LOVE LIVE: HIDDEN WIKI
VOL.1: 2016 TWITTER HACK
Did you know?
In late 2016, after Muse disbanded for nearly half a year, an unfortunate incident happened.
Three out of nine former Muse members got their Twitter account hacked.
Kotori Minami, Rin Hoshizora and Eli Ayase were the victims of the hacker account DatBoi - who had been banned from every Love Live! event since, but was lifted the ban a few months ago; although he's still being suspended from every Love Live related Twitter accounts apart from the official one - this includes the seiyuus' personal and Love Live accounts. The event allowed the hacker to access the phone books and photo albums of their mobile devices which was ultimately used against them.
Origins
It all started when the hacker used Kotori and Eli's accounts to spam offensive remarks towards a Japanese gaming streamer, who is also a big Love Live! fan, in the chat in one of his School Idol Festival streams. DatBoi, whilst pretending to be Kotori and Eli, told the chat to call the streamer an "*ssh*le" due to "male in LL are all tr*sh", and later on even sending death threats to him for the same reason. There was one thing that exploit something was not okay: the word "c*nto" - which was basically "c*nt" with an "o" behind to make it Japanese, from the hacker; Japanese people never swears like that.
Unfortunately, the majority of the people in the stream proceeded to make offensive jokes about "male in Love Live" until the death threats, which all of them noticed had gone too far and realised that was NOT those two.
Things about to get much worse...
Kotori Minami
Kotori surprisingly came out as the luckiest during all the madness. She was online but not on Twitter to watch the stream, but thank god, her mom did. Principal Minami was watching the stream to relax and noticed something wasn't right, especially when it came from her daughter's account. She quickly informed Kotori, but when the two came back, "Kotori" was banned from his stream after receiving death threats. Although the hacker tweeted offensive posts while pretending to be Kotori, as well as the aforementioned streaming incident, nothing was used personally against her.
Next morning, after an online conversation between the Minami's and the streamer, he lifted the ban for both Kotori and Eli - knowing they were hacked at the same time. Kotori then posted a picture of herself, her mom and the streamer, thanking DatBoi for returning her account back, as well as assuring her followers that she's back on track.
Rin Hoshizora
Not being on the stream like the other two, but Rin's Twitter was also the target for many offensive jokes, including World War II jokes towards the "Nazis". The hacker then found her photo album. 14 hours after the incident, a picture of Rin in Otonokizaka school was leaked. She was changing after a P.E class, when someone naughtily pictured that. The image was then removed (for obvious reasons) following Rin's re-gaining access to her account.
Rin, like Kotori, posted a picture of herself assuring her followers everything was under control. She then made the decision to remove any evidence of this hacking.
Eli Ayase
Due to witnesses of the incident, Eli unfortunately came off the worst. As well as the "*ssh*le" comment, she was leaked a photo of her having a bath with an unknown guy assumed to be at around her age (the photo I showed was just an example of how it was). Furthermore, the same kind of photo, with the same scenario was uploaded, this time with the guy covering Eli's chest with his arms, and the two was jokingly fooling around - which Eli quickly deleted. The previous one though, had already made it to Google. Why Eli had these photos still remains a myth, but she later confirmed it was real. And to quickly cool off her fanbase who couldn't accept she's not gay to Nozomi, Eli explained the photo was taken when she returned to Russia, and the guy in the photo was just a childhood friend she usually chatted online with when she was in Japan. The dude later also confirmed it was him.
Eli is like a friend of mine, she's trust-worthy, caring and a really cool girl to talk, when you understand her more than the outside. I hope everyone will forget this in days to come, as I am somewhat affected from this as well. And no, we're not in a relationship - in fact, we never have.
Taken via his Twitter - his account name will not be revealed for personal reasons.
Eli doesn't seem to be embarrassed or angry that her private image is on the Internet; she even laughs along when someone brings it up. "Haha! Maybe I'll end up dating Nozomi, or knowing him! How about both?", Eli jokingly answered when an interviewer brought up the incident.
