ari :ariYeah: (@ari)

fully retracting all support for iiSU for a couple reasons:

- flagrant racism and transphobia in usagishage's friend group as recently as 2024 (using this same server for iiSU dev is wild, btw)
- notable devs on the project are proud vibe coders
- increased concerns about platform viability

their demo looked incredible, and i gave them a lot of credit for that. but hindsight is 20:20. it's difficult to tell how much of the app is actually real or just mocked up; it's now difficult to tell how much was built by an actual human; and i've no idea how $5 optional can fund server costs.

further, the statement put out by usagi is unfortunately weak at best. it's evident the racism/transphobia issues didn't bother him enough to address them sooner (i.e. until he was caught). i would have hoped that nazis would have no place in a friend group beyond 2016, much less 2023.

i got optimistic, and caught by pretty visuals. my apologies for being part of their marketing push. i'll need to be far more diligent when endorsing projects in the future.