Well hello SG community,
It's been a while since I've been on here and I realized I never said a proper goodbye. Words can't describe how thankful I am for the few friends I've made here, @reznoritis was a friend I loved dearly and I'll always be thankful for @zen who was the last person I worked with and made always feel at home whenever I'd talk to her and @leemalee who was the first person I talked to here.
I always meant to leave SG in peace and leave my sets here, unfortunately considering what has come out recently I don't think I'm comfortable even doing that.
I started as a hopeful in 2016, I joined here after being in a toxic relationship where I was at my lowest and felt like nothing. I thought SG would help me in my confidence and for a while it did. I loved everyone I met thru this community and I grew to love myself and I was happy for a good while...but the longer I stayed I saw a few flaws that made me feel uneasy. I have nothing but positive things to say with the people I worked with personally but I won't sit here and use that to put the experience of other models on the side, so I'm glad members and models are speaking up.
The negativity I mainly felt was how much of a clique SG really is and no matter how active I was, or how many photos I've submitted to threads to be shared on official SG socials...getting the attention from HQ has always been proven difficult. I remember always seeing concerns from both members and models of favoritism that happens here and it's absolutely apparent no matter how much @missy dismisses it or backing up her favs no matter how unsafe they are.
SG and @missy like to scream and how accepting and diverse they are but show little to nothing for it.
from 2016-2019 I've gotten little to nothing for anything I've done no matter who I worked with or talked to, no matter how much you follow the rules to be shared...the rules don't apply for any of their favorites. I spent so much time and money as a hopeful and eventually I realized how unhealthy it was having to compare myself and fit into the mold that SG has for their models, having to fight to get the attention of @missy and everyone in HQ to even be promoted to grow a fanbase you need to get the likes they are looking for.
Fuck it but I'm gonna bring this up. does anyone remember when SG refused to turn @leemalee pink after she was featured in a Christmas SOTD till both members and models spoke up till they eventually did??
There is so much more that happens here and @charmed spoke amazingly about it in their recent blog that I fully agree with
SG hasn't been a safe and positive space in a long time and these recent actions just show they don't really care about anyone.
If this blog post gets be archived then so be it, I've emotionally and mentally left SG in 2019 and I'm at peace.
My IG is oh.selena if you wanna keep up with me, I'll be emailing SG to remove my sets and I don't feel comfortable using them as content for free anymore since I've gotten absolutely nothing for them, so if they are still up then...welp
good luck sg...hope you learn to listen and do better.
-Selin