The last few days around here haven’t been easy, not only because of what’s been surfacing, but mostly because the response time keeps getting shorter. It’s starting to feel like Tumblr isn’t just being checked occasionally. It’s being monitored constantly, and dare I say, even obsessively.
I don’t like diagnosing people, especially when we don’t actually know them and we’re piecing things together from fragments online. But what’s happening here isn’t normal or reasonable. Yes, this corner of the fandom is far from rainbows and butterflies. It’s critical by nature, and when you enter Sam’s orbit, people will scrutinize and background-check. That’s just reality, whether we like it or not.
But someone who feels secure in herself and in her relationship wouldn’t work this hard to convince strangers on the internet who she is and what this is.
What’s more upsetting is that in order to do that, she’s using a page that’s meant to be professional and therapeutic, and I find it incredibly unethical. In mental health work, the baseline is maintaining a neutral, safe space for clients. A blank slate. You’re not supposed to turn a work page into a personal diary. Sharing personal history, struggles, and family details like this isn’t relatable, it’s inappropriate. Clients don’t need that.
None of this is exactly surprising. From day one, it was obvious this account was meant to act as a pipeline for the narrative, and she keeps proving that over and over.
Because I feel like this has reached a bad place, maybe even a loss of control, and the escalation is starting to genuinely worry me, I want to shift the focus back to the main person responsible.
We love Sam. That’s why most of us are here, aside from the few who seem to enjoy hating him. And because we love him, we excuse a lot. We minimize his power, inflate his innocence, and blame Alex, Jennifer Allen, Starz, Steph, as if everyone is manipulating him and he’s just stumbled into this mess.
He’s a grown man with multiple businesses and a functioning brain. He isn’t a helpless kid. Whatever this arrangement is with Steph, the exploitation of grief, the inexcusable exposure of a child, all of it ultimately sits with him. He feeds the narrative. He likes, comments, tags, posts stories that hint at the connection. And Caitriona isn’t naive either. It’s not nothing that right after the post that shook this place, she chose to follow Steph’s “professional” account and like every post.
I’m worried we’re moving from entertainment and fun fandom gossip into something darker, something that could affect the lives of people who didn’t choose to be part of this. I’m not the morality police, and I’ve participated in the circus too, partly for entertainment and partly to call out what’s under the surface. But I want to raise a warning flag here.
This is not a normal situation.
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