#and blocked by the creator of the server. i had gotten a long message before that from the creator (also an apology) about moderating better

[ambersky0319]

I was planning on actually getting work done today but my brain doesn't wanna focus on shit 😮‍💨

I'm gonna try later tonight. If not, then I guess I'm rushing things tomorrow

[xxtha-blog]

Hello, I have an announcement to make. I will be calling out myself today.

It’s been brought to my attention something that happened just over 2 years ago has been brought back, so I’d like to talk about it:

So here’s a story. If you follow my blog you know I’m very critical of a lot of things, especially surrounding Dreamtale AUs. Now, I believe in one very important thing when I criticize things: No one deserves unsolicited criticism. Thus I tag/warn/hide all my stuff so those who continue reading it are prepared and I NEVER send my stuff to the creators of the work. EVER. If they’re in a server and I want to talk about it with someone, I move to DMs. If I get asked an opinion on tumblr I tag that shit with warnings, put on a read more label, and keep my criticism as constructive and analytic as possible.

So what does this have to do with anything. Let’s go back to November 2019. It was just prior to Dreamtale being continued, and a peak everyone hates Dream and knows nothing about his character. So if you think I dislike Dream alts and AUs now, it was a lot worse back then. Especially about one particular AU: Shattered Dream. One day I sat down and wrote a very long vent/rant essay on Shattered Dream, put all my emotions into it, then put it down and promised never to touch the AU again. I had it written down, it was done. No more would I rant about Shattered Dream. I had already put every opinion I could think of in a stupid document to get it out of me. The only people that were supposed to see that rant essay bullshit were my friends. It was meant to be private. It wasn’t constructive criticism. It wasn’t nice. I put all the frustration I possibly could into that thing. And I absolutely NEVER wanted it to be read by the creator. Why would I, it was me being an asshole for like 10 solid pages. It was just every problem I personally had, written down for me to get tf over it. I didn’t post it anywhere but my dms/private server. For any of my followers on this blog, you’ve probably never heard about/read this thing for a reason. I never posted it here, and if you do read it now, know I certainly don’t stand by the things I said in it.

However, me being a dumbass, I thought it was fine where it was. Discord. There was no possible way it could get out there. It was in a google doc. It was tagged with a big content disclaimer at the top for my friends (because a few of them did like the au). I did not post it anywhere beyond my own private dms and discord channels.

And the worst possible thing happened to that document.

Someone sent it to the creator. And they read it. And I was fucking mortified. I don’t know how they found it and I don’t know who sent it to them and I immediately asked to talk to them in discord so I could apologize. I also disabled the link for it to remove access since it had gotten out.

They sent me a message something along the lines of: I don’t want to hear your apology, what’s done is done, just take it down. And I was blocked before I could send a single message. I obviously had taken it down. The link they currently have posted it is a copy of it, the original was deleted.

So shit. I felt terrible. I believe very strongly in the idea that you should make things for yourself and nothing but yourself, I’d never want my opinions to genuinely affect someone’s ability to create, that’s terrible, that’s not what criticism should be ever. And then they quit their AU and I felt even more abysmal. And the situation was essentially the equivalent of someone screenshotting or copy pasting some shitty rant you made in a discord server about an AU, and having it sent anonymously to the creator. I had a false sense of security it was safe. I shouldn’t have. That was stupid. That will forever be on me.

Now, present day, they post a copy of the essay on their blog and say it was sent anonymously to them. I can promise you I would never send that to them or anyone connected to them. That’s insane. It was not me who sent it, but I am genuinely so fucking sorry you had to read that. I am so sorry for the pain it caused you, for the demotivation, for the loss to your followers of an AU they loved. It was not meant for you. It was not meant to accuse you of anything. it was solely a vent, full emotional bs rant keyboard smashed onto a page. If I could go back and redo things, it would never have been written in the first place. I wish you had continued your AU. I really wish none of this had happened.

I have been waiting 2 years to be able to say that. @shattereddreamsau I know nothing I say can make up for the two years, but if you’d be willing to talk about anything, I’m fully open to making up for this in any way I can. I know I can’t take it back, the internet lives on forever, but know that I will do whatever it takes to make it better if you’re open to that. If not, and I totally understand if you want absolutely nothing to do with me, but I do hope you see this and know I am truly sorry. If you do reply, I ask we continue it privately so we can sort this out away from tumblr.

I avoided making this type of post on tumblr for the last two years to avoid other people getting involved and to avoid causing you more problems, but since the essay has now been posted here, I am here to take responsibility for writing it.

I appreciate the effort people put into AUs even if I don’t like them. I hope you know I appreciate different opinions on AUs. I’m glad to see people find enjoyment out of things I do not. I do not ever want to take that away from someone, and I hope in the last two years, you have seen me make an effort to keep my criticisms properly hidden/tagged and short/respectful. AUs are supposed to be fun. I never want something like this to happen again and will do my best to make sure it doesn’t.

[theres-an-impulstor-among-us]

Bad au Time:

The current Grian on HermitCraft is actually Rusty. Grian is still working with the watchers.

Rusty had stolen Grian's invitation to join HermitCraft, in order to escape the closet, and tried to take Robot Grian along (dude needs an actual name). Robot has definitely escaped. He just didn't want to escape with Rusty.

At some point before he had gotten into some magic (probably dark magic) and is now fully human... maybe? He does have wings like Grian.

Luckily, no really knew Grian before HermitCraft so no one is suspicious.

This is a super interesting AU! I slightly altered one little aspect of the premise but the main part is still the same, I think. Hope that’s okay and hope you enjoy! (Note: Rusty is NPC Grian for those who don’t know, like me initially lol)

...

  ��Hey, Grian!” calls Mumbo cheerfully. “How are you doing?”

  Rusty turns as his friend enters the barge. He beams and waves back. “Hi, Mumbo. Hope you’re here to make some big purchases.”

  “As it happens, I need a lot of concrete,” Mumbo laughs. 

  “Well, good! I just stocked up the sand and gravel.”

  “Ah, thanks so much, Grian.” 

  Rusty steps back to let his best friend peruse the chests he had just restocked. With his background being what it is, every chestful of sand and gravel he harvests is an achievement. His code screams every time he touches a piece of concrete or a block of bricks. But he’s learned to live with it.

  He leaves the barge and gets ready to activate his elytra, but before he can, he spots purple particles floating around a tree nearby. He’s seen these particles before; he knows what they mean. 

  Rusty follows them to the hidden cave far below the shopping district. The portal is waiting for him. It looks like a regular nether portal except that the swirling vortex in the middle of it is darker purple, not magenta. He steps into it. 

  It takes him to the infinity room, as it always does. Lounging on the throne in the middle of the room is Rusty’s creator, dressed in Watcher garb. His eyes are fixed lazily on the book held casually in his left hand. 

  “Hello,” says Rusty.

  “Hi, Rusty,” Grian responds, not looking up from his book. 

  Rusty has long since stopped expecting any kind of small talk from Grian so he goes straight into his report about the goings-on in Hermitcraft. If he didn’t already know that Grian is absorbing every piece of information he’s giving, he would get the impression that Grian isn’t listening. 

  By the end of Rusty’s report, Grian still hasn’t looked at him. “Good, good, thank you. Nobody’s getting suspicious that you aren’t me, are they?”

  Rusty shakes his head. “No.”

  “Okay…” Grian nods slowly. “What about Robot Grian?”

  “My tracking systems lost Roby a few days ago,” says Rusty, using the nickname for Robot Grian that Grian refuses to use. “His energy signature just disappeared from Hermitcraft completely.”

  “Hmm…” Grian considers this. “This could be a real problem. I’ll see if I can get in contact with the admins of other worlds and ask them to look out for him. He may not have hurt anyone yet, but that doesn’t mean he won’t in the future.”

  Rusty nods. “Yes. Would you like me to say anything to Xisuma about this?”

  “No,” replies Grian immediately. “Robot Grian isn’t dangerous right now. Xisuma will just see him as a threat to be eliminated.”

  Rusty decides not to mention his last encounter with Roby. “Okay. I won’t mention anything.”

  “Good.” Grian turns his head and finally looks at Rusty. “How are you doing?”

  “What do you mean? I said everything was fine. Nobody suspects anything.”

  “No, I mean how are YOU doing?” Grian approaches Rusty and places his hand on his shoulder, before slowly tracing Rusty’s wings, identical to his own. Rusty tries not to shiver. “Any… malfunctions?”

  “No,” says Rusty, wondering why his creator is asking him this. 

  “When was the last time you built a rustic house?”

  “Last week,” Rusty replies. “I went to the desert like you said. Nobody saw me.”

  Grian nods approvingly. “Good. My work with the Watchers shouldn’t take more than a few more months, then we can swap.”

  Rusty decides to ask a question he’s been pondering the answer to for a long time. “What will happen to me when that happens?”

  Grian doesn’t reply for a moment. When he speaks again, his voice has changed. “You’d better get back to Hermitcraft before someone realises you’re missing. Be careful, Rusty.”

  “Thank you.”

…

  When Rusty gets back to the server, he goes back to his hobbit hole and automatically smiles when he sees a message from Mumbo sitting in the chest minecart. He opens it up and finds a written book inside.

  Hey, Gri. Just wanted to leave a message to thank you for your help with my villager breeder the other day. I know we haven’t had much time to hang out lately but I want you to know that I really appreciate your daily messages. I get so happy every time I read one. This is probably a really sappy thing to say, but it helps to know that you’re just a minecart away if I need you. Thank you for continuing to be my best friend :) - Mumbo

  Rusty blinks. What is this strange feeling in his chest? Is it… happiness? Mumbo says Rusty is his best friend. Rusty has never had a best friend before. His friendship with Mumbo and the other Hermits is unlike anything Rusty has ever experienced before. He is only here on the Hermitcraft server as a placeholder but this place, this little hobbit hole he has created for himself, feels very much like home. 

  But all this will be taken away when Grian forces Rusty to swap places with him. 

  Deep down, Rusty knows exactly what will happen. Grian will take his memories and cast him aside like he’s nothing. Just like he tried to do to Roby before he escaped. He won’t care that Rusty has formed meaningful friendships with all the Hermits. He won’t care about all the effort Rusty has poured into his builds. He’ll just take over Rusty’s life as if he’s been living it all along.

  But is this something Rusty has to just lie down and accept…? 

  Rusty pauses for a moment, before turning off the system currently tracking Roby. It’s the least he can do to save his old friend from their creator. Whereas Rusty’s emancipation will take longer. He has to bide his time and plan. 

  He won’t let Grian control him anymore.

[smpetechnoblade]

Conquering the World: Day 1 - SMP Earth

Duration: An absolutely ungodly 7:40:04 what is this man doing

TDLR at the end, if you really have no time to read sorry

Our story begins in Africa; and with Technoblade immediately proclaiming his master plan world domination.

After gathering resources (diamonds, emeralds, iron, etc.), he exits pursued by Jamakattack.

He sets his course for Antarctica. As he begins his journey, he enacts his first foolproof plan to gain world dominance -- placing dibs sign on each continent he visits.

Techno then gets into VC with TommyInnit, who’s opener is literally “I've made a lot of enemies in a short period of time”. While trying to butter Techno up, he is interrupted by Junky Janker telling him to stop making enemies. Tommy says that Techno and him aren’t enemies, but Techno says that Tommy is in the middle of geopolitical conflict that Techno doesn’t want to get into by association with Tommy.

Tommy tries to explain why he has so many new enemies made within the hour, but it just makes Techno more concerned.

He finally arrives in Antarctica, makes his faction -- the great “AntarcticEmpire” -- and P1lza offers to join.

Ph1lza teleports to the newly set faction home, and the two immediately murder the incoming Jamakattack.

After death, Jam is quick to claim he simply wanted to deliver Techno some much needed steak to sustain the pig in the harsh Arctic climate -- but Techno believes Jam was far too dedicated and far too heavily armored for it to be a mere Death Stranding escapade that spanned multiple continents.

VoiceOverPete joins the VC.

The two teammates start exploring the South Pole. Underneath the mountain, they find a "stronghold". Air quotes are used here because it’s not naturally generated — it’s the ruins of an ancient civilization and is littered with paintings containing memes and strange symbols. They notice that the stronghold seems to hang above an absolutely massive cavern, and because of shaders and distance, they can’t even see the floor.

Due to popular demand, Pete gets added to the faction with one requirement: Bring one singular leather piece. This marks the start of the complete AntarcticEmpire.

Phil and Techno explore as they wait for Pete to complete his task, and they find that the cavern floor is actually layered -- much like an onion or an ogre. Except not like either of those things because it only had two layers.

They find nothing but snow and ice on either layer.    

Techno explores some more, and finds the portal room. He claims the area, and finds that there’s an Eye of Ender already in a portal frame and another in a barrel inside the room.

After discussing the recipes needed to get to the End, they realize they can’t actually ruin the moon for everyone immediately :(((

Turns out they have hella faction power, and Technoblade proceeds to claim a massive chunk of Australia

Tommyinnit enters the vc, and offers an allyship again. Techno asks about what kind of alliance it would be. Tommy decides that it would be a defensive agreement, and both Techno and Phil’s chat floods with messages not to ally with Tommy.

Many, many people then join the vc (the vc almost got full and ItsAsaii, Sneegsnag,and Antvenom were all at the base)

Tommy gets roasted. Tommy tries to justify the alliance with a scenario of AntVenom declaring war on AntarcticEmpire, and tries to say how much Techno would regret not teaming with Tommy and his “pvp prowess” when Techno asks about his credentials. Tommy claims that he’d once killed TimeDeo and TapL in duels. Techno doubts the TapL part, and it turns out that Tommy completely lied about that part.

Fit offers himself up as a guinea pig to test out how much power/land you lose when you die, and also bears sugarcane as a gift.

Tommy greets Fit, to which Fit replies “Hello, who are you”. Tommy gives an offer to Fit for an alliance, and Fit gives a hard no. Tommy tries one last time with Techno and Phil, and they also refuse. He then gives a veiled threat of a war and tells them to keep an eye peeled. Techno and Phil brush it off lightly.

Fit finally arrives at the base. He types his last words “I SACRIFICE MYSELF TO THE BLOOD GOD IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE.” Before he gets killed, Techno offers an alliance, to which Fit readily accepts.

They find out that they only lose 100 power.

MichaelMcChill travels to the base, only to die of fall damage from falling off a small ledge on the mountain.

Techno flies over to Australia to unclaim some unnecessary land ,and chat is quick to tell him that Michael has returned and is now in their base.

Michael joins the VC as he flies above their base-- asking for confirmation on the information his chat is telling him about being shot on sight

Neither Techno or Philza have actually made any such claim, the chat is being dramatic

Michael says that he’s simply there for allyship, representing the nation of Northern California

When asked what exactly is in Antarctica, since the only visible resources are the becon marking the South Pole and a single tree, Techno says that they have a “cool stronghold” but denies having an end portal.

This is also where Michael makes the infamous “Technoplane brings the Technopain” meme

Techno then begins engaging in Plane vs Man on a Mountain warfare with Michael

Techno wins, killing Michael

Michael, James (whos not online but joined the call with Michael), Techno, and Phil continue to chat as Techno tries to leave Antarctica

Techno makes it to Greenland (which he insists on calling Iceland) and finally finds an unclaimed volcano

Techno mentions that he’s running on one hour of sleep, as he was trying to slowly rotate his sleep schedule so that he went to bed later and he was going to bed at 9 am when the time that SMPearth would begin was announced. Someone help this tall child dear Lord.

Having been forced to make a small stop in Ireland, he finds some animals. He then puts into motion  his master plan — taking a chicken named Alfred from Ireland to Antarctica in a boat.

It takes so fuckin long.

Pete rejoins the VC with Techno and informs him of a tip he’s gotten

In the bottom left of the map, there is a strange symbol that was originally believed to be something akin to the compass found on real maps

However, Pete has found out that it is actually a landmark on the actual server.

Techno and Pete also make note of how similar the symbol is to some of the paintings found in their stronghold base.

While Techno is still oceanbound, he explains to Pete how to buy and fly a plane

He heads over to investigate, finding beacons marking a chest. After Techno deposits Alfred, they both head back and investigate the loot — a single broken, enchanted music disk titled Octangula (worth noting that, according to chat, this is also the name of the symbol in the ice).

They snatch the resources surrounding it (nine diamond blocks, 32 iron blocks, and 5 beacons) and head back to base

Using a jukebox, they discover the disk they collected, named “Octangula”, is a distorted version of the Garfield intro music with morse code

They then move on to looking at leads on the other end of the map

They look at the “Chien” engraved in the ice. It offers nothing, simply being a signature from the creator of the map.

Techno takes a look at the “chip was here” in the ice, and underneath the eye shaped portion of it. He claims the area, and digs in the center of a large ball of dirt, and places some signs so that water will not flow inside it. This later gets him called a bitch by IAmSp00n, who got stuck down there and had to wait for a while for Techno to let him out. He couldn’t get out because the area was claimed.

Pete drowned, while Michael and Kara were nearby. They also end up drowning trying to help get Pete’s items, and Techno finally gets their stuff back. He spends nearly the rest of the stream holding it hostage, until finally agreeing to give it partially back.

The stream ends. TL;DR: Techno makes a guild with Ph1lza and VoiceOverPete, they take over Antarctica and become popular. They find lore to the server. 

[autumndiesirae]

Regarding Overwatch and the Future of This Blog

Hi, everyone. I want to take some time to discuss the future of this blog (and my art blog) moving forward. This is something that has been on my mind a lot in recent weeks, and I feel it's vital to be open and transparent with my followers. First and foremost, Thunder is going on an indefinite hiatus. Additionally, it is highly unlikely I will be making a return to Overwatch art/videos in general. I apologize to those who were interested in the fanfiction and my content, I appreciate you all very much. I am sure you may have noticed my overall participation in OW dwindling in the past year, and I want a chance to explain myself as best I can. To be short and concise, I genuinely regret taking the time to participate as heavily in the OW fandom as I did. Not in that I regret creating art and writing for the fandom, but rather that the people I have met as a result of this fandom, that I have communicated and collaborated with and gotten to know have, in my opinion, caused irreversible damage to myself. With the exception of a few people, I have been made miserable and worse by the toxic OW community that I have interacted with, on a scale that dwarfs all other fandoms I have been in. While I really shouldn't, I will be keeping their names anonymous to protect myself more than them.

TL;DR -  As it stands now, the love I felt for Overwatch in the last two years is basically gone. I am blocked by a large number of OW creators due to my attitude about shipping or because of my involvement in the subjects below the cut, I have negative associations with my OTP despite how much I love that ship, I no longer have the motivation to create the content I used to. I am truly grateful for everyone who has followed me due to my fanart and fanfictions and OW posts in general - I don't plan to delete those - but I simply can't continue with this fandom. I wanted a chance to explain myself and be open with my followers to allow them to decide for themselves if they wanted to continue following me or not, which I won't hold any grudges against followers or mutuals unfollowing me for this. I'll still be reblogging Overwatch art on occasion, and as for Thunder, I may one day return to the fanfiction and finish it. But right now, I needed to address how I feel and what the situation has been for the past year or so.

TW for suicide/self-harm discussion below the cut.

As many of you know, I participated in the now-inactive Boombox server on Discord. This was the beginning of the issues I dealt with. My art and commentary was regularly ignored, I was often spoken over by other, more popular content creators, and I was criticized and insulted over my content multiple times. When I made an attempt to join another Junkrat-themed server with more people, these issues multiplied tenfold. The admin of the server in particular was toxic and promoted the works of people they liked over smaller content creators, arguments were rampant, and other issues. I ended up relapsing into self-harm at this time. After the stress and misery became too much to bear, in late November, I attempted to take my own life. When I recovered and reached out again to apologize, I was shamed for what happened, told I was abusive and manipulative, and essentially forced to leave the servers for fear of public backlash. So I did. This was truly the beginning of the end. I attempted later on in December to rejoin another server with the same individuals as before but lacking the toxic admin, but found many of the same issues were rampant. My content was ignored in favor of more popular creators, the admin of that server regularly and purposefully livestreamed at the same times as smaller creators to take viewership away from them, and attitudes towards non-Roadrat ships in general were very rude and dismissive. I ended up leaving that server as well. In early 2018, a few days after New Year's, my girlfriend cheated on me with someone we had mutually met on these servers. That was the biggest blow I have ever experienced. On top of recent months where I had relapsed into self-harm and attempted to take my own life, now I had to deal with the fact that my girlfriend of five years had decided I was not good enough due to my asexuality. I'm sure it could be argued that this would happen regardless of Overwatch, but the fact that it happened with a member from the fandom has cemented that association in my head. I took a long break from the fandom after that, which was the beginning of the massive hiatus for Thunder. During that time, I made one final attempt to join an Overwatch server, this one hosted by smaller content creators, but I again ended up leaving due to issues with the server theme and the admins (though these were different than the previous servers). Since then, I have not joined any fandom servers.

I want to specify that I don’t feel like my personal issues with these creators warrants anyone to change their blogging habits - I don’t want people to feel pressured to appease me in any way. These are my personal problems and not anyone else’s to deal with. I also would really prefer if I didn’t get messages from people trying to explain or justify that I should return to this fandom, please.

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding.

[hchano]

ARTISTS BEWARE

Avoid collaborations with dubious monetized YouTube channel GeekyComTV 

I’ve held my tongue about this channel for almost a month and I can’t frickin’ do it anymore. This is a call out post.

[WHY?] To make a long story short, this user has been posting videos for over a year now, using miraculous art. Although in some cases he has asked permission to repost, he began monetizing [making money off of] his videos at some point without notifying any of the artists. 

None of the artists agreed to monetization.

@maristoryart is only one of many artists that reported him upon finding the monetization, but for some reason, Geeky has focused on her as the reason his channel is being reported [for a second time at least, since this isn’t the first account he has lost]...

GeekyComTV’s creator has resorted to blackmail, to defamation, to actual threats, and finally to identity theft, in an attempt to bully mari and others into complying with his wishes. 

It’s gross and it is NOT okay. [short version of this post]

[^^^ just 20 of the 200+ videos being monetized]

[WHY? part 2: the long version] And now the entire thing. Strap in and get ready to get real damn mad. And apologies in advance for the lack of a read more, but I need to avoid censorship of this post. So yes, this post is VERY LONG, but this needs to be seen.

For ease of reading, I will do a bullet list+screenshot setup.

July 9th, GeekyComTV’s channel is linked amidst 4 others by a discord user on a small ml server. 

Geeky’s is shown to be directly monetizing most of the videos.

Maristoryart is the only one active at the time whose art is on there, so she reports the videos using her content.

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[censoring names for protection from this creep]

A few days later [the 13th], the owner of the channel begins to message Mari via her social media and email

He reminds her she gave him permission to post the artwork on his channel and asks why she reported him; he reveals her reports put two strikes on his account

He says he will remove the videos if she retracts her claims

^^^ to explain: He has 2 strikes on his account. He counterclaims them, which means he is disputing the strikes and youtube cancels the deletion of the videos. If he deletes the videos now, the strikes remain on his account. If Mari retracts her claims, his account is in the clear.

Mari asks for advice from the chat and we unanimously tell her not to retract her claims, since he monetized without notifying her OR ANY OF THE 100+ ARTISTS HE IS STEALING FROM

During this conversation, another user who dealt with him previously points out Geeky’s previous channel was shut down for the same reason, so we learn he is a repeat offender

Mari ultimately decides to tell Geeky she will not retract her claim due to the monetization of hers and others art without their permission

At the same time, I share Geeky’s channel with the main public ml art server and begin to contact artists on tumblr

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[in which a user lets us know geeky tried to find out who ‘told on him’ lol. spoilers: it only matters cos he wanted to send threats and blackmail to the person lol]

yes, geeky:

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[just one of a few ppl who likely ended up reporting him lol]

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[lol yea that 2 years of hard work putting songs on top of ppl’s art and making money off it, boo hoo lol]

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[^^^ talking about his previous channel, which is deleted now. jan 11 is when the posts about his new [current main] channel started to appear for a while.]

Immediately after Mari sends her explanation, Geeky tries to claim he only monetized a month ago

Another user calls bs; she had tried to contact him several months prior about removing videos with her art because she didn’t allow monetization

Geeky offers to pay Mari the money he made off her work, if she will remove the strikes

Geeky begins to message Mari incessantly, repeating that he will pay her

He tries to claim it wasn’t he who ‘decided to monetize the videos’ ... [note: heartbeat indicates nearly all his videos are monetized by him DIRECTLY, save for one or two, which are monetized by WMG for music used]

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Meanwhile, I have gotten in touch with one of the artists on tumblr and explain the situation to them

This artist chooses to contact Geeky personally 

When this artist asks Geeky to remove the video with their content, he claims he can’t remove any videos until Mari removes her strikes from his account [note: this isn’t how youtube works lol. this is also part of the blackmail aspect]

During this convo, Geeky has caught on that artists in this community actually talk to each other and he begins to set his videos to private so that no one else can claim their artwork

Thankfully I still have the window with all the videos still loaded, so I begin to send individual urls to the artists i recognize from the thumbnails, so they can remove their work from his channel

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[^screenshot the tumblr artist sent]

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The third and final strike on Geeky’s account comes from @ferisae, who sometimes allows dubs, but does not allow monetization

Despite being private, Feri still had the URL, so she was able to report her video

Geeky emails Feri, saying she made a mistake, she doesn’t want to do this etc

Feri clearly tells him she never gave approval for her work to be monetized, and he repeatedly messages her and tries to tell her he wasn’t monetizing, that she is making a big mistake, etc

Feri lets him know she has an app that lets her see when a video is monetized and by who, says she won’t talk about it anymore, and blocks him

[^ i don’t have screenshots of this exchange, it was relayed on voicechat]

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Geeky begins to message all the people who contacted him to remove their art, asking them if they know Feri and Mari, could they message them about the issue, etc etc

He begins to message Mari multiple times per day, interrupting her daily life 

[she ignores the messages]

He also makes a new email account and begins to message Feri again, begging her to resolve this

[she ignores him as well]

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[^from the new email to feri. bigger image ... pls note the lie about removing the videos. they were all still on private, NOT deleted.]

Finally, when no one responds, he resorts to threats [on the 14th and 15th]

Mari asks for advice on how to respond, and one of the users in the chat helps her craft an email to send him.

We advise her to do what Feri did, to simply block him, but he responds again before she has a chance to and threatens her again

Mari is understandably stressed out and logs off for a while

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[^^^ sorry but if simply ignoring your attempts to guilt trip her into removing rightful strikes on ur account isn’t ‘peaceful’, i don’t know what is lol]

[response ^^^ bigger image]

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[bigger image -  ^^^ in which he sends basically the same message twice??? and my, i’m so glad ur a good person because you chose not to hack. much brave, very morals, wow!! ]

After seeing this, I am raging, so I start looking into this guy, hoping I can find his family and show them the emails he has been sending to Mari, so maybe they will straighten his ass out :P

I don’t have luck finding his family [aside from a possible sibling], though I do find out where he lives and works

I kick it up to a friend of mine [@seibatooth] who digs up a lot more info on him, including work history

We learn is a college student from Morocco, who hasn’t held a stable job for more than 6 months

I share this all with Mari to reassure her that this guy has no power and to not worry so much lol

In light of all this new information, no one responds to him

[^^^seiba is a boss. again... no one used this information against him, no one contacted him, and it was all obtained by simple google searches.]

He is quiet for a few days, then on the 19th, a very badly worded email from Geeky’s “Lawyer” comes

It is sent to Feri, Mari, and a Third Artist who did not want to be named in this post

It claims he is seeking legal action against all three artists and lists an email, a website, and a linkedin url 

A quick search shows this lawyer to be a real person, but that the contact info in the email is incorrect

So here, we learn here that Geeky is impersonating Real Lawyer [which is where we get identity theft]

Seiba calls Real Lawyer to appraise him of the situation

Seiba and Feri then respond to Geeky [on the fake lawyer email] to let him know that Real Lawyer will be contacting him soon

When I check on Friday, his account is still up, but monetization appears to be disabled ... YAAAAAAAAAAS

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Also, the Third Artist who did not want to be named offered some screenshots from an exchange they had with Geeky:

[Translation: “everyone else is stealing from you so why can’t i????” gross.]

[^^^in which he pretends to be the lawyer from his own acct........wowww x’DDD] 

The next day [i think? it was during SDCC which was chaotic lol], Real Lawyer calls Seiba

Real Lawyer lets her know that he is pursuing legal action against Geeky... fite!

Another few days pass and Geeky begins advertising his new channel on instagram

In each post, he publicly announces that Mari is the reason he is losing his account, that she doesn’t love the miraculous fandom anymore [????] and that he is just a poor wee bab victim who did no wrong guys really ;0;/

[about page on his new channel. goo.gl link just makes you directly subscribe to this new channel >>; ugh.]

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[^^^his posts are decently popular]

[...lol fake claims my butt.]

[my fave part about this is that he claims mari incited a buncha artists to riot against him, when in actuality it was the fact he was MAKING MONEY ON OUR ART. mari had nothing to do with it, aside from sharing his gross guilt trippy and then THREATNING responses lmao. sorry bruh, u did it to urself.]

[.....sigh.]

Alright, so while I was tidying up everything to post, Geeky actually has done more things I need to post about. Literally in the past 24 hours, heck, in the last HOUR, he is still screwing artists over and taunting everyone about it. I have permission to name a few artists effected, so I will not censor their names here.

Today, I found out that Geeky has counter-claimed Mari, Feri and the Third Artist

This means his account is still active, despite the previously pending deletion

He has turned on monetization again, so he is again making money off everyone’s artwork

He is publicly taunting everyone about what he has done

[^^^ the comment in yellow has since been removed by geeky]

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[^^^ bragging and more threats....also, just lying out his ass. sorry but i have receipts, bruh.]

[^^^ ANOTHER threat/brag. they deleted this comment pretty much immediately but bbwolf was kind enough to screenshot her activity feed so we can still see it lol. also, like how his time frame keeps changing? interesting lol]

[^^^ one of the counterclaims, shared by the Third Artist. Geeky’s explanation (the english bit) as to why he’s allowed to make money on someone elses work is that it’s okay that he is making money off ppl’s work cos we didn’t create the characters...... what???  ?????? ? ? ???  also he lives in morroco, so he can’t actually claim fair use because it doesn’t apply to him lol... alsoalso, NONE OF US ARE MAKING MONEY ON OUR WORK. HE IS. WHICH NEGATIVELY EFFECTS US BECAUSE IT IS AFFECTING HOW WE W. DERP] 

[eden is allowing me to name her in this post now]

[^^^ just one of a few that was linked]

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[^^^^ proof that he was contacted 6 months ago about monetizing videos. despite the fact he said claimed he only started 1 month ago. proof that he waited a bit and then just turned it back on when eden stopped checking.]

[^^^setting this here as proof he is monetizing in case he turns it off lol]

Aaand that is where we are at this very minute. I will likely update this post via reblog as the situation changes, but good lord, y’all. Can we please work together to take care of this guy? I can’t stand that he seems to be getting away with this behavior.

[THE ACCOUNTS] (as tempted as you may be after this post, DO NOT HARASS THIS USER. just look for your content and report it at your own discretion. if you do harass him, he might use your words as proof he is being ‘wrongly harassed’ ... and he will definitely hide the videos again, so that no one can report their artwork. please report discreetly.)

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