Y’ain’t Gettin’ Away That Easy

"Account managed by Kitty." What the hell is this?

Emel, we know that's you based on that “Raphael and his cats” post. This is so gross.

Fans, if you're messaging Andrew, especially if it's heartfelt stuff about how much the character has affected you and helped you through difficult times, your messages are no longer private. They haven't been for months.

This is the video from MCM London, comic con in question. I’ve seen and heard a lot of people talking about. This is being the particular con where a lot of the behavior escalated to making people highly uncomfortable.

To be perfectly clear, I have heard a lot of stories of people from attending this convention that had absolutely perfectly wonderful and normal interactions with Andrew. But I’ve also heard an overwhelming amount of people who are made so extremely uncomfortable by the behavior of these two with the public petting and touching. And it extends beyond just this instance.

This video is readily available on Andrew‘s Instagram account. There’s a lot of things lately that have been posted to Andrew‘s account that highlight Emel in some fairly provocative poses with him. There’s also a lot of photographs on her own Instagram account of the two of them and relatively provocative photographs.

This screenshot is from a video that I’ve seen a little bit of discourse over as well. This is a video that’s readily available on Emel’s YouTube page. In the video, she talks about parasocial relationships with characters, self-shipping, etc..

In this particular clip, however you can see that her feet are very clearly on Andrew‘s lap in the portion where he essentially says “of course we’re not real we’re actors“. When the video first dropped, there were dozens of comments, calling her out on her hypocrisy and how incredibly upset fans were with both of their behavior in the public eye. Personally, this was the straw that broke the camels back, and I decided that I should start actually saying something about this. Good thing other people already did. She immediately deleted and shadowbanned those accounts. This also appears to be the same rooftop bar from…

These two posts. I swiped these from Tumblr.

It’s really interesting that ever since April, there’s been a shift in both of their social media presences, particularly though with Andrew. And it’s also really interesting that this relationship has unfolded almost exclusively on her Instagram account, and not his up until now. And pretty good reason, the optics of dating a fan of yours are certainly bad to say the least.

Again, this is not because Andrew is in a relationship. This is not because Emel is in a relationship. It’s because this is a relationship between a celebrity and their fan.

So I’ve been following a little bit of online discourse regarding Andrew Wincott lately, and I’ve also noticed a lot of similar patterns. A lot of people don’t seem to think that this is happening, but I think it’s really good idea that we need to start talking about it. The first thing I’m gonna post is this. It’s not two separate pictures, it’s actually just one picture. One’s been lightened a little bit so you can actually see it. But you can see in the comment, that the other person at the center of all of this discourse, Emel Michaelis (aka eeloftheworld) is very clearly a fan. You’re gonna see a lot more of her. A LOT.

I think one of the major reasons that a lot of people are upset about this, is about the exploitative hierarchy of what this looks like today. And I think a lot of other people are unwilling to wrap their heads around this and see this, because they really do have a big appreciation for Andrew. I do too. It’s very quickly starting to go away as I see more more things and as I do a little bit more investigating.

They’ll be more posts, and hopefully I’ll get a little bit more eloquent. But this is the beginning at the very least. The earliest documentation that I can find of the two of them either meeting for the first time, or at least having the balls to do something in public. Also, as far as I know, and from what I’ve heard from other people who I’ve talked to about this, she was engaged to somebody else when she started seeing Andrew.

I’m gonna be chronicling this as being predatory from both sides. Andrew is clearly in a much higher position on that exploitative hierarchy scale, being a famous person™️ (fame being relative in the grand scheme of things) who, in my opinion, may or may not have let fame get to his head, but there’s been a serious personality shift over the last year with him, and Emel spending nearly 2 years of her career, marketing herself as Raphael’s biggest fan™️ and forming what appears to be a parasocial relationship and unable to separate Andrew from the role that he played.

There have also been reports made of inappropriate behavior from Andrew towards female fans and conventions, going so far as to DM them, string them along, do all but invite them back to his hotel room (many of which happened after he’d allegedly started seeing Emel) , and leave them hanging. It really makes me wonder what happened to the ones he didn’t leave hanging.

Also, hearing about non-consensual touching, which really should never ever ever happen at a convention between a fan and a celebrity. It doesn’t matter if you think what happened to them happened or not, it happened to them. It’s a real to them. They were used by this person, some of whom were left to deal with going over the interactions in their minds time and time and time and time again. Somebody else was made so upset by the interaction that she became absolutely convinced for nearly a year and a half that she was the one who did something wrong. Can you believe that?

There’ll be more brain dumps and rambling later so stay tuned

And yeah, this is a burner account. I’ve heard from a lot of people that both of them start to block people when they’re confronted with how inappropriate this relationship is and their behavior has been in the past.

Thank you, Lowandlittle, for bringing this to light and for being braver than I am for speaking on this publicly and loudly. I figured it was finally time for me to add my two cents, and I’ve learned a lot and just a short period of time.