I’m disappointed, Pagan Tumblr.
I’ve been DMed by a personal friend of @/voicesoftheangels (prev. edensvessel) that she has attempted suicide. The following post is written using information that this personal friend has given me, and gave me permission to share because Eden’s condition is not looking good. It is unlikely that thy will make a full recovery, if she makes a recovery at all.
He did not leave a note, but had told the friend in person a few days before his attempt that thy was being harassed across platforms (namely Discord and Instagram) and via DMs and asks here on Tumblr. Blocking apparently did nothing as throwaway accounts were made.
Many of these harassers seemed to be under the impression that they were “doing justice” for prominent members of the Helpol community. I’m sure we have an idea of who these people might be. This is not to say that these people sent their followers to attack and harass Eden, but they have not done anything notable to stop it.
While this harassment was not the only reason for Eden’s attempt, as hymn’s DID, ID and other mental health conditions were supposedly causing many issues in his life, it was apparently the primary reason.
And I can’t fucking believe I have to say this, but for those of you who are happy to brush this off as “I didn’t see it so it didn’t happen”, I have been given dozens upon dozens of screenshots and screen recordings of this harassment, and it’s sickening to read. I know the hospital he’s in. I’ve seen the admission bracelet. I’ve reverse-image searched. Every. Fucking. Photo. And all of them are genuine. I can’t fucking believe someone would think that I’d make an entire post on something I was not dead sure about it. By God.
I am genuinely so fucking disappointed in this community.
Eden said fucked up things. I am not disputing that, and I wholeheartedly disagree that anything thy said was okay to say or true. I am frankly disgusted by some of hymn’s posts. I would’ve been happy if he left Tumblr for good. But that does not excuse furthering the cycle of harassment, bullying and abuse. Not to mention driving someone to suicide.
The fact that grown adults, not just immature teenagers, were involved in this too is fucking revolting. The fact that some adults have so much time in their day-to-day lives that they are happy to harass a teenager to kill themselves is repulsive. I’m not going to name names, but I know the usernames of some of these adults and I am fucking disturbed that people like them can put on such a noble, “anti-harassment” face in public, and do this behind closed doors.
Do fucking better, PaganBlr.
I thought we agreed bullying and harassment was not okay, no matter who it was.
The fact that Eden kept this to thyself for weeks is insane to me. A teenager. Faced with this. And not once did he speak up because she didn’t want to be subjected to more accusations of lying and faking.
Not only was hy told that thy was faking Intellectual Disability and DID, but she was also continuously accused of being a member of The Group despite telling you all that thy was not affiliated with that group at all, ever. That’s on top of the literal member in question disproving the claims.
I know for a fact most of you will be happy with yourselves and that is so fucking vile to me. But I urge you to look at what this community has done. You may think, “I only sent one ask!” Well, that’s what dozens, maybe even upwards of a hundred other people thought. Do you see? Do you understand that when an entire community thinks “It was just one ask”, it leads to this?
This is so disturbing to me. The fact that no one involved with this thought to just block and move on is horrifying. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Someone has lost their best friend. Someone has lost their partner. Someone has lost their sibling. Someone has lost their child. Who knows who else is grieving now? Who knows how many people this broke the hearts of? Who knows if this will result in a chain of suicides?
Saying “Don’t harass this person” does nothing, especially in a community full of children (and apparently incredibly immature adults). Children do not have the capacity to understand what harassment does to a person. They do not have the same logic as mature adults. They see the people they follow as idols and when those people are under attack, they fight back, whether or not their idol has done anything to defend themselves. They can’t help it, they literally cannot understand that a lack of attention on the attacker will cause them to get bored and go away. All they see is their idol facing some bully and they flock to that blog to “protect” their idol.
I agree that behaviour like this should be documented, but it should be done so in one place. Creating dozens upon dozens of posts is like making a fucking nail bomb. There is no containment, no damage control. Hundreds of people saw these posts, and hundreds of people took it upon themselves to “do justice”.
If “justice” to you is driving someone to suicide, you do not deserve a place in this community. You are a disgusting person and you need to take a long, hard look at yourself.
I don’t have enough words to describe how fucking disappointed I am.
