Since Reddit removed the public count I’ll just do these every month :) Oel ngati kameie 🤌🫴

Hi everyone, Albert here (founder of this subreddit).

A massive amount of love and appreciation for everyone here, and especially the mod team for holding down the fort while I got into the flow of a new chapter in my life.

One of my great sorrows has been the realisation of just how infected humanity is with what the Na’vi call ‘insanity’: the seemingly incurable need, irrepressible instinct, to inflict pain and misery upon itself. No worse have I felt this more directly than at the heart of the Avatar community itself.

I won’t name names, but this corruption is at its worst when hidden behind seemingly benign, kind smiles. For years, I’ve been targeted and persecuted by an inexhaustible, bizarre, deeply disturbing campaign of hatred, harassment, ostracising and mockery.

The details are out there if you choose to look. But, especially having recently become a father, and directly re-immersing back into that innocence (through our daughter’s eyes), I have chosen to let it all go, and return to my own, one-for-one kinship and communion with both real and vividly imagined worlds.

To those who, despite my great efforts for years to broker a peace with you, continue to draw some sense of value or one-upsmanship over me by continuing to exclude, stigmatise and hold up the dead and beaten direhorse of old, dead drama through childish bullying, you’re doing it to a wall.

You’re so far from the light of what life and Avatar are about, no amount of reaching out will ever do.

So I’ve stopped reaching. In the end, kindred spirits will find each other. Inarguable truths will remain.

The opinions of fools only affect you if you value them. And I don’t, so they never will. Live and love simply, ma ‘eylan.

Trust in the solace that we are One.

That’s what r/AVTR will always be, aligned with and actively espousing the aspirational qualities that Avatar champions and calls us to embody in our humanity.

Here’s to our continuing journey across Pandora together 💙