This.
Do people need to forgive him? No.
But this idea of: "Never forgive, always too late, no doing better" is incredibly toxic and sadly I've seen it quite a few times. People would rather have a person be damned forever than let that person rectify a mistake.
Yeah, I agree. Honestly i'm pretty shocked he did this since one thing I know about him, that kinda stirred the whole situation to begin with and made people cranky is that he outright avoids any sort of public situation unless his hand is physically dragged to it. The most I ever see him talk out of his own videos that's not on podcasts with gaming youtubers, is the fan subreddit where he's condemned things like people trying to take over the Etika sub, and fans going too far trying to find the addresses of his IRL friends and parents to send fan mail to, while occasionally doing a QA deal like once a year. He barely does anything on socials period, in fact, whereas if he was on there daily like most content creators I'd absolutely be calling for him to say something about that situation.
As much as people are not going to like hearing this fact, he would have never and will likely never publicly state anything about anyone on his twitter since he prefers to be as offline as possible and out of any sort of conflicting situations, which is both a good thing for the sake of not saying stupid shit without thinking, and bad if it means you don't really know if this creator is listening to people's concerns or if he even cares about them. He knows as well as we all do that he could have left this alone and in a month the general populace would have forgotten about it and his fans would have dismissed any reminders even moreso than they do now. The fact he actually bothered to go and edit the cameo out and completely cut off Alax everywhere is pretty darn shocking to me even, considering how I feared Scott seemed as if believed he may have had to be forever linked to Alax due to alax giving him a shoutout years ago, when that's absolutely not the case and you should cut out shitty people who end up showing their true colors, even if it's difficult to do on a whim and there's feelings of denial.
The real test tbh, is if he ends up reaching out to Raven about all this and trying to make it right with her, though I definitely do not blame her if she doesn't trust him at all for ignoring a super legitimate concern for the sake of sticking by a creep just because he has high sub counts. Having been caught in super tricky friendship situations myself that I broke free of, I know it's not a thing that's as easy to do as people like to think it is.
Not too long ago I literally struggled to unfriend a longtime bestie who became more and more erractic and rude to me and my friends because I had hope he was maybe just stressed, but then I was told by a fellow mutual I knew for years that I met through him, what said bestie was actually doing to her (very fucking creepy shit in private messages, along with the aforementioned rudeness and getting more and more unhinged), and I was pretty much at a loss for weeks not knowing what to do, so I outright ignored both of them (and unfriended the ex-bestie on sites he didn't use anymore so he wouldn't notice) as I struggled to come up with how to help my mutual. In the end I decided to talk to my therapist and pretty much concluded that even if it meant a possible violent blowback towards me from him, cutting the now ex-bestie off for being a fucking monster was the right thing to do. (Thankfully, he either didn't care or didn't notice since I made sure to block him EVERYWHERE, even my phone, and he hasn't tried calling me with another number since..)
I fucking hated learning that someone who was nice to me for 4 years had a dark sinister side I never knew about for all that time, and was miserable for weeks about it, but I trusted my mutual and had no reason to doubt what she said happened to her. Very happy I made that call looking back and I even took a step further and outright erased all traces of him from everything I interacted with him on: including all the pokemon he traded me over the years. It was hard, but I needed to do what was right. If I had people in those few weeks calling for me to rush out a statement, and then told after I made the right choice that i was actually horrible forever because I "took too long", then that would just be completely stupid. As long as he doesn't do some bullshit like bring another creepy YTer in a cameo, ignore raven still, or continue to support alax in a secret place like discord, then I feel it's perfectly reasonable to hope this was scott learning the right thing and cutting out a toxic creep forever even if he doesn't want to make a public deal about it.
Let's also not forget that Alax was outed by multiple people as not only a creep but a total control freak, and I have no doubt that he may have pulled that sort of shit on Scott too, especially considering Alax tried to manipulate a bunch of people against raven before she came out publicly, even going as far as having his relatives harass raven.
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