In 2016, one or more Hamilton fans began the hivliving tumblr to raise issues about living with
HIV positive status.<a href="
https://fanlore.org/wiki/What_happened_with_hivliving#cite_note-1">[1]</a> It was recommended by many on Tumblr and
Twitter as a good source of info on HIV+ issues. <a href="
https://fanlore.org/wiki/What_happened_with_hivliving#cite_note-2">[2]</a> It was thought to be run by two people: Israa, a nonbinary Chinese-Pakistani human trafficking survivor living in India and the other, Naj, a US-born lesbian of color also living in India.<a href="
https://fanlore.org/wiki/What_happened_with_hivliving#cite_note-3">[3]</a>
Both of the fans stated that they were HIV positive and both had main blogs of their own. Together, they ran the hivliving tumblr for over a year until Naj linked to her cash.me fundraiser asking for help for medical expenses. Digoxin-purpurpea, another Hamilton fan, realized that the owner of the cash.me account was most likely US based and confronted her about it. After much back and forth, Naj, one of the moderators of hivliving, confessed that she was a white US college student who lied about her identities and HIV status. Both Naj and Israa did not exist, she did not have HIV, and she did not live in India. She then posted a confession on the hivliving tumblr and tagged it Hamilton. <a href="
https://fanlore.org/wiki/What_happened_with_hivliving#cite_note-4">[4]</a> She also promised to repay people she had defrauded on her Cash.me account. To date no proof has been given that she reimbursed anyone.
Some fans believe that she created these identities
"...to justify themselves writing an HIV-centric modern high school AU Hamilton fanfiction. They then posited themselves as an expert on HIV for discourse credentials."