What happened here was Frog dramatically overestimating his command of the facts regarding Praetorian and the Nerkish debacle. He thought this was going to play out like Liam taking the piss out of Praetorian's denouncement of Warcampaign and Frog on
VikkiVerse and
Mecha McCheese's channels. At some point in Frog's mind, Praetorian being a scapegoat for WC's gayops and manipulation of him ceased being a convenient truth that allowed him to avoid hard choices and triggering his most deepset personal insecurities, and became instead a firmly accepted objective truth. So confident was Frog that he felt he was going to nip the growing WC/JACK conflict in the bud by inviting Cecil and Malin to join in on refuting Praetorian's narrative and preempt them from repeating any such claims themselves in the future, with Mecha McCheese to serve as devil's advocate and Sketch Therapy as backup and expert in all things "Anti-CG", both real and imagined.
It should be said that Cecil and Malin are bereft of any real arguments and ideology of their own, which is what has allowed them to survive in Comicsgate under Frog's wing by being unable to have conflicts based on ideas or thoughts on what Comicsgate should be. Instead they operate mostly on reciprocated loyalty and this has generally allowed Frog to have his way with them when it comes to disputes and arguments. But what he failed to consider was that once that tie of loyalty was broken, as their ties with WC have been, there's no common ground whatsoever holding them together.
Things start to fall apart when Jon Malin joins in and rather than the passive, malleable mind Frog expected, kicks in the door saying
he's already watched the stream that Frog hasn't seen himself and is surprised that Frog is disobeying Ro's orders for a total blackout for the Praetorian expose as "
the video Ro doesn't want anyone in CG to see". Cecil comes out a long, seething silence to say sarcastically that "Warcampaign never doxes", which McCheese offers his receipts of WC member
Sheila Allen sending him phishing links. Frog, nervously sensing the common ground building between McCheese, Cecil and Malin throws out an attack on Praetorian's character and his crimes upon Comicsgate and Frog. Only Sketch responds positively. Malin laughs at Frog, saying that "internal criticism" and "investigating finances" with crowdfunds like
Lonestar or
Vampirella covers are only made one way as Warcampaign have refused to answer any of Praetorian's allegations regarding Vestige's payout structure.
Frog clearly wants to start roasting the Praetorian video as Liam did, but McCheese keeps cutting him off for "childish ad hominems" before he can frame Praetorian as a treacherous liar, and he's getting no help from any of his other panelists. Sketch starts yelling about how he was
also scapegoated by Warcampaign for the gayops against Nerkish, but he in turn cut off by Frog who recounts the "official" recollection of events regarding the "CG Anon" account that deceived Frog into dropping Nerkish for his anti-semitic discord content (with screencaps of Thomas Roiloup in discord, who can now officially take credit for destroying Comicsgate) and about how at the behest of "CG Anon" he warned Nerkish about his dox and anti-semitic content but later realized how this came across as him blackmailing and intimidating Nerkish out of CG. They review the claim that Praetorian wasn't the only person to use the "CG Anon" account; Gat Hanzo also used it to distribute kompromat to Frog and Renfamous.
Cecil pipes up that this means that WC core command gayop'd Nerkish out of CG and delayed
Cash Grab for two years while pretending to be his friend. Sketch Therapy hears the clip about how Warcampaign use him as a patsy for all their activities and unwittingly launder responsibility for their gayops. Frog repeats that Praetorian is an untrustworthy source, but all this clearly bears the ring of truth to people more intimately connected with the affair like Sketch and Cecil. Such as how "Praetorian" got Sketch Therapy blamed for the Nerkish op and kicked from WC, which nonsensically withstood after Praetorian was removed. Or Sketch feeling he's taking blame for things he didn't do. Or how Sketch's sounding the alarm to Frog and TUG weren't acted on (because Frog dismisses Sketch as a conspiracy theorist and TUG was complicit with the whole thing).
When it was clear that he was losing
Sketch Therapy, the colossal scale of Frog's misplay started to sink in. Even Dan Fraga quietly admitted he had watched the Praetorian video and was better prepared than he was for this. Malin started talking about how Fraga was next on their list because "he jumped the gate" and Cecil only doubled down about how he sees through Ro and Pan and that they are trash and always have been. Seeing no way out of this, Frog quickly announced that he was shutting down the stream immediately.
Fall of Rome v2.0 stream fucking when?
:mild shock:
