Hey boys and girls!
It’s Dear Lauren time – not so many questions this week but oh wow, you sure are bitchy. I like it though. Here’s how you can get your questions in for next week – keep it anonymous if you like, and drop a notecard from an alt to Lauren Neutron, email dear.lauren.neutron@googlemail.com or just think it really really hard and eventually I’ll pull it out of my ass.
No, please do at least send it to me. My ass is an unreliable message delivery vehicle.
The first one, I wasn’t going to answer, because I didn’t know the person. But I did a little asking around (and I did say I would answer EVERYTHING, after all).
Hi Lauren!
Who the fuck is (edited to protect the guilty)?
Confused but not starstruck
Confused but not starstruck,
Is (edited to protect the guilty) you? I bet it is. You greedy little attention whore! I’ll humour you.
(edited to protect the guilty)…
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Does not play SL anymore.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Co-owns SL Posers
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Does not play SL anymore.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Used to own FILOS, used to blog for SCD, used to have a photo business, used to have an invites business, used to build, used to do a lot of things really.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Does not play SL anymore. Apparently she mentions this a lot.
Why are you guys so amused by the downfall of this never-has-been? Everyone I asked (a small group) said something along the lines of “haha, oh that bitchâ€. What did she do to piss you off? I asked that too. Here’s a small list that seemed to bother you…
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â She tries really really hard to convince people she is super popular, but spends an awful lot of time bitching behind peoples backs to anyone who will listen.
-         Her sim closures seem to coincide with her rl-married sl piece’s wife/girlfriend/fiancé (the stories he tells vary) finding out and making him leave SL. Again. But he’s always back on an alt!
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â She overcharges for mediocre (their words, not mine) builds that always seem to use the same textures and design styles.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â She is pretty proud of owning an in-world group that only has a few hundred members and is pretty obsolete now that subscriber systems exist.
-         She was unceremoniously fired from SCD after using the line “I’m going to blog this on SCD†as a scare tactic.
-         She’s a fan of using the n-word. And not in the yo homie let’s go chill at my crib sense, in the hey you, yes you, you don’t deserve to take the same bus as me sense.
I dunno, there was more but I got bored. Bottom line is, that is who (edited to protect the guilty) is, but if you’ve forgotten the identity of one of your friends (or foes) asking a blogger to find out for you is a bit silly.
Right, now that that’s out of the way…
Lauren,
I’ve got a few template kits on XStreetSL in my favourites list but I just lack the courage to go for it. How difficult are they to use and would it be a good way to start a business?
Love,
Designer Wannabe
Hey Designer Wannabe,
Templates from XSL have one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to help you learn how to texture the avatar mesh properly. People who colour in texture kits are not designers, nor are their sales decent. If you want to make any money at all instead of investing hugely in the rental on satellite stores and advertising and your main store land and build, do it properly. People can spot a template kit a mile away and a huge amount of them will not buy them or any variation of them. Some people use them so cleverly you can barely tell – and good for them.
There are some stores that use templates so extensively that there is nothing in the store that they didn’t buy online. Can you spot them? Would you shop there?
Moving on.
Lauren,
I saw these little pieces of shit on the feeds that you basically attach to your wrists and ankles. They’re horrendous. Please tell me people don’t actually wear them?
Love,
Puking in my mouth a little bit
Dear PIMMALB,
I have not seen anyone wearing them, no. But if I did I would cry.
Dear SCD readers,
Please avoid anything vaguely like this. You *could* add them to any outfit and look like 2006 ate you and shit you straight back out again, but it’d be better if you didn’t.
That’s all for this week! Can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store for me next week, but until then, remember that eating drama flakes only gives you butthurt. Yeah I made a poop joke.
xoxo
Lauren
OH GOD THE POOP JOKES.
She’s brilliant.
“eating drama flakes only gives you butthurt” made me lol waaaay louder than I should have XD
Seriously what was the point of the Aya Liotta slam. And if she is the attention whore you are portraying her as why give her anymore attention? Sounds like Lauren is a bit miffed at her LOL. Sorry Tenshi I am PMSing ha.
The “Aya Liotta” thing is silly.
Google. It’s a thing.
hey, i left you a question in the comments of the other dear lauren post, did you answer it?
if there are pieces of actual shit that you can attach to wrists and ankles, i’m so getting them. just tell me where
My apologies – I don’t check comments to find questions, I’ll try to remember next week!
I’ve been linked to a few bits of feedback RE the Aya question.
- I said I’ll post everything. I don’t know her, and don’t care, but of the seven people I asked, not one person said a nice thing about her.
- I couldn’t help but notice that no denial of anything I mentioned has been issued. I would never knowingly publish a lie, and fact-checked everything listed with multiple sources.
- Since this post went up, I’ve had a lot more IMs with horror stories about her, her shady business practices, and her dubious personal life. I won’t be posting those, but it’s good to know this post was completely correct.
Was this an attack? I don’t think so. As long as everything is true, I don’t think it can be referred to as an attack.
I am responding to this as it’s honestly horrible. I hadn’t responded as, wasn’t that the point of posting this? To make me out to be some ruthless drama queen? Responding would have proven that true. No? But since you continued in the comment I have decided to respond.
The fact is, I have a real life, I was sent this lovely post this morning as I am not attached to my computer screen. I’m sorry you felt the need to post this. That no one has anything better to do than to fabricate and attack me publically. I have seen enough support and kindness via messages in world and plurk to let it go. I have better things to do with my time as should you. No one, contacted me that this would be up, no one confronted me, therefore anything that this was based upon was a thrid party, twisted and turned. I will not comment further. I hope you find better things to do on your Saturdays Lauren. I’m sure others feel the same way. Best of luck on your column.
“Was this an attack? I don’t think so. As long as everything is true, I don’t think it can be referred to as an attack” -Lauren
For future referance, Diane Sawyer, you should speak to the source. Otherwise, it’s an attack. Until you speak to the person you are posting about it is and always will be a personal attack.
-Aya
I am asking SCD to remove all posts about me. Thank you for your concideration as I am at work and have no other way to contact you for many hours.
Aya,
Your name has been removed from the post. Also, sorry, I’m not removing content you were specifically tapped to make for SCD – I own that now.
–Admin
Are you even serious? Get over it. It’s SL for crying out loud. If you don’t like someone, just dont associate with them. I have an idea, why don’t you shut your computer off and go outside for a change.
I’m not knocking SCD cos I love it, but I don’t get the point in publishing that particular letter about Aya. It comes across like it’s you who has the problem with her Lauren, even though you claim you don’t know her.
(I don’t know Aya personally either, I only know her as a plurk buddy and she seems nice)
Aya, if your RL is that fantabulous, shed us some mercy and go fucking live it. Regards.
First off this should have never made it on this site. To blatantly call someone out by name and then in turn bash them is disgusting. I used to like this blog site, but now I’m afraid I can’t follow it anymore. The Admin says she removed Aya’s name from the post, however it still shows up everywhere in the comments. Hello??? Are you stupid??? Everyone that comes upon this will still see who it is about. Why not remove the whole damn thing! This is a form of slander. Why don’t you all just grow up and get over yourselves. Seriously there’s more out there to SL and RL, than sitting around picking on someone because you don’t like them. It’s time to get yourselves out of Elementary School.
@ annoyed.. oh boo hoo. I’m sure if you google her SL name, much worse things would pop up. Gonna go to every single one and say something to make them take theirs down too?? Didn’t think so.
Also, I think people forget this is SL.. they didn’t post her RL name. Plus anyone whose partner bf is married IRL deserves what they get. homewrecker.
They didn’t remove the comments as they are relevant to the conversation.. and the person in question commented anyways.
Finally, if you were soooo offended over what was said.. why even comment.. so they’d know ONE out of THOUSANDS was miffed? I’m sure they really care.
I think it’s so funny how people constantly bitch and moan about SCD calling people out by name. The people they call out are BAD PEOPLE. They are not saying “hey, I don’t like so and so. Here is her RL address” or some crap. There is always some real, legitimate, shitty thing they have done. I was there to hear this person call someone the N word. Anyone doing that DESERVES to be called out. And wth is the point of asking your name to be removed when you comment with your name!? People are just stupid.
I agree, and there is no excuse for using that word in such a way.
I think the fact that you feel the need to blog stuff like this about Aya shows that you pretty much have no life. If it makes you feel better to bitch about people then by all means keep doing it but by the end of the day, you’re one sad little bish. Aya is a great friend and seeing shit like this just blows me away. Clearly you do not know her. Like really know her. And FYI, Aya never used the N word. It’s not her style. That’s the making of another sad little bish who needs more excitement in her life. Seriously people, grow the eff up. Get a life so you can fill fulfilled and not fuck with other people. That’s all I gotta say. G’bye drama whores!
Please read up. She was heard, by multiple people. I wouldn’t have mentioned it if it wasn’t confirmed by multiple sources.
Honestly Tenshi, I think more people dislike you than they dislike Aya. And i am sure there are several reasons. What this is right here is basically e-bullying. “I don’t like you for X reasons, so I will talk shit about you and humiliate you to make myself feel better and get haters like me to hate someone they don’t even know”. Get a life.
You are such bitches, bashing someone like this. This post makes you even trashier.