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Beloved streamer Valkyrae is coming under fire for a recent podcast appearance — and the drama is ... wait for it ... doll-licious.
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00:00Ruh-roh, beloved streamer Valkyrae is coming under fire for a recent podcast appearance,
00:06and the drama is — wait for it — dollicious.
00:08Is this a voodoo doll?
00:11Content creators Valkyrae and Sony have been broken up for years, but they still make headlines
00:16as a pair from time to time. Their relationship recently came up on a new episode of the Press
00:21Escape podcast, when Valkyrae's co-host, Alitha, gave her a voodoo doll she'd made of Sony.
00:26The gift and the following banter, during which Alitha commented,
00:30"...I hate that man."
00:31And Valkyrae jokingly suggesting testing the doll prompted a lengthy response from Sony
00:36on social media. In his post, Sony said that he hasn't spoken to Valkyrae in three years,
00:42but felt compelled to say something, because he was upset by the voodoo doll segment. He
00:47wrote,
00:48"...our relationship was toxic on both sides, but nobody ever cheated or was physically
00:52we both were hurt for our own reasons and hopefully healed at our own paces."
00:56Sony went on to say that even though he doesn't have a way to contact Valkyrae privately,
01:01he'd be open to having a conversation with her to put some of their past relationship
01:04issues to rest. Longtime Valkyrae fans know that she and Sony had a pretty ugly breakup,
01:10which is why we keep hearing about it years after it happened.
01:13This isn't the first time that Sony has talked about having a different view of the breakup
01:17than Valkyrae, but it is the first time he's publicly said that the relationship was a
01:22toxic one. Fans still don't know all of the ins and outs of what happened between Valkyrae
01:25and Sony, but some of them are hoping they're about to learn more details. Valkyrae was
01:30with Sony when things really started taking off in her career. They dated for about four
01:34years and seemingly broke up sometime in 2020, though both have hinted that they had a bit
01:39of an on-again-off-again relationship for a while.
01:42That may be where the hurt feelings really came in, because oddly enough, most of the
01:46public drama between Valkyrae and Sony has occurred after the split, when the breakup
01:50initially happened, it really seemed like the two had parted on mostly amicable terms
01:54with no major regrets. Valkyrae even defended Sony from some angry fans during a 2021 stream,
02:01explaining that they'd broken up simply because they'd grown apart and wanted different things.
02:05She'd also poked fun at people implying that she'd been disrespecting her ex by talking
02:09to another huge streamer, Corpse Husband.
02:12Wow, you're on the phone with Corpse behind Sony's back. Does that make you jealous? Does
02:18that make you upset?
02:20Over time, both Valkyrae and Sony have made comments that cast their breakup in a different
02:25light. In 2022, Sony caught some heat after talking on stream about having a friends-with-benefits
02:30relationship with one of his exes, which many assumed to be Valkyrae. Later that year, Valkyrae
02:34opened up about her past relationships on an episode of the 100 Thieves podcast, saying,
02:40I've had relationships in the past where, like, my partner will compare their success
02:44to mine. And it sucks. Like, it's the worst thing.
02:47That podcast prompted Sony to tell his viewers that he was considering going on streamer
02:51Trainwreck's podcast to lay out his side of the story. That never happened, but now that
02:57their issues are back in the news, maybe Sony will have more to say.
03:00A number of fans online seem to have been caught off guard by Sony's response to the
03:04press escape podcast, seeing Aletha's voodoo doll as a simple joke. Some have argued that
03:10since Valkyrae basically just laughed it off and moved on, Sony should have done the same.
03:14Some put the blame fully on Aletha for stirring up drama with the doll. Others were supportive
03:19of Sony's post and criticized Valkyrae for still talking about their relationship four
03:23years after it ended. Others think that even though Aletha made the voodoo doll, the fact
03:28it exists at all must prove that Valkyrae still says bad things about Sony to her friends.
03:33For her own part, Valkyrae offered a few brief responses to Sony's message. During her next
03:38stream, she said,
03:39"...I actually am curious how both sides were toxic. Like, the only toxic thing I did was
03:44get back with him over and over and over again and not become a housewife."
03:48Sony eventually deleted his post about Valkyrae, but she still had a few things to say on the
03:53matter. During an October 30th stream, Valkyrae told her audience that she'd reached out to
03:58him to explain that she still needed to talk to him about how those posts made her feel
04:02and look to other people. She explained that by reaching out, quote,
04:06they can come to a civil end.
04:08It seems that this discussion may have given her more peace than she expected.
04:11Not long after this confrontation, Valkyrae posted a simple message on ex-Clojure.