A Half-Life 2 mod has been coded to block certain YouTubers, who will see the first-person shooter crash, and an error that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us".
I don't see FakeFactory on the credits page, though it wouldn't surprise me if he changed his username after all the mockery he got for fully modeling Alyx's internal reproductive organs.
With all the recent online public freak-outs involving people in the video game industry being near studio closing events, I feel like there is more to the story here that isn't being published. Like there is history, context, ideology, or something else that is just completely sanitized from the article because it might make one side look worse.
Like watching a video of something but you don't get to see any of the context of why that video is even happening, so it frames one side "better" than the other. That's my gut feeling on this one.