Andrea is the asshole who started the alleged "Gay Conversion Therapy" controversy regarding Fire Emblem: Fates. If you're not familiar, it centers around a romance subplot option and involves one of the characters asking for help relaxing since she's awkward around other women, and the main character (a filthy male) suggests a potion to make them see the other girls as guys.
Said scene was a joke. Andrea, however, saw an opportunity. He proceeded to claim that this female character (
who is heterosexual and only has male romantic supports) was a lesbian and was converted to the filthy hetero path through drugs and penis.
Andrea knowingly fucking lied about this and with help from
the usual suspects, started
a massive shitstorm
over a scene that
never fucking existed the way he said it did. Andrea has claimed he's "proven" this repeatedly, and has linked a video (which he's subsequently removed,
of course), and when it became clear people weren't going to put up with him lying, he deleted
every article making his claims.
Pretty much every weeaboo
who reads moonrunes and has taken a look at it has said that his claims are 100% bullshit. This includes a number of independent translation groups that are specifically
trying to retranslate and re-make Fates from scratch with all the slashed content intact (including that which Andrea fucking
caused).
Almost half a dozen different outlets pointed out that Andrea was a lying sack of shit, but because Nintendo of America was eager to ditch criticism and Treehouse was staffed by employees like Alison Rapp,
they couldn't concede to Andrea's faux-outrage fast enough. We then had
a bevy of lolcows bleating over how they had gotten an ever-so-problematic scene that never fucking existed removed from the game. Suffice to say, Andrea is fucking justifiably hated by the Fire Emblem community - even people who were otherwise fans of Treehouse's translation were pissed about this.