I’m Roph, and I (actually) was a teenage edgelord.

Sarah is right in that ffshrine had “edgelords”. I was one, too. I visited 4chan almost daily, used the current hot memes and phrases, joked about stuff. Shared the funny, hot or shocking meme images. Many people there did.

Then why does nobody give a damn about any other user in all those logs (which are absolutely genuine, don’t get me started)? Because none of us were paedophiles.

An open, proud, adamant, often very defensive paedophile. Defensive of paedophilia. Often justifying it through various arguments. Attempting to normalise it.

Arguing (With hindsight, now ironically for Sarah) that paedophilia was more a “sexuality” akin to homosexuality, that she was simply born that way. She *is* that way. That she is a paedophile, and will always be a paedophile.

Claiming now that she was “merely pretending!”? Just “being one of us” and edgy? I don’t buy it for one second. Not in the slightest. Nor do other members. Sarah and I, along with multiple other members, know that Sarah was a paedophile.

When I see Sarah’s reaction piece to this whole mess, I just feel very strange. Like I’m seeing behind the curtain in a theatre production. It’s not aimed at me. The audience is everyone out there. Those who only learned about this stuff this year. Both those who refuse all evidence and proof and double down supporting someone because said someone aligns with their political narratives or ideology. And those on the other side. Maybe she feels she can persuade a few of those who currently believe the statements about her paedophilia based on the enormous, proven, overwhelming evidence — and a few witnesses.

And because I’m a witness, I’m immune to this bullshit. All facts I’ve stated so far I have stated from memory.

Sarah herself has written a line that’s rather apt in explaining the clique surrounding her and their actions regarding her pedophilia:

Facts are omitted and considered irrelevant; disinformation campaigns are spun up […] It’s never about the truth, but instead what they can twist, distort and lie about in an attempt to [deny reality].

Because Sarah is still denying reality, I predict her post won’t make this mess blow over. Nor will playing the victim, aiming for sympathy. Nor will automatically assigning everything said about you that is nasty to #Gamergate. She no doubt pisses off “gators” when she quotes out of context or lays the responsibility of the actions of one person at the feet of tens of thousands of people.

There’s always a relevant XKCD, and here it is:

Sarah openly being a paedophile simply is true. I know it, other friends of hers know it, she knows it. That this is a fact. An inconvenient one, given her current social standing, sure. But fact nonetheless. How can Sarah make all this go away so she can go back to bashing #Gamergate or people who aren’t politically correct enough? To be honest, she probably can’t. She’s got the eye of various “chans” now. She’s what they refer to as a lolcow — figure it out. Sarah has spent most of her twitter career kicking the hornet’s nest. This post simply in large part continues that tradition.