I think having a 2nd chance is a good thing. Seems like a decent apology.
I'm not a fan of his or anything, so I have never seen or read his stuff. Best of luck building up an audience I guess. Hope he's entertaining.
If a person who committed a crime, say breaking in and entry, admitted their crime, did their time, etc, would you be jumping to hand them another set of lock picks?
Decent apology or not, he's working from a negative square, not square 0, and legitimately took other writer's work and tried to pass it off as his own. You've absolutely shot your credibility after that; he will not receive a meaningful second chance as a writer in any industry after what he did, how long he did it, and the amount that he did it. Even if he apologized "correctly," the first time, the sheer extent of what he did has screwed himself.
No one is going to want to collaborate with him because him stole other people's work! Could be friends, family, of the person he stole work from, and they don't want their names attached to
THE cardinal sin in their industry, or the person who committed said sin. They'd have to scrutinize every step of what he's doing while they worked with him, and that's too much time and labor to want to deal with.
He spent way too long acting like a manipulative sociopath for me to take this as anything other than a less-tonedeaf attempt at manipulation. Yes, he finally figured out the thing he was supposed to say, but do I really believe him? Not really.
From what I gather around the webs is that he only gained a significant amount of subscribers because he did a Switch give away when they first launched then got hired on by IGN as their Ninty dude; before that he didn't have much of a following from what I understand.
To me this 100% seems like "Shit I'm not making the money I was before and don't want to work at a normal 9-5er and have developed no skills prior or since to fall back on."
If he did learn something, that's too little too late, and you don't get those privileges back easily (Or probably ever in this case).
It's awesome to learn not to do a blatant unethical thing after you committed the blantantly unethical act; though you should probably have the sense to NOT commit a the act before doing it, again, and again, and again; especially when it's legit some of the FIRST THINGS YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL!
Did he even pass school on his own merit or did he plagiarize and cheat the entire way through that as well?
