One final addendum, as per my latest post on Patreon.
I would like to apologise for my earlier behaviour. The red mist descended, and I believe I have made a grave mistake based on the notion that former Top Gear scriptwriter Richard Porter is personally gunning for me. This is based on the fact he has criticised my work in the past and I saw what he said in "Someone's going to die, probably you fronting the channel" as referring to me personally.
Of course, he could be referring to a lot of people. As you all said, there are evidently a lot of YouTube channels that talk about Top Gear with many subscribers who could make Porter's blood run cold. I perceived it as a death threat. And I take such things very seriously.
With all that said, I do stand by a lot of what I have said elsewhere - the fact that a lot of things he's said behind closed doors aren't as public as he thinks they might be, claiming the Top Gear vehicles were a "liability", his reticence in acknowledging Alex Mills' role in Top Gear's success, and of course, that original criticism of my video all worked in building my ire to a boiling point.
If Richard Porter says anything more direct to me in a similar vein of "someone's going to die", naming me explicitly, I will seriously consider involving the police and otherwise stay out of it. I have far better, less destructive things to do in life than deal with a petty feud that will turn two years old towards the end of the year and started from what I feel what were among the stupidest reasons imaginable.
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One final addendum, as per my latest post on Patreon.
I would like to apologise for my earlier behaviour. The red mist descended, and I believe I have made a grave mistake based on the notion that former Top Gear scriptwriter Richard Porter is personally gunning for me. This is based on the fact he has criticised my work in the past and I saw what he said in "Someone's going to die, probably you fronting the channel" as referring to me personally.
Of course, he could be referring to a lot of people. As you all said, there are evidently a lot of YouTube channels that talk about Top Gear with many subscribers who could make Porter's blood run cold. I perceived it as a death threat. And I take such things very seriously.
With all that said, I do stand by a lot of what I have said elsewhere - the fact that a lot of things he's said behind closed doors aren't as public as he thinks they might be, claiming the Top Gear vehicles were a "liability", his reticence in acknowledging Alex Mills' role in Top Gear's success, and of course, that original criticism of my video all worked in building my ire to a boiling point.
If Richard Porter says anything more direct to me in a similar vein of "someone's going to die", naming me explicitly, I will seriously consider involving the police and otherwise stay out of it. I have far better, less destructive things to do in life than deal with a petty feud that will turn two years old towards the end of the year and started from what I feel what were among the stupidest reasons imaginable.
No-one is going to die.
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