📢 I’m not Autumn — but I am the one they tried to erase.
July 7, 2025
I want to make a solemn statement: the actions you describe in this article have nothing to do with me. All the “Autumn” narratives you accuse and construct are not something I participated in, nor am I responsible for. But I still have to speak out in response because everything you confess violates the most basic ethical bottom line I uphold.
You not only admit to having led, incited, and carried out systematic isolation and moral supervision of a certain creator, but you also threatened with “I have evidence” and “I will fight you until bored,” attempting once again to overpower the other party with words and intimidate other potential dissenters.
You keep talking about “justice,” but in reality, you enjoy the pleasure of trampling on individual existence with collective power. You are not responding to conflict; you are maintaining a fundamentally exclusive, repressive, and anti-critical circle structure, and you arrogantly call yourself a “governor.”
This is not a dispute among fans, not an emotional entanglement, nor a matter of who is right or wrong. This is a question of how a community treats dissenters, a question of how a power structure enforces discipline under the guise of “maintaining the atmosphere.”
I have decided to take this matter outside the circle because the language logic you and your kind use is no longer something that can be contained within “internal small circle affairs.” What you have built is not a fandom, but a moral tribunal disguised under the banner of gentleness, and I am going to dismantle it.
I want everyone to see what you said:
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You might have seen the drama. You might have heard of “Autumn.” But let me say this, clearly and publicly:
I am not Autumn. But I am the one they built that whole story to destroy.
They didn’t misidentify me. They erased me.
They replaced my name with “Autumn.” They rewrote my articles into madness. They screenshot my words, stripped them of context, tied them to mental illness, and then passed them around like evidence in a courtroom only they preside over.
And today, the person behind that smear posted a “confession” where she proudly declares how she spent four months:
🔻 Messaging people to block me 🔻 Monitoring my every post and punishing deviation 🔻 Policing my tags, my tone, and my aesthetics 🔻 Warning mods to get me kicked out 🔻 Laughing that I still don’t know who betrayed me first
She admits this. Out loud. In public. With no shame.
She calls this “trying to help.” She says this is “constructive.”
No. This is organized soft power violence. This is what moral panic looks like in fandom space. And I’m done being silent about it.
🗯️ To everyone watching from the sidelines:
If you’ve ever said, “I’m just here for the drama,” If you’ve ever thought, “this seems complicated,” If you’ve ever watched without speaking because it “wasn’t your business”—
I ask you now: make it your business.
Because this isn’t about me anymore. This is about what kind of fandom you want to live in.
A fandom where critique is answered with public exile? A fandom where people brag about gatekeeping “for your own good”? A fandom where every angry woman is rebranded as mentally unstable?
Or a fandom that remembers we are allowed to disagree, dissent, resist?
🔊 I am asking you to break the script:
💥 Reblog this 💥 Add your own statement 💥 Tag others 💥 Say: “I saw this. I heard her. I believe her.”
Let’s drag this narrative out of the shadows. Let’s name what it is:
Soft speech. Hard violence. Silencing disguised as concern.
Don’t let this die in a post with no notes.
Don’t let them rewrite me again.
🌟 My Personal Statement:
[Notice: Collect evidence accusing Autumn/ygpgsgl of plagiarism, harassment, and abuse - Chapter 3 - Anonymous - Hakuouki Archive of Our Own
Let’s be very, very clear about something – ***I do not believe you. ***
I do not believe you are not Autumn/Saya. I do not believe you are two separate people. I think you are a sock puppet account created by the person in question to defend themselves and get in contact with people who have blocked them for their own mental health. I could go on about WHY I think that, but you will never admit to being the same person even if I demand proof that you are different… So honestly, it’s a moot point.
Who you are doesn’t matter; your gender, age, or preferences have nothing to do with me. What interests me is why you are so obsessed with denying my identity, yet never dare to directly confront what I express. You are trapped in the dead loop of “autumn = me” simply because you lack the courage to admit that someone you look down on has indeed written something you are afraid to face.
You don’t really want to find out who I am; you just want me to become the image you can control and define. You can’t stand an unknown person not following your preset path, so you gave me the name “autumn” to make it easier for your mind to operate. But unfortunately, I don’t belong to your script—I am no one’s substitute, nor will I bow to you.
You seriously believe someone using AI could post over 600k words across two separate accounts? That’s not how this works. Every word I wrote came out of nights of insomnia, nausea, isolation, and being smeared by people like you. If that looks like AI to you, maybe it’s your own empathy that’s automated. Keep guessing—I’m not here to help you out of your shallow assumptions.
My sister in Christ, when the fuck did I ever accuse anyone of using AI? I never once accused “you” or “Autumn” or whoever the fuck you’re claiming to be of using AI. Maybe if you read my post, you’d actually fucking know that.
I’m not impressed by your word count. I don’t know what your original account was. I’ve never read your fanfic, if you really are a different person than Autumn, so how the fuck would I know whether or not it was AI or not? You’d actually have to provide me with receipts to prove your identity and prove you’re NOT Autumn, but you won’t do that, not even to come out of the shadows – as you claim to be doing.
All you’re doing right now is turning me into a straw man effigy to put upon the altar of what you may well believe is a truly just crusade. But it’s not. You’re a bully and a coward, and what I think or don’t think about your fictional tastes or opinions on Hakuouki has nothing to fucking do with this conversation. I’m not silencing anyone, I’m trying to point out that you are actively attacking innocent people because you’re on some kind of self-victimizing ego trip.
But unlike you, I’m not going to accuse you of shit like lacking empathy or being an automaton running on some script.
Like I said before, go fucking touch grass.
Either that, or provide me with concrete proof that you are NOT Saya instead of hiding behind brand new accounts without a single shred of evidence that you’re a separate person.
Oh, my bad — I just assumed you and ladyyomi, the one who hates AI so much, were the same person.😂
If you want anyone to believe you, provide proof.
Not sure if you know this or not, sis, but just saying “we’re not the same person” doesn’t count as evidence that you’re not the same fucking person. We’re not saying this stuff because we’re lazy or stupid, we’re saying it because the burden of proof currently falls on your ass and the history of all your accounts is a bit too convenient to be a coincidence.
Either fork out the evidence, or accept that no one is going to believe any of the shit you’re saying.
Your sarcasm isn’t cute, it’s just deflection.
You know what’s really convenient? You demanding proof and then refusing to look at it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/67181098/chapters/173583760
The link I posted literally contains: — our direct conversation logs — Autumn’s own Discord promotion — everything that proves I’m not her And you didn’t even bother clicking.
So don’t talk to me about “burden of proof” when you’re actively avoiding anything that might prove you wrong. That’s not logic. That’s willful ignorance wrapped in smugness.
You’re not asking for evidence. You’re demanding submission. And I don’t owe you that.
I’ve already looked at that, and honestly? I’m not completely convinced. There are still things about this entire string of events that is incredibly fucking suspicious to me, especially because the Guest Hate that Yomi received on her fic sounds a lot like the pretentious ass way you talk. They also parrot your opinions about Canon/OC, and shit like that, and you have a history of posting things under anonymous accounts just to force people to listen to you.
But let’s say I give you the 100% benefit of the doubt and acknowledge you as your own person with your own identity, what now?
I already said I never thought Autumn committed plagiarism and just crossed someone’s personal boundaries by getting a bit too intense with her opinions and committing social faux pas. I also said that I didn’t really judge her for that, because I also used to do the same thing due to the fact that I’m autistic, and simply advocated for people to block her and move on if they didn’t like her or the way she flooded the tags with posts in order to make fandom more comfortable for both them AND her. Whether I agree with her opinions on Kazama and Chizuru’s characterization or not doesn’t matter. I’m not a small enough person to get my fundoshi in a fucking twist over the fact that a person disagrees with my opinions about a piece of fiction on the internet. She should be able to indulge how she wants to, and if she wants to write about the complicated relationship between KazaChi, more fucking power to her. I’m sure there are like-minded people around her that she can engage with, without making other people’s fandom experiences uncomfortable because she doesn’t clearly understand rules and boundaries. She even has a discord server, right? Something I’m not going to join in order to prove that you’re different people because that would be violating HER privacy, but if you want to send me screenshots to prove it beyond a shadow of a fucking doubt, I’m fine with that.
I’m also perfectly fine blocking and ignoring her because I don’t owe her fandom interaction! Just like you don’t owe me “submission”, I don’t owe anyone else in this fandom shit! No one owes anyone anything, shockingly, but you also shouldn’t be surprised when you act like a little bitch and launch a harassment campaign against some people and they respond by getting cagey and treating you like shit. Do you think people like being told that their art is shit without prompting? Nothing you’ve said is actually constructive or useful. It’s combative and makes one doubt whether or not you really want to fucking clear shit up, or whether you just want to make another human person suffer.
You didn’t exactly come at this with a stellar attitude, so when people get defensive and make assumptions about you based on how cruel you’re being to them why would you expect them to listen to a fucking thing you say?
If you want to continue this, talk to me in my private messages instead of grandstanding. Unless you send me screenshots of your server and prove you have separate, clear discord profiles? I’m not going to believe just based on a chain of A03 comments that you’re different people, especially since a lot of people I know just kind of have multiple A03 profiles.
And if it turns out to be true that you’re NOT Saya, then the only person I’ll be apologizing to is her, because you’re still an aggressive asshole who harassed someone and drove them to a nervous breakdown when just a shred of kindness and self-composure would have cleared up this entire fucking thing. You decided to make this into a holy crusade when the issue was more or less dead and done with Salty deciding not to press the issue and actively asking people not to harass Autumn/Saya. Then you made yourself a problem to multiple people and proceeded to be a jackass of truly titanic proportions.
The only one trying to make themselves a martyr here is you.
So kindly provide me with those discord logs and screenshots of your separate ids and profiles, or fuck off.
How interesting. When I see these abusive comments linking my name with autumn, on what basis do you ask me to stay calm? The person I insulted was originally none of you, yet someone anonymously posted remarks targeting me and autumn in the comments section of ladyyomi’s article, and ladyyomi endorsed these remarks without any evidence that I and autumn are the same person. Do you even know about this? If you don’t know but still choose to unconditionally support ladyyomi, it means you are a complete fool being used; if you know and participated in slandering me, it means you are a jerk. Go look at the PDF I posted in the summary on notice before speaking. I refuse to private message you—I don’t want to be falsely accused like autumn because of private messages.
I already read every single one of the PDFs your posted – including the ones linked in the actual A03 document, itself. I have copies saved and have been going over them with a fine-toothed comb.
Do you want to know what I sincerely think?
If you are a different person and not just a sock puppet account, you’re a rude, overly aggressive person who should take a step back from all of this for your own mental health. You are honestly just running yourself into the ground seeking justice when the smartest thing for you to do would be to accept that you have put yourself in a situation to be misunderstood, or that some things were lost in translation between you and Yomi because English is a second language to both of you.
Instead, you assume a massive conspiracy, and that people are maliciously plotting against you … Instead of what is far more likely, which is that you inadvertently made yourself look like a sockpuppet account through your reactions. That while demanding you be treated like a human and shown empathy, you dehumanized and refused to show empathy to someone else. You did not stop to consider that an extremely aggressive person who speaks in a tone very similarly to your own attacked Yomi’s fics openly, and just after she made her stories unable to be interacted with by Guest users, you launched this campaign against her demanding an apology. The only person who had recently attacked her and become angry at her for something before that was Autumn, someone who you supposedly coincidentally have had an interaction with … But seemingly, you have really ONLY interacted with her. You don’t seem to have much of a history of interacting with anyone else, so your social isolation makes you appear mysterious and oddly supporting of Autumn, someone who has had controversy in the fandom in the past.
Do you not get how this could make you look like a sockpuppet account of Autumn? Do you not understand how your behavior matching the anon’s tone and cadence makes you look extremely suspicious? And then you tried to force people to reckon with the things you said, screaming aggressively at them. Why would someone NOT side with Yomi, someone who held back to protect the mental health of what seems to her to be a single person harassing her this entire time? Especially since she is also a human being with life circumstances who may be suffering things that impair her judgement, and there is a language barrier between the two of you?
You accuse us of being incapable of empathy, but you don’t exactly practice it, yourself. All of this could be solved with clear communicate, transparency, and photographic evidence of yours and Autumn’s separate discord accounts. The fact is, the PDFs you provided just provide anecdotal evidence based on your own testimony, and are hardly anything concrete.
If there really is a misunderstanding here, I want to clear it up. If there’s a truth to be found, I want to find it. For Yomi’s sake. For Mel’s. For Salty’s … But also for Autumn and you, if what you’re saying is true. You’re clearly deeply distressed by all of this shit, so don’t you want it to actually be over with?
If you do, clear up the misunderstanding.
Prove you’re not the same person with screenshots.
If you don’t, you’re just putting yourself through more angst and drama when all of this could be cleared up with a few simple screens of some discord profiles. No one is obligated to believe you, especially when (as I’ve pointed out above) you do look extremely fucking suspicious from an outside perspective.
And for the record, I never said I was a nice person.
I don’t really give a rat’s ass what you think about my personality or I wouldn’t have called you arrogant and petty to your face multiple times at this point.
Either way, you have the power to clarify this now, once and for all.
If you don’t show screenshots of the discord profiles, I won’t be offering you another response. If you do and you prove you’re separate people, I will personally reach out to everyone involved and clear up the misunderstanding.
Ball’s in your court, YGP.
@widemushroom, someone keeps insisting that I am your alternate account, accusing me of harassment, and asking me to prove that I am not you. Could you please respond personally and add this person to the group so they can see whether we are the same person?
If you think I am not you, I also hope you can come forward and clarify. If you remain silent and do not respond, I will take it as your tacit approval of this slander and hold you responsible for it.