The real Hey Violet. No, really.
No, I'm not back. In fact, this is probably the last post I'm going to make on this blog.
I kinda just want to talk about them a bit. One of my friends moots apparently reblogged a picture of Rena and got attacked or something??? I'm not 100% sure but I did send her an anon you can read here.
I'm really just here to expand on what I wrote. In 2016 I stopped running this blog bc I realized it was bad for my mental health. In the years since I've been unpacking a lot of internalized misogyny and trauma, and some of it was towards HV.
First of all, I definitely owe Rena and Nia an apology. I definitely think some of the things they said and did were problematic, but they were also kids. Hell, Rena's only like a year older than me. We treated her like the devil incarcerate when she was still growing and changing, and I think that's really unfair. I hated her because I was jelaous of her proximity to Michael (I actually hated Crystal for similar reasons which I worked through last year), and I latched on to the bad things she did because it gave me reasons to hate her. I self-identified as a feminist, so I couldn't just hate her for no reason. Even after I stopped liking 5sos, I felt like I had to hold you to hating them bc I'd look fake woke if I didn't. I think you could tell by the end of my run that I was just tired of putting up a front of hating them when I couldn't care less.
Also, I want to point out that a lot of the things people hated about them was directly Ana's fault. She basically pimped her (at the time) teenaged daughters out to the fame machine. Julia herself said it was the parents fault she was driven out of CB, and quite frankly she's right. She doesn't blame the girls for what happened, and I think we should follow her example.
Also, HV's crime's are nothing compared to the multitude of shit men in the industry have gotten away with. Just look at Iain for example. Yes, they made mistakes and did dumb shit, but I think it's time we let it go. Rena, Nia, and Casey seem like kind adults who love making music for their fans, and I'm happy to let them be.
You worded it better than I ever could have. To anyone that still follows me, this is where I am now. I’m not interested in “exposing” Hey Violet anymore or bringing up old drama.
