Popular YouTube ‘zombie’ gaming couple at war over wild allegations of sexual assault, extortion and grooming

A prominent YouTube gaming couple known for their popularity in the online “zombie” community is at war over wild allegations of sexual assault and grooming in the wake of their ugly breakup.

MrTLexify – whose real name is Lex Iwan – has amassed 1.56 million followers since joining the platform in 2013.

While streaming on the platform Twitch, mutual fans were happy watching his romance with Reagan McNulty – known as puresoftie – until the two apparently split two years ago after McNulty stopped appearing in his streams.

Now the relationship has soured, with McNulty making explosive claims that Iwan ‘groomed’ her to become his girlfriend while she was underage.

He has hit back by insisting the relationship started when they were both under 18 years old. He denies all claims of impropriety and has not faced any criminal investigation.

But the scandal has sent shockwaves through their once shared fan base.

McNulty, 23, said she started talking to Zombie YouTuber Iwan, 26, when she was 15 and he was 18

One I hope you find peace.”

Another wrote: ‘Stay strong Lex, a lifelong fan of yours, I hate to see you have to deal with so much going on in the background. Be careful man.’

Iwan is part of the so-called zombie gaming community, who play and post videos of themselves playing the Call of Duty (COD) zombies mode – a popular survival mode featured in several COD titles, most notably the Black Ops series .

The allegations of Iwan’s inappropriate behavior surfaced in July after some community members began speculating about the timeline of the two-and-a-half-year relationship with his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Reagan McNulty, known as “puresoftie.” or Wren on her social media.

Iwan, who did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment, responded to speculation by saying his relationship with McNulty began when they were both minors and accused McNulty of extortion.

Iwan, who did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment, responded to speculation by saying his relationship with McNulty (pictured) began when they were both minors and accusing McNulty of extortion.

McNulty is a self-proclaimed e-girl, a subculture heavily influenced by emo, scene and mall goth culture combined with Japanese and Korean street fashion.

In response to the questions that surfaced about their relationship and Iwan’s I have lost the most important and formative years of my life to Lex Adrian Iwan, and I refuse to lose any more years.”

McNulty claimed that the two met at a ZHouse, a collective that comes together to play the COD zombies mode, meet and greet in Santa Monica on January 24, 2016.

‘Lex and I met in 2016 and started talking when I was 15 years old and he was 18 years old. We had an online relationship before meeting in person, with the intention of dating in 2017,” she said in a statement.

A year later, on July 4, 2017, McNulty said the two met in person. That night they reportedly had their first kiss while staying in the same hotel room.

This screenshot came from McNulty’s Instagram account. She said she had had this profile since high school, when she took over from another user after they deactivated their account. She said this conversation was about how Iwan “appreciated her female presence in his life because he ‘never really had one’ when he was younger” and happened when she was 15 and he was 18.

The two would meet again on July 10, 2017, when Lex took her to Disneyland. McNulty claimed that Lex groped her breasts one night.

McNulty said as the relationship continued, the sexual advances increased. She said Iwan lied to his gaming friends that she was 18 and would try to get her drunk so she would sleep with him.

“Lex even turned my birth year into a passport for an escape room that he, all his friends and I did together so no one would notice,” she claimed.

She said their sexual relationship further escalated on August 31, 2017, when McNulty claimed they had sex in a hotel room when she was 16 and he was 19.

This photo was taken at Disneyland when they met for the second time on July 10, 2017. McNulty said Iwan had rented a hotel in Oceanside for the weekend, but she left early because she felt uncomfortable after he groped her breast.

McNulty, who sells explicit photos of himself on the subscription platform Passes, did not provide any photos of the hotel room but did include Snapchat photos of the two of them together in Los Angeles, California.

“He begged me to have sex with him since that was our last night together and he was going back home to Canada,” she said of the alleged incident.

‘The whole experience was terrible. I didn’t want to have sex with him.

‘The next morning we made up and said goodbye to each other. He made plans to come back and visit me.”

In response to these claims, Iwan posted a video titled “My Ex” on YouTube, in which he discussed the sexual assault and grooming allegations but did not clarify when their relationship began.

“The evidence is that she lied and said she wanted to be 18, and the only way we could work was if she also lied about her age,” he said.

He included screenshots of X direct messages from McNulty describing herself as a virgin in 2020 and instances where she allegedly lied about her age to his friends and him. He also claimed that the passport with the fake age was her idea.

This text exchange between McNulty and Iwan was featured in Iwan’s ‘My Ex’ video to show the alleged verbal abuse and extortion he says he experienced

Iwan also claimed in that document that McNulty physically assaulted him and caused property damage

Iwan said that any meeting between them was consensual, and that there was “no evidence to the contrary.” But in a separate document he shared, he also apparently did not dispute his romantic relationship with the then-underage McNulty.

In California, the age of consent is 18, and there are no Romeo and Juliet laws – this means that sex with a minor is statutory rape under California law, even if the person is close in age or a minor themselves. If the minor claimed to be an adult, the adult would still be guilty.

Iwan also alleged in that document that McNulty physically assaulted him, caused property damage and extorted him.

Iwan said McNulty began extorting him from August 2021 to July 2023 in exchange for his silence or she would go public with her allegations. He showed PayPal transactions to McNulty’s account totaling $38,325.

He also provided text messages in which McNulty allegedly demanded money from him and threatened to out him as an alleged groomer and pedophile.

Iwan (pictured) said McNulty began extorting him from August 2021 to July 2023 in exchange for his silence or she would go public with her allegations. He showed PayPal transactions to McNulty’s account totaling $38,325

Based on the text messages he shared, it is unclear whether McNulty demanded money in exchange for her silence.

He said this stopped when Iwan sent a cease and desist order on August 25, 2023. He also filed a police report in Canada on July 23, 2024 about the grooming allegations that McNulty spread on X.

McNulty uploaded a two-hour reaction video to YouTube on September 2. But the video was removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service for including nude photos of Iwan and her taken when she was a minor.

Since then, her X profile has been banned.

Section 2260 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits the production, transportation, possession, and distribution of child pornography and is considered a criminal offense.

Revenge porn is a crime in California.

McNulty could not immediately be reached for comment by DailyMail.com.