I’ve been in a sort of nonstop panic since this whole thing started. I’ve rolled back as much of the damage I caused as I can. I’m drafting an apology to Viz, and I’m hoping to peel away from the whole thing.

If you wish to still boycott the dub and continue the conversation, or if you wish to leave it behind, just do what you feel is best.

For the sake of my heart palpitations, lack of sleep, constant guilt, and a whole lotta panic and nausea, I really want to be left out of it.

I’m deeply, deeply sorry for what I’ve done.

I think, if tumblr didn’t eat my asks or messages, I’ve messaged everyone who interacted with that post.

The post will remain up for 24 hours so people can see those messages and remove their reblogs and likes and such, and then it’s going straight into the fucking void.

I’m not necessarily saying Chris Niosi is 100% solid. He’s done some iffy things, and I am not saying that some of the things he’s done are just fine and dandy.

I am saying that the few stories I brought forward were incorrect, and I hope he changes for the better when it comes to some of his past actions.

(I’d have messaged you back, but, again, i’m out of asks, im going hard on this mass apology, my bad.)

The only reason the post is still up on my blog is because I want to send an apology out to everyone who interacted with it.

I have no clue if setting the post to “private” will get rid of the notes on it. As soon as I make sure everyone knows, that post, along with all other savechoromatsu posts on both my tumblr and twitter, will be thoroughly baleeted.

Save for my apology post, of course, which stays up until forever. Because, hey,

I’m far from infallible. I am hella fallible, in fact. I want to make it clear to everyone that I flubbed up, and I’m owning up to my mistakes.

An Apology and Some Clarification

savechoromatsu:

In
the early hours of my efforts to #savechoromatsu, I desperately clung
to the faint hope that the allegations against Chris Niosi were
simply an example of Tumblr culture’s eagerness to use the word
“abuse” as a synonym for “mistakes” or “conflict”, and
even after I reluctantly let that hope slip away, I was too proud to
admit I might have been acting out of blind faith in those who claim
to have survived abuse. I am deeply regretful to learn that that actually has been the case.

Last
night a long time friend of Chris’s, who wishes to remain
anonymous, told me their side of the story via Twitter DMs: the truth
of the matter is that a smear campaign some of Chris’s former
friends started in excessive retaliation for a forgivable mistake
worked far too well. When that campaign reached me and Tumblr user
@askidolmatsus/Twitter user modclooooover, we acted on our drilled-in
instinct to take abuse survivors at their word – including on the
fact that what they experienced was, in fact, abuse. In the future, we will exercise even more critical thinking when it comes allegations like these.

The
lengthy, detailed story presented to me tells me that Chris Niosi has
not done anything even remotely punishable by the loss of a
job. Clover and I accept full responsibility for spreading the
attempt to tarnish his name, and we wish to extend our sincerest
apologies to Chris, his friends, and Viz Media. We had good intentions, but know
that does not excuse the damage already done – for Chris’s sake,
we hope we succeed in our efforts to control that damage and spread
the truth.

Thank
you for reading,

-Mod
Chororin
(co-signed by Mod
Clover)

I’ve been messaging everyone who interacted with my original post one by one, but I’ve run out of private messages for today and asks for the last two hours. Once I get through everyone there, I’ll be deleting the posts I’ve put in the savechoromatsu tag. I’m going to continue that as soon as I can get more asks out, but.

For now, I want to post this here and make sure it’s absolutely clear.

I wanted to spread the message of people who i thought where victims of serious abuse. I’ll still prioritize the stories of victims, and speak up for them until I can no longer speak, but I’ll be a bit more judicious in my research in the future.

I sincerely want to apologize to the people and businesses mentioned above, to Chris, his friends, and @vizmediaofficial (who, I will admit, I’ve been @ -ing pretty irresponsibly. My bad, my apologies.), and I truly wish everyone all the best.

I can’t undo the mistakes I’ve made, but I can try to turn it around and make amends.

I’ll still be sending messages out as soon as I have the chance to do so. Curse and bless tumblr message/ask limits. (Is the Fan Mail feature still a thing? should I even…?)

Support the dub, support abuse victims, double-check your facts, watch some videos of hedgehogs, and do your best to have a good day, everyone.

vigilantvirgil:

So that spooky time of the year is upon us and I just want to be sure everyone knows:

I will never post a screamer video on my blog.

I have pretty bad anxiety and I know a lot of my followers do too so I’m making this post just so everyone knows. My blog will be jumpscare/screamer video free for all of the spooky month ahead of us. 🙂