Blue Dog Island
Thursday, November 27, 2025
I just added my Bluesky feed to the right (or bottom, if you are browsing from mobile - click here to skip to it) while my friend still works on the design for the blog. The size of the text may look a bit small on mobile, but it will be fixed as soon as I learn more about how the widget works. I'm also working on a version of my statement on why I deleted my Twitter account for my Bluesky.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
A friend of mine is working on a proper design for this blog and implementing the comments system, it shouldn't take long. I'll see if we can also get a good old RSS feed up and running. I'll be polishing the statement below so I can post it on Bluesky in a way that people can share it if they want (Twitter, Discord).
I feel destroyed, worthless and devastated right now having to start from zero again. It's thanks to my friend that I'm still doing this. I feel like I'm about to lose my mind...
Sunday, November 23, 2025
FULL STATEMENT ON WHY I DELETED MY TWITTER ACCOUNT
I had no choice as newer features could potentially dox me, some friends, former co-workers and possibly even my family...
To the homies coming from Twitter who might've been confused thinking why I deleted my account out of a sudden, I'm deeply sorry and heartbroken to say, but I simply had no choice. Despite this decision being a long time coming, as I said in different occasions, I wasn't expecting having to make it RIGHT NOW, without even preparing myself to communicate it properly. I was totally caught by surprise by some recent changes on Twitter, which had not been widely publicized at that time, and I had to antecipate this extremely hard decision with very little time to think about it...
By the time you are reading this Twitter has already launched a bunch of new features, some of them related to the user info that will be displayed on profile pages. All the recent discussions have been focusing on the feature that shows the country of origin and current location of the users on their profile pages.
It's already being rolled out right now, although with some differences and inconsistencies between users. According to Twitter's head of product, the features are expected to take full effect until next Tuesday (November 25).
But they are likely to keep experimenting with it in the near future.
They will also show if and when a person is using a VPN. As expected when it comes to Twitter, there's a HUGE amount of people collecting this data right now, sharing between themselves, reporting and accusing eachother of being foreign agents, bots and what not in typical Twitter-fashioned witch hunt...
What most people don't mention though is the feature that is going to not only show the number of times a user has changed their username, but also to list and expose them. More tweaks to user profiles are expected to happen shortly. Twitter says that all those features are being implemented in order to prevent frauds, bots, grifters, the interference of foreign actors in internal politics between other reasons, when in reality the direct effect of this is going to be the doxxing of countless people who thought they could have some privacy on social medias. It's gonna dox especially artists and vtubers who had an entirely different life prior to their current careers using their real names.
In my case, I've been using Twitter for many years now, I had several accounts. I've been watching vtubers since 2018-2019, but despite that I wasn't always using Twitter to talk about vtubers, I didn't even join Twitch up until 2022. I used my Twitter for many different things as a normie, I changed my username a bunch of times for different reasons, including trolling my friends, and if I didn't leave Twitter immediately I would risk doxxing at least a previous job, an old game team I was a part of and other info, which could be easily traced back and doxx not only me, but also some friends, some of the people I've worked with, and possibly even my family.
I've already been doxxed before. In 2022 I lost access to my old Instagram account for almost A YEAR. Around that time I was getting attention because of the gecko comics I was drawing for my community. Some people had found my Insta before I could delete it, and because of that my photos are now being shared on Discord for eternity. This is most likely feeding Discord's third party AIs, who train on scraping our messages and DMs in the background, and there's nothing I can do about it. So I'm just moving on with my life, because life is short and I've people who depend on me now, I need to take care of my health, including my mental health, and be there for them. That's what I care about the most.
In 2024 Twitter was blocked in my region for interfering with local politics, between other reasons, a pattern that repeats from time to time and is used by opposing parties during elections, and which leads to the always-present possibility that the service could be banned again at any moment. Of course, this always leads to accusations of "dictatorship", which ignores the context of Twitter's interference and active provocations on local affairs, sometimes directly attacking federal judges. At that time I lost access to my account for 1 month and even posted a message of goodbye to my followers. I couldn't use a VPN for fear of being fined in an amount I couldn't afford to pay, because VPNs were banned from accessing Twitter at that time. This time I didn't have enough time to write a proper goodbye notice...
Yet here I am trying to become a professional artist and a content creator. I never considered following this career up until very recently, and I do now for the simple reason that I can't find a job IRL, and right now drawing has been my only hope. It's literally that meme when the economy is so bad that I'm chasing my dream. To the homies who saved my photos I hope you enjoy big booba (no, I wasn't naked), but I also hope you can see how naive I was back then and maybe don't share them around? We didn't have AI scrapers everyfrikkinwhere at that time, I don't want AIs being trained on my body and face, I wasn't thinking of becoming a content creator or even a professional artist back then. I was just a silly normie goofing around, having fun with my self esteem. But that doxxing really did put me down for a while, and that was part of the reason why I disappeared from chats. And now this Twitter thing was the last straw to end what was left of my tolerance to so much bs...
This has been hands down the worst and most difficult year of my life for many reasons, and I'm not exaggerating when I said I almost gave up on my art entirely earlier this year. I did that before and it took me 10 years to hold a pencil in my hand again. I don't have access to the same services than most of you guys have due to a lot of factors, including my current location. I was pulled back by my best friend who decided to join me in my new journey through content creation, and this is part of the (positive) announcement I've been holding for so long. So this Twitter thing comes on top of a lot of other bad things that happened to me at the course of the last two years.
I had a history on Twitter. It mattered. I was proud of myself. Everybody I knew was there, my friends, oshis, favorite artists, my journey and portfolio as an artist was entirely built there, my audience (I had 1089 followers by the time I left), the accounts where I could get informed on the topics I like, from retro and indie games to horror and sci-fi films, arts and technology, anime, manga, comics, music, a feed that I worked so hard to build by keeping out all the real world issues that I've been so fed up with. I was proud of making friends with everybody who cared enough to talk with me, following the philosophy of only spreading positivity on the interwebs. I had the honor of working for people I've always had a huge respect for. And despite all the absolutely horrible decisions from the company running the app, despite knowing how terrible the individuals behind it are, I still had hopes that Twitter could become so bad that it would eventually be sold, and maybe, just maybe, someone better would take over and change at least some of the things for the best, again. Now all that is gone. I was forced to deplatform myself, to jump off the ship and swim back all the way to the land while watching everybody sail away... Once again I'm back to the start, having to rebuild - hopefully over new, solid grounds, yes, but still in a world much more hostile, with far less hope and expectations. But again, I had no choice.
I had already decided not to expose myself on the internet more than I already did. That's not why I came back to doing arts for after giving up on it for so long. I went back to arts inspired by other artists and vtubers who work so hard on a daily to put a smile on people's faces and brighten our days in this truly distopic world we live in. From now on the only thing I want online is to try and keep inspiring others, if anything, to do more arts, REAL human-made art, to contribute with some positivity and do the best I can to brighten people's days, too. I will do it with my work until I can't anymore. If I manage to do that, than that's enough for me.
I don't know if I'd ever go back to Twitter. Things would never be the same. People will soon forget about me, others would never trust me for coming back and justifying things. I probably disappointed a lot of people for leaving that way out of a sudden. I guess the best I could do is to accept my defeat. I should never have built anything on such an untrustworthy ground such as Twitter, or at least on that account. But I tried having a second account before, and I got banned on Twitter for that, wrongfully flagged as a bot. I could not risk losing my only account now. And all that was now for nothing...
Every terrible change in social medias gets instantly normalized without much opposition nowadays. Before being a full time artist and content creator I worked in IT for many years, I know how the people behind social media companies work and think. I've been following up close the recent trends around AIs, Digital IDs, this massive wave of layoffs in the tech industry worldwide, the erosion of privacy, freedom of expression and other fundamental rights, the recent ban of entire art forms from entertainment industry and the usual lame excuses behind it. Right now there's a worldwide movement from countries and companies to end privacy on the internet, without consulting the society, and I believe these kinds of measures that Twitter is taking now, Instagram/Meta yesterday, combined with mandatory age verification via ID scans everywhere are attempts to normalize the doxxing of everybody. But I will refrain from talking negative topics in my socials...
I'm deeply sorry for leaving Twitter this way, without a proper notice, without saying much. The features I've mentioned are already taking effect right now, and are expected to get worse soon. I always knew that something this bad was coming, given the absolutely horrendous administration since the rocket man took over. He was the only person I've ever blocked on that app, by the way. I've always dealt with trolls on game chats, I'm used to make them ragequit. But this time the trolls are in charge of the app. In the end it doesn't make sense to keep using a service that does everything that they can to make you feel sick and your life miserable, and it's just tragic that your friends, your oshis and the artists that inspire you the most, all refuse to leave it. But it is what it is, and I understand their reasons.
I will stick to my (positive) announcement for soon, as soon as I finish drawing some assets and feel more confident. And we're gonna rock the internet with some content that we hope will blow your mind (in a positive way). I hope my friends and moots will forgive me. Wherever I go I will always be cheering for them, as I always did. I will never forget the time I had there. It was great for the most part, until the app got completely disfigured. I don't know if our paths will ever cross again. I just hope everyone will thrive and suceed, and keep following their dreams being their absolutely amazing selves.
My most sincere thank you for all the love and support over the years, from the bottom of my heart.
So let's try once again, I guess.
Friday, November 21, 2025
I'm sorry, my head was exploding because of all that and I couldn't finish writing my post.. I also think I found a good commenting system, so people can reply to me even on a static website like this, so I'll do some tests. I'm postponing the post to Saturday night. Meanwhile I though it would be important to warn u all about this article on Tech Crunch: "X plans to show more information about user profiles to help improve trust". It's gonna be horrendous as it can doxx a lot of artists and vtubers who had a different life prior to their current careers. I'll talk more on this and other stuff on my post tomorrow. Take care u guys.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Hi everyone, it's me, Rayterni!
This page is obviously temporary, but since I'm leaving Twitter for good, these are some of the other places where u can find me:
---> Bluesky (my main social media for now!): https://rayterni.bsky.social
---> Twitch (not streaming yet, I usually watch at work, but look for Rayterni in the chats. I always try my best to reply to comments, but my English is self-taught): https://twitch.tv/rayterni
---> YouTube (not sure I'm gonna post full vids there, but at least teasers, trailers, clips and announcements): https://youtube.com/@rayterni
---> Discord: I don't use it much, don't usually add ppl, but look for "Rayterni" in the chats, I always reply to comments.
---> Mastodon (nobody uses it, so it's boring, but I keep it as a last resort for now, like a bunker: https://mastodon.social/@rayterni
Check back this page until next Friday if u will for a lot more info, my reasons why I'm leaving Twitter, and what's next. I will have a blog up and running here on NeoCities, which will be sort of an alt account where I post whatever whenever, sketches, tests, studies, etc. I am currently finishing my official website (yes, a second website!), MUCH LARGER and FULL OF COOL STUFF, it will be the main place that will concentrate all my works). I'm also considering some other social medias, but can't confirm that yet, so check back later.
Sorry for scuff, I'm working on things, will be back very soon!
Thank u for everything
Love always