Actually, getting a rough idea of when Melton started in on Aaron would be helpful, because there is pedo "joke" shit from Melton dating back well over a decade ago. This excuse I am seeing that "Melton is only doing it to try and get a rise out of Aaron" is absolute bullshit.
so Melton (THE QUEEN!!) started in on Steel toe accidently because of a feud he started covering Chad Zumock.
during this time that Melton was covering chad, chad was having his initial beef with STMS.
That particular feud started because chad, and this is off the top of my head, said that everyone who was trying to grab onto the Stuttering John train was biting off of WATP, or ROTC (one of those two...i forgot). That "everyone" included Steel Toe (who had started covering john as well). Chad said this on Misery Loves Company (i think)
Aaron had this, and took umbrage with that. So, he wanted to beef with chad which lead to the infamous "don't ever quit making fun of chad" quote from april (Spoiler- chad buried STMS, and April cried like a bitch)
Now while Melton was covering chad, he saw the utter cringe that was STMS (the coverage of chad that melton was alogging included chad's opening salvo against STMS)
Timeline wise this was around this time last year, melton started really heavily covering them. The "Steel Toe Shoebox" series on the NLO channel can be more around the official start of Melton's Alogging of STMS, and I want to say that was around July 2023ish
and no- melton couldn't care less about Aaron personally.
His alogging of aaron doesn't come from a personal place, nor should this be considered any sort of "bloodfued"
..he just cares that he finally has eyes on his show for once......before he hitched his wagon onto the dabbleverse (which steel toe ARE in) nobody watched his show
also, melton IS in the dabblverse (as much as he doesn't want to admit it because the Dabbleverse is for boomers, and "edge niggas" like melton hate to admit that their new found fame is because of 45 year old women, and rando boomers)
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