Either way they are in a mad situation and people shouldn’t be giving them hate for something they are doing just because they love the game.

I mean really, this is just such a skewered view. There was a hundred better ways of tackling this. The investigation and the public video were preemptive measures to tackle Dream's level of fame. Anyone else would've just gotten the run declined. We're already at special treatment level.

Which paints an entirely different picture: It's not about handling a contest fairly and treating everyone equally. If it was, you would just have declined his run privately like anyone else's. The fact that you turn your verdicts into youtube videos already states that you're trying to combat Dream in the arena he's in to avoid flack from that community.

And it worked. Outside of the given portion of Dream's fanbase, the court of public opinion has sided with the moderators.

But remember, it's not the speedrunner's fault you lack the measures to regulate your contest. You're using drama to substitute proper tools. Dream is even being the genuine good guy that he is and offering to help solve the problem by offering funding to creating the proper tools necessary to properly verify runs. That's a win, right? You not only got to decline the runs you suspected as faulty, but get better equipment to verify future runs.

And how do you respond? By threatening to rebuke on Christmas fucking eve. "Merry Christmas Dream, by the way we're gonna fucking tear your response down."

I really have no idea why people are glorifying the moderator at this point. He had the perfect opportunity to close the drama, shake hands and get an enormous benefit going forward. That's not for the love of the fucking game. It's ego.