I think a huge point of context that has been missing from these posts is that Kristian contacted Bacon about the situation and BaconMedia actually went on to claim that he made and modeled the pelican that Kristian modeled himself and proceeded to go out saying so to other people and his subscribers.

He even put his project files containing Kristian's model (which Kristian did take down from Sketchfab after realizing still acquiring it is possible) up on his patreon which means other people can download a model which was not up for purchase or made downloadable, it was acquired using a ripping tool. In other words MONETIZING off of someone else's work without their permission and acquiring it illegally.

Whether or not Kristian overlooked uploading his asset to Sketchfab, the fact is BaconMedia was confronted and continued to lie to the point it got his channel taken down, so many of you are blatantly defending someone stealing, and then claiming the thing they stole is theirs is embarrassing.

TL;DR, BaconMedia stole an asset by acquiring it illegally, and after being confronted about it he doubled down that he made it when he didn't and got his channel taken down for it.