A popular V-Tuber who was recently arrested for possessing indecent non-photographic images of children has been revealed as a trans-identified male. Jordan Williams, also known as “Alexandra Williams” or Mimi Yanagi, was exposed by keen investigators on controversial forum KiwiFarms.
Controversy surrounding Williams first exploded last week after a post was made to his X account revealing that he had been arrested in the UK on April 20 and had been forced to migrate to a new account as a condition of his bail.
“On Monday April 20th, Mimi was arrested by the UK Police for possession of her artwork, and her artwork alone. She’s currently on bail pending the outcome of a criminal investigation into her accounts and activities. All of her devices were seized as a result of the arrest,” the post read.
Williams was known for writing in the third-person as part of his child-like “Mimi Yanagi” persona.
The post went on to note that the new account was required by police to contain his legal name of Alexandra Williams, and that posts to that account had to be entirely “safe for work” in nature.
A friend of Williams’ later posted redacted copies of his bail documents in an effort to prove the announcement was real and not a fabricated story for viral attention.
The documents, which explicitly detailed conditions which involved not having any unsupervised contact with children, were posed next to a children’s stuffed animal.
so i was getting these questions a lot regarding mimi's arrest, and with her permission, i have her bail bond form right here.
— The Goon 🎤💥 (@TheTopTierGoon) May 2, 2026
sadly yes gamers. she was arrested for her commissions, and is being treated like she did something to a real kid.
the uk is COOKED chat. https://t.co/R9g1N5g10X pic.twitter.com/RceDpsdazG
While the exact charges are censored, it is known that Williams was charged under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, a law which makes it illegal to possess “prohibited images of a child,” including cartoons, drawings, and computer-generated material deemed pornographic and obscene. Crucially, the law does not require a real victim—images can be prosecuted if a reasonable viewer would interpret the subject as under 18.
Prior to his arrest, Williams was a popular V-Tuber who presented himself through the avatar of a young, pink-haired girl and led most of his followers to believe he was female. He frequently commissioned highly-sexual artwork of his Mimi Yanagi persona and posted it for his followers on multiple platforms.
Williams’ story sparked international debate, with many rushing to his defense and claiming that the arrest would put a chill on freedom of artistic expression, regardless of the content. Multiple large accounts argued that it did not matter that Williams frequently depicted his child-like avatar in an extremely sexual manner, and dismissed accusations of “pedophilia” by deferring to the “loli” subculture.
“Loli,” short for lolicon, traces its name loosely to Victor Nabokov’s 1958 novel Lolita but developed its own meaning within anime and manga subculture. Originating in Japan in the late 20th century, it refers to stylized depictions of young or childlike female characters, often in sexualized and lewd ways.
Critics of the subculture note that sexualizing even animated representations of children is inherently pedophilic and concerning. Strong critics of “loli” include Schlep, a Texas-based Roblox YouTuber known for exposing child predators on the platform through sting operations. Schlep once noted that significant amount of predators he caught ended up being in possession of fantasy child erotica.
Lolicon is pedophilia. If you gratify yourself to sexualized images of animated children you’re a predator
— Schlep (@RealSchlep) March 31, 2026
the fact X allows a community of these people to thrive on here is very shocking. Do better @Safety https://t.co/qekaWT8OCl
Proponents of the subculture, however, often go to great lengths to harass those who criticize their enjoyment of sexualized child-like characters, and defend their “hobby” as being a victimless indulgence. They also claim that it is wrong to criminalize those found in possession of animated sexual depictions of children.
One of the most prominent names defending Williams was ChibiReviews, a popular YouTuber who frequently defends “loli” artwork on that basis. ChibiReviews framed Williams as a victim of a police state, and told his followers that Williams had been “arrested for drawings.” ChibiReviews, along with a number of Williams’ supporters, believed him to be female as that is how he presented himself online.
I want to make a long statement here on the events about the VTuber Mimi that got arrested for artwork
— Chibi Reviews (@ChibiReviews) May 2, 2026
You can find the artwork that got her into trouble disgusting and outright weird. I have always had this stance on content. However advocating for the censorship of it is… pic.twitter.com/WaeVklae7C
But new information on Williams uncovered by users at KiwiFarms has put a damper on the narrative that he was arrested for simple, harmless artwork.
A number of KiwiFarms users banded together to contribute to a massive thread exposing Williams as a trans-identified male whose birth name was Jordan and is from the South West of England. Back-tracing Williams’ past social media handles, the users found Jordan’s old Reddit accounts where he discusses his transgender identity.
The Reddit history revealed Williams was an ardent anti-feminist and had a particular disdain for women who did not support gender ideology.
“The current wave of ‘transphobia’ is basically being created by a group calling themselves ‘Gender Critical’,” Williams wrote while using the name NebulaMink. “They’re a collective clique of ‘radical feminists’ who hold a strictly essentialist view on gender/sex.”
He continued: “GC’ers do not do good faith debate. They’re a community so toxic other Feminist subreddits often ban their members on sight. They fundamentally see trans people, especially trans women, as fundamentally inferior, and some of their literature has called for transgender people to be ‘morally mandated out of existence’. That’s where most of the anger and lashing out comes from. A whole lot of vulnerable people being forced to defend their right to exist from a group that’s more than happy to roll back decades of progress (and often sides with far-right elements to do so) out of pure malice.”
At one point, Williams participated in harassing the PCOS subreddit after accusing it of harboring transphobic members, and called upon the moderators of the subreddit to ban women who appeared transphobic.
In another post Williams made to Reddit in 2020, he suggested “going after Mumsnet” to fully deprive British women critical of gender ideology a space to discuss their concerns with trans-identified males.
In addition to posting anti-feminist content, Williams identified with the MGTOW movement, and once wrote: “I am attracted to women, but resist the urge to act on the attraction as I know the risks outweigh the benefits. In addition, I know there are bad men and good women. The difference is that bad men are thoroughly reviled and condemned, whilst bad women are usually given a pass by society at large.”
Williams ran an account on a Mastodon server that intersects with a community colloquially known among its members as the “pediverse,” where he connected with various “lolicon” artists and commissioned them for highly disturbing child pornography images.
The drawings are explicitly sexual and show the pink-haired childlike Mimi character in various situations of abuse.
Some of the content commissioned by Williams involved an animated short video depicting child rape, while most images included scenarios involving his young female child character being sexually abused by animals or monsters.
Williams also operated an account on the Japanese social networking service known as Pixiv, which is intended as an online community for illustrators and manga creators. Pixiv is a popular website for hosting the illustrated child pornography that is shared among members of the pediverse.
On Pixiv, Williams had bookmarked thousands of images of illustrated and animated child pornography.
On Pixiv’s subscription-based forum, Fanbox, Williams had saved images with incestuous themes, and of preschool children being raped. He also followed an account dedicated solely to infants being raped, and added one of the horrific drawings to his “favorites” folder. Several of the accounts followed by Williams on Fanbox promoted the illustrations by using the hashtag #pedo, and one account featured pornographic drawings of a real child actress.
Both Pixiv and Fanbox are Japanese websites, and are known for hosting a trove of animated and 3D-generated child sexual abuse material. Such content is legal in Japan, where the possession of sexual abuse material involving real children was only criminalized in 2014. While Japan briefly considered extending that ban to animated depictions of child sexual abuse, publishing and manga industry organizations led protests demanding that artwork of children being sexually abused be exempted from any laws intended to crack down on pedophilic images.
Since being exposed as a trans-identified male, some former supporters of Williams have walked back their support.
ChibiReviews, who previously ardently defended Williams on the basis of supporting his right to access sexualized depictions of children, made a post today announcing he had change his mind.
“I think after seeing what evidence that was provided. I have found my limit to Anti-Censorship on this topic,” ChibiReviews wrote in reference to the KiwiFarms thread, though did not seem to specify why some sexualized artistic depictions of children were defensible in his opinion, while others are not.