Emi Jones ✨ · @TheEmuEmi
15th Jul 2020 from TwitLonger
My experience with HP
I’ve taken weeks to contemplate whether or not I was ready or comfortable speaking out about this. Seeing so many people support this person and back them up for stuff has given me large amounts of anxiety due to my personal experience with him. Even now, I don’t want to type out this person’s full name out of his fear of him seeing it. Because if he does, I fear it will get worse.
I worked with this person back in 2017 on a project. We were really excited to put something out like this. It was a very new style for me to try and overall, we were happy with the result of the sound. We had made plans to split the youtube revenue right down the middle the entire time. The project didn’t do as well as we were expecting. To this day, it’s made 50 bucks. Which is not usual for projects of this nature. But each time I tried to pay him his half, he tried accusing me of robbing him. Multiple times. A few months after our project came out, I decided since it wasn’t performing well, I’d offer him a flat amount of 300 for his part of the collaboration. To which, he then turned around and said that if the project really didn’t make much then there was no money that I needed to give him.
Each time this person came to me, I was yelled at, accused, threatened physically and socially and insulted, it then ended in desires to have sex with me. Each time, I tried handling it amicably and with patience.
Years after this has happened, he has tried extorting me for over a thousand dollars. Telling me to either pay him a grand or to take down our two year old project. I had to defend the piece as not his own but a collaborative piece between multiple artists from me to the instrumentalist to the person making the art and the person editing the video. It was something everyone was proud of and that I was in no financial condition to pay him $1,000. Not to mention it not being the original agreement. I even tried to offer 300 again but after my finances approved, because of the apparent pandemic we are in. On top of this, I demonetized the video so it could no longer make anything else. I was met with insults and threats of harm. Things like knowing people who lived near me. And insulting me by calling me a shitty singer, a nobody, an opportunist, a bitch, and so much more. Also Telling me sex was part of the deal and trying to, once again, just after extorting me, trying to talk to me like that.
I’ve had several anxiety attacks, have locked my doors out of fear, and have contemplated getting the police involved on several occasions. (The police’s involvement will be staying private)
This was a person I used to get along well with. I thought this person was a friend and solid collaborator before, it’s been proven to me over and over due to threatening conversations and years worth of patience, stress and fear that this person lacks good faith and will resort to terrifying behavior if he’s not met with the results he’s looking for. For a while, when asked about my experiences on this project, I’ve told people how kind he was because I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s view of him. People grew up with sa2. Including me. So I tried protecting people’s view of him for an incredibly long time. But seeing as how he’s begun to show some of his true colors already, I felt it was my responsibility to shed light on the type of person he is with the context of my situation.