This reply was originally posted August 9th, 2025, but I have edited it to remove mention of one of the women the blog post mentions because she has requested to not be dragged into this even if to defend her.

I'm honestly kind of baffled at how many people just ate up gio's post as gospel. The html "recreations" of chat logs already don't make him look good and don't sell the story he tells, when he decides to start talking about concrete demands made he suddenly isn't willing to "dignify" them with more chatlog recreations and the tone shifts from this pseudo-objective professionalism to that of a reddit callout post as he acts as if being asked to try even a little to remedy bad blood is an untenable ultimatum, then it shifts back into this "I'm not touching you" behavior where he's insisting if people hate homestuck workers after seeing his posts its only because they deserve it for being evil (while denying that harassment campaigns perpetuate themselves by using any negative reaction as justification for further harassment). Then it finally (80% of the way in or so) gets into the legal proceedings. And all throughout this he's using language that's as sexually charged as possible, taking every opportunity to talk about how clearly hussie just wants to dominate him and be serviced by him. Using language about domestic abuse and sexual violence over this doesn't sit right with me.

The story it tells all by itself is a team that is rightfully wary of him if the blog post existing how it's written is anything to go by but is still willing to put aside that past (and according to his own speculation offer him a job maintaining the homestuck website?) if he is willing to do the same.

I really just find it hard to come away buying a narrative that isn't supported by the chat logs he did provide and kind of just relies on a circular logic of "if this interpretation of the events is correct then it is true" that also requires you to ignore all the other issues with tone and comparing himself to holocaust victims and openly admitting that he wants another writer's career destroyed.

Gio's own blog post took me from being unsure what to think of him to sure that I do not trust him, and short of any smoking guns (because they certainly weren't in that blog post) I imagine it will remain that way.

There's a lot of angles in which this sucks from, and all I can really say further on it is that I wish bambosh, the HICU, and FRAF the best. I hope your response can help this blow over and it becomes possible to well and truly let the ugliness of the past be the past.