After giving it some thought, I've decided I'm not going to be silent while the community makes accusations and speculates about the kind of person I am. After taking all things into consideration please go back to your bridges and have COUNTLESS debates about me, what I said, and the world that you will never fit into that sits just outside your bedroom window. The night the channel got shut down I didn't have a CLUE what had happened and the next morning, as I sat scratching my head it occurred to me that I could make an inquiry to YouTube about the channel since the night before I had added an old email account because I had noticed a lot of videos in our "copyright" folder and wanted to be notified when these were uploaded to try to manage the claims. I'm unable to post the messages YouTube replied with, my guess is, because they are full of links. I'll find a public place to post them and update this info later.
Anyway, earlier that day I sent Eric a message that said "Are you trying to make me quit?" about 30 minutes passed and I got the reply word for word, "Did u hear me say that Jody??? Please don't assume.. I never had a problem keeping it real.. I don't even kno what going on and really don't care. This is game so if you guys cant get over this then call it what you want. Yea organization is cool.. But this is simply a game...Regardless to anything else.. It's just a game.. Its not meant to be taken this seriously or have all these rules . Stop overthink everything and chill.. It is what it is.. At the end of the day your still Jody and Im still Eric" My reply was, "I was over it once my video was posted the way WE MUTUALLY agreed it would be." This wasn't about my voice in the video I have vocal FCs of that song dating back to when it was a fucking RBA file. It was about 2 people talking, coming to an agreement and one of them (Tyler) not honoring it. Since I haven't been very active on the team lately, I was a little surprised when Eric said "It's just a game.. Its not meant to be taken this seriously or have all these rules" because I haven't told anyone to stop doing anything in more than 6 MONTHS! ! I went to the channel to look for some copyright claims and hadn't been on it more than 10 minutes before my browser refreshed and I wasn't logged in anymore. During that 10 minutes I noticed the account status had changed to "Not In Good Standing" since the last time I was on the channel. The message below it said please review your copyright videos, immediate action is required. It appeared We had about 40 videos in copyright infringement status but I wasn't able to look into it further as I was ejected from the channel. I assumed Tyler did it mostly because of what he was saying in the chat but until I got those emails, I honestly thought he was behind some elaborate scheme to frame me for him deleting the channel so the old FBFCs could be redone at his discretion. I gave him WAY too much credit though. HE WAS logged into the channel most likely blocking me from it but I don't think he did anything to the channel. I think YT took it down for copyright violations. Now why would everyone assume I would do something like this when in the past I have never done anything remotely close and have always tried to help this group of players? I have to guess that it's MORE FUN to think I'm a crazed, lunatic and to invent a conspiracy theory, than to think that the people uploading Legend's videos are too lazy to check for copyright claims after they have finished their upload. Copyright is what got both channels taken down. I guess it's safe to say some people like to learn the hard way and others simply don't learn from their mistakes. All I can do is hope those capable of it, will look at the situation logically and stop inventing stories to account for this unfortunate situation. These stories, while they may be FUN, are discrediting and in the grand scheme of things not in any way deserved. I'm at as great a loss as anyone else. I lost over 100 videos when that channel went down, not to mention because of this my Skype was hacked and my email at work was posted to 4chan which means each day I get to delete hundreds of spam emails. To those that find it funny - you are the same people claiming I was POWER ABUSING or I had a bunch of rules I was imposing on the team. I guess those of you that are still angry got your revenge, all be it more than a YEAR LATER, for me helping Eric turn the team around and make it a team everyone wants to be a part of. I think the lesson I have learned in all this is you haven't been truly thanked by a Rock Band player until they feel the need to insult, accuse, harass and invent stories about you. I have been blessed by this communities "thanks" more times than I care to remember and so I bid you all a fond farewell. You have been an inspiration to some and further support that your mother should have exercised her right to CHOOSE for others. ~ peace Jody