I can't believe I'm having to write about this, but this has got to stop.
As few of you know, I've had a bit of a checkered past on this site if anyone has known me from that time. I don’t wish to dive into it, but know that during that time, I had painted myself in a bad light, I've made mistakes that I've owned up to and I've grown since then with the help of my friends keeping me on the right path. I’ve taken the necessary steps to make sure I’ve grown but since then, I have been getting harassment from people, both here and on Twitter/X. It has long since died down, mostly because I’ve been ignoring it because I'm just trying to move on.
However, recently I have been getting harassed by someone, sending accusations without proof and claiming to be a "friend" or possibly a friend to someone.
They had sent it to me during the early morning this past weekend (July 27th), but not wanting to deal with the drama or wanting to respond to it at all, I blocked the person like anyone would to avoid controversy and went on about my day. A few hours later I get this exact same message sent to me anonymously this time along with this follow up message:
Because they were "afraid of being ostracized," that's why it was sent to me through the anon filter, which rang alarm bells in my head that this was not the case. With no proof to back up these accusations, it just spiked my anxiety due to being triggered because I've been dealing with this harassment for YEARS now unprovoked. Instead of reaching out to me PRIVATELY like an adult like a few have done in the past, they were trying to make me talk about this publicly like I unfortunately am now. I've long since blocked this person and deleted these messages from my inbox, but I'm constantly being harassed with these accusations that are NOT TRUE. They claim I use YCH’s, which I’m not. Most references that I find are posted free publicly or purchase them with my own money. 99% of the time I’m using photos of real people posing and then changing a few things to how I want it. That’s how art works.
I can smell a witch hunt a mile away at this point because of the several attempts against me to the point one person actually doxxed my new online platform that I have on Twitter/X when I wanted to start on a fresh plate. A year after rebranding, I wanted to start fresh again on here as well for people, new and veteran self shippers alike, to have a safe space.
To the person that sent me this and the previous anons:
I don't know who you are and I don't know if you are doing this in support of a friend. I’m not blaming you for remaining anonymous because I’m allowing you to have that privilege. Instead of you coming to me privately on the matter, you are trying to start a controversy for no reason at all and with no proof. You wanted me to talk about it, now I am. You've lost your chance to talk to me in private. You want an apology and make amends, but you won’t show your face and actually tell me why I need to. You're a coward and I’m done with the constant harassment.
Because of this, I am deciding to lay low for a while and keep my focus on Twitter/X. I will probably not return to Tumblr anymore because I don’t really use it, but I will keep it up for archiving purposes. The inbox will now remain closed indefinitely from now on. I wipe my hands clean because I know you’re wrong and the people that actually know me know that I’ve changed.
Thank you for reading 💜
