🧨 The Lucy Incident: How an Anonymous Attack Disguised as a Victim Unfolded
August 21, 2025
Some attacks do not come head-on but hide behind vague contexts and masks of identity, posing as the “righteous” voice of the victim. This article aims to reconstruct the series of events in early 2025 surrounding the anonymous user “Lucy” and highlight the highly organized, manipulative social entrapment logic behind it.
📌 Phase One: Anonymous Bombing, Attempting to Provoke Me and Autumn
And I am no longer silent.
In late January, Autumn and I published works on AO3 and received malicious comments from anonymous visitors (guest accounts) under names like “nope.” These comments were flippant and emotionally provocative, clearly intended to incite conflict, for example:
“stop using alts to promote your kazama fic autumn”
“canon chizuru is great”
These kinds of remarks are not constructive criticism but manipulative language filled with “emotional mockery + identity accusations,” intended to create doubt about Autumn and me. However, we did not fall for it and instead remained restrained while clarifying.
The Birth of Romantic - Chapter 17 - ygpgsgl - Hakuouki [Archive of Our Own]
📌 Phase Two: Changing tactics, shifting to attacking Autumn’s independent work
The anonymous attacker failed to provoke our emotions, so they shifted their target from “the work co-written by Autumn and me” to “Autumn’s independently signed work,” and accused Autumn in the comments section of not listing saltyneo as a co-author, implying “plagiarism” and “theft.”
This is a higher-level attack aimed at:
Sowing distrust between Autumn and saltyneo;
Intensifying external audiences’ doubts about Autumn’s “personal integrity.”
📌 Stage Three: After the verbal confrontation, Autumn clears the comment section
Faced with continuous accusations and anonymous attacks, Autumn had a direct confrontation with the other party and ultimately chose to delete the comments to prevent the situation from escalating. This action was originally a reasonable defense against anonymous violence, but it was turned into:
- “Deleting comments = covering up the truth”;
- Deleting posts out of guilt = confirming the accusations.
The attacker thereby constructs a so-called visual narrative of the “plagiarist covering up evidence.”
📌 Stage Four: Lucy suddenly “reveals she is a minor”
After all the disputes, the attacker suddenly claims to be a “14-year-old minor” and uses this as a basis to accuse Autumn of “harassing a minor.” At this point:
- Autumn can no longer verify the other party’s identity through comments;
- The other party did not disclose their identity at the beginning of the negotiation but instead “reversed their positioning” after the conflict occurred, using their minor status to gain a moral advantage.
This marks the completion of an identity manipulation type of public opinion trap.
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📌 Stage Five: Saltyneo announces severance of contact on this basis
Subsequently, Autumn’s writing partner saltyneo chose to end their collaboration citing “protecting minors,” causing a dual breakdown in Autumn’s reputation and creative relationships.
Autumn did not argue because she understood that when facing anonymous moral weapons, any words could be misconstrued as “excuses.” The real cost was that she was labeled a “harasser” in silence.
🔍 Why suspect that saltyneo is in cahoots with them?
- Extremely short reaction time, taking a stance too quickly
She doesn’t need to be a front-line spokesperson like onino, nor does she need to step in directly. She only needs to play the role of the right “responder” at the right time, and she will have already broken our deadlock.
After Lucy revealed she was “underage,” saltyneo almost immediately chose to cut ties. This speed of decision doesn’t seem like a painful struggle after a real trust crisis, but rather—
The script has moved to the next scene, and it’s her turn to appear.
This is a plot-driven pace of action, rather than the chaos, ambiguity, and delays that should exist in complex real-life interpersonal relationships.
- Only take information that benefits her, refusing to understand the background
She had the opportunity to communicate details directly with Autumn but chose to believe the anonymous party’s one-sided narrative, ending the conversation with the moral shield of “I am protecting minors.”
This is not the behavior of someone who truly cares about their creative friendship and collaborative experience; rather, it seems like someone who already has a backup plan, using leverage to gain advantage.
- She became the key “legitimizing witness” for the other party’s narrative
Have you noticed? Autumn’s ultimate “original sin” was not what Lucy anonymously said, but saltyneo’s distancing action that indirectly validated that anonymous accusation.
Her move was the other party’s most crucial assist— with her endorsement, the other side no longer needed to take responsibility for the accusations.
So, if there had long been communication, coordination, or even an alliance tacitly agreed upon between them, it would be completely unsurprising. Moreover—
🧠 Her behavior fits the typical pattern of a “planned outsider” being turned.
In the process of community framing, there is a role: “Secondary core peripheral figure”:
Appearing neutral and on the edge of the main group, seemingly reasonable to both sides, but making decisive defections at critical moments, undermining the trust structure.
Saltyneo perfectly fits this model. She did not participate in the attack at the earliest stage, but her act of turning against them completed the final loop of the setup, turning the “harassment” from an anonymous accusation into a “solid proof from an acquaintance.”
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🧊 Lucy is not a victim, but the mastermind
This mysterious anonymous “minor” never presented any evidence, relying solely on a self-statement to accomplish the following:
- Dismantle a creative team;
- Shift the attack target from “plagiarism” to “harassment”;
- Use positional power to cover up anonymous defamation;
- Ultimately frame Autumn without bearing any responsibility.
She is anonymous, “underage,” and immune to platform countermeasures. She precisely exploits AO3, Tumblr, and social platforms’ protection mechanisms for “minors,” combining anonymity with identity immunity.
🔥 Why I am writing this article
This is not to “whitewash” anyone, but to point out:
The anonymous system does not lack power; rather, it conceals the greatest power.
This is also why, starting from January, the entire framing campaign’s logic had already begun, and it was not, as they later claimed, that they “only joined the battle in June.” From Lucy to ladyyomi, from anonymous accounts to fractured relationships, the entire chain is interconnected.
Autumn is not a “harasser”; she is the one buried and suppressed by the anonymous system that exploits power. I am a witness, and also a recorder. You can call me Autumn’s alt, but I would rather be the person you fear—the one who can stitch every fragment of history into a complete picture.
More Evidence:
How a Progressive Asian Female Fanfic Writer Was Branded Anti-LGBTQ
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Chizuru and Kazama one-shots - Chapter 1 - Autumn469469 - Hakuouki [Archive of Our Own]
A reminder about Tumblr and AO3: @anti-ygpgsgl-ygppoop-show, who claims not to be ladyyomi, onino, lightmelody, or salty neo, is very likely Lucy, as their disgusting way of speaking is exactly the same. He has also left long harassing comments under my work on AO3. This person has unusual interaction with onino and lightmelody.
If the platform doesn’t trust me, they can verify it themselves. I’m not afraid of being wrong; the reason is simple—I don’t lie. If my guesses are not trustworthy, then the other party’s words are even less credible.
Explanation regarding anonymous attacks and their relevance to onino