Selfie as Mr. Hyde 👹
A decade ago I created this with a ton of filters, distortions and layers in Photoshop (at that time I also had a small Wacom tablet, which made it easier to work with brushes).
MR. HYDE SELFPORTRAIT - digital art - nominal size of the original 37 x 26 cm - 2010
At one time, after having one account locked by Facebook (long story, check it out HERE) I opened a second account in order to be able to administrate my commercial pages, using this as my avatar (at first, I changed it since then). I described my profile as such:
Mr. Hyde - the evil twin
Facebook pages of mine - the source is from my old post FACEBOOK RANT Nr. 5
I suspect that because my first and original Facebook account was very popular and I had almost maxed out on "friends", there were some haters among them who would troll my posts and flag them. Check the story in the link above - it has links also to the previous posts on the matter). Suffice it to say after trimming my friends lists on there (in all my accounts I presently have), there are no more problems. All three accounts have been open and accessible for a number of years now, and I switch among them a few times when necessary. Otherwise, I share posts from one to the other.
This is not what this here blog is about. What it is about is a sense of Déjà vu - similar is now happening on Steemit , a place on the internet that we embraced as being so much better than Facebook (and we had tried to recruit people telling them just that - way back in the early days of Steemit). Alas, the stalkers and trolls are as present and annoying here in perhaps even greater numbers than on Facebook!
After a discussion on Discord on the channel of OnChainArt - General Discussion regarding downvotes, I was within hours hounded and had three of my posts downvoted and commented on by @steamcleaners (the equivalent of being flagged on Facebook). If you check that link in the previous sentence you will quickly realize that what goes on there is like a kindergarten. To see the stuff I am talking about you would have to scroll up for quite a ways (since I cannot link to a specific section of that tread, and I won't copy it over here) - what you encounter on the way up will make you roll your eyes!
I suspected who initiated this, but you can judge for yourself if you see the treads on Discord and on the one example of a "flagged" post I link to below. Without any additional explanation in this text, I ask you to peruse the treads on
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