1/2 SaveOFMD Crew would like to offer our unreserved apologies to everyone in the OFMD fandom for the harm caused by the poorly conceived week 2 call to action we posted yesterday.
We have provided the original call to action below.
It was inappropriate for us to recommend that users send large files of any kind to Max. It was doubly inappropriate for us to propose that fanworks—podfic or otherwise—would be suitable for this purpose. Finally, it was even more inappropriate to suggest that explicit works should be used for this purpose.
Without going into more detail that might seem like justification, it was never the original intent to call for fans to send other peoples’ work. The original idea was for someone in our Discord server to write and record a podfic specifically for this action, and the "explicit" part was thrown in during brainstorming. This plan didn't go forward, and yet pieces of it remained without being removed as they should have been, leaving the only logical conclusion to be that we were suggesting the use of fans’ podfic. Regardless of our intentions, we know that this is the message that we sent. The whole call to action was misguided, and should never have made it through our internal planning process.
The post was out for less than an hour, so we would like to reassure fic writers and podfic creators as much as possible that it is unlikely that our negligence resulted in any real action. No one at SaveOFMD Crew sent out any emails, neither with nor without attachments.
We at SaveOFMD Crew are canceling the remainder of our Pride month campaign. We have taken down the week 2 CTAs and will not be moving forward with weeks 3 or 4 either. For the remainder of June, we will be focused on doing right by the charitable efforts we have committed to support: the Fiber Arts Brigade and their auction for SAGE USA, as well as the separate SAGE USA ThriveAsACrew fundraiser.
