@solas-you-nerd replied to your post
> omg please what’s going on in the Knitting Fandom
I’m a bit out of the loop so I don’t know about any current dramz but a few years ago there was a spate of incidents that usually followed the same pattern:
- person starts dyeing yarn and finds they’re pretty good! yay!
- they don’t have the capital to invest in materials so they get people to order yarn and take cash up front
- then they get a bill they have to pay or find they under-estimated the cost of materials, or forgot they’d have to upsize their equipment to make more of the stuff, so they solicit more orders
- meanwhile, people who’ve handed over their cash are ‘uh. excuse me? you’re taking orders and not doing mine?’
- this stresses the dyer out and they start making excuses; I’m sick, I’m getting divorced, I’m whatever
- this buys them a bit of time but they’re still not sending their finished product so people are getting annoyed
- suddenly their sibling/husband/mother pipes up to say 'she can’t fulfil these orders, she’s sick, you’re all awful for bullying her, leave her alone’
- this buys a little more time until someone inevitably points out how similarly the sibling/husband/mother types to the original dyer and accuses them of faking
- at this point it’s still salvageable if the dyer is willing to say 'sorry guys I done fucked up I’ll refund and withdraw from the internet’ but at least twice it ended in the sibling/husband/mother saying 'she’s dead now are you happy? you did this’.
- and then people start hunting local newspapers for obituaries and it gets really nasty
and so you know I’m not making things up, the most famous one is referenced here: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xyg8p4/faking-your-death-online-is-a-lot-harder-than-it-used-to-be
moral of the story: don’t start a kitchen-table business unless you’re prepared to fake your own death unless you’ve made a full business plan and are certain you can follow through






