AshleyTisdale.org

Other fan sites = Miss Tisdale. Bill clearly told me that during another Skype session that we had in February. I don’t know if you remember but, starting from 2014, Miss Tisdale was kind of dead and didn’t post stuff regularly as they used to. Their staff, originally formed by 4/5 members, went down to only 1. So things went slower for them, and you could clearly see by how inactive they were all the time on the site and socials. I don’t even know why they also asked to become official, since they obviously didn’t have the time to run the site. And this kept going on for months ‘til summer 2014, when they shut their site down for good.

Back to our story... Bill was still trying to get the whole team together, so they could talk it out and decide what to do with my proposal:

He previously tried to reach out to me on Skype on February 4 and 6, but I didn’t see any of his messages. We then talked on February 21, as the following pic shows:

What he told me was that, the only part of the team that slightly disagreed about my request to become official fan site was the (former) social media team, because they were worried that, by naming me Ashley’s official fan site, this would bother Miss Tisdale in some way. But having noticed that Miss Tisdale was very inactive back then, Bill was more on my side and suggested me to send an email to each member of Ashley’s team, telling them why I had good reasons to become her official fan site. So this is what I did.

I sent the same email to each member of the team. This one was for Crystal at Fanology, who used to be Ashley’s social media team/the person running her Facebook, and sometimes other socials, in 2013-2014.

The attached files 001, 002, 003 and 004 (which are the same that I sent to Bill in the January emails, and that helped me show to the various teams that I was really supported by the fans, even by the ones running their own local fan sites/clubs) are the following:

Not to mention this one, where fans made us trending worldwide on Twitter:

So the whole point of my email (with the attached files) was to show to the various teams that so many fans (even the ones with their fan sites/clubs) supported us and that, if only one or a few didn’t (like Miss Tisdale), this shouldn’t stop us from becoming Ashley’s official fan site. My email was sent on February 24, 3 days before our 7th anniversary, and what Bill told me was that the social team still had to think about whether to agree or disagree on my request. I obviously wasn’t that happy, just think about it... All members of the team agreed, but the final decision depended on the social media team only. And only because they were worried about another fan site (again, Miss Tisdale) that, no offense to them, was absolutely inactive and kind of absent all week, every week. For months. So there were obviously days where, it’s not like that I wanted to leave the site but, it just felt that everything had to be a struggle. A “show me this”/“show me that” kind of thing. Nothing natural. Nothing like, “oh, damn, this fan site has been working their ass off for years! Maybe they really deserve this”. No. I always had to fight for the things that I wanted/deserved and, on the one side, I was proud of myself for not giving up and always being so driven and dedicated but, on the other side, I just hoped things were more natural and easier, sometimes.

So it was finally our site 7th anniversary and yet, I didn’t know if I really felt like celebrating. Just because I didn’t hear back from the social media team about my request. But then I got this email from them:

Did you really see what happened or do I have to explain this? Ashley didn’t want to personally surprise me at all. The social media team, after receiving my email on February 24, had obviously asked Ashley to do a video for me, so they could’ve sent it to me on the day of my site 7th anniversary, on February 27, and let me celebrate. Yes, it was still a nice surprise, but it was from the social team.

I didn’t write this whole post with photos, proof, evidence and stuff, to show you “Ashley’s bad side” (as some are telling me) or the fact that she’s uncaring. No. It was just meant to make you realize that a LOT of the things that she did for me have their own stories behind, and that they’re not as they seemed to be and as you thought they were. I bet many fans probably thought “aw, it’s their 7th anniversary and she made them a video where she named them her official fan site! She’s so sweet!” but this post showed you that it didn’t actually go that way. And the same it’s for many of the shout outs/things she did for me and the site throughout the years. So when I hear people saying “they shouldn’t even complain now, Ashley did so much for them”, they should stop for a second and realize that, yes, she did those things, but what really matters is to know how and why she did those things.