Attack Of The Clones
Every wished you had a clone? I know I have, especially on those days when there seems to be just too much to do and not enough hours in the day. Well, yesterday my wish came true when my Twitter account was cloned by a vile & wholly unpleasant individual. In order to explain how this happened I need to give you a bit of a background history lesson – sorry about that.
I’m a fan of the TV show Supernatural and one of the actors is called Jensen Ackles (just in case you’re not familiar with the show. Oh & if you’re not, why not? It’s great TV) Now Mr Ackles is a very good looking guy & he attracts some seriously fanatic followers. His girlfriend is the very beautiful & very sweet Danneel Harris who is also an actress on a popular US TV show. Unfortunately there are a large number of overly obsessive Jensen fans who, for whatever reason, don’t approve of that relationship & regularly attack Ms Harris on open forums. Their language towards her is shocking and the derogatory terms they use are extraordinarily offensive.
Having said that, they are not as obsessive as one fan who goes by a variety of names but often refers to herself as Bianca Ware. This person spouts such venom at Ms Harris & insists that Jensen Ackles is, in fact, married to one Stephanie Ware – a relative of hers. She has even gone as far as creating fake magazine articles and will post her lies on every forum possible – until she gets shut down. Just Google Jensen Ackles/Stephanie Ware & you’ll see what I mean. Here’s a good explanation of the situation www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Stephanie_Ware
The shame in all this is that there really is a Stephanie Ware who has had to suffer her identity & name being used by this person and, as a result, been the brunt of abuse, by default, of those fans who want to defend Jensen.
So that’s the history and here’s where my part in all this comes into play.
On Saturday 26th Sept, I reported @lilianvivis to Twitter about her continuing abuse towards @DanneelHarris Shortly afterwards I sent Ms Harris a message saying how sorry I was that people still continue to attack her and letting her know that I had reported this person. I did not, in that post, mention the name of the Twitter account I had reported. Did I need to do this? No but I’m not the type of person who just sits by and watches other people get attacked. That’s just who I am.
My message to Ms Harris then appeared on her 211 website twitter feed.
Some hours later I received a rather unpleasant message from @PetiteRach69 basically telling me to report myself! I commented on this on my own Twitter, responded to the message & blocked the user. At this point, perhaps I should let you know that @PetiteRach69 is a cloned account. There is a real @PetiteRach
I openly discussed the message I had received and the fact that the person who’d sent it to me was clearly in need of some help from mental health professionals.
Shortly after I received the following & first of several unpleasant messages Girl_In_A__Box: @Girl_In_A_Box i have a surprise for you sassy! you’re messing with a wrong bitch!
This crazy person had cloned my account. Now when I say cloned I mean she had an exact replica of my home page, including my photograph and the personal information I’ve added to that.
She then went on to send a number of horrendous messages to me, at one point threatening my with physical harm and then going on to say that I was in fact dead having been raped with a piece of glass!
After that she sent offensive messages to Ms Harris in my name and then proceeded to threaten two of my Twitter friends.
Clearly I wasn’t about to let that go so I blocked, reported, reported again & then asked all of my Twitter followers to do the same. My Twitter family responded and you do not mess with them. Cue very poor Samuel L Jackson impersonation - For they will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy their brothers/sisters.
Within a couple of hours she had protected her tweets & that account seems to have gone quiet. Now I just have to wait for Twitter to close it down.
Would I do anything differently, knowing the hassle it caused? No. I will still not tolerate abuse. I will still pick fights which I may not win, if I feel the situation warrants it. I will still defend people, even if they could probably defend themselves.
This situation has taught me that I have THE most amazing Twitter family and I feel very sorry for those girls out there who still have their accounts cloned because the don’t have the same wonderful people supporting them. If you’re reading this and you feel like you want to support & report then the current cloned accounts are: @PetiteRach69 and @gossip_girl_69
Accounts still sending abusive messages to Ms Harris are: @lilianvivis and @biancawarereal
If my evil twin happens to be reading this I have a little Attack Of The Clones quote for you:
Yoda: Powerful you have become Dooku, the dark side I sense in you.
Count Dooku: I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even you.
[Dooku shoots Sith lighting at Yoda who effortlessly deflects it away]
Yoda: Much to learn, you still have.
