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I want to put a brief update here from the post about a creep I chatted with on Discord with a group of people, mostly writers.
I put the update here because the other post https://expret.org/2024/06/16/creep-alert is too long like all my posts are.
But I realise now what happened. I was only for about a week to 10 days on that Discord and still tried to figure out how it worked. I shared a lot about my experience with Pret, grief etc.
At one point I mentioned and linked to that I worked with the BBC, Once I mentioned this, Cliff became weird. He seemed angry, irritated, constantly “asked” me questions that weren’t questions but rather QUESTIONING and criticising me. His vibe was just off.
He also constantly pushed his writings up the list so his page is always on top. At one point he mentioned that someone he admires recommend him. I didn’t really check it out as he started to become weird.
And then the whole Facebook debacle. My Substack got suspended which 1. I’m sure he’s behind it and 2. doesn’t matter because I had no subscribers and the page was stagnated most of the time. I’m sure he’s coming after anything he can find as he showed stalker-like “qualities”.
He also just minutes ago left a comment on the above post with a link to a website but I trashed it already and will find out how to block him on WordPress. This shows his audacity and how narcissistic he is. He thinks of himself too highly, typical narcissist. He probably enjoys the attention. It’s attention he gets, it’s exposure and in case his stalking continues, there are the receipts.
I am not one to speak in this kind of way of that people are “jealous”. But from the moment on when I mentioned my work with the BBC and linked to other press articles that I influences direct or indirect, he became weird. That’s when it all started. Because before that, he followed me and recommended my writings. But SUDDENLY, that stopped he asked weird questions that felt invasive, even somewhat aggressive.
He’s an older guy and spends all day online. And writers usually don’t get along well with other writers like musicians and actors do. There’s ofyen this competition and insecurity between writers. It seems he felt threatened. Poor dude.
Here again just one of the several DMs/mails I got about this creep.
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Well put into words.
Anyway, I think the penny dropped now on what happened and why he became so patronising and creepy. There seems to be more than a hint of grandious narcissism, certainly insecuritythere. But that’s for him to figure out. Glad I don’t have to see his bulls!t anymore.
Not going to write any further about this guy. I receved some DMs and mails about him, and I’m glad this happened early on, and not if I was on Discord for a year being in this toxic environment. Yuck.
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