Aaron's videos appear to be restored, somewhat. The flag to set them all to private might be in the process of being reversed as we speak.
This afternoon I broke my personal rule of not being directly involved with the people on this forum and spoke to Aaron about recovering his account. Talking to him is extremely difficult when you are trying to get him to focus on one thing and one thing only. I was able to go through the account recovery process on Google, however it could not be completed because my personal computer is not recognized by Google as one of the places Aaron has accessed his account from. As such, I would need to get him to complete it on his end. Unfortunately I wasn't able to keep his attention and walk him through it, probably because the process is grueling and he just shut down. He stopped responding to me.
I've also spoken to his sister Sarah who is a bit more spry and conversational. She has informed me that everyone on their side is pretty understandably pissed off about this whole ordeal. They're also angry and somewhat frightened about the Farms because of the "Autistics will be ridiculed" message on the sign-up page -- I've tried to explain how Aaron is someone we're actually fond of and we don't look kindly on those who harass him, and that the message in question is more in regards to people who obsess over cartoons and start fights with people. I've explained to her that I've done my best to ensure that nobody actually goes and gives Aaron a hard time or leaves mean comments on his videos. I can't enforce that, and I know that there will be people who purposefully harass others (obviously), but it's the best I can do.
That said, I would not be surprised if Sarah or someone else opens an account here in the near future. If that happens, don't be a fucking dick to them. Aaron might be selfish and lazy at times, but he's harmless. He's no ADF or Nick Bate or anything like that, just some guy who uploads dumb jokes about Trump and videos of him taking medication or singing Barney. The McCluske's certainly have the wrong impression about this website, or at least in the manner in which we handle Aaron.
The short of it is that Aaron has his account back and I've given him as much info as I can, in simple English, about keeping his account safe and locked down. For what it's worth, this is over. Finally.
( I will update the OP at some point later.)
