Creeps and sex pests in my local scene and club :(
So for context, ive been frequenting a local goth club for about 2 months after finally getting the free time and courage to venture out into my local music scene more, and its been lovely!!!
However, theres 1 glaring problem, and its how many fucking weirdos are prowling around in the scene with KNOWN allegations.
There's this micro celebrity (thats giving him to much fuckin credit because he truly is nothing) in our scene who has a large following of roughly 22k people, and constantly snakes his way around everyone in the scene to establish ties and credibility, but him and his wife have been creeping around our scene and drugging
(and also having their way......)
timid women for years, and its been somewhat of an unconfirmed open secret
(I knew about BEFORE I had anything to do with my local scene).
And recently the club has banned him after a close friend of me and the staff had come forward about his actions and they're personal experiences with them.
Ive been informing our regulars and close friends about what's going on because a large amount of them are unfortunately ignorant to the fact that these arent just allegations, but a long history of things THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!
And its not just this 1 guy, its many others who still prowl in our scene, they like to dissappear, then come back under a different name and act like nothing happened!! And suddenly everyone accepts them back.....
What do you do in this situation where it seems like no one's on your side? Its hard to remove people like this without a large number of people who are properly informed backing you, and without proper evidence it all unfortunately boils down to hearsay and people crying wolf, and the last thing you want is people in your scene thinking some kind of loudmouth naysayer.
It really makes me sad because these creeps linger in spaces that are already compromised by people who want nothing more than to be perverts and fetishists :(
Sorry if this is....ranty? But it feels like the only right place to discuss this sort of thing.....
Much love.