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Some Months ago some founding members of the channel had left to form their own channel called Good Vibes Gaming. During one of their latest podcast Steve talk about his horrible experience making the Final Fantasy 7 review and how that pushed him to move out of Gamexplain. After this, it was posted in the sub reddit how Steve was underpaid for his work about $1 -$2 and hour, this prompted the past Mod u/Gamexplain to remove the thread and private the subreddit. After this mods quickly took the subreddit back and removed u/Gamexplain from the mods (highly likely this being Andre)

After this incident past members decided to present their own statement and experience with the channel.
Ash
Steve share's Brandon's experience
Derricks statement by Ash

As someone who watched gamexplain for around 6-7 years

This just fucking sucks

Dang…I always enjoyed their discussions and their somewhat ridiculously long and detailed analysis. Didn't know that happened behind the scenes.

Hopefully, Ash, Steve and Derrick can move on to fresher pastures. I heard some of them have formed a new channel. Not sure what Gamexplain will do now after this whole drama.

Definitely check out Good Vibes Gaming, the new channel Ash, Derrick, and Steve have formed. They mostly do Today's News Tonight, discussing latest gaming news with a different special guest per episode. They're just as fun as the GameXplain discussions they've had before.

Statement from Andre:

So, you call your former colleagues "contractors" first and not "friends," nor did you say anything about underpaying or crunch. Oh, and you turn off replies too, huh? Hoo boy

This is the same tier apology as channel awesome's "We're sorry you feel like that"

This just confirms what his old "friends" stated and as someone who has followed them since the early wii u days I can safely say Andre is full of shit. He tries to throw the blame on the gaming industry and while it's true to an extent he didn't do anything to try to make the conditions better for his "friends". As the years went by anyone can confirm how Andre did less and less work, most of the gaming updates were done by Derrick and as Derrick confirmed in his statements even when no one was Available to do the update videos Andre will not do it, he instead would wait for someone else to do it.

The first thing that gave me massive Red Flags was during the E3 week, the team as gaming journalist not to mention Nintendo focus they have to be inform on it for 5 days or more including the nintendo treehouse. This fucking guy would leave After the Nintendo presentation to go to the themeparks while leaving everyone else to do the work. I still remember during the weekly podcast how Derrick was mad how this guy would leave them the work while he goes out to drink Butterbeer in the harry potter theme park.

Andre is well known for being a massive theme park guy, and his constant trips to them and yet he wasn't able to pay his staff or say they weren't earning as much. I hope after this he would have a harder time to actually visit the Mario themepark, I am sure nothing more will hurt this guy's ego and actually show himself what horrible actions he took with people who were his friends.

Other content creators have reacted following the statement presented by Andre
SomecallmeJohnny
AntDude
Caddicarus

It's safe to say that the dude has just dug a deeper hole for himself. Correct me if im wrong but I'm sure those content creators have made guessed appearences on the channel before, mostly on discussion videos. So by Andre blocking the replies in his statement he basically forced people to retweet the post and show it to their own following while also controlling the nerrative.

Some mods of the gamexplain discord server have also spoken out and it's essentially what one would have expected from Andre at this point, not necessarily bad actions but the lack of activity from him and making the work harder due to his absence and his control. But just like what happened to Projared and other content creators I will take those with a grain of salt.

Andre released another statement on TwitLonger

That reminds me of every article about the beta type men who claimed to be "male feminist allies" has been exposed for sexual-related crimes.