Rumors PT1* = can be provided upon private request
UPDATE VI, JULY 13, 2016: I had to replace most screencaps and live links with archived pages because TCU has taken it upon herself to try and cover up evidence of her wrongdoings by hiding comments that made her look guilty or hypocritical. Good thing the Internet never forgets! I also updated and added archives in various sections as I've discovered more of her baseless accusations, like that I threatened to make an ED article about her or uploaded nude pictures to her account. Additionally, I've archived this entire saga on my personal offsite blog.*
Upon trying to amend this journal with a new update, it would appear I've reached the character limit for this journal. Here is part two!
ORIGINAL POST, AUGUST 23, 2015: It is with great hesitance and even greater caution that I publish this journ
* = Can be provided upon private request
Wow. It's really, actually gotten to this point, guys. I have to make a second journal regarding The-Cynical-Unicorn's drama because I reached the character limit on my previous entry. Well, I guess I can't afford to waste any space on idle chit-chat, so let's get right into the latest update.
I had to replace most screencaps and live links from PT1 with archived pages because TCU has taken it upon herself to try and cover up evidence of her wrongdoings by hiding comments that made her look guilty or hypocritical. Good thing the Internet never forgets! I also updated and added archives in various sections of the last journal as I've discovered more of her baseless accusations, like that I threatened to make an ED article about her or uploaded nude pictures to her account. Additionally, I've archived this entire saga on my personal offsite blog.*
Today's update comes on the heels of me receiving another note early this morning from someone who used to watch TCU and didn't appreciate being suddenly dragged into her drama. Out of respect for their wishes to remain anonymous and their willingness to come forward, I will not reveal their identity. The note I received is as follows, verbatim with the exception of [alteration] of some names:
I thought at first she was a nice person and great artist, so I watched her and faved her art, but got her note and believed her and ignored any drama for the future. But then talked to Musa, saw her drawing, found your page about tcu and now bullshit central is where I landed in.
I'm blocking her, I'm severely disappointed in her and she needs to grow the fuck up.
Please don't put me in the middle of this, but if you have to, I'd prefer to be anonymous, especially away from her.
Anyway, this is the exact same note she sent to me. I hope it helps.Hello!
There's something I need to tell you. I didn't want to drag more people into this, but there are a group of obsessive trolls on here who have been stalking me all over DA and monitoring my actions (even though my activity is hidden), and in the past, they’ve contacted my watchers in the hopes of spreading rumors, all because they disagree with my views about how to manage wild horses. I just wanted to let you know in case they contact you to turn you against me. If anyone starts spreading rumors about me, directs you to a hate journal about me that they refer to as “the real story,” or anything of the like, I recommend blocking them. Don’t reply no matter what they say. They’re just trolls. Don’t try to publicly defend me or they will target you. I have a friend who has been slandered and harassed by these girls for about 7 years (I’ve only been a target for about 1 year), and she says that they’ve bullied lots and lots of people into leaving Deviantart and other websites. So far, only three of their victims have remained standing: myself, my friend, and one other person I don’t know. This resulted in the trolls obsessing over us.
The first girl (who is probably the most dangerous and has actually had a few scuffles with the law for cyberstalking) generally refers to me right out in the open (she mentions me by name and provides links to my account in her hate journal about me.) Another one has 5 or 7 deviations (that I know of) aimed directly at me to make fun and bully me, and an entire folder in her gallery devoted solely to hate art towards me. She calls me immature names like "corn girl," "lying little brat," "sh**head," “Lolcow,” and the like, and her newest tactic is to make hate art that depicts me as a mound of feces with a unicorn horn, eyeballs, and a speech bubble which usually contains some twisted version of something I said. For example: she has one that says "Well in MY opinion, hunting is bad," and uses it to imply that I think all hunting is bad ecologically, which is actually not at all what I said. If you want links to examples of these deviations, I can provide them. I’d just prefer to leave these two stalkers anonymous for now. You’ll recognize their hate art if they ever try to get your attention. In the past, when I’ve told people who they are, the girls always found out somehow and all heck broke loose.
Again, it's not your fault. They’re just a bunch of online creeps. I don't recommend talking to either of them without a proxy server or a VPN because they have IP loggers that can identify your location and link it to your username, but if you do choose to talk to them, please, please be VERY careful! They are extremely manipulative and clever, and are fabulous writers. They know exactly what to say to get people wrapped around their fingers. If they try to spread lies about me or slander me, please report it to the DA staff right away (that’s what the staff told me to do) and don’t reply no matter what the girls say.
If you want a list of all the things they’ve done (that I know of), here you go:
1) They’ve been stalking me for about a year now, and have been stalking my friend [Yerdian] for almost 7 years. The girl who makes the poop drawings has visited my page over 133 times in one month alone! They’ve done things like this to many people in the past. They have a particular vendetta against wolves and horses, and they’ve been known to send photos of themselves holding guns (they’re hunters) and dead animals (wolves in particular) to animal-lovers in order to intimidate them. Creepy, no? They deny it, but my friend [Yerdian] has quotes. To discredit [Yerdian], they’ve fabricated a sob story about how [Yerdian] drove one of them to be sick all the time and got an eating disorder and other nonsense. However, [Yerdian] has an official court report and is working on a book with more proof than you could ever want that everything these two girls say about her (and me) is nothing but lies.
2) They support violence towards animals. I’m not talking about eating meat or hunting for food anything like that, I’m talking about actual, hard core violence. When an animal needs to be managed, they ignore any and all humane management options and instead opt for solely the ones that involve killing. I’ve seen them and her friends on multiple occasions joking about killing horses, wolves, and rabbits, and in one comment I came across in a journal one of them wrote and submitted to a Mustang group I’m a part of, the girl openly said she would take pleasure in shooting horses if she were allowed to shoot them.
3) They spread lies. As you can see in their deviations, they publically name me and my friend [Yerdian] by name, provide links to our accounts, and spread lies about how I’m supposedly “hiding the truth,” or sending notes to everyone who favorites my artwork, and other craziness. One of them has had a “notice” connected to a hate journal about me on her page for almost a year, and every so often, she updates it with more lies. She is extremely clever and knows exactly what to say to get people wrapped around her finger. She’s turned my own friends against me before. She can manipulate almost anyone to do what she wants. In her hate journal, she uses her IP logger to claim that I am the same account as several other people, which is also the same tactic she used with [Yerdian]. StatCounter (the logger she uses) lets you label IP addresses as whatever you want them to be, so it’s very easy to falsely label several IP address as one person, or vice versa, take a screenshot, and then claim two people are the same person. In the hate journal, the girl also used screenshots of hateful comments made by random people (all deactivated users who can no longer prove her wrong), and claims that [Yerdian] said those things. She claims that [Yerdian] is a rape apologist, a heterophobe (she used to claim [Yerdian] was a homophobe, funny how things change, huh?), and other nasty things. The hate journal is full of links that don’t work, Google searches that reveal nothing, etc., etc. In the comments of the hate journal about me, one member (one of their followers) calls me a “homophobe,” and that I should go to “super hell,” whatever that is.
4) They join groups and submit artwork to groups in order to block evade and taunt members that they dislike. I’ve had to leave two groups because of this, so I’ve decided to just warn all groups that I’m a part of ahead of time just in case they try to submit their hate art. These girls have submitted pictures of dead horses, horses being gutted by wolves, etc., to groups that I’m a member of in the hopes that I’ll see them.
5) They hack. [Yerdian] was hacked by them several times both on DA and on other websites. They use a software called RainbowCrack to decipher passwords. Unfortunately, I don’t fully understand how RainbowCrack works, so I don’t know how to explain it in any more detail. I’m not very techy-savvy… They also occasionally use Honeypot (a backdoor Trojan Horse) on people they especially hate, such as [Yerdian]. I have been able to avoid these Trojan horses because I don’t follow any links they’ve sent me or posted in groups for me to find. Honeypot Trojans work by infecting your device and sending everything you do straight to their device(s). [Yerdian]’s laptop completely crashed within a week of being infected by these girls.
6) They release personal information. In the comments of the one girl’s hate journal about me, both of them released the name of the university where I work. [Yerdian] says that a few years ago, one of these girls released her HOME ADDRESS and encouraged people to go harass her, which resulted in men showing up at her doorstep offering to rape her. That was when [Yerdian] finally got the police involved, a court letter was sent to the girl ordering her to stop. She and the other girl haven’t stopped completely, as you can see, but they have toned it down a few notches.
7) They are receiving special treatment from the DeviantArt staff. When I reported all this to the DA staff, the staff replied that it would not be considered personally identifiable or against the rules for these girls to release the name and address of the place where I work, my legal name, AND a photo of my likeness. Essentially, the staff refuses to help no matter what these girls do.
I’m not sure what else to do other than just warn you that because they’ve done it in the past and I just recently caught them doing it again, they may try to spread their lies to you to turn you against me. It sounds stupid, but it’s the honest truth.
Thank you for reading, and don’t worry! If you ignore them, they’ll ignore you, too.
-Unicorn
Same shit, different day. There are a few new talking points here that warrant addressing, however. My sincerest thanks to the person who sent me this so that I can better fight TCU's rumor mongering. Let's get started.
"I don't recommend talking to either of them without a proxy server or a VPN because they have IP loggers that can identify your location and link it to your username..."She thinks that VPN's and proxies can mask her phone and computer's unique footprints, but without the right tools, they can't. I can easily tell when she's visiting me through an indirect connection. Just thought I'd put that out there for everyone under the false impression that proxies and VPN's are the be-all-end-all tools of Internet privacy. But, wait! It gets better!
"The girl who makes the poop drawings has visited my page over 133 times in one month alone!"And she says this because she uses... wait for it... AN IP LOGGER. Specifically, StatCounter, the same one I use, the same one she has relentlessly railed against in the past. I knew she'd eventually succumb to her hypocritical nature and get StatCounter. She has the log set to invisible tracking, but nothing is truly invisible within the code of a public-facing page. Internet 101, folks: right-click anywhere on her userpage, click View Page Source, Ctrl+F "StatCounter", and it's at the end of her "About Me" description, just above the "Interests" section. Searching Inspect Element for "StatCounter" will also pull it up. At least for now. Until she tries to hide evidence of that, too. I'll keep screenshots on my blog just in case.
"In the past, when I’ve told people who they are, the girls always found out somehow and all heck broke loose."I'm starting to think TCU legitimately lacks a sense of self-awareness. It's the Streisand Effect. We find out because she tells people about us and their natural curiosity leads them to us. And when they find out that she's a damn liar, whether of their own accord or after reaching out to us, she pretends she's all surprised that people "turn" on her. The evolution of opinion coincides with the discovery of facts. To stagnate in a point of view you know can be debunked is a disgraceful display of willful ignorance. People aren't "turning" on her; they're enlightening themselves by seeking the information she refused to provide in an effort to besmirch our good names. If she just stopped talking about us, people would stop coming to us.
"...they’ve been known to send photos of themselves holding guns (they’re hunters) and dead animals (wolves in particular) to animal-lovers in order to intimidate them."I addressed this in the last journal, but I have to address it again because she's now accusing multiple people of this, presumably me and sulfide. She couldn't prove it in my case, and she can't prove it anywhere else.
"...they’ve fabricated a sob story about how [Yerdian] drove one of them to be sick all the time and got an eating disorder and other nonsense."So, how many of you remember when I was chronicling my healing process after my car accident in 2012? Remember how my doctor recommended that I take up yoga to relieve the pain in my back and prevent the formation of scar tissue? And remember when Yerdian made a stamp* about "ahimsa" and used it as a platform to rail against me for practicing yoga because I don't adhere to the same lifestyle she does? Yeah, that's what TCU is starting to sound like. Nevermind the fact that anxiety-related eating disorders are actually extremely common, I'm just a fuckin' liar, I guess? If she knew anything about the effects of anxiety on the human body, specifically the stomach, she wouldn't have room to call it "nonsense." But I don't have to explain my suffering to anyone, especially not her. I shared that intimate and painful tidbit of my life because it's relevant to the point of how dangerous and vile Yerdian is as a human being. I don't make fun of TCU for her learning disorder or accuse her of lying about it, so I don't know where the fuck she gets off making light of my health.
"They support violence towards animals. I’m not talking about eating meat or hunting for food anything like that, I’m talking about actual, hard core violence. When an animal needs to be managed, they ignore any and all humane management options and instead opt for solely the ones that involve killing."On a good day, non-lethal management is like putting a band-aid over a cancerous tumor. Looks helpful on the surface and doesn't actually do anything. Lethal management is removal of the tumor and the application of chemo to prevent further infection. It works. The emotional fallacy that this effective approach is "violence" is absurd. Violence against animals isn't a quick bullet to the head, heart, or lungs. Violence against animals is the willful intent to damn them to the slow, agonizing fate of starvation with their "hands-off" approach to management.
"I’ve seen them and her friends on multiple occasions joking about killing horses, wolves, and rabbits..."How you know someone is grasping for ways to make you look bad: They take an obviously facetious comment out of context after you made fun of them for saying your friends were in a cult centered around you, which implies animal sacrifice. She set the joke up, so why is she offended that we ran with it? In any case, the Cult of Tipsy is still seeking new applicants. We wear pink on Wednesdays and margaritas are served at each meeting. Please see the picture below for details regarding sacrificial membership requirements.
"...one of them ... openly said she would take pleasure in shooting horses if she were allowed to shoot them."Except that's not what Sulf actually said. He's mentioned his love for horses previously, so this is more of that trademark animal rights "if you don't love animals like I do, you don't love them at all" garbage.
"...they ... spread lies about how I’m supposedly “hiding the truth,” or sending notes to everyone who favorites my artwork..."Is she serious? Like, did she really just say this? This is literally everything she's doing and it's been proven a thousand times over, and I just... omg, no, I'm gonna let this one speak for itself, guys. We've reached delusional factor five.
"...the girl also used screenshots of hateful comments made by random people (all deactivated users who can no longer prove her wrong), and claims that [Yerdian] said those things."They're live links, not screenshots. At this point, I'm starting to feel bad for TCU. Either she hasn't confronted Yerdian about her past, or Yerdian has lied to her and said that the accounts responsible for those atrocious comments about gay people and rape victims didn't belong to her. Yerdian went to great lengths to hide any connection she had to those accounts, but it really isn't hard for newcomers to the drama to figure it out if they know where to look. Not to mention, I can point them in the right direction if they're so inclined to dig. Old timers like me, my friends, and a great many of my acquaintances, though, we were around to see it, and we know what she did. TCU is just another one of Yerdian's suckers.
"She claims that [Yerdian] is a rape apologist...""Well... when you dress like a slut and go to places full of these cheap 1-night-stand people then yes, the victim is simply asking for it." That is what rape apology looks like. And Romaniya was absolutely, 100% Yerdian's account.
She claims that [Yerdian] is a ... heterophobe (she used to claim [Yerdian] was a homophobe, funny how things change, huh?)Except that's not what I said. I didn't use the term "homophobe" because it implies fear, and I'm certain she was never "afraid" of gay people. I said she made "heterosexist" remarks. Refer back to PT1. Heterosexism is discrimination or prejudice against homosexuals based on the assumption that heterosexuality is the "normal" sexual orientation and therefore superior. Easy mistake to make if you're an ignoramus.
"The hate journal is full of links that don’t work, Google searches that reveal nothing, etc., etc."Et cetera is a cop-out. Lay out your grievances in full or put an "and" in place of that comma before "Google," because you've run out of accusations to make. I've gone through my journal to ensure that my links lead to live pages or archived pages. Nothing 404'd.
And as far as Google goes, TCU used the PT1 link to the Google search results of all the places I found her talking about me and sifted through them to hide her old comments. She's replaced them with new ones where she's exchanged the term "FelisTipsy" for "F" or "FT" so that it won't show up in a search. Check it out for yourself with this before and after. I've preserved my Google search results* so she can't deny what she's done.
"In the comments of the hate journal about me, one member (one of their followers) calls me a “homophobe,” and that I should go to “super hell,” whatever that is."Everything is always about her, isn't it? Decanii's comment was directed at Yerdian.
"They join groups and submit artwork to groups in order to block evade and taunt members that they dislike."Again with the unwarranted self-importance. Being in the same group as someone else, especially controversy-based groups, isn't a personal slight. And it certainly doesn't fit the definition of "block evasion."
"Honeypot Trojans work by infecting your device and sending everything you do straight to their device(s)."I decided I'm actually going to learn what a "honeypot" is today, because it obviously doesn't mean what they think it means, and I'd like to know so I can better combat this accusation. Here's what I've found, courtesy of Techopedia:
"A honeypot is a decoy computer system for trapping hackers or tracking unconventional or new hacking methods. Honeypots are designed to purposely engage and deceive hackers and identify malicious activities performed over the Internet. Multiple honeypots can be set on a network to form a honeynet.
There are many advantages to honeypots. The main one is the ease with which they are employed. Another advantage is that although honeypots seek small amounts of hacker information, the information is considered highly valuable for studying and uncovering hackers' motivations.
Honeypot systems are not perfect, however. They contain the usual technology risks such as firewall penetration, broken encryption methods and failure to detect attacks. In addition, honeypots are unable to detect attacks against systems that are not honeypot systems.
There are two different kinds of honeypots. They are classified based on their deployment method:
- Production Honeypot: Used by companies and corporations for the purpose of researching the motives of hackers as well as diverting and mitigating the risk of attacks on the overall network.
- Research Honeypot: Used by nonprofit organizations and educational institutions for the sole purpose of researching the motives and tactics of the hacker community for targeting different networks.
Honeypots are not always designed to identify hackers. Honeypot developers are often more interested in getting into the minds of hackers, which then permits them to design more secure systems, as well as to educate other professionals about the lessons learned through their efforts. Overall, honeypots are considered an effective method to track hacker behavior and heighten the effectiveness of computer security tools."
For further reading, check out The Honeypot Sting: Hacking the Hackers and Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures. I think it's pretty obvious now that honeypots are tools used by the good guys. Learn something new every day, folks.
"In the comments of the one girl’s hate journal about me, both of them released the name of the university where I work."Except we didn't. And she made it public information on her Facebook, anyway. And, wait a minute, are we still falsely labeling visits, or are they accurate? It can't be both.
"[Yerdian] says that a few years ago, one of these girls released her HOME ADDRESS and encouraged people to go harass her, which resulted in men showing up at her doorstep offering to rape her."Keywords: "Yerdian says." She either can't or won't prove these accusations. Her home address was public information attached to her purchase of numerous website domains that she opted not to hide. She had the option to hide that information and chose not to. Other people stumbling upon sensitive information that's already public-facing, reasonably accessible, or a matter of public record isn't stalking. It's not other peoples' responsibility to ignore information; it's yours to hide it if you want it hidden. And in any case, I never encouraged people to interact with her. I have always maintained that people should stay away from her and TCU, because I think they're both psychotic pathological liars.
"Offering to rape." Uh, I'm pretty sure rapists don't ask first. That's why they're called "rapists." It's interesting how her language regarding this talking point changed so drastically to include such a charged word. If this were the case all along, and that's quite a serious matter, why didn't she use that term from the start?
"That was when [Yerdian] finally got the police involved, a court letter was sent to the girl ordering her to stop."I've never received such a notice. And they can't prove otherwise, so whatever.
"They are receiving special treatment from the DeviantArt staff. When I reported all this to the DA staff, the staff replied that it would not be considered personally identifiable or against the rules for these girls to release the name and address of the place where I work, my legal name, AND a photo of my likeness."That's because it isn't. Nor have we done any of these things. If you lived halfway around the world and I told you the name of my employer, that wouldn't tell you who I am. If someone posted a photo of my "likeness" (which means that it's not you but bears striking similarity to you in appearance, but I think she actually means if someone posted a picture "of" her), that wouldn't tell you who I am. But if you intentionally leave your full legal name plastered across your entire page like TCU does, that will tell me who you are. You can't bitch about people knowing your name when you provide it for them.
While we're on this subject, she's turned this issue into a reason for her to climb up on a soapbox about how the admins supposedly don't do their jobs. At a time when a former paid staff member just got done saying "you can not enact any change by starting petitions or "demanding justice" because that isn't going to influence the people in charge, all it will do is make you bitter and make them dislike you," she created a journal to use as a makeshift "petition" regarding alleged DeviantART staff inaction. I'd call that digging your own hole, but hey, I've been here for almost seven years, what do I know? The journal boasts a not-so-impressive collection of short stories, mostly from herself, that severely lack impartiality and proof that their Help Desk tickets actually warranted action. She's apparently threatening to sue the DeviantART company for closing her tickets? I dunno, I'm hearing bits and pieces about it, but it sounds hilarious.
I never imagined this pitiful parade of Internet sissy-fighting would go as far as it has, but it has, and I'm sincerely sorry to all of you who would rather I upload my art than have to fight these absurd accusations. Thanks again for hanging in there with me, and stay safe! :bademoticon: