No bad blood between Vinny and I AT ALL. Resolved all that years ago. I've even been semi active on the booru under a different name, donated to a few of the charity streams, shit like that.
To summarize.
There was a third party who we both knew, don't know if I would call them a friend or not at the time, they were just a person who just kind of... existed, anyhow, they have been stirring the pot for years, not Vinny or I. I was a young attractive e-girl artist who was dealing with the beginning of some mental health issues, REALLY good target to spin a yarn. I spoke to them maybe... 10 times in the entirety I was in the community. I wish I could tell you their motives because they were even confronted about it but honestly, they were just batshit.
Vinny and I's friendship was only strained by this person, I made some poor decisions due to the stress, lots of my accounts were compromised and I left the community because of it. I didn't trust anyone for the longest time and I honestly believed this would eventually blow over but I'm edging towards my 30's now, completely different person and still hearing about stuff that went down when I had just turned 20.
I seriously only have respect for all of them, I feel bad for not really making a proper statement sooner but I think if I made one back then it would have just added fuel to the fire, I was already getting shit flung from all directions, not a single person trusted me so I didn't have anyone to fall back on if it didn't go well so I just backed off and just tried to start again.
As for feeling bad that this story is being still talked about, don't. It's honestly my fault for just thinking sweeping it under the rug would work but I'm tired of peoples reputations being ruined because I was too much of a coward to say "shit was fake"
