Overview

Onision Sexual Misconduct Allegations refers to claims that YouTuber Gregory Jackson (aka Onision) and his partner Kai Avaroe groomed a young girl named Sarah when she was an underaged foster child. In January 2019, rumors regarding the inappropriate relationship began spreading online, becoming more widespread later that year after Sarah made additional accusations on social media.

Background

In 2016, After befriending YouTuber married couple Onision and Lainey on Twitter, Sarah began making appearances in their YouTube videos (shown below, left). On February 8th, 2017, Sarah and Lainey streamed lived and spoke about how Sarah was now her foster child and Sarah moved into their house at age 16 (shown below, right).

On February 8th, 2017, Onision announced on his YouTube channel that Sarah would be leaving the house stating that it wasn't anyones fault but the internet's for complicating their relationship (shown below). The video gained over 349,200 views in two years.

Notable Developments

On January 4th, 2019 Ayalla Renan^[4] tweeted, "Sarah herself admitted to me at 15 in Greg’s house that she had not only been flirting back and forth with Lainey at some points but they also had romantic discussions. AT 15. Just because she’s 18 now doesn’t mean they’re any less PREDATORY" (shown below).

The next day, both Lainey and Onision streamed live to address her accusations and denied being inappropriate or sexually involved with Sarah at all (shown below). Despite their streams, many viewers refused to believe them due to Onision's negative relationship history^[7] and continued to dig up any evidence against them.

On January 13th, YouTuber Demoncub uploaded a video regarding Onision and Laineybot grooming their foster daughter (shown below). The video features clips of their stream, old tweets and videos. The video garnered over 107,300 views in eight months.

Sarah Speaks Out

On August 24th, 2019, Onision and Laineybot's foster child, Sarah, spoke about her relationship with them on YouNow saying that when she was 15 they would flirt back and forth with one another (shown below).

On September 3rd, influencer Ayalla Renan^[5] tweeted, "Onision And Kai intentionally skated the legal lines when they manipulated Sarah and groomed her for their Sexual Intensions. They’re Predators, but there is little legal protections for victims in these types of situations. I support her coming forward and you should too" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 1,000 likes and 160 retweets in a day. That same day, Sarah^[8] took to Twitter to leak screenshots of Onision and Kai acting inappropriately and to expose them for mistreating her. One tweet shows a conversation between Kai and Greg discussing Sarah's virginity (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 400 likes in a day.

The next day, Sarah^[9] posted screenshots of Onision's texts claiming that Sarah had raped them, lied and that she is under an NDA (shown below, right). The post garnered over 530 likes in a day. Hashtags like #WeStandWithSarah^[6] began trending in support of her. Various Subbreddits and Tumblr accounts like r/Onision,^[1] r/Drama^[3] and the Tumblr account ChaseAgainstOnision^[2] housed logs of all the gathered evidence against Onision and Lainey.

Onision's Breakdown Videos

Starting on November 21st, 2019, Onision posted a number of videos in showing himself crying, screaming and imploring to stop the and behaving in a manner symptomatic of a nervous breakdown, or acting in such manner (first video, titled "please stop this", shown below, left).^[10] On November 26th, 2019, Onision's Patreon account was suspended due to Onision tweeting screenshots of private text messages between himself and YouTuber Billie Dawn Webb.^[11] On the same day, Onision uploaded a video titled "wow" in which he behaved erratically and rambled about the Patreon ban (shown below, right). The video received over 804,400 views in two weeks.^[12]

In the following days, Onision posted more videos in which he rambled about his current situations and behaved in an erratic way (examples shown below).

A number of news outlets and users on YouTube, Twitter and other platforms suggested that Onision has been only acting as if he was experiencing a nervous breakdown.^[13][14]

Online memes about Onision behaving in a mentally unstable fashion gained popularity, particularly on Twitter (examples shown below), with his ramblings gaining popularity as copypastas.^[15][16]

Civil Lawsuits

According to Newsweek,^[15] Onision filed two civil lawsuits agained Chris Hansen and Daniel"Repzion" Sulbach accusing them of . On January 16th, 2020, Repzion^[16] tweeted, "This really is not how I wanted to start of 2020 -- but here we go….. After the 24th, I will be creating a gofundme for legal fees. Until after that point, please do not donate to any gofundme's that aren't tweeted by me directly. Receipts will be posted once complete" which gained over 5,900 likes an 600 retweets in two weeks (shown below).

On January 18th, Chris Hansen of the YouTube channel Have a Seat With Chris Hansen uploaded a video in which reveals the 911 call recordings made by Onision as Chris Hansen was knocking on his door to receive a comment about his sexual misconduct allegations.

On January 24th, Onision went to Pierce County District court in washington in hopes to begranted protection from both Hasen and Sulbach. Tha day, Twitter user @JoshPescatore^[17] announced that he was not granted an order of protection (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 1,300 likes and 190 retweets in five days. Accoring to Mike Morse Law Firm the suit was sent to the wrong Chris Hansen. The law firm posted the "wrong" Hansen's response to Twitter^[18] (shown below, right).

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