And this, kids, is what a malignant Narcissist looks like.
I remember when Borysenko first showed up with the #walkaway movement. Initially, her story about how insanely Woke the knitting community on Ravelry had become was amusing, but the more attention she got, the further up her own ass she went, and the more repulsive she became. I soon got the feeling she was gunning hard to be the figurehead of that movement, and wasn't going to be happy until she was.
From the beginning she was a coarse, boorish, loudmouth slob, so I didn't follow her or pay much attention to her, but she was all over my various feeds because I followed a lot of her now-enemies mentioned in the OP (Keri Smith is the only one I still follow). I remember the hotel incident, and the second I heard about it, I knew it was bullshit.
I hadn't seen all those texts she sent to Kieran White. Holy shit. If you really want to understand the kind of manipulative mindfuckery Narcissists pull, analyze those texts. Look at the tactics she uses in each one. They're just fucking
amazing.
At this point, why doesn’t she just ignore Keri and Mike? The more she talks about them, the more milk they’ll try to get out of her. Same with the likes of Ian Miles Cheong and Matt Walsh. And Kieran’s an innocent man from what I’m seeing, why doesn’t she ignore him too?
She can't
not ignore them. It's common for people with Cluster B personality disorders to engage in black-and-white thinking regarding people and situations—they idealize people they like, but if you anger or disappoint them, you're the worst piece of shit that ever existed.
Borysenko's not only a Narcissist, but I believe she's also Antisocial, which is why I call her a malignant Narcissist. She takes genuine pleasure in attempting to destroy people she believes have betrayed her, and openly gloats about it. Admitting she got into psych so she could learn how to better mindfuck people? That's sraight-up Antisocial.
She can't ignore her perceived enemies because she is incapable of letting go of her hatred of them and desire to destroy them. She can't ignore them because, in her mind, they need to be reminded of what pieces of shit they are, and never allowed to relax and stop thinking about her. It's about having power over them—even if they block her, never respond to her, and never discuss her publicly again, she's still out there, making her allegations and smearing their names, and they can never escape her.
So people started to attack Keri Smith for doing it and attacking Unsafe Space. I can't imagine that all of Karlyn's bullshit didn't put a strain on Keri and Carter. If I remember correctly, Karlyn took the Unsafe Space name on either Gab or Gettr and then gloated that Keri had not protected her brand. I think Karlyn's friendly with Carter now.
Honestly, I never understood the pairing of Keri and Carter. She seems genuine, and genuinely kind-hearted, and he is just one annoyingly smug motherfucker. He's the kind of guy who, when he tells you he's an atheist, you think, "Oh yeah, I knew that without you even having to tell me," because there are so many atheist guys who are just like him. Same insufferable vibe.
I don't know what finally split him and Keri up, but if he's siding with Borysenko his douchebag status is confirmed.