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Ichigo Knight

“Ryō @ Ichigo Knight” (りょー@苺騎士)1) was a female Cookie☆ artist that was active from 2019 to 2020, but she would be tricked into doxing herself in the middle of a 2channel harassment campaign, then reportedly ended up committing suicide on June 13, 2020.

History

“I'm worried some Homogaki will show up and cause trouble for Ichigo.”
– Ichigo Knight2)

For context, the Cookie☆ community had wanted a new lead on Ichigo from Kusso☆ S3, as her prior Twitter account was suspended, and discovered one on May 28, 2020.3)4) During this, the users in the 'Cookie☆ General Thread' looked at who just followed her,5) saw Ichigo Knight with her Ichigo avatar, and criticized her for worrying about Homogaki6) despite her actually fitting the definition of a Homogaki.7)

Shortly after, the enraged users went on a witch hunt and found underage drinking,8) prostitution,9) and kept trying to dox her. She was then made aware of the thread, outright asked for forgiveness with a tripcode of ◆YTXcN98b5s,10) and some joked 'self-doxing' was the solution. However, the problem is that she had took this at face value, posting her real name with a selfie.11)

Following a brief Smash Ultimate stream on TwitCasting,12) her mother later found out around June 8, 2020, so a string of vent tweets followed and she set the account to private on June 10, 2020 because her parents would be monitoring it. This familial relationship deteriorated, naturally causing her suicidal ideation to grow, then came the morning of June 13, 2020 where she would make her final tweets.

Later that day, it was reported that a 15-year-old middle school girl in Fujimi, Saitama committed rail suicide using a southbound train on the Tōbu Tōjō Line around 10:15am.13)14) This lined up with what everyone knew,15) plus her parents requested anonymity.16) As mentioned in her final tweets, we did see her two posthumous illustrations for MariAli Day on June 16, 2020.17)

Reactions

In the following week, the 2channel threads was swamped with sympathetic to paranoid posts, veterans who chimed in to react, and complete strangers demanding images of the victim. A few Twitter users would write 'datsu-ku☆' (脱ク☆) to distance themselves from the community. In addition, a public Discord server was also exposed, mocking her death,18) so the users in it faced scrutiny and some were run off.

The planner of the Kusso☆ series, Ako Atouda, had an 'interesting' reaction.19)20)21) He would give an oddly utilitarian explanation and believed some were empathizing in the 'wrong' order,22)23)24) saying they aren't considering the inconvenienced commuters who possibly shat themselves when the train was stopped,25) but then he simply tells everyone to not rush towards death.26)27)

Notes

  • Her real name was Ryōno Nishimuro (西室(にしむろ)涼乃(りょうの)), born April 13, 2005 and presumed dead at 15.
  • The strange tweet she made before doxing herself28) is actually a reference to a viral erotic image of Donquixote Doflamingo from One Piece, by 'Yawaraka Onikudan' (やわらかおにく団).
  • Her original Twitter account, @ryo_ICGknight, was presumably deleted after she committed suicide, allowing the handle to be picked up and squatted by a random Koushinist account.
1)
While the kanji does reads 'kishi' (騎士), her username of '@ryo_ICGknight' would imply that 'knight' is the intended reading, so most people call her 'Ichigo Knight' as a result.
4)
"クッキー☆総合スレ743" (May 29, 2020). 2channel /streaming/.
5)
"クッキー☆総合スレ743" (May 29, 2020). 2channel /streaming/.
7)
"クッキー☆総合スレ743" (May 29, 2020). 2channel /streaming/.
9)
She allegedly recieved ¥16,000 by selling an erotic video. Some call this 'prostitution' (売春, baishun), while others would consider it 'child pornography' at 15. I will leave that judgment up to you.
10)
"クッキー☆総合スレ743" (May 30, 2020). 2channel /streaming/.
11)
"クッキー☆総合スレ743" (May 30, 2020). 2channel /streaming/.
12)
"りょーキャス". Niconico Douga.
15)
"クッキー☆総合スレ744" (June 14, 2020). 2channel /streaming/.
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