I posted this here before, but I'm gonna repeat this because I think it's important to keep this in mind whenever we speculate about Null's whereabouts or why he won't show his face anymore. I said at the time, and I still believe this, that Null wants people to speculate wildly about him, to spread as many baseless rumours as possible, because the more rumours circulate regarding his whereabouts, the safer he is as people can no longer distinguish what's merely a rumour and what's an actual lead to his location:
I have seen various levels of belief and disbelief expressed online regarding the claims that Joshua Moon has made about himself over the years. I have personally been subjected to Null's (failed) attempts at gaslighting (which is why he got mad at me and threatened to ban me, because he realized I wasn't gonna go along with his claims) so I understand the tendency to distrust all of his claims.
For example, on your forum there are people who believe that Null is still a virgin, that he's a life-long incel and that any claim he's ever made of having been with a woman is just a part of his online LARP as an "internet tough guy". Others will claim the very opposite, that Null has been using his forum as a dating pool, that he was regularly hitting on female Kiwis and that he has had sex with some of them.
Same with Null's alleged whereabouts. I've seen speculation that he's never actually left the US and that the "Null in Ukraine and Serbia" plotlines are just elaborate deflections so that no one goes looking for him in the US. I've also seen speculation that he's a Chinese intel asset. Null as an online troll and LARPer is actively encouraging such wild speculation. For example, when "Odysseus" aka Isaac began speculating about Null's Chinese connection right here on your forum, Null quietly logged into his Substack Overflow account and changed his public location tag to
Dalian, a large city in China:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/4635062/josh
Archived:
https://archive.ph/Cfuzu
Does that mean that Null has left Serbia and is now living in Dalian all of a sudden... or is this just more deliberate LARPing and trolling on his part? I assume it's the latter, but who knows.
All joking aside, I am just using this as an illustration of what happens when, in the absence of actual evidence, one rumour leads to another and how Null is exploiting this human tendency so he can continue to troll and LARP.
The fact is that there's a sorry lack of receipts for any of these claims and positions. If we put the receipts that we do have on the table (like the picture of the nest of pigeons on his balcony from MATI), we only notice the sorry lack thereof. It's up to people themselves whether they choose to go along with whatever claims Null has made about himself, or whether they insist on receipts and hence dispute all of it.
I personally do believe that Null had a Serbian(? Moldovan?) girlfriend since 2019 until January of 2023, and that she was the one enabling him to stay in Serbia(?) legally and above board. I have no receipts whatsoever to back up this belief. My belief in this plot line is entirely based on MATI episodes and my own reading-between-the lines on some of the things that Null said during these episodes*. I admit this is flimsy but it's all I have. I don't know if I believe Null when he claims to have a daughter in response to the K.Flay song, I'll assume that was just an innocent Freudian slip on his part that I shouldn't read more into. But for all I know he really did have a (Serbian?) anchor baby with this alleged girlfriend.
The onus is on Null to provide receipts for his claims. If he's been actively misleading his listeners with false plot lines, it's not their fault for believing. They gave him the benefit of the doubt and he abused their given benefit.
* Here's the flimsy evidence I gathered from listening to MATI: Null was playing a lot of love songs on MATI in early 2019 to mid 2019 (including KFlay's love song High Enough) when he was presumably falling in love with this woman. At the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020, Null moved from Ukraine to (Serbia?), presumably to be with this woman. Later he did a MATI episode where he generally and non-specifically spoke about moving in with someone after 6 months of dating and having to adjust to living with another person again. This was presumably around the time he left Ukraine and moved to (Serbia?) to be with this woman. Then there is this IRL "friend" that he keeps referring to, a friend who is not Vincent Zhen/"Vinnie", that Null deliberately makes sure not to use any gender-specific pronouns for, referring to this genderless IRL friend only as
"they". For example, when Null mentions a
"friend" who
"wants me to watch Breaking Bad with them", or a "friend" with whom he was going to do a keto diet, these are presumably one and the same friend. I have chosen to interpret these dropped bits and pieces of innuendo as references to his Serbian girlfriend, who supposedly likes Breaking Bad and is likely herself chubby and in need of dieting like Null. (Null has allegedly dated a chubby woman before, if this picture is to be believed.) At the beginning of this year, Null said in the KF chatroom that he had some kind of an irreconcilable fight with an IRL friend, not specifying the gender of this friend. Later on MATI he said, quote, "
Don't date Slavic women, they'll kick your ass". This negative statement about Slavic women literally came out of nowhere, but I took this to mean that the woman he began dating in 2019 and for whom he had moved to Serbia in 2020, had likely kicked his ass out in the mean time, perhaps because he was too preoccupied with #DropKiwiFarms to maintain their relationship. If I'm right and this break up did happen, it would certainly explain why Null is so hellbent on getting KF back online and even suing to achieve that, because maybe he feels like #DropKiwiFarms cost him not only his website but his girl?