Fans of the animation are divided on its move to the mainstream. While some are excited, others are worried that the close connection between creators and fans will now be broken.
Anonymous superfan Anomie, creator of the popular multi-player Drek’s Game, said on Twitter:
So Ledwell’s long-expected sell out’s underway. Looks like everything fans loved will be sacrificed for cash. Prepare for the worst, Inkhearts.
<Moderator Channel>
<6 February 2013 21.41>
<Anomie, Hartella, Fiendy1, Worm28>
Anomie: Did you see The Buzz quoted me?
Hartella: lol. You’re famous!
Anomie: I was already famous
Anomie: everyone in the fandom wants to know who Anomie is
Hartella: that’s true, we do!
Fiendy1: I still can’t understand why your faithful mods can’t know
Anomie: I have my reasons.
Anomie: Told you they were going to go to Netflix, though, didn’t I?
Hartella: How do you always know what’s going to happen next?!
Anomie: I’m a genius. Anyway, I think we’re going to need 2-3 new moderators, we’re getting more and more traffic in here
Anomie: Might ask that girl Paperwhite. She seems intelligent.
Hartella: LordDrek’s been playing longer and I like him a lot.
Anomie: what d’you mean, you ‘like him a lot’?
Hartella: well he seems quite nice and he’s a huge fan of the cartoon and the game.
Anomie: I don’t want any real life friends in here. Rule 14, remember? Total anonymity.
Hartella: I don’t know him in real life, he just seems a good guy!
Anomie: ok I’ll ask him and Paperwhite. And maybe Vilepechora, he’s always in here, he can earn his keep
Hartella: don’t you have to check with Morehouse?
Anomie: why?
Anomie: he’ll be happy with whatever I decide
Anomie: I’m the famous one, don’t forget
Hartella: lol.
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Hartella: Where is Morehouse, anyway? He hasn’t been in much lately.
Anomie: He’ll be back, don’t worry about that.
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<6 February 2013 21.42>
<Fiendy1 invites Worm28>
<Worm28 joins the channel>
Fiendy1: doesn’t get any more modest, does she? ‘I’m a genius’
Worm28: Anomie ?
Fiendy1: who else?
Worm28: you still think Anomie ‘s a girl ?
Fiendy1: she’s definitely a girl, I can tell, from things she says
Worm28: Morehouse knows Anomie in real life and says he ‘s a man
Fiendy1: only to throw everyone off the scent
Worm28: Anomie ’s someone , right ?
Fiendy1: Everyone’s someone
Worm28: I mean like an insider on the Ink Black Heart
Fiendy1: Maybe. I don’t know
Worm28: I wish they hadn ‘t left YouTube . I haven ‘t got Netflix . I cried when I heard
Fiendy1: I was sad too but Anomie needs to stop slagging off L******. She’ll end up shutting us down
Worm28: omg don ‘t say that I ’d die
Edie Ledwell’s Agent Confirms Hospitalisation
Following days of rumours, Allan Yeoman, agent of writer/animator Edie Ledwell, has confirmed that the Ink Black Heart co-creator was hospitalised on the night of 24 May, but has now returned home.
In a statement, Yeoman, who runs creative agency AYCA, said:
‘At Edie Ledwell’s request, we confirm that she was admitted to hospital on May 24 and has since been discharged. Edie thanks fans for their concern and support and requests privacy to focus on her health.’
Fan speculation has been rife since press reports that police and ambulance were called to the animator’s flat shortly after midnight on the 24th, with eye witnesses claiming Ledwell was unconscious as she was stretchered to the ambulance.
The Ink Black Heart fandom, which has been dubbed ‘toxic’ due to their online behaviour, was divided in response to news of Ledwell’s hospitalisation. While most fans expressed concern, some trolls drew criticism for suggesting that Ledwell had faked a suicide attempt to garner sympathy…
<Private channel>
<28 May 2014 23.03>
Paperwhite: so L****** really did try and kill herself
Morehouse: looks like it
Paperwhite: shit that’s so sad
Morehouse: yeah
Paperwhite: have you talked to Anomie?
Morehouse: not yet
Morehouse: I think he’s avoiding me
Paperwhite: why?
Morehouse: because I told him to lay off L****** on Twitter
Paperwhite: you don’t seriously think that’s why why she did it? Twitter trolls?
Morehouse: I don’t know, but it can’t have helped, being constantly called a sell-out and a traitor
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Paperwhite: you’re so sweet
Morehouse: Am I?!
Paperwhite: decent, I mean
Paperwhite: you’re not even pissed off that Anomie gets all the credit for the game
Morehouse: let him have it
Morehouse: There’s more to life than having a load of followers on fucking Twitter
Paperwhite: lol you’re so mature. I mean for real, no snark. You are.
Paperwhite: Can I ask you something?
Morehouse: Go on
Paperwhite: Is Anomie definitely a bloke?
Morehouse: yeah of course. Why are you asking that?
Paperwhite: Fiendy1 told me the other day he thinks Anomie’s a girl
Paperwhite: he kind of hinted you and Anomie are together
Morehouse: Fiendy1’s a shit-stirrer, you don’t want to listen to a word he says about me or Anomie.
Paperwhite: Hartella told me you’d fallen out with Fiendy1
Morehouse: yeah. He’s an immature prick sometimes.
Morehouse: hang on, Anomie’s arrived
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