Well you wanted honesty…it’s out and on.

I’ve had enough of the COMPLETE and utter lack of both honesty and loyalty among the “Designer” community (if you can call it that). SO I’m going to the mattresses. “Designers” in SL have no loyalty…they have no pride, no shame, and no sense of moral rectitude. SL “Designers” deal in private messages, IMs, and whisperings…they will attempt to TP someone so they can trash talk on SL voice instead of in text so there’s no “proof”, they private plurk messages of any kind of detail so as to “play nice” or seem above the drama, but the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of “designers” in SL have absolutely no problem trashing and bashing one another on all possible fronts.

The  issue I take with that is when there is no one and nothing sacred. There’s NO sense of loyalty. It matters not that you may or may not have helped them get started, that you gave them a chance when no one else would…it matters not that you are their SL “family” or that you have been “friends” for years. What matters is what everyone else is saying and what everyone else is doing and fitting in with the rest of the  ”Designer” click.

It has come to light recently, with recent activities on the Rumor blog and sims, that several unscrupulous souls took the word of two unsavory individuals while very few people reached out to get definitive answers. That being said, let me break a lil something off for you. When it comes right down to it, Pennelope, whether you love her or not, has given TONS…literally TOONNNNNNS of designers a start, offered them a spot on a sim with steady traffic, and good marketing, as well as ENDLESS coverage on the Rumor blog. Some people then took it upon themselves, during an unscheduled absence that Penn took for personal reasons, to steal a LOT of money from the Rumor account and then have the audacity to make disparaging remarks both about Penn herself and about the Rumor as a blog/marketing machine.

When I first heard rumblings that the Rumor was being sold, as a personal friend to Penn, I did what any friend would do, I sent Penn an offline message to see if she was ok. I sent several subsequent messages…then I asked a few very close personal friends and was told to message Katya. I personally messaged her several times and only heard back once and was assured that the sim was not being sold and that Penn would be returning.

The figurative “balls” it must take on someone to steal close to 23k linden and then not only bail on someone they called “friend” but successfully encourage other lemmings to  leave the blog, groups, and sims…must be massive. And the lack of balls on said lemmings, while not astonishing, is still reason to make me pause.

The issue at hand is that someone can call themselves a friend, a supporter, a confidant…and then talk ENDLESS amounts of garbage…spend hours making attempts to steal both Rumor business and reputation. I have watched as several stores left the Rumor and never bothered to even message Penn to touch base or ask as to what the fate of the sim would be. I find that repugnant and completely unacceptable.

But this rant isn’t  JUST about the complete  and utter lack of respect shown to Pennelope of the Rumor. That’s merely the  tip of this proverbial iceberg. Some designers in SL are all at once conniving, scheming, backstabbing, disloyal, gossips, but somehow  still manage to be completely under the mistakenly naive impression that SL chat is anonymous. Sadly, 99% of the time I wish it was, mostly because I keep my head down when I’m online and work and seriously just don’t care to hear it. SL is not anonymous, please take note, nothing is sacred and no promises are kept.

I am recently learning of the complete and utter nonsense that has occurred over incidents involving a close friend of mine. Aurora Deischer gave me a home in SL, treated me like a sister, helped me with events, treated me as an equal. Perhaps we don’t see eye to eye on all matters but we support one another and I am sickened and disheartened to continuously hear the ridiculous prattling on various blogs and plurk. Let’s set the record straight shall we? I cannot speak to the past, but what I can say is that when someone gives you a hand up, offers you a platform on which to stand, and you take it, you, as a decent human being, owe that person a debt of gratitude.

My former assistant has made quite a business spreading gossip and creating a riptide of drama on SL. Once our professional paths were permanently parted, this person took the knowledge and marketability that I shared with her as my assistant as well as the benefit from being involved with Saturday Night Fevah, For the Love of…, and Lazy Sunday and has managed to make quite a name for herself.

This should, in all honesty, be enough for someone, enough for a normal person to walk away. At least where I was concerned, I never publicly said a single negative word, in fact, when I dismissed Chaotic from my employ, I told people that she had opened a store and was working on her own projects. It was only later when I  was hearing backlash that I became aware that the professional respect was not mutual.

A normal human being who has been given the gifts that she has been handed, would walk away quietly, smiling all the way as she can now use my store lists, as well as that of Lazy Sunday to build her events to success. What I am sick to death of is the added hypocrisy. When a person can stand behind a moral  podium and complain that she has been wronged by gossip and drama, all the while spreading lies and rumors to get ahead is both laughable and ignorant. I’ve decided that I’d prefer to let the ugliness come out into the light than sit idly by and listen to one more person plurk or IM me about how sorry they feel for Chaotic.

People, like Chaotic, breed drama to drum up support, spread rumors and lies to gain momentum and popularity, and go to great lengths to seem “above the drama” when she herself is at the root of the dirty deeds. I have stood idly by and watched a team of narcissistic children masquerading as “Designers” rob my close friend of her sim and eventually her store. Most likely some of her “friends” have been taken in by her act, but any brave soul that wants to scratch the ugly surface can IM me for my chat logs.

I have heard the gossip and rumors, but until I see legitimate proof, proof enough to make me question my loyalty, I will stand by any of my friends. I dare the nay-saying drama mongers to give me proof of the complete and utter garbage they are selling to everyone else in SL. Until then, I say maybe keep your contrived subjective (and most likely borrowed) opinions to yourself.