#Anyone that has left me discord messages I'll try to get around to replying when I can since I'm juggling a lot of stuff

[oneluckydragon]

For my moots.

[rebelrayne]

Did you get to know anything earlier because you were a mod?

Did you get paid in any way to do it?

Why did you decide to stop?

And what was it like “behind the scenes”?

I'm going to answer under the cut because A, there are spoilers and B, there's a lot to be said here. I'm not trying to keep anyone from playing the games, supporting the games or anything. This was my personal experience and I can't say that it's still going the same way. Also editing to add that I am still no in support of a petition against season 5. I sit on my Tumblr blog in peace.

We did get to know a few things. For one, I was pretty verified that Eddie, Suresh and Finn are LIs. The person who worked for Fusebox said they wanted there to be a thread for each main LI and said, for example: Team Suresh and Team Eddie. They also said Finn was their favorite LI, so that's how I was able to put on Tumblr that I can confirm that. I left (I'll get into why later) but two of the four OG Mods stayed and got information on Gabrielle. They were given her sprite (I saw it too, they sent it to me) but were told not to leak it so we've known what she looked like for about a month now even though it's recent that she was leaked through the files. That week's episodes talked about the turtle tattoo girl but the Fusebox person heavily implied to the remaining mods that Gabrielle is an LI. So yes, we did get some insider information.

But we did get paid 130 gems and 5 passes for a month. So basically 4.333 gems a day. Really not enough, not for what we had to deal with.

I decided to stop for a few reasons. One reason was a member was extremely hostile towards everyone but decided they wanted to pick fights with me in specific. They would ping me out of nowhere to bash Youcef (like I cared because I didn’t) but it was clearly that they just wanted to hurt me. This member did not like when I pushed back on them and pitched a fit which ended in them trying to delete their messages they sent (but the bot literally saved all of them). This member also has sent me a hate message on Tumblr recently, too even though this happened a month and a half ago. Nothing happened to this member either even though they were bullying other members plus mods, it was completely ignored by the person who was from Fusebox.

Another reason was the way things were handled, which will answer the behind the scenes question. The rules were too flimsy and it seemed that Fusebox was focused on there being only positivity for Season 5 but there were some comments that made other mods and other members uncomfortable (the comment I'm referring to is about Will and the member said they had an 'Asian fetish'). There was nothing done about this, instead it was said by the person who worked for Fusebox that it was just poor word choice but they were very descriptive. I can't talk too much on this as it was a different mod that dealt with this. If you want elaboration, I'd be happy to talk with the others and craft a reply that we'd want to put out on this.

Around the same time, we were told we were in our 'cliques' and we needed to be more professional. We do not work for Fusebox, we are basically volunteers but being told we need to 'act professional' which taken as you shouldn't act as yourself. We understood to an extent but four of the OG mods were asked to come over from the fan server because they liked the atmosphere of the fan server. There was no discussion about how they wanted to act, no expectations or guidelines so we went thinking they wanted us to interact with the members like friends and keep discussions going. We were all very upset when we were scolded and lectured. We were told that if a professional company like "Netflix" came in to look at the Discord server, we would look unprofessional. Well, we don't work for Fusebox. If you want someone to act like Fusebots, then have people who work at Fusebox run the server. We were also left by ourselves on weekends (which are obviously very busy times) and the Fusebox person never logged on, even though we had issues where needed help.

Anyone from the OG Fan server knows we had these cute little acronyms that we used and people started using them on the main server which blew up. Fusebox was very against it but when we suggested making roles so members could show which LIs and characters they liked instead so we could get them to remove the acronyms, they shut it down.

About a week later, I left alongside another mod (we actually left together at the same time) because we couldn't take it anymore. This mod isn't on Tumblr, they're just a close friend. Last we know, some of the mods are openly bashing Season 5, which we were basically told we shouldn't do.