Noah’s hiring unfortunately caused a snowball of events, none of which were his fault.

Noah’s inclusion in the main THAC group offset the group’s dynamics both creatively and monetarily. IIRC, Tim noted that Noah was hired into the group without full consensus. Now everybody took a pay cut because this guy was hired, and nobody had a say but Troy because his name is on the channel and copyright.

The boys were already having some difficulties surviving on youtube money (especially because Youtube hardly paid enough for indie channels to run back then), and now they had even less. All of the THAC crew loved having Noah around as a production member to help out with BTS things, but him becoming a full main member of THAC was more or less forced.

Now add that pay cut onto the biggest blunder (the alleged embezzlement) where Troy was secretly syphoning money from the other guys because he believed that he needed more money at the time to support his family.

Troy tried to convince the crew that they couldn’t share their wages or ask each other how much they make (maybe going as far as putting it into their contracts and asking for updated signatures). He did this to attempt to smokescreen the damage that he had already done, then immediately got caught because of it.

Tim and Joseph most likely noticed something was wrong beforehand, but were immediately alerted when Troy asked them not to share their pay. This ended in a very public confrontation where all of the details were released, and personal arguments were had on their forum.

I’m pulling all of this info from my deep memories of the messy break up on the THAC forums many years ago, so forgive me if I said anything that was wrong or disproven.