It is disingenuous that many people paint you as some conniving villain that only wants to hurt people. I'm sorry all of that is coming to you.
I'd guess you had some inappropriate conversations with somebody a bit older than you, started to feel uncomfortable with them. You had a group of friends uncovering all sorts of uncomfortable art that the adults around you were making privately. Tough situation to deal with, emotionally.
But I hope you understand, the Rain World fandom has had a lot of life drained out of it. Shipping Container and the community surrounding Pansear was incredibly inspiring and lively, it made a lot of artist's lives better, there was an incredibly wonderful atmosphere with how it brought many people together.
Because of the unrelenting recklessness and uncaring way your friends and you pursued and pried at the private lives of others, the Rain World fandom has become a scary place to be. Slander painted across Shipping Container causing the once bright community it to almost totally collapse, without a care. False accusations that have completely destroyed the life of an artist that almost everyone who knew them personally would attest they were simply a well-meaning, if irresponsible person. No care.
Emily, who at the time was 19, a teen that was not very well put together and valued the community deeply, being turned against by somebody so harshly that she just wanted to have friendly conversation with. Painted as a pedophile because she answered your questions about 18+ artwork when you were less than 2 years apart.
Many, many people feel uncomfortable in this community. Having lost something that meant a lot to them, over careless slandering just to resolve some personal discomforts of you and your prudish friends. Who couldn't just let private lives be private.
Artists have left, the community broken apart, people feeling intimidated that at any time their own lives could be destroyed the longer they stick around, over private things they make just being a bit too uncomfortable for teens that will pry and pursue them. And now, nothing even has to be real, you can just make it up. Nobody is safe. This community is dwindling.
The vitriol coming your way is disingenuous, but it is the result of many many months of unspoken frustration over losing a lot of something that meant very much to people, for no good reason. And you played a part in it.
If nothing else, I hope you learn to empathize with people.
Also I Get That. people have been hammering what i did for like 2-3 days straight now so this ask drilling it to my head that i made people feel unsafe is Not helping. i Know that. but i feel like having a groomer, actually since none of you still believe that its grooming, still ran away from taking responsibility for exposing minors to shit like that, run rampant and swept away and we all pretend nothing happened is quite honestly, more dangerous than calling this behavior out because then everyone dismisses when a similar case happens. regarding it as some petty drama. idk anymore this ask is so insane its making me tear my skin out
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