Since I am new to your forum, let me elaborate so that we can get this out of the way, and everyone here knows where I personally stand on this issue:
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, over which there is a lot of speculation and theorizing, not just here but all over the net. I've seen speculation that Null has never actually left the US and that the "Null in Ukraine and Serbia" plotlines are just elaborate deflections he has put out and perpetrated, 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 Lee Flores began speculating about Null's Chinese connection right here on your forum, Null quietly logged into his Stack Overflow account and changed his public location tag to
Dalian, a large city in China:
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Does that mean that Null has now left Serbia and is living in Dalian all of a sudden... or is this just more deliberate LARPing and trolling on his part to confuse people like "Odysseus"? 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 has a long-term Serbian girlfriend since 2019 and that she's the one enabling him to stay in Serbia legally and above board. I have no receipts whatsoever to back up this belief on my part. My belief in this plotline 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 many claims about himself. If he's been actively misleading his listeners with false claims, 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 have gathered from listening to MATI: Null was playing a lot of love songs on MATI in early 2019 to mid 2019 when he was presumably falling in love 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" from Steam, that Null deliberately makes sure not to use any gender-specific pronouns for, referring to this genderless IRL friend only as
"they/them". For example, when he 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. 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 chubby and in need of dieting like Null himself. Past Null seemed to be primarily into skinny, sporty white "andro girls" with flat stomachs, perky small breasts and short haircuts that look suspiciously like adolescent boys, but perhaps he's done a 180 on his taste in women since he's gotten into Youtube deathfats like Chantal and Amberlynn, and now instead of pizza rather prefers a Lasagna del Ray with whom he can romantically go on a diet. Feel free to say that I'm reading too much into it. On another MATI he said something to effect that Slavic women
"will yell at you if you don't clean up after yourself", and that they are used to asserting themselves because
"their fathers were all alcoholics", so they had to learn to be assertive at a young age due to growing up in abusive households. That comment, again, to me seems like a vague reference to his girlfriend. If Null has hooked up with a woman who had an alcoholic father and is long used to asserting herself before assholes putting her patience to the test, that says a lot about their relationship... allegedly.