Kati Schwartz (Dan's Ex-Close Friend) Releases a Video of Her New Play with a Character That Seems to Be Blatantly Based on Dan In It

For those who don't know who Kati is, she used to be very close friends with Dan. She worked as his personal assistant and is in a few Ninja Sex Party videos (most prominently in Cookies!) . She was also friends with Arin and Suzy - she's the one who helped come up with the Zognoids bit - was in Holly's LPs and lived with her and Ross for awhile, and was Audrey's nanny. Dan and Holly co-funded a taped reading of one of Kati's plays, which starred Brian's wife.

Then around 2017, she (at least in the version she tells in the play) she dropped out of sight and resurfaced hinting around that she'd messed things up when it came to her position and "lost her tribe."

Kati just released video footage of her new play "Bad People" which is "based on her experience with the #MeToo movement" and is basically a chronicle of her experiences with sexism and sexual abuse and depression and forming healthy relationships (and goes into some depth about what drove her from Glendale to New York in 2017). She categorized it in an interview as autobiographical, and large chunks of the text used in the play were once part of a Tumblr blog she wrote in 2017. Kati has a history of producing works based on her time with the Grumps, including a self-produced magazine and at least one other play. This hopefully doesn't fall into ConspiracyGrumps territory, but the "John" character in the play seems to be based, at very minimum in part, on Dan.

Among other things, "John" and Kati first realize they "get" one another when they listen to a fourteen minute Jefferson Airplane song about starships and aliens on "John's" "Fuck couch" (his name for it according to her), and Kati is later "triggered" into a panic attack when she hears a Rush song ("Big Wheel") that reminds her of "John" (Kati, when she had a blog, long said that music had become a trigger for her). The "John" actor also wears a red plaid shirt that looks like one Dan owned. The play is set at least in part during her time in Glendale, where the Grumps used to work, and there are clear Holly/Arin/Suzy expys in it as well. "John" is portrayed as being a popular musician with a "large internet following".

During the course of the play "John" does the following:

• Sleeps with Kati's girlfriend, resulting in Kati and the girlfriend opening their relationship and them embarking on a relationship together, saying they were in love.
• Treats both Kati and the girlfriend like shit (to be fair to "John" Kati, too, is an emotionally manipulative person)
• Has a threesome with Kati's girlfriend and another woman and then, I swear, the dialogue hints that something ugly happened in the threesome, something enough to cause Kati's girlfriend to want to self-harm. The Kati's girlfriend character actually says that she 'thinks there's something wrong' with "John."
• Told Kati he wanted to have a "fourgy" with her - them and three other women, which they'd pass back and forth without touching each other. During the course of this conversation "John" got a boner and praised Kati for allowing him to share his "deepest fantasies" with her.
• Paid Kati $200 to change the sheets after having sex with another woman before fucking Kati's girlfriend in the same bed, which she later said felt like an enabling action to him "abusing" the 20 year olds he was sleeping with.
• Regularly texted women "20 years his junior" to hook up with them, then ghosted them when they got too emotionally involved.
• "Ghosting" was a major problem with "John", who had a tendency to discard people "like trash."
• "John" sends "funny memes" to the women he's going out with to make them feel special - the exact same meme to every single one of them.
• "John" is also stunned that Kati likes prog rock and is a "cool girl".
• Was juggling at least four other women along with Kati's girlfriend, all scattered across the country, and blatantly cheated on her.

The combination of Famous Guy + fuck couch + Rush + The fact that Kati was Dan's assistant and would be likely paid to change his sheets + Long ass prog rock + behaviors I have heard through the grapevine that Dan allegedly does (no actual proof there, and no, nothing That Ugly as half of what "John" does in the play, just "don't date Dan, he will ghost you" whisper campaigns pre-Ash) + fourgy kinds has me going 'hmm'. It's an interesting watch even if it isn't about him.

It's also worth noting that Kati still texts "John" on his birthday every year, even though she thinks he's blocked her on his phone.