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This topic is actually a two parter: Emilie Autumn herself and her fans, the Plague rats. Emilie is kinda famous, but she would very much be considered a lolcow if she weren't, and I don't see why a bit of fame should exempt her. And her fan community are most definitely lol-ish.
Emilie Autumn Liddell is a musician, author, and professional victim. She claims to be related to the Alice Liddell on which Alice In Wonderland is based, because Alice In Wonderland is both Victorian, British, and edgy, all of which are things that Emilie has a boner for. She isn't, though. Emilie isn't a lot of things she says she is. For example, she claims her whole family died in a fire when she was little...except that before she came up with this story, her dad alone had died of something else. Also, her mother's certainly active on Pinterest for someone who died in a fire twenty years ago.
Emilie is bipolar, and you sure as fuck are gonna learn that if you look into her for longer than 0.2 seconds, because she likes to tell everyone, possibly because her alleged mental illness is the most interesting thing about her, and she knows it. She claims to be an advocate for mental illness, but the only thing she advocates is using your illness as a tool for attention. Emilie got a tattoo of her "cell number" (probably her room number) from her trip to the psych ward. Her time on the ward is another thing she likes to bring up. A lot.
#bipolarpride
Many of her songs talk about her "struggle" with mental illness:
(This last one is not her song, obviously, but she covered it because it fits with her schtick)
She's also written a novel, The Wayward Asylum For Victorian Girls, an absolute monstrosity about Emilie's real stay at a psych ward, but intertwined with the story of Emily-with-a-y, a fictional inmate in another asylum in Victorian England. The two Emilies interact via talking, time-traveling rats. The Emily-with-a-y part of the story is literally just torture porn with petticoats, where terrible things happen to Poor Emily because edgy.
While Emilie isn't delusional enough to claim that Emily-with-a-y's story is real, she does that her own half of the story is autobiographical. The story makes it seem Emilie stayed on the ward for years (she was there for two weeks) and that her treatment was on par with a Holocaust survivor. Her doctor is a pervert who wants to fuck her because he goes into her room to speak to her, makes lame jokes, and even has the audacity to suggest that Emilie come to his outpatient office when she gets out to discuss a diagnosis. She whines because she is treated like a patient, rather than a delicate wilting suicidal flower. Also she dedicates four pages to talk about a fucking paperclip.
But Emilie didn't stop there. Her tragedy was so deep and unique that it deserved more than just a novel. It deserved a franchise. After publishing the book, she followed it up with writing a concept album based on the book, then touring the album with her band, Bloody Crumpets, for a ridiculous amount of years.
Emilie wanted to make an audio book of her classic work and her fans eagerly ponied up money for pre-orders. That was two years ago, and we still have no audio book. What we do have, however, are tons of FB posts about how she's TOTALLY WORKING ON IT, EVERYONE, even though it's SUPER EXHAUSTING!
Fed up with excuses, some fans demanded their money back. No one has yet gotten a refund. Half of Emilie's fanbase is furious at the rip-off, and the other half are just as furious that the other fans are furious at Emilie, their dark Gothic goddess.
The only thing funnier than Emilie are her fans, who call themselves Muffins or Plague Rats. They accept Emilie's stories and excuses unconditionally and forgive her because she is a sad waifish Victorian urchin was supposedly raped as a child. The Rats vary in levels of sanity, but are united in their belief that you must NEVER criticize the goddess. EVER. Even when confronted with blatant proof of her lies, the Plague Rats still have great faith that the audio book is coming out any day now and are perfectly content to wait as long as Emilie keeps telling them how much she loves them.
Next there are the ex-fans who loudly call Emilie out on her lies and hypocrisy. They're hated by the Rats fornot seeing Emilie as perfect. These days the ex-fans mostly make legitimate complaints about the audiobook preorders, so they're not quite as entertaining.
The last category of fans are the Rebel Rats, who have wisely chosen to sit back with popcorn and watch the fandom burn down.
Emilie and her fans see themselves as feminist, but have drawn fire from full-blown SJWs who like to point out that Emilie is EXTREMELY problematic, not a real feminist, etc. Their main complaints are about ableism, which is not hard to see when the woman calls herself an advocate but uses a wheelchair as a propin her stage shows.
Tl;dr: Emilie Autumn is a crazy lying hypocrite who breeds a legion of equally crazy hypocritical fans.
Emilie Autumn Liddell is a musician, author, and professional victim. She claims to be related to the Alice Liddell on which Alice In Wonderland is based, because Alice In Wonderland is both Victorian, British, and edgy, all of which are things that Emilie has a boner for. She isn't, though. Emilie isn't a lot of things she says she is. For example, she claims her whole family died in a fire when she was little...except that before she came up with this story, her dad alone had died of something else. Also, her mother's certainly active on Pinterest for someone who died in a fire twenty years ago.
Emilie is bipolar, and you sure as fuck are gonna learn that if you look into her for longer than 0.2 seconds, because she likes to tell everyone, possibly because her alleged mental illness is the most interesting thing about her, and she knows it. She claims to be an advocate for mental illness, but the only thing she advocates is using your illness as a tool for attention. Emilie got a tattoo of her "cell number" (probably her room number) from her trip to the psych ward. Her time on the ward is another thing she likes to bring up. A lot.
#bipolarpride
Many of her songs talk about her "struggle" with mental illness:
She's also written a novel, The Wayward Asylum For Victorian Girls, an absolute monstrosity about Emilie's real stay at a psych ward, but intertwined with the story of Emily-with-a-y, a fictional inmate in another asylum in Victorian England. The two Emilies interact via talking, time-traveling rats. The Emily-with-a-y part of the story is literally just torture porn with petticoats, where terrible things happen to Poor Emily because edgy.
While Emilie isn't delusional enough to claim that Emily-with-a-y's story is real, she does that her own half of the story is autobiographical. The story makes it seem Emilie stayed on the ward for years (she was there for two weeks) and that her treatment was on par with a Holocaust survivor. Her doctor is a pervert who wants to fuck her because he goes into her room to speak to her, makes lame jokes, and even has the audacity to suggest that Emilie come to his outpatient office when she gets out to discuss a diagnosis. She whines because she is treated like a patient, rather than a delicate wilting suicidal flower. Also she dedicates four pages to talk about a fucking paperclip.
But Emilie didn't stop there. Her tragedy was so deep and unique that it deserved more than just a novel. It deserved a franchise. After publishing the book, she followed it up with writing a concept album based on the book, then touring the album with her band, Bloody Crumpets, for a ridiculous amount of years.
Emilie wanted to make an audio book of her classic work and her fans eagerly ponied up money for pre-orders. That was two years ago, and we still have no audio book. What we do have, however, are tons of FB posts about how she's TOTALLY WORKING ON IT, EVERYONE, even though it's SUPER EXHAUSTING!
Fed up with excuses, some fans demanded their money back. No one has yet gotten a refund. Half of Emilie's fanbase is furious at the rip-off, and the other half are just as furious that the other fans are furious at Emilie, their dark Gothic goddess.
The only thing funnier than Emilie are her fans, who call themselves Muffins or Plague Rats. They accept Emilie's stories and excuses unconditionally and forgive her because she is a sad waifish Victorian urchin was supposedly raped as a child. The Rats vary in levels of sanity, but are united in their belief that you must NEVER criticize the goddess. EVER. Even when confronted with blatant proof of her lies, the Plague Rats still have great faith that the audio book is coming out any day now and are perfectly content to wait as long as Emilie keeps telling them how much she loves them.
Next there are the ex-fans who loudly call Emilie out on her lies and hypocrisy. They're hated by the Rats fornot seeing Emilie as perfect. These days the ex-fans mostly make legitimate complaints about the audiobook preorders, so they're not quite as entertaining.
The last category of fans are the Rebel Rats, who have wisely chosen to sit back with popcorn and watch the fandom burn down.
Emilie and her fans see themselves as feminist, but have drawn fire from full-blown SJWs who like to point out that Emilie is EXTREMELY problematic, not a real feminist, etc. Their main complaints are about ableism, which is not hard to see when the woman calls herself an advocate but uses a wheelchair as a propin her stage shows.
Tl;dr: Emilie Autumn is a crazy lying hypocrite who breeds a legion of equally crazy hypocritical fans.
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