chin up king your crown is falling

It was a shit apology. I'm not going over that. We can analyze it to death but it absolutely reads like the apology of someone who is now represented by some label's legal team. The only thing I'm thankful for is that he did not release text messages between him and Shelby in some attempt to distract people. She doesn't deserve that embarrassment.

But, I really hope you read this, I need you to stop treating this like a party. I need you to stop giving every CC that speaks up about this a hit post or hit tweet by liking it.

Almost none of these people liked a single post of Shelby's or uttered the words "I'm so sorry for what Shelby went through" They waited until it was safe to say something. They waited until they could write a "coming in with a steel chair reply." They waited until they knew it would look good.

They revealed that Wilbur has always been manipulative, a narcissist a bully and mean to his friends. They revealed they've always thought he was a bad person. They've revealed that they don't think he's taking accountability while they stayed silent.

And not just silent for a few days. Some of these people are saying they knew for better for weeks, months, years that he was a horrible person. And they said nothing. They let people spend time and money and energy on a community of a person they knew was dangerous and cruel and they said nothing.

They didn't need Shelby Shubble to come forward and say how bad of a person Wilbur Soot was. They didn't need Shelby's story, if they thought he was a bad person, to not appear in videos with him or be in a group channel with him or mention him on stream or tease content with him or be on Anvil Cards or follow him on all social media platforms.

But they did anyway because, to these content creators, it's better to be silent and let a bad person flourish than cause "drama" online.

These people do not give fuck. I need you all to please take this advice that none of these online creators are worth the time and energy you put into them. You don't know what else they're sitting on. You don't know what they've done. You are lying to yourself, right now, if you think Phil or Tommy or Tubbo or Jack or whoever your current fave is wouldn't have been fine saying nothing if Shelby hadn't spoke first. You're lying to yourself if you think whatever new smp or content creator group you're currently into doesn't have horrible shit that they're all choosing to ignore.

The amount of manipulation required by these content creators to maintain the devotion and investment of their communities is horrific.

this man is a walking contradiction. his ideal version of himself that he feels like a fraud for not being is literally who he already is. he cares so much he cycles back to carelessness, he’s selfless to the point of being selfish, he’s so deeply empathetic he projects on people because he gets their feelings tangled up in his own.

he is a very emotional person who feels things so very much and expresses his emotions so openly and loudly— and yet he walks around like an unshakable fortress of a man whose emotions are so difficult to read at any given time sometimes he comes across like he doesn’t have any. he often misrepresents his anger, specially when it hurts (and it always hurts). he plays the victim to get away with things, he pretends to offer himself to get power over people, and he is an absolute hurricane tearing through your life if you dare make him feel hurt or scared or used.

c!wilbur is a very tricky character to get right. he is all of those things that you think he is, love or hate him. c!wilbur isn’t a hero, he’s written as a villain from the start, but he is a very human one, a very sympathetic one, and he could’ve been a hero if he weren’t so full of fear. his worst actions are a result of his best intentions, pogtopia is him at his most unethical and also his most moral.

there are characters who are a patchwork: made of traits and quirks that don’t really match and yet come together to make a unique, cohesive whole.

bbh: how will i know…what was that, what was he doing i don’t–

sam: saaaaaaaaaam bucket