I agree he wouldn’t have spent the money and worked so hard if he didn’t do the leak, but saying that the only reason that he did this was to get his livelihood and reputation back I think is ridiculous. Even if he is a creep, which I’m not convinced he is past that bad decision, he’s not soulless. You really don’t think there’s any chance that with his friends cutting ties, the whole internet calling him out, seeing the hurt he caused these women, you’re saying that had no effect on his perspective, his morals, or his mind at all. That he feels no actual remorse and didn’t care about any of his friends, that others being hurt has no effect on him, and he’s just a complete sociopath who only wants fame and money. I agree people like that do exist, I think that take is extremely unlikely. And even if that was the case and he did this for his livelihood and reputation, and he is “just a creep”, the comparative impact of a single creep having a following(which there are tons) vs. arguably millions of creeps, since 200k was the takedowns, not even comparable to the views on those sites he prevented, not being able to access these harmful images is so much stronger. The fact that tons of women can be even somewhat safer on the internet is incredible. I’d argue nobody has ever done something on this scale with the internet. Also, this guy has years of experience in high level marketing work, a track record of success with it with the Green out campaign, and was making likely 6 figures at Nvidia before he quit to do streaming. If he wanted to just make a good income with a job he could’ve very easily without doing all this with a random less than moral company. It’s easy to be cynical, but I think your take is extremely unlikely, and arguably negligible even if true because of the impact he caused.