Thread by @nicholasmasyk

Nobody is "jealous of your marginal success."

You incited targeted harassment against multiple people on both discord and twitter for criticizing your aggressive self-promotion and then re-framed it as you yourself beinf harassed.

I wasn't going to directly name-drop this particular person because of the disparity in following size but they continue to be an actively harmful individual, focused entirely on building as large a platform as possible with which to silence & harass people they don't like.

Taylor is gaslighting, manipulative, weaponizes their identity against criticism, and incites harassment against people critical of their sales tactics. They're a harmful person that I wouldn't trust with the limited following they have, let alone the larger one they want.

They almost exclusively target smaller followings for harassment. This is exactly the sort of person I am speaking about when I say we should critically examine the sort of people we're supporting in this space - who is here to build community and who's here for clout.

I don't trust people who are already comfortable inciting a brigade with a limited following, I don't trust people who don't curate their followings & cozy up to venger & etc, and I definitely don't trust people who reframe any criticism as a personal attack.

And I don't think people like that deserve to profit off a community they pollute.

I don't care WHAT Taylor makes; what I care about is that they repeatedly have posted unredacted lists of names of people that have criticized them in public forums for the express purpose of harassment.

I'll shut up forever about Taylor if they apologize and acknowledge the harm they've done and are doing, and display clear and tangible steps showing they've learned from this.

But they haven't. So here we are.

On a much pettier aside, because I wake up every morning and choose violence:
I don't know what successes Taylor has that I would be jealous of, or what clout I stand to gain from telling them off, but I suppose we all have our delusions.