Hi everyone, this is a very serious post. I dont usually post things like this and this is the only thing related to "drama" i will probably ever talk about on here. Please know that this is still all alleged and i don't have hard proof but i believe i know exactly how he got arrested as someone that was his acquaintance.
Huge trigger warning for CSA/CSEM/pedophilia, etc. Ignore if you are not interested
If you are a close friend of mine, you may know I'm family friends with an industry animator by the name of Kyle A Carrozza. He's not a close friend or anything and i rarely talk to him but he is very close to some other close friends and family of mine. He went to school with my parents and because of that i knew him since i was a child and he even commissioned me several times.
I looked up to Kyle a lot and i considered him an uncle even though he isn't related. I wanted to be just like him and be an animator. I would always be on his side when it came to any controversy he went through because i would be biased towards people i considered family, and because i thought i knew who he was.
On June 20th, Kyle was arrested for 2 charges of CSEM. (Child sexual abuse material, aka CP). here is the arrest log. He is still in jail. Apparently he wasn't answering calls or texts from friends or coworkers around this time and now we know why.
But how did the police find out he owned CP? I know why.
In September of last year, controversy around him and someone named Ang Vondra was at its height, with Kyle being accused of blacklisting Ang because she drew shotacon hentai. Coincidentally, his Google drive also was deleted out of nowhere without reason or warning. His email, youtube, drive, everything was gone. At first i assumed only close friends knew, but he was dumb enough to tell people about what happened on twitter.
For those not in the know, this is a huge red flag. Google only does this if they detect CSEM on your drive. When i first heard about this through one of my family members, i was really confused because i knew Google only does this for one reason. I assumed it was a false positive or someone hacked his account and deleted it due to the controversy.
The thing is with cloud services, they detect CSEM using a special method that is usually foolproof with rarely any false positives. Illegal material is flagged using image hashes. This video by Mutahar explains it and the link should go to a timecode in the video that explains the process.
Google probably sent the police tip and he's only now facing the consequences. It just adds up way too much.
I'm extremely heartbroken and felt betrayed because of this news. He got everyone to gas him up and defend him for something way less serious than what he was doing behind the scenes. This is batsh*t insane and i would have never assumed he was an actual pedophile the whole time. Its just so hypocritical. I guess him being upset at Ang was only to hide his own skeletons, which is unfortunately very common. Shota/lolicon is gross but this is objectively wrong. I guess fictional abuse is worse than real life abuse. Well f*ck you man. Look who's having the last laugh now. f*ck you Kyle for getting everyone to defend you and f*ck myself for ever thinking he was someone to look up to.
I also have some questionable interactions and experience with him.
I'm a victim of child grooming and at the time my abuser was being exposed, he kind of brushed off the situation and didn't really seem to care about my well being despite us being friends. It might have been because my parents didnt care either. Well i guess a pedophile isnt happy about other pedos being outed in hindsight.
Some other people i know who are friends with him are also speaking up about his creepy behavior and abuse from him. They excused it because they thought he was a good person. Now they realize what he did to them.
My heart goes out to everyone exploited by him, man. May justice be served. Please share and spread the news.
Again, this is all alleged and there is not hard proof. This is a theory.
EDIT: This is still innocent until proven guilty and i'm gonna explain how he could be innocent but it's unlikely
the reason why I didn't get any red flags in September 2023 when his Google account shut down is because a very similar situation happened to another artist the same year that was a false positive.
Have you heard of the Japanese artist, Naoki Saito? He is an official Miku and Pokemon artist and also makes tutorial and art advice videos, usually of him correcting other people's submissions that they consented to.
His Google account was similarly nuked without reason overnight. He was confused, but he had a theory - someone might have put something in his Google drive that was not safe for work and falsely flagged as CP. Naoki Saito was not found to have any illegal material in his drive and has not been arrested for anything, even if the drive contained CSEM it was not his fault.
It's also possible that this happened to Kyle. However, this is very unlikely. Kyle doesn't share his google drive folders willy nilly for people to upload things to that I know of. We are also only now finding out Kyle is in jail when he was arrested on June 20th, a good few weeks ago. This tells me that it wasn't one of his haters from the Ang situation. but rather Google themselves finding CSEM on his drive and contacting the authorities.
Again, this is only speculation. Who knows, maybe someone somehow maliciously put CP on his drive- but this is extremely unlikely.
