I Was Canceled.

I was canceled, banned, removed, deleted. I’m gone.

A few days ago, I logged into my Wattpad account to check my statistics on my reads and I was doing well. My story, My Bestfriend has broken 50K reads and was sitting at 52.8K reads, the last time I had checked it. The “hidden gem”, Dirty Little Secrets, was still making a mark, with over 6K reads. My other stories were doing okay; as they have been. In the last 3 months, I have averaged 200+ reads a day... which to me... was absolutely amazing. The growth at which I was gaining readers was astonishing. I was overjoyed and really honored, to say the least. That afternoon, I went to log back in to check my stats (I’m a little addicted to watching stats, sue me) and I couldn’t log in. I received this notice: The username or email address you provided is not associated with an active Wattpad account. What? I know that my username, email, and password are all correct because I keep them written down in my notebook so I ALWAYS have them readily available for when I time out and need to log back into sites. I decide to follow my link that I have saved to my Wattpad profile and, yet again, I receive a notice: User not found. This user no longer exists, or is only visible to a selected audience.

What in the actual fuck? I have had this same Wattpad account since 2016. I have never had a single issue with them. I have no idea what is going on. I dig through my emails and hope that I can find some kind of account information email telling me what the hell is going on. Nothing. Nothing in spam. Nothing, nowhere. I literally can feel myself becoming beside myself. I know that it’s a saying but I felt like I was separating into another being; watching myself sink. Where is my profile? Where are my stories? What about my readers? I had so many questions and no idea what to do.

I went to Wattpad Support and placed a ticket asking for any kind of insight as to why my profile cannot be found and why I can’t log in. I get a reply from the Support Team. It’s a generic response. Basically, it states that my story and/or account was deleted due to some sort of violation. Along with a list of every violation that could possibly get you deleted, which are: Banned/Explicit Content, Copyright Infringement, Hate or Harassment, Spam, Underage Use. They finished the email by basically stating, “now, figure out what you did because we’re closing this issue”. I tried to do a follow-up and I was told that my case was closed, even though, I didn’t feel it was resolved. I put in another support ticket and received the same generic email response. I’m just gone.

I worked 6 years to finally get the uptick and reads that I had just started to get, and now, it’s all gone. I’m distraught. I know it’s not a big deal but it was to me, it was a great feeling knowing that 200+ people were reading my story each and every day! I still don’t know what rule I violated because I’ve always written the same content and I label it for mature audiences. I make sure all of my characters are of age and consent. I don’t use the community on Wattpad so I’m not spamming or harassing in any way. I just don’t know what I did wrong and no one wants to give me any damn information. I don’t exist.

I’ve been nothing before and I’ve started with 0 reads on all of my stories so I can rebuild and I’m going to but this was really upsetting to me and I thought so much of Wattpad, only to be utterly disappointed. I won’t be using that platform anymore and I won’t recommend it to anyone that I know. I’ll find a new platform for my stories and find a new following. I just wish I could redirect all the readers that are looking for me.

Getting canceled makes me famous, right?