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Good evening, everyone. My plan was to not discuss the whole situation right now any further. Like many of you, we wanted to keep this whole thing from dragging out.

So we set our piece. Steve from Gamer's Nexus wrote a manifesto that could probably be best summed up as no you.

And then it was done. Or so we thought. Shortly before Wancho, Louis Rossman, released an hour-long hit piece, and in a now-deleted comment, Steve mentioned he had seen the video before it went live, making it clear that, at the very least, he was involved in reviewing this video before publication.

When other creators reached out to us in support, we explicitly discouraged any escalation while Steve seems to be doing the opposite.

So here we are, more or less forced to respond yet again, but we'll keep it much, much shorter this time.

Steve asked me to direct any further communications about his ethical breach and persistent defamatory statements to his lawyer.

As I clearly stated before, I don't have a lawyer involved, and I don't want one involved.

I wrote last week's address myself with feedback from my team, and this much shorter wrap-up will come from me as well.

The core issue has not been addressed at all.

Because of ethical and process error, Steve

published false and damaging information about a competitor. Right of reply matters, both because

it is essential for accurate reporting and because scandal travels much faster and is a lot

stickier in people's minds than the, oh, oops, never mind that comes out when the allegations are found to be false.

There's actually a good thread on the subreddit that you guys can check out.

That is not the visual for it, but that's fine.

The point is that this is so much worse now.

Faced with the unavoidable fact that he got it wrong and caused a bunch of damage with his actions,

Steve has outright refused to apologize, correct, or retract any of his false statements.

That's next level, man.

I am extremely grateful that so many of you are seeing how misrepresentative the original reporting was,

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