Brodie Robertson has a long history of distributing and defending explicit depictions of pre-pubescent girls doing sexual acts, obsession with incest and transphobia, homophobia and racism. In this document, we will present evidence to back accusations that have been leveled against Brodie Robertson by various users in the FOSS community and try to warn future podcast guests of the harm his audience will cause to them.

A brief history of Brodie Robertson

Brodie Robertson is an Australian YouTuber and failed Software Developer who covers linux desktop topics on his YouTube channel. He has attracted the worst parts of the linux community and has created a drama hungry army of professional harassers that he often uses against volunteer FOSS developers when things don't go his way.

Brodie Robertson started his YouTube career as a Luke Smith clone. His interests were privacy, bitcoin and KISS, to the point where he'd actively avoid YouTube in favor of alt-right platforms such as LBRY/Odyssey, BitTube and Minds (where he calls himself “Discount Luke Smith”). He couldn't resist that sweet sweet ad revenue so privacy and being against big-tech is no longer on his agenda.

Brodie Robertson's history on Reddit

For those who are unfamiliar with Brodie Robertson, he commonly uses the online moniker “OmegaDungeon” (on places like YouTube and Reddit). He has proven that he owns the Reddit account from the numerous posts he has made on r/Linux and its visibility during his many Reddit drama videos.

Reddit has added privacy controls and Brodie has deleted all the comments after they resurfaced. For that reason we are going to use arctic-shift and other Reddit archival projects to verify and showcase his comments and posts. We provide backups ourselves on u_OmegaDungeon_comments.jsonl and u_OmegaDungeon_posts.jsonl.

Pedophilia

In 2019, the United Nations, proposed a ban on loli, shota, and underage drawings and cartoons. When OneAngryGamer found about it, he wrote an article and Reddit users posted it on anime related subreddits.

Brodie Robertson, being a big loli supporter, couldn't hold his anger back and threw a tantrum in the comments.
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When told that this is essentially child pornography, Brodie Robertson argued that it's art and wanting to ban it is just disapproval of the contents

Lmao people here getting mad over child pornography getting banned. - u/balarn
Imagine not understanding why it's dangerous to censor art. - Brodie Robertson
"Art"= sexualizing children
Nice - u/balarn
Is a drawing not art because you disapprove of the content? - Brodie Robertson

It would require authoritarian control of the internet so unless every country creates a China-like Great Firewall then nothing will come of it, however, even if it's only sexual imagery that would be effected in this hypothetical world where such authoritarian control is possible it's still incredibly dangerous for an entity like the UN to be openly considering the censorship of art. - Brodie Robertson (emphasis added)

You must have a very small list of fiction that you consume if you think that murder is almost ubiquitously portrayed as a negative thing. Why does there need to be a cultural or historical value for a type of art? Why do you feel the need to censor art? - Brodie Robertson (emphasis added)

What type of anime watcher are you?
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21. The Loli Master: I am a socially accepted pedophile. Believe it!

Which one are you? - OP

The No skipper, Give me suggestions! I will(not) watch them!, The Loli Master.

Don't judge me it takes a lot to make me to refuse to watch an anime. - Brodie Robertson (emphasis added)

Are you a loli lover? Gumiho and I are! Have some Izuna and Shiro :) ❤️

Pedophilia & Tumblr

• Twitter points to https://twitter.com/OmegaDungeon which has been taken by a different person since 2021
• Hummingbird points to http://hummingbird.me/users/OmegaDungeon which used to be his r/anime flair (according to the arctic-shift archive) and he has posted about it arctic-shift | undelete
• Reddit points to his current Reddit account https://www.reddit.com/user/OmegaDungeon/
• Steam points to his current Steam account https://steamcommunity.com/id/OmegaDungeon

Warning: Clicking this text will reveal censored explicit images.

Front page at the time, these are children in a porn blog.
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The top right character is a toddler both in the show and in this image.
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Clearly children in the uncensored image
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Sexualization of school children.
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Note: The original images are not censored. The majority of the images make it difficult to estimate the age of the characters therefore only those that make it explicitly child-like or school student are shown here. You are invited to look through the wayback machine on your own https://web.archive.org/web/*/omegadungeon.tumblr.com*.

Racism, Homophobia & Bigotry

Brodie Robertson has landed himself in the good side of the FOSS community by inviting the volunteers behind projects to talk on his podcast. Those volunteers are very often part of the LGBTQ+ community and distance themselves from most Linux YouTubers due to their politics. Brodie Robertson gained that trust by doing the bare minimum while at the same time, letting his 4chan audience run wild without any moderation or control.

He claims he can't control what other do, but the real reason is that they do and say what he actually wants to do and say as the following posts will reveal.

Brodie Robertson took part in gamergate and was an active user of r/TumblrInAction and other subreddits that shaped today's alt right and participated in harassment campaigns against women, gay and black people.

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(Brodie is a white Australian)

In response to the following image, posted to TumblrInAction to mock the original poster

Brodie Robertson commented about his support of eugenics

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The blog he mentions here is the Tumblr one

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If you were wondering why he kept defending PewDiePie's bigotry
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Incest, Rape & Sex Pest

Brodie Robertson, who has siblings as far as we are aware, has an incest fetish

Judge him by his friends

Brodie Robertson has been platforming, engaging and protecting other fascist, racist and homophobic FOSS influencers, taking the position of the enlightened centrist.
He has been on podcasts and interacting on social media with Lunduke & DistroTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKHt4Hhh98. He pretends to be against what Lunduke says or does but keeps quoting and commenting on his posts.

Vaxry has been on his podcast to advertise Hyprland on many occasions and has described Brodie Robertson as his friend. Vaxry has been condemned by the wider FOSS community, including FreeDesktop, for his transphobia, fascism and allegedly pedophilia https://rentry.co/Hyprland-controversy. Their friendship is probably based on these.

Brodie Robertson recently had Andreas Kling on his podcast and made an ad for Omarchy on his main channel. Both of them have been criticized by the FOSS community for their fascist, racist and homophobic remarks, something Brodie was aware of in advance.

Brodie Robertson is a fan of Asmongold and Joe Rogan, both right wing reactionary personalities that attack minorities for a living.

Harassment

Brodie Robertson doesn't believe in moderating his 4channer community which has led to the harassment of multiple FOSS projects and developers as well as the pause of development in places like Wayland.

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Last time Brodie Robertson made a drama video on Wayland protocols, he caused three things to happen: 1. he got the protocol discussion locked for weeks and delayed its development, 2. his audience started sending death threats to those involved, 3. his audience started spamming the repository, to which he just requested for his name to not be included

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Response

eepyk1tt3nz posted some of their findings on social media and Brodie Robertson wrote a response doc. However, Brodie Robertson lied about and downplayed most of the points to save his career. Google Docs Response | Techrights mirror

Those posts were from me, and I’m not here to explain away what I said back then, but I do want to talk about the mindset I was in and the journey I’ve been on over the 6 years since then.

One of the primary focuses of the archive were on some racist comments I made towards Muslims, and my flagrant use of slurs at the time (I should note, unless I’m misremembering not directed at any individuals). Growing up in online gaming communities (notably Call Of Duty lobbies), living in a pretty normal working class family, it was really common for me and my friends to say the most heinous shit to each other for the sake of shock value. It didn’t matter who you are, where you come from, everyone that’s a friend is treated equally harshly, that’s just the way it was growing up where I did.
As I moved into late high school and my early adult life I started getting myself caught up in internet forums like Reddit and this communication does not translate into a public setting around people you don’t know, and by that point I was simply being an edgy boy for the sake of being an edgy boy.

I’m not sure on the exact point in time but somewhere in the early 2010’s the idea of being trans was first seeing some mainstream attention, at the time and up till about 6 years ago I said some incredibly mean shit. For this, there is even less of a reason, I didn’t know anyone who was trans, whether that be in my personal life, my school life, or my early work life a few years later, and I simply did not understand what being trans was at the time. What I did have in my life was the equivalent of “Libs of TikTok” at the time (the early stages of Youtube political commentary) so the only reference point I had for this idea of trans was channels roasting the idea of being trans, and this was a manner of speaking that I adopted myself. [...] Thanks to actually speaking to people I was able to stop myself from going further down a really dark path, which who knows where it would have led me if I kept following it. Nowadays I try my best, I may still say something that comes off as insensitive, if we’ve never spoken before, I may use the wrong pronouns and if I do then please tell me, it’s not my intention to make anyone feel uncomfortable around me.

Right, so now we’re getting quite a bit more personal, much of what I said in the prior section also applies here, so I’m not going to repeat it again to save you some time. Have you ever heard the idea that the most homophobic people tend to be so because they’re afraid of who they are inside, they’re afraid that they might secretly be gay themselves. Well I can’t speak for anyone else but that is the case for me, not gay but I did realize maybe a year or 2 back that I was bi. This isn’t something I’ve ever stated publicly before because frankly it’s not anyone else’s business, and I never wanted to deal with either praise or hatred for “coming out”, I’m just living my life. I didn’t want to use any of the resources back then most likely due how I felt about trans people at the time, but this is something that I’ve come to terms with within myself.
I’m not saying any of this to deflect from what I said back then or try to win anyone over by saying I’m bi now, what I was saying back then was really really stupid. And I’m not saying that everyone who may have anger towards gay people are gay themselves but I would encourage you to first look inward at why you might have that stance.

Back then I quite often made comments in support of anime loli art, shared art and there was a UN debate about the topic at the time in which I was vehemently opposed to. The loli discussion has been done to death online and nothing I say here is going to change the opinion one way or another of anyone who has formulated an opinion on the topic. All I will say is as anime has moved from this niche nerdy thing that people in Japan watch and weird people outside the country get bullied for enjoying, to this hyper mainstream visual medium to the point where you have Vtubers singing “Take me out to the ball game” officially endorsed at Dodger Stadium (yes that happened and is happening again). The term loli which was already very loosely used at the time has become even more general of a term as the times have changed, covering from just cute anime girls all the way to actual gross illegal shit

This makes any comment on the topic very difficult as every individual is going to apply their own definition to what the word means especially so when looking back at old comments. Much like the term furry which to some covers everything from people in fursuits to full blown zoophiles, others make a distinction between the 2 because being a zoophile is absolutely gross. To be very clear, loli as in the pedo stuff is horrible and gross and I will never condone it in any shape or form.

Covering

eepyk1tt3nz informed us that after his response, some of his FOSS friends ignored it or covered for him.

Reccomendations to the community

We will repeat those made by eepyk1tt3nz

Opensource desperately needs better advocates—opensource leaders have propped up Brodie for public relations. Representatives from big distros like Fedora, companies like System76 and projects like OBS.
We are of course not blaming these organizations but it shows the trust and role Brodie was given by the community.