In which Aurialle has terribly mixed feelings.

[aurialle]

OK, so, here's the basic situation since I don't think anyone who reads this is on VO (and if you are please tell me your screen name): a couple months ago, a new user posted something about wanting to put on an MMD concert.  Everyone wrote them off as a troll, but after doing a small amount of investigation, they claimed to be affiliated with Shinji, who I then PMed on YT to figure out what was really going on.  And he replied last night... turns out this person was actually making a legitimate effort, but now that he realizes how much stolen content is on their site, Shinji's going to withdraw help from the person everyone thought was a troll.

So... on the one hand, I feel so guilty, because they were actually trying, and I probably just ruined everything.  And because the main reason I contacted Shinji in the first place was to hopefully give the mods a reason to lock the thread besides widespread suspicions of being a troll and sextuple-posting (as amusing as it would have been for that to be the reason the thread was locked and the OP banned).  On the other hand... I can't help but get the feeling that if Shinji had found out about this on his own, it probably would have been a lot worse.