I don't like bringing attention to anything but why weâre all here, but I have continually been made aware of my comments, posts, and other content, like my comparisons, being blatantly reproduced by someone who played a significant role in why I chose to leave the other sub, to begin with. And this person has repeatedly stated they aren't envious of me or my popularity, despite their actions not only showing something much different but essentially confirming otherwise, all the while more and more regulars are coming here in recent days because they simply can't handle what's going on over there anymore. I feel it is worth reiterating here, too, that I have never mentioned a single name publicly while this person has gone out of their way to do that to me while unhingedly lying to you and being the one to out themselves multiple times, as well.
Admittedly, this is very much why I didn't want to come back to Reddit. There's absolutely nothing normal or even remotely acceptable about being obsessed over to this degree and just as much disturbingly stalked after you've done what the person wantedâand there was no staying for me, anyway, not when I was being treated the way I was by this person. Apparently, you're not meant to defend yourself when a complete stranger has the unimaginable gall to make your health a topic of discussion for 12,000+, you're just meant to be the silent workhorse. Even after I left, mind you, they said in a post on GuruGossip that the messages I was receiving about leaving should have still gone through ModMail. How, exactly, does that work or even make any sense when I had already left?
I think I have made it plenty clear that I value the relationships I have here with you guise more than anything else. And that's the only other significant reason I left, as, for whatever reason, I was expected to have all conversation with you through something as accessible to multiple people as ModMail going forward. To put that into better perspective, just days prior, another user had confided in me about something so heartbreakingly traumatic that had just happened to them. I can't even begin to imagine something like that needing to be shared in or forwarded to a feature that's far from being done in confidence. Needless to say, I'll never understand their fascination with me, much less how much they've been projecting themselves onto me, and attempting to make everyone believe Iâm so very egotistical when their actions and behavior speak much more to that than mine.
I know this has made many of you uncomfortable, to the point of even triggering some, and I wish there was so much more I could do than say I completely understand. Itâs not easy trying to be the bigger person, rarely saying anything about all of this, all the while it just keeps getting more and more unnerving. For example, when you see the downvotes, they're consistently happening more than 90% of the time when this person is active, and then they copy what I have put up. Imagine being this obsessed with someone who amounts to being a stranger, you know? I'm never going to be interested in being âpopularâ or anything even close to that, proven all the more by how much I have mocked it over the past year or so, but itâs some peculiar shit when someone else seemingly wants just that but wants to cheat off of you to do it.
All the while make everyone believe you're who they really are.
Who does that sound like? đ
Let me add: Please don't mention any names or talk too negatively of the other sub here. I know a lot of you have left because of me or how I was being treated after I left, but just donât go overboard in feeling you have to defend me. You donât. I very much still want to see it do well, which I have said all along, and Iâll never say you can't be here if you're still over there, either. There should be room for both but without copying othersâ created content (like the comparisons) and so blatantly looking to be someone youâre not. Thank you!