Hello Idols! Perhaps this is not the announcement you were hoping to get, nor is it one we anticipated delivering in the moment, but alas, the time has come. As admins, we have always adored this roleplay and we’ve been consistently and overwhelmingly impressed by your activity, your enthusiasm, and the quality of your writing and characterization. Seeing our world come to live under your fingertips has been incredible and rewarding in a way we never had imagined. From the start we had big dreams about the roleplay but we’d never imagined it would come as far as it has now.Â
The fact that there are still so many of you who have been with us for almost, if not all, of this journey is something that we are immeasurably grateful for, and we are grateful as well to those who came and joined us along the way. We’re sure no one is a stranger to the fact that we hit some rough patches throughout things, and at that time we really did contemplate just throwing in the towel, but the immense support we got from our community here really went above and beyond what we’d ever hoped for. On all fronts we’ve done our best to learn from mistakes made, to grow along with the scope of the site, and to deliver as many things as we could. Our first revamp was born of necessity to remove ourselves emotionally and contextually from a sour situation, and to have so many of you so kindly support us was incredible and something we never expected. We’ve been criticized for a lot over the past year and change, from trying to do too much to not doing enough, but the ultimate shake down is that we’ve hit the end of what we’re able to do right now. We’ve been pretty clear about coming to this point recently, from seeking out moderators/admin help to paring some things back to restructuring the site, but ultimately, we think that it’s just run its natural course at this point. Perhaps we made the mistake of getting so wrapped up in what people were thinking of us that we tried to appease too many voices at once and ended up falling a little bit short across the board, or maybe we just let it all get into our heads too much over time and ended up second guessing everything far too much. But the simple truth is that while I still hold all the love in the world for this site, this community, and for our muses, my admin peers are burned out and I’m struggling on top  of, frankly, being unable to continue it without them. Too often lately it’s become so many people asking so many diametrically opposing things of me/of Idolize that it’s exhausted my muse to write and engage with the very things I’m putting out there asking you guys to interact with, which isn’t fair for either party. Too often lately it begins to feel like whatever choice I make, people are happy to pick it apart, which leaves me feeling paralyzed. Perhaps it’s my fault for trying to keep everyone happy at once and losing sight of things, but in the end it just ends up falling short across the board for all of us.Â
Since we’ve had an unfortunate problem with people taking content from us in the past, we’ve closed down the main as well as all the sideblogs and left this message only. I personally don’t want to say goodbye to Idolize forever, and will likely continue puttering around on my kids just plenty, and will be pulling for a revival down the road, but in the moment I think all your admins just need a break from the Idolize verse, as much as we adore it and all of you. We encourage you to continue writing with one another or to keep in touch with us through discord/etc, and we hope to see your creative minds and muses around krp in the future!Â
