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In July 2024, Lemuria created Katherine Hessen, an OC. Hessen is a fictional politician, who according to his spam messages, "killed 450,000 kids in Galsi", a parody of earlier messages from anons that read "{{wpd|Kamala Harris|Kamala}} has killed X,000 kids in Gaza", and thus, a parallel version of {{Wpd|Gaza war|the real-world conflict between Israel and Hamas}}. Hessen and Harris both have the same initials. He also posted lore about Hessen; <!-- this looks incomplete, a semicolon implies that more text will follow it -->

This spam would last several months, targeting not only chat but also the canvas, destroying art. In November of 2024, [[PC_KOSA]] (a discord user) exposed Lemuria on the OWOT server as the one behind the Katherine Hessen spam. When PC_KOSA first confronted him, Lemuria reacted surprisingly angry and repeatedly told him to "fuck off" and started wastebasket reacting all of his messages.

 

PC_KOSA then listed incredibly deep and verifiable evidence:

* Katherine Hessen spam happens when Lemuria is online (examples listed below, all within 2024):

* On May 3rd of 2024, Lemuria sent 2 messages about the word “Katherine” in the OWOT discord server.

* When the first Katherine Hessen spam occurred (July 29th, 2024) it happened 5 days after someone mentioned the city of Hessen to Lemuria.

* Lemuria’s and the spammer’s writing style is also very similar.

* Lemuria was more vocal about the spam than anyone, which is strange because when other spam happened, he wasn't as vocal. This is likely him attempting to create discussion of the Katherine Hessen spam, in turn giving him attention through the alternate identity.

After this evidence was shown on the OWOT server, Lemuria began to spam cat pictures in an attempt to change the topic and push the messages away from sight. Lemuria also was very aggressive and snappy, pressuring PC_KOSA to delete the messages and that he should only discuss the spammer unless he has Lemuria’s permission. Lemuria has reacted this way sparsely towards other things, but he has never spammed pictures in response to something other than this one instance.

On June 5th of 2025, d9eoead confronted Lemuria about him being the Katherine Hessen spammer. In response to this, Lemuria became snappy, aggressive, and repeatedly tried to change the topic and push the blame away from himself. Using the evidence that PC_KOSA has given, d9eoead has contacted the moderators about Lemuria being the Katherine Hessen spammer, saying that he must be punished with a ban from the OWOT server.

Lemuria continued to officially deny authorship of Hessen, until October 4, 2025, when he issued a confession and apology in the OWOT Discord server.

Notice of Authorship Confession: I was the Katherine Hessen spammer.

I, Lemuria, officially confess to being the author of Katherine Hessen, and the responsible party behind all the instances of Katherine Hessen spam. For the uninitiated, this spam took place around June 2025. This was one of the major actions that led to Fern issuing me a 75-day ban in *Lemuria v. Concerned Parties*. This mental health break and ban has helped me see the errors of my past actions.

I have continued to develop Hessen and the universe she lives in, privately.

I decided today to correct the record and to give up the fight; since timings and evidence line up against me pretty well and have for months.

I apologize for the harm done to the canvas and to the chat by my reprehensible actions.

On July 10, 2025, [[Fern]] invited [[d9eoead]] to begin arbitration against Lemuria for his various actions over the past year, in OWOT's first and only ''ad hoc'' arbitration case. After seven days of deliberation, Fern issued Lemuria a 75-day ban from the server, which lasted until September 30, 2025. This was Lemuria's first period of major inactivity; though he remained sporadically active on the OWOT website and wiki during the period. He also framed the ban as a "mental health break" and "vacation", due to not having to fight endless dramas for those 75 days.

After the end of the first ban, Lemuria was put in a reconsideration period. Originally meant to last 30 days, it was meant to see if Lemuria's behavior or personality had sufficiently changed over the past 75 days, and if the issues that led to his original ban in July remained. It lasted until November 22, due to the time commitment involved in reviewing all of Lemuria's messages throughout the month. Lemuria failed the period, and his account was restricted again. On November 29, 2025, Lemuria left the server on his own after he learned in [[Tatejo]]'s Discord server that his ban was going to be permanent. Fern had not yet written her final ruling, which meant that before this, Lemuria's account was in a state of "limbo".