Well /bbg/, it's been 5 and a half years. I have a confession. The oldest and longest serving bonbibros might still remember old lore from 2019:
> seth is exposed as pedo, kicked out of discord
> we find out bonbi is still talking to him
> bonbi leaves discord
> months pass, people think they finally stopped talking to each other
> june 2019
> the existence of a server known as "the garden" where bonbi was continuing to hang out with discord orbiters (oh, and i think seth was there too?) gets leaked https://archived.moe/wsg/thread/2923312/#2923907
> I made the post. I was the leaker
> in doing so, i slandered the members of the server and stirred up drama
As a result, from what I remember,
> her trust in the discord members is broken, she fades away from discord
> gets even closer to seth, who is able to move in with her
> bonbi being otherwise lonely allows emiru to come into the picture
> emiru puts her on the lewds path
> years go by, here we are today
> bonbi sex tape incoming
I'm sorry anons. For all of the OGs, who have been around for 6 years, I'm sorry. We've all watched this train wreck in slow-motion over time.
The part I played in bonbi's story was a small one; the existence of the garden would've leaked eventually, but I was the one to actually make the post. In the years that followed, I actually came to know a bit well some of the people who were involved: perci, giordo, kicks, ricehat, deepsauce, speedy, and others. Even though they may have been "orbiters" I think they were all fundamentally good people (except for maybe speedy who had some controversies later) who I have no doubt were much better influences on Bonbi than seth or emiru were.
Every couple months when I think about Bonbi again and check back here, there is a part of me that thinks about what could've happened - what was the Good Ending for Bonbi? Maybe Bonbi could've had good, albeit long-distance online friends. Knowing who they are, I think they could've encouraged her to get a real job, help her find something she's good at to make a career out of besides sex work, and maybe she could've paid for college being responsible with her patreon bucks. Maybe she could've made real friends in her community and live a normal life with healthy relationships.
I was 18 and just starting college when this whole bonbi arc started on /wsg/. Since then I've graduated, got a great job, got in a much better physical shape, had a girlfriend, traveled abroad, and i have a pretty tight-knit band of real life friends. My biggest regrets in life are of course regarding my ex-gf, but leaking this petty discord shit is otherwise up there behind that.
I failed to protect her smile. I'm sorry bonbi.