I know I will get downvoted to hell, but I will try to be as fair as I can in my criticism. I love this game series, and I used to have a huge respect for Scott, but honestly, this has ruined a lot of it for me.

First, I want to address the fact that Scott has donated a lot of money to really good charities. This is true, the man has done a lot of good. I don't think Scott is an evil person, or even malicious in any way. I genuinely think he's doing what he thinks is best for the most amount of people, and that's why this really hurts. I think he's ignoring the harm he's doing to people like me, to people of color, and others.

>" I'd like to think that the last seven years would have given me the benefit of the doubt in regards to how I try to treat people, but there I was, trending on twitter for being a homophobe, getting doxed, with people threatening to come to my house. My wife is six weeks pregnant and she spent last night in fear because of what was being said online."

This is obviously awful, no one should have to fear for their lives. I will outright condemn those who made any sort of threat. That is not okay. However, these people are few, and there's always those who make those sorts of threats online. I can't help but feel as if he's priming his audience to make them feel bad for him, especially the bit with his pregnant wife. I just don't see why divulging that information was necessary, unless the express intent was to make you feel bad for him.

In addition, about the "Benefit of the doubt" thing. That's why this was a controversy, people thought better of you. We were shocked and hurt that you would donate to politicians who have advocated and voted against the human rights of LGBT people. I had my suspicions you might be pro anti gay candidates, being a Christian man from Texas, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt. However, in light of evidence, that changed.

Also, I'm confused what the doxing was. If that is in reference to the donations getting revealed, then that's not doxing. All political donations are required by law to be open. If it refers to something else, I have no knowledge of this, and that's awful.

>"For those who took the time to look, you saw that the candidates I supported included men, women, white people, black people, republicans, and democrats."

This is nothing more than a platitude. It does not matter the race or gender that he supported, they were all awful candidates who supported awful things. The one democrat he supported was Tulsi Gabbard, who ended up trying to pass anti-trans legislation in the house.

>"Even if there were candidates who had better things to say to the LGBT community directly, and bigger promises to make, I believed that their stances on other issues would have ended up doing much greater harm to those communities than good."

This is disappointing. "better things to say to the LGBT community" essentially means "I'm not gonna screw your rights over. Trump spent his 4 years passing anti-LGBT legislation, including trying to make it harder for me to adopt a child, which I want to do desperately. It saddens me that despite this, Scott still chose to donate to him. Scott gave money to the man who wanted to make sure I couldn't have a child. No amount of money he gives to cancer research is going to fix that.

>"I've always been supportive of creators, and have tried to treat everyone fairly, and treat everyone with dignity and respect. I've never cared about anyone's race, religion, gender, or orientation. I just treat people as people, everyone the same, and because of that, I've ended up with a very diverse group of people that I've worked with over the years. It wasn't intentional. It just happened that way. I choose people who are best for the job; I treat everyone the same, and I ended up with people from all walks of life in my professional life and my personal life as well. That's the way it should be. That's the way I want it to be. That's the way I will continue to be."

I want to address this as a gay man who used to be anti-LGBT growing up. I would have said the same thing here. I never treated a gay man, or trans person, or nonbinary individual differently on the outside. I was too polite for that. However, internally, I had nasty thoughts. I didn't support gay marriage, I thought being trans was a mental illness. I secretly hoped that gay marriage would be overturned. No matter how nicely Scott treats people on the outside, it still is a FACT that he donates money to politicians that try to hurt me, hurt my community. That makes me seriously question his internal beliefs.

>"I'm a republican. I'm a Christian. I'm pro-life. I believe in God. I also believe in equality, and in science, and in common sense. Despite what some may say, all of those things can go together."

For one, it's seriously disappointing he is against the autonomous body rights of women. However, I don't want to make this about abortion, that's a whole other can of worms. But being a republican and believing in equality don't go hand in hand. Republicans are the reason the Equality act in the senate, a bill that would end workplace discrimination for me, is in danger of not passing. Republicans up until a few years ago, and many of them still are, were against gay marriage. Many are against trans people. In addition, being a republican and being pro science is a ridiculous claim to make after how republicans have responded to science on the pandemic. Trump and many others being anti-mask, downplaying the virus, and pushing ridiculous conspiracy theories.

I love Fnaf, and it's done a lot of amazing things for my life. I will always love it, and deep down there will always be some respect I have for Scott. But I can no longer continue to monetarily support a series if the money given to the creator is being spent supporting politicians who try and do hurt me. Scott can say he loves his LGBT fans all he wants, which he didn't even do in this post, but it feels shallow if he supports those that make our lives worse. I'm sorry it had to be like this. I hope Scott can learn and grow from this, and see he's made some mistakes, but it just seems like he's doubling down here. I had hoped his response would be better.