Late last year, an unknown individual made multiple accounts via social media, including YouTube, and launched a crazed campaign against a young user of Plotagon named Kieron Faming, accusing him of being racist (he is not).

This is Kieron’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@KieronTheAnimator

Not content to attack Faming, the troll then proceeded to target all his friends as well. After several months of this abuse, a few of us finally decided to take action. In Instagram, they created a new chat room, repeatedly forced the troll into it, and subjected him to the same psychotic HATE he’d been subjecting us to. That tactic finally worked and the troll’s will was BROKEN!

The next day, he released this statement:

So this issue is resolved, right?

Well, Plotagon’s Community Manager, Helena Grayson, weighed in on this matter with her own statement, which she sent me and many others in the Plotagon community. I will posts texts from it in green italics and my responses in blue bold.

The official Plotagon account was added to a group chat on Instagram over the weekend, where a few community members confronted another user regarding bullying our friend and community member Kieron. I know there were some related concerns in December with the launch of our Countdown Calendar, and I deleted inappropriate comments and blocked those commenters from being able to continue to post on our account. You’re receiving this email as I saw you were also in the chat I am referring to. If you didn’t get involved upon being added, you can disregard this email. 🙂 

I was there in that chat for less than half an hour, leaving it because I had said what I needed to say and was then content to move on…..and get some much needed sleep! 

Shortly after the majority of the messages in that group chat took place this weekend, I received an apology email from someone who is claiming responsibility as well as having our account tagged in their apology video. So it seems like the issue has resolved itself. Hopefully it stays resolved. 

I hope so too, of course. As long as the former troll keeps his word, I have nothing more to add.

For your information, in case this issue arises again with the same individual or with others in the future, there’s not much we (Plotagon) can do to prevent bullies from bullying beyond blocking inappropriate posts and posters from commenting on our posts and across our accounts. As the harassment takes place on other platforms, they’re the only ones who can and have the authority as well as power to step in and handle issues. I encourage you to reach out to the community assistance on any social platforms being utilized for harassment to get help, as those people will be able to send warnings, block, ban, check IPs (which helps them determine bad actors and whether involved parties are creating extra accounts to continue bullying or cause more drama in other ways), prevent spamming, etc., if the bullying goes against their community standards and guidelines. Had this person/these people in December continued to try their bullying tactics on our YouTube channel or our accounts on other social sites, this is exactly what I would have done, but deleting and blocking seemed to work fine in this instance. 

Yes, YouTube’s admin should be more active in stopping cyberbullies. The fact that iilluminaughtii’s channel is still up after all the shit she has done to Oz Media and so many others makes me wonder what YouTube’s standards really are.

Also, in this chat, I saw there was some use of decidedly misogynistic (including but not limited to using slurs/bad words referring to female body parts as insults, referring to women as one would a female dog, unkind references toward mothers), and/or homophobic language (including but not limited to referring to performing fellatio as a way to insult or degrade). This kind of language isn’t okay for our official accounts to be involved with. I don’t want anyone using it even if they’re doing so to defend Plotagon or our community members, as our company strongly supports equality for everyone and that sort of language is demeaning. I ask in the future that if this happens, to be mindful, tone that sort of rhetoric down, and involve the appropriate authorities responsible for the platform the harassment is happening on. 

Yeah, I don’t approve of such language myself. The worst thing I did was call the troll an asshole. I was also accusing him of being Mr. Plot, a Plotagon user known to make de facto CHILD PORN with the app, much to my and Kieron’s disgust. 

{{{Thanks for your input.

 

As I see it, the whole point of creating that group and then forcing the troll into it repeatedly was to give him a massive dose of his own medicine, to throw right back at him the insane HATE he was inflicting on all of us! In the end, we finally broke him and so he was made to apologize and promise not to pull such stunts again.

 

Trust me, I’ve had tormenters like that before. Here is how I dealt with one of them, sort of (don’t take the video literally, it is symbolic).

 

https://youtu.be/kkWgDMkhros?si=xBYHFZr39m4SEzWI

 

Dale Husband}}}

 

We have since discovered who the real troll was: a user known as ComedyAfterHours. He was exposed by another user known as Celebrities in Plotagon.