i’m sorry i’m new here. can i get the story behind the ilwc stalker (if there is a story)
so basically i got sent this ask from an aita blog because someone who follows us said it sounded like it could be about awsten. our general conclusion was that yeah this anon is kinda crazy and some details definitely lined up, but wouldn’t it be weird if this was actually about awsten? (everytime you think this on this blog means it did happen and it is as insane as you think)
i do think you should read that post for yourself to catch all the insane details but basically this person got his number at a tennis court and then he ghosted them same day. then funeral grey comes out and they draw some parallels between their (incredibly brief literally less than 24 hours) interaction. listen i know im not the biggest fan of funeral grey but for some reason this person took such offense at such a nothingburger interaction and song that awsten and the 1d writer pulled out of their asses, that their logical conclusion was to frantically attempt to contact him to find out if the song was about them and also take legal action despite nothing identifying or slandering in the song. almost everyone on the post (including the literal no fly list leaker) calls them the asshole and advises them to not take legal action and see a therapist because it’s clearly a them problem at this rate.
so years go by after that ask and then we hear ilwc for the first time and i’m like. huh why does that restraining order part sound familiar. and why do people keep telling me $25k is actually way too much for filing a restraining order.
so someone does the digging for me and turns out this anon does take the legal action through self representation and it’s even worse than i thought for some reason because they also tried to repeatedly contact his girlfriend, claim that he was repeatedly coming to a coffee shop to stalk them (it was literally like a few blocks away from him from the info i have), and claimed the ip events were around their apartment to intimidate them. mind you one of the reasons they cite wanting to take legal action was supposedly bc of having industry family but i saw this person’s name and i have legitimately never heard of anyone with this name in my life famous or otherwise.
so long story short awsten gets the filing dismissed because. hello he’s the one being stalked here and actually pulls an uno reverse on anon and files his own restraining order and triples the distance of the order filed on him to anon and apparently that part already cost like $10k so there’s the explanation for that one line in ilwc.
so basically the lesson is if you ever feel some notion about awsten to the point where you are attempting contact him or people close to him, remember you can just talk it out to us before wasting $10k+ on a losing battle - iz


















