Concerning Behavior in the Twisted Wonderland Fandom
We're done sitting on this. We've agonized for the past couple weeks on how to go about this, but I'm just going to come out and say it for everyone: @/the-heartslabyul-hatter has an incredibly alarming pattern of behavior of bullying and hypocrisy going on and she needs to change her behavior for good.
I'm not really sure where to begin, so I'm going to start at the beginning of our involvement in this and what led us to a lot of this information. Back in September 2020, we ended up stumbling into the Team Avalon and Tumblr user poison-apple-tarts drama. My friends and I did some digging into this as none of us knew who Team Avalon was so all of the posts were reading weird to us. We learned poison-apple-tarts was trying to get people to turn against Team Avalon, who was fandubbing Twisted Wonderland. She claimed it was illegal and that Team Avalon was profiting from their fandub. I am not even going to get into this because this would make this post even longer, but keep a pin in "Team Avalon was profiting from copyrighted material."
During our search, one of my friends found that poison-apple-tarts had commented under a Tumblr post that was a video of one of the Night Ravens' performances saying she was glad people liked the video. And what do you know, they found a post where poison-apple-tarts admitted to being ProudHufflepuff on Youtube.
We kept an eye on things for a while, because to be honest, we were wondering if there was a story there and we could do a video in the vein of When Posting Goes Wrong, or something. We thought this would be some weird, petty drama like Ms.Scribe or Cassandra Clare's laptop drama. But nothing seemed to happen, so we stopped looking for things (and our internet drama channel idea collapsed), but one of our friends kept our receipts because they never delete anything from their computer ever.
Now let's jump to the present, July 2021. I was scrolling through someone's blog looking for something to read when I stumbled upon the drama surrounding the-heartslabyul-hatter, Proud Hufflepuff, and kulfiedraws. I immediately recognized ProudHufflepuff from our previous investigations and while looking through the drama, I saw an "apology" post from the-heartslabyul-hatter where she denied being ProudHufflepuff, but something about it felt off to me and others were suspicious that Hatter was lying. So my friends and I decided to do some more digging, this time trying to find evidence that tied Hatter and poison-apple-tarts/ProudHufflepuff together
We found out that Hatter had, at one point, a Wattpad account, and they had a fic called "Poison Epel." Hatter explained she had deleted the account and fic, so one of us decided to dig through the Internet Archive to see if it'd been captured (it hadn't). So I decided to go and Google around to see if someone had reuploaded it or if others were talking about it. We figured if
What I found was old listings for Posion Epel, attributing it to, you guessed it, poison-apple-tarts. Here is our receipts compilation. I'll explain everything underneath.
Now, either hikariart1st isn't Hatter and reuploaded it without permission, which honestly that's awful if true, or hikariart1st was poison-apple-tart/the-heartslabyul-hatter's Wattpad username and they just had different names for different sites. But either way, that fic, Poison Epel (among others) was attributed to poison-apple-tarts. She wrote Poison Epel. The-heartslabyul-hatter claims to have written Poison Epel. Poison-apple-tarts admitted to being ProudHufflepuff. They are all the same person.
So why are we bringing this to light? Because Hatter has a history of harassing and bullying other creators under the guise of protecting copyright. Let's call it what it is: bullying. Hatter, we don't know why you're doing this, but knock it off. For starters, it's so hypocritical of you to go after people for allegedly making money off fanworks when YOU HAVE YOUR FANFIC COMMISSIONS OPEN. Listen, I totally get it, all of us get it: it's fucking unfair that fanartists can get money from their fanworks but us writers can't. My friends and I regularly complain about it. That's not our problem in this situation, you get your money however you want. Our problem is that you are doing what you condemned and accused others for doing.
You have hurt so many people and clearly, this is your brand. You have been doing shit like this for months and this needs to end now. Look, we don't know you. We don't know why you're harassing people. Is it for clout? Is it to feel superior to others? Or maybe you just like making people feel like shit? We don't know, but this behavior needs to end NOW. You tried to smear Team Avalon's name. You bullied a LITERAL CHILD OUT OF THE FANDOM. You have hurt COUNTLESS people and there's probably even more that my friends and I don't even know about!
You need to stop this. This is hurting so many people, and to be honest, this behavior isn't helping YOU, either. This isn't healthy and if you keep being this toxic, this is going to take a huge toll on you. This toxicity you keep running off of isn't healthy. If you're going to change for anyone, do it for yourself. Your behavior is hurting so many people and I am begging you, WE are begging you, stop this. Take accountability for your actions and change for the better. We know you can be a better, happier person. We want you to change for good and we want you to stop hurting people.
We've said our piece. We're leaving the conversation now. We just hope you change for the better, Hatter. This behavior is unacceptable.
