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Shay 🌟🍃

@starshaymin.bsky.social

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Heyooo you can call me Shaymin/Shay! Pronouns: She/Her Age: Adult HUMAN ARTIST (No AI allowed! 🚫🤖) Multifandom and Annoying About It :3 The Big 3 Autisms: Pokémon, MLP, UTMV Current SpIn you’re being subjected to: IDFK anymore

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 19d

Okay… I’ve recently gotten an idea for something.
I’m not making any promises, but there might be something else coming for my Fander Sides after the ref is finished.
If I go through with it, then I hope it can enact at least some change.

#shayminsides #sanderssidesocs #fandersides

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 22d

Don’t worry you’re not bothering me with this.
And I can possibly see how taking intent into account can help with coping and processing things

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 22d

I miss my dad🩵⚖️, chat. I miss him a lot. I’ll be back

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 22d

Ah I see. I guess I’m the opposite.
I’ve learned of the concept of Impact over Intent.

The most common analogy of which being that if someone steps on your toe, no matter if they intended to or not, it still hurts.

That doesn’t mean intent doesn’t matter at ALL, just that impact matters much more.

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 22d

I don’t think he’s incapable of growth from this though, but, I continue to lose hope of ever seeing that day….

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 22d

I do NOT like saying this, but I can’t deny it…

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 22d

I wish I could say I believe the same, I WANT to believe the same, but, with everything Brei had to go through… I’m not so sure…

He has DONE good before, that much is undeniably true, but, treating your employees that badly doesn’t exactly lend well towards “good person” status…

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

many parts of me have been devastated by this, and I don’t know how to console them, console myself.

Do you think, there’s still hope that he’ll take accountability and maybe change at all, if it’s brought to light?

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

Are you okay? kind of a redundant question but… still…

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

I never like having to indirectly ruin something for someone… I’m so sorry

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

oh.. oh no… I’m so sorry….

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

Fanders, I PROMISE I want to frolic with you SO FUCKING BAD, but unfortunately I am cursed with knowledge 😭😔

(idk if I should tag this)

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

One day someone will look back on this whole phenomenon, of this sort of mass trauma, and start to actually psychoanalyze the impact of it

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

It’s a mass epidemic of trust issues.

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

It’s tragic how the internet and online public figures have broken so many people’s trust.

We’ve come to expect it, that one day one of our faves will backstab us, AGAIN, but we’re so tired.
I’m so tired.

This has got to have had massive detrimental impact on many people’s mental health.

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Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

Well I think that’s a good, reasonable, and achievable starting point.

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

Though I also fear that, depending how this goes, he may get defensive and double down.
An unfortunately all too common response for popular creators who get called out for their misdeeds.
There’s an understandable feeling behind that, but that doesn’t make it right.

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

Though ofc in this sort of situation it’s best to think things through and organize beforehand.
I’ve made the mistake of jumping into addressing a controversy without thinking before and it didn’t end well.

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

I’m glad at least someone is thinking of it.
Though I don’t know whether or not they have been retroactively compensated as of yet. Part of me thinks that’s not likely, but it has been a year and the state of things is currently a little unknown.
The more fans that know, the more smth can be done

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

I don’t wanna chase him off the internet, I want him to get better. To grow, to become the person he presents himself as, the person I thought he was for so long.
But, this is a massive fuck up. One that I may one day run out of grace for, as an artist myself.

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

Most people don’t know, and some who do know probably don’t believe it. Which, I sympathize with, as infuriating as it is.
Denying something because you’d be devastated if it were true, I’m far too familiar with it.
But the truth exists whether we acknowledge it or not.

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 23d

I see. I’m familiar with situations where he has apologized for smaller things like that before, though this is something much bigger that it looks like he’s deliberately trying to prevent fans from knowing about, lest we withdraw our support.
And unfortunately, he seems to have mostly succeeded

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 24d

Wait, he has?

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 24d

If somehow, by some miracle, he does, I will be overjoyed.
I don’t want to hate him. Sanders Sides has done SO much for me.
These characters mean SO much to me.
I don’t want to have to let them go… but right now… it’s hard…

Shay 🌟🍃 @starshaymin.bsky.social · 24d

me too… god me too…
I currently don’t think I can bring myself to even watch the videos right now.
Currently the only way to fix this is for Thomas to stop sweeping it under the rug and actually take accountability, reach out, apologize, and do better. But it might be too late for that now…