I took the claim it was fake at face value but the more I look into it the logic seems circular? It seems to me that Metokur swept it up for Andy regardless of whether he was guilty or not of the sins he was accused of just like he would later sweep for a guilty Flam and now guilty VTubers. I'm not saying it's 100% guaranteed to be real, but instead that I'm not seeing the obvious conclusive proof that these were fabricated that I would expect for people to be as confident in dismissing it as they are.
The last time it came up in this thread, not long after the Vegas leaks at the end of last year, @Captain Manning pointed to the best summary of the evidence as to why it was fake here. (Nothing negative intended towards @Captain Manning, he linked to the most substantive post I could find from poking around the contemporaneous posts in that thread myself.)
I'm not following what's going on with the KC all that much lately, so if something new has come up in regards to the Snapchat shit, I can't really comment on it.
I just know that the Snapchat shit wasn't widely believed when it happened because of the specific people surrounding it.
Especially Zoom. Historically, Zoom's involvement in anything is treated as a gigantic red flag. This whole thing also happened around the time Andy was feuding with Tonkasaw and the Skeptics. Lots of gay ops were going on.
Last time I gave a history lesson about this here, I got bitched out by some sperg who claimed they were gonna drop some massive proof against Andy, and then never did.
Are they real? I dunno. It's not really a hill I want to die on one way or another. I've got too much other shit to worry about. I've personally always considered them "dubious" though because the circumstances surrounding their release.
If I am being completely honest though, this whole thing happened at a time when Tonka's stock was dropping rapidly, and Andy's was climbing. So maybe people just believed what they wanted to believe. Andy's ascension culminated in the great Knoxville no-show. Andy was riding high after that, before he fucked it all up with stupid CP investigation stream he did with Ralph.
THAT was treated as a more legitimate controversy (feel free to do the red text thing).