I'm welcome for criticism on this reply if it seems like I misunderstood something but there are a few things I want to talk about. I think the criticism Miles has on the way the article was written was pretty valid. It seems, to me, that Gio focused more on trying to use language that villainizes the Homestuck team than he focused on actually trying to get across information in a concise manner. Part of the villainization was making it seem like every employee was directly under Hussie's thumb. It seemed like his primary goal was to get people angry, rather than to inform people on a shitty situation. And the weird thing is, I do think people would've been angry anyway? Even Miles mentioned Homestuck handled things in a shitty way, but yeah he walked on eggshells talking about that shit because he didn't want to step on the toes of the official response that'll come out... eventually. His response isn't perfect but it's understandable, there's some nuance to be had here.

But, like I said, the article Gio wrote wasn't concise. Everything is so drawn out, filled to the brim with his personal opinions, metaphors, and unnecessary sentences. Not even to MENTION the unnecessary sentences. There's also an overuse of adjectives and metaphors that draw out the word count. He keeps on talking ABOUT what happened instead of saying WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. It's not even until "Abridged", which is the SIXTH section, that you get a bullet point that summarizes anything. By that point Gio has already worked up anyone thoroughly reading the article by talking about abuse, psychological manipulation, fucking, frogs and scorpions, and spending a huge portion of the previous sections talking about themself instead of the events that happened! They just sprinkle in small details here and there so you think you're actually getting somewhere like a clickbait article.

I'm criticizing the writing of the article. Not defending Hussie. Just wanna make that real fucking clear. But going back to criticizing the article, I wanna just, share the ending paragraph for the section "Abuse Tactics."

This is where the first sentence in this reply comes in. This uh. This isn't an abuse tactic? Is it? I guess the concept of having a job is like, inherently abusive, something something capitalism, but that's not the point that this paragraph tries to make.

"There are people whose housing has been dependent on how much they can make Andrew like them!" is a good example of a sentence that isn't necessary, the information it conveys is already implied when Gio mentioned "...an obvious situation of financial dependence, where your livelihood depends on keeping Andrew personally happy." These are also both examples of a sentence that's longer than it needs to be. Talking about people's housing being dependent on their fucking job wasn't necessary. The purpose was to get an emotional response out of people. Even though they're just talking about how you need a job if you want to have a house.

No I don't think Hussie was in the right for demanding Gio delete articles he wrote in the past. I'm not saying that's a valid example of something an employer can ask you to do. Hussie demanding that was super shitty. What I am saying is that Gio wanted to make the "Abuse Tactics" section longer than it needed to be because their goal is to paint Hussie as an abuser rather than just someone who does shitty things. To the point they try and use Hussie just being an employer for people who work on Homestuck projects as evidence that everyone who works for them is in a "cult-like high-control environment." If Hussie does create a work environment like that, if anyone has evidence for that, lemme know. But the fact that Gio was so bad at writing the article makes me skeptical to even believe that! But I haven't always been caught up on the legal troubles that Homestuck team has gone through so I genuinely don't know. My point is that Gio focused so much on making the article inflammatory that I don't see them as a reliable source.

This whole thing reeks with the fact that Gio wants nothing more than for Hussie to get #cancelled. So much so that even though a lot of the things they allege would in fact call for that, I'm curious if their pattern of making things out to be worse than they really are goes deeper, and there's some things they're hiding or just straight up lying about. But I'm only curious about that because of how bad they were at writing. I wouldn't feel that way had they just laid down the facts. Shut the FUCK up about frogs and scorpions.

I think Hussie has done some things that are really shitty that they should be rightfully flamed for. But that's not the same as thinking they're someone who's genuinely evil and abusive. You've read Homestuck. You should know the difference. But that's what Gio thinks of them, and they clearly care more about people agreeing with that than just telling their story. And it worked! Despite how atrociously the article was written, people are talking about how their life's mission is now to kill Hussie instead of just talking about holding them accountable for the things they did wrong.

And seriously. Go through some of the sentences just in the screenshot I posted and play a game where you try and lessen the word count. It really highlights how awful he is at writing. It's fucking hilarious. I was able to take a seventeen word long sentence and turn it into ten lmao.