@zeyguns

> i did not read anything in gio's article to be painting you as some sort of "villain" or painting themselves as a "folk hero" per se.

I'm going to be honest, there's quite a bit but to directly point to one section that gives all the examples I'm about to talk about, it's "Gio Era – 2024-2025"

Gio very clearly goes on about how his "heart is pure and cause is righteous", says Hussie and Miles repeatedly lied and were nasty to him, but goes on about how he's "going to be as amenable as anyone possibly could be, and if they turned nasty again, it’d be them turning nasty again.". Furthermore, saying "I decided to play it out. If they were going to attack us I wouldn’t be able to stop them, but I determined the project wouldn’t collapse because I didn’t want to do the legwork." tries to make himself look like he's knowingly putting himself into a negative situation to be a hero. That's very clearly him trying to paint a picture of himself as good and Andrew AND Miles as the villains.

Since HCU was ultimately shut down, did we actually lose Homestuck forever? No. Want to know why? Because he wasn't the only one with it archived. With that section, Gio is essentially painting himself as a martyr for a cause of preservation when, in truth, multiple others had their own preserved versions of the Homestuck site which HAVEN'T been met with the same litigations as the UHC had been. There's multiple accessible forks for the UHC, one of which is an officially-maintained one.

And I will say that this bit starting now is a fair bit of conjecture but I somewhat think it'd be rather foolish in the case the actual major things Gio brought up were entirely true to have chosen to run to his blog and post this giant hit piece instead of taking his evidence to the court of law. Others have stated that being pushed to sign documents without being allowed to read them is illegal. THAT should've been a slam-dunk case in Gio's favor, even with the copyright minefield of hosting a preservation project like the UHC. But instead of legal action, what was pursued was making a gigantic call-out post that is very strongly worded to the point of it being very easy to argue is libel.