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a few people are coming forward about their experiences with collin and i want to make my own individual statement in this thread.
obviously i cannot speak for everyone or anyone but myself. if you need clarifications of any of my points please feel free to ask me.
everything i say in this thread is something that i did try to talk to him about already, or that i've seen others talk to him about.
iād like to start by saying that i do not see collin as transphobic. he has never been transphobic to me, nor expressed those ideals around me or from what i saw in his discord server when i was a part of it.
i also believe that saying something with ignorance does not make you ignorant. likewise, saying something transphobic does not automatically make you transphobic. i'm more sympathetic in this sense, especially since collin is cis.
it can be hard for cis people to understand trans experiences, and your words do not equal your mindset. i will not call collin transphobic. what he said to others, however, may have been. it's not something i personally can preach about, though.
my criticism of him handling that currently is that he is blatantly avoiding responsibility and only displaying things on his account that paint him in a good light instead of acknowledging the things being said against him. this is what we see publicly, though.
i cannot speak for what's being said privately right now.
the evidence that people present with their words is of course important, but if it was undocumented then it is also important to continue to listen to them.
the evidence that people present with their words is of course important, but if it was undocumented then it is also important to continue to listen to them.
my biggest problem that i had with collin was the clout chasing. when i joined minx twitter in march, he would be in my mentions under my art to try and get her attention. at first i just brushed this off as stan behavior but the consistent spamming he did in artist mentions ++
bothers me more in hindsight. i'm not the only one to have this problem with collin. i have a friend that has had the exact same problem to a much higher degree. i've chosen not to confront him about it personally because of the way he's brushed off the responsibility of that in+
+ the past. it felt futile for me to do the same, especially since my experience was once again, a much more mild degree.
if you are making friends with someone just to get to a content creator, you're not a friend, and don't even try to consider yourself as such. same goes for me. i do not tolerate guilt tripping and manipulation, and this is a blatant display of that. it hurts.
my final problem was his tendency to cancel people himself. there was an instance with my friend poorly wording a tweet initially and then educating himself immediately afterwards and retracting his initial statement. collin posted screenshots of this after the initial party +
+ educated themselves. this is also something i confronted him about the night it happened, but he ignored my messages and did not care to elaborate with me any further.
this is the instance of that night.
those are the only things i have to say. others have much more severe experiences with him and his server, and i cannot speak for them. this thread is not meant to attack anyone or to send hate his way.
if you follow me you should know by now that i don't condone that, and FUCK you if you send hate towards someone over something you're not involved in. my only reason for posting this is because i want people to be aware of his actions.
that is all i have to say. this is by no means trying to cancel collin whatsoever. i simply want to see him be a better person and acknowledge his actions.
