I think DrmChsr0 got it absolutely right: I don’t particularly enjoy this anymore. DS said a little more than I wanted him to. I don’t like to blame just a single person, but maybe that’s all it really was — a one Owen Saturnine. At least that’s what I think the S stands for; I never got a chance to know.
First CJ gets booted without too much reason, and I was left in an awkward state being able to access things and read stressful discussions in a community my admin could no longer enter. But I wasn’t just going to quit right away and succumb to the pressure and abuse. I’m optimistic on the surface; I thought it could resolve in a few days, especially with the outcries of other ABCers.
But there was nothing but silence in response. I finally found the courage to say something to Owen, but it was like shouting to the air without anybody around to acknowledge. Trees falling in a forest but no one around to hear them, and so I had no voice.
It didn’t get better over time, and with all the other blog posts floating around, I finally told myself (with some encouragement from CJ, too, which surprised me since she didn’t want everything just to end … but she understood what paths were best) that this just won’t ever work out. And I’m far too busy with the end of the semester approaching not to have any fun when I try to write about what I love and enjoy.
So it’s off to research paper and final exam land and goodbye ABC and blogging. Maybe I’ll come back when this all blows over. (And I get some A’s.)
~Crisu
What!? No, you can’t let him destroy you like this. Just leave the damn group and get on with it. Maybe we could even start a new one, with a proper leader instead of a dictator like Owen.
It would be a huge waste to the community if a good blog gets shut down thanks to someone like Owen.
Let’s start the OLABC: the Owen-Less ABC, lol
Well I told people before this whole ABC thing ever happened (Weeks even) that the anime blogging community was headed for a huge falling out and collaspe if things continued down the negative path they were. I’m glad my tendency towards Newtypesque premonition kicked in just in time for me to see it coming. Although a lot of people seem to think I am playing up this whole thing on my blog at Anime History, make no mistake, I’ve actually been saying these things for a while about negativity in the anime blogging community and just general intolerance of those with different tastes and my comments aren’t really about this whole Owen S thing, but blogging in general.
So uhhhh….. what are you people going to do? I ask because I jumped ship from the animeblogger community a little while back. It’s not really something I worry about to much for my own sake since it doesn’t really affect me, but I still worry about the others who I left behind and hope they can pick up the pieces.
“Never give up!” –quoted from Naruto, lols
akiramenaide!! quitting blogging will just make Owen more happy >E
we can’t lose another girl on the interwebsss ;____;
I always enjoyed your posts, Crisu. Hope you’re back soon, but if not, it was great to have you in the community. Pop in sometimes regardless of whether or not you continue blogging.
Why are you quitting just like that? If you quit just because Owen refuses to address the issue then that means you’ve lost to him. I am just a bystander here so perhaps my lack of involvement might make my comments neutral. If you don’t enjoy blogging anymore maybe your motivation for blogging is weak. If you blog for yourself first, and not set too high expectations, it’s more enjoyable that way, I think.
I agree. DO NOT quit just because of Owen. Blog what you want. and don’t listen to owens’s Negativity. Doing so means he wins. ….and then more people quit.
why don’t you guys start a new “ABC-like” place, one w/out the negativity?
No, no, you guys are all faggots. I hate you all. Damn you CJ and damn you Crisu.