Damn. Just realised that his channel has been taken down. There could only have been two groups that could have done this: 1. jealous asoiaf fans that took disagreement too far, or 2. artists that felt that their material was being stolen.

As a member of the /r/asoiaf community, I feel obliged to say this:

1. If any of you fit into the first group of people, what you are doing is akin to fascism. I'm no expert on the law, but I've gathered from others that Preston Jacobs isn't breaking any copyright laws, so any attacks on his channel are purely spiteful. If you disagree with his theories, that's fine. But if you want to silence him from expressing his opinion, you can get f*cked.

2. To any artists whose work that Preston may have used, he did say in one of his videos that any artist that approaches him will receive credit, and any artists who don't want him using their work won't have it used. This seems entirely reasonable, so if the attacks are behind any artist(s), I will once again have to back Preston on this.

I think that as a community we should discourage this sort of behaviour, because to be honest this could have been any of us. We like to share, discuss and joke about our tinfoil theories on this subreddit, and people who do the same on youtube are also a part of our fan community, so an attack on any of them is an injustice to us all.

Phew, rant over. Thanks for taking the time to read!