Twisted by MarbleGriffin on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Sorry if this disturbs some.

Rant alert.

I was involved in some drama a few weeks ago. Honestly it was probably a few months ago, but it still plagues me to this day. I still lose sleep over it. No matter how hard I try to let it go, it keeps haunting me.

I was the head of a mod team on a site for a long while. A year and a half at least.
But then another head of the mod team makes a character that's way too similar to one of mine and brags about it. Naturally, I'm pissed. So I tell her my concerns. She refuses to change the character, complaining that it took 8 hours for her to design. I wasn't going to engage. And I thought that was the end of it.
But over the course of the next month, she keeps messaging me over and over about how they're nothing alike, giving things like eye shapes as an example. (As many artists know, eye shape literally doesn't contribute to anything. Everyone draws eyes differently.) She even brought up how another one of mine looked a lot like her unicorn OC. Which, mind you, they had nothing in common except hair and skin color. I ignored this. I had already told her what my conditions were. I wasn't going to engage.
Eventually I got so fed up that I blocked her.
That's when she up and threw a fit to the other head of the mod team, and that head played favorites. A lot. They kicked me from the mod team entirely because I "didn't get along with (redacted username)." In what world do co-workers need to get along in order to get a job done? NONE.
That's not even the best part.
They reassigned someone to take my place IMMEDIATELY after they kicked me, which told me they were PLANNING to kick me out from the start. And as icing on the cake, they copied MY recruitment posts and used them as a template. And they continue to do so.

To summarize: that mod team is corrupted. They wanted me out ASAP for some unknown reason. They continued to use my stuff AFTER they kicked me out. I still hate them and I don't know how to help myself.