His justification was that he had befriended a girl on that server and claimed he initially didn’t know she was underage at the time. He said the girl was banned from the server at some point and that she used her “influence” over him to manipulate him into saying intentionally shocking things, specifically getting him to “lie” about dating a nonexistent teenager for shock value. He then admitted he had feelings for the girl despite being made aware she was 16, tried to end the relationship because he knew it was wrong, and said the teenager tried to “blackmail” him to keep him around.