When I was 20 years old, Jason Thor Hall (aka PirateSoftware), aged 31 at the time, emotionally abused and manipulated me for his own sexual and financial gain.
Thor’s actions had a severe impact on my life, causing me to give up being a university student and content creator.
This website details our interactions, how he manipulated me, and how I was coerced into silence.
After I was silenced in 2019, I tried to forget about that experience. However, I started to see Thor’s resurgence on online platforms. I decided to write a Google Doc about my experience with Thor.
At first, I was going to point out his hypocrisy when he accused me of cheating on him when I roleplayed with someone else. I documented each conversation, putting together my traumatic experience, bit by bit, in a way I did not previously comprehend. Over time, it evolved into this website.
Thor’s friend and business partner Shaye (aka RiverMakes, FlSHB0NES), aged 22 at the time—while at first sympathetic to my situation—would ultimately be a willing accomplice to Thor silencing me.
On my YouTube channel I would upload piano transcriptions of music from video games, among them indie games such as Undertale, Celeste, and OneShot. In February 2018 I would transcribe and publish a track from Thor’s game, Heartbound. We started talking shortly after, with our conversations mostly revolving around copyright and content creation.
On August 26th, 2018, I would make a large donation of $800 to Thor while he was streaming the development of his game. From that moment onward, Thor suddenly expressed immense romantic interest with me. On the next day, August 27th, Thor would, unprovoked, initiate erotic roleplay with me. Our “love” would continue to blossom.
He started to shower me with affection, praise, and attention, making me feel special and valued (love bombing). However, when I would express any reluctance to commit to him and solely him, he would shame me by calling me corrupt or clueless.
Thor specifically says his ideal version of me is infatuated, obsessed, and willing to donate all of my money to him.
When I told him repeatedly that I was not interested in a committed relationship, Thor insisted that I change my mind, not taking “no” for an answer. Among the tactics he employed, he tried to gaslight me into believing that I was already implicitly committed to him by virtue of having no love interests in my life.
After he manipulated me into asking him to date me, he was able to convince me to act my part of a committed relationship without being “official”, by blaming my reluctance (saying no to him several times):
Throughout our conversations he constantly pushed for us to meet at TwitchCon 2018. He would regularly bring up how nice it would be to see me there and how we would have a lot of “fun” there, even counting down the days til we meet.
We met up at TwitchCon 2018, as planned, on October 26.
On the first day, we roamed with Shaye and some other streamers. By night, the group went to a bar, but I could not join since I was underage. Later that night, Thor excused himself from the bar to join me in my hotel room.
On the second day, while we were roaming without Thor, Shaye mentioned that Thor has a “secret wife”. After we went back to Thor’s hotel room I messaged him asking about a wife, which he denied and blamed me for “misunderstanding”. [Final Conversation]
Since Thor refused to talk, I decided to message Shaye about it.
I explained my situation to Shaye, and when asked if it was true, I sent screenshots of the conversation where I guided Thor to my hotel room. Shaye was sympathetic, and they would tell me that they and Thor were sexual partners, and that they were in an agreement to be open at the con as long as they communicated it with each other. [Recollection of TwitchCon]
Shaye was devastated that Thor broke their trust by sleeping with me, and messaged Thor about his uncommunicated infidelity. Thor blamed me and denied any involvement with either myself or Shaye.
I left the room, and he blocked me.
In early March 2019 I charged back a donation of $800 made in August 2018. Thor would publicly call me out by name and make posts on Twitter, painting me as a scammer. On April 1st 2019 Thor filed a DMCA claim against my YouTube channel.
On April 5th 2019, I posted about the strike on Twitter, and Thor would continue calling me out on the chargeback. I responded with a Google Doc recounting my experience with Thor at TwitchCon.
In the past 5 years he deleted his original Discord announcement addressing the situation (as well as all messages in his Discord around that time).
However, considering members of his community as well as Shaye claim these “facts”, we can conclude that this information comes directly from Thor.
There were three aspects to Thor’s defense:
In reality:
His defense was effective at the time, as the public has no greater knowledge about any of these facts.
He had reasonable deniability for his marriage since it wasn’t publicized.
He told the online community that I publicly leaked his phone number. He claimed that there were attacks on his personal phone number.
Members of his community would claim this publicly, and Shaye would also use this as a reason to convince my partner to convince me to delete my posts.
Thor was able to lie so confidently that even I would end up believing him. At the time I didn’t read back through the chat logs so I didn’t know that his phone number wasn’t actually there.
I found another romantic partner in January 2019. Thor and Shaye would contact my partner to convince them of my wrongdoing. They told my partner that I doxxed them, attacked them, and proposed a solution (source):
Convinced by Thor and Shaye’s lies and manipulation, my partner would give me an ultimatum, that I have to drop the “drama” and delete all my posts in order to show that I care about our relationship. My partner assured me that Shaye was trustworthy because they have a mutual friend, and assured me that Thor was trustworthy because he agreed to delete his posts.
On April 14th 2019, I was coerced to delete all of my posts. However, Thor and Shaye did not delete any of their messages as promised, instead leaving all of their Twitter replies and Discord posts public, making it look like I was remorseful because my “stunt” didn’t work and further cementing the image of a “scammer”.
During these events, I was in college, double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. I maintained a 3.92 GPA over my first four semesters. After the events mid-Fall 2018, my next GPAs were 2.76 then 2.57. After that semester, I dropped out.
In April 2019, when I tried to speak out, Thor turned everyone against me. I thought if I stayed honest, that I would at least be given an opportunity to explain myself. Instead, I had people vandalize my Google Doc, say I was appropriating the narrative of real victims, and accuse me of doxxing and attacking Thor.
I felt abandoned by everyone. What was once a desire to create free educational content was replaced by feelings of inadequacy and abandonment. I posted less and less, and I stopped making content entirely in 2023.
On Feb 22, 2025, Shaye deleted their replies to my tweet.