A Formal Apology
Hello, I’m Renard, or more commonly known as Dog/Dogcanines/Sodda on tumblr, especially in the BTD and BTD2 community. I’ve been getting a few long time followers and friends of mine coming to me recently asking if I was still active in the community, where I went, if I’m going to make art again soon, etc etc.
And the answer to that, simply put, is... well, no, at least not yet and not right now.
That’s why I’m writing this now as an apology. I have been in this community ever since the first official game came out (a few months after it, at least) and have stayed with it until about the middle of 2018, when i started to force myself to distant myself from the community. In this time I made a lot of great friends, made lots of connections with people, bonded over the same interests and likes with said people, and despite the content, I felt like for once in my life I fit in. But, that’s not the case, and I’m not at all trying to make this into some sort of sob story.
As of the time I am writing this (February 16, 2019) I am 17 years old. I am a minor, and that is precisely why I am writing this apology, to the friends I had made and lied to, to Gato, Darqx, and EP. When I joined this community I thought of myself as mature enough to join it and that no one could technically at all stop me from playing the game. Which, technically, was true. My morals were screwed up and even worse than the person that had exposed me to the game, I entered the community meant for people 18+. I put myself and others in danger only because I wanted to feel like I fit in and was mature enough to put myself into the situation without thinking of the legal issues behind it, and the hurt I could cause to the people I had grown fond to.
And for that, I am sorry. I’m sorry to everyone I put in danger and I’m sorry for going on this long in the community with this. I never meant any harm, and that being said, I am in no way trying to justify this behavior. As of today, I am not going to be participating in the community until April 4, 2019, the day I will officially turn 18, and even then I may not be as interactive as I previously was.
I really hope that any of you who read this will accept this apology, and even if you don’t, I do not at all blame you.
Until April 4,
Renard
