Essentially, someone worked fairly long at making some sort of video art; I couldn’t tell you what was in it cause the art was an epileptic’s strobing nightmare and it nearly knocked me out. I marked the art with an epilepsy warning, then they figured we hated them, as a community, and they left.

So they came back a few days later with a long and winding post which spoke a bit of self-reflection and needing to make amends, and I wrote a reply saying that I’m glad they’re back and I’m glad the acknowledged epileptic people. In the same comments they mentioned they showered me with praise and compliments but that I didn’t do the same in return. I know full well compliments and praise aren’t transactional, they aren’t turns in a board game, and I told her that’s how I roll, but that I prefer sincere gratitude instead, and I hand that out all the time.

And then I was met with this and when I told her not to say the C-word, she deletes her account.

I could have handled this a lot better, but now there’s a member of our community with less support.

based on a brief skim through tanis' comment history from the past day and my memory of who i've seen on here in the past weeks, the drama in question appears to be related to a post from about two weeks ago which some people requested be marked nsfw/spoiler due to concerns about flashing lights and people with epilepsy, and the OOP taking it as a personal criticism of their art.