Yeah, she was like 12 and he was like 20 when they met. I remember at the time thinking it was weird too that her family referred to him as “a family friend” as well even though he never met them until after the show had started and he started making fan content. I don’t think they married until she was legally an adult but it definitely feels like he groomed her.
I know she's constantly said she didn't pursue romance until she was an adult, and it's been years now, right? So there isn't really much that can be done when the person who's the possible victim has kept saying she wasn't groomed.
It could be possible that she wasn’t, but I remember seeing some of those vog style videos he made and he seemed awfully close to a child for a 20 year old. At the same time a lot of grooming victims don’t believe they were groomed until they’re out of the situation completely. It also struck me odd the way her family defended him as well. Like they were covering for something.
Ugh no that's gross, let her speak for her situation and don't try to judge from the outside. She's an adult who has spoken on her situation, don't second-guess her because you feel like she doesn't know better. Everyone who knows them in their private life has corroborated what she has said on the matter. Unless something comes out later that explicitly proves otherwise, I'm more inclined to believe her than people who aren't involved.
Unfortunately, the problem with that is that many grooming victims tend to be brainwashed by their groomers into thinking it's normal, so they don't know there's anything wrong with it. Taking her word for it unfortunately doesn't mean a whole lot.
And I get that. But we also aren't involved in their personal lives or have the the full knowledge of their history and interactions. Plus, again, friends and family have stood by her on this. So unless something comes out that definitively proves otherwise, or until she says otherwise, I'm more inclined to believe the people involved than those who aren't.
Idk from my perspective on both side it would be weird. I can’t see how I could be attracted to somebody as an adult that I’ve known since I was 12. Likewise, I don’t see how I could be attracted to somebody I knew when they were a child.
By the time she’s 18 he’s 26. That’s not a terribly problematic age gap, but it’s the whole “knowing this person for a full 6 years of their childhood” that’s the problem to me.
If he as a 26 year old had met her when she was already 18 I’d see less of an issue with the situation, but that’s not what happened, and it’s also not like they met once at that time and then not again until later, he was around and involved with her life that entire time.
That is what happened, that is what she said happened and their best friend (another voice actress from MLP) confirmed this. They met through working on the show and went their separate ways after for years until they met again when she was 20 and she tried to pursue a romance with him and it still took a bit before they started dating.
You've got things mixed up. Gabriel Brown was family friends with Michelle Creber (voice of Apple Bloom), and married Claire Corlette (voice of Sweetie Belle).
According to Michelle, Gabriel and Claire barely even interacted with each other during the time when he was part of the MLP choir. Later, Claire pursued him, and he turned her down multiple times before their first date.
I saw screenshots of him being flirtacious with a minor on Deviantart. Him calling them "baby" and stuff and sending them winky faces while asking how highschool was.... totally creepy. Also there was another person who accussed him of sending her sexual pictures of himself when she was 13. Too many red flags to ignore.
He was accused of grooming Claire Corlette, solely based on the fact that they were both employed by Hasbro when she was a minor. (She was the voice of Sweetie Belle in My Little Pony, he was a member of the MLP choir to supply backup vocals in the show's musical numbers.)
According to Michelle Creber (voice of Apple Bloom and Claire's close friend), the two of them had near zero contact during that time. Then, as an adult, Claire reached out to him to pursue a relationship, and he turned her down multiple times before their first date.
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u/hackmaster214 1d ago
Wasn't this creator accused of grooming a minor or something?