#oh my god i remember when ranmail was emails

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ranboo :)

[ilyuqi]

what are your whole honest to god opinions on the ranboo leak ordeal? like full on analogy bc u have some rly good perspectives

okay so i guess when i think about ranboo's information getting leaked, i remember like the very first few leaks in private discord spaces and stuff like that and i think the first few leaks were completely unavoidable. ranboo didn't think about how his old mc account could eventually lead to people finding his email, school, ect ect, and if it'd just been those leaks specifically, then i seriously doubt much would've been bad. like okay we have your.. tumblr with a couple of riverdale and 2018 gay humor likes, and a possible city where you live but that's it. the problem is ranboo tried to hide all the wrong things. like he wouldn't even reveal his timezone so people couldn't figure out where in the usa he was, but then totally forgot to get rid of the actual pictures that come up when you search his name? he literally skimmed on the most important parts of internet safety (changing emails, deleting old accounts, getting people to delete pictures of you) but then did the absolute most for basically nothing. by april ranboo was 100% aware of the leaks and still did nothing, and his biggest mistake was doing nothing about it. he didn't contact his school to delete videos and pictures of him, he didn't change his emails or account names, he didn't get his friends to take down any pictures and tried to just ignore it but like.. tht's not something you do with a doxxing threat. he was too scared to address it head-on and only looked at it when it got to its worst and by then it was too late. probably 90% of my tumblr followers at least know 1 obscure bit of ranboo lore by now and it's upsetting because the initial leaks really weren't that horrible, but it grew because ranboo didn't do anything.

so that's everything ranboo did wrong, now what about the fandom? well the whole idea of leaktwt really exploded with ranboo, like sure dream was a huge leaktwt target but the problem is he wiped a lot of the internet of his old past before becoming a cc, so new dream leaks are rare and usually come from him (him talking to teamroothed about sam, ect ect) but ranboo did nothing of that. basically ranboo was a plethora of information just waiting to be exposed and people jumped on that because it made them feel cool to be able to find all that and spread it and be malicious on the internet. it all just comes from the fact that these kids and tired and true losers with nothing better to do than doxx literal children likee?!? leaktwt is bad but come on for a closeted 16 year old kid???? dude you guys need to recognize at a certain point that by doing this youre going to actually harm him. i remember when leaktwt was really bad (like may/june) and ranboo put on ranmail about how sad he was and all these fltwt accs were qrting like "oh god i feel bad" YES SO DEACTIVATE?? ITS LITERALLY YOUR FAULT?? honestly leaktwt would be a lot more respectable if it was just done in private, not saying its any better, youre still doxxing and digging but at least its far away from a very sensitive and vulnerable ranboo whos already very insecure