I never knew Rue personally, but I have read their posts. Their writing style is
completely different to what is portrayed in the alleged texts. The glimpse of the photo shown also doesn't match the description of what Rue looks like based on their own posts.
Furthermore, I thought Rue was a woman in her early twenties? A person on here who spoke with Rue claimed they were female. Rue also once said they would never get a boyfriend and would always be a virgin. I appreciate that isn't proof of any particular gender though and I don't want to assume anything.
I do know from reading Rue's posts that they were looking for a ctb partner for a while, changed their mind after encountering someone who seemed "off", but held onto hope they may meet someone. Rue seemed disappointed to have not met a partner, but not
that upset. They acknowledged partners for this rarely work out. They certainly didn't seem to be upset enough to threaten to rape someone's sister.
Furthermore, Rue repeatedly wrote that they lived with their mother and brother and hardly ever had any privacy. So inviting someone to their house really doesn't add up. The whole dialogue sounds staged and unrealistic, but the "like I did that one kid" part especially, assuming that's meant to imply Joe.
Unless there is solid evidence that
@Rue89 ever spoke to Joe - apart from one public comment in their goodbye thread - I am very skeptical about this.
Plus, why would someone sit on this information for more than a month and only post them when being held accountable for unacceptable behaviour? These are blatantly being used as justification for wishing death on Rue, repeatedly threatening to hunt them down and gloating when they eventually took their lives.
Here are the texts supposedly between Rue and a former member of SS:
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