The only real question is whether this was an official op of Warcampaign leadership or someone outside the "core command" pursuing their own agenda but possessing a solid idea of WC's internal structure. Both are plausible. I have a few pieces of evidence that have led me to this conclusion:
At
2:19 in the video uploaded on to
@VIkkiVerse 's channel, Praetorian mentions Sketch Therapy as the favored scapegoat and pariah for Warcampaign operations because they can "get him to do things" while plausibly denying culpability as "Sketch is not a member of Warcampaign". Praetorian doesn't spell it out but there's the unstated lack of stability on Sketch's part making any outlandish conspiracies on his part be dismissed as the claims of an unwell man. To indicate how effective this tactic was, to quote Frog, "Sketch is a conspiracy theorist". Now, Liam is also "adjacent" to Warcampaign while independent, also open to conspiracy theories and thus also ideal as someone who can be used and discarded while maintaining plausible deniability.
All this starts a couple weeks
before the first episode of
Live with Liam when Sketch Therapy broke the WC conditioning and escaped the containment zone he was placed in because,
in Panboy's words, that he's "become a bit of a starfucker", which could and
should be read as possessing loyalties to people like Frog and Malin instead of Warcampaign in the pre-existing cold war between the JACK show and WC. Sketch did not understand why a group nominally in Comicsgate would treat loyalty to people like Jon Malin as grounds for suspicion, but any alarms Sketch Therapy raised to the outside world dismissed because they're coming from the pariah that is Sketch. However, Sketch's wildly stochastic behavior did eliminate him as a usable asset by Warcampaign, at least according to the Praetorian theory. #freesketch
According to Liam, it was immediately
after the Jon Malin/Rob Cacey incident that he was contacted by the mysterious anonymous hacker. There are two plausible explanations for this: one, the person was out of the loop regarding Sketch and the situation regarding Jon Malin and only became aware of it on Liam's show, implying that the hacker was not on the inside track as the leaders logically would have activated their backup asset, Liam, as soon as Sketch removed himself from the board. However, the alternate explanation is that WC ringleaders could not have reasonably anticipated Jon Malin's meltdown on Liam's show and were activating Liam to launder their kompromat on unnamed targets presumably in a similar way that Sketch was.
While both are prone to conspiratorial thinking in a way that makes them vulnerable, Liam is hardly interchangeable with Sketch Therapy. The blunt methods of giving Liam a hammer and directing him towards an enemy did not work; Liam and his lofty goals to end the nebulous "conflict" even he was able to perceive while isolated and redeem Comicsgate would not be helped by airing out personal information, the "CG nuclear codes" if you will, and he sat on it.
But the most telling bit of circumstantial evidence though is when the demands and attempts to shut down Liam and his show coincide with the rapid disintegration of Warcampaign's influence within Comicsgate generally
and Liam specifically due to intervention by Frog. The first attempt at logging into Liam's account that he mentioned on-air was on
Comicsgate Core #4, the episode immediately following
the Frog/Panboy implosion and
official declaration of Ro and Pan no longer being CG and Liam's declaration that he was stepping away from the drama and refusing to launder material after all. Considering how well this all worked for the manipulator's faction and unable to take it out on any of the other parties, it's not hard to imagine.
For any members of Warcampaign reading this, I'd be extremely careful about clicking links or accepting files on your discord if I were you. And this warning is doubled if you're merely visiting the place now that it's open.
