This is a
letter directed mainly to both Adam and Zak in regards to the "online
controversy" that occurred on January 8th, which I sort of covered in my
previous blog post that was published that evening. It's also, in some way, directed to all the
fans of both Ghost Adventures and MythBusters, to try and clarify everything
that possibly was already clarified, but….not enough, apparently. The reason why I am doing this is because I realized, after listening to Adam on his Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project podcast episode that referred to this controversy (Click here if you're too impatient), that it's my fault. So, please, lend me your ears/eyes.....
Dear Adam
and Zak,
I know we
probably want to move on from this fight that started up on Twitter (we know
which one), but…. I couldn't. Not just yet.
Not when I'm having dreams where I'm discussing in person with Adam the tweet that started it all (Sorry, Zak; I think my subconscious too afraid to
invite you into the dream!). There was
so much guilt and so much wincing that I am overdue to issue an apology.
Yes: I'm
sorry for starting it all. I'm the one
who started that shit storm, creating the opportunity for us all to ride the leaky
raft down Shit Creek all the way to the bottom of Asshat Falls (and to add to
it, we ran out of duct tape to repair said leaky raft). I am the person who is responsible by
accidentally creating a flame war with a simple mistake.
I should
not have tagged you both in the tweet. I
know Adam meant well as a confirmed skeptic critical thinker (I'm
sorry for calling you a skeptic.) that he thinks ghosts don't exist, that
ghosts are made up, and that Zak was offended by (somewhat
rightfully) misinterpreting the response.
But I was the one who created the opportunity that I should not have
made, by tagging both of you in the tweet instead of my Dalek tweeps, or human
tweeps, or even the two to five Darth Vader parody accounts who follow me. Or how about the Sontaran? I could have asked ANYONE else in the entire
Twitterverse (including God, R2D2, a Stormtrooper Intern, and Wil Wheaton's cat),
and instead, I asked you two because I stupidly thought, at the time, that it
was a "good idea".
That was incredibly
stupid and shortsighted of me for doing that, especially now that this little
mistake of tagging you two instead of my Twitter peeps was an experiment that
was doomed to epic failure before Adam even responded: Before tweeting, I
should've realized, you're both already somewhat professionally biased in terms
of my options, because you both would want me to watch your respective shows
(which I can do, one at a time), instead of the other respective show—because
it's YOUR SHOW! You put so much hard
work into putting it together (or being the hot, handsome talent in front of
the camera) that it would not help either of you if I opt to watch another show
instead of yours; then again, you both have millions of fans, so I wasn't going
to cause too much of a difference—but I did, by asking you two for your
(obvious) opinion on Twitter instead of my Twitter Peeps, or texting one of
my friends.
I feel so
guilty for this dumb mistake. And it was
made with 2 of the most awesome people I admire. I was just….an idiot, a fool with matchsticks
inside of a professional-grade fireworks factory with exposed fuses. I was playing with fire, and it wound up
being funny at first (as you can tell from my previous post that was mostly
directed towards the fans), but it was both aggravating and terrifying. I was dragged along for the ride, because I
kept getting tagged in all the tweets that were responding to Adam and it just
wouldn't stop. My phone (which is a dumb
phone, as opposed to your smart ones) can get Twitter updates via text, and
I've got my updates set so that my phone gets all my @Mentions, which is set to
"Receive all, including people you don't follow," which resulted in a
phone that kept going off because Twitter was texting me all the tweets that
tagged me. That's how I knew: people
kept tagging me and wouldn't let me even utter a word of the sentence, "STOP
THE RIDE! I want to get off!"
This
apology should've come earlier, but I was either too scared or distracted with
ducking my head with latent tweets and it was only after listening to an
episode of Adam's podcast (the specific episode that addressed this) when I was
walking home that I realized that it was all my fault!!! California Dalek (aka, Cali) was right; I
just hope he doesn't rub it in….
@ladyeden1337 @educatordalek @dihard11 @notgaydalek @lisar_m @bootbhoy YOU HAVE STARTED A FLAME-WAR.
#DALEKAPPROVED.
— California Dalek (@CaliforniaDalek) January 9, 2015
Anyways, I
should probably shut up; I really do not ever want to start up the flame war
again. I'm sorry you both got shit for
this, when I was the one who should've gotten it. Really.
Also, Adam is not a cyberbully (or a robot or
Vulcan) who is "anti-science" or "closed minded" or whatever; he's totally
pro-science, and amazingly hilarious with an awesome career (CEMENT TRUCK!) and
a really cool, grounded perspective of the world who, to be honest, could've
reworded the response he gave so it's not one that would open the door to the
cyber abuse the Interwebz is known to be a platform for. And Zak is not an idiot or a fool
who chases his imagination (though he looks like a hot jock) because he
believes in ghosts and can bet his electrons on the personal experiences he had
in his life. And we're all human, which
means we're bound to make mistakes, and we're nerds because we're passionate
about what we like, to the point where, if someone confuses Star Trek and Star Wars, or Friday the 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street, we (at least both Adam
and myself) would write a 2-page thesis—1 tweet at a time—about how they are
different. (Don't deny it, Zak! You are a nerd of a specific type, being a
horror movie buff and a believer in the paranormal—yes, paranormal nerds
exist! And don't worry because nerdy is
the new sexy!)
I'd suggest
ways to fix this, but I'm also afraid of getting my ideas shot down by you
two. It's because I'm a total
fan-squirrel (squirrelly fangirl) who belongs to the third camp: the one that
sits between the skeptical-of-ghosts-and-the-paranormal MythBusters Adam Savage
fan camp and the believer-in-ghosts skeptical-of-skeptics Ghost Adventures Zak
Bagans fan camp, and it's the one that has fans who, like me, enjoy both of
your shows. But I hope we can FINALLY
get past this without getting any more weird dreams that is really our
subconscious scolding us.
Also, one
more thing: I'm sorry that this ever happened, because I'm very, very,
absolutely sure that there is now a fanfic genre of the two of you….er, you
know….. Rule 34? *DUCKS!*
Anyways,
one last apology (I'M REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY SORRY!), with an update:
I've solved my problem—each week on Saturday, I'll watch one of your shows at
9pm EST, and then catch the late night repeat, but it'll alternate so that one
week will have MythBusters at 9 and Ghost Adventures at midnight and the next
week will have Ghost Adventures at 9 with MythBusters at 11pm.
Just be
glad that Doctor Who Season 9 didn't start yet; if I added that third option,
the nerdy fan base shit storm will end up evolving into a shit hurricane, and
all we would ever be able to do is hide from the Interwebz until it passes
completely, hanging onto each other for dear life as though it would make
everything better, with me sobbing quietly into the darkness.
Anyways,
thanks to the both of you for your awesome shows, and please know that I nerd
over the both of you equally! Though,
now, I'm sure I started the war up again…..
HIT THE DECK!
With much nerdy love,
Lady Eden
Pyrithea
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