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these pictures were not willingly shared with fans

These are part of Brendon’s sister’s pictures of their family trip to Disneyland before the Pretty. Odd. era got going. My understanding is that Kyla had them on her site or blog or something… idk exactly where because I never creeped on Bden’s family (the fact that I’ve heard so many of his sibling’s names weirds me out enough). Some fans downloaded everything and there was a zip file with hundreds of pictures being passed around in 2008. I don’t think most of us knew where they came from… I assumed they were part of Shane’s pics but then found out a few months later. (I’m looking back now and realizing that a lot of the other pics “from Shane” were probably stolen as well. The guy absolutely did take lots of pictures that fans could see on public sites, but I highly doubt there was any mysterious secret sharing on the side ha). There had been a ridiculous amount of graphics made out of Kyla’s stuff by the time we learned the actual source, so I saved the file for reference to make sure I wouldn’t accidentally use one of those icons.

Kyla ended up saying that it was fine if the pictures of the adults were shared, but she asked fans to blur the childrens’ faces or stop using them in icons. There were a ton of personal pics in the original file from events like Brendon’s 21st birthday, several family holidays at home, and PATD afterparties. I know that most fans were only interested in the Brendon/Shane aspect of the pics since those two were basically inseparable, but I don’t think Brendon’s family loved seeing icons of everyone in their pajamas on Christmas morning just because Shane was there. It seems really creepy to have Bden’s family in any pictures period… especially his nieces and nephews omg. So I don’t care how kind Kyla was about everything – I’m not comfortable sharing most of her pictures (I did use a few super popular ones from P!ATD events, but only the shots that focused on the band).