His subreddit is outright dismissing it as an "infowars-like" conspiracy theory.
Anyway I think it's very interesting how everyone jumps to "this is like Qanon or Infowars" the second they see something they disagree with. That's the tactic Olly
used during his appearance in a pro-vaccine video discussed in the article,
in the same video he also likens gender critical feminists to "Evangelical flat-earthers".
Actually, if you check out some of the threads I posted, their initial responses were very different. At first they were like
: "SFW he accepted money from an NGO? It's for a good cause, so who gives a shit?". Which then begs the question: if being sponsored by such a shady NGO is supposedly so uncontroversial and such an obvious case of "the end justifies the means", why hide it? Why not come out and announce up-front that you are collabing with this NGO to promote their talking points? Because they knew that people would be looking into the NGO and would discover that it appears to be an intel count-out? It seems like it's a lot harder for intel to set up convincing cut-outs in the age of the Internet than it used to be.
But as you can see, the BreadTube cult-members quickly gave up their initial
"yeah, SFW he's an NGO mouthpiece, it's for a good cause" for this more kneejerk
"OMG QANON CONSPIRACIES" deflection.
I am still left with many many questions though. I still want to know how Peter Coffin was the one who knew about all this in advance of everyone else. AFAIK Peter Coffin was the first ex-BreadTuber who came out and said that a certain BreadTuber (whom Peter Coffin didn't name at the time) had accepted money from an NGO to put Covid-19 messages in their videos. The second ex-BreadTuber who repeated this claim was Youtuber Kelly Zahos/Spectress, but she took that video down when she nuked her channel. I'll assume Kelly Zehos got that information from Peter Coffin, but how did Peter Coffin learn that this was going on? Did someone pass along the leaked documents to Peter Coffin first before contacting the GrayZone journalists? Or did the GrayZone journalists contact Peter Coffin and was he the one who gave them the leaked documents? So many questions.
Edit: Here are my previous KF posts where I mentioned Kelly Zahos.
Here is my first post about Kelly Zahos in the BreadTube thread, 2nd of June 2020:
SJW TRAs are having a public witchburning roasting an SJW called Kelly Zahos. I know this person is a hardcore ContraPoints fan because I see them in the chat on Livestreams all the fucking time.
ContraPoints superfan Kelly Zahos is discovering what Nyk's SJW TRA cult is really like
In this 10th of April 2021, I quote from the (now gone) Kelly Zahos video where she mentioned BreadTubers receiving money from NGOs to put messages in their videos:
I projected a need for love and community onto these pundits, because I felt like I could considering the very intimate and personal way with which they interact with their audience. But there people are paid propagandists for the DNC. I have friends of mine who were once deeply embedded within the BreadTube milieu, far more than I ever was, who have shown me e-mails of NGOs approaching them offering very large sums of money for them to put public health information in their videos. There is really no way to tell the extent to which individual donors and NGOs make up the funding for people like ContraPoints but you can be certain that it's at least some percentage of their support. These people get more views than most network television. Needless to say, the people on TV are not your friends. So I encourage you to hold powerful people accountable and scrutinize their politics and their public actions. Think for your fucking self, and by all means, don't listen to me either.
In this post at the time, responding to Kelly's video, I said I hope she doxxes the e-mails about the NGO approaching BreadTubers for collabs:
I still want BreadTube escapee Kelly Zahos to doxx those e-mails where her BreadTuber friend (who I suspect is Ballkicker) was offered money by an NGO to put "public health messages" in his videos. Kelly Zahos has been lurking at KF clearly, Ohai Kelly:
18th of April, 2021
So according to this timeline, Kelly Zahos already knew back in April of 2021 that certain BreadTubers had been offered money by NGOs to put "public health information" in their videos. This means that Kelly Zahos already knew this months before the GrayZone exposé of Oliver's involvement with Valent Projects. But how did Kelly know this? My assumption is that it was Peter Coffin who told Kelly about this and showed her the e-mails, since he and Kelly had quit BreadTube around the same time.
So, was Peter Coffin perhaps also the source of the leaked documents for the GrayZone exposé? One still wonders...