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I am posting this in order to share with the community the dark underbelly of abuse and misogyny that already poisons our originals creators, barely over a month since we began this journey.
As a female author, I can’t help but be extremely worried to how some of the other authors in the Inkstone Discord Server have been acting toward females. Recently, we had a fight between Anjeeriku, author of “PS: I’m not Over You” and YinandYang Dragon, author of novels like “Evil Sex Fiend”. You guys can see how this will go.
We can see in the screenshots below how that fight went, and how 17Sphynx17, author of “God’s Beta Tester” got in the middle of it with no real reason and joined YinandYang Dragon in what I can only call a misogynist rant against Anjeeriku.
What we see here is just the tip of the iceberg. We had lots of jokes regarding Anjeeriku’s supposed age, but most of them were directed at her gender.
To be clear, the one who started the fight was Anjeeriku. She was blunt on her comments on the smut novels on Webnovel as a whole. The problem is, YinandYang Dragon took that as a personal insult. I can understand him feeling insulted, even if the insult was not aimed at him. I can understand, but I cannot condone with it. Because Anjeeriku never made a personal insult, and as authors we need to learn how to take criticism.
About 17Sphynx17, I feel nothing but loathing. The fight was not even about him but he clearly got into it just for the fun, dishing out insult gratuitously. Is that the kind of authors we have here? As a woman I can’t help but worry. 17Sphynx17 already made Anjeeriku cry twice.
Not only that, we recently had a fight involving Earldennison, author of “Technomancer: Genesis” because he asked nonstop about details on the contracts. The problem is, no one knows more than what was told to us in this link:https://acts.webnovel.com/2018/62185143/index.html
Some authors lashed at him for his insistence, what I personally do not agree to given the situation. However, I also can’t agree to his stance regarding basically doubting what people were telling him, given that he hadn’t even given himself the trouble to read the link above.
What comes of this is another fight involving Anjeeriku.
Not only that, she even sent me screenshots of a private conversation between Earl and herself, where Earl not only refuses to apologize, but slanders her further. After Anjeeriku left the author server, Earl shamelessly demands someone to upvote Witch CEO novel to get even against her.
And don’t get me started on the random and gratuitous conversations involving sex that happens everyday on that server. The amount of terrible comments I had to read would be enough for 5 of these threads. Disturbing especially for some minor/underaged authors who are also in the server.
This is not what I think Webnovel wants from their authors, especially the ones that potentially might get a contract and represent the company. I recommend more Staff members on that server acting as Mods, because it is only downhill from here if no one reigns the members in. I can tell that from personal experience.
Do forgive me for writing this anonymously. By the screenshots you can have a good idea of what would happen if I revealed myself.
For the readers of Anjeeriku’s novel, you might have read her latest chapter. She has failed to inform you that it might be the last one she will release and will drop her novel. Anjeeriku also left all the servers on discord to avoid the toxic community.
Manners make a man. If you like making a woman cry because of your insults, I don’t know what to call you.
- A concerned female, and a concerned author
