Why Do You Have So Many Accounts? Is This Some Kind of Scam? A Pyramid Scheme?
Ohhh honey. Buckle up.
You think I’m running a pyramid scheme? Sweetheart, the only thing I’ve ever tried to pyramid is trauma—just stacking it higher until I can climb out of this hellscape we call social media.
So let’s talk multiple accounts, shall we?
๐งจ Reason #1: Because my entire life got hacked like a plot twist written by a meth-addicted screenwriter.
You remember Metal Coffee PR? My PR company that helped hundreds of indie bands get signed? Yeah, that one. It got hacked.
Hard drive? Fried.
Email? Jacked.
PayPal? Emptied of $1400.
Refunded? Of course not.
Instead, I got to watch helplessly while strangers pretended to be me—sending sex solicitations to women, including a friend’s wife.
Ever had your friend’s spouse message you like, “Hey, you into dirty talk now?”
Spoiler: It wasn’t me.
It was identity theft starring in a very special episode of What the Actual Fuck.
๐ Reason #2: Because Facebook plays God with no customer service.
Get a little too real? Post something a little too sharp? Gone. Deleted. Nuked. Shadowbanned.
No warning. No appeal. Just digital execution.
So yes, I made backups. Duplicates. Triplicates.
Accounts on accounts. Pages on pages.
Call it survival. Call it paranoia.
I call it not letting the algorithm shove me into digital oblivion without a fight.
๐ญ Reason #3: Because I don’t trust anyone with my identity—not even the people using it.
These people out here talking about me like I’m some unhinged, sex-crazed, woman-hating, racist monster with a god complex…
And you know what they all have in common?
They’ve never spoken to me.
Never asked a single question.
Never said, “Hey, what actually happened?”
They just grabbed their torches, fueled by gossip, and ran with it.
Meanwhile I’m out here cleaning up a mess I didn’t make and trying to explain to the world why I have 5 Facebooks, 3 Twitters, and a burner email like I’m in a Cold War spy novel.
๐ง Reason #4: Maybe I do have multiple personalities. Ever think of that?
Some of them write books.
Some of them cry in traffic.
Some of them try to make memes go viral.
And all of them are just trying to fucking survive.
Because when your entire reputation gets hijacked, your money gets stolen, and people judge you without ever knowing your name…
You don’t just bounce back.
You build fail-safes.
So next time you see an account of mine and think:
“Why so many?”
Try this on instead:
“What the hell happened to this guy that made him need them?”
Ask me again when your PayPal’s drained, your name’s smeared, your accounts are nuked, and someone’s sending unsolicited BDSM messages using your face.
You’re not paranoid when it’s already happened.
Welcome to my firewall.
Welcome to my life.
—Ash (on behalf of your least favorite glitch in the matrix, Jake Bannerman)