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It is with such a heavy heart that I am here writing this blog. My time on SG is coming to an end.

The past few weeks have been horrible. What started as a safe space to be ourselves quickly became a negative, hostile environment where you couldn't even write a comment or suggestion without fear of being archived.

It started with the suggestion box. With so many great suggestions and ideas to make SG a safer, more inclusive place. People wanting transparency about how SOTDs are bought. Wanting staff to be accountable for mistakes, in my opinion very simple and honest and easy things that could've been worked on.

Instead of working on issues, people are blocked, archived, deleted... the issues completely looked over and ignored. Members, hopefuls, and SGs are being silenced. We are being silenced instead of addressing issues. I'm shaking as I'm writing this because I am so angry that I put so much into this company and believed in it for so long.

My close friends are archived. Sure, I could stay. But I want to be on the right side of this. I want to support my friends, members, hopefuls and let them know they aren't alone and that speaking out wasn't wrong to do.

I want to be clear. I DO NOT condone the actions of SG, Missy, Penny... everyone involved. This has become a mean girls club.. that I want no part of.

I've taken down all my sets. Over the past 7 years, I've submitted over 25 sets. Only two of those were ever selected as SOTD. Missy's new blog post trying to be transparent about the way they choose sets is BS and doesn't even explain how they do it. I've put EVERYTHING into this company. I feel like I've gotten nothing back except the friends I've made.

Most of the sets I just took down were over 2500 likes. I kept them up this long in hopes of one day getting another SOTD. What a joke.

I had just started shooting models as a photographer for the site. I wanted to work for the site. I wanted to eat sleep breathe SG but they only care about the select few. There's so many of us (or WAS so many) who would've done anything to make this site grow and continue to evolve. But now we are leaving/getting kicked off.

I had a plan to write so much more, but honestly I'm done putting energy into SG. I have so many other positive things and projects to put my energy into now.

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I love you all

xx Gaiah

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jrton80:
Ok, I had to go look, and what I found was "we use a proprietary process to select SOTD that we have utilized for 20 years, and do not plan to change." which basically means, "We do not care for your opinion, so shut the fuck up" I cannot say I would be surprised if calling into question a statement which totally disregards other's thoughts on the matter - draws a harsh responses. I cannot say that it is "right" or "wrong" but it is a result of the power of decision making. That is not to say the response is not stupid. It is just the response of power. As long as you keep things "happy happy, joy joy" on the surface, the power will not care, but question things, well, I think you see.
jrton80:
BTW, I always thought you rather gorgeous - so no, the SOTD select does not follow a particular pattern. Personally, I have often thought it is more whoever Missy "gets off" on, on any particular day IMNSHO.

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