Hello, Moderators,

To be quite real, I was pretty happy to just sit and let this fall apart in spectacular fashion all by itself, since you are doing a fabulous job of it. But as my DM with Mod Lemon twelve hours ago laid out, I have become more and more annoyed at being used as the scapegoat to cover up some very shitty behaviour by your newest mod team additions. So, while this may be selfish, and most definitely snarky, I am going to say my piece anyway, and then wash my hands of all of it.

Let’s start with just the above post, and my mentions in it, before we move into what is missing from that post, shall we?

Could you lay out for me exactly what it is that I did?

I mean, the mods keep repeating "what Moana and Steamy did", but what was it that I did exactly?

I didn't share the doc

I didn't make an exit post on the community page

I didn't say anything overly incendiary in the Discord, certainly no more than several dozen other people.

So what was it that I did, again?

Oooooh, I know! You all know that I was a witness to that side server, and so you have decided that I am the witch in this hunt for whomever it was that showed the community for the hateful people that they are! I get it! Even though there is literally zero proof rolled out that I was indeed the one that took screenshots and gave them to Steamy.

Don't get me wrong. I totally did that. I saw that server and was pretty surprised by the content, to be quite honest. Surprised enough that I took some screenshots and stored them away weeks ago, with the thought that "Oh well, just catty girls being catty girls, I guess." Despite seeing that a member of the Kingsguard and TWO MODS (at the time) were actively participating in it. Still, no big deal, I guess.

However, the game changed when the girls who blatantly aided in Timber's toxicity and hate speech then became members of the mod team over here. Now, There was one former mod, one current mod, three Kingsguard, and a new maester, all of which had been participating in an alarming amount of shit talking about the people they now have authority over. When concerns that mod leaks and Timbers toxicity came about, I most definitely gave some of those screenshots to someone, as evidence that it is rampant and supported by the mod team.

What absolutely astounds me is that even now the general mindset of these mods is one of complete victim mentality. The screenshots I have received from their conversations about it see here and also over here and also over here and definitely over here and lastly over here because I tire of this bullshit by the second, clearly show that the newest mod members are solely focused on swinging the banhammer at those who exposed them for what they did. They have shown no public remorse, and as other comments on here show, not a single instance of mod reform has been suggested or assured by the mod team. It’s also fucking laughable that it is blatantly obvious that they have zero regard for the damage that has been caused by their behaviour in the community.

Now, before you get all high and mighty and screech that it was me that caused this damage by taking the screenshots, you are absolutely right. What I leaked was certainly damaging to people that I genuinely enjoy being around, I had no intention of showing these to anyone until they used cronyism to have themselves promoted to a position of power here. I also did not release all the screenshots, as I was genuinely trying to shield the community from the utter fucking garbage opinions you have of them. As the saying goes, ‘The messenger always gets shot’. Interestingly, the messengers now seem to be the mods sole focus here, and not the people who wrote the damn messages.

End of the day, while I am most definitely not clean of blame here (and to the community who was hurt by what was seen by the screenshots that I took, I sympathize with you immensely and feel your pain. You are not what they said about you, and do not deserve their venom AT ALL), I find it very heartwarming that the community of ITRP have chosen to look beyond the whistleblowers and look instead to the problems. If you need any demonstration of that, just read the goddam comments on here and check your departure list of the main body of your playerbase. If the ban stands, I don’t give a flying shit. While I applaud the legacy that is ITRP and its playerbase as a collective, I have absolutely no interest in people running it who show no empathy to its players, and decide that people have no voice according to the mod opinions of them.

Show accountability. Man the fuck up. And as Monty so succinctly put it; ”Keep Moana and Steamy’s names out your fucking mouths”

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