How to Report a Dispute Please fill out all 9 questions below. You must provide proof or your claim cannot be validated. 1. Date Dispute Happened The first contact we had was on Chicken Smoothie on Sat, Apr 28 in PMs. Chrysalism taunted me on Discord this morning (May 27), calling me a "lil love you on their high horse" for asking them to respect artists along with boasting about their successful con of 20+ artists and (at least) one other USD scam. I've spoken to 1 of the artists and they confirmed it was a scam; 2 others have told me of Chrysalism's shady behavior that turned rude upon being pressured for transparency. Spoiler: Screencap All correspondence is linked at the bottom. 2. Are You The Buyer or Seller I was the side paying with real money (steam gift card codes were purchased via offgamers.com), Chrysalism was supposed to pay with Chicken Smoothie pets. I don't even play CS:GO so everything I spent was for the sole purpose of offsite. 3. Total Transaction Value $140 -- I was supposed to be reimbursed $40 through paypal as PlayerUp and G2Apay were blocked by my bank and we used the steam marketplace. The agreed upon value for the trade was $100, but Chrysalism said they'd reimburse $40 through paypal and along with never doing that, never delivered my petsite goods either. 4. Other Parties Username ChrysalismII on steam; Chrysalism on Chicken Smoothie (though the account is now banned), Chrysalism#9699 on discord 5. Method Used To Pay or Receive Payment I sent via Steam trading (item bought with USD), I was supposed to receive $40 in paypal and these goods on Chicken Smoothie (requires log in to view) 6. Other Parties Email Addresses They refused contact via email, but gave me their discord after I repeatedly asked for transparency. Most of the trade was negotiated via Chicken Smoothie PMs. I've found a couple that check out when cross referenced; [email protected] <-- checks out with the name 'Kate' listed on their steam profile, also linked by KokoSeal's dispute thread. [email protected] <-- mentioned themself here, checks out with their youtube account used to upload the video against KokoSeal They have an old Chicken Smoothie account ~~FoxLover~~ that isn't banned and it's consistent with other sources eg the character, animaljam, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same "buying art with [chicken smoothie valuable goods]" scam. 7. Other Parties Payment Email Address Not sure what this means 8. Other Parties Messenger Username Chrysalism#9699 9. Provide All Chat Logs and Additional Information Below Google doc -- contains an unedited discord log, text for ease of reading and screencaps for proof. A large chunk of it is me attempting to explain why artists should be respected. All negotiation happened on Chicken Smoothie, c/p'd to this google doc and the 2nd PM log here. I can provide screencaps of my discussions with the other Chicken Smoothie users upon request but I'd need to ask their consent first. I can provide my proof of payment to offgamers.com if needed though I don't know if that'll be helpful since nothing went directly through paypal. Proof that I sent them the CS:GO item. Additionally, Chrysalism's account has been banned on Chicken Smoothie as of this morning and their art contest scam (with many entries) has been taken over by the mods; Mod edit to their 1st post screencapped here. I'm aware I can't get my USD back and the chances of me being paid at all on Chicken Smoothie are slim due to how many people they promised the same goods to, but like KokoSeal I hope to gods this particular disgusting behavior will no longer plague the gaming and creative communities any further. In my own case and with everyone I've inquired with who had dealings with Chrysalism, Chrysalism was consistently polite and friendly up until their scam was either failed (and they were forced to pay) or they succeeded. I'm also pretty sure they're an experienced scammer as the way they handled this art con was crafty as hell both individually to me AND how it was set up to hurt the maximum number of people. Please.
Seems it was censored by the site, but they did not, in fact, call me a "lil love you", lol EDIT to add more info: This youtube video from 2015 by an ex-best friend(?) of Chrysalism/Shadowhowler/Kate has proof of a scamming history: Link Most of it's just dramatic venting but the screencap from 7:56 below has something interesting Spoiler: Screencap
Thank you so much for coming forward about your case. These types of people need to be removed, before anyone else has to go through this disgusting scenario.
Update: Chrysalism's steam is now set to private and completely reskinned. The custom URL went from ChrysalismII to squidwarddab sometime in the past ~10 hours (haven't been online, too stressed) and wow, check out this log of name changes (also note the previous community URLs section) - Source for these screencaps is steamID.eu Spoiler: Screencaps as proof [/URL] New custom steam URL linked here Spoiler: Screencap of the current status of steam profile squidwarddab as of time of posting Their discord username has also been changed to drood#9699 (screencap evidence). Wow! Surely that isn't an attempt to hide and erase one's tracks! (edited moments after posting because I broke some closing formatting tags on my images)
Chrysalism, exactly how long do you plan on putting on this ridiculous act? Leolore reached out to me via e-mail yesterday when they saw my dispute on Player-up. It's not shocking to me that you've been doing this for a long time, and on various sites. You're acting like this situation is a joke, when you've scammed multiple people out of their money. You're trying to cover your tracks, and are tampering with any piece of evidence thrown at you. This has to stop, lord.
Do you have literally any proof that's my steam account? Because I don't see any. Displayed uesrnames can be changed any amount of times by users. Just a steam username does not equate to it being me. A user can easily change their steam username as many times as they want to make it look like mine. I also don't speak dutch. And where is the evidence that that steam account is mine? All you have is "here's a random user who recently changed their link"
I'm literally done with all this BS lmao ban me from this site for all I care. I'm tired of people making up lies.
Do I need to circle the "Previous community URLs" and "SteamID" part or something? This is exactly the behavior you framed KokoSeal for in that fake discord log on youtube. Linked here again for reference "People always believe me if I play the victim" Yeah, not really believable even with your faked evidence when you targeted so many of us and we're all going after you at once. --- Additionally, Chrysalism's steam url changed again, it's now Steam Community :: Eine deutsche Topfpflanze Spoiler: Screencap For those of us overlooking important details out of desperately trying to avoid being held responsible, please look closely at the Previous Community URLs section. Additionally, even with your steam profile set to private, your screenshots are still viewable. Note the URL of the uploader and the comment by player Chrysalismii (their original steam URL was exactly that, but the i's were capitalized). All this and you're still trying to play the vicim? Pathetic.
Since editing keeps breaking my tags I'm putting this in another post: Screencap of the screenshot they uploaded and a direct link to the file in case Chrysalism deletes it. Steam Community :: Screenshot :: I got an ace and 4 of the kills were from a turret
Updating again. They are currently 'feck off' on discord and their pfp is art they scammed out of one of the artists I'm in contact with. Spoiler: Screencap 2 minutes later update as I write this post: they changed their pfp so it's not the scammed art anymore. Spoiler: Screencap I'm going to keep logging and updating until this is resolved.
Updating again, Human Bean#2175 on discord is the artist Cleverfox who is also a victim of Chrysalism. I wonder if Chrysalism will cry FAKE NEWS again.
Chrysalism's behaviour just disgusts me beyond belief. How can anyone stack lies upon lies, and act like the victim in a situation like this? I wonder as well how Chrysalism will respond to more evidence stacked against them. Chrysalism has scammed multiple people, and now it looks like we're all fed up with their deceitful behaviour.
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