@sethblaidd

would just like to say i agree that bambosh's words and testimony abt the negotiation process ARE very damning and should be acknowledged more i think. i personally all but forgot about that screenshot in the rollercoaster of reading the article (and feeling like almost none of the accusations from gio tracked), i apologise for that + the lack of consideration towards something that was clearly incredibly stressful for them.

bc i completely agree, if that's even like, mostly true wrt how hussie goes about legal proceedings (esp with, unlike gio's established bad blood, bambosh seems to have done exactly fuck all to "deserve" any legal pushback at all) it's pretty damning. and unlike claims made about hussie's 'control' over the HICU etc. it would seem to have precedent considering the aggressive legal strategy pursued over sarah z's videos.

i still have a lot of doubts about what the day to day legal conversations were about (mainly because the timeline as @fralexion summarised it sounds completely insane, and i just cannot fathom how a deadlock as simple as 'we're in a catch-22 here and can't proceed until gio gets the NDA' could possibly drag on for half a year. it's not even that gio wouldn't sign it, but that gio didn't have it? what?). i guess since reading gio's article makes me feel like im getting half of the story at best, i feel like even bambosh's statement raises more questions than it answers. is that level of incompetence even believable...?

[though wrt to 'why gio when other homestuck mirrors exist' i would just note, like @sword said, that gio is the only person that im aware of who tied their personal brand + accomplishments to a homestuck mirror. like, the url for it had giovanh in it, there was a gio dropdown, watermark, etc. that more than explains the terms of the negotiation to me. it was in no way something that could be officially liscenced without granting that same legitimacy to gio and their articles.]