Dead Domain/Jordan Black/Pagan Black/Vesper Black/Vesper Jordan/Aensland/Bad_Durandal/Slashionmodel/Jordan Richard Leendertsen - nonbinary Youtube grifter, detrans hater who detransed to infiltrate CPAC, advocates bringing guns to Pride, former Jesus Camp teacher, wannabe "game guru", published Doom poet
My worst quality is that I don’t quit. Video fails? I make another one, work even harder on it. Write a story nobody publishes? I’m gonna write a book next. Make a game nobody plays? I’m writing a movie now.
It’s all gotta pay off eventually right?
dead domain 🐐🏳️⚧️ (@domaindead.bsky.social)
My worst quality is that I don’t quit. Video fails? I make another one, work even harder on it. Write a story nobody publishes? I’m gonna write a book next. Make a game nobody plays? I’m writing a movie now. It’s all gotta pay off eventually right?bsky.app
Note: This OP does NOT "doxx" "Dead Domain" aka Jordan Richard Leendertsen. I do not know where Jordan lives presently and I do not have his home address. The purpose of this OP is to discuss his little known past career in games and to denounce his present-day extremist views.
Dead Domain (pka Jordan Richard Leendertsen) was already a public figure as a developer, designer, podcaster and reviewer in the gaming industry for years before he became famous as "Dead Domain" on Youtube and Twitch. According to public search engine results, Jordan's Patreon account under his real name was linked to his "Dead Domain" Youtube account by Jordan himself. Jordan had thus linked his IRL identity to his Youtube account on his own accord, and it is not an act of "doxxing" to point this out. The purpose of this OP is to highlight Jordan's little known career in the gaming industry prior to becoming a Youtube video-essayist and a Twitch streamer. Jordan's past conduct in the gaming industry stands in sharp contrast to the way Jordan is conducting himself today as a content creator. I wanted to critique Jordan's increasingly far-left extremist views (that I disagree with personally), his publicity stunts against Republicans including his documented infiltration of CPAC which was covered in Variety (as "Jordan L."), while drawing attention to Jordan's hateful antisemitic attacks against a Dzooish detransitioner who had experienced a bomb raid in Israel that left her traumatized. I also wanted to highlight Jordan's online harassment of a mainstream Democrat "transmedicalist" whom Jordan wanted to Livestream interview on his Youtube channel, then proceeded to dogpile with his Bsky followers for refusing to be interviewed by Jordan who apparently can't take "no" for an answer. It's not "doxxing" to highlight a famous Youtuber's pattern of despicable conduct against others, especially people on his own side of the political spectrum. Jordan demands empathy from others while he has none for others.
Dead Domain: Dutch origins (yes, it's another Dutch-American troon)
De vieze man vraagt Simon Carmiggelt een boek te signeren.
Born: Jordan Richard Leendertsen
From: Spokane, WA
BD: June 9th, 1995 (30 years old in 2025)
Jordan's surname "Leendertsen" is a Dutch surname from the Middle Ages which translates into "Son of Leonard". Jordan's white European ancestors are from the Southern, Catholic part of the Netherlands that borders Belgium.
Here is Leendertsen talking about his great-grandfather who was a writer:
Jordan, who insists he's the only real author in his family, eventually followed in his great-grandfather's footsteps by publishing an e-book collection of poems about the game Doom, Verses of DOOM: An Unofficial Poetry Tribute to Doom:
See? Jordan Leendertsen a real author you guys, the only one in his entire family.
A fan asked Jordan to pull out "the deep Vesper lore", so he talked about having been raised a Christian and his previous work as a Bible Camp teacher:
Dead Domain's pre-trooning life as an indie gamer: "game guru in training"
It's a long established fact that Youtube troons have usually persued something different before they trooned out for the sake of their Youtube careers. Remember ContraPoints saying he originally wanted to be a concernt pianist, so he went to that music school where everyone was so much at the piano than him, and that discovery was such a huge blow to Nyk's narcissistic ego (you mean I wasn't born perfect?!) that he immediately quit his music studies to study psychology at his dad's school? Leendertsen originally started out as a Jim Sterling, wanting to be a "totally serious" game journalist and a game designer. Leendertsen still plays games to this day, but as far as I can tell none of his present day fans are aware of what he was doing in gaming before he became "Dead Domain" on Twitch and Youtube.
Leendertsen's first Youtube channel was called "Aensland". Unfortunately I couldn't find an older mirror of this on Archive.org, which should give you an idea of how little known and obscure it was. Presently it only has one video and I could not see if there were more videos posted there at some earlier point in time.
Youtube channel: Aensland
Aensland (Jordan Leendertsen)
Horror fan, adventuring dandy, avid doughnut enthusiast, and completely serious individual. Fighting game guru in training. Find my work on http://groundpunch.com
www.youtube.com
This was Leendertsen's bio short on the Aensland Youtube channel, where he described himself as a "horror fan" and a "fighting game guru in training":
Here's Leendertsen on Ground Punch. This 2016 excerpt has only 17 views:
I discovered that Leendertsen had appeared on a couple of gaming related podcast episodes under his real name.
This podcast from 2016 has only 35 views:
PunchCast 10 | The Jordan Power Hour, Inside, Pokemon GO
On this podcast, which had 4k+ views at the time, Jordan is wearing a Tim Pool black beanie and his foot is visibly shaking under the table while he's fidgeting the cord of his headphones:
Xbox 360 Back Of The Box Game Trivia
In this 2017 Game Insider podcast episode with 13k views Jordan is referred to as an "intern" at Game Insider:
I checked the comment sections underneath these videos and there are no signs of Jordan's paypigs having found them, no comments saying "OMG, it's DeadDomain!" or anything like that, so if they ever find this thread, I guess they'll be seeing this content for the first time. You're very welcome paypigs, and don't claim lolcow fora don't serve you well when it comes to the deep lore on a lolcow. I personally don't care about horror games so I didn't spend much time going over these podcast episodes, or over Leendertsen's horror game reviews, because I completely lack the contextual knowledge to pass any judgement on whatever he's saying about these games. Someone with more intimate knowledge of that particular genre can take these sources and do a deepdive if they want. Leendertsen does seem much more calm and non-confrontational in these Game Informer podcast episodes than he does today as a nonbinary troon, so I do suspect him trooning out was him succumbing to his fame-whoring AGP narcissism. He wanted to be a famous gamer at the center of attention, but since he wasn't very popular in the world of gaming, trooning out was the way for him to achieve that fame he craved.
Leendertsen even appears to have dabbled in indie game development himself with a game called "Sins", a play through of which you can see here. This play through has only 9 views, so his indie game wasn't exactly popular with indie gamers at the time, which would explain his BS at the top of this OP where he humble-brags about having made "a game that no one plays":
Of course it turns out that Jordan very likely trooned out because of his EPE (Early Porn Exposure), because how else could he? Never goon, never troon.
The Sins game has since been removed from Itch, though I did manage to find this mirror of Leendertsen's profile on Archive.org, where Sins is described as an "Interactive Fiction" browser game, "A nightmare about going home".
In this Variety write-up he's identified as "Jordan Leendertsen, quest designer for Gran Skrea Online, is now working on his own independent horror game, 'To Dawn and Back.'"
Jordan Leendertsen, quest designer for Gran Skrea Online, is now working on his own independent horror game, “To Dawn and Back.” He says that all of the characters in the game will appear as hideously deformed creatures.
The monstrous body of work of Masahiro Ito – the mind behind the warped inhabitants of the early Silent Hill games – serves as a source of inspiration for Leendertsen. Manga author and luminary of body horror, Junji Ito, is another. He says, however, that he also looked at vintage medical textbooks and studies on genetic deformities to come up with his character designs.
“I’ve known about disorders like Proteus Syndrome, which can cause unchecked cell growth, but in my research I found so many more obscure disorders. There’s Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, which can cause hard tree bark-like growths that consume the hands and feet. The one I come back to most is Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, where muscle tissue is gradually turned into bone. Some of the pictures can be very hard to look at, but it is a fascinating disorder. There are some disorders I just don’t look at because I find it too uncomfortable, like Ectopia Cordis, where the heart forms outside of a child’s chest cavity. As a rule I stay away from fetal disfigurements.”
Leendertsen is familiar with the adverse effects of lingering too long on disturbing imagery. He says that when he comes across something particularly challenging to witness, he fixates on the sensations of what he saw happening as if it were happening to him. His mind races toward the worst-case scenarios and it becomes difficult for him to calm down. He said that coming across explicit real-life gore and infants suffering from particularly shocking diseases can put him in a negative head space for lengthy spells. He tries to deal with this by immediately taking his focus off of work and decompressing with a game of Overwatch, a walk outside, or by listening to soothing music.
Horror Game Artists Search for Authenticity in the Disturbing
Inside the lengths developers go to create horror and the impact it has on them.variety.com
I couldn't find much on Youtube related to Jordan's other indie game, To Dawn and Back. No playthroughs, though I did find this Twitter account with an Itch.io link to a free download and a trailer:
To Dawn and Back trailer:
I also managed to find a trailer for Gran Skrea with a URL:
Gran Skrea invites players to create their own destiny in an original world of medieval fantasy. Embark on varied and challenging quests, square off in ruthless PvP combat, or write your character’s story through an unstructured economy and player-created guilds.
https://granskreaonline.com (defunct)
Archived:
Wayback Machine
web.archive.org
Dead Domain troons out and joins #DropKiwiFarms
I couldn't find a video or a post where Jordan announced his trooning out, but I was surprised to discover he had been involved with #DropKiwiFarms
Leendertsen's Twitter account "@Bad_Durandal" which was suspended, but to my surprise someone had already mirrored several instances of Leendertsen's account before it was banned:
I later realized that it was likely Kiwis who had mirrored these instances of Leendertsen's Twitter account, because Jordan had apparently joined #DropKiwiFarms
Jordan was apparently involved with #DropKiwiFarms, which is news to him because no one ever mentioned him that I remember. This is Jordan crying wolf while falsely claiming Rubin was involved with KiwiFarms, while spying on the KF Telegram that was used at the time to communicate with Kiwis and allow them to vent whenever there was a downtime.
Jordan was apparently also one of the troons during #DropKiwiFarms reporting MATI archiving channels on Youtube to have them taken down:
It was very weird for me to discover Leendertsen's involvement with #DropKiwiFarms after the fact, because I don't recall ever coming across his name during #DropKiwiFarms, and I was under the impression that I was following most the troons posting on Twitter about the campaign at the time. Imagine working this hard to have KF down, and now the whole of America is basically KiwiFarms, LMAOOO.
BTW, Jordan, speaking as an ex-KiwiFarmer myself, you'd better not posting such pictures of yourself on Bsky with visible buildings in the background. Like I wrote above, I personally don't have your whereabouts, I'm not interested in that, but I can assure you Kiwis know how to geolocate this:
Dead Domain advocates bringing weapons to Pride
In this Livestream DeadDomain advocates bringing weapons to Pride, in violation of literally every safe protesting training in existence:
Going To Pride: Self-Defense, Kink, Community Safety, and More
So Mr Leendertsen was offended at Kiwis "joking about murdering Keffals", but him advocating people bring guns to Pride is totally not extremist? Rules for me but not for me once again with these troons.
Dead Domain: detrans hater who detransed to infiltrate CPAC
As is usual with far-left TRAs, Jordan hates detransitioners, especially the ones that stop pandering to the trans community and escape the gender cult completely. To cater to his fellow troons who hate ex-cult detransitioners, while also catering to the PDS contingent, Leendertsen made a video accusing a Dzooish detransitioner of having never been really trans.
This Embarassing Detransitioner Has Secret Links To An Anti-Trans Group
Maia Poet is a detrans woman who was on the ground in Israel. She spoke about her experiences in this interview with Chloe Cole, herself a detransitioned woman:
Detransition: Surviving War-torn Israel and Escaping Gender Ideology | Maia Poet
BTW, I know EXACTLY which video Maia is referring to during this part, about the drug dealers outside of lesbian bars in the 1990s trying to turn butches into testo junkies, saying "I have what you need" as they were pushing black market testosterone onto them. I too saw that particular video when it was posted, and I passed it along to KF. I have to wonder why Jordan is under the impression that Maia Poet is just making it all up, when I myself have seen the sources she's referring to:
Jordan also discounted comments underneath the interview from other Israeli detransitioners confirming Maia's story: "Thank you for representing the pro-Israel LGBT online! Like you said, the LGBT movement has become horribly pro-hamas."
Jordan will go after somoene especially if he can tie a particular detransitioner to some cause du jour that is popular with his far-left audience, like he did with this Dzooish detrans woman who, unlike Jordan himself living safely in America, actually lived in Israel and experienced a bomb raid, something I am pretty sure Jordan himself has never had to experience.
dead domain 🐐🏳️⚧️ (@domaindead.bsky.social)
We looked into Maia Poet, a "detransitioner" who never transitioned in the first place. Also, her mom co-founded an anti-trans organization. So, here's the plot thickening you ordered. youtu.be/UM86Uctyq7s https://youtu.be/UM86Uctyq7s
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Hilariously, this man who clearly hates detransitioners, eventually detransed himself to infiltrate CPAC:
This is so hilarious to me because leftists always get so mad at Karlyn Borysenko and Project Veritas/James O'Keeffe whenever they infiltrate their side, but the fact is that their side infiltrates the opposition too. Everybody wants to get in bed with the enemy, that why Vivian Strange was fantasizing about JK Rowling secretly watching his porn and Destiny actually fucked Lauren Southern. I bet Hasan Piker (whom Jordan is obsessed with) also has a secret Israeli Dzooish girlfriend too, assuming she's not an actual Mossad honey pot.
