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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hello, it has been a while. We have been thinking about our traumatic experiences during our time on this platform, and we have come to the realization that the best decision for our mental health and safety would be to depart permanently.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

RAYN4: Now if you would excuse me, I am going to be off to hang out with my real family, and put my love into them, into my fiancé, my beloved significant other, and a very special kitty fox.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

With this, we'll take our permanent leave from this platform, move on to better things, and spend time with better people. With people who actually give a shit about each other’s well-being instead of with the glorified rat-race that social media platforms like Twitter & Bluesky had largely become.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

After all, there are too many folks, good folks in this world, who are only alive today thanks to my interventions. Can Rhea and Oracle say the same about themselves, or will we have found out that without people like me around, they would have managed to abuse vulnerable folks into suicide?

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

No matter what our abusers do to try to gaslight the community and turn them against us, we know that ultimately, they will not win, and they know this too. This is because the folks who remained are those who will love us for who we are, rather than who we would have pretended to be.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

The world will know how Rhea is a backstabber who lacks the integrity to see past her own physical attractions to identify abusers within her own community, and that her own indifferent attitude towards community safety had led her into interacting with unsafe people.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

The world will know how Oracle would take advantage of her victim’s momentary weaknesses, traumas and compromised states of mind in order to push past boundaries and grab what she wanted out of them without their consent.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Unlike our abusers, we don’t need to look over our shoulders at every turn, terrified out of our minds that the truth will catch up to us and deliver our reckoning. Unlike these fairweather friends who claimed to protect us from our abusers, we do not fold like lawn chairs at the slightest pushback.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

The truth will always find a way to catch up to the lies, and it will always shatter the veil of gaslight. All we need to do is tell our story, because the truth is on our side. All throughout this ordeal, we have been acting with a clean conscience.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Just like how Drake wasn’t able to keep the truth of his sex trafficking ring from the world, the truth of what happened to us will come to light regardless of Oracle and Rhea’s efforts to suppress the truth, and rewrite the narrative.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Maybe if Oracle had wanted people like RAYN4, and Poes to fall in love with her, maybe losing the emotional rapist personality would be a start. After all, the constant boundary violations, self-flagellation and emotional blackmail are a huge turn off.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Out of everyone in the furry community we’ve met, Poes was one of the very few folks who exemplified the kind of people we had hoped to see on Bluesky; Kind, caring, graceful, patient, understanding, and above all, principled. It is no wonder RAYN4 had fallen in love with it.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Until the furry fandom on social media addresses the main problem of vibes being the main community-building heuristic, it will continue to have these issues where sex pests are rewarded with community, while their victims languish in isolation. This is gaslight, gatekeep and girlboss in action.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

We would also say the same about the furry community, of which we had been a peripheral part of for our entire adult life, and we can say with full confidence that it had not really improved in how they dealt with their sex pests. Nothing has changed since the Zaush exposé.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

This was not what we had wanted to see when we joined Bluesky, and yet it was largely what we ended up getting.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

What we are pointing to, is the issue where people fall into the temptation to value their own popularity and branding over integrity and principles, leading to self-appointed community leaders abusing their unearned power in order to force their wills onto the dispossessed with impunity.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

This example is just one of many that I could bring up when it comes to the problems of social media and how it has a perennial sex pest problem. The fact that Bluesky was modeled largely after Twitter means that the same problems that plagued Twitter would also be a problem on Bluesky.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

And yet, here we are, being faced with the fact that yet another person who we thought was safe had hollowed out their own soul, and abandoned us in order to maintain a level of presence within Bluesky. They have effectively chosen to look away from sexual abuse for their own comfort.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

This is quite disappointing, as out of all of the folks from Bluesky that we had known, we would expect them to understand how traumatic and damaging being subject to constant boundary-pushing from a sex pest can be, and how important it is to support sexual abuse victims during critical moments.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Upon learning that while they had been avoiding the discord server that we shared with them, they had been very active in other discord servers. We were forced to confront the realization that in spite of their reassurances that we weren’t forgotten, they had already moved on without us.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Unfortunately, this would be the last we would hear from them. They would claim that they do not have the spoons to sustain a conversation, and yet they would spend those same limited spoons getting involved in inconsequential discourse on Bluesky, as well as make promises that they could not keep.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

Then Alice mentioned that we had been worried about them since losing contact, and that she had been trying to comfort us in the meantime. When asked if they wanted to leave a message for us, they relayed that they were in a lot of pain, and that they send us their love.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

When Alice asked the mentor if they had talked to Poes or us lately, the mentor declined, but also said that they haven’t forgotten about us, and that they had been mostly public-facing.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

This wall of silence had been going on for 4 months so far, even going so far as to stonewall Poes when it was dealing with suicidal ideation from the sheer feeling of loneliness from the situation, and hopelessness it felt towards the future.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

As an example, Poes’ now former mentor, who once doted on it, calling it their sibling, and had helped it discover a lot of things about itself, had hit Poes with a wall of silence after Poes shared its story about having been sexually abused by Oracle.

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Lenneth, crimson grim angel [She/Xey/It] @manibrandrstudios.bsky.social · Nov 25

As if social media clout would ever amount to anything at the end of the day. As if getting a ton of followers and likes will ever equal the fulfillment that comes from walking the path of right action, and building real karma from seeking personal growth and showing true integrity.

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