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Justin Roiland's Leaked DMs To A 16-Year-Old Fan Is Disturbing, And Several Women Have Accused Him Of Manipulating And Victimizing Them

 Justin Roiland – the creator of the popular animated series Rick and Morty – is facing domestic violence charges over an incident involving his ex-girlfriend. The writer recently denied these allegations, but he has yet to address the leaked messages he reportedly sent to minors on social media platforms. 

It’s such a predictable, disappointing cycle. It seems that every few weeks we hear about a beloved (or once beloved) creator being accused of sexual misconduct or being charged with a serious felony. Not to sound jaded or anything, but it’s almost like a rite of passage these days for liking anyone with even a slight amount of fame attached to their name.

Roiland's previous fans have accused him of predatory behavior, which involves incidents from when they were just teens. According to the alleged victims, Roiland abused his status to approach minors on social media.

One person on January 15 shared their alleged old messages with Roiland, but went private after releasing them. "On September 2015 Justin Roiland followed me on twitter, I was 16. Of course I was so excited because I loved R&M at the time!" she writes in a now-deleted tweet. "So I messaged him first and we started talking every now and then, some of it very casual but some parts were 100% weird."

Justin Roiland of Rick and Morty fame has seen a massive fall from grace over the last few weeks. The man behind one of the most successful shows of the 2010s, and the face of the resurgence of adult animation, is now almost completely dead to his former fans.

Other texts which have been attributed to Roiland have also been unearthed from 2015, in which he made sexually suggestive comments towards a teenage fan. He jokes that she should go into sex slavery, before describing her as “jailbait” (a term used to describe underage girls who are deemed attractive by adults).

Roiland also suggests the fan go into “cam whoring” (adult webcam streaming) when she turns 18, before asking if the FBI follows her around for being “jailbait”. Messaging an underage fan in the first place is already an uncomfortable ground to tread, but the remarks and use of the same homophobic slur seem to be a recurring theme for him.

 

In this case, I’m talking about Justin Roiland, the creator of (and most prominent voice actor in) Rick and Morty. As per the court (and a fantastic legal explainer from our own Lisa Dunn), in 2020 Roiland was charged with “one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.” In other words, during January 2020, Roiland allegedly struck an ex-girlfriend with such severity that she needed medical care, and then he prevented her from leaving their shared home