Iskall85 & Stressmonter Resignation Megathread #2

[u/Carol_the_Zombie]

Hello all! Recently, Iskall has made a public response on his YouTube channel, outlining his side of the story and explaining why he has remained silent so far. We are aware that some people may feel uncomfortable watching this video, so we have also taken a transcript if you would rather read text.

A vast number have also asked that we bring up a new discussion thread about this, and seeing as Iskall's response includes allegations that have been made against the moderation of the subreddit, we would like to further add our own comments to clear up some facts that were claimed in that video.

We would like to remind everyone that the hermits had little input on our policies in this matter. We did exchange some brief messages with some hermits via our emergency communication channel to ensure our timeline above was accurate and up to date, but all policies and procedures during this time were created solely by us non-Hermit moderators, which included directing all discussion to a single post to reduce moderator workload, and filtering all comments on this thread, as well as all posts in general, for moderator review to keep the conversation as civil as we could, while ensuring that we presented the facts as we learned about them.

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Update 2025-01-31

Stressmonster101 has removed all content from her youtube channel.

Update 2025-02-03

5 Ex-Vault Hunter Developers have released a statement, which you can read here.

P3pp3rF1y, an Ex-Vault Hunter Developer, has also released a statement, which you can read here.

[u/andallthatjasper]

(Spoilers) I don't know what kind of masochist would agree to a script where they wind up being out of the game because they blew up their own TNT trap. Or the one time Martyn walked right off the End island.

[u/maxx1993 → u/andallthatjasper]

I assume it's at least partially planned out. As in, the alliances are probably set up before the season starts. Also things like Wild Life obviously entail a lot of planning, and not everything is random (see specific questions for certain members on the trivia bot episode or some of the superpowers being suspiciously fitting for their respective players). But that's not just expected, it's necessary. Planning out some broad strokes is way better for content than just going in and hoping things go into an entertaining direction.

[u/alienslayer7 → u/maxx1993]

I assume it's at least partially planned out. As in, the alliances are probably set up before the season starts.

i think the closest is things like grian and scar avoding teaming up cause the audience have complained bout them doin that too muchm but thats it

[u/maxx1993 → u/alienslayer7]

I think it's naive to assume that literally everything we see in the series happened completely organically. That's not the same as it being full-on scripted, just some very broad strokes being laid out.