Kaozbender, who runs the Kaoz OSRS YouTube channel with 70,000+ subscribers, sent Esports News UK the following in response to some comments Gross Gore made about him in our 2024 interview.
Hello everyone, Kaozbender here. Dom reached out to me for a statement after my name was dropped in the interview with Gross Gore, and since there’s an obscene amount of slander and cope, I’m here to set the record straight. I will mention the relevant points in order of importance.
Statement: Kaozbender was the one to a) edit Nazi tattoos of Ryan, b) find his parents’ information, and c) message their employers to get them in trouble.
Response: While I was aware said pictures were being spread around, I was not the one to create/spread them, find the parents’ information, and most importantly, contact their employers. While I disliked people who enabled him, I wouldn’t go that far.
Statement: Kaozbender doxxed me by sending people around my area to look for my house and my cars, ultimately finding my location.
Response: This is also wildly incorrect. I was also made aware that Ali’s general whereabouts were known, but I had no direct contact of anyone “in his area”, nor did I send people to “hunt him down”.
Statement: Kaozbender emailed Streamlabs and Stream Elements telling them Ali is a pedophile, groomer, and woman harasser who engaged in revenge p*rn, and if they let him use their platform, they are okay with pedophilia, and threatening them into banning Ali.
Response: I did email Stream Elements, but I never threatened them in any way. You can see the email from Kaoz to Stream Elements here. I mention the Celestia Vega situation which got him banned on Twitch over adult sexual exploitation. Ali still fails to understand that, even if Celestia’s bikini pictures were “public on Instagram”, what he did still falls under revenge p*rn by definition.
[Editor’s note: The UK Government describes revenge p*rn as ‘the sharing of private, sexual materials, either photos or videos, of another person without their consent and with the purpose of causing embarrassment or distress’. The laws are of course different in the US, by state, and in other countries.]
Statement: Kaozbender became Ali’s #1 hater because he was called a “dead YouTuber”, which he used as “motivation” to cancel him and also make videos.
Response: I made a video exposing Ali in December 2019, which he took down with a false copyright strike within two hours because he “didn’t like the video” despite being fair use. I offered an interview for him to debunk any of the points I made in that video which he agreed on, but never followed up which led me to create the Pastebin that continues to haunt him.
Statement: Multiple people have sent me messages with dirt on Kaozbender, and how he has “illegal stuff on his hard drive”, but refuse to engage since “someone else will take care of it one day”.
Response: Ali has said loads of things about how he has career-ending dirt on me, or even messages of people airing out my dirty laundry. I encourage Larsen to show proof of messages being sent to him with the alleged information.
At the end of the day, this “drama” is years old at this point, and all Ali has his word. He has never come out with solid evidence to back up any acussation towards me, or the things he is accused of other than “I regret it”, or “it wasn’t that bad”. Unlike the Pastebin which extensively documented everything he got in trouble for. Look at the way he stutters when making up stuff about me.
[Editor’s note: While the pastebin did collate some accurate info about Ali, some of it was also taken out of context and without firm evidence]
Ali has avoided streaming for over a year because he has grown comfortable to being provided for by his girlfriend’s Onlyfans, and most importantly, because he is afraid of streaming and not finding the success he once had.
He is extremely hypocritical the way he expressed about me in the interview, while saying the most disgusting things about me in multiple of his videos. While I don’t care about this the way he does nowadays, he truly doesn’t mean it when he says “he’s happy” for me. I don’t feel the same way about him. His past caught up to him and he got what he deserved.
I’m still open to any form of communication to keep debunking him.
Gross Gore responds to Kaozbender’s statement
Streamer Gross Gore responded to the above by linking to this video by Kaozbender from 48 minutes, where Kaoz says Kaoz is ‘mentally ill’ when it comes to grudges, and talks about compiling clips of Gross Gore with The Plan.
Gross Gore added: “He’s so wrong about so many things. One, I’m happy for him with his career and to be doing well.
“Two, I don’t stream not because of the viewer count or that I’m embarrassed, it’s just about the harassment [I’ve received].”
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
