Milestones And The Jerk

Milestones And The Jerk

A couple of days ago I decided to write a post and share the very first video of myself that I have ever uploaded of my own free will. There have been other videos taken of me from other festivals, shows and television appearances. Thankfully, for me, they have mostly dropped off the web over time as I showed no interest in supporting or promoting them staying there. Any uploads I did to YouTube etc was all done with a static promo pic.

Michael Arthur Tremblay ~ CD Release Concert

I was very excited to share this post on PYPT on my good friend @shadowspub’s show. Which I did. I was hoping very much on this particular day that @sgt-dan would not do what he regularly does and try to take a huge shit on me while I shared a life’s accomplishment. But no, true to form, Dan did try to shit on me and I reacted. I was told by @shadowspub that people were wondering more about my reaction to Dan than what Dan said in the channel to me.

I guess it’s largely because people likely have no context. So I will provide it.

Dan seemed to like me at first. Me, I pretty much like everybody. Dan is a bit pickier and a little fickle. Things went pretty smoothly for the first several weeks of my plankton life and then one day Dan started putting some little digs in. I ignored them for the most part. But they persisted. They persistently persisted. He would call me a self aggrandizer and say that I loved the limelight etc etc. Stuff he’s said to more than just me.

Like something out of the movie The Jerk, Dan ran his finger down the Steemit phonebook and that day it landed on me. And he uttered the words, ‘TheBugIQ, sounds like a typical bastard.’

On one PYPT in particular Dan was so drunk that he finally fully snapped on me in his drunken rage and after a huge back and forth finally uttered the words, ‘You sir, make me sick.’

Dan’s drunken belligerence that day finally led to @shadowspub kicking him temporarily from the PYPT discord till he could pull himself together. He took a break for a few weeks and pulled himself back together, got back on the platform and was/is apparently off the booze.

I’ve had a lot of things said to me in my life. And as a professional musician who lives in said limelight I can tolerate quite a bit. Especially from trolls with nothing more to do with their lives than try to bring people down who are making an honest effort to advance their artistic dreams. I have been, and always will be, a huge supporter of the arts.

Let me tell you what I have not had happen to me. I have never in my life had a troll who was so consistently caustic and abrasive to me connected to a community that I love and respect. Dan also has a role of responsibility in PYPT assisting and organizing, and while I do not hold anyone other than Dan accountable for his own actions, I am not a fan of people in the communities I am a part of sweeping his behaviour under the carpet.

I will no longer stand idly by while someone mindlessly attacks me right in front of my friends and no one does or says anything about it, and actually tries to throw shade on me. This is one fucked up world people. As for me, I plan to continue to unfuck it with gentle truth. I will not be giving Dan a pass on one single negative thing he says to me. If you want to give him a pass due to PTSD or anything else you go right ahead. Just remember one thing. You don’t know my story. And I’m nice to everyone.

I do not tolerate bullies. I protected my friend Suzie who had cerebral palsy all through grade school and high school. I stuck with her like a true friend, and no one was ever stupid enough to mess with her. She was never more than one seat away from me on the school bus.

You don’t make me sick Dan, but you might want to look in the mirror.

Bug