Anonymous 129990
my groomer is a popular artist in a fandom space i'm in. i've tried to escape him so many times but he keeps somehow being interested in the same shit as me, posting his art, and then getting popular. it drives me insane and the one time i tried to tell people who he was (because i noticed he was following a lot of teenagers ) it did practically nothing. in fact, many people were defending him: "i don't understand people who now are all up in arms that ____ is a groomer…" and trying to get into contact with him. this specific person ended up seeing a repost about what he did with all the proof and made fanart for him, also found his contact information to message him. someone in the comments tried to tell her that he was a terrible person but she knew and didn't care, i wish i didn't feel so sensitive about this but i get SO upset seeing this happen.
i've seen at least three people find out what he did and then mention WANTING to contact him after finding out, or just being blasé about it. i've tried just blocking and leaving whatever fandom but i'm not going to let myself be pushed out of my own interests because of some asshole. i just figured nowadays people would have more empathy, but i don't have many friends besides from two who believed me about it, all the rest of my friends were also my groomers friends who chose him over me. at some point his ex girlfriend contacted me and told me she tried to report him to the police so they could get a warrant to search his device or whatever, but i never ended up hearing from her again about that.
i'm not sure what to do, ppl aren't listening to what happened anyways. i just wish i could live my life and ignore him but he's everywhere. i rlly needed to vent about this but advice would be nice too, i thought i had moved on completely from him but seeing this stuff still bothers me.
