Master wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 2:06 am
...I'm reluctant to comment on this as I've made it a point of principle to stay the hell away from fandom drama after having seen my fair share of idiocy back when I was younger. But honestly, my two cents on this is if folks are giving grief like this better not to give them the time of day rather than an excuse to stir the pot further. I know we've had passive-aggressive jabs before from outside sources, and frankly I wonder why would you bother engaging with something that's inherently toxic and is only going to invite further toxicity?
I don't see much good that can come from airing open beef with someone who as far as anyone here is concerned, is a rando on a different site.
I do not intend to take the matter any further, this is the conclusion to my reaction.
I'm relieved that I got it off my mind, because otherwise it would have haunted the back of it for the next years as that's unfortunately how my brain is, and I hope this helped "breaking the ice" as lyndo said for some people who could still remember it too, otherwise I'm very sorry if it brought back bad memories for anyone...
Regarding said person, I'm sticking to the good ol' block button since I shared this,
and I would have done so much sooner if I had known about their misconduct right away.
I realized all of that far too late with many of the things I reported being from either the final half of my engagement with their DMs last year, to just a few days ago for the final details when I accidentally stumbled upon the guy elsewhere.
They first came across as someone quite nice who came to me because they noticed I was a Rayfanpedia admin, and who wrote some fun and creative R1/2 songs (even if I didn't appreciate the forced self-promotion)...
I was also going through an extremely agonizing time of my life in 2024 and I had too many preoccupations to pay attention to the ""little faults"" in their DMs. I rarely have people getting me into private discussions as some introvert quite shy on social interactions (which is why I usually turn off my DMs for strangers on social media), and I felt I was just doing my duty as a Rayfanpedia administrator being seemingly one of the rare persons they could approach to answer their questions and help them in that situation considering their "past experience" regarding RPC...
Then I saw this and everything clicked together... This whole thing felt very unjust in my eyes.
Maybe that's one of my character flaws and it was pointlessly wrong to bring an additional input this late, but I'm not the type that'd rather stay silent when I see my trust has been betrayed and when I realize that this extended to much more than my little person, and so I testified.
I'm not going to add anything else regarding them, and in fact I've been purposely vague on a lot of my testimony also refraining from adding screenshots or more points, because I don't want anyone to launch any sort of drama or hate campaign out ot this, toxicity is never right.
I invite everyone to leave that person alone, and if they do pester you as they did to me, ignore/block them. If anyone else really feel the need to speak out if you experienced anything similar, it'd be better to keep it between us in DMs from now on.
In the end, I mostly want my response to serve as a reminder to everyone in the community to exercise extreme caution with people online as they can be willing to abuse your trust and kindness. Some are way too talented at putting on a facade of friendliness...
Always take the time to carefully check their claims when they accost you, or the sort of person they can be from the things they express, otherwise you may come to regret it later once you realize the truth...
Heck, you should even doubt me as well! I never intend to be malicious, but you, you're not inside my mind to be sure of that!
I do occasionally make mistakes in my own behaviours (as Steo could testify from a recent example in the GBC Chromatic topic, poor guy really can't catch a break with overreactions, sorry again!
), and perhaps even my response here counts as one!
I'm someone who never got to properly construct myself socially from being either ostracized or harassed in my youth, and thus I'm very bad at expressing myself or deciding if I should speak out or not
(and that's also why I write 5 awkward paragraphs of verbose for anything when it could be phrased in like 10 words 
). If there may be anything that I do or say that happen to feel wrong in your eyes, point it out right away, I don't want to make anyone feel bad!
Stay safe, everyone! 
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