Apparently I was busy and missed a lot of the Ian/Karl drama that's 5 days old now. Some of it might overlap with what's been posted, but here it is nonetheless. EDIT: this one is just funny.
Let's all just stop for a moment and think about this.
Not only are Karl and Russell stupid enough to say these things (blaming Ian for not taking part in their children's crusade, yada, yada..) but these two are autistic enough to publish all of these private messages in a Patreon-subscriber Discord, further feeding this months-long shitstorm. This is some high school drama-tier shit. I now fully agree with everyone saying previously in this thread that Karl is just some weirdo who gets hard from starting drama, and being the center of attention. I think even negative attention in some odd way just feeds his already massively inflated ego, it makes him feel important. Otherwise I struggle to explain his bizarre behavior. This man literally turned a stupid petty argument with random anonymous users on the AR15 forum into a bad-PR circus, that has seen him burn all remaining bridges with some of his closest friends, associates, and sponsors. And he has the gall to post this stuff to Discord, while in the same breath accusing Ian of "weaponizing his fanbase". Ironic isn't a strong enough word.
I don't see what future Karl has after other being a generic second-rate guntuber, known as "that one guy Ian used to hang out with", while occasionally feeding us some lolcow type crap on Twitter or Discord.
As a sidenote: Ian at one point in his ~40 years on this earth made a "woman make sandwich" joke! OH THE HORROR!!
I'm so thankful Ian McCollum has finally been outed as the appalling bigot he is. Good job. You got him Karl. Brownells and Varustaleeka are sure to cancel their dealings with him and come groveling for you to take them back now.
Tldr: Karl and Russell have the mother of all victim complexes, and all this negative attention is probably how they get their rocks off.