AFlyingNun here, the redditor he criticized. I'm sick of being messaged about this and talking about this, but I wanted to provide the most blatant, important example of how he misrepresented me: NKB says this is about making sure people understand that not all the blame lies with one person and it's ridiculous to blame Emil for all things bad at Bethesda. Correct! ....And that makes it that much more weird that, you can go to my post right now, and see I have an entire final section in this post addressing that exact point. I also reply to some of the critical comments he points at *in agreement* with some of their criticisms, but he never touches on this. You can also find comments where I express remorse that my tone is disrespectful, because I never thought Emil might see the post and - had I known - yes I would be more respectful. I still think Emil can't write, but a respectful tone is of course better (and deserved) if you're addressing someone directly. Seems odd to me that all the parts of my post that reflect one of NKB's core points of the video are just conveniently left out. That he missed some of my comments, fine, it can happen, but the specific part of the main post echo'ing what he claims the video is for...? What, he made a vid without even reading the full post he was covering?! All while saying he's "on a quest for the truth?" There's more ways he misrepresents me, but I think at the end of the day, that's the big issue: he actively misrepresents us in ways that require gross negligence on his part, whilst his examples of *us* "misrepresenting" Emil often boil down to downright dishonest technicalities based on the semantics or cherry-picking of what was said/written, with zero effort on his part to try and understand intent, tone or the message being conveyed. It's hard not to watch his video and think "hypocrisy."

NOT THE GIRLFRIEND METAPHOR AGAIN AAAGH

"KZfaqrs are allowed to say whatever they want, and usually, they get away with it." I don't feel that that was ironic. It felt more like gloating. Essentially as more drama bait.

23:00 What's worse than the messiah analogy is that Emille acts like the Dragonborn is the first one like that when the Nerevarine was already Ashlander Jesus. Maybe they do keep a design document, but the stuff that definitely gets tossed between games would warrant an internal lore document at least. Reference how things are supposed to fit in the story instead of making the lore fit the writing, but then Starfield had a clean slate and it still became a game based on "coc" and doors disguised as anything but.

The part where he implied that you would go hurt Emil or something was shockingly inappropriate

Never gets very upset when people criticize his ex- girlfriend's new boyfriend.

when quoting something/ putting in video example, visually probably should put some kind of filter or visual to let the viewer know. i like putting old-film like filter & put on resonant filter SFX on audio to represent that. makes it a bit easier to distinguish between you and the clips you use (think you once did a simple B&W filter some time ago!)

I can't believe I got tricked into listening to that cringe metaphor again. Curseee youuu videogame essayists!

Thank you Creetosis for making us watch Never's girlfriend metaphor again you'll be hearing from my therapist

>shorter than 8 hours wtf

FUCKING LOL. his accusation of plagiarism is literally him saying, “HEY YOU SAID A SIMILAR PHRASE TO ME” thats so insanely stupid.

Your name is creetosis and you make video essays, clearly you are ripping off matthewmatosis.

Yeah man it's totally 3 youtubers' fault that the only cultural currency starfield has is people talking about how it sucks I'd never heard of neverknowsbest before but that painful ex-girlfriend analogy makes me think that's probably for the best

It really was a trap. When i got to the part where he said you cant handle criticism and he doubts you will with your response. So no matter how you respond he will say "oh hes acting like a child" or "haha i made him act mature".

Never has seemingly lost his mind recently. Used to like his stuff. It all started with his last video on bad games. That thing was also horrible.

In Emil's ramble he doesn't remember about the cult living in the concert hall with a quest and characters attached, but remembers the random Super Mutant Behemoth named Swan. Totally not indicative of his priorities as a writer.

This is the second time I've been ambushed by NKB's cringe girlfriend metaphor because of Patrician. Damn you Cree

If I had a nickel for every time I had to bear that "skyrim=my waifu" analogy I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but I'm very upset it's happened twice.

It’s ridiculous that being a bit mean and a bit rude now supposedly means ‘bad essayist’. People are soft as hell. They want everyone to fit into one character.

A thing you didn't mention but is interesting to me is how people insist on the point on how "videogame projects have many people working for them, so it's unreasonable to put all blame on one person" as if that one person wasn't the lead writer and designer and so, in fact, the person ultimately responsible for narrative and design decisions and philosophy Of course he isn't the *only* responsible, but all criticism directed at him has been valid and well reasoned

I know this is not the point of this video, but hearing Emil speak about paper airplanes again reminded me of how out of touch he is. Maybe if his writing was better people wouldn't turn it into paper airplanes? When a game has good writing I can spend hours looking into medieval alchemical symbolism, Slavic mythology, European folklore and traditions of the Kam people just to figure out all the references to things that were mentioned in a game in passing. So Emil should blame the quality of his own work rather than gamers' habits.

That cringe monologue comparing Elder Scrolls to a woman is going down in history.

Isn't is incredible that the things NKB claims people did to Emil is what he actually does to other people?

I like how he complains about misrepresentation but then makes a long video based entirely on him misrepresenting other people.

I was willing to give his video a chance because I wanted him to point out actual issues that channels he mentions have. The moment the shilling and twitter-defense began I knew that won't be it lmao

Gaming Analysis Wars: A Emil Pagliarulo Story

I dont think I've ever seen someone try to paint a game, or any piece of media for that matter, in a positive light through the lens of cuckoldry. I'll admit, it certainly is a unique approach.

You barely even swore! How are they gonna compile clips to make you look angry now? 😢

He's trying to be Hbomberguy and failing at it

It's so weird, so many obvious baits, I'm actually so curious whatever endgame NKB had in mind

NeverKnowsBest acknowledges that Emil wrote Fallout 3 and Fallout 4's main stories but then also stated he isn't convinced Emil is a bad writer. That tells you everything you need to know, lol.

47:42 I can even give you a recent supporting example of Bethesda Fan Psychosis; some angry Starfield fans conspired to dox and then SWAT gaming youtuber Luke Stephens, for daring to not like the game. They actually dug up his PREVIOUS address which was then needlessly SWATted for NO reason.

Hbomberguy unintentionally ruined the word "plagiarism" I guess. Since his vid, everyone is screaming it at each other.

"Great American Novel"? What an ego. Ironic point considering half the complaint of his stories is that the player is forced to sit through them.

I love how supporters of NKB’s video call the subjects of it pseudo-intellectual armchair critics etc etc. As if NKB doesn’t do the exact same thing, however you want to call it. I like NKB’s content enough, but what he’s done here is pathetic and harmful.

Bethesda fans are a new level of insane

Keep holding Emil and his writing team accountable Cree. People act like criticism will destroy the thing criticized, but the point is to get better media by pointing out flaws. Instead, Emil decided to deflect and blame others.

If somebody wants to defend a bad game, cool. More power to them. If somebody wants to defend a bad game by peacefully responding to critics, cool. More power to them. If somebody wants to defend a bad game by attacking critics by being disingenuous, that's where we draw the line.

Another issue I found with NKB's vid was his criticism of the first content creator. NKB goes to say that "no documentation" is a lie, and talks about Dev Wikis. So, I expect proof of a Bethesda Dev Wiki to disprove the "no design doc" claim. Instead, NKB presents a paragraph from an interview where Emil states "each director updates the documentation as they go along, but that information is always out of date. As a result, the game IS the documentation.". So, instead of "no documentation", in this interview, Emil strongly implies that documentation is "functionally useless" since it will be out of date, and you should just use the game itself as "documentation". For all intents and purposes "no documentation" and "functionally useless documentation" seems like a semantic difference, as they both will have the same result. Not sure this is the "gotcha" NKB presents it to be.

The fact that you reached out and he wouldn’t even respond shows that his only goal was to start drama to gain more attention for his channel.

NeverKnowsBest created a strawman and spent basically that entire section of the video about Creetosis trying (and failing) to make ad-hominems. Never is truly a master of debate.

Oh God...hearing that guy's girlfriend metaphor...also "x is what you deserve" is a common expression and summation. How exactly is that plagiarism? Are folks gonna call people using common words arranged in specific order that's commonly used plagiarism now? Are we gonna say "making a video about the same subject I did" is plagiarism now?

He has somehow managed to come across as a bigger Bethesda shill than MrMattyPlays, that is honestly impressive.

Anyone else hate this typical "video-essayist" style of talking with ... it´s deliberatley ... slow and ... thoughtful tone with ... pointless pauses and ... overemotive language ... just so you can ... look really deep and ... philosophical.

I just can't get past the condescension and sense in superiority in NKB's voice, all while talking about Creetosis having "malicious intent" and "genuine hatred". I think it's said a bit too often, but it really sounds like projection.

Emil is a good level and quest designer, when he has a direction, but he’s a terrible writer, and shouldn’t be in charge like he is.

I look forward to the day when “…if your response is longer than the actual *insert whatever here*, then you have no right to complain…” is retired. Then again, shills and liars are plentiful online, so I’ll keep dreaming.

I absolutely cannot believe you didn’t say “owl be the judge of that” before getting into the video

Good god that man is romantically into a *videogame* and is saying that *others* should grow up.

Christ that ending, I haven't cringed like that in a long, long time.

This TES metaphor... I don't have words to explain how wrong it is. Why would he insult himself like that? I can't help but feel bad for him.

One thing I noticed from the last video he did about bad games was that whatever merit his points had throughout the video went out the window the second he started to make the video a defense piece for Gollum and other bad if not outright scam games. This lets you know that whenever there is any sort of conflict between corporations in gaming and consumers, NKB will likely always side with the corporations, even when there is clear deception going on. To him, it doesn't matter if a game comes out that is unfinished, buggy, or even a scam, in his eyes it is okay because people got some laughs from youtube videos mocking it and because some stores offer refunds. But of course, his video largely lamented the fact that people seemed to make fun of bad games to begin with, that videos that showed bad games tended to do better than ones that showed good games, and his conclusion was basically a pseudo intellectual ramble that painted gamers as not realizing that devs are people and himself as being above all of it.

What I don't understand is, why did Emil say the paper airplanes line to begin with? There are countless examples of games with great stories that people talk about all the time. There are games decades old that people still to this very day talk about. Fallout 1 for example. Where did he get this mentality? People praised him for the Dark Brotherhood quest. I don't really remember how much criticism he got from Skyrim, but it couldn't have been that much to get this bothered by players. It's like this is some kind of last word revenge against players for daring to tell him his stories are bad. I can't believe this is the case because there is no way some one is that petty. There has to be something missing here.

Damn the joker really plagiarised nine inch nail's head like a hole with the get what you deserve line

I genuinely wonder if this is actual bait or he is just blinded over those sweet bathesda games he loved and so gets hurt everytime someone is a bit mean.

This was the best possible way to respond to disingenuous “criticism”. Calmly, and clearly proving (with receipts)that every accusation was BS!

It’s crazy what some people will do for an ounce of attention online.

Damn, I was offered his video but couldn't watch after like 10 minutes, the Bethesda apologism was gut wrenching

I honestly don't see what's wrong with saying Emil rambles. Because he fucking does lmao

I used to watch his content, until that Cyberpunk video. Dude basically created his own reality to be a CDPR shill and blame disappointed costumers. Glad that CDPR heard the rightfully disappointed fans instead of the shill youtuber and worked hard to make it right.

Imagine bootlicking Bethesda and Emil... I'm glad ppl like Patrician, Creetosis and PrivateSessions have for years rung the alarm regarding Bethesda's sellout and decline. After Morrowind, Bethesda stopped making RPGs, dumbing their games down further and further just to appeal to the lowest common denominator in order to sell more copies, and I'm glad they kept being called out. Why would anyone simp for those sellouts.

never thought i would see the day where NeverKnowsBest of all people calls Creetosis a "low quality youtuber" lmao

NeverKnowsBest messed up his video by insinuating that what was said regarding Emil's practices was defamation worthy... it's not. Even if he's using some other documentation system, it's _not_ working as his games are filled with bad, and at times, self-contradictory writing. Taking what he, Emil, has said and telling others "since he doesn't like documentation, this explains why the games he's been the lead writer of are so bad"... is a logical conclusion. Not defamation. I suggest, if you haven't for this video, explain to NKB what the legalities regarding "defamation". A few years back, Jams Tullos made a video "F@scism in Sci-fi"... in that video he outright accused David Weber _and_ Steve White to be White Nationalists who want all Muslims to be killed. One part of his "evidence" for this claim is his other claim that since the novel _The Shiva Option_ was published 5 months after 9/11, they got together on 9/12 to begin writing the novel. Anyone who was paying attention and knew anything about publishing, knew James was talking out of his ass using ridiculous, and outright false, claims to support his other claims. I e-mailed Mr. Weber himself, and we've concluded that suing Mr. James wouldn't be worth it. Partially because Mr. Weber would need to prove what James said was damaging and partly, all James needs to do is say "oops, sorry" and remove the explicit comments about Mr. Weber and Mr. White. He can still have his opinions about the _novels_ and how the novels, in his opinion, have pro-fascist and pro-genocide messaging, all without mentioning the author's intent. Thus, the accusation is _implicit_ instead of explicit. *Shrugs* Taken together, NKB should apologize for accusing people of _defaming_ Emil and for protecting a _senior_ member at Bugthesda who can't write well, or recognize good writing.... which are his job as _Leader Writer._ Edit: He, NKB, should also apologize for defaming people too.

Yep, I agree with you on this. It's unfortunate that NKB's very message about not attacking/mischaracterizing an individual whether or not you have legit criticisms is contradicted by his own ego. Whether he realizes it or not, taking you, PatricianTV, Zaric Zhakran, and Asmongold out of context to make his point creates a level of hypocrisy that puts his entire video into question. While the message itself is sound, the fact he didn't even censor the name of the Reddit poster (who he thought was likely a child) then made a very low effort comment that he'd ban people for harassing this individual shows he was either very lazy or was fine with people attacking them since he has no way of knowing who among his commentors were to do it. The people who have decided to go to the youtubers mentioned to attack/mischaracterize them in their comment sections have missed the entire point of NKB's video themselves, showing their own hypocrisy when they start calling everyone liers, losers, etc. It's why I wish that if NKB hadn't meant for the harrasment to happen, he would instead have taken everyone's full arguments without naming any single person, replied to each one they had against Emil, and showed that whether or not he agreed with them that none of these criticisms justify attacking of any single individual. As I mentioned before, I do think the message itself is fine as I don't think character assassination is a good way of getting points across if all someone wants is a better product. I think everyone can agree that death threats are the dumbest way for anyone to try to get what they want too, especially when it comes to trying to critique something. Plus it's just uncreative if you're trying to troll, at least show some effort if all you're looking for is a rise out of people. Unfortunately, NKB seems to have gone down a rabbit hole of youtube drama in an attempt to defend Emil and cowardly jab at a few people he personally disliked. He may not have used vitriol himself but knowingly or not, he used his audience as a loaded weapon and fired them at each person he named in his video. People sent over from NKB will try to justify their actions by claiming it's karma for the "vitriol / lies" these youtubers used against Emil but that's just an excuse for mob mentality and childish behavior.

In trying to defend Emil in such bad faith, he ended up worsening the situation a lot... I really couldn't imagine a worse defense of someone that actually had a point and undermined its own point...

this whole situation is so frustrating bc up until he posted that video I actually enjoyed multiple of NKB's videos, primarily his older CRPG videos and recent Final Fantasy one, but after this whole faux-drama he kickstarted I can't enjoy his content anymore

Never used to make good videos. Though in his previous one on criticism of bad video games I've noticed he has started to sound like GDELB. In both tone and writing style. Ego seems to have become a problem for him. On this recent video in a pinned comment he specifically blames the dislikes on Asmongold covering his video. Not on the chance that he could possibly have gotten anything wrong.

NKB really lives up to his name and a Hbomberguy MATN wannabe. Also he’s a coward for deleting comments that criticize him

When Never Shill Best started his video talking about pat i was sure that he was gonna get grilled , but when i saw you where mentionned ? I knew that he would be lucky to not have an 8 hour video on his back

For someone whose channel is called NeverKnowBest, I expect him to be more considerate when it comes to interpreting something but this guy just had to get out of his way to misrepresent people just to get attention, Oh well. But as stupid as it is, this idiocy is at least more engaging than anything Emil has written since his that one Oblivion questline.

While having favouritisms and biases may be understandable, there's also a moment when one has to admit a piece of media is too flawed. I still enjoy 'broken' things, like the Hobbit trilogy or Wolfenstein 2009, but there's a limit to everything.

This dudes coming off as an abused housewife... You insulted my god, have a defamatory hot video. I dont know who this guy is but man.. its bad. Creetosis, i support you in this. I was very angry about Starfield. Admittingly being a bugthesda fanboy until that point. And while there are plenty of vids out there attacking Bethesda and/or Starfield, and likely wise defending, you are the only one i found that was non-offensive, non targeting breakdown of the problem. Granted, the vid i found wasnt anything to do about Starfield. It was the vid on Emil. Which i followed up with your in detail breakdown of Fallout. And, it just clicked. All the problems Bethesda has just clicked. The rumors from the recently fired workers that Todd is a workplace tyrant, that the writing team is crippled. Hell, even public faces like Pete just not giving a fuck. Everyone put thier chips on CDProjectRed. I put mine on Bethesda. Seems we all lost the bet

I lost all faith in Never when he thought Elden Ring was a bad game because it let him accidentally wander into high level areas and get his ass kicked.

PatricianTV: 20 minutes Creetosis: 1 h Let's see who makes the longest retrospective about this thing. Neverknowsbest leads with 2 hours.

Glad to see you decided to make a response. Never's video showed up in my recommendations after I watched a few Starfield critiques the other day... I'd thought it might be interesting to hear a counterargument, but the further I got into the video the more apparent it became that he was just doing exactly what he was accusing others of. I think I made it as far as the "call to action" line before I stopped watching entirely. Never knows exactly what he was doing there, lobbing an accusation like that... so many times in the video, you can just hear the wink he's giving the audience in his voice as he feigns innocent intentions. What a slimy video. I'm sure it will resonate with a lot of diehard Bethesda fans who are mad about Starfield's reception and looking for reasons to dismiss the backlash against Emil's statements as coming from "toxic New Vegas fanboys" or whatever, but hopefully at least some percentage of viewers will see through it.

Well, the name of his channel checks out. After watching part of the original video before hand, I have a theory. I believe he is trying to proactively discredit any creator that has negatively talked about Emil to appeal to Bethesda fans and promote his upcoming Starfield critque. Getting ahead and making any negative video about Starfield or Emil seem dishonest by default. I do not for a minute honestly believe he is doing what he claims and defending Emil from unwarranted backlash, but I do think he's trying to even the odds so to speak.

I'm sorry but Emil put himself in this situation with his twitter rant. The dude posted a series of arrogant and out-of-touch tweets and of course the internet responded. The tweets were made worse by how BGS was responding to negative reviews of their game. People would respond the same way to anyone they bought a product from who answered their criticism in such a way. As Asmon said, people don't care about excuses for a subpar product. They just want what they spent their money on to be good. Saying your customers just don't understand how hard your job is will never be well received. Everyone works hard at their job.

NeverKnowsBest reminds me a lot of PrisonMateLuke in this situation. PML was a commentary KZfaqr who crew to over 100k subs within a year, however he ended up being undone, because of his stupidity and maliciousless. He made bunch of faulse claims against people and - just like NKB in this situation - showed evidence on screen that directly disprove those statements he made. Here is an example: PML and a KZfaqr who he victimized called Hopeless Peaches were having a conversation in Twitter DMs. In his video, PML acused HP of being extremely hostile, agressive and unhinged, however if you were to pause the video and read the screenshots he took you can easaly tell that HE was the 1 being hostile, agressive unhinged and even clueless at the statments that HP made in that convo and not her. Keep in mind that he also acused her of suicide-baiting her audience and when he got called out on it he backpeddled by stating that he actually was acusing her of sympathy-baiting. BTW, HP almost commit suicide over the insane amount of harresment she recieved, but was talked out it.

I really don't get it, I like NeverKnowsBest's videos. But his attempt to go after other people who comment on video games is just.......weird and frankly makes me question if I actually did like his videos and didn't just find his voice soothing enough to fall asleep to.

The guy started this drama cos his channel is failing and there is no reasoning with his fans

That video was so stupid. I left this reply to another comment but I think it sums up my thought on the intent behind it: "Ultimately the purpose of this video is to dismiss all critism of Emil Pagliarulo. If he was just disproving what is actually false fine, but then he starts defending his writing ability which it's obvious to anyone who can read is bad. You need no videos or reddit posts to recognize how bad the writing in every game Pagliarulo has been the lead writer of is. "We don't know what's going on at Bethesda" does nothing to defend the writing quality since it doesn't matter if we know, the writing is still bad. Then he brings up defamation like they don't fail 9/10 times. But ultimately we're no longer allowed to dislike Pagliarulos writing if this narrative takes hold. Which is ridiculous. As you say, he acts like youtubers and Reddit are the only reason one would dislike terrible writing. And the whole game design doc thing, with how disjointed every Bethesda game feels, especially fallout 4 and Starfield there clearly was no overarching vision that the whole company agreed on. This is why when everyone heard the no game docs in Emils speech everyone jumped on it because it explains many issues the games had. It made sense and is a logical conclusion to draw based on the information we have. I for one am not sorry for anything because the writing is awful and you only need the game to see it."

He may have realized it and tried to veer away, but he went right back to it at the last second without even thinking. The jagged pill line, and the analogy he makes beforehand, ooze with contempt for players. That's why I say, "why don't you go write your fucking novel for paperbacks and hardcovers? You don't have to take the job, you don't have to accept the contract, you don't have to write for us." I don't want anyone who thinks this way about players anywhere near a script for a video game.

i mean he already poisoned the well blaming asmongold for any dislikes on the video.... so 1000 keks

NKB's video ended up in my recommended feed and I decided to watch it, because hey, maybe it's a side of the discussion i haven't seen yet? Before the section where he shows a "summary" of Emil's speech was over, I knew the video was going to be a bunch of horseshit. He did some real editing work on making that speech seem coherent. He does lift some valid points, like there being a lot of people being unneccesarily vitriolic against Emil and attack him personally, which I agree is not good. There's enough to criticize about Emil's work without attacking his person. But the vast majority of NKB's video is just him doing the exact thing he is accusing other people for: misrepresenting statements, taking people out of context, and putting words in peoples mouths.

This guy is probably secretly Emil's son or something

I have been looking forward to this. I lost any respect for him after his video

I was talking to Calbeck and another on waiting to see you cover this. NKB stepped on a Landmine as far as im concerned. He could have been smarter on how to handle this, he chose poorly instead. His Emil vid got me to sub to Patrician over it.

NeverKnowsBest… name really checks out.

I hate people who use the I’m a nice guy don’t critique or insult me as a shield While they are 10x more vindictive then their biggest hater

No fuck you Creet I'm not listening to that metaphor again Patrician's response nearly killed me

I tried listening to NKB's essay defending Emil's writing but realized it was actually about playing devil advocate for a Bethesda dev. The best way to defend Emil's writing would be to show good examples of main stories or larger side quests from fallout 3, 4/skyrim/starfield but that's impossible. So NKB decided to do the much easier task of "critiquing" the critics of modern Bethesda games.

Never heard of you before the NKB video, but I was so annoyed with how NKB was trying to get me to hate you just for saying mean things, that you now have a new fan. I doubt I'm the only one

I'm just going to leave a comment here saying NKB is deleting comments criticizing him. I had a good discussion with someone defending Emil and we ended with 'agreeing to disagree' on whether Patrician was actively, maliciously lying about "no design doc" or not, with some criticism of NKB himself as a hypocrite after assuming Patrician made the statement up with malice, and I see a few days later that thread was deleted.

"the game you deserve" is literally just a normal sentence. Everything else in the two sentences was completely different, except "the game you deserve." Does he think he owns that phrase now or something?

Damn, I kind of used to like his content.. Hearing him in this video, with the last two videos he made seeming bit weird for him.. Maybe people speculating about him having some psaychological complications might be right.. Or maybe he was alwas a dick and it simply started to show too much. Hope he gets some help either way.

NKB tried to make a point about the interviews and public talks with Emil being misrepresentations of his character, because they were apparently rushed and he has anxiety, and it was wrong to use the story talk as evidence for bad work ethics. People who have anxiety and stutter all over the place can still deliver an informative presentation if they're confident in their field, as they use slideshows to help convey ideas they have trouble doing verbally. Emil comes off anxious not because he can't speak, but because he has nothing to say. Only someone arrogant would close their speech off with a skit about ignoring reviews and making cash. The presentation reinforced the idea he's a hack, but only the games are needed to prove this.

Even when you use overly colourful language to criticise these people i personally just take it as part of the entertainment aspect of youtube. People coming in the defence of strangers on the internet is just bizarre to me. Its what the kids these days call simping.

I understand why you’d want to respond Cree but at the same time, I feel like NKB’s video was designed for this result in order to drive engagement on his channel. Just my opinion

Its absolutely a trap, hes mentioned in his videos, his gothic video im pretty video was the last one, that hes unsatisfied with the growth of the channel. Hes looking for ways to garner attention for his channel. And sadly hes resorted to drama baiting, shame because i enjoy his retrospectives.

i know someone who lies like this all the time and yes its really disgusting, i cant even talk about anything with them because literally every single sentence is some kind of manipulative lie/strawman or attempt to gaslight me.