[PSA] Improper Conduct - EcnaDonVella [01.17.20]

▌July 

On July 3, 2019, I officially accepted a private custom commission offer from EcnaDonVella (supposedly to be co-owned). We had no prior interaction besides negotiating a commission deal. I was then warned by another client (a few weeks later on July 19th, 2019) about Ecna, who saw her username on my public trello, and that was when I learned of Ecna’s past conflicts in relation to the artist DrawinglyWillingly along with other miscellaneous proof regarding Ecna’s personality and behavior. 

Drawingly's PSA & Proof
Note: Yes, I am aware of the PSA on DrawinglyWillingly; however I cannot ignore that Ecna chargebacked a finished custom and a design she had won from an auction, which was followed up by reselling the latter design to another user (Wystaria) despite revoking her own ownership of the adopt via the chargeback.

More proof that was given to me at the time

After being informed of the evidence, I felt it may be financially unwise for me to continue working with Ecna, so I exercised my right and ability to choose which customers I wished to work with. I ultimately cancelled the custom and fully refunded her invoice on July 19, 2019. I then notified Ecna of the cancellation, and blocked her on every social media platform I had. I did my best to avoid further conflict since I didn't have the mental capacity and health to deal with Ecna if trouble potentially arose, and felt that this was the best course of action. I'm already too stressed and worried from concern about the safety of my family and myself, since I reside in Hong Kong where protests were quite violent at this point in time.

After being blocked, Ecna sent her associates to message me on her behalf starting on July 20, 2019 on deviantart, twitter and toyhouse; which is against the rules on block evasion. I responded to only two people (and ignored the rest), in order to give Ecna (through these proxies) a clearer explanation and reasoning as to why she was blocked and why I refused to work further with her even in the future. The twitter messages are lost since unanswered requests delete immediately after blocking.

Compilation of messages sent to me

Eventually, Ecna insinuated that she would properly return Wystaria’s stolen money (related to her dispute with DrawinglyWillingly) if I were to return her custom commission, which I refused to do. That matter only involves me indirectly by informing me of Ecna’s behavior. Ecna however did eventually refund the money related to the stolen design to Wystaria, which is good. After that I decided to avoid Ecna completely to stop further conflict; unfortunately my silence was taken advantage of.

Proof of the refund

Ecna proceeded to contact several people to try and defame me in an attempt to hurt my reputation as a freelance artist, either through toyhouse’s private messaging or through discord (direct message and public servers). Because of this, I blacklisted her so that she could not purchase my adopts and art on July 22, 2019. In return, Ecna threatened to sue me (for defamation) through her conversations with other people. The proof has been provided by other people who weren’t happy with her behavior, and was given to me of their own free will.

A rant she made on her public journal
Note: This journal was written in German and this was google-translated into English, so there is the possibility of mistranslations.

Her DA status:

More screenshots proving she was spreading her “side of the story”

• Discord group chat containing purposeful misinformation
• Private discord chat where Ecna expresses her version of the “truth”
• TH note where she changes topic from resell to further defaming me
  
  

▌September

On September 11, 2019, one of Ecna’s associates somehow got ahold of my private discord. They informed me of Ecna’s despondent behavior and thoughts of self-harm and suicide and wished for me to talk with her to try and help her. I felt the conversation and matter was sincere and urgent so I cautiously gave Ecna what little benefit of the doubt I was willing to muster and agreed to talk with her. 

A short conversation asking me to talk to Ecna

I unblocked Ecna on my social media, but instead of contacting me on deviantart or toyhouse, Ecna contacted me on my discord instead. Ecna apologized to me, and the conversation ended with my removing her from the blacklist and with the possibility of us mending our strained relationship as seller and buyer. It would not be the case, however.

Ecna’s “Apology”

▌November

On November 16, 2019, Ecna sent me an email threatening to sue me for emotional damages resulting from our exchange in July. She demanded compensation for the “damages” as well as public apologies on the platforms twitter and deviantart.

The email was deeply upsetting and I felt that my efforts to listen to her and reconcile were betrayed and taken for granted. I had mistakenly assumed that we had patched or resolved things between us in our September conversation. This situation has forced my hand, resulting in me breaking my silence and making this beware to inform anyone who is part of the art and adopt community of the user’s potential for harassment and mistreatment. Unfortunately, in the making of this PSA, information on other conflicts with Ecna experienced by other people have also surfaced and will be added to this post for everyone’s knowledge.

Piffi Community Server Discourse 
Note: This is a compilation of Ecna’s misconduct in discord PMs and the public chat server of the Piffi community that took place sometime in May 2019.

While I am reluctant to post this PSA, Ecna has been manipulative and harmful in her behavior and actions towards me and many others as can be seen in the compiled screenshots, where she uses a variety of tactics to try and get what she wants. My silence and attempt at resolution has not solved anything; and whether I should continue to keep quiet or not, I am emotionally and mentally taxed due to the difficult dealings with Ecna. I find it best after much thought and advice to bring this matter to the public’s awareness for everyone’s information and safety, and hope that there will be no further people hurt by Ecna. Regarding myself, Ecna will be back on my blacklist indefinitely following this incident.

Hello, my name is Andy.  Some of you will recognize me from my PSA against DrawinglyWillingly.  For many months, I had been part of a small private DM convo that Ecna had created.  In this private group, we would talk about DrawinglyWillingly’s actions and past scams and gather evidence on her to bank for future use.  However, during my time there, I had mixed feelings about Ecna.  No, even before that when we were both still in the Folklore server, I had mixed feelings about Ecna.  The way she behaved and talked came across poorly sometimes.  But regardless, I tried to push that aside and be civil as difficult as it was at times.  While I and one other person in the group did have negative experiences with Drawingly, Ecna was always out for blood.  I had not started screencapping things about Ecna back then because I had not felt the need to, but Ecna had always had a very unsavory attitude towards Drawingly after being demoted and kicked from the group, and later, towards anyone who she felt “wronged” her in any manner including other adopt sellers and buyers.  There were many times that I felt uncomfortable around her due to her behavior and manner of speaking about other people.

I am somewhat the “fire starter” in this issue; on July 18th of 2019 Drawingly put up a sales journal offering resales for designs from her closed species.  Among these designs was Ecna’s custom folk.  I panicked and reached out to Ecna, because at the time I was not aware that Ecna had charged back on the design a couple of months after owning it, thus forfeiting ownership of the Folklore design in question.  Once Ecna had confessed the chargeback to me, I stopped being able to side with her, and that led to an argument wherein I was heavily verbally abused by her in a private DM conversation between myself and her.  Upset with what had taken place, I reached out to some friends for advice, and one of them took the initiative to reach out to Hen-tie about Ecna’s behavior, because they feared that Ecna might pull the same chargeback stunt again.  This resulted in Hen-tie cancelling Ecna’s custom Lilidae slot (which Ecna had also been flaunting as “up for offers” despite having NO intentions to accept any offers on it).

Once the Lilidae slot was cancelled, Ecna and I got into another argument right in the group chat as Ecna more or less accused me of going directly to Hen-tie about the issue to purposely get back at her.  Ecna played the victim and believed the slot was “unfairly cancelled” because “she did nothing wrong.”  During the course of the argument, Ecna continued to verbally abuse me, threatened me, and eventually called in back up to defend her when I wouldn’t back down.  After hearing about the situation, even her own backup wouldn’t side with her, and eventually the group chat was disbanded.

Ecna’s Outbursts & Confessions
Note: ⚠️ Beware that this collection of screenshots contain profane and disturbing language. Ecna displayed severe aggression while admitting to some of her misdeeds especially related to the PSA against her.

I caught her later on trying to trash talk me in the Birdfolk discord on July 21st, talking about the situation and once again painting herself as the victim, purposely leaving out any incriminating details.  I messaged several people about the situation privately so that they were aware of the full details, and once again, Ecna failed to receive the support she wanted.  By this time, word of her endeavors had started to spread from both word of mouth, and Drawingly uploading journals to showcase Ecna’s behavior.  Ecna filed DMCA takedowns on the journals to try and hide the evidence against her, but it was too late.  Too many people were aware, and after Hen-tie’s public blacklisting, it became even more known about her behavior.

Birdfolk Server
Note: This is a compilation of Ecna’s display of poor behavior in the Akriri Nest Server (Birdfolk) on July 21, 2019.

Ecna and I currently share one Discord server, but I have had her blocked since the fiasco back in July so I had no intention of bothering with her.  Despite this, and despite me saying nothing to her, she took it upon herself to message the server owner with “concerns” that I might harass her, which resulted in me receiving a warning from the server owner to behave myself.  Infuriated, I made the server owner aware of the situation via numerous screencaps from July, and I was told that Ecna had been lying about the situation and making herself look innocent, which does not at all surprise me.

Discussion with the distressed server owner
Note: This is a compilation of the conversation with the discord server owner that took place on October 28, 2019.

Ecna is a very vindictive person and has a very entitled attitude, and when she cannot get her way or told she is in the wrong, she gets very abusive and resorts to legal threats and suicide baiting when the former fails.  I do not care what her life situation is like offline, there is no excuse for the way she treats people.  Everyone should exercise extreme caution when dealing with her.