This is my first post here 😭 If I used the wrong flair please tell me I’ll fix it mods pls don’t remove it directly
I’ve been a Wattpad author since 2024. Writing and creating reels about my stories honestly made me so happy. It felt like I had finally found something that was mine. Something I could build slowly, quietly, with love.
And the story I was writing… it wasn’t just fiction. It was my real life story with some fictional elements in it. That’s why it meant even more to me. It wasn’t just content. It was personal.
When one of my reels hit 1M views for the first time, it felt unreal. I thought maybe this is the beginning of something beautiful.
But after that, things changed.
At first, it was small things. My reels, my scenes… slowly getting copied. Again, I’m not saying I own an idea. But when something you wrote from your own life starts showing up somewhere else in almost the same way, it hurts.
And the worst part? When I asked them to take it down, nothing happened.
Because they were big names.
No replies. No accountability. Just silence.
Then people started questioning my story itself. Calling my love story fake. Saying I don’t even have a partner. Asking for proof like I owe them something.
And the worst part is… I gave it.
Videos, chats, pictures. Things that were never meant to be public. And now when I look back, I don’t even understand why I felt the need to prove my personal life to strangers.
After that, my account started getting mass reported. Random restrictions. Features disappearing. Posts getting flagged.
To protect it, I ended up purchasing Meta Business verification. It was expensive. And I didn’t even want to reveal my identity publicly. I just wanted to write in peace.
I was one of the first in this community to get verification. And I got trolled for it. This year… the same people who trolled us… have verification too. What a lifecycle. It’s funny now. But it wasn’t then.
But even that turned into trolling and memes.
Then it didn’t just stay limited to me.
My best friend’s account also started facing issues. Not for a few days. Not for a month.
The whole of 2025… chats were restricted. Features blocked. She couldn’t even use her account properly.
No appeal worked. Nothing got fixed.
And today… her account got locked.
At the same time.
Today my account got suspended again
Coincidence?
No.
In April, her account was gone once. In August, mine got taken down.
It came back. Then went again.
I made a new account — suspended. Made another — gone again.
We left this community at one point because it just became too exhausting.
Not because we didn’t love writing… but because it stopped feeling safe.
Last month, we thought maybe we should come back. Start again. Try again.
And today… my account got suspended again.
No reason.
Just gone.
At this point, it doesn’t even feel surprising. It just feels tiring.
Because it’s not just accounts. It’s your time, your effort, your work, your emotions… everything just disappearing.
I’m not angry anymore.
I’m just tired.
Tired of defending my personal life. Tired of explaining things that shouldn’t need explanation. Tired of proving I’m real. Tired of rebuilding everything again and again.
I started writing because I love stories. I love emotions. I love connecting with readers.
But somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling like that.
It started feeling like survival.
I just wish the internet allowed creators to grow… without turning everything into competition and constant pressure.
Without making everything a battlefield.
Because not everyone is here to fight.
Some of us just wanted to write.
And if you’re a small creator going through something similar…
you’re not alone 🤍