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Hey @TwitterSupport thanks for banning @Glinner but you could've maybe done it when he was STEALING MY PHOTOS AND SLANDERING ME AS A PEDOPHILE
I'm tweeting about this a lot but it's fucking cathartic to see a cause that led to me being lied about on the fucking radio actually finally bear fruit
Father Ted was a huge part of my childhood and something I bonded with my late father over. It was beyond heartbreaking to find out that the person who made it wanted me fucking dead. And when I spoke out? That was some of the worst abuse of my life. From a fucking celebrity
He liked tweets that threatened to assault me in the street. A lot of his followers did. I was scared to leave my fucking house, because that man couldn't stand me wearing a hairclip while criticising him
And my story is only one of many. Graham Linehan is an abusive, manipulative, narcissistic, petty little man. He delights in hurting people who can't fight back while women croon over him for doing so. He's a fucking bully, and he used this website as his playground
This isn't a hundredth of what I got, and I don't even think I got it so bad in the grand scheme of his abuse campaign
They took far too fucking long to ban him
I don't get vulnerable on here often, because if people like him. But he put me in a very dark place, and it took a long time to recover. I had a lot of sleepless nights and tears, but I kept fighting because he was hurting people. And they might not be so able to fight back
But he wore me down. He convinced people I was a pedophile. He slandered me on the radio. He called me a liar and threatened me. He wouldn't let up until he found someone less able to defend themself and he sent his ghouls at them instead. And I was so, so tired, but I fought
And twitter in all its wisdom? They did nothing. They wouldn't even take my picture down without seeing my fucking passport. If I hadn't had a trip the month after that took me out of the country I might have succumbed to the fear he'd ingrained in me, or fought until I dropped
I'm not a well person. He played on my fears and anxieties. At the time I had less than 500 followers, and he had over 600k. The people who stood by me got me through it, and I'm truly grateful, but if that had kept up? I don't know what I'd have done
I'm one of the lucky ones. How many people did he hurt worse than me? How many people can't speak out anymore? And twitter did nothing then, when it could, and should have. By their own fucking rules. He should have been banned for a thousand things over the course of years
This isn't going to stop affecting me, even if he is gone. He's vile, and he knows it, and he loves it. And he loves that he hurt me, and many, many others.
Anyway, black lives matter, go donate to a mutual aid fund https://gf.me/u/x6fih3
Anyway, black lives matter, go donate to a mutual aid fund https://gf.me/u/x6fih3
