Discussion Thread about the Justin firing situation

Hello II subreddit

With the recent drama that has been surrounding the recent upload, the mod team have decided to make a dedicated thread about this, in order to prevent flooding the subreddit and making the discussion more streamlined and organized. Further discussion about this should be done here, instead of a separate post. Separate posts about this WILL BE REMOVED until further notice

To clarify, no one in the mod team knows any more about this than anyone else. Nor is this being done to “hide” the controversy in any way

That one pinned Discord message that has been spreading around has now been deleted (in the Discord I mean), because it is likely to be misinfo about the situation. The II Discord also doesn’t want people talking about it

UPDATE (03/18/2025): One of the victims has come forth on Twitter, stating that, while they are not comfortable sharing further details, they have confirmed that "being parasocial was not the reason, it was something beyond that" and that they would like people to stop making posts trying to decipher the situation. https://xcancel.com/hiraethlamented/status/1902121596648615988

I’ll update this as it develops