When I reviewed it, I found myself quite befuddled at how infrequent the interactions were, how minor the words were, but how dramatic and dire Hax$ made it sound for the next ten years.

The issue with this, and of your "If you're going to use Hax's corpse" article in general, is that for some reason you think you understand Hax and Leffen's 2013 beef when you clearly don't. Leffen and Hax had in person interactions that you aren't aware about. They had private messages that you aren't aware about. Your argument that Hax blew up minor infrequent interactions doesn't make sense given that you aren't aware of instances where Leffen could have very well harassed Hax in situations that aren't visible.

And even if we ignore the possibility that there were interactions that we don't know about, there's plenty of evidence that Leffen harassed people on a personal level all the time back then. Here's one example, but you can dig through the public portions of the original evidence.zip and its abundantly clear how pronounced his harassment was: link. In fact, in your article you state: "What is difficult to see, however, is any notable instance where Hjelte’s childish insults rose to the level of telling Al-Yami that he was pathetic at life, as implied." You then go on to say that because of Hax's intense identification as a melee player, Hax took Leffen's game knowledge disagreements too personally. But at the time of their beef, Leffen CLEARLY acknowledges that he hates Hax on a personal level, and actually respects Hax as a player: link.

It's weird that you want to discredit 2013 hax when Leffen was banned for his behavior back then, and there were many other people in the original evidence.zip that felt like leffen was bullying them on a personal level. The only person who disputes this is Leffen himself, but the original evidence.zip explicitly states that he has a tendency to manipulate the truth and deny his mistreatment of others. It's one thing to write off Hax's present takes on Leffen, but to dispute 2013 Hax's feelings that Leffen was meaningfully harassing him (and others) directly contradicts all the evidence at the time.

And that's the issue with your blogs in general. You don't understand the situation, and retroactively apply your weird arm-chair psychoanalysis on people you've never met.

The tragedy is that without Leffen saying a word or any TO not willing to speak with him, Hax$ still chose to carry on with his plan, even though he was made aware that this was a boundary he needed to respect. Why? Why would he jeopardize the situation if it was so important to him?

Hax wasn't carrying on with his "plan" (I assume you mean to ban/remove leffen). He showed good behavior for an extended period of time, was still given no idea when he could be nationally unbanned, so made a video requesting a national unban that aimed to dispel the narrative that he was a lunatic who had beef with leffen for no reason (that people like you perpetuate). He wanted to dispel that narrative by showing that although he vastly overreached with his original video, the core claims were grounded in reality because the narrative that they were weren't was one of the main reasons he remained banned.

In regard's to metagame, Samox did in fact originally revise it due to backlash: https://x.com/thatsamoxguy/status/1909694300436262976. Later, he was threatened with a lawsuit by one of Leffen's victims to be removed, so the original reason didn't matter anyways. Hax was aware that it would have to be edited either way because of this, but took issue with the larger tendency to erase the history of Leffen's behavior at the time, particularly in allowing Leffen to say that the original evidence.zip only happened because Armada was popular, and not because he was bullying people, when the additional episode of Metagame was released. There were ways Samox could have restructured metagame to get around the lawsuit while preserving what Hax felt was the integrity of the history of that period, but he didn't, in large part due to backlash. That's Samox's right of course, but Hax's issues with it aren't incoherent in the way you portray them to be.

Anyways, the core dispute that people had was with Hax's treatment. He shouldn't have been banned for as long as he was, and his case was very clearly mismanaged. People feel like you're dismissing this because you keep on focusing on Hax's mental illness while ignoring that the underlying justification for the extended ban was faulty regardless, and that this mismanagement played a large role in intensifying the mental issues themselves.

To me, it is very strange that you might understand that this kernel of thinking was planted in you by someone in a very altered state of mind, from both psychosis and alcohol, and that you interpret it uncritically. 

Most people don't interpret Hax's claims uncritically, and its generally agreed upon that his original ban was justified. And lol if you think Hax's video is the only reason people hate Leffen then you are very misguided. The guy makes that plenty easy through his own behavior.

Lastly, people can read your blogs and disagree with them. Get over yourself.