As I'm sure you're all aware of the situation involving Ultranite, Ramen, and Mech, and all of the things that has occurred via screen shots. I don't want to stretch things for long, so I'll get straight into the point:

Yes, I was also in the Pear with those three and others. however, I did not contribute to any leaks of fangames, personal info, or anything these people have done.

For context, before the Pear was ever a thing, I didn't know ANYONE from the community, I kept to myself for most of my life in regard to my own work on fangame content and very-very rarely reach out to other people to either ask for help or be friends. But when Ultranite was slowly transitioning back into the internet he reached out to me wanting to be friends, I was not aware of his past experience as Steadhammer at that time. He helped me get introduced to a lot of the people involved in the FNaF community that I would have NEVER been able to do on my own, and that is why it pains me to see them in this position that is completely justified.

So, to address the elephant in the room, why wasn't my name as well as other members of the Pear on any of the posts on Twitter? Well like I said before, I didn't provide the Pear with any leaked content from any game/person, nor did I ever attempt to get into private discord servers and leak stuff from there. And the people who were invited way later also did not contribute to anything and were involved unfairly.

The creation of the Pear was not made with evil intentions it was a small group chat that was only made for a group of buddies to have fun and make games together. But what those three people did and said was wrong and should not have continued for as long as it did. A lot of damage has been done, things that even I myself wasn't aware of has happened. I cannot speak for them, that's something they have to do themselves, but I want to apologize to Kane, Sian, Emil, IvanG, Scott, Stupid Butterfly, and all of the developers, artist, fans, and people involved that I hurt by not doing anything or saying anything. This could've been settled a lot sooner than later and privately as to not cause chaos amongst the community, but sadly my fear of losing friends and destroying relationships got the better of me and for that I am sorry to the thousands of people I have hurt by letting this happen.

And if this means that I would be forced to cancel Original Location then I'm actually fine with that, I have a build of the game I am more than happy of releasing. But let me say one thing: the point of a fan piece of media is to make tribute to something we love, and unfortunately, I think this was the case of loving something too much that it becomes competitive: were we're not focused on "how can we make a good game and show love to a franchise we enjoy" but instead "How can this get the most attention and fame while also getting ahead of the competition?" Which is a problem I've been seeing a lot of these past few years and to that I want to say, who cares? Who cares if your fangame doesn't get played by YouTubers? So, what if you don't know how to polish something? The point of all of this, all these games, were to show our support for franchise we all love and to have fun doing it. When I was making the Tannerland games back in 2015 I didn't care if characters where teleporting across the building, or if graphics were poor, I just wanted to make a game and have fun doing it. I'm not saying I don't care if OL gets canceled because I don't care about the game, not true at all. I'm saying that I don't mind releasing something that isn't polished or finished and thats OK, because while making it I had a hell of a fun time working on it with and friends, of course you'll get the bump in the road but thats fine. As long as you have fun making it and people have fun playing it there isn't anything you can lose.

That may have been longer than I thought but those were things I wanted to say for a very long time.

I know that all of this sucks, but please think of it like this, what happened with the Pear was a mistake and a huge one at that, and though some people may not think much of it I implore people to take something away from this and learn from it: learn from our huge mistake. Don't take things you love too seriously or else you will hate it, have fun with it so that others can have fun.

This was a lot more then I initially thought, and I'm not used to writing posts like these so please forgive me if there was anything I did wrong with this. There really isn't much I can say that hasn't already been said before, so I think I'll end it here. Again, I'm very sorry for everyone that we've hurt with the Pear, but I hope that you can find salvation from all of this.
~TannerFeline