Mirth

Andressa Lara Ferreira de Sousahttps://www.instagram.com/p/CtEyF65rI-M/ (born: ), better known online as Mirth (formerly known as Kodomodachi or Kodo), is a Brazilian animator former game modding YouTuber best known for her mods of the popular rhythm video game Friday Night Funkin, the most popular being the "ENA Boyfriend" and "Maid Outfit" mods. In May of 2021, she came under fire for admitting to dating a 13 year old while she was 18.
She returned as Mirth, returning to popularity again after rebranding as an animation channel, making animations based on fandoms that are trending at the time. Due to her controversies, her active fandoms change often.
==Personal life==
She was born and raised in Fortaleza, Ceará. She is an ethnic Tapeba, an endangered indigenous people in Ceará, Brazil. Her grandfather - who died at the age of 93 - was a farmer and carried the blood of the Tapeba ethnic group. She also fluently speaks the Portuguese language.
== History==
===Gaining Popularity===
Mirth initially gained a large amount of attention in a short amount of time as Kodomodachi, primarily for her mods of Friday Night Funkin'. She went from 500 subscribers in February 2021 to 100,000 subscribers by April of 2021. She had 114,000 subscribers at her peak in May of 2021.
==Returning back to Youtube==
On September 27, 2021, Kodo returned under her current name, Mirth, in her video titled "Breaking the Promise". In the description, she backpedals from her original apology and claims that the relationship was okay because they were "both teenagers" and blamed her controversy on "Cancel Culture". She continued to upload videos for some time, some of which had rants attacking anyone calling her out in the description. In a community post, Mirth mentions how her mother passed away when she was around 10 years old as a way to defend her actions. It is doubtful if her mother passed away during this time, either way it was regarded as not being a sufficient defence for her actions.
===Return to Popularity===
On December 21, 2021, Mirth's animation titled "You Need to VENT, Gregory" blew up and gained over 500,000 views in less than a day. She has also gained over 5,000 subscribers because of this, and her recent videos have been met with a positive reception. Some people have been trying to raise awareness about Mirth's past, but they have found that comments mentioning her controversy are filtered. So far, she hasn't gotten much backlash for her past although it wouldn't last for long.
===Response to Criticism===
On March 30, 2022, Mirth made a community post on her channel about the controversy being frequently mentioned on her newest videos by some users, all thanks to Toastify's video. To summarize the post's subject, Mirth mentioned how the Internet went at her throat and she went to seek help from her ex-friends to respond to the situation, which didn't help but resulted in even more backlash (possibly due to her friends turning their backs on her for having groomed a minor), and she claims she's apologized to the ones she interacted with long ago in a peaceful settlement, and because she was worrying about her mental health, went to seek help with her family. Mirth stated she would then take some rest and report the announcement to her family, mentioning this is a "big step in her life" to take accountability for her own actions and once again, apologized for her previous actions. Mirth also mentioned she would be active on a certain event, on the 30th of April/1st of May. Many started to notice their comments being deleted by Mirth, showing how she despises being called a predator.
The reception of her community post was divided: obviously, positive responses in support of Mirth came to surface, while another side believed she had her second chances and deserved to leave the platform. But some decided to remain neutral on Mirth's statement, as they remain hopeful for her future but cannot forgive her actions. However, it was obvious that Mirth was trying to dodge the subject and did not apologize for her behavior towards her victims, once more trying to manipulate her fans and regain a better reputation, all the while vehemently defending her grooming.
Toastify proceed to upload a follow-up video which mainly focused on Mirth's "apology," explaining how she heavily contradicted herself at various moments in her apology and was overall inconsistent to her statement. Soon after, Mirth deleted her apology, proving once more she is unable to take criticism from others.
===Turkey Tom Backlash & Mirth Response===
On December 14, 2022, Turkey Tom made a video called, The Friday Night Funkin Degenerates featuring multiple FNF controversial figures with Mirth being one of them. Since then, the video has gained well over one million views, which led more people to find out about what Mirth did. This more than likely is what led Mirth towards posting about her psychologist and an update on her channel and health. By then, her views on her videos have declined sharply due to this video. Mirth's comment section were mixed of people praising her videos and criticizing what she had done by then.
Seemingly, this was going to be the end of the drama until Mirth made a video on March 13, 2023, titled, Addressing Allegations (properly this time). This video was made by her to address the situation overall and give her perspective on the controversy. The video was initially met with praise of Mirth, but soon it became apparent that people did not forgive her for her actions, especially considering the contents of the video. Notably, many people did not like that she blamed the victim/minor of the FNF grooming incident, as she stated that he was "practically asking to be groomed" when he asked her to be his girlfriend. Mirth essentially stated that she only dated him to ensure he would not end his life as he threatened to do so, and claims that the relationship was completely platonic—at one point indirectly calling the apparently-suicidal minor stupid. Another reason people have disdain for the video is because she ends up trying to deflect the blame by criticizing other YouTubers such as HarleyTBS, Toastify, and Turkey Tom, and criticizing others for misrepresenting her and spreading misinformation about her, when not only did all her detractors have evidence for their accusations, but she ironically spread lies and misinformation herself multiple times while attacking her detractors (such as stating HarleyTBS supported lolicon despite Harley having renounced this view many times, and claiming they currently watch loli pornography despite having no evidence). Some have also criticized her for her xenophobic remarks and misgendering HarleyTBS in the video, as well as putting Toastify in further danger of his stalker in order to claim he supported their actions, when she had no proof of that and Toastify's response confirmed he was kept in the dark about said actions.
Mirth has since then uploaded another video on March 16, 2023, titled, Playing Games! in which she shows her laptop that says "*useless, overcomplicated Twitter user drama*" which signifies that she thinks of the situation as nothing more than Twitter drama. Her comments are turned off, but stated that this was due to "Comments are turned off by YouTube protection for children" in the description of her video. Despite this, the video has garnered more dislikes than likes.
==Trivia== 
*Mirth lost her mother at the age of 10. Later on, she would use the death of her mother as a "justification" to justify her actions.
*Mirth has jumped fandoms a total of 3 times in the history of her internet presence, being involved in the Ace Attorney fandom, the Friday Night Funkin fandom, the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom, and finally the Kirby and Team Fortress 2 fandoms. Out of these fandoms, it has been confirmed she groomed minors in two of those fandoms (Ace Attorney and Friday Night Funkin'), with a third victim being allegedly from the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom, but these reports are unconfirmed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8IJrSOARz8https://youtu.be/UduLO9M9EHo?t=324 The Ace Attorney victim was confirmed by an anonymous source that RedKnight777 talked with in one of his videos.https://youtu.be/4HxhBWOMXpA This seems to be the first mention of this incident. 
**Notably, Mirth does not tend to comment on the situation outside of her own YouTube channel, but she left a comment on this specific video trying to call RedKnight777 out for having "no context on this situation." An argument ensues in the reply section with Mirth conceding stating "Call me a groomer or not, I'm still going to move on with better knowledge. Thanks!"
*Mirth has a parody channel mostly dedicated to her and the controversy as well as a few other controversies called, KodoTheDodo. This channel often makes fun of Mirth's responses to the controversy and how she tries to avoid criticism.
*She used to be one of the developers for a popular Friday Night Funkin mod, Vs. Mouse (currently known as The Magical World Of DisneyFunk.) For the works of the mod itself, she did the cutscenes of Story Mode, draw the logo of the said name, and created the main menu artstyle. However, it is unknown if she left the mod or got fired.
**On Jan 31, 2023, the VMU team were being bothered by fans, begging them to use Mirth's work, but they responded that they were "NOT going to use the work of a groomer".
==References==
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Category:Users who joined in 2014
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