Hey everyone, stop and think before you reblog this uncritically.
Are the first screenshots upsetting? Yes. Clearly hellsing_ultimate700 is a creep and a predator.
But “Axel Helmig” appears to be a random bassist in Germany who has never been to Colorado. The “four_strings_dude” Instagram account has been active for months, before those screenshots of “hellsing_ultimate700” were taken, and his account is used to like pictures of his German friends and family—no evidence that he’s ever followed or interacted with any of the trans man bodybuilding instagrams that the “hellsing_ultimate700” guy did.
Is there any reason AT ALL to believe that these accounts are in any way affiliated? I can’t find any. @bi-bii-biii do you have any evidence for why you believe they are the same person, other than having the same first name and might think a Bram Stoker character is cool?
The display photo for “hellsing_ultimate700” looks like this, and might be stolen in the first place:
While Axel the German bassist looks like this:
The first man lacks tattoos and seems to have a longer, older face with a wider septum and upturned lips, and has no shoulder tattoos. They don’t look like the same person to me. I think Axel Helmig/four_strings_dude is just some random guy whose face and name are now being dragged through the mud by panicking people.
In any case, as always, be careful who you sleep with, use protection, don’t trust strangers any further than you can throw them even if they are Your Type and say all the right things, get yourselves tested regularly, and don’t let stories of one predator turn you into another serophobic jerk peddling dangerous stereotypes about people with HIV.
