You know, one time I told Anthony that the way people talk about Vivinne Medrano (which also stems from sexism) and accuse her of things is the same as people accusing him of being a "rape apologist" for being skeptical of the site that broke the Neil Gaiman allegations.
His response to that was to break out the little boy tears and tell me how daaaare I bring that up it really upsets him.
He refused to see the point that yeah man, you know it's unfair and feels bad so why do you engage in the same behavior. Cause as much as he says he doesn't care about Hazbin Hotel he's more than happy to hop on that "haha woman showrunner BAD amirite?" train. And now he engages in that same behavior toward me.
As for Lily I got involved cause I was already doing my art stream and game streaming on Twitch. Hiding in Public did his video on her infamous SU is Garbage video and she made a response to it. I thought it might be fun to react to it on stream and see if she'd actually changed her opinions (spoiler alert, she hadn't) and I didn't know how deep the Lily rabbit hole goes at the time.
But it was actually Revolutionary Girl Utena that was the fateful franchise in all of this. Lily started saying shit about Utena in the middle of her Steven Universe response and I was so impressed by my own recall of the series despite not having watched it in full in over a decade at the time and not having been expecting to talk about it that I threw together a little 12 minute video for my friends and Tumblr followers called "Lily Orchard Doesn't Understand Revolutionary Girl Utena".
I had used my account to upload things for friends before as you can see by some of the older stuff I kept up on it. What I didn't expect was for this video to get 5,000 views out of nowhere.
I had been thinking of reacting to Lily's video on the Steven Universe movie as well, as that's what got me drawing my AU and kinda drawing again in general after a bad period in my life. And for whatever reason a fire was lit under me and I edited together that first big video that was a combo of the two reacts.
But I still only expected that to maybe get a few thousand views and then I'd slink back into the darkness. That one lead to me getting monetized and having 3,000 subs. So I looked around and said "yeah okay well I can't just abandon this new audience" and started doing my streams on YouTube as well. And now here I am with almost 25k subs after 2 years and a pretty good income stream from it. Not too shabby considering the number of people who have attempted to kneecap me along the way.
I've said this many times but if I actually planned to blow up like I did with the Lily cuts I wouldn't have just uploaded them to my personal account.
But then came the Lily Crit community. I was badgered and berated and brow-beaten and begged to "cover Lily's crimes". I consistently told people I'm not the one to look to for a comprehensive video on Lily like that, that's just not how I operate. You may notice I barely do any scripted content cause I'm just not good at it. I also emphasized I'm just an entertainer with my own issues and not someone equipped to talk in depth about a topic like sexual assault. But I kept that sideblog nontheless, something I made no money on, keeping receipts on Lily and keeping track of her more recent lies.
And that got me shat on anyway.
I invited Courtney into my Discord server to hang out after we had a chill time on Malcolm's stream not knowing she and Britt didn't get along. I, foolishly, expected them both to act like adults and take their personal beefs to DMs. Courtney assured me Lily talk doesn't faze her and that she understood my Discord was more of a hangout for my YouTube community and that I am first and foremost an entertainer. She proceeded to act like she should own the place the second she got there. It's like she expected all of my fans to smoothly transfer over to her cause she's the OG Lily hater.
After we overwhelmingly treated Courtney with a ton of grace due to her status as a victim she left, torched that bridge too, and started running around the internet telling people I "enjoy CP" because I laughed at 3 badly written sentences in Stockholm that featured two consenting adults who aren't related by blood. Lio Convoy started parroting her bullshit after she was in his community for a while and now acts like it's his original thought. I've never seen her get shit for being in Lio's community or pedojacketing a lesbian while simultaneously being weird with underaged teens online cause, well, I'm worse somehow for being me.
It's like all of these people felt entitled to me and my channel just because I laughed at Lily and got alot of attention all at once.
So what did I do? I said fuck it, deleted the sideblog and went back to focusing on entertaining people on my channel. Why the fuck should I participate in "holding Lily accountable" if I'm just going to get shit on, abused and cancelled for clout by people who like to pretend they'll actually do anything about predators. My Discord went back to being a peaceful place to shitpost and sperg about media after everyone adjacent to this bullshit was gone.
The only person who could possibly do anything legally to Lily is Courtney and she's too busy blaming everyone but herself for her current situation.