They paid their editor shite wages, asked him to do more work than he was hired for, made him their chauffer, unloaded a lot of personal grievancs on them like he was a therapist even after he said it made him uncomfortable, and eventually move to a more expensive city with hardly much of a raise. Steph’s friend Conrad then slandered Justin by saying they embezzled money. Justin had borrowed, without asking to be fair, a grand for emergency medical stuff which they couldn’t afford with the money they were making working for Steph. Steph then claimed Justin was emotionally abusive, but the abuse seems to be them just getting mad they couldn’t afford to live while Steph was blowing money on arcade cabinets and other tat.

All of this is extremely ironic considering the abuses of the gaming industry Steph calls out, a lot of their behavior has mirrored any scummy CEO in my opinion.

It hurts personally for me, Steph was the last person I had any kind of parasocial relationship with. There were times in my life where I thought “I want to just kill myself but then I’ll miss Mondays show…” But after seeing all that and the way Steph and their friends handled it by firing Justin and throwing him under the bus made me stop watching their YouTube and podcasts. I even threw out all the merch I bought from them. Though I already stopped listening to the main podcast because they kept insisting on invoking Tencent as this yellow scare Chinese menace.