The JO Situation: Finally, closure!

[aunt_zelda]

http://tgwtgrumours.tumblr.com/post/17808829670/jesuotaku-and-the-rumours#notes

FINALLY! Someone confirming that yes, JO said that awful stuff. It's great that she's changed, but it was bothering me after the whole TGWTG Secrets debacle that she was denying she ever said that stuff and making things horrible for Rants and the confused fans and those of us who actually read the formspring post that has since been deleted. 

And now we can put this whole business to rest. Now that it's all out in the open ... I think I can watch JO's reviews again. *smiles*

Just got back from my first college party. Yaaaaaay! Pretty small, lots of fun dancing, lots of sexy dancing, lots of me watching people do sexy dancing and wanting to join in and not knowing the protocal for that, and me headbanging to Katy Perry and stuff. I'm sore and sweaty and I had fun. I'm glad I went out with my friends. 

Comments

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

As I said on my lj, it's a good thing he wasn't involved in the early days of the fandom - he would have been eaten alive.
Eh, I think we would have sort of helped him along and taught him about how to deal with internet shitstorms and these situations wouldn't have gotten so far out of control. And if he'd said something potentially victim-blaming we'd have called him out on it, and that would have been that.
Plus, we were a really collaborative fandom in the early days by necessity because there were like six of us for the first couple months (and we still are pretty collaborative, what with all the AUs everyone's writing in and adding to) so the problem of one person tackling all that stuff by themselves wouldn't have been so much of a problem. Now there's a second admin, thank god, hope they even things out a little.

It makes me really, really fucking angry the way he treated the claim. The way he treated the whole situation was just fucking appalling and completely unacceptable. The fact that he called her a troll.
Fuck's sake.
Yeah that's never a good idea. Who knows, maybe she was, but there's a chance she wasn't and that makes it unacceptable to throw around names like that. Personal judgements have no place on a secrets blog.

Kinda reminds me of when I defended objectophiles in the comments of one of Nash's videos, and he called me a troll in a livestream later and he and Roses and J-Dub all laughed. That still hurts.
Nowhere near as bad as this situation, but still, people throw around the word "troll" to describe people who say things that make them uncomfortable a bit too much.

[luvjoi]

I'm sorry that happened *gives a cookie*

I remembered being called a noob years ago on a Pokem"on Glitch forum, doesnt hurt now and I don't really care anymore, but back then I kinda was hurt, like why the "hell would you call me a noob. I was just posting what I apparently thought wasn't found before in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl before."

Here's a unrelated story to cheer you up:

I rewatched The Great Game, well half of it really, but I noticed this time around the Sherlock was using IE on his laptop, my reaction was

"O_O....why are you using.....you should use any other browser really...how...for being such a genius..."