Get a job and start anew dude you can still be a human it's not too late

"as an insider" guy who played 4 seasons and got banned for 3 years

This video did not need to be 46 minutes long, a clickbaity/sensational title, voice acting recreation of horrific acts of csam, or spooky music to bring awareness to the issue of predators lurking in an online, niche community.

TF2 is a small community, so CSAM and sexual harassment cases are a lot more prominent. To label the competitive community as a "pedo ring" is incredibly dishonest and misleading! And yes, EVERY WORD MATTERS. You cannot virtue signal "really, the title is all you care about?" with sensitive matters like these. When you want to bring awareness or create a video "for documentation purposes only", you need think carefully about your language or remain neutral if it's truly only for documentation! Don't make such bold and dangerous claims that groups an entire community with a small set of players. Especially when that very community stands up against RGL's decision making.

You also do not need to share or re-create explicit details of the csam cases AT ALL. If you want to teach people how to spot grooming, manipulation, and "ground-testing" strategies predators use, then point people towards the appropriate resources of legitimate organizations that are trained in prevention and trauma response. The recreations were deeply disturbing and served primarily as morbid curiosity than actual learning examples. You were almost there by highlighting how some predators move conversations to 1-on-1 conversations, you could have expanded by giving general examples on how it progresses instead of the direct evidence. This is really no better than the reddit detectives who are in it for the thrill of the investigation rather than actual concern for the victims.

The video had good intentions but it lacked nuance or the proper sensitivity needed to address such an issue. The way you are responding to criticism is also very telling of virtue signaling rather than actual awareness.

The community is deeply disturbed by these cases and the decision making RGL makes, but this approach was horrible. The community action at the end should have been the focus of the entire video because at this point, it is up to us to force RGL to change. Disturbing people will always be around on the internet, unfortunately, but we do not need to know the details of their depravity. The focus should be on protecting vulnerable people, setting up preventions, and keeping predators away from them---not sensationalizing and detailing their horrible acts!

Predators exist outside of the competitive scene---they are incredibly common in the casual community as well! Doing good would be making an informative video on how to spot, prevent, and get support from trusted figures of authority to deal with predators as a vulnerable person on the internet. You can spread awareness without all the graphic details, point people towards the right resources, and NOT fear monger about what is a relatively neutral gaming community.

a bit disingenuous to imply yourself an insider when you have 4 seasons played with a 3 year ban sitting on your account.
also a bit fucked up to get people to voice act victims of this over the top of some shitty spooky copyright free music.

painting a small subset of players as a pedo ring when all of these are their own isolated cases different from the last is also something else.

My guy you can't make a fucking disgusting video like this which is more about the shock value and not the actual crimes and then voice act (in a super weird sexual voice I might add) the messages between these degens and expect anyone but 15 year olds on youtube to take you seriously like you aren't doing this for algo farm like come on get real.

Then throwing the community under the bus here like "everyone that plays comp is a pedo" is such a TMZ move it shows people exactly what you are after and how little you actually know. "I'm not doing this because of the money NO NO NO, its the children I want to protect".

If this was the case you would have actually made the video to reflect this and not just talk about in the last 10 seconds of a 45min video with you sitting on the beach like you've actually accomplished anything by then end.

i like the part of the video where for some reason you take time out of this extremely serious topic to tell me the origins of why highlander is called that because of the movie

Footage of a news report talking about a pedophile being charged and put in jail while there is minecraft gameplay in the background

I'm not going to weigh in on any pedo accusations/confirmations/drama/whatever but one thing I want to bring up is that there have been many problematic people in this scene in the past, and one argument that was posited towards letting them stay in the scene was that without them, comp TF2 would be nothing and would not continue. I'm not going to name names but those who know can probably guess who I'm referring to.

Well, here we are in 2026 and the scene has survived without them. In fact I'd argue given the dead state of game development it's honestly remarkably thrived. The folks who have stuck around and the newcomers that have shown up are doing a way, WAY better job than the ones we kicked out in the past. I've never been more thankful to be a part of, and more proud to be a witness to, that success.