YouTube artist and animator Synnibear03, who started uploading to the platform in 2015, recently released an apology video apologising for sharing explicit artwork and written pieces with Eno, a fellow animator who has about 200 subscribers on the platform. Eno was seemingly underage when Synni sent them the explicit messages.
On February 20, 2026, Synnibear03 shared a nine-minute video titled “final apology.” Here she opened by explaining how she met Eno:
“I met Eno through another YouTuber, the details of which are not very important. At first, I wasn’t very interested in being their friend, and while they were persistent in checking in on me and trying to start a conversation with me, I wasn’t very receptive. It honestly should have stayed that way. However, we started talking a lot more frequently when my interest became the topic of conversation.”
Soon Synni started sharing “explicit content” with an underage Eno:
“I started sharing things with Eno that I reasonably shouldn’t have, and it quickly devolved into me sending them explicit content. To be absolutely clear, this did not include nude pictures of myself or Eno. I wasn’t attracted to Eno in any way. I just shared a lot of explicit artwork with them and written scenarios.”
She then attributed her actions to growing up consuming ‘p*rnographic’ content:
“When I was a child, I developed p*rn addiction. I was looking at a lot of p*rnography a kid, and I didn’t exactly see the harm that it had done to me, and so I didn’t see the harm in showing it to a child.”
Synnibear03 then spoke to Eno directly, apologising for her actions:
“Whether Eno can hear this themselves or if they’re having a friend relay this back to them, I really hope they’ll know just how sorry I am that I’ve done this. I’m sorry for showing you the things that I showed you. I’m sorry I kept in contact with you for so long…”
Eno responds to Synnibear03
In a YouTube comment below Synni’s apology, Eno responded, describing their experience with the apology as like “a year-old wound being torn open.” While they appreciated Synni for acknowledging the situation, they also noted that the consequences spilled over into their actual life, saying:
“My friends found out. My parents found out. I was grounded for months. People look at me differently now.”
Further, they told Synnibear03 that they do not “hate” or “fully blame” them. She also defended the YouTuber, shutting down claims that she was a pedophile:
“I find it deeply disrespectful how casually this situation is being joked about, especially people calling Synni a p-dophile. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: I do not believe she is one.”
For Eno, choosing forgiveness or deciding how to feel about something this personal is something only they and other directly affected people get to decide:
“it is not anyone else’s place to decide whether she deserves forgiveness.”
In other news, popular YouTuber Dream faced backlash from an old video of him allegedly cheating in a Minecraft Championship.
Edited by Vishnu Menon
