Taryn Wright

was kind of my way of thinking you expressed it much better than I did.

I do not want to be a person that is like, you know, like, here's, look at the crazy person, you know, like, here, here's this crazy person, this person has done bad things, like, let's all shame them.

Like, I didn't want it to be about shame.

I really did think it was helping them as far as like, maybe seeing their name, like, in print, seeing the other people they had affected on the other side of a keyboard.

would make them kind of stop and, like, move on to their real life.

Like, to me, you know, like, and toward the end of my blog, we did, I, like, hired a psychologist to do sessions with these people.

You know, I was like, hey, I can, like, refer you to the psychologist.

None of them took me up on it.

We offered to find, like, a psychologist to do, like, five sessions or something in their hometown, and nobody took me up on that either.

Just because I was really kind of concerned with, like, okay, I don't want this to just be an experience of, like,

here's somebody's name on the internet, like I do want people to get help and like, have a good life that they're not feeling the urge to pretend that they have cancer on the internet, you know, like, and I don't want to be the type of person that's just like, I heard from so many producers and stuff like that, while I was writing my blog that wanted to do TV shows, and the vast majority of them were

all right, we're going to have you hide in the bushes.

And this person comes out and you're, you're going to jump.

And I was like, have you read my blog?

Like jump out and say, I know that you're, you're pretending to be Amy Marshall online.

And you have like the catfish, the catfish ambush.

It's just like, I don't have, I'm not intimidating in any way.

And like, just, it just, it was such a bummer.

I mean, like, like,

it's good to talk to you and hear you say that because it's really hard for people to get it because it's, it's such a black and white issue for so many people.