And that's why he will hold a special place in my heart as the cow who brought me here.
Unrelated personal tangent but I first heard about this site during the keffals gofundme fraud drama stuff a few years back, checked it out, but didn't bother making an account until Mald, purely because after the onlyfangs stuff there was SO much drama to track on Mald, and the fact that he reads this site.
Mald is.....not as bad as keffals imo or alot of other lolcows on this site, but he has way more "negative character traits"(AI slop content incoming)
If you look at the google AI list of negative traits, you can kind of see every single one of them apply to Mald besides pessimism, cynicism(which I would sort of group with pessimism) and antisocial. I think there's quite alot of other lolcows on here that I would only put a few of these traits on, even if the things they have done, from what the public knows, is worse than Mald. Mald on the other hand is a very comprehensive lolcow. I think another comprehensive lolcow would be boogie, who probably also hits most of these traits, but I'd say Mald is far more manipulative than boogie, or atleast, more successful at it.
And, just imo, I think the only reason pessimism doesn't apply to Mald is because of how successful he has been, from being born wealthy to failing upwards. Maybe if he hits more bumps in the row, that trait will appear too.
For someone like Keffals, I can only have faith that the authorities will eventually investigate them and they'll either be exonerated or face the consequences for their actions, like Destiny's current legal battles over revenge porn etc.
With Mald, the consequences are relatively minor outside of kickstarter refunds/hiring a new dev for heartbound, because the only thing he needs to do is work on these "negative character traits" in therapy or something. But he and his team are doubling down on everything that he refuses to consider it, and will just keep being milked from now on.