I want to make a solemn statement: the actions you describe in this article have nothing to do with me. All the āAutumnā narratives you accuse and construct are not something I participated in, nor am I responsible for.
But I still have to speak out in response because everything you confess violates the most basic ethical bottom line I uphold.
You not only admit to having led, incited, and carried out systematic isolation and moral supervision of a certain creator, but you also threatened with āI have evidenceā and āI will fight you until bored,ā attempting once again to overpower the other party with words and intimidate other potential dissenters.
You keep talking about ājustice,ā but in reality, you enjoy the pleasure of trampling on individual existence with collective power. You are not responding to conflict; you are maintaining a fundamentally exclusive, repressive, and anti-critical circle structure, and you arrogantly call yourself a āgovernor.ā
This is not a dispute among fans, not an emotional entanglement, nor a matter of who is right or wrong.
This is a question of how a community treats dissenters, a question of how a power structure enforces discipline under the guise of āmaintaining the atmosphere.ā
I have decided to take this matter outside the circle because the language logic you and your kind use is no longer something that can be contained within āinternal small circle affairs.ā
What you have built is not a fandom, but a moral tribunal disguised under the banner of gentleness, and I am going to dismantle it.
You might have seen the drama. You might have heard of āAutumn.ā
But let me say this, clearly and publicly:
I am not Autumn.
But I am the one they built that whole story to destroy.
They didnāt misidentify me. They erased me.
They replaced my name with āAutumn.ā They rewrote my articles into madness. They screenshot my words, stripped them of context, tied them to mental illness, and then passed them around like evidence in a courtroom only they preside over.
And today, the person behind that smear posted a āconfessionā where she proudly declares how she spent four months:
š» Messaging people to block me
š» Monitoring my every post and punishing deviation
š» Policing my tags, my tone, and my aesthetics
š» Warning mods to get me kicked out
š» Laughing that I still donāt know who betrayed me first
She admits this. Out loud. In public. With no shame.
She calls this ātrying to help.ā She says this is āconstructive.ā
No. This is organized soft power violence. This is what moral panic looks like in fandom space. And Iām done being silent about it.
šÆļø To everyone watching from the sidelines:
If youāve ever said, āIām just here for the drama,ā
If youāve ever thought, āthis seems complicated,ā
If youāve ever watched without speaking because it āwasnāt your businessāā
I ask you now: make it your business.
Because this isnāt about me anymore.
This is about what kind of fandom you want to live in.
A fandom where critique is answered with public exile?
A fandom where people brag about gatekeeping āfor your own goodā?
A fandom where every angry woman is rebranded as mentally unstable?
Or a fandom that remembers we are allowed to disagree, dissent, resist?
š I am asking you to break the script:
š„ Reblog this
š„ Add your own statement
š„ Tag others
š„ Say: āI saw this. I heard her. I believe her.ā
Letās drag this narrative out of the shadows. Letās name what it is:
Soft speech. Hard violence. Silencing disguised as concern.
Donāt let this die in a post with no notes.
Donāt let them rewrite me again.
š My Personal Statement:
[Notice: Collect evidence accusing Autumn/ygpgsgl of plagiarism, harassment, and abuse - Chapter 3 - Anonymous - Hakuouki Archive of Our Own
Letās be very, very clear about something ā ***I do not believe you. ***
I do not believe you are not Autumn/Saya. I do not believe you are two separate people. I think you are a sock puppet account created by the person in question to defend themselves and get in contact with people who have blocked them for their own mental health. I could go on about WHY I think that, but you will never admit to being the same person even if I demand proof that you are differentā¦ So honestly, itās a moot point.
Who you are doesnāt matter; your gender, age, or preferences have nothing to do with me. What interests me is why you are so obsessed with denying my identity, yet never dare to directly confront what I express. You are trapped in the dead loop of āautumn = meā simply because you lack the courage to admit that someone you look down on has indeed written something you are afraid to face.
You donāt really want to find out who I am; you just want me to become the image you can control and define. You canāt stand an unknown person not following your preset path, so you gave me the name āautumnā to make it easier for your mind to operate. But unfortunately, I donāt belong to your scriptāI am no oneās substitute, nor will I bow to you.
You seriously believe someone using AI could post over 600k words across two separate accounts? Thatās not how this works. Every word I wrote came out of nights of insomnia, nausea, isolation, and being smeared by people like you. If that looks like AI to you, maybe itās your own empathy thatās automated. Keep guessingāIām not here to help you out of your shallow assumptions.
My sister in Christ, when the fuck did I ever accuse anyone of using AI? I never once accused āyouā or āAutumnā or whoever the fuck youāre claiming to be of using AI. Maybe if you read my post, youād actually fucking know that.
Iām not impressed by your word count. I donāt know what your original account was. Iāve never read your fanfic, if you really are a different person than Autumn, so how the fuck would I know whether or not it was AI or not? Youād actually have to provide me with receipts to prove your identity and prove youāre NOT Autumn, but you wonāt do that, not even to come out of the shadows ā as you claim to be doing.
All youāre doing right now is turning me into a straw man effigy to put upon the altar of what you may well believe is a truly just crusade. But itās not. Youāre a bully and a coward, and what I think or donāt think about your fictional tastes or opinions on Hakuouki has nothing to fucking do with this conversation. Iām not silencing anyone, Iām trying to point out that you are actively attacking innocent people because youāre on some kind of self-victimizing ego trip.
But unlike you, Iām not going to accuse you of shit like lacking empathy or being an automaton running on some script.
Like I said before, go fucking touch grass.
Either that, or provide me with concrete proof that you are NOT Saya instead of hiding behind brand new accounts without a single shred of evidence that youāre a separate person.
Oh, my bad ā I just assumed you and ladyyomi, the one who hates AI so much, were the same person.š
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If you want anyone to believe you, provide proof.
Not sure if you know this or not, sis, but just saying āweāre not the same personā doesnāt count as evidence that youāre not the same fucking person. Weāre not saying this stuff because weāre lazy or stupid, weāre saying it because the burden of proof currently falls on your ass and the history of all your accounts is a bit too convenient to be a coincidence.
Either fork out the evidence, or accept that no one is going to believe any of the shit youāre saying.
Your sarcasm isnāt cute, itās just deflection.
You know whatās really convenient?
You demanding proof and then refusing to look at it.
The link I posted literally contains:
ā our direct conversation logs
ā Autumnās own Discord promotion
ā everything that proves Iām not her
And you didnāt even bother clicking.
So donāt talk to me about āburden of proofā when youāre actively avoiding anything that might prove you wrong. Thatās not logic. Thatās willful ignorance wrapped in smugness.
Youāre not asking for evidence.
Youāre demanding submission.
And I donāt owe you that.
Iāve already looked at that, and honestly? Iām not completely convinced. There are still things about this entire string of events that is incredibly fucking suspicious to me, especially because the Guest Hate that Yomi received on her fic sounds a lot like the pretentious ass way you talk. They also parrot your opinions about Canon/OC, and shit like that, and you have a history of posting things under anonymous accounts just to force people to listen to you.
But letās say I give you the 100% benefit of the doubt and acknowledge you as your own person with your own identity, what now?
I already said I never thought Autumn committed plagiarism and just crossed someoneās personal boundaries by getting a bit too intense with her opinions and committing social faux pas. I also said that I didnāt really judge her for that, because I also used to do the same thing due to the fact that Iām autistic, and simply advocated for people to block her and move on if they didnāt like her or the way she flooded the tags with posts in order to make fandom more comfortable for both them AND her. Whether I agree with her opinions on Kazama and Chizuruās characterization or not doesnāt matter. Iām not a small enough person to get my fundoshi in a fucking twist over the fact that a person disagrees with my opinions about a piece of fiction on the internet. She should be able to indulge how she wants to, and if she wants to write about the complicated relationship between KazaChi, more fucking power to her. Iām sure there are like-minded people around her that she can engage with, without making other peopleās fandom experiences uncomfortable because she doesnāt clearly understand rules and boundaries. She even has a discord server, right? Something Iām not going to join in order to prove that youāre different people because that would be violating HER privacy, but if you want to send me screenshots to prove it beyond a shadow of a fucking doubt, Iām fine with that.
Iām also perfectly fine blocking and ignoring her because I donāt owe her fandom interaction! Just like you donāt owe me āsubmissionā, I donāt owe anyone else in this fandom shit! No one owes anyone anything, shockingly, but you also shouldnāt be surprised when you act like a little bitch and launch a harassment campaign against some people and they respond by getting cagey and treating you like shit. Do you think people like being told that their art is shit without prompting? Nothing youāve said is actually constructive or useful. Itās combative and makes one doubt whether or not you really want to fucking clear shit up, or whether you just want to make another human person suffer.
You didnāt exactly come at this with a stellar attitude, so when people get defensive and make assumptions about you based on how cruel youāre being to them why would you expect them to listen to a fucking thing you say?
If you want to continue this, talk to me in my private messages instead of grandstanding. Unless you send me screenshots of your server and prove you have separate, clear discord profiles? Iām not going to believe just based on a chain of A03 comments that youāre different people, especially since a lot of people I know just kind of have multiple A03 profiles.
And if it turns out to be true that youāre NOT Saya, then the only person Iāll be apologizing to is her, because youāre still an aggressive asshole who harassed someone and drove them to a nervous breakdown when just a shred of kindness and self-composure would have cleared up this entire fucking thing. You decided to make this into a holy crusade when the issue was more or less dead and done with Salty deciding not to press the issue and actively asking people not to harass Autumn/Saya. Then you made yourself a problem to multiple people and proceeded to be a jackass of truly titanic proportions.
The only one trying to make themselves a martyr here is you.
So kindly provide me with those discord logs and screenshots of your separate ids and profiles, or fuck off.
How interesting. When I see these abusive comments linking my name with autumn, on what basis do you ask me to stay calm? The person I insulted was originally none of you, yet someone anonymously posted remarks targeting me and autumn in the comments section of ladyyomiās article, and ladyyomi endorsed these remarks without any evidence that I and autumn are the same person. Do you even know about this? If you donāt know but still choose to unconditionally support ladyyomi, it means you are a complete fool being used; if you know and participated in slandering me, it means you are a jerk. Go look at the PDF I posted in the summary on notice before speaking. I refuse to private message youāI donāt want to be falsely accused like autumn because of private messages.
I clearly told you a month ago that I refuse to communicate with you privately. This is not out of personal animosity toward you. I take this stance toward all parties involved in cases involving defamation against me. All my conversations and records are kept public and transparent, which is why I named my account āpublic-records-only.ā
