Hah, sorry it's nothing super mysterious. I just suck at my grammar and post formating so I use another close IRL friend to clean up my shit before posting anything super extensive.
Without further ado here's the Hi_Yeena stuff:
Here's her current Tumblr account.
https://archive.md/Gawzd
Notice how in her post pictured here, she not only holds praise for Dan Avidan and the Game grumps, but she also takes this post from another Tumblr account known as "MagBabbles"
https://web.archive.org/web/20140818060553/http://magbabbles.tumblr.com/
Now we've got something that leads to further discovery of her old connections.
Like her YouTube channel and other art.
https://archive.md/MoJah
Her old DeviantArt account, for instance.
By 6-5-2021, this DeviantArt was scrubbed of its content, from its bios to its gallery
Thanfkully the parts that mattered were saved before that could happen.
https://archive.md/RDNGQ
There she is being a YouTuber fangirl, notably for Tobuscus
https://archive.ph/AijKZ#selection-14741.0-14759.33
And here's the connection to make.
Here's some Cryaotic Art
https://archive.ph/Vnffu
And some Toby art
https://archive.ph/WpUgb
Is/Was also available on her Tumblr, known as the "YouTubers That I Love Series":
https://archive.md/Z1ZLy
Found from her Instagram, old fanart for Dan Avidan and NSP/Game Grumps, dating back to 2015
This compounds the praise for Dan her Tumblr post held, confirming she was a fan of him as well
First Piece Archived -
https://archive.md/DZUwo
Second Piece Archived -
https://archive.md/3DeVK
Needed to use a 3rd-party website for snapshots; Instagram's design doesn't play nice with the Archive site
Take a look at Yeena's old Tumblr handle, "mister-simple".
Found when searching for other uses of "MagBabbles" on Tumblr through the Wayback Machine.
With the promotion of her YouTube channel of the same name, she's been aiming for an online career since 2013
https://web.archive.org/web/20130706174657/http://magbabbles.tumblr.com/
2013
Here's a fanmade gif and post appreciative of MagBabbles' old content
https://archive.md/GwMzL
https://archive.md/0D4Ri#selection-2791.1-2791.11
Here she's listed amongst other youtubers, like Swoozie and Domics, for a collaborative League of Legends Video. A smalltime creator in her own right, essentially.
And if there was any need for further confirmation:
https://archive.md/LP3op
We already know about how Hi_Yeena tried arguing about cancel culture and that it's all really about "accountability", so on top of that, here are some extra arguments from her
https://archive.md/fFzn6
https://archive.md/wMD68
https://archive.ph/cGGIP
https://archive.md/ADJR2
Here's her old Twitter feed back in April when the Dan accusations came out; An entire slew of "don't fuck your fans" when you scroll below
https://archive.ph/cqC31
So it all helps explain why she had so much investment in seeing Danny get cancelled
https://archive.ph/coRAV
https://archive.ph/SORMe
Former fangirl, who apparently claims to know someone that got abused/assaulted/etc. by him before
And when Tobuscus accusations broke out, it was April 2016.
While Toby defended himself and cleared the air at least a year later, it's doubtful that Yeena knew or cared.
On the Cryaotic side of things:
6-18-2020, here's a link to the Reddit Megathread, bookmarking the date
https://archive.md/mnpwA
Knowing her previous investment into Cryaotic
https://archive.ph/lEzQ0
Yeena makes it explicit that the Cry situation only helped fuel her motivation, and revels in the prospect of hurting Vinny
"I have hopes that someday I will be brave and confident enough to come out and say my story... All in due time. For now, I am satisfied knowing he is probably shitting his pants, terrified his actions will have finally caught up to him."
https://archive.md/Jr7UZ
"Everyone's strength and courage makes me want to write my story as well... but fear is a wicked and powerful thing. "
"Cannot help but think about the girls who came after me... The ones who might be living what I lived right now."
"It's a very lonely thing."
"I've thought of telling my story without saying the name of the abuser but unfortunately, if I do so, I know people will figure it out and I WILL have a lot of backlash... Feels inevitable. I can easily expect 4chan type people on my ass."
People already brought up Yeena's "Parasite" art from her Instagram, and wondered if any hate against Vinny was the real meaning behind it
https://archive.md/9Kgo0
So here's confirmation
https://archive.md/H6oh5
"This piece is very therapeutic and personal."
https://archive.md/HN0LA
"The biggest gift I've gotten myself this year is therapy."
AKA - Still nursing her grudge.
https://archive.ph/AijKZ#selection-20611.106-20710.0
As seen on the doc, Yeena expresses how she felt as though she was being followed by people tasked to watch her by Vinny and/or his friends, concerned with what she'd say.
In response, she says how she deleted her Twitter account--specifically, a more private/content-oriented account "MagBabbles", no longer feeling "safe" online
Clearly wasn't her main one, since her current handle of "Yeena" has always been in use.
Though not mentioned, she implies how her original YouTube channel, or at least its videos, were also deleted.
Although looking back, it seems that she simply scrubbed it of its videos is all.
https://www.youtube.com/c/HiYeena/about
As seen on the document's back-to-back exchanges, the falling out and separation from the community happened shortly after the emails, from December 2016 and into January 2017.
https://archive.ph/AijKZ#selection-20719.0-20893.44
"A year later, I was still consumed by guilt for having gotten myself in such a situation and sadness of having lost all my friends. "
So Yeena's so upset that she lost her attachment to the community, "lost her friends"
"It had been impossible to avoid him entirely and moving on had been extremely difficult. His face appeared on my timelines despite how many people I muted and blocked. Clips of his streams would be used in Youtube videos totally unrelated to him. No matter how hard I tried to detach myself from this awful experience, it felt like I was trapped. Not only trapped but silenced. "
To her dismay, Vinny had been getting more and more popular, everywhere she'd go she couldn't escape leaving Vinesauce behind.
"My friends who had common experiences with him were very quiet with me and I had no one to turn to whenever the memories were too much for me."
So even though she knew other people who were also FWB with Vin, they still didn't like her. No matter how much she'd view them as victims.
"Out of pure shame, I began believing his version of what happened. I began believing this was my fault, that I should’ve never spoken out, that I was the one to blame for everything. I desperately wanted to return to a time that was long gone."
And as seen below, she emailed Vin while TMG 2017 was going on.
https://archive.ph/AijKZ#selection-20929.109-21016.0
https://archive.ph/AijKZ#selection-16061.86-16117.1
"But when a male member of the Vinesauce team would follow me on Twitter, Vinny would immediately contact me to ask me if I was speaking to that member. When I asked him why he was so concerned about me making friends with his fellow streamers, he’d respond that they were creeps and that I shouldn’t be talking to them. This has happened with at least two members. "
At some point, Vinny felt like warning Yeena about "creepy" male members on the team.
And, despite having left the Vinesauce community in December of 2016, here she is interacting with Fred as late as July 2017
https://archive.md/SrvOY
Try looking up Hi_Yeena with other members like Rev and Imakuni. It all stops by 2016.
Fred's one of the exceptions.
The other exception was KY.
Here is a thread where she goes up and replies to KY and Fred, carrying conversation
https://archive.md/H5RVr
For someone who was paranoid about being watched by friends of Vinny on her main account and her private account, she sure did love associating with KY and Fred.
As she emailed Vin while TMG 2017 was going on,
https://archive.ph/mmkUT
She kept up with KY on friendly terms, while KY was still on the team and talking about the Vinesauce booth.
Furthermore, here's Yeena making fanart for KY in January 2017
which at this point, is supposed to be where she permanently cut herself off from Vinny and Vinesauce
https://archive.md/wxg2y
May 2017, months after both her leaving the community and TMG 2017
https://archive.md/Nhn9Q
There she is, keeping up with KY all this time.
Gravitating, really. Take a look at all the times Yeena willingly associates with and interacts with KY.
Up to December 2020, even.
https://archive.md/x4FRq
Even weirder is how their timelines coincide.
KY'd announce his leaving of the team by
December of 2017
https://archive.md/acaV0
Going onto Twitch tracker, according to the calendars, KY took a break from the second half of December 2017, to June 2018
With some minor streams during
April 2018
https://twitchtracker.com/kingky/streams
https://archive.md/k5MJZ
And by
June 2018, Yeena finally finishes her "King KY" fanart. Really weird to be leaving a pencil sketch behind for over a year and 4 months.
Now for some leftover info.
August 2019,
KY makes a public statement, about how and why someone can and should find/face closure in the aftermath of traumatic events.
Yeena takes it to heart.
https://archive.md/KTmp4
Here's Part 1 of what KY wrote:
And Part 2:
So what we know of Yeena, AKA Mag, is that she used to be a YouTuber in her own right (she also has a Twitch channel that's had streams in recent years)
Though she may have been a fan, you could also easily argue against "power dynamics" since they were both creators
and that she was working with a company to maybe promote stuff with YouTubers and streamers
And despite being oh-so traumatized by her "abuse" from Vinny, to the point where she deleted her accounts and tried to separate from all things Vinesauce
for over a year, she still interacted with KY and a little bit with Fred, willingly, after leaving
She's so invested in seeing Dan get cancelled because
A - she was a fan of the Grumps and their other stuff before, and
B - she apparently "knows someone" that was affected
Combined with her previous fangirling with Cryaotic and Tobuscus, she constantly saw creators get ousted for checkered sexual pasts.
Even though Toby was absolved and Cry was clearly in the wrong, she seems to have put all her former idols under the same lens, causing her to feel like she was made a victim by Vinny.
And most notable of all is how she gravitated towards KY.
Almost Cryptid-like; had a falling out with Vinny, so let me latch onto his friend
To top it off, check out KY's video of "Everyone is Vinny".
As seen in the description
Art by Yeena. Follow her on Twitter: @hi_yeena
Back when she was still in the community
You can still find the thumbnail on the booru under "artist:hiyeena"
Just a light showcase of how KY and Yeena have had some history before
