after reading the above leaked DMs with knowledge of prior similar happenings in the community, Burnice's word and the truth of such needs to be brought into question. it is eye opening to read these DMs and then consider some of Burnice's behavior in the past in this community, as it may serve to explain why zeblote stands where he does, and may serve to explain why i, as an anonymous user, believe this entire situation is being overblown by the likes of Burnice and Co.
all of this is coming to a head from the same Burnice that created the same drama that made prominent community member bones4 leave back when their titantic collaboration build was still active. this user has still chosen to remain distant from the community as a result of Burnice's actions, and both that situation and this one feel strikingly parallel.
for those unaware of the situation being described, TL;DR, a prominent community member, bones4, was wrongly labelled a "bigot", and was essentially forced out of the community due to drama created by none other than Burnice on bones4's titantic build server.
the drama in question stemmed from the back flag of the titantic build that bones4 was working on. Burnice altered the back flag from the original historical flag on the back of the boat and instead changed it to an LGBTQ flag without the permission of bones4. as a result, bones4 got rid of the flag, replaced it with the original one that was there, explicitly told burnice not to place the flag again as it was his server and build (not at all due to any amount of bigotry whatsoever), and that was that for a short time. short time later, Burnice came back to the server and again rebuilt the flag. bones4 again, removed the flag, and drama ensued, where Burnice claimed bones4 was an anti-LGBTQ bigot who was only removing the flags they built out of hatred. this couldn't be further from the truth of who bones4 is & the constant and incessant drama over the situation ++ false labelling of being a bigot had driven bones4 to leave the community, and they have not returned since.
looking back to that situation in particular, it really brings into question the validity of Burnice's words when they talk about zeblote being some torturous bigot, as they themselves have created problems in the past and blatantly and wrongfully labelled other users as bigots. the validity of Burnice's words are brought into question even moreso with the fact that all of what zeblote is being accused of is just that, words. no concrete screenshots or evidence of chats between zeblote // burnice // extended devteam have been released whatsoever, so it'd be a bit wrong to jump the gun and believe every word that is spouted by Burnice without proper backing up of whatever claims.
as far as it stands for me as an anonymous user posting this, i couldn't ever bear to type this under my username as i myself would wrongfully be labelled a bigot for bringing into question the validity of someone's words who have fallen flat in the past. statements hold no water if not backed up by facts and objective proof//evidence.
// edited with this lovely image after noticing in discord, burnice's words are overblown and false. user who has spoken to burnice has learned that their testimony about going through "years of bigotry and torture" under zeblote was entirely false, as expected.
