(Thanks to TFTV mods for unlocking this so I can respond)
Sorry if it took a while to respond to this whole shitshow of a thread, but I have to carefully choose what I'm to say next because I'd really like to put this to bed. I'll try to keep it short.
I almost certainly came off like a rambling lunatic yesterday when I made this thread, and that's probably because I was very upset and miserable after the whole experience.
I've calmed down and decided to write this response to maybe clarify some things here and put it to rest.
Firstly-
The player "lol" and me getting DDoS'd are linked. I don't know how someone could not see this, but I'll say it myself, again, in clearer terms- I got DDoS'd *three times*, and gave up on playing scrims/tryouts. I went to play pubs, and this "lol" player showed up within minutes. I then went to MGE on my personal MGE server, where he knew I could ban him instantly- and it got DDoS'd within 30 seconds. This is all in the twitch vod I mentioned in my original post.
Secondly-
Yesterday, I was playing pubs on the furry pound. I was minding my own business, offline on twitch, and the same "lol" player from 3 days ago showed up, at around tick 115000 of this first demo. I knew he was cheating, because he had already done so in pubs against me before, and I pinged an admin in the furry pound's public discord server. They looked at it for a bit, while I played through this second demo, and around tick 55000 of this third demo, he was banned. I feel like I should mention - by the end of that game, there were already at least 2 people in the server who I've encountered before and then blocked for harassment reasons. Surely a coincidence.
Thirdly-
After this "lol" player got banned (on a VPN IP), it took less than 15 minutes for Scratchh to show up. He shows up at around tick 31000 in this fourth demo, and him and his now 3/4ish other friends (who are almost certainly all blocked, probably years ago) just fucking target me.
This continued up until the end of this fifth demo, at which point I turned off TF2.
If you think after this shit that Scratchh is an "innocent uwu eboy" or whatever the fuck you want to say - You are dead fucking wrong.
Don't trust him or take anything he says at face value, because him and his friends have been doing this shit for literally years.
The literal actual first time I met him, he pretended to be trans to trick me into talking with him about trans shit, and I only found about about it because someone happened to be in a discord with him and his friends showed me screenshots of them privately laughing at me for being a decent human being and taking people at their word.
I've had other members of the community reach out and tell me that Scratchh and Dogo/Drugstoner420 have been constantly harassing them as well, and I just can't fucking stand the fucking gaggle of clowns that go around and do this shit.
I've been targeted in other ways outside of TF2 as well with this garbage.
Almost every time I stream on twitch anymore, I see a transphobic follow notification on my OBS sidebar. Typically it's something like "trannyhunter420" or "fucktrannyniggers1488", although sometimes people will have generic usernames to bait a response out of me, and then drop the shit on me in chat. These same chatters have also threatened to "exterminate" [sic] me.
I've had to lock down my disused discord with several different safeguards against these people, and I have to screen everyone who tries to come in, because otherwise I get these morons on alts mass pinging the whole server list or just typing slurs over and over and over in whatever chat they can find.
I can't even record (poor) speedrun gameplay of my favorite game without Steam's DnD feature on, because I have to worry about people adding me and "retardtrannyhunter99" showing up in game (because hat in time captures overlays regardless of OBS settings).
I really don't even care what the reason for this shit is at this point, be it transphobia or something else.
I'm tired of being stalked online and the only thing I feel that I can do at this point is post this and then summarily ignore these dumbfucks for the rest of my life.
I'm sorry if this or the whole thread comes off as a vent post- that's probably because they both are.
Add me on Discord (stephanie#9999) if you'd like to discuss this further with me, for now I'm done publicly speaking about it.
Thanks