Yep, you read that correctly. Either I’m tweaking or I’m not, but every time I comment on somebody's post and they're NOT on my friend list, Gamejolt just straight-up won't send it to them, no matter what. I can ONLY send messages to people on my friend list, and I'm pretty sure they're the only ones who are able to see my posts go up as well. To prove this, I made a comment on a mutual's post, and on MY end it shows up normally.

But they never responded to it, and before you say "oh they just didn't notice it", I tried to see if the comment would still be there even when I logged off, and... Nah. The comment wasn't deleted by them, it wasn't taken down, and it shows up on MY feed, but it didn't show up on THEIR feed. It still counts my like though, and this isn't even the only example I got (once again, PLEASE let me know if I’m tweaking or something! I got no problem deleting this post if it turns out I have nothing to worry about)!

Now I fully admit, I'm not particularly happy about this either. On one hand, yeah, I DID kinda deserve it for directly taunting Gamejolt like two times in one day, but at the same time... Dawg, seriously? I'm not even mad, I'm just more so impressed that they even cared about me enough to do that. I'm barely a notable guy.

But with that in mind, where do we go from here?

Well to be honest, I'm a bit worried. Sure, while I TRULY don't care what Gamejolt does to me, I know a lot of friends who DO care, and that's why I still gotta be here, no matter what happens. Even if all my posts/drawings flop, even if I'm barely able to interact with anyone, even if this is permanent and I can never go back to "pre-shadowban" times, I'm still gonna stay here, and you can hold me on this. I'm not gonna let some damn shadowban stop me from being there for y'all, and if I have to, I'll have no problem lurking from the shadows. I've been on this site for 6+ years at this point, I can afford to stay here for another 6.

While I'm not scared of Gamejolt in the slightest, I of course don't wanna risk my account getting outright banned, so here's my plan: I'm just gonna continue posting like normal. I'm gonna TRY to keep things as lowkey as I can, and hopefully I don't end up "poking the bear" so to speak. New art will still arrive, and I'll still very much BE online, but it'll be to a minimum. Can't risk anything when you're basically locked in a jail cell you know?

That being said though, in the event that something DOES go wrong and I'm no longer able to be here (I pray this doesn't happen), I'm active on the following sites:

YouTube: TheLegend87 (TFreddy1987)

DeviantArt: TheLegend877

Bluesky: TheLegend87

Discord: thelegend87. (don't forget to add the period at the end of the username, it's intentional! Remember, it's "thelegend87.", all lowercase, typed like that!)

Ok, I believe that's everything. All in all, I'm a bit uncertain about my future on this site. It's not about the art or the popularity or the recognition, it's about knowing whether or not I'll still be here to support my friends in the next few years. They need me just as much as I need them. If being shadowbanned is a required sacrifice to still be allowed access to Gamejolt, then so be it. I just gotta play with the cards I'm dealt. On the bright side though, since I'm now free for the rest of the Summer, I can FINALLY focus on my art for real this time! I try to follow a personal quota of 6-8 drawings a month, but as you can tell, I haven't drawn as much as I'd like. Hopefully that'll change soon!

Welp, I guess all I can do now is just tough everything out. After all, I HAVE been through worse on this site, so this shouldn't be TOO hard, right? Right?

It's gonna be a long, long shadowban... But it's also gonna be alright.