A year ago, a content creator got in a large controversy with various different content
creators that ended up destroying his entire career and leaving it to rest permanently. That
YouTuber was Prison Mate Luke, someone I actually- completely by coincidence- recently covered on this
channel when I did a complete recap on the entire drama surrounding him, and why he left YouTube.
Prison Mate Luke got in controversy with people like me, where he made a video where he labeled me a 'cloud chaser',
spread unfair and slanderous labels about me, and inevitably apologized to me in private removing
those videos. But, I was one of the people who got off lightest and best with Luke. There's examples
like Hopeless Peaches, where the apology they got was non-existent and the videos Luke made on them
had remained largely up after he'd acknowledged wrongdoing within those videos. But that was where
the story ended, Luke got his backlash, Peaches reclaimed her career, and most people moved on.
That was until today, when 18 hours ago, as of recording this video, Prison Mate Luke uploaded a
final response. Something literally nobody expected and something that really came as a large surprise.
Now just a forewarning for this video, I've spoke to every party involved in this situation, that
includes Luke, that includes Peaches. I spoke to Luke, I offered for him to do an interview for
this video, where I would talk to him about the situation and try and get a more expanded view
upon what he had to say in this four-minute video because I thought it really didn't give him the
opportunity to dig into the meat and bones of the situations he was involved in and properly discuss
his mistakes. However, Luke did politely decline to comment, which I totally respect. So today I'm
gonna look at this video and give my opinion on it from the perspective I've seen of various
people surrounding me that I've spoke to and my thoughts in regards to this video. And just to
put it out there, I'm not gonna sugarcoat anything in regards to this situation. This situation will
tackle a lot of very serious subjects and I'm sure not everyone's gonna feel comfortable with them.
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that goal every single day. I appreciate all of the recent support in the channel. I can't say much more
other than thank you for allowing me to live out this dumb childhood dream. And with that being said, let's get into Luke's video.
(Prison Mate Luke) Hey it's been a minute, and by a minute I mean over a year since I last uploaded.
Sorry if the quality is bad or the voice is a bit out. I haven't recorded
in over a year and I just moved into a different house. I've been putting this off for a long time
now. And to be honest, I haven't even looked at my channel since I last uploaded. I just wanted to
try and get away from this all and run away from all of it. But it wasn't fair to just leave like
that out of the blue and never explain anything. I handled my exit really poorly and I left a lot
unsaid and didn't resolve much of anything. And for that, I'm sorry (Harley) I appreciate that directly
at the start of this video, he acknowledges the fact that it's taking him so long to address
this situation. That he left his channel without really explaining anything and that he really
didn't help himself in regards to this situation and that the blame for that squarely falls on him.
(Luke) I handled a lot of drama, especially towards the end of me being on YouTube, awfully. And I never
apologized publicly or even talked about it at all. (Harley) And that's one thing I've got to give him a lot of
credit for. I know a lot of people who aren't in the public eye wouldn't understand this because
it's very hard to wrap your head around having a social media following in the first place. It
doesn't feel real to acknowledge such a big audience of people that are following you
and engaged with every single thing you say or do online. I feel like it's something the human brain
can't actually comprehend on a deeper level, but experiencing controversy on a larger scale is a
very terrifying experience and in many cases it can be more stressful than any other experience
you've ever had in your life. I know when I had my situation with Luke- and this is something I don't
really like to discuss but I feel I might as well now this situation's kind of wrapped itself up and
I don't think people take this as some form of trying to garner sympathy anymore if I say
it- back when I had a few thousand subs and Luke made his videos on me that had a couple hundred
thousand views at the time and the backlash was so overwhelming towards me that it felt like I
would never escape it and that my entire life was over in that moment. It sounds really dumb but it
genuinely is a thing a lot of people feel. I was going through panic attacks, I could barely eat, I
could barely sleep, I struggled to breathe, I had one of the worst panic attacks of my life and I
don't think I could explain that feeling and how helpless I felt in that moment if I tried.
It's just such a hard thing to explain to someone who's never experienced it, and I have to give Luke
credit because Luke returned to his platform- a platform where everyone hates him- a year later,
not even with the intent to try and grow back his channel or continue posting on this channel, purely
so that he could finally close the book on these situations and acknowledge his fault and the wrong
doing. I have to give him credit for that because I know how genuinely scary it is to have an
entire audience that are angry at you. And I know a lot of people in the audience won't understand
that, and normally whenever I discuss something like this, I see comments from people that are like
acting as if content creators don't have feelings and like they would handle it any better and like
content creators are 'entitled' who think they have a right to complain when they have it so easy.
And it's hard to say those perspectives aren't completely valid because in a lot of ways content
creators are very privileged, in the life we live, in the opportunities we're given. But obviously
when it comes to receiving backlash on such a big scale, it's something indescribably scary. It's
something that can lead to people's deaths in more extreme cases and it's something I feel not a lot
of people talk about on a larger scale. So, while I think there are a lot of mistakes in this video, I
have to give Luke credit for at least having the guts to make this video. That being said, I. do have
a lot of criticisms to make towards this video. (Luke) I tried handling things privately and sweeping
it under the rug but it wasn't the right thing to do and it didn't do much of anything anyway.
I got really angry at people, to be honest, way too angry at people, unjustifiably angry. I let
that get in the way of doing the right thing or even being smart about it and I dragged a
lot of things on, especially with Harley, way too long. (Harley) And one of my bigger issues with this video
is that when Luke touches on the drama he's referencing here, he really doesn't explain any
of it. And I understand Luke isn't good with his words. I feel like a lot of people at this point
know Luke isn't great with his words. But it's just a little disappointing that when Luke touches on
my situation and other situations we'll get to in a second, the only mention he really gives of
what he did wrong was dragging it out and other unnamed mistakes he made. I think that's a bit
of an extreme way of downplaying what Luke did. Luke made several videos where he alleged that I
was defending someone he was saying was sending p*rn to minors. Which is a completely unfounded
claim. He'd contacted friends that I'd spoke to in private and dragged our private disagreements up
into his video to spin a narrative that I was a bad friend to these people. He said I was a 'clout
chaser' because I wanted to grow my channel and because I made videos on trending subjects. He
brought up a controversy I'd had with some artists in the past, where I hadn't paid them properly due
to some confusion and other disagreements we'd had in private. Something I resolved as soon as
it was acknowledged, and I think was one of very few fair points he had, but I felt it was twisted
and represented very disingenuously. He brought up a video I'd made several years ago and changed
the narrative behind it to make it sound like I supported content on this platform and other
platforms that I simply didn't. And it's a shame that when Luke discusses that, he doesn't explain
what he did wrong there, instead opting to simply say that he'd 'drawn the situation out' instead of
the more grounded reality. That he'd wronged me and Braxton, and spread slanderous claims around
our names without any kind of responsibility. That's what really happened in that situation
and it's disappointing that Luke didn't address it that way or represent it that way.
(Luke) I f*cked up and that's not the only thing. I f*cked up a lot. Especially when it came to information about other
creators like Just A Robot or Just Stop. I just got things wrong and never really talked about it and
so many other examples or situations. It's just- I didn't handle myself right and I never apologized
for when I didn't. And I just refused to do the smart thing and I eventually just stopped looking
at everything. My socials, my channel, even other drama videos because I just- I couldn't handle it.
That said this isn't a sympathy upload. I f*cked up a lot and it wasn't fair to just drop it all like it
was nothing. Me reacting to other people poorly is on me and I shouldn't have just run away like that.
I got really bitter- unjustifiably bitter towards people and it wasn't fair. And I never tried to
fix my mistakes or even really explain it at all, I just wanted to get away from it all. And this isn't
me apologizing so I can come back without backlash, or try to get back into drama- 'cause that's not what I want to do.
(Harley) I appreciate that he says that this video isn't intended so he can come back
and that he doesn't plan to come back, because it means this video seems a lot more genuine.
Now, my opinion will change on this if Luke does come back to the platform and start uploading
as usual again. So just a warning, this could be an outdated statement whenever you're watching this
video in the future. But if Luke doesn't intend to return, this video represents at least that he is
choosing- willingly- when there's no benefit for him in this situation to return, acknowledge fault,
and apologize for his mistakes. Which, in that case, is something I respect. I respect that he made the
effort, even if he didn't have to, to apologize and address these situations when there is no
benefit in it for him. That's something I have to give him credit for.
(Luke) I don't plan on coming back
to this channel. This will probably be the final video on the channel- hopefully- and I especially
don't plan on talking about drama ever again. I handled stuff poorly and I didn't enjoy it
anyway ,especially towards the end of me doing this. If I ever did anything on YouTube again, it
would be with other people and even that would be really iffy. Also, just to be clear, I'm going to be
privating some of my older videos I don't really agree with anymore or want to leave up.
(Harley) This is something I have to give Luke credit for. Because the biggest problem I had was the fact that Luke
had addressed wrongdoing in many situations but had left his videos up on those situations. Which
means people who stumbled upon them and didn't see him addressing the wrongdoing within these videos,
could believe what he said within them even to this day. The fact he's removing videos on
situations he made mistakes on, means that we can shut the book on a lot of these cases and means
that Luke's mistakes and the misinformation spread within these videos won't spread any
further, that we can finally nip it in the bud and leave these situations in the past.
(Luke) I'm not sure exactly how many I'm going to be taking down, but especially with some of my older drama videos
like the Hopeless Peaches ones. I don't really want to leave those up and feed into the drama anymore,
especially since it's gone on for so long, that I don't even really know what's up with it anymore.
Especially since Shannon or CreepshowArt turned out to be a terrible person. I don't really want to
leave that up to kind of support her anymore.
(Harley) And this is the biggest issue many people have with this video.
When Luke addresses Hopeless Peaches's controversy, he doesn't address it properly,
he doesn't address his wrongdoing. He instead chooses to push most of the blame on Shannon and say he
doesn't really know what's going on with that situation. That's an incredibly poor way to handle
what Luke did. Because Luke was the main cause of many of the issues in that situation. If you don't
remember- which I don't blame you because it was a long while ago- Luke made several videos on Peaches
because Peaches disagreed with him on a subject. He would leak private DMs from Peaches, from a private
discussion where they were trying to resolve the issues, in a video where he would gloat about the
fact that he was 'honing' Peaches so to speak. Label features a s*icide baiter because she effectively
didn't take her life, and bandwagon against her with various other content creators, to effectively
cancel her and ruin her career and also most of her reputation on social media, for being
a quote unquote 'bad friend'. This was one of Luke's BIGGEST mistakes in his entire time making content.
Labelling someone a s*icide baiter is very risky. And it was even more risky, because he only said this
because Peaches posted saying, "goodbye" on their Twitter. It was dangerous. It was irresponsible
of Luke to do this, and as the person who had to be on a call with Peaches after they made an attempt
on their life, it was incredibly disgusting to see him say something so dangerous in his video.
It's an irresponsible argument that I don't think many people should make unless they have the valid
evidence to back it up and they have some form of actual proof. Don't get me wrong, I think it's quite
hard to prove something like that, but I also think it's much better for it to be harder to prove it
than for someone to claim it irresponsibly just because they can, and get away with it without any
kind of backlash. Now, I will give Luke credit, when he was criticized for this and his poor covering
of the Peaches situation in his video, he left a pinned comment updating his video and providing
a well needed addressal of the Peaches situation. In this pinned comment he says, "Hey, I know I missed
the mark on addressing my involvement in the Hopeless Peaches situation and would like to
make sure that I address it properly, even if it's in a pinned comment. I f*cked up majorly in how I
handled that situation. I take full responsibility for my part in how long and drawn out it was. I'm
sorry for my comments relating to your mental health and for making those videos without
thinking things out for nearly as long as I should have. I know this doesn't mean much, but I hope in
time you can heal from the damage my videos caused you. I should have explained that better in the
video and gone over it more. I've been really hair-brained and fell asleep shortly after posting this
video. So I'm sorry for not making it clear and explaining things better or going into more detail
on it." Now I and others wish Luke said this within the video. I feel he probably should have scripted
this video and actually addressed many of the situations that he f*cked up in, instead of
giving them very surface-level mentions as if they weren't as major a thing as they were or
that his involvement wasn't as big as it was in those situations, but I do appreciate that
he listened to the backlash on this video and he properly apologized to Peaches even if it was a
pinned comment. I appreciate that. It's unfortunate that this was the way he handled this response but
I do think there is net positives to be had from this video. I think this video does a lot of good.
Firstly, it nips the bud on so many mistakes Luke's made, meaning we can finally put the videos
that he now privatized in the past and hopefully people that were damaged by those videos can heal
and move on. Secondly, we've opened a channel of communication with Luke, so if we notice any more
videos on this channel that spread this kind of misinformation, we can get him to address them or
remove them. And thirdly, it gives some needed closure to Luke's situation. Finally, we know
what happened to Luke. That he has just quit, moved on with his life. And for better- there's- there's
no for worse there. I'm- I'm not going to be that charitable to him. For better, he's not posting
drama videos anymore, which I think is a net positive. I know a lot of people had issues with
this video, how it was very lackadaisical, how it was very low effort, how it was very simple cut and
dry and briefly touched on subjects. But I do think it- for me at least- allows this sh*t to finally
end and gives the people L. ke wronged a chance to speak up about their issues and finally have a
video they can point to, to say Luke had acknowledged wrongdoing in these situations, in hopes it helps
clear their name so that they can resume their potentially damaged careers by Luke. With that
being said though, there's not really much more to say in regards to this situation. Luke came back,
admitted wrongdoing, attempted to address his situations to the best of his ability, and he now
intends to disappear from social media. And I think this is honestly probably one of the best outcomes
we could get. I appreciate that you made the effort, even if I think there's a lot of flaws with this
video and I think a lot of people have reacted a bit too impulsively to this, going and giving
a lot of backlash. I don't think this video was too bad. I think he made an effort, I think him removing
videos that he f*cked up in is a good thing, and I appreciate that he's trying to apologize and right
his wrong, even though there's no benefit in it for him. That doesn't mean I forgive Luke for what he
did to me, but it at least means I can move on. With that being said, thank you for watching this video.
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*Harley's outro music playing*