#ff7 house

[creature-wizard]

"White woman who uses her knowledge of pop spirituality to start a cult where she positions herself as this divine mother figure and makes everyone cater to her every whim while she abuses them all" is really a whole genre of person.

[kumquatwriter]

I'm yet another Strange Aeons viewer and I was curious if you've heard of the Final Fantasy House. I was rewatching Fredrik Knudsen's video about it and the similarities between that cult and Thanfiction's cults are so crazy to me.

Oh yes I've absolutely gone down that rabbit hole. That was the first story I heard that sounded like the cultish abuse I went through and it was incredibly validating that I am not the only person who got sucked in to this extremely specific kind of crazy. I'm endlessly fascinated by other stories like mine.

[drdilfenshmirtz]

no little german boy dont hyperfixate on old fandom drama!!!

[breezeinmonochromenight]

Cr1tikal did the final fantasy house, and I know it's just him reacting to someone else's video of it but what's your take of his video??

I mean. He pretty much had the reaction I do every time I’ve interacted with or run into stuff about otherkin and/or misc. obsessive fandom weirdos. Just both of these, at once:

[whoisjennifercornet]

Update: Monica Edwards and the Freddie Lounds Youtube Channel

Jennifer Cornet. The FF7 House. An internet mystery we all know. In the second half of the 2010s a fandom investigator surfaced, claiming to link Jennifer Cornet with the fan community of the TV Series “Hannibal.” This was the dawn of the “Tattle-Crime Saga”, as reported by a Youtube channel titled “Freddie Lounds”. The channel was created by Monica Edwards, a woman in her mid-thirties at the time and a fan of the series. Aside from her above listed legal name she has also been known as Eve Rebecca Habat in some corners of the internet and possibly other aliases. 'Unprofessional' would be a kind way to describe Monica's narration of the case as she would constantly fly into rants which were barely relevant to the overarching story. However, her investigation work often appeared solid and credible. Then one day in early 2020, the Youtube channel she had worked so hard on vanished, erased from existence by Monica herself. My immediate suspicion was that she had terminated the page because inaccuracies and falsehoods of her claims had been brought to light. Was the Tattle-Crime Saga a hoax? Monica had mentioned that she was a writer working on a TV script (unrelated to the saga) and that a deal with a production company might be on the horizon. My immediate thought was that her Youtube channel had been an ARG (alternate reality game), a publicity stunt in designed to gain her internet fame and launch her writing career. Alas, it wasn't that simple.

Who Is Monica Edwards?

Monica had a long history of posting on forums and running blogs. The topics ranged from fandom, to lifestyle, to what she referred to as “political” blogs. From what I was able to find of her political blogs, they often consisted of her trolling people into a reaction, for example a post in which she cruelly mocked excerpts of other people's posts about their difficulties in high school, essentially stating, “No one had it harder than me, you're all a bunch of babies, quit crying about it,” etc. So if Monica has a paper-trail of being both an obsessive fan and an internet troll, how can she be taken seriously? With these questions piling up, I look to reddit seeking answers as to the validity of Monica's reports and why she had terminated her channel. The below conclusions were revealed to me by moderators of the r/tattlecrime subreddit. They have authorized me to publish these findings.

Why did Monica delete the channel?

According to my sources, the “Tattle-Crime Saga” was not a hoax. It has in fact been verified by multiple community members that Jennifer Cornet was the individual Monica Edwards encountered in the Hannibal fandom. Despite her lack of professionalism and explosive temper, Monica had pinned down Jennifer's real identity and exposed her. In short, the day Jennifer Cornet crossed paths with Monica Edwards would be akin to a ballistic missile colliding with a fire bomb. In regards to the channel's deletion, a coming-to-light of various false reports were involved as I had suspected. Monica was right about some things but not everything. As Jennifer went deeper underground Monica stretched further and further for updates on the case. Meanwhile, a rift was forming between Monic and the Tattle-Crime Reddit as well as the Discord server. It appeared that Monica disliked these communities existing outside her moderation. She was quick to hurl insults and accusations at anyone who questioned her methods and conclusions. In early 2020, Monica apparently posted multiple videos about a supposed re-surfacing of Jennifer involving a Tumblr account which she claimed Jennifer was behind. This allegation was quickly dispelled as a hoax by the broader community. Rather than owning up to her mistake, Monica went dark on all her blogs “For fear of her life” as she insisted her critics were stalking her. One month later in March, 2020 she briefly reappeared to delete the videos and subsequently the channel. It should be noted here that the deletion of videos on her channel was a gradual process. Even before the false Jennifer sighting debacle occurred, Monica had deleted the 20-part series on the Tattle-Crime Saga and replaced it with a single, more concise video.

Conclusions

So there you have it. Monica Edwards did expose Jennifer Cornet in the Hannibal fandom. That said, all details of the case otherwise reported by Monica should be taken with a grain of salt. In this writer's opinion, Monica Edwards can no longer be trusted as a source due to she has self-sabotaged her credibility. Finally, I will add that after an IMDB search, it appears that Monica's script has not been picked up by a production company.

[baixueagain]

I know it's been said before, but fingers crossed that the kinnies/new agey woowoos don't start a literal cult this time around

[milindso]

I still think that constantly warning and educating people about the FF7 house doesn’t actually protect people from cults. Here is why (yes I too am a cult survivor so I know what I’m talking about):

-Joining a cult doesn’t depend on how smart or educated you are. There are very intelligent people who still fall for cults.

-Cult leaders do not look like the Boogeyman. You will not know from first glance most of the time that someone is a potential predator waiting to drag people into a cult. The cult leader who abused me presented himself as a friend who cared about me

-Continually talking about the FF7 House is giving that incident and Jen herself a platform she doesn’t need

-Cults do not all look the same. When I was in a cult I was actively looking up cult criteria and thought to myself “phew, my group doesn’t fit any of these characteristics. I’m safe”. Educating yourself on the FF7 House educates you on the FF7 House, not cults as a whole. It doesn’t even give you the gist of What To Look Out For In A Potential Cult

-This is related, but cult LEADERS do not all look the same. The FF7 House warnings warn people against Jen specifically and not anyone else. Another cult leader could easily go, “You can trust me, I’m not like her”

-I don’t think these Cult Warning posts are in good faith when the community ostracizes anyone who is too “cringey” or “using the terms wrong / using the wrong words” or believes the “wrong” things

-To expand on that, a lot of people who fall into cults are people who are vulnerable and ostracized. People who feel like they have nowhere to go and no one to talk to. It’s very easy to be taken advantage of in that state, when you just want to be accepted

-This community ostracizes people left and right (“real kin do / don’t do [x]”, “watch out for this person with weird beliefs”, “these people make the community look bad”, etc.)

-It is NOT “weird beliefs” that make someone a predator. The specifics of someone’s beliefs is not what makes someone a predator. It’s manipulative and abusive behavior

-If younger kin don’t know about the FF7 House, so what? They are not the be-all, end-all of what a cult is, and people are in no more danger than they are if they do know about it. All cults are unique and they are not the FF7 House. Like. These posts are warning us about a cult that’s not even around anymore

-So, what should we do? We need to accept and welcome ALL members of the community. Everyone. Even people you personally deem “tumblrkin” or “wishkin”. If they identify as kin then they’re kin. They’re not “doing kin wrong”.

We need to teach people how to trust themselves and not feel like they have to rely on others for their spiritual knowledge. We need to teach people on how to look for manipulative behavior. We need to teach people to question others who willingly and knowingly overstep their boundaries.

We also need resources on how to help cult survivors as well. If you only call out Potential Predators but don’t help victims or try to stop ostracizing people who then become easy pickings for cult leaders, then I don’t trust that the warnings are in good faith. It looks more like you’re trying to distance yourself from a few specific bad people to show the outside world that You Don’t Look Like Them......which also makes it easier for predators to hide in the community.

[bai-xue]

God bless us everyone, DTRH has done an ep on FF7 house