Shinocchi

Fan
Name:	Shinocchi
Alias(es):	Shino, iamshinocchi
Type:	fic writer
Fandoms:	DRAMAtical Murder, Mo Dao Zu Shi, etc.
Communities:
Other:
URL:	website, Archived version; AO3, Archived version
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Shinocchi is a popular fanfic writer who created an AO3 account in 2013. In 2021 multiple fanfic writers came forward with allegations that Shinocchi had harassed them for months or years.

AO3 Fanworks

As of late July 2021, Shinocchi had posted 98 fanfics to AO3 in the following fandoms:

• DRAMAtical Murder - All Media Types (51)
• 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù (37)
• DRAMAtical Murder (Visual Novel) (28)
• sweet pool (4)
• Togainu no Chi (3)
• ツキウタ。 | Tsukiuta. (2)
• 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon) (1)
• Lamento -BEYOND THE VOID- (1)
• Si-Nis-Kanto -至上のソラ- | Si-Nis-Kanto -Shijou no Sora- (Visual Novel) (1)

Shinocchi deleted all of her fanfics from AO3 in late August 2021, and as of August 29, her personal fansite has been set to private.

Notable Fanworks

Shinocchi's bookverse Wangxian fanfics have been recced in several places.

• Ghost of the Past (October 2018)
• Your Worst Enemy (April 2020)

Harassment Allegations

On 24 August 2021 twitter user sweetlolixo, who writes MDZS book-canon Wangxian fanfic, tweeted a link to a 47-page google doc with evidence of how she was the victim of persistent stalking and harassment since March. sweetlolixo became suspicious some time after Shino blocked her on twitter, but then started following her and some of her friends with a private account (luanzanggang). Between May and August sweetlolixo received hateful messages, some anonymous, some from throwaway accounts, on her AO3 works, along with her CuriousCat and Twitter. Many of these comments followed similar themes: that sweetlolixo's Wangxian was heteronormative, that sweetlolixo's fic was OOC or feminizing Wei Wuxian, that sweetlolixo was too influenced by tv canon, that sweetlolixo wasn't Chinese enough, that the commenter was ashamed to be from the same country as sweetlolixo. Sometimes the commenters would pretend to be genuine fans and then say they were disappointed in the writing. Over the course of months sweetlolixo gathered evidence implicating Shino and submitted it to the AO3 Policy & Abuse team. AO3 Abuse investigated and informed sweetlolixo that they had permanently suspended all the accounts associated with the harasser, who was one individual.

Although the team could not directly confirm that Shino was the one responsible, sweetlolixo pointed to Shino's recent announcement that she would no longer post to AO3 as evidence that sweetlolixo's suspicions were correct. More significantly, sweetlolixo shared the screencaps of the twitter DM conversation with the luanzanggang account in which she confronted Shino: the twitter account first claimed to be Shino's sister and a big fan of sweetlolixo, apologized for accidentally offending sweetlolixo and insisted Shino was innocent. Control was then allegedly passed to Shino, who said that she had given the luanzanggang account to her sister, that the sister would be the one responsible for any harassment, but Shino didn't know anything about it. Shino also referenced her own mental suffering, asked why sweetlolixo had a "grudge" against her and accused sweetlolixo of upsetting her sister.

Shino's explanation was greeted with incredulity and amusement by many fans who read the exposé. Comparisons were made to MsScribe. It is unknown whether Shino has a sister.

After fans read the gdoc by sweetlolixo, other MDZS writers including yiqie and cafecliche came forward and said that the comments looked similar to what they, too, had received at various times. rikke reported receiving hate comments from March/April 2019 to the present. AO3 user geragrena reported being harassed with accusations of plagiarism starting in November 2020. Yet other fans came forward to say that Shino had harassed them in previous fandoms, such as DRAMAtical Murder. It seemed that Shino had harassed people going back as far as 2014. A common refrain was that people no longer wanted to write for a fandom after being subject to constant hate. Multiple people hid or deleted their AO3 accounts to get away from the harassers.

MDZS fandom dealt with the realization that one person had harassed so many writers out of the fandom. Fans of Shino felt disappointed or betrayed. Several of the victims pointed out that Shino had been claiming to be a target of harassment herself for years, and people felt embarrassed for having expressed sympathy for Shino in the past. People speculated that Shino's motive was jealousy of other people's talent or popularity.

On August 25 Shinocchi tweeted "I am sorry for all the damage, I have no idea how many people are affected, but if you want to confront me either here or in my DM, I will accept them all." and then interacted with sympathetic followers. Twitter user mirrorofprinces shared screencap evidence that on her own website Shino was framing herself as a victim of harassment by people with grudges. So Shinocchi tweeted something longer on August 27/28 that more closely resembled an admission of guilt, then deleted her twitter account. People did not believe it to be a sincere apology. mirrorofprinces commented that Shino's apology was vague and shared more screencap evidence that Shino was still trying to frame herself as the victim on her own website.

Additionally, on November 21, 2021, sweetlolixo tweeted that shinocchi is allegedly still harassing her, citing the return of the @iamshinocchi account on Twitter and the high numbers of private quote-retweets on her tweets.

Further Reading

Victim Testimonies

• Over the past few months, I have been relentlessly targeted, stalked and harassed in fandom., ^{Archived version} tweet by sweetlolixo, 2021-08-24
• . Okay well some things have been explained, ^{Archived version} tweet by bee_off_main, 2021-08-25
• Concerning the recent fandom drama, I have to say that the extent of targeted harassment that person has been involved in is staggering but not entirely surprising for me., ^{Archived version} tweet by BigBadRedPanda, 2021-08-25
• In full support of @sweetlolixo's courage to speak up against their abuser, someone that I've personally known and befriended with 5 years ago, I also wish to speak up and share my story, ^{Archived version} tweet by pvc_parfait, 2021-08-25
• as more people have spoken up to corroborate @sweetlolixo’s document, i’ve decided to do so as well, ^{Archived version} tweet by tothedeaths, 2021-08-25
• As mentioned in my reply to Sally's tweet, I was also a victim of the same kind of abuse around 7 years ago., ^{Archived version} tweet by sleepdrifting, 2021-08-26
• this is ao3 rikke., ^{Archived version} tweet by yilingss, 2021-08-27
• Dine or AO3 user geragrena asked me to share her story., ^{Archived version} tweet by jinzixuans, 2021-08-28
• I believe that this will help me get the closure I need from the whole thing., ^{Archived version} tweet by _oryctolagus, 2021-08-29

Fan Discussions

• Re: discourse thread/stalking and harassment, heads up to mdzs nonas, ^{Archived version} anonymous thread in warlock4warlock, 2021-08-24
• Re: Cnovels - MDZS, ^{Archived version} anonymous thread in fail_fandomanon, 2021-08-24
• Re: Cnovels - MDZS anonymous thread in fail_fandomanon, 2021-08-25
• So, there has been a reckoning in wangxian/mdzs fandom since yesterday, ^{Archived version} tumblr post by spoiledmoonbliss, 2021-08-25
• Part 2 of the Shinocchi Saga, ^{Archived version} tumblr post by spoiledmoonbliss, 2021-08-28

Consequences For Other Fans Named Shino

Due to the many harassment allegations against Shinocchi, at least one fanartist named Shino got harassed on twitter and unlocked their account to say that they were not the same person and wondered if they should change their name because they didn't want to be associated with what Shino had done.

Other fans with similar names decided to change their usernames for fear of being confused with Shinocchi.^{[citation needed]}