The thread went by for two years with users posting to it irregularly until February 7th, 2020, when Byuu posted a reply to the thread. The post itself links out to multiple examples of Byuu in the wild, as well as casting a final judgment about them while posting links to every account associated with them. On May 14th, 2018, a Kiwi Farms user made a long forum post detailing Byuu's online life and several controversies over the years, casting them in a less than positive light.

This is because Kiwi Farms itself started as a wiki for Chris-Chan, so the community's foundation is built on bullying lolcows. The initial reports of the suicide lay blame at the hands of the website Kiwi Farms, which is infamous for its handling of lolcows. That combined with continual pressure from others online led to a post being made on December 12th, 2014, on their self-hosted website in which they talked about having depression and declining health (shown below, click to expand).įollowing this blog post, there were various incidents with fellow members of the retro gaming, emulation, game development, trans and furry communities over the next few years, which were collected and documented as a way to turn Byuu into a lolcow. In the process of acquiring many rare games for archiving purposes, concerns were brought up that Byuu would not be sharing the archives with others and was essentially hoarding many games that would never see public release online, leading to controversy among some retro gaming fans. From there, they continued to become a tour de force for emulation as well as retro gaming as a whole, as they started the process of archiving many old, rare video games. After seven years of work, the emulator that was called the 'BSNES' neared completion and was considered the most accurate emulator for the SNES at the time. Byuu first started work on an emulator for the Super Nintendo Emulation System back in 2004.

Near bsnes has died