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(I’ll also be taking a break from social media for a little bit longer, but I’ll be reading your replies and taking them all to heart.)

I know you probably won't see this, but I'm gonna try anyway. From what I've seen, people's problems with your apology stem from (cont'd)

... you focusing on the power dynamic (which IS important!) but neglecting to admit that anything you did was in itself inappropriate.

I don't have insider info so I don't know what's true. But if anything you did was creepy in and of itself, you NEED to admit it more openly

Many feel you seem to think your behavior only became "wrong" at all after you became a public figure. If this is not the case, tell us!

My shoddy take is that to regain trust, you need to do this, be better in the future, and openly speak out against such behavior.

Essentially, speak out against the kind of people who would defend dudes being creepy online, asking for nudes, etc.

tl;dr: If a third the stuff I've heard is true, a lot of what you did would be wrong for ME to do, and nobody knows who the hell I am!

Hey, making advances that make people feel unsafe is not okay regardless of your publicity. You have power as a white man too.

It sounds like you've been making people feel uncomfortable with your "flirting" long before you had an audience on Polygon.

Playing this off as if it was just you being green isn't fair or acceptable.

Your apology makes it sound like you just made people feel uncomfortable. You need to own that it's a lot more serious than that.

I hope you do try to do better, but part of that is taking responsibility for your actions even when you're not a public figure.

tl;dr: Doing better means owning the complete impact of your actions. That's the only way you can make adequate changes.

Okay I'm done.

You're young, Nick. No one in their 20s know how to deal with a position like yours. Take this as a learning experience. Best of luck.

He's almost 30, please don't treat him like a child

35 year olds are still ultimately children in my experience

And? They should act better

They should still be held to adult expectations

The point is good people will learn with criticism and bad people won't Blowing mistakes out of proportion on the internet is easy & useless

Getting collectively pissed at someone can quickly progress from letting them know they fucked up to vengefully causing emotional exhaustion

And anybody who isn't a stonefaced veteran o life needs to be treated as someone who SHOULD do better AND told in a way that trusts they CAN