Devi apparently reported my post on Facebook and managed to get it removed...irony or ironies, probably by claiming harassment.Wes Mantooth wrote:Just saw Tom's post about this.
So I'll post it here, where it'll be more likely to show up in Google searches.I shared Dwarfcraft's post and added the following:
Dwarfcraft Devices bought devi ever : fx in 2013, after Devi raised (and blew) $40,000 with a failed Kickstarter. They took what was essentially a run-into-the-ground business, kept what was worth saving, and made the pedals better than they'd ever been.
Devi the person, it seemed was no more. She'd sold Devi Ever : fx, signed a contract, including a non-compete clause, and even claimed to have changed her legal name. The last couple years, she (under various other names) claimed to be in the gaming industry, but mostly just harassed people across the internet on both sides of Gamergate...while begging for money for more, mostly non-materializing, projects.
Now she's back, claiming to be Devi Ever and using the name she sold (and legally changed, if you believe her) to promote her newly-planned pedal line...pending another crowd-funding campaign, of course. Her planned pedal line is made up mostly of the DE:fx designs she sold to Dwarfcraft. She's even posted her planned pedal line and the DE:fx pedals to which they correspond. Contracts aside, that's low and shady. Throughout this, Devi Again has posted countless attacks on Dwarfcraft, from lies to downright vile smears.
Before now, I barely waded into this mess...a few posts on ilovefuzz.com, only after Devi came to the forum where she 1) promoted her return, 2) smeared Dwarfcraft, and 3) spent a few days calling members the n-word, retarded, and more. Telling her to stop the crazy or GTFO put me in her cross-hairs. For days, across FB and Twitter, she repeatedly called me everything from a horrible person to a pedophile--literally tagging FuzzHugger and ilovefuzz.com in tweets that inexplicably accused both of being fronts for child pornography.
Yes, this is how Devi returns to the effects world--attempting to destroy the business she sold, unrepentant for crowd-scamming, and accusing her perceived "rivals" of being pedophiles.
I'm sharing that because Dwarfcraft won't.
Years ago, there were times when Devi was kind and supportive...still a bit dramatic and unpredictable, but I liked that Devi, and we rooted for her better qualities to win out. I haven't seen those qualities in years, since the failed Kickstarter, the constantly cycling fund-raising campaigns, compulsive bridge burning, and this bizarrely vitriolic attack on Dwarfcraft's livelihood.
There are some good DE:fx pedals out there...don't let Devi the person stop you from enjoying those effects. You can separate the person from the pedals. But there -are- companies where the pedals AND the people are upstanding and cool. Also, in the end, I think it'd be better to focus less on Dwarfcraft getting screwed, and instead on the cool story of how Dwarfcraft bought DE:fx and made them better than ever. The best Devi-branded pedals out there have more to do with Dwarfcraft than with someone who sometimes claims her legal name is Devi Ever.
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