Talking about the groupie situation in the George Ezra camp (which is a yellow flag to me) but I thought about it too much and I feel like I just opened a can of worms that I never want to experience ever again when it comes to the fan groups on Facebook
Facebook is evil, but y'all already know that
I was in a fan group of Australian new wave band Pseudo Echo, and the lead singer at first blocked me via DM and but I joined the group under a new account, and that was how I found out about his concert in Los Angeles (a one-off by the way) and I paid a few dollars through Pledge Music to meet up with him on a meet-and-greet and when I was there and he approached me, everything was fine or so I thought
I was reaching for my phone because I wanted to take a selfie with him, but then he disappeared (i had a Coach tote bag with a Depeche Mode reference book and my phone was right in the bottom of the bag and I was reaching for it, and someone in the dark room asked me to sit down, and I showed her my vinyl collection and told me I was his #1 fan and I eventually met him and he signed a cover of one of my 12"s but it turned out fine
Then I come back home after a long trip cross country (I live in Florida) and throughout this ordeal I was really in a bad spot mentally and I did have outbursts with several of these middle-aged housewives and grandmas from Australia and found out the woman I showed my vinyl collection to was his girlfriend (who later became his wife) and through another DM between the lead singer and one of his groupies that he was terrified to approach me because he thought I was reaching out for a weapon instead of a phone and he made a quick exit before I sat down and I immediately thought he's a racist
Because they check bags before entering the club, but when I saw it I thought he was a racist and I was offended beyond words.
He was one of the reasons why I picked up a guitar, let alone buying one out of a welfare check, and it hurt my feelings so bad that in a perfect world I definitely would've confronted him about it
I'm not a violent person like that and I don't own guns or even like guns. He just made a false assumption, but one of the people in the fan page was there and i mentioned the event at this group and some of the females (they don't deserve to be called "women") were really mean and bullying and trying to get into my personal account but they couldn't and tried to harass me through one of my videos but I ignored them, and these are middle-aged with grown ass children with one of them dying with cancer and they were harassing someone off the internet who they never even met.
I tried my best to confront them (it turned out as outbursts), and eventually the "admin" kicked me out of the group and I blocked at least seven people in the process
It took me a therapy session many years later to finally let go of this shit but it was really fucking horrible and I was really in a bad state at the time, and I went to Los Angeles having a great time otherwise.
With all that being said, I hate fandoms or fan groups and I do my best to just post something and move on.
I have had arguments with people on the GE fan page but I'm a working woman and I don't feel the need or no longer have the energy to argue with people who I will never meet in real life
so all this shit takes me back to now 8 years ago and it makes me feel physically ill and now i no longer want to even go back to my pseudo echo blog without fucking crying my eyes out
