Tyler Robinson's Steam Friends and Profiles
The archived Steam profile thread. Full write-up →
The Discord section covers where the confession appeared. This section covers where the friendships actually lived.
A Discord server can hold hundreds of people who have never spoken to each other. A Steam friend list is chosen one person at a time, and the people on it are the people you spend hundreds of hours in voice chat with, night after night, for years. If anyone in Tyler Robinson's online life knew him well enough to influence him, they are more likely to be on that list than in a server member roster.
What Is Publicly Known
- The profile attributed to Robinson ran as craftin247, later renamed milk, listed as Utah-based, roughly 1,370 items owned, with an eleven-year history. See the craftin247 / milk profile thread.
- The same alias cross-matches to DeviantArt, FurAffinity and Reddit accounts that predate the shooting by about two years — see Discord Friends, Servers and Handles.
- The profile's public comment wall is where several visitors posted their own Discord handles in plain sight — see Discord Handles Left in the Steam Comments.
- After the public found the profile the wall ran to thousands of comments — see The Steam Wall After the Shooting.
- At least one profile in the same circle lists Egypt as its location and a Discord handle in its bio — see The Ankha Profile and the Egypt Claim and the thread that circulated it.
- Archived screenshots are catalogued in the Steam messages photo cluster, and the evidentiary standing of the material is set out on Steam Profile and Comments.
Every Page In This Section
Start here
- The Steam Names Roster — every display name, Discord handle and alias readable off the archived captures, in one table, published so an investigation can rule each account in or out. Most or all of these people are very probably innocent.
- The Friend List and What Valve Holds — the thesis: a friend list is chosen one person at a time, and the login-IP history for every name on it sits on Valve's servers and has never been produced.
- Typed-In Country vs. Logged IP — why the Egypt location field proves nothing, and why throwing it out reopens the foreign question rather than closing it.
The archived Steam captures
- The craftin247 / milk Steam Profile Thread — the eleven-year profile, the rename, and the alias that cross-matches to accounts predating the shooting by about two years.
- Discord Handles Left in the Steam Comments — the comment wall where two visitors published their own Discord handles, and the Sep 10 @ 11:01am stamp that says nothing at all.
- The Steam Wall After the Shooting: 1,116 Comments — the same wall after the public found it, and the September 2 roleplay bulletin that is not foreshadowing.
- The Ankha Profile and the Egypt Claim — a profile in the same circle listing Egypt and a Discord handle in its own bio.
- The Ankha Thread — the X post that turned a gaming profile field into a foreign-intelligence claim in one step, and where that reasoning breaks.
Why the record is this thin
- Every Other Username Was Redacted — the warrant names one account and blacks out the rest, which is why a public comment wall is the best list of names anyone has.
- The Device Record Nobody Is Offering — prosecutors said they do not intend to offer the forensic extractions, which is exactly where a friend list and session history would live.
- The One Phone That Was Read — investigators had a full message record within about thirty-nine hours, from one volunteered phone, on one platform, and nothing equivalent from Steam.
- The Same Exchange, Three Renderings — the same messages read differently in three documents, because nobody outside the case has seen the underlying data.
Elsewhere on the site
- Steam Profile and Comments — the evidentiary standing of this material.
- Steam messages photo cluster — one page per archived image.
- The Discord Evidence — the other half of the same social circle.
The Location Field Is Typed In. The IP Address Is Not.
On Steam, exactly as on Discord, the country shown on a profile is a text box the user filled in. Anyone can type Utah, or Egypt, or nothing at all, and change it in seconds. It is not evidence of where a person was sitting.
What is not typed in is the IP address. Every session, every login, every message is written to the platform's own logs with the address it arrived from, along with device fingerprints and session timing. Valve holds that record for this profile and for every account on its friend list.
That is the open question: is it known where the people in this circle actually were? Nothing in the public record answers it, and self-reported locations are not evidence either way. Being in another country is not wrongdoing, nobody in this circle has been accused by any authority of anything, and nothing here suggests any of them did anything improper. The record that would answer it — subpoena returns and login-IP history — is obtainable by investigators through lawful process and not by the public. What we ask is that it be established through that process and, so far as the law allows, made public.
We are not asking anyone to identify, locate, contact or expose any private individual, and readers should not attempt it. Commenting on a gaming profile or listing a handle in a bio is not evidence of anything at all. We name no one and we accuse no one.
What Would Settle It
- Valve's subpoena return for the profile: account creation, login IP history, and the friend list with account identifiers.
- The same for the accounts that posted Discord handles on the comment wall.
- Correlation of any session IP to the September 10–12 window.
- Whether, when and by whom the public pages were scrubbed after the event.
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