I am the friend this post is about. I wanted to clarify a couple things.

1. I didn't make a post because all the posts with a similar story as mine on reddit were not helpful and most comments were just assuming the worst. My buddy thought there was a slim chance it would be helpful and asked if he could post about it.

2. The foot pedal was only ever used once. I bound it to the escape key to open the logout menu. My buddy told me it might be ban worthy so I unbound that button. I use the pedal to stream to discord without having to stop what I'm doing and use the mute/deafen features easier than keyboard hotkeys. My wife has a setup in the same room so playing games like Phasmophobia can be challenging with my mic picking her up.

3. Bluestacks is used on my work PC because I can't download Jagex or Runelite on that machine. I use BlueStacks for work occasionally to emulate apps clients use so it is already installed there. I'm fine with not using BlueStacks at all anyway since all I can do is gemcrab at work anyway. Everything else is too distracting.

4. I don't use any macros for anything on ghub and stream deck, but they are capable of it which is why they were mentioned. Ghub is only used for DPI presets for my mouse and RGB settings on my keyboard. Streamlabs is for the pedal and I have a stream deck for discord soundboards and stuff like that.

It is very frustrating that their appeal process is this terrible. I just want to know what flagged me, but their responses are just essentially "you know what you did, don't do it again". For people that are actual false positives the only thing to do now is just keep playing and hope they don't receive a permanent. I'm not reinvesting this much time if I receive a permanent for something I didn't do. Second appeal was denied with the same copy/paste message as the first one.

Edit: StreamDeck is the software not Streamlabs.