My Opinion.

All right. So, as we all know, recently some drama has befallen this website, and I'm fairly shocked at how things turned around so quickly. When I joined Notebook at some point last year, I was excited to share my ideas about writing, music, and everything else I'm interested in. It was a thriving center of creativity for me: I could be surrounded with people who cared about the same things I did. Yet somehow, that creativity has been pushed to second place- second to arguments, drama, and things I can't even bring myself to talk about.

I want everybody to know that if you're ever in trouble, you can always talk to me and I'll try to do my best to make you feel better. Self-love and affirmation is a very important thing to me and nothing would make me happier than to see everyone here happy.

HOWEVER! That DOES NOT mean that negativity should be the center of this website. I logged on today to see complete chaos, accusations, and horrible things in general, where I was looking for support, love, and a place to talk about writing techniques and fun facts. The drama is a disease, and I don't want it to spread. All I want to do is help the site to become what is was. A happy family.

I don't mean to offend anybody, and I'm sorry if I have. Please show respect towards anybody and everybody responding here. If you're going to throw your accusations, throw them at me. I just had to get this message out here. Please know that you are always welcome to talk about anything you want to. Just don't spread the disease.

The thing is, when I joined this place was peaceful, heck, this place was peaceful less than a week ago, so it's mind-boggling how quickly everything just caught fire and burned in front of our eyes. All I'm hoping is it goes out as quickly as it came in.

Yeah…

It really just caught me off-guard when I signed on as usual excited about some science facts I'd just learned and the place was practically ashes on the wind.

It really just caught me off-guard when I signed on, as usual, excited about some science facts I'd just learned and the place was practically ashes on the wind.

Same here…

I agree with all of this.
it's like the first week of school flew in with destruction on it's back and now we have to figure out how to clean it all up.

Im torn because I want to come here and post about the fun thing that happened or the cool stuff I learned while rabbit trailing down the research hole, but it feels wrong to just act like nothing has happened. I dont feel like I can just come here and interrupt the piles of sadness with my silly little story from wednesday without acknowledging that it's been a crazy week.
part of me wants to ignore it and move on, but the sane part of me knows that it needs to be a transition and I dont know how to even start that process.

I agree with all of this.
it's like the first week of school flew in with destruction on it's back and now we have to figure out how to clean it all up.

Im torn because I want to come here and post about the fun thing that happened or the cool stuff I learned while rabbit trailing down the research hole, but it feels wrong to just act like nothing has happened. I dont feel like I can just come here and interrupt the piles of sadness with my silly little story from wednesday without acknowledging that it's been a crazy week.
part of me wants to ignore it and move on, but the sane part of me knows that it needs to be a transition and I dont know how to even start that process.

Just tell the story, the dramas not going to go away if we all do nothing but continue talking about it.

Um… I was away for a bit. What even happened?

Um… I was away for a bit. What even happened?

Everything exploded but that's okay because cleanup is here

An explosion surrounding…?

Wait, nevermind. I did some digging and found out the general gist.

Yeesh! If things go any further south, we'll be swimming with penguins!

An explosion surrounding…?

(simplifying this) Shuri lost a friend but didn't want to send the whole place into depression because of it, but he didn't necessarily choose the right way of doing it. So he and Aaris teamed up and pretended that Aaris was almost murdered, yet fought off the psycho and survived after taking two bullets to the stomach. (I know, he really didn't choose the right way) And of course, the entire place was separated into people who believed Shuri and those who didn't, at least until he confessed. Somehow Aaris managed to escape the hateful crossfire, but Shuri wasn't so lucky and probably got a thousand messages telling him he's a パンケーキ (cursing censored with the Japanese word for Pancake, because this is a good Christian server) so he's taking a break for a few weeks to calm down. Shortly after, someone made a message saying they were committing suicide, and that the only reason they lived that long was for their favorite YouTubers, Dan and Phil. They said their last wish was for someone to tell them just how important they were to them (or something along those lines) and everyone started panicking hoping to save the person. Then after the person deleted their account, a random new user appeared and started telling everyone to try their best to contact Dan and Phil since it was their last wish, ignoring the fact that the person might still be alive. They were acting super suspicious and now everyone thinks they're the same guy who said they're committing suicide, and that the whole thing was a pathetic lie. So that's what happened.

Sorry if that makes no sense or is hard to understand, my word dispenser is B R O K E N today, too much trying to comfort people.

Sheesh. I left because a little boy that was in 7th grade that we were close to committed suicide, and I've been a wreck. I just needed time, and now I'm so confused at what happened to Notebook, I don't even know anymore…

It should be better soon, it appeared out of nowhere and hopefully will disappear.

Yeah, that summed up the drama of the week pretty well, Ella. And yeah, I really hope this goes back to being a place for support and creativity and everything, but it might take a while for everyone to get their energy back. It seemed that everyone was down one anothers throats this past week over every little thing, and it was distressing to watch but there were very real reasons why with everyone stressed back and school and the whole thing with Shuri. So, while it would be nice for things to spring back to positivity, we do need to give it time to happen.

And also, I'd just like to add that I don't think we should be blaming anyone for anything that happened. That'll just add fuel to the fire and hurt people's feelings and I'd rather fix the issue by spreading positivity.

Jeez I haven't been here in a while either. I feel like I missed the apocalypse 'cause everyone is talking about how the website is different now

I saw the Dan and Phil thing, but…

The apocalypse here only lasted a day and a half, which is why so many people missed it. The drama has already cooled down

Hopefully

A lot of it has cooled down, at least temporarily but hopefully for a while.

Yup.

I'm back from my retreat and now I know how Jefferson felt walking into Act 2….

I have never heard a more accurate explanation for anything ever.

Jynnie. I'm glad to see you back.
Sorry I did that to you.