I’ve avoided talking about the avid/sbk debacle on this blog for a variety of reasons, in no small part because the way this situation has been handled publicly has been incredibly unprofessional, disorganised, and indeed dangerous for everyone involved. more than anything it seems quite evident to me that the lack of any worker protections or third-party means of resolving intracommunity disputes in mcyt continues to facilitate unmoderated and uncontrolled spaces where this sort of harm runs rampant. furthermore, the way terms like “narcissism” are being so casually thrown around by fans and sbkers alike is extremely concerning, especially in conjunction with how many people—again, both fans and ccs!—seem to be taking this as an opportunity to gleefully inform the world that they never liked avid, always knew something was “wrong” with avid, or “had a bad feeling” or “intuition” about avid. to me it seems quite obvious that avid and marm, regardless of the harm they caused others (and they did cause harm, and that should absolutely be acknowledged), were themselves suffering, and the continuous dogpiling of two people who have already left content creation will only worsen things for the victims. the fact that this issue could not be resolved internally, and has instead turned into an extremely public and drawn-out controversy that will follow sbk, pow, and everyone associated with those communities forever, is nothing short of a tragedy facilitated by the lack of proper recourse for such situations within the mcyt space.
in short: we gotta get this industry some fucking HR departments!! maybe even a union or two!!! or else this shit will continue to happen.
