Taryn Wright

um that was right near christmas and we were looking it was definitely something i can't remember the actual details of the hoax i ended up obviously not writing about it but you know we found her like real facebook and we found a real blog that she was writing on um all of a sudden the blog as we were looking at it and i was kind of getting ready to write about it the blog turned really dark and she was talking about self-harm and um

suicidal ideation so i called the police in the city that she lived in and ended up having her committed for 72 hours or 48 hours or whatever it is um and then ended up never writing about it but again like i certainly never thought on mother's day when i like ran into this whole thing that that would be all together i had four people hospitalized for hold for psychological holds

So that's rough.

I mean, like... It's a lot to carry.

It's a lot to carry.

And again, like, I really do measure my impact, you know?

Like, I don't want to do something that's net negative, for sure.

And it turned out... I mean, it was just... Toward the end of it, the internet was definitely getting meaner.

People were, I feel in a way, a little bit responsible because, like, all these...

Reddit groups and stuff popped up that were like, this person has a child with cancer, but they asked for too many toys.

Like they asked for puzzles and.

Oh yeah.

Can you, can you talk about that?

Yeah.

And of course, like, I think you're doing great work.

And like, I definitely think that what you're one of the only people I can talk to in the world that has like been through some of the same like mental stuff that I have as far as like figuring out what am I doing here?

Like, is this helping or hurting?

And I definitely I think that I helped, you know, like, I really do think that overall net positive.

Um, but anyway, we had all of a sudden, most of my emails that I would get, um, at the beginning, I would get just like blogs to look at that were pretty obviously fake or, you know, like that were a little, I mean, the majority of people out there can't write, you know, like it's, if somebody, I mean, like not to sound like a jerk, but like, I mean, and that's good.

You know, like the majority of people are like looking for support.