#narrative manipulation

In Durarara!!, Izaya Orihara can be characterized as a vivant architect of chaos. Even though the show offers many paths and perspectives, it is Izaya who most clearly integrates into chaos by means of his overt acts. His clever and sly character often shows through his actions as he puts the whole scenario in his own way to get the best results, treating people like nothing but pieces in a…

My demand from the beginning has been to clarify that autumn and ygpgsgl are not the same person, and to require ladyyomi, who condones and encourages such remarks, to apologize. I publicly asked her to provide three types of evidence:

Screenshots of the alleged harassment.

Links to the original fanfiction allegedly "plagiarized," along with comparison images of the suspected plagiarized paragraphs.

Any verifiable timestamps or account logs supporting their claims.

In other words, only if they fulfill the above three points can their accusations against me be considered valid.

However, ladyyomi and her supporters did not do this. Their response was:

Unilaterally blocking me, preventing me from clarifying the facts, and then stigmatizing my mentions in her posts as "harassment," but it was they who spread a large amount of autumn=ygpgsgl statements from the very beginning, not me. I'll say it again: they posted exactly the same message under the three works "A Friend Like You" (ladyyomi), "A Note from Me" (autumn), and "The Birth of Romantic" (ygpgsgl), especially the last one, which already constitutes an open provocation against me.

Attempting to revoke the legitimacy of "anonymous creation," they regard my anonymity as "block evasion" and "anonymous ranting out of revenge," equating anonymity with shirking responsibility, thereby denying the value of my work itself. They deliberately ignore that my anonymity is an effort to convey the truth to the public while protecting myself. Furthermore, they demand that I provide my Discord account name to prove that I am not autumn. Obviously, even if I did, they would continue to argue that "this is a self-directed performance by autumn," because they have long falsely claimed that "autumn has thousands of alternate accounts." Any user supporting autumn can be slandered by them as an alternate account of autumn using this rhetoric. Their style of speech is like kidnappers holding hostages demanding ransom from family members in exchange for their "apology."

Repeatedly using labels such as "homophobic bully," "attention-starved," "narcissist," "sad and lonely" to belittle my character, they try to characterize me as an unreasonable troublemaker with mental issues who refuses treatment; they use psychiatric terms like "mentally ill but refuses treatment," "immature," "clowning again" to humiliate me, undermine the legitimacy of my expression, and attempt to stigmatize my lawful rights defense and self-protective statements as the ramblings of a mentally ill person, urging me to stop "spreading rumors" about her (which are actually legitimate accusations). They then use this as a basis to threaten me with expulsion disguised as concern but actually intended to humiliate (for example, "hope you can get through this," "go get treatment," "stop hurting others").

Confusing the boundaries between public platforms and private spaces, they disguise themselves as "exhausted victims of ongoing harassment," labeling my quoting of their defamatory remarks in self-defense as "crossing the line of harassment," while treating her publicly made slanderous statements as private speech; they downplay and rationalize their aggressive behavior by saying they "just blocked you" or "just rejected your opinions," but ignore that they themselves repeatedly stalk and repost on Tumblr and AO3, mock me in tags, and then claim that I am "block-evading" and "not letting them go."

Resorting to collective denunciation, using "group consensus" to isolate me, continuously emphasizing "we all know what happened," "no one will believe you," "only you are making a fuss," using group pressure to make me appear as an unreasonable, unsupported lunatic, thereby inciting uninformed audiences to block me. They hope to exclude me from the community through technical means. ladyyomi even shamelessly creates and posts sarcastic memes mocking me as "yomi surrounded by friends, leaving only autumn talking to herself."

Meanwhile, the so-called evidence they listed:

Only a bunch of IDs with unverifiable sources and screenshots of private messages with ladyyomi. I have repeatedly emphasized that before July this year, I had no private communication with ladyyomi, and any logic suggesting that the person in the pictures = autumn = me is absurd. Their pictures can neither prove that it is autumn nor that it is me.

An emotionally charged interpretation of my autoethnography and rights protection record statements, containing nothing meaningful except a bunch of emotional rhetoric that fails to address my core demands. When they found an equally emotional and angry accusation in the PDF I published, they treated it as a treasure, immediately screenshotting it as evidence that I was trying to issue death threats against them. However, this is exactly what I intentionally wanted everyone to see. I wanted everyone to see how strongly ladyyomi’s absurd accusations affected my mood and how they pushed a rational and wise cultural researcher to this point today.

ladyyomi and her supporters' recent words and actions have clearly implied: none of them are innocent — that is to say, not only have they, as I mentioned before, condoned and encouraged the spread of such false statements, but they are also the deliberate planners and disseminators of these conspiracy theories. This is the point I was making in that post: ladyyomi could not have coincidentally and conveniently come into contact with these people claiming to be from China and naturally call them "her readers," unless they were originally part of the same group. Anyone familiar with Chinese expression habits can immediately recognize that these statements are comments written by foreigners who know nothing about the matter using a translator — since these Chinese people's statements are deliberately fabricated, ladyyomi's actions are tantamount to admitting that she herself is the person fabricating, spreading, and maintaining these statements.

I also want to add: screenshots from the comment section of my work show that this has been a systematic defamation campaign against me starting from January this year, carried out by at least three people: ladyyomiart (AO3: LadyYomi), vicecommanderhijikata (AO3: oninofukuchou), and lightmelodyva (AO3: LightMelodyVA). You read that right, they have been targeting me from the very beginning. I received a suspicious anonymous comment at the beginning of this year (January or February), with the anonymous accuser falsely claiming that I was autumn’s alternate account created to promote her novel "Twenty Three Nights," which defends Kazama Chikage. But I ignored it at the time and deleted the comment as spam. ladyyomi and the others should feel lucky because I no longer have a copy of that message, allowing them to mock me for rambling during a psychotic episode.

Chronologically, they first fabricated a large number of false facts about autumn, then pinned these baseless accusations on me, portraying me as an immoral, repeat offender: "she plagiarized saltyneo’s articles," "she has countless alternate accounts," "she hates fujoshi," "she harasses minors with NSFW content," "she is blocked by 99% of the fandom," "she deletes comments once exposed," "she uses anonymity to bypass blocks and send hateful messages," "she has always had a bad reputation," using these negative moral accusations to create the impression that "everyone is her enemy." autumn issued a clarification statement titled "A Note from Me," denying all the accusers’ allegations, but they not only ignored her efforts, they went further by posting even more irresponsible negative comments under her article.

They united to accuse me as victims, pretending to be "harassed authors" from the Chinese internet, claiming that they "only made mild suggestions but were retaliated against," and tried to form a group accusation with other accused parties, saying that I was "spreading hate through my works" and "writing revenge plots" to prove that I have character flaws, deliberately ignoring the context of my original words. They also used social justice language to gain support, fabricating lies such as "she attacked LGBT character pairings during Pride Month" and "she is an anti-OC troll" to seek moral superiority. But I have repeatedly stated on various occasions: I am not autumn, I do not oppose otome or BL, I support LGBTQ, and I oppose any form of personal attacks. I have never contacted any saltyneo fans through private messages. The group I initially satirized in my autoethnography was not ladyyomi (in fact, the original group I satirized has tacitly pretended nothing happened; they don’t even dare mention my name on social platforms because they know doing so would harm their fanbase, but unfortunately, ladyyomi lacks such self-awareness).

But my efforts to clarify were equally ignored. Instead, they began to further reinforce and repeatedly cite the absurd accusations they fabricated from Chinese authors—more precisely, they falsely claimed to have been harmed by me in the name of those I criticized in the original text—when all I did was scholarly cultural critique research. They even dared to use translators to forge Chinese people's statements, treating these nonsense claims as their "evidence," because they assumed that the vast majority of people do not understand Chinese and would not personally open my autoethnography to verify the truth of these claims. They placed moral judgment above textual quality, mixing emotional narratives and moral accusations in their storytelling, using illogical attacks like "she's too jealous of others," "no one is proud of her in real life," "she's a typical AI fan" to provoke readers' emotional aversion, and repeatedly implied "even if she writes well, she doesn't deserve to be liked," emphasizing "no matter how well you write, if your behavior is immoral, you should be expelled." But now it seems that the ones truly jealous of the other's talent are precisely those who made false accusations trying to silence me, not me.

These people’s distortion of facts has seriously disrupted my life, trampled on my creative enthusiasm, and shattered my trust in the fan community. I began to doubt the authenticity of likes and comments—especially anonymous ones. They repeatedly refreshed my works, making me feel that "no one is willing to seriously read my work except these people deliberately smearing me." I no longer want to open comments and private messages; I fear being insulted by malicious commenters and then blocked, and I fear my words being taken out of context and twisted by them. This is not the treatment I, who was inexplicably dragged into this dispute, should endure: all I did was write honestly. I reiterate: I have never and will never respond to them using the same attacking rhetoric they use against me; I am only revealing how they distort facts to slander me.

As for ladyyomi’s accusation that I use GPT to read and write replies—that is true, and it is their only truth. If I didn’t use AI, given my current physical condition, I simply wouldn’t have time to handle so much information (they tried to overwhelm me with a flood of messages full of lies and emotional manipulation, hoping to defeat me without a fight). Anyone who has dealt with severe depression knows that people like us struggle even to take care of daily life, let alone have the leisure to "harass" them online. If it weren’t for these people repeatedly provoking my boundaries, I could have completely ignored their absurd accusations.

I have already given them enough time to state their positions and even provide evidence to defend themselves, hoping they would come to their senses and bravely admit their mistakes, thus avoiding further pursuit from me. But their responses have been deeply disappointing. I have done all I can. At this point, I no longer accept their apologies, nor will I comply with any of their demands. I hope all of them face platform penalties and pay the price for the serious consequences caused by their deliberate smearing and isolation of me.

ladyyomi's latest response:

Another post that has already been deleted (The original post author is lightmelodyva)

ladyyomi also said I was gaslighting her, then after rambling nonsense, she quietly deleted the original post herself:

Funny how Tumblr won’t respond to my 4,000-word evidence log of sustained defamation and harassment, but if I ever snapped and yelled “I’m so mad I could punch a wall,” they’d probably flag me for threats in 3 seconds.

I have only seen up to 10x02, but I have a very strong opinion about one character that I know is not very shared among other Dean and, more specifically, Destiel fans:

I don’t like Jack. I don’t trust Jack. I definitively don’t want to see Jack play child to Dean and Castiel.

(For that, I rather have Claire and Emma. I mean, we could bring back Emma, no? Now that the series has started AGAIN on the path that Evil is nuture and not nature, that there are  not definitively Evil creatures, we can get Emma back.  I may not be very hung up on her as I understand her narrative purpose and why she had to die in her only episode, but given that THIS season we’re getting a Scooby Doo crossover and I have the sinking feeling of how that’s going to happen, we could have Emma back and give her a chance and a new narrative place)

"During the height of the space race in the 1960s, legend has it, NASA scientists realized that pens could not function in space. They needed to figure out another way for the astronauts to write things down. So they spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars to develop a pen that could put ink to paper without gravity. But their crafty Soviet counterparts, so the story goes, simply handed their cosmonauts pencils. This tale with its message of simplicity and thrift--not to mention a failure of common sense in a bureaucracy--floats around the Internet, hopping from in-box to in-box, and even surfaced during a 2002 episode of the West Wing. But, alas, it is just a myth." - Scientific American

There is a scene in 3 Idiots where Aamir Khan's character suggests using a pencil and the professor is left dumbfounded by his ingenious solution (I'll chalk the inconsistency up to the writers not knowing the full story and Bollywood because any engineering professor would immediately correct a student on this point). 

I think the main takeaway from this story important to know that the common-sense/popular stories that fit in perfectly our perspective of the world hear aren't always true. It’s tempting to believe they are true. We want to believe it because it makes sense and it fits our mental schema of how the world works. But truth isn’t made to fit into schemas, and just because something makes sense doesn’t mean it isn’t complete bullshit.