting both of us negatively. On May 5th, the day of my Vtuber debut, he sent me a message regarding moving out. https://imgur.com/a/AfEeYr7. 
On May 10th, I found out from a third party who wishes to remain anonymous that Fadel had said that I treated Ultima like shit. I genuinely didn't know how to react to this, because it blindsided me and didn't feel like the relationship I thought I had with my friend. I called Ultima and asked him more about his choice to move out, and to make sure that we were all on good terms. Ultima told me on the phone that he had no issues with me, and the sole purpose for him moving out was because of the reasons he stated earlier (via screenshots). He told me that he vented about me to Fadel and other friends, complaining about how he thought that he was a burden to me, because I was constantly complaining about him being noisy. I reassured him that he was not a burden at all and that I appreciate what he's done for me and love him as a friend. The call ended with asking how the animals were doing, and that was that.
She also denied abusing her cat and said "My Cat, Gil, was stolen on June 11th alongside many of my clothes, personal belongings, and expensive electronics. I never mistreated him or abused him and I'm absolutely horrified that this accusation exists. There is a room in the house where Gil liked to hide, as he was a very skittish rescue cat that one my IRL friends gave to me. I was the only one who took care of him, constantly cleaning his litter box and feeding him. When I noticed that Gil was gone, I was genuinely worried for his safety, considering how Hazel did not take care of our animals or our household. I was not home on June 11th when Hazel moved out, and she knew this because I was with IRL friends. As soon as I received the text message that she had moved out, I immediately asked my friends to drive me to my place, since it was on the way back. About a week later when I was out of the house, she went back and took more belongings including the Wi-Fi router, I had to cancel my stream later that day because I had no internet.".https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tNJCXVCXTUfmjFesu59XOcg6G8IWsuV-6z2xs9iFDSI/preview#
==Trivia==
thumb|250x250px|yakirisu about her love for Garchomp
*yakirisu can speak fluent English and Lithuanian. She also speaks Japanese.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1484614477916037123https://64.media.tumblr.com/e4200a3844b6bdf350274789d166b08e/0b9c8adddda34632-63/s2048x3072/eda22298cf948f04ed5fa1ad526741625da8cc32.pnj
*She is a huge Pokemon fan, and her favourite Pokemon is Garchomp.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1193286133041520641/photo/1
**Apart from Garchomp, she has also cited Grovyle, Dragalge, Aegislash, Scizor and Gliscor amongst her favourites.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1568760537504432129/photo/1
**Her first game in the series was Sapphire and her favourite is Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky. However, her least favourite is Sword and Shield.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1571322235146625024
*Anime she likes include Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, The idolm@ster, Durarara!, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Zeta Gundam, Chainsaw Man, the Fate series and Yona of the Dawn.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1223022969489907715https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1288214575536656388https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1600194552366653443https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1188167644916174850https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1215455402374156288/photo/1
**Her favourite Jojo is Giorno.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1485453315555143688
*She likes J-Pop music.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1571924965905104897
*She knows a lot about Lithuanian folklore and mythology.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1458129654636744712
*Her favourite colour is green.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1600276180548001792
*She is a fan of Nijisanji and has cosplayed as Vox Akuma and Petra Gurin before.https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1516911678411182082https://twitter.com/yakirisuu/status/1549541375296901121
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