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!