Inbox

“ ‘Important message regarding your student loans’, which I don’t have… delete. ‘Latest updates from-’ a news blog I unsubscribed from last year… delete.” Susan mumbled to herself as she cycled through her email, picking out the obvious chaff from things that needed to be saved.

IJustWannaFly: are you getting more emails since we started doing movie reviews?

The message from Elliot wasn’t entirely unexpected, though the topic wasn’t something she thought she’d see for a while yet. 

TrillHitchhiker: Not particularly.

TrillHitchhiker: I’ve had a few that have managed to track me down, but most of my ‘fan mail’ has been in the form of comments on our videos.

TrillHitchhiker: Mostly I stopped reading them after hitting the comments about how I need to eat a sandwich.

She took another long sip of her lemonade while Elliot typed. Gods bless him, he needed to learn where the shift key was. At least he was usually better about it when he had a physical keyboard - she had a feeling he was on mobile at the moment. 

IJustWannaFly: so I guess its just me then?

TrillHitchhiker: Probably. How are they getting your email, anyway?

TrillHitchhiker: You haven’t put it up on the videos.

TrillHitchhiker: And we don’t exactly have a ‘contact us’ page anywhere. 

IJustWannaFly: I don’t know!

IJustWannaFly: maybe my facespace account?

TrillHitchhiker: Facespace. 

TrillHitchhiker: I can imagine your details getting leaked from that page. 

TrillHitchhiker: You left it on a comment there, or some such? 

IJustWannaFly: uh

IJustWannaFly: well I mean its kind of right there on my page

He wasn’t that dense, was he? 

TrillHitchhiker: You have your email set to ‘publicly visible’  on your Facespace.

IJustWannaFly: yes? 

TrillHitchhiker: …is your page set to ‘friends only’?

IJustWannaFly: no?

TrillHitchhiker: How many ‘fan mails’ did you wake up to?

IJustWannaFly: 3000ish?

IJustWannaFly: but like half are from the same address

TrillHitchhiker: Burn the address. 

TrillHitchhiker: Make a new one. Do not put it on any social media.

TrillHitchhiker: Salt the earth and move on.

IJustWannaFly: is that really necessary? 

TrillHitchhiker: SALT THE EARTH AND MOVE ON.

IJustWannaFly: we only have 1000 subscribers. it isn’t like that’s this big a deal is it?

TrillHitchhiker: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TheReviewShow

TrillHitchhiker: We have a TV Tropes page.

TrillHitchhiker: Have you checked our subscriber count since that went online? 

IJustWannaFly: oh

TrillHitchhiker: That is the first drip of a breaking dam.

TrillHitchhiker: New email. 

IJustWannaFly: right

Susan sipped her lemonade again. Poor Elliot. Still, he’d learn. Next time he wouldn’t make a rookie mistake like that. 

That was about when she started receiving the Private Message notifications from TrekBoard.

Story by Mod Zee.