Veno

**Veno** was a major member of Jokakaka before leaving on March 15, 2021. He is most notable for his history of harassment from Nintendude, Bugo, Simp, and Squibb, having cited the latter two in his reason for leaving Jokakaka. He had his own Youtube channel where he uploaded content in large part having to do with Jojolion.

## Mental Disorders

### Depression

Veno has brought up his own depression and suicidal thoughts on numerous occasions. He attributes the root cause of his depression to his social ostracization in his real life. Veno often campaigned for mental health awareness and support of those with mental health issues, these feelings most likely fueled by his own personal experiences. Veno has mentioned on multiple occasions people in his life with a "I'm a bad bitch fuck you all [devil emoji]" personality type, who refuse to show compassion towards his depression and try to act cocky. Whether he is referring to people in his real life, people on the server, or those like Nintendude is unclear.

### Autism

On October 8th, 2020, Veno claimed he was sharing a secret, and shared a tweet containing a video that is now deleted. All that exists of the tweet now is an embedded link. The #ActuallyAutistic tag on the tweet points to this being Veno coming out as autistic, despite stating on September 21st that he was not. He may have been diagnosed in this time frame, stating that his mother only found out about his "mental condition" October 2nd.

### Paranoid Schizophrenia

While not confirmed nor even mentioned by Veno, he shows what might be signs of paranoid delusions. On October 2nd, 2020, Veno stated at this point that an estimated 30 people had been convinced by Nintendude to harass him. This claim was met with suspicion from server members. On October 10th, Veno described a man who supposedly followed him while walking outdoors, causing him enough fear for him to run home and contact authorities. He mentioned it again days later, saying that he was not followed again but he was worried enough to yell out in case any attackers were near.

### Gender Dysphoria

Veno could have transitioned and began going by another name as early as April of 2020, describing being deadnamed by harassers. He never made a coming out on Jokakaka but used female pronouns. It is also clear he came out in his real life. On December 5th 2020, Veno mentioned his mother making transphobic comments towards him and claiming he'd "been brainwashed by that discord app." On December 8th, he mentioned hating the sound of his own voice, and using a voice changer app to make it sound girlish.

On January 21st, 2021, Veno decided that he no longer wanted to go by she/they pronouns, claiming that while he had feminine traits, he was still a guy. He decided on he/they pronouns and was supported by the server for his decision. It is unlikely that Veno ever experienced gender dysphoria, but was rather exploring his own identity by going by female pronouns for a time.

### Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Veno has only mentioned having PTSD once, saying that it was triggered by being deadnamed. The source of this particular trauma is unclear. It is possible that Veno has trauma relating to his experiences with Nintendude, stating how the abuse from his previous friend affected him even months after the situation had been resolved.

## The Issue of CinemaFreak

CinemaFreak is supposedly a real life friend of Veno's, and the only one he has not expressed ire towards. He has his own Youtube channel currently with five videos and is a collaborator with Veno and others on the Youtube channel Purposely Stupid. It is believed, however, that CinemaFreak is not a real person and has been made up by Veno for unknown reasons.

The main reason for the belief that CinemaFreak is not a real person is the Youtube videos uploaded by both creators. Multiple Youtube videos on both of their channels feature both of them talking to one another, but the stilted conversation suggests that these are actually two audio tracks recorded separately and laid over each other. It is also of note that Veno and CinemaFreak sound identical. CinemaFreak is also a much less prolific channel which creates content very similar to Veno's own, suggesting he has simply uploaded a few videos he could have uploaded to his own channel there instead to lend credibility to the character's existence.

There is, however, some doubt on this theory. DMs between the two have been sent before, months before it became clear to server members that the two could be the same person. To this day, Veno upholds that he and Cinemafreak are separate people, with a review of "The Batman" posted March 9th, 2022 featuring both of them. For CinemaFreak to be a lie would mean that Veno has been lying about his existence for over a year. Proof of his existence has also been sent by Veno, though the message was deleted after Simp stated Veno could be doxxing his friend.

Why Cinemafreak would have been made up is unclear. He appears to reflect all of Veno's own thoughts and feelings, suggesting he is sort of a defense mechanism for Veno to fall back on when he feels attacked. He is said by Veno to be the only person he was willing to collaborate with after falling out with Purposely Stupid. On December 15th, 2020, Veno claimed to have shown CinemaFreak an argument from the server and relayed his thoughts. His thoughts seem to just be Veno's own, with Veno hoping to lend the words credibility by attributing them to an outside source. It is also possible that CinemaFreak is a real person whom Veno has constructed prolific falsehoods about.

## History

### Pre Jokakaka

The earliest information known about Veno is that in 2014, he graduated elementary and moved to a new middle school where he had one major friend. He described himself as "a struggling artist" and felt widely shunned by his peers. He would drift apart from this friend by 2018.

Veno describes having met Nintendude in 2014 or 2015, but conflicting details suggest it is not the same friend he mentioned previously. In late 2019, Nintendude invited him to a group chat where his friends were aggressive towards Veno, causing him enough discomfort to leave. Nintendude began acting more antagonistic as well. April through May of 2020, Veno describes the situation as getting worse, even bad enough that he attempted suicide. He goes on to describe them harassing him for his mental breakdowns, taking screenshots of him in his videos to mock him, and deadnaming him.

### Early History

Veno joined Jokakaka on July 18th, 2020, and proceeded to discuss Jojolion, share music, and post drawings of his. He linked to creations from his Youtube channel (Tenacious Creator) and Instagram (justvenomart). His art attempted to replicate the art style of Jojolion and is notable for the peculiar choices in detailing, line weight, and proportions. He was most prolific in simple edits of art from the JJBA manga as well as colorings of the panels.

Veno was active in #real-talk as early as August. On August 16, he mentioned having attempted suicide, to which he was counseled by Dyo. He continued to discuss his mental health, specifically his feelings and troubles with drawing and making art, as well as his depression and the anniversary of the death of his dog, Twinkle Daisy, which would continue to affect him over the coming months. Veno was met with general positive support from the server.

He would at times post edits of himself cosplaying as different characters from Jojolion, and even discussed buying outfits to cosplay in. on August 21st, he posted a review of chapter 100 of Jojolion, where he can be seen wearing a sailor hat to resemble Josuke.

On September 5th, he discussed leaving the X-forts server, citing the reason as mod harassment and comparing his treatment there to his real life. He claimed to have left a friends group in his real life that had harassed him, stating that he had been harassed may through July of that year.

On September 19th, he posted live updates to his painful bout of constipation in #real-talk while a discussion about the Supreme Court was taking place.

Veno continued to discuss his struggles with art, school, and general mental health. He claimed that the need to make high quality art and criticism of it was causing him significant strain. Veno was self conscious of his art and particular stylistic choices, but also very prideful when making a product he felt was good. He also continued to lament that those in his real life seemed to shun him. Additionally, on September 29th, he posted a picture confirming that he did not have a grade in school above a D.

### The Nintendude Saga

On September 7th, he made the first mention of Nintendude, alongside Emolga.ZX and NicksNerdCave, calling them out for harassing him in a meme. He claimed that he had interacted with them for the last time the next day. On September 13th, he stated they "they" were back, taking screenshots of him from his videos and teasing him for his mental health breakdowns. He blocked them and mentioned leaving Instagram the next day.

Despite previously stating he was done interacting with them, on September 27th, he stated that he was finally exposing Nintendude for his harassment, but did not elaborate further. On October 2nd, he posted multiple screenshots of DMs between him and Nintendude. In these screenshots, Nintendude claimed that Veno cannot accept help. Veno criticized Nintentude, stating: "He's been harassing me whenever I had a breakdown... all because he's mad because I felt a basic human emotion." Veno posted these, stating vitriolically that he was ready to take down Nintendude. To this, Dyo asked why Veno couldn't just block his harassers. Veno would continually receive the advice to not engage with his harassers but had many reasons as for why he couldn't. He ended off by saying he was feeling better and ready to leave this behind him.

On October 8th, he shared a tweet containing a video that is now deleted. All that exists of the tweet now is an embedded link, once again mentioning his harassers and indicating he was coming out as autistic. Veno emphasized that his online harassers were targeting an autistic person. Simp responded, asking why Veno couldn't block them. Veno once again reasoned that they were getting friends and followers to harass him as well. The next day he claimed to have left Instagram and informed his mother of the situation. On October 10th, he uploaded a Youtube video titled "The truth about the Nintendude situation" which is now private. This video most likely consisted of him explaining previous events and his grievances with Nintendude. That same day, he posted another now private video titled "An explanation of the Video posted on Friday, October 9th, 2020." He claimed to be moving on after posting it.

### Post Nintendude

Veno continued to lament his physical health, situations in his real life, and his time at school, claiming he was going to fail his senior year on November 3rd. He complained about toothaches, back pain, constipation, and numerous other health issues on different occasions.

On November 20th, he claimed that his passion project, a series of filmed videos titled 'Mind Fork,' had been ruined for the 8th time. The reason for this appears to be the lack of attention Veno's projects get, which was consistently a concern of his, as well as the actors he asked to be in the films refusing, the only one named being CyDoG. Veno claimed his writing includes "themes of violence, sexual desire, sexuality, swearing, themes of abuse, and mental health issues." On November 22nd, he stated that the first episode would not come out, but the second might, and he played with the idea of turning his writings into a book. He would later post some written forms of one or more of these stories to Wattpad, though they are no longer available.

A summary of a few Mind Fork episodes were posted in a Google Doc. It is described as "a series that Alice came up with back in their Sophomore Year...it combines Goosebumps and the original Twilight Zone series." Four episodes and an idea for a fifth are written, each detailing a paranormal scenario. One episode features a character struggling with online harassment, it being notable that this character shares Nintendude's real name.

Veno has had multiple film projects and voice acting gigs fail for various reasons. He has described numerous cases of drama pertaining to Purposely Stupid, such as people not turning out videos and members leaving.

On December 4th, Veno stated that Nintendude was back, but largely brushed off his presence. He claimed to have talked out his online drama with his sister, who handled it well. The next day, he complained about therapy, and his Christian mother being transphobic towards him. When Veno came out to his parents or began therapy is unclear. On December 8th, Veno referred to his therapist as one "the government assigns [him]" so it's possible that Veno was referred to therapy by his school. He seemed willing to accept therapy but did not like the therapist he currently had.

Also on December 8th, Veno complained about schoolwork, people in his life, and his mother in a large message in #real-talk. Here is also the first mention of his father being a dead beat.

On December 9th, Veno admitted to having a "Dilf fetish," which was as he described feelings of comfort towards father figures. What he described as a fetish seems not to be sexual, and he attributed these feelings to a lack of a loving father in his real life. He described one incident in particular where his dog, Parker, was left to overheat while his father ignored it for several minutes. Veno also faced pressure from his mother, who disapproved of his lack of Chrisitan faith and transgenderism.

### Server Rivalries

On November 21st, the Joshu Autism Conflict took place, where Veno and Bugo began arguing about Bugo's credibility on the subject of Joshu's autism. A couple days later, Veno mentioned Bugo had been verbally harassing him and trying to act cocky, and had been acting out ever since Shuckmeister's video released. Noom and Creme gave Veno the advice to drop it but Veno expressed extreme annoyance at Bugo's behavior.

On November 24th, Veno addressed a Youtube comment on his channel left by a user named Sir Blackwood, who is now known to be Squibb. Though the comment itself and the context are missing, it is evident that Sir Blackwood criticized his video harshly. Simp vehemently told Veno to delete and ignore the comment.

On December 14th, Veno described a bout of drama he was experiencing with Purposely Stupid. He went on to recieve advice from Simp, Creme, and Oda, each taking the stance that Veno was perhaps the one in the wrong and he should be more open to other's advice. Creme in particular gave the advice that Veno should reflect on whether he's actually using his mental disability as an excuse. It is at this point that Bugo interjects. Bugo discounts Veno's problems as easily fixable, and Veno reacts negatively. Simp tries to mediate while Creme picks Bugo's side and encourages Veno to respond more positively. The server members encourage Veno to take a break from collaborative projects, and Veno begins discussing other creative projects he's been considering, such as writing a book. Bugo then criticizes Veno for ignoring advice, making the same mistakes, and only choosing to write because it seems easier. Veno argues back by saying most of his problems are out of his control and the discussion ends. This conversation would later be cited in his reasons for leaving the server.

Later that day, Veno describes a dream he had where the members of Jokakaka and those from his real life cheer for him, before the dramatic realization that he is about to be killed and they are cheering on his death. Veno leaves off by saying:

> "Why did you accept death like that you dumb nitwit"
> Easy, if you have that many people you knew trusted suddenly turn their backs onto you, death doesn't seem that bad.
>
>

The next day, Veno claimed to have shown the conversation from the previous day to CinemaFreak. CinemaFreak seemed to just reflect his own feelings and doubt was cast on whether he even existed. Server members went on to advise Veno on how to handle his failing creative projects.

### Start of 2021

The start of 2021 featured Veno sharing a series of blog posts from the past few days on January 7th. He first mentioned leaving social media. He continually mentioned the lasting effects Nintendude's harassment had left on him, apparently traumatizing him to the point of flashing back to the events. He reminisced, comparing Nintendude's behavior to the song "Molly" by Mindless Self Indulgence. He also mentioned watching Ninjago and Cobra Kai as well as the sadness he still felt at Twinkle Daisy's death over a year ago. He left off on a positive note, saying he was getting a new dog named Lemon.

On February 7th, he recounted his relationship with Nintendude and panicked, believing he saw Nintendude briefly while in public. A couple days later he mentioned having a second therapy session, where he discussed issues with his father, Nintendude, his real life friends, and fears in his life. He continued to express that he couldn't get over what he went through with Nintendude. Some of Veno's last messages in #real-talk detail troubles with school and his family.

### Leaving the Server

On March 15th, Veno made a TwitLonger post titled "The Problem with the AeonGalaxy and Jokakakaka Discord Server." The majority of this post was dedicated to discussing AeonGalaxy, but it gave a description of his reasons for leaving both servers. He described grievances with Yaikse, Squibb, and Simp (Who he referred to as "Marina" in the post) and how he was treated. He cited the conversation that took place on December 14th, saying that no one understood his problems. he revealed that Yaikse took to his DMs to talk to him. He criticized Squibb for bringing up Nintendude as a joke and was extremely offended by her doing so. He felt that he had become a "punching bag" for Jokakaka's server members and felt uncomfortable with his pictures being used for memes. The latter of these complaints may be in reference to a picture made by Fish, where Veno was drawn over to resemble Guido Mista. He also criticized Simp for playing the victim card.

Veno left off the post by warning others not to join these servers and urging the members to own up to their mistakes.

## Further Reading

* Mind Fork Synopsis
* The Problem with the AeonGalaxy and Jokakakaka Discord Server