Virgil Texas Grooming Allegation

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle ... Bisexuality @sadydoyle I'm not going to try to be witty, just say that the Virgil Texas allegations have been semi-public for a long time. Even so, the victim's fear of coming forward for how she'd either be used as a Republican talking point or condemned as an enemy of the Left is very understandable. 3:33 PM · Jun 9, 2021 · Twitter Web App

The Foremost Dani S @nariokohomeboy ... Replying to @JenniferSeberg I'm sorry to read about this experience you had. And the reaction you got from that woman is awful too. Thank you for coming forward with this, it's brave, necessary, and will be very helpful for women out there. Take good care of yourself 1:43 AM · Jun 9, 2021 · Twitter for Android

Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg · Jun 9 I tried to forget it for a few years until The Daily Caller emailed me asking me to talk about my relationship with Justin. I was terrified for weeks, and felt disgusting because an awful publication was talking to me about my trauma to monetize it. ... 4 27 27 1K Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg · Jun 9 I tried to forget about it after that. However, I started seeing him with AOC, with Chelsea Manning, with the Bernie staffer... and I started feeling like anything I ever said against him would immediately label me as conservative, pro-Trump, etc. ... 27 47 1.1K Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg · Jun 9 It made me feel so disgusting that someone who is lauded as a champion of my political beliefs did this to me. He f----- with my head at a very young age, and now, I realize that even though he is much more successful now than he was when I met him, that it's still disgusting. 4 27 39 1.3K Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg · Jun 9 Even though he believes the same things I believe egalitarian and pro-worker -- I refuse to excuse him for his abuse of me. I recommend all women in his path stay incredibly cautious. Thank you for listening. -- the things that are 49 27 61 2K

Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg Replying to @JenniferSeberg Eventually, Justin lost interest in me (not after telling me that I had a nice chest -- not the word he used - "for my age," and made fun of people with autoimmune diseases) and we stopped communicating. I went to college a year or so after. 1:13 AM · Jun 9, 2021 · Twitter Web App 36 Retweets 8 Quote Tweets 971 Likes Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg · Jun 9 ... Replying to @JenniferSeberg During college, I started to realize that this wasn't normal and that it had a negative impact on my emotional health. I asked Marie for help, and she said: "What do you want me to do?" I felt awful, like it was all my fault. It was a terrible time in my life. 27 31 O 1K

Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg Replying to @JenniferSeberg After Marie left NY, Virgil (Justin) and I started FaceTiming more regularly IIRC school was not in session for me and I could stay up late with him on FaceTime. I believed that we were in a long distance, adult relationship as he requested things of that nature from me. 1:09 AM · Jun 9, 2021 · Twitter Web App 30 Retweets 8 Quote Tweets 980 Likes Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg · Jun 9 Replying to @JenniferSeberg I recall that this was around the time of Rebel Girl, where Sam Hyde performed. I don't want to give explicit details of what happened over FT, but I think you get the idea and it was traumatizing for me for many years. 7 27 32 957

Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg When I was a teenager, I thought Virgil Texas was very funny. I asked him to proofread an essay I submitted to a website, and emailed it to him. The essay was about turning 16. We talked a little bit, and I thought he was very cool because he was funny and he lived in NY. 1:05 AM · Jun 9, 2021 · Twitter Web App 850 Retweets 424 Quote Tweets 4,325 Likes Jennifer Seberg @JenniferSeberg · Jun 9 ... Replying to @JenniferSeberg After talking, we shared phone numbers & texted late at night when I was alone in my childhood bedroom. That turned into FaceTiming & him talking to me about Marie Calloway, who I think was his gf atm. I remember sent me a Soko song about a woman jealous of another woman. 27 30 1K

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Overview

Virgil Texas Grooming Allegation refers to an accusation against popular left-wing podcaster and former Chapo Trap House host Virgil Texas, which alleges that he engaged in sexual online communication with an underage girl. The controversy became a widespread discussion in early June 2021.

Background

On June 9th, 2021, Twitter user @JenniferSeberg^[1] posted a lengthy thread in which she related how she and Virgil Texas communicated while she was underage. In the thread, she alleged the two FaceTimed often and she believed they were in an adult relationship "as he requested things of that nature from me." She alleges the conversations took place in 2013 when she would have been 16 or 17. She claims The Daily Caller reached out to her to try and have her expose him in the past, but she declined to come forward. She later clarified that Virgil had requested nudes from her.^[2]

Developments

The allegation received mixed responses from Twitter users. Many expressed their support for the accuser while decrying Virgil Texas, with some saying that he had been a rumored groomer for years. Twitter user @nariokohomeboy^[3] tweeted to the accuser, "I'm sorry to read about this experience you had. And the reaction you got from that woman is awful too. Thank you for coming forward with this, it's brave, necessary, and will be very helpful for women out there. Take good care of yourself" (shown below, left). Later, @Sadydoyle^[4] tweeted, "I'm not going to try to be witty, just say that the Virgil Texas allegations have been semi-public for a long time. Even so, the victim's fear of coming forward for how she'd either be used as a Republican talking point or condemned as an enemy of the Left is very understandable" (shown below, right).

Virgil Texas has yet to respond to the allegations, nor have the Chapo Trap House hosts or Texas' current podcast co-host, Briahna Gray Joy. The story was also covered by the Daily Dot.^[5]