{"id":97,"date":"2025-01-16T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrah.domains.skidmore.edu\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-01-18T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T16:37:04","slug":"dear-haters-i-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrahjusufoski.com\/index.php\/dear-haters-i-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Haters, I Won."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know you\u2019re watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know you\u2019ve been lurking in the shadows, waiting for me to fail, waiting for me to crumble under the weight of everything you threw at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You thought I wouldn\u2019t make it. You wanted<\/strong> me to disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You wanted the gay kid to stay small. To stay silent. To stay scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here I am. Louder than ever. Bigger than ever. Unstoppable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And guess what? I won.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 7 Years of Hell You Put Me Through? Cute.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You thought you broke me when you bullied me for seven years straight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every insult. Every shove. Every rumor whispered behind my back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You tried so hard to make me hate myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You tried so hard to convince me that I was nothing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let me tell you something about queer people like me: we don\u2019t break. We evolve.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For every time you laughed at me, I got sharper.
For every time you tried to tear me down, I built myself back stronger.
For every time you said, You\u2019ll never be anything<\/em>, I proved you dead wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I\u2019m building an empire. And where are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still watching. Still obsessed. Still miserable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abandoned, But Never Defeated<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You thought throwing me away would end me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 16, when my own family turned their backs on me, I should have fallen apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But instead, I rose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I applied to UWC with nothing but pure rage and ambition<\/strong> in my heart, and I got in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got into a school where my queerness wasn\u2019t something to hide\u2014it was something to celebrate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where difference wasn\u2019t a weakness\u2014it was power<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And from there? I took over.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked harder than any of you ever could. I built my name from the ground up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, at Skidmore, I\u2019m turning my story into a revolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SlayHood<\/a>: The Thing You Never Saw Coming<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I bet you thought you could silence me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bet you thought you could erase me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But instead, I built Slayhood<\/strong>\u2014a platform where people like me don\u2019t just exist, we take up space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where every queer kid who\u2019s ever felt alone, every abandoned soul, every voice that was told to shut up\u2014gets a microphone instead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slayhood isn\u2019t just a blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s my way of saying fuck you<\/strong> to everyone who thought I wouldn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a home for every single person who has ever been told they don\u2019t belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the best part? It\u2019s only getting started.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To My Haters: Keep Watching. I\u2019m Just Getting Started.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You didn\u2019t break me. You made me bulletproof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now? I\u2019m thriving<\/strong>. I\u2019m winning<\/strong>. I\u2019m unstoppable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So sit back, refresh the page, and watch me slay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SlayHood is going live soon. And I am never shutting up again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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