Thread by @mlothianmclean

There's been a lot of talk about a gossip forums. Recently my name has cropped up on an infamous one, with notable posts from a user who also posts viciously about influencers, including people like Tolly from The Receipts, Ben Anderson, Rochelle Humes & a friend of mine

This user 'lumpfish' is a 'VIP member' of this forum. They comment voraciously &without any empathy for the people they're talking about. The 3rd shot is their response to someone going quiet on socials after taking part in speculation that saw someone's hair fall out from stress

Yesterday however, 'lumpfish' made a mistake - I was alerted by someone that they were referencing an Instagram story I'd put up (while also trying to encourage users to make a separate thread about me). The thing was, this story was only visible to my Close Friends on Instagram

There's only about 5 people I don't know personally on that Close Friends story. Only 3 of them had seen it by the time 'lumpfish' sent their comments, including this follow up which confirmed they had access to the story (& gives you a taste of the way they talk about people)

Quickly I cross referenced things 'lumpfish' had revealed about themselves on the gossip forums with the suspects. There was 1 person who stuck out, who followed most of the accounts they slagged off & who had privately interacted with me, a finsta I'd previously had & my friend

So obviously, I took a lesson from the legendary Colleen Rooney and laid some bait, by removing everyone but them from my Close Friends stories and posting two absolutely RIDIC uploads (that I never normally would) to see what they would do. I wanted confirmation it was them.

In the morning (this happened yday evening) we had our answer! 'Lumpfish' had deleted the comments that implicated them AND the person I had suspected had both seen my close friends stories and blocked me on Insta.

(oh and hereforthepictures, no, my family isn't rich, that cottage is a two bed built by my great-grandad. I'm just lucky they set up shop in somewhere as beautiful as Herefordshire. but I'm sure you know that already!)

Now, I'm not going to reveal lumpfish's real name. But she's a nurse. She's about my age. She has a family. And most interestingly, she's regularly messaged me and other targets with extremely complimentary things. These are just a sample of messages she sent to 1 person

When on the gossip forum she was saying stuff like this:

She's also messaged me too and has access to me but meanwhile is trying to encourage people on this forum to start a thread on me and speculating about my private life (the inference being that if I did take back a cheating bf, that would somehow make me morally impure)

Now, I get that I have a public profile. I get all of the people she's talked about have a public profile. But for me, this level of duplicity and viciousness goes further than simply 'gossiping'.

I'm honestly not too bothered but the damage this forum has inflicted on people I care about, because the people posting regard them as untouchable and therefore fair game, is horrendous. I would have messaged this person directly, but they blocked me out of fear before I could

This has taught ME a lesson about adding people to my private networks based on 'good vibes' too ofc. And I really do accept that people are gonna chat. But this is truly is a whole new level.

Just to finish this off - the person I thought was lumpfish has confirmed it was them. They've apologized to me privately and will do so to others. I've promised to continue keep their identity private.