This is the claim that disturbs me the most because instead of being ignorance or wishful thinking like the other claims, this one takes some real deception, mental gymnastics, and twisting of the facts. This one, to put it simply, is a big fat lie.

This is the claim:

I’m not going to bother blurring out izzy galvez like I have the other people on this blog, because their identity is relevant to the rest of this post, and since there’s no way for me to obscure their username/information on an archived post they made to reddit, blacking/blurring them out in the tweet seems pretty unnecessary, and pointless. Please don’t jump all over their twitter page because of this post. Izzy already firmly defends Sarah and is twisting evidence to suit this viewpoint, so presenting them with this post or any other is just going to get you blocked and ignored. Please don’t bother and please don’t go out of your way to harass izzy as it accomplishes nothing. This is a blog to link to to those sincerely asking for, or demanding evidence, not to spam at those twisting evidence to suit their needs. Moving on.

Izzy wrote the following post on /r/gamerghazi to go along with this tweet, this tweet being the “condensed” version of the post. Archived link here.

The long and short of this post are these claims:

Gamergate claims that the leaked chat logs were from ffshrine.org.

Archive.org/the Wayback Machine doesn’t show logs on ffshrine.org, according to this image:

The logs were edited in August 2015, according to this screenshot of the wayback machine:

Therefore, if the logs were edited in August 2015 and there is no archive link on the Wayback Machine, it appears obvious that the chat files were tampered with recently, and the people who leaked the logs are lying.

Interesting accusations, and super interesting that the “evidence” provided includes screenshots rather than archive links, and has blacked out what website is actually being pulled up in the archives. veeeerrryyy interesting.

First things first. It is remarkably easy to remove your website from the Wayback Machine. This is why it has become much more popular to use other archiving services such as archive.is to preserve webpages, as the Wayback Machine is fallible. Find out how to remove your own website easily from the Wayback machine here, here, or here. It’s astoundingly simple.

Second, the website in the above screenshots is NOT Sarah’s website ffshrine.org. The screenshots are taken from this link. The website in question is slyph.org, owned by Roph, one of the other individuals from the chat logs who was responsible for leaking the 2nd and 3rd log dumps. The third log link is a direct link to a file hosted on Roph’s website slyph.org. (Source of Roph’s leak here, encyclopedia dramatica forums so tw for transphobic language). The direct link to log html files as of today is still active on Roph’s site.

Quote from Roph regarding their first dump of chat logs:

Also, turns out these were online and visible already, in the folder you guys found the “LOL.html” in. At some point years ago I disabled directory listing on that server. These were public for years, so I have no qualms sharing them. Despite the fact that I cringe so bad seeing how I typed a decade ago. I’m surprised these weren’t circulating already tbh Here’s a text file to prove I own slyph.org: http://slyph.org/roph.txt And here are a few years of logs: https://mega.nz/#!OsoQTIQT!L6MGaFxI0itPM-Jg-ccpeJ6VBP7C3UhwXi10fh-HoZs

So, why isn’t ffshrine, Sarah’s site on the Wayback machine? Why is there nothing available from ffshrine.org/logs archived there, as izzy says? Because ffshrine.org/logs has been excluded from the Wayback machine:

So then, how do we know for a fact that the chat logs are originally from Sarah’s website ffshrine.org? Because all of the webcitation links to the original chat logs hosted on ffshrine.org/logs STILL WORK. Click here to see a pastebin with direct links to chat logs hosted on the ffshrine.org servers. Here is one example of many archived links from ffshrine.org, with this on the header in case you can’t be bothered to check:

Note that “cached” in 2015 does not mean that the site is from 2015. The cache is of a direct link to logs from 2005. Similarly, the “edited in 2015″ (that I can’t seem to locate for myself regarding slyph.org) in izzy’s screencap of slyph.org only proves that Roph uploaded files in 2015, NOT that the files were edited in 2015, or that they were created in 2015.

Okay, so we know the first log leak was definitely from ffshrine.org. Sarah even admits this in this archived tweet.

@srhbutts: GG hacked into my server to get 10 year old logs to harass me over.

These files, as shown in the webcite archives, were directly hosted on ffshrine.org/logs and were not “hacked.” But they definitely were from ffshrine.org and Sarah’s own website.

“But that’s only the first leak! what about leaks 2 and 3 from Roph? How can we trust those?”



We know that the Roph who leaked the “newer” logs is the same Roph from the chats because the newest leak was hosted directly on Roph’s personal website, and not an anonymous dropbox.

As far as the idea that the logs from Roph were “tampered with” or edited in any way, I’m going to go on a limb and say that thousands upon thousands of lines of chat logs full of casual conversations that seamlessly read like natural chat logs matching the first set of logs, with multiple users all typing in similar ways throughout the entirety of the chat, with nothing appearing to be edited or tampered with, weren’t tampered with. But again, don’t take my word for it. Read for yourself the logs here, here, and here.

Even IF you want to say that the second and third leaks from Roph are completely fabricated, fine. Go ahead and do that, despite it making no sense whatsoever. I’ve given plenty of solid evidence that the 2005 logs were directly hosted on ffshrine servers, making something like this 100% verified to be Sarah:

Sarah: sorry I’m just in a weird mood after what happened yesterday Smokey: what happened yesterday Sarah: oh. I assumed you’d heard Sarah: computer got seized [sic] Smokey: seized for what? Sarah: probably related to me being reported at krap? Sarah: they reported me for… being a pedophile, I guess Sarah: apparently that’s enough to warrant them taking my stuff Smokey: who took it Sarah: it was the police.

(users discussing what to call the ‘new ffshrine website’ in case the site goes down from this computer seizure)

Smokey: danais2cute.com Sarah: ^^ Sarah: can’t wait until I see dana. unless I end up in jail by Christmas —-_–

EDIT: Sarah claims this bit about computer seizure is fabricated. No way to be sure either way so here is a link to her perspective.

related: Sarah is admitted pedophile on 2006 forum post, is known as a pedophile by online communities in 2007

Take a look at the direct link to the web citation for this exact chat log here to read full context if you still doubt me. EDIT: SARAH HAS REMOVED THE WEBCITATION LINKS. See this post for details.

In summary:

Those claiming that the ffshrine.org logs were never actually hosted on ffshrine.org because of the removal of ffshrine.org/logs from the Wayback Machine while ignoring the still active webcitation links, and claim that files uploaded on another person’s website in 2015 are from ffshrine.org are deliberately manipulating you and lying to your face. Those who claim that the second and third chat log leaks from Roph were tampered with when they match the structure and writing style of the first logs from 2005 are being either willfully ignorant, idiotic, or are in denial.

***EDIT***

FURTHER CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE from Roph/@sunosis that his logs are from ffshrine.org and not faked

The above link shows instances where the leaked logs match up with randomly posted snippets of the IRC chat that were on the old ffshrine sub-site for music downloads, Galbadia hotel. Some archived snippets include mentions of visiting Dana (in the context of discussions about little girls), Sarah mentioning that her “LGF” (little girlfriend) is Dana, and a mention of Roph’s site slyph.org proving that Roph from the chat and slyph.org’s owner are one and the same.