After posting "A Bizarre Story from the J.Crew Aficionada", I was able to confirm (through my analytic software & her own follow-up actions) who was behind "Katherine"."Katherine" (which is not her real name) has acted passive-aggressively towards me & the JCA blog for sometime. I tried to ignore it, but the more I tried to look the other way the more she came at me. And I am not really sure why. Her actions were neither lovely nor couture.
She recently created her own J.Crew themed blog (originally using a variation of the J.Crew Aficionada URL). She has copied formats and elements, like certain weekly posts, that are unique to the JCA blog. (She has spent hours downloading several images off the JCA blog which she is now using. It's not like I own the images, so I can't complain here.)
I have no need to start a blog war over, of all things, J.Crew. So I made no mind when she went ahead and promoted her J.Crew blog on the JCA blog awhile back. But she crossed a line when she tried to "out" me. An honest mistake it was not. It was vindictive. Why the need to bother with me is crazy! She has never met me, nor communicated with me. I honestly don't understand it. :(
The JCA blog is a fun hobby of mine, so I don't go out of my way to be mean to anyone. Heck, I am not even making money off of this- there's no ads on the site and I have never sold anything on the Great Weekly Exchange. (In fact, I haven't sold anything ever. Mainly out of sheer laziness on my part.) Moreover, I have spent hours answering JCA email on advice about fit and the like.
I started a J.Crew blog over a year ago and never dreamed how many wonderful JCAs I would meet through it. I also did not realize the ugly competition I would end up creating with others who wanted to create their own J.Crew themed blog (those who hated the JCA site but yet (1) advertised their site on the JCA and (2) used a variation of the JCA URL). I have said this before, I will say it again: there's room for all blogs that love J.Crew! And I have many of these fantastic sites listed on the JCA Blog Roll.
I am not the first to have a J.Crew blog. (That title goes to the {fantastic} JCrew-a-holics R Us blog. Which honestly, I hope still comes back- that site's content was freakin' amazing!) More importantly, I won't be the last blog about J.Crew. (Let's be honest, I can't run the JCA forever. I will eventually have to give the reins over to someone else.) So let's all live in harmony.
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