i don't agree with the lawsuit towards smg4, and the redesign, but i think people are really nasty and ableist towards modmad (especially on twitter). i want this to end peacefully but i just don't want mod to relapse over a trigger- i hope this makes sense??? (not a mental health expert, just from what i know)
Hi ! Just got back from work ^^
Well, I hope so too, but I'm also not in Mod's head and I have no idea what's gonna happen. Don't worry, what you ask makes sense !
Sad part is : all of this could have been avoided if, y'know, Glitch/SMG4 had answered to that legal letter 2 years ago, or to that first wave of asking them to reply to Mod 2 months ago. Would have been very easy, yet it's not what happened, sadly :/
And ALL of this could have been avoided if people didn't chose to be dicks... over a character's design, accusing Mod of plagiarism and threatening to cancel them, and trying to push them to suicide.
Guess that'll be for the SMG4 fandom to make sure there's no relapse, then ^^ after all, Mod clearly made posts, multiple times, to not ask them about Mr Puzzles and SMG4, to not mention him or his many resemblances to RGB because it makes them extremely uncomfortable, and to please leave them alone with that. So, the people responsible for that just have to listen, take action and prevent their own sides' haters from doing that, like we've been striving to do for ours since 2 months.
I think there are lots of ways with how people can prevent a relapse and help Mod out : by each doing their part. For us, it's keeping everyone calm, chill, well-behaved and supportive on our side, for the SMG4-side, it's taking an active stand against their own toxic fandom and make sure in no uncertain terms that the haters aren't welcome, that no one will pester someone else ever again. Preventing them from annoying us.
If they don't wanna do that, they're part of the problem, methinks. Easy to blame the victim when they're triggered by the harassers, after all - so the best solution ? Remove the harassers or prevent them to reach out to the victim ! That way, there's lesser chances of triggering the victim, and allowing said victim to heal.
Personal case : I went through 23 years of abuse, 15 of them being school-based, the whole of it being familial. I could finally start to heal when the problem finally got away (my mom, who once she saw we weren't taking her shit anymore, fled tail between legs and it wasn't even hers). It's been 6-ish years I'm out : yeah I still have triggers (loud noises, parents screaming at their children in the streets, getting clapped on the back, fire, etc) but I learned to healthily manage them more and more because the main source walked out of my life (and added by me cutting ties with her) - I wasn't exposed anymore !
One of the jobs the SMG4 side could do is, indeed, reduce exposure and not go seek Mod out, write them messages, or invade their posts, like this right today :
They're never happy, are they, huh ? TPoH on hiatus because of a mental breakdown THEY caused and it's "holding the comic hostage", "whining", "needing to get over it" and "being manipulative". TPoH starting to publish again semi-regularly DESPITE said mental breakdown and they call it "bs".
Damned if we do, damned if we don't. So like I said to someone else, might as well do.
I want to end it peacefully too, just like you ! And to avoid relapses, there's a simple way : maybe folks can then leave Mod (and us) the hell alone. But we both know that's not gonna happen. Because some folks are self-entitled little bastards that can't bear having to face the consequences of their own actions. They pushed us to that lawsuit, after all, so they're the ones at fault for that.
So, I'm preparing for when they'll come. And when that moment arrives...
Oh boy are they gonna regret having messed with me and the fandom I translate for.
I'm not Mod's right-hand man or anything : translator or not, affiliating with the TPoH side or not, I'm pretty much doing all that on my own.
Calling me an "indie player" would be a misnomer - like said, I clearly come from a definite side here, so maybe "loose canon" would be closer - but yeah there's a bit of that in there : I just prefer trying to help a real person over a fictional character.
So, yeah, would appreciate it if everyone could work together to make things easier for everyone ^^
And for those who just want to hate, well, they've been warned several times at that point. Like said, I'm a loose canon.
Better be on the right side when I get to fire.
Hope that answers your question, and I hope it's not too hot where you are ! ^^
