Hello Kiwi farms
First of all, I would just like to specify that this is not my account, this was loaned to me to make this post. I understand that account sharing is against the rules, but hopefully, considering the circumstances, an exception will be made. I will not be using this account for long. Null is going to be giving me my own account tomorrow. He has not read this post yet, but I do have his permission to post it.
I am chat user 'MemeGray' you might have recognized my avatar from the xmen.
I imagine a lot of you have very strong feelings about chat, and that's fine. I'm going to lift the veil as to the motives of a lot of our activities, and as to why the chatbox is split into three now. I feel like I should do the former first.
First of all, something to understand: There was never a real war with Kiwi farms, at least not from our perspective. Being gay in our chat served several purposes, but believe it or not, none of them was harassment. With respect to your community, it was a tactic used to pop social bubbles, damage safe spaces, and lift a mirror up to your community. In that respect, it worked wonders, despite fucking up hilariously a couple times - like when a 'double agent' informant got us to dox the ratspeaker guy. Let me tell you, I found it HILARIOUS, but there were those behind the scenes that were quite bitter about the trick. Whichever forum poster got us with that deserves a medal.
But let's be real: You wouldn't have been a fun target if your threads were doing well. They aren't. There were many of those within our community who not only felt like you would be a fun target, but felt a sense of injustice that a site that used to be so legendary, a site they were a part of, was dramatically changing into one that prioritized people's feelings over comedy. There is an extremely vocal minority on your website trying to play morality police and shut down conversation.
The decision to start this mock war with your website happened when your chat leak was successfully shut down by the combined efforts of a mutinous administration and their defence of a user spamming up the thread for many pages to make it unreadable. But before shit got dirty, the chats owner, Dee, tried her hardest to reach out to Null and Ratspeaker to try to help while holding back the wolves best she could. When that proved fruitless, she stopped standing in the way.
A lot of laughs were had, and the only regret shared was a lot of it came at Null's expense. The grand irony of ironies is that if you had listened to Null in the first place none of this would have even happened - and he's the one taking the most heat. Which is not to say Null is completely blameless... he really should've stood his ground on a lot of issues. Moderators were walking all over him in public. Almost any other community, your ass would've been handed to you for pulling something like that. My guess is a lot of people felt 'immune' due to how close-knit the moderation team is. The massive solidarity walk-out recently is evidence of this. In fact, one of your moderators was so angry that despite hating chat, they were going to let us into the mod forum and archive everything simply out of spite. And we weren't going to say no.
And speaking of turncoats, for all the allegations of transphobia placed on chat, there's something you should know - almost 100% of the information regarding transgender members of your community came from transgender people in your community - people who felt like they were shut down for wrongthink by both their peers and the backing of the administration. Of all the admin panels bans (bans that don't show up in the Leper's Colony or on people's avatars) doled out after the grand doxxing, you only managed to hit one of our informants. Literally everyone else was innocent, and I'm not making that up to help anyone.
To prove it, I would like to let you all in on another ruse - Siegsev is not a troll account. He is real. Because he was trying SO HARD to get targeted by us so he could become some sort of martyr, we came up with the narrative that we discovered he was playing all of you as some sort of master class long term troll. It was wonderful to see the bait taken by so many posters pretending not to have been reading the chat. But make no mistake - so many people bought it for good reason. When you looked at his behavior, you wanted him to be fake. That's what made the lie so appealing. It is a secret we would've kept and giggled to ourselves forever had chat not been shut down.
Which... brings me to that unfortunate story. Dee is a huge believer in free speech, and would allow just about anything to be said on her website so long as it was legal. And whether or not you agreed or disagreed with our methods, it was legal. She sees the world as becoming too big and complicated for any major public figure to face any sort of scrutiny for their actions unless it came at the sacrifice of privacy. In other words, with the incomprehensible amount of people involved in influencing the world around us and the field of journalism becoming an entertainment industry, chat was viewed as the lesser of two evils. If it meant to have the dick pics of EVERYONE to get to the bottom of who is accountable for what, so be it. It is so easy in this day and age to sweep things under the rug, and if chat hadn't existed when it did, Ratspeaker wouldn't have been exposed as a rapist.
And whether or not you agree with that principle, it was a principle Dee strongly believed in. She sacrificed everything for her chat up until the bitter end. Chat made an enemy, one hell of an enemy. No, not Derek Smart. This was a man with no ethics or morals, who went to any end necessary to achieve his goals. He is a man so dangerous, that even saying his name on your website puts you at risk. Now doesn't that sound silly? I imagine some of you are chuckling at the idea. But it is true. He is a man that fancies himself a literal terrorist. And for the sake of irony, I'll refer to him as Voldemort.
Without the benefit of the chat resources in front of me, it is hard to delve into specifics. Voldemort completely ruined Dee's life from top to bottom, but Dee wouldn't quit. Even with herself becoming unhireable due to the harassment she faced, she stuck to her principles. She wasn't going to let someone else tell him what to do. That's when Voldemort started going after Dee's family. But so principled was Dee that for the longest time, even as her family was harassed, she still said no. It put her at an awful strain with every relative she had.
But finally, a line was crossed. Voldemort's harassment of her fish finally became too much for her to bear. His campaign involved sending mean messages to everyone involved in its real estate career under an endless supply of pseudonyms. Its real estate license was revoked. And something else happened very recently that she has not gotten into, not even with me, that finally convinced him to pull the plug on the entire website.
Terrorism won.
As a final plea, I want you to consider some of the values Dee shared, as distasteful as you might find them. Look at the world around you and compare it to the world of years past. In many ways, it has gotten better, but I have never seen censorship like this before. Mob rule is becoming the norm, wherein we're not controlled by the majority anymore, but an extremely vocal minority whose endless patience for harassment triumphs over people who just want to live their lives.
Don't let Kiwi farms become like that, I beg of you.
Thank you for your time.
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