People have short attention spans, so here is a photo from June 17th 2020, of me leaning on my then best mate's shoulder having drunk beers into the early hours of the morning at a party to mark our other friend leaving HK.

For anyone paying attention to the current situation where someone is trying to smear and slander me with vile and utterly false accusations, that photo existing on that date where we hugged and drank and partied with many others present should be the end of it. Done. Finished.

I don't care about the audience of red fascists and literal genocide deniers he's playing to. Of course the warcrimes enjoyers are going to buy into anything that smears someone they see as an ideological enemy, smears are all they have and all they do.

I do care that good faith people who only know us online, are willing to buy into a weak smear job so easily, without stopping to question the astonishingly flimsy narrative being presented to them. So I'm going to have to join the dots for them.

1st, why I didn't respond earlier. When the stream of lies started, mutual friends were as confused as me. Several told me in good faith his kid had cancer and I assumed he was working through some demons. I was more sad than angry. I appealed for people to not think badly of him

I found out later that was another fabrication, made a month ago. Multiple mutual friends reached out to offer sympathy + support, publicly and privately. He didn't correct any of them. Many people feel lied to, while I now have to address being lied about, by a serial fantasist

So the claim made about me, says I was kicked out of his 2019 Xmas party for inappropriate language. Yet I left that party as normal along with the mutual friends I travelled there with, the accuser gave me lingering best friend hugs before I got in the taxi.

This was witnessed by more than one person. Will I ask them to speak up? Considering the accuser has already turned on a friend who spoke on my behalf, turning his outrage mob on them, I cannot ask anyone to risk being targeted by such a vindictive and easily provoked person.

You can see for yourself we had regular conversations publicly on Twitter in 2020, let alone in private. After I unlock, put this search string into the search box and filter by latest (his old acc. was deleted, my half of the convos remain):

from:hongkonghermit snufkin

June 17th 2020, there was a leaving party for a dear friend who was leaving HK forever. It was attended by many people. I was there, along with my accuser. We ate, drank, hugged, and were clearly best friends in front of multiple people.

To believe the primary claim, you have to accept that he continued to be openly friendly with me for 6 months and partying it up in public like we were brothers. Plus the fact that he said a similar story that same night, with the exact same line, about another ex-mutual named B.

Our falling out was on the way home that night, where I asked my drunk mellow friend to walk back the time in 2017 he talked openly about threatening a woman's job by reporting her to the HK govt, all because she (my friend) rejected his unsolicited advice online and he escalated

Here's a datestamped DM I sent a US buddy that night, detailing the bust up. You can see it's when we stopped talking/hanging out, and due to the thing from 2017. Didn't speak to him, or about him, from that point onwards, but I was ready to listen when he was ready to talk.

BTW, I refuse to hit back with many things I know, because in addition to not being a grass, or willing to break a confidence, his family would get caught up in it, and he knows, he KNOWS, I would not do anything to hurt them even indirectly. Even with this level of provocation.

I just worry he's painted a target on his family's back, because him telling the world that there is dirt to be found if police go looking, is a great way to invite police to go looking. This isn't how you protect them.

I also hope he doesn't now turn on other friends who would have less compunction about hitting back with everything they also know. Why is he doing it now, haemorrhaging real life friends, courting the worst people on the internet, all just to smear me? I have no fucking idea.

Genocide denial Twitter can continue to fuck off, people who took his story on good faith are welcome to return when they realise an evidence free trial-by-mob is bad. Thanks also to the friends who reached out to support, and to those who simply kept an open mind.

This was originally a lot longer thread, but if I have to refute every lie said about me on the internet I'll never get anything done. Some of you do need to give more thoughtful consideration to claims put in front of you, y'all aren't that dumb.

That's all I got to say on things. That's all I will have say on things, as baseless lies shouldn't even need refuting and I'm not going to get into an endless "didn't happen" row with bad faith interlocutors likely to keep on fabricating stuff.

Addendum: the serial liar and vengeful fantasist is now literally denying his own face is his own face.

Despite it being proudly pinned on his old account, and @cheesindave having his own face as his profile picture.

And y’all trusted this guy? Ell oh ell.