Here is what Madi had to say to your comment: Hello there. This is the person you're talking about! Nice to chat with you. Let me touch on a few things. The time frame you are talking about I was 18 and freshly out of the house. Youngin. Scared and trying to make it in the big bad world by myself. Yes I set up a go fund me. Not for luxuries. No. Because my roommate bailed. We ended up having to sell his stuff to be able to pay rent and barely scrape by. I spent a few weeks barely eating and lost ten lbs. So I apologize for having set up a go fund me back then. But that was not for luxuries or because of wanting free money. But people like you made me feel so embarrassed and guilty for it that yes, I did take it down. I felt ashamed. Did I ban people for calling me out? Nope. What likely was the case was people being aggressive and talking so poorly to me I had no choice but to ban them. By the sounds of it I would assume you are one of them. I did however make a lengthy post regarding it. You probably missed it. I've cleaned up my fan page since then so who knows if it's still there. It was 2013 for gods sake.
Next. It is now end of 2017. I had more than one person specifically ask me to create a patreon. I kept telling people "why would I make a patreon? Why would anybody even care? Why would anybody give me their money?" I spent months thinking this way. Wondering. Feeling like there was no reason to make one. Finally after six months of being asked and me saying no- I thought to myself... what's the harm? I make one and nobody pledges? That's it? Or I make one and one person pledges? So what. So I made one. And guess what? I didn't have to pander or beg or force. I also don't know if you know this about patreon, but there's a lot more people on there than just cosplayers. I also am not asking for "free money" as I work very hard to make sure I am posting multiple times a week as well as getting physical rewards put in a timely manner.
Something you may not realize about me considering you haven't followed me in years is this. I am a nearly 23 year old mother who's been through quite the amount of shit in the last few years. I've grown up quite a lot. Think about it this way... are you the same person when you were 18? Are you making the same choices you did when you were freshly out of your parents house?
It is okay to not like me. It is okay to disagree with my career choices. But it is not okay to attempt to bash me as a person and as a model for something that happened when I was much younger with much less experience. Give me the respect you would be asking someone else to give you.
Hope the best for you. ❤️