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A Most Unpleasant Matter
2 years ago
Warning: long rant ahead
I don’t enjoy being forced to make a journal like this, and I don’t enjoy subjecting my watchers to any form of obnoxious furry drama, but I don’t really have a choice.
It has come to my attention that a couple days ago, a certain individual made a post on their DA account slandering me. They claimed that I:
1. Use AI to write my stories
2. Overcharge for my work (this is subjective, and they are entitled to have an opinion)
3. That I attack people for their beliefs and use my friends to further me doing so
And, of course, they encouraged people to share said post with their friends.
Please note that they did not provide any evidence in any fashion, they only posted my FA page with these false claims beneath.
I highly discourage using one’s platform to spread lies about other people, and I’m a little worried some damage has been done. But I really have to say something before this reaches more people.
I do not use language models, generative chat AI, or anything of the sort to write my work, and will never do so. I promise that my work is 100% authentic and written only by myself. I believe that using any sort of AI in commission writing is morally condemnable and dishonest.
To summarise the backstory of what resulted in this person posting slander about me on their platform:
-I moderate a large public server on Discord that is a fan community for a certain video game.
-This individual joined the Discord and mostly laid low until they imposed transphobic/homophobic beliefs on other people in the server’s political chat, along with personal insults and other drama. They were banned from the server following further inflammatory comments.
-Shortly before their ban, they had made a carbon-copy of the Discord server (copy pasted channel names and descriptions). The Discord was advertised on Reddit using a post that was very clearly made using a generative AI like ChatGPT. It read as though the person who wrote it knew nothing about the game—the text was oddly formatted and seemed to get “stuck” on ideas that were unrelated to the content. (This is relevant because this individual has proven themselves to be a massive hypocrite.)
-They attempted to siphon members from our Discord to theirs through DMs, claiming that the moderation there was toxic and biased.
-Transphobic and homophobic discourse continued on this new server. Some people from the first server joined just to see what it was about. Of course drama happened due to the server owner’s attitude, but nobody was banned for the time being.
-The problem individual also at one point asked me about my writing and I sent them an FA link. They believed my prices were too high. They opened writing commissions of their own the next day with the prices at around half of mine and claimed they’d get way more clients than me because I charge too much for my work. (Subjective) This leads me to believe that this entire situation is a direct attack to hurt me and my business.
-The situation eventually escalated with insults and censorship occurring in the duplicate server’s politics channel. Members were banned for having left-leaning beliefs, another demonstration of the owner’s hypocrisy. I was among them—I mostly just called out this individual for having bigoted beliefs (the person in question stated that homosexuality should have remained illegal and stayed classified as a mental illness. I couldn’t let this stand, as it’s a direct attack on my identity.)
-The banned users migrated to another user’s Discord who was tangentially involved with the drama, but was still at least impartial with the situation. The problem individual was present in this server, and assumed all the banned people had migrated there to harass him. Note that this was not the case on my end—I was beyond ready to move on, I only joined this new server cuz I liked the owner’s attitude xP
-The problem individual left the server after ranting about how we were following him to harass him, even though we all stated that wasn’t the case.
-Later, the guy comes back and BLACKMAILS one of the people involved with the situation. This person hadn’t even done anything directly to insult or otherwise harm the troublemaker. In fact, the two had quite the history of being involved with a mod for the game. But clearly this guy was pissed and just wanted to come at somebody.
-He had access to the ex-friend’s real name and school, and threatened to divulge that he made NSFW mod content for the game to his real life circle. His demands were that this person block everyone in his Discord DMs and insult them personally. Obviously this is fucked and I can’t tolerate blackmail.
-The problem individual also tried to blackmail the server owner of the Discord that a few users (including myself) joined after the drama. He claimed he would report his server to Trust and Safety if he didn’t ban a long list of people including myself. The server owner managed to wear him down enough that the problem individual just gave up and deleted his Discord account.
-I assumed that would be the end of the drama. This DA post was made before the Discord deletion, but I only caught wind of it now. I felt the need to say something to avoid people getting the wrong idea.
I can’t fucking stand a direct attack on a part of my livelihood.
Tl:dr
Slandered/libelled online. I don’t use AI to write comms. I’m completely authentic. Homophobe/transphobe narcissist blackmails people to try and get even.
If you actually read all of that, I thank you for enduring my rant. Naturally I do not condone using my platform for naming and shaming, but if you want to talk to me about anything further, my discord username is: seabers
Adios.
I don’t enjoy being forced to make a journal like this, and I don’t enjoy subjecting my watchers to any form of obnoxious furry drama, but I don’t really have a choice.
It has come to my attention that a couple days ago, a certain individual made a post on their DA account slandering me. They claimed that I:
1. Use AI to write my stories
2. Overcharge for my work (this is subjective, and they are entitled to have an opinion)
3. That I attack people for their beliefs and use my friends to further me doing so
And, of course, they encouraged people to share said post with their friends.
Please note that they did not provide any evidence in any fashion, they only posted my FA page with these false claims beneath.
I highly discourage using one’s platform to spread lies about other people, and I’m a little worried some damage has been done. But I really have to say something before this reaches more people.
I do not use language models, generative chat AI, or anything of the sort to write my work, and will never do so. I promise that my work is 100% authentic and written only by myself. I believe that using any sort of AI in commission writing is morally condemnable and dishonest.
To summarise the backstory of what resulted in this person posting slander about me on their platform:
-I moderate a large public server on Discord that is a fan community for a certain video game.
-This individual joined the Discord and mostly laid low until they imposed transphobic/homophobic beliefs on other people in the server’s political chat, along with personal insults and other drama. They were banned from the server following further inflammatory comments.
-Shortly before their ban, they had made a carbon-copy of the Discord server (copy pasted channel names and descriptions). The Discord was advertised on Reddit using a post that was very clearly made using a generative AI like ChatGPT. It read as though the person who wrote it knew nothing about the game—the text was oddly formatted and seemed to get “stuck” on ideas that were unrelated to the content. (This is relevant because this individual has proven themselves to be a massive hypocrite.)
-They attempted to siphon members from our Discord to theirs through DMs, claiming that the moderation there was toxic and biased.
-Transphobic and homophobic discourse continued on this new server. Some people from the first server joined just to see what it was about. Of course drama happened due to the server owner’s attitude, but nobody was banned for the time being.
-The problem individual also at one point asked me about my writing and I sent them an FA link. They believed my prices were too high. They opened writing commissions of their own the next day with the prices at around half of mine and claimed they’d get way more clients than me because I charge too much for my work. (Subjective) This leads me to believe that this entire situation is a direct attack to hurt me and my business.
-The situation eventually escalated with insults and censorship occurring in the duplicate server’s politics channel. Members were banned for having left-leaning beliefs, another demonstration of the owner’s hypocrisy. I was among them—I mostly just called out this individual for having bigoted beliefs (the person in question stated that homosexuality should have remained illegal and stayed classified as a mental illness. I couldn’t let this stand, as it’s a direct attack on my identity.)
-The banned users migrated to another user’s Discord who was tangentially involved with the drama, but was still at least impartial with the situation. The problem individual was present in this server, and assumed all the banned people had migrated there to harass him. Note that this was not the case on my end—I was beyond ready to move on, I only joined this new server cuz I liked the owner’s attitude xP
-The problem individual left the server after ranting about how we were following him to harass him, even though we all stated that wasn’t the case.
-Later, the guy comes back and BLACKMAILS one of the people involved with the situation. This person hadn’t even done anything directly to insult or otherwise harm the troublemaker. In fact, the two had quite the history of being involved with a mod for the game. But clearly this guy was pissed and just wanted to come at somebody.
-He had access to the ex-friend’s real name and school, and threatened to divulge that he made NSFW mod content for the game to his real life circle. His demands were that this person block everyone in his Discord DMs and insult them personally. Obviously this is fucked and I can’t tolerate blackmail.
-The problem individual also tried to blackmail the server owner of the Discord that a few users (including myself) joined after the drama. He claimed he would report his server to Trust and Safety if he didn’t ban a long list of people including myself. The server owner managed to wear him down enough that the problem individual just gave up and deleted his Discord account.
-I assumed that would be the end of the drama. This DA post was made before the Discord deletion, but I only caught wind of it now. I felt the need to say something to avoid people getting the wrong idea.
I can’t fucking stand a direct attack on a part of my livelihood.
Tl:dr
Slandered/libelled online. I don’t use AI to write comms. I’m completely authentic. Homophobe/transphobe narcissist blackmails people to try and get even.
If you actually read all of that, I thank you for enduring my rant. Naturally I do not condone using my platform for naming and shaming, but if you want to talk to me about anything further, my discord username is: seabers
Adios.
The entire situation is messed up and I'm sick of it, but I can't let a fellow writer who I know to be authentic in his work face this kind of attack.
My Discord username is 4onen.
https://imgur.com/a/5X1RisA