I Was a Fool to Ever Trust Bluedrake42
You may have heard of Connor Hill - better known by his Internet alias "Bluedrake42". Around three years ago, he would announce his support to Generative Artificial Intelligence, or GAI, and later began to work on producing AIG content. This has unfortunately brought a controversial uproar against the community he had created and fostered for several years since the 2010s. By 2024, Bluedrake42's channel had changed tremendously from a usual gaming and game dev news channel into a GAI channel.
Later in 2024, he made a CTA (Call to Arms) video, calling for freelance game developers or just anyone enthusiastic about GAI to join him on his Discord into his special program, which he was somewhat secretive about it. Being a major fan of his YouTube channel since 2019, I happily joined his program initiative.
Later he moved the select number of us over to a different server for the GAI stuff and from there, he spoke of the tutorial system he was working on to teach us about GAI courses and in turn, he'd also help us get some job work in the process - be it freelance, or full-time employment in the GAI field. My impression was that the tutorial course would be free of charge for us - we'd be the first pioneers of this program and also beta test the course.
Another group was pulled away for those of us who wanted to help him with GAI game development (regardless of money) - I had opted for that. I genuinely chose this path not for the finance but out of kindness and passion for the GAI scene for game dev. I simply love working on the tool to make creative works of art - nothing more.
That later turned to Connor giving me a trial task about porting and compiling a sci-fi top-down shooter game that he was working on in Opera-YoYo GameMaker (Anomalous Assault) and upload it to Steam to test distribution capability. I did all that with relative ease. Great! He pretty much told me to stand-by for further orders.
Overtime things gradually changed on the tutorial side - and not for the better; for the worse. Initially, this project was originally part of some online collaboration to teach us GAI and it seemed to be a non-commercial passionate endeavor. However, as Bluedrake42's meetings progressed on his tutorial program, he was building a little hype and promise for us on the matter. By the time we finally got a chance to see this program in action - it was a total let-down... Essentially another paid SaaS subscription-style scam - just for us to learn how to use GAI software. This program would later be known as Revolt GPT. To this day, it is still not even finished! ROFL!!! Just a lazy desperate attempt to scam us. No wonder he wanted it to be privatized so much. I had to wonder what justified such confidentiality...
I absolutely HATED this!
My respect for Connor plummeted that day. I wanted to tell him the honest truth about my opinion on this tutorial program or GAI initiative, but I did not yet have enough evidence on my suspicions and although I am used to burning bridges with or being betrayed by allies-turned-corrupted, I still did not want to just jump into conclusions so rashly ill-prepared. I suspected that he was not truly pro-GAI, but rather just another grifter/opportunist trying to manipulate true GAI enthusiasts and exploit them into using his commercial live-service.
So, in addition to being disgusted of Discord and their terribly toxic policy chances, their new penalty system that really loves to punish bystanders for the actions of the server owners, more than just punish the server owners themselves, and the ever-worsening security risk threat looming in the horizon, I quietly left Bluedrake42's company Drakeling Labs and their respective Discord server, detach from many other servers, and by New Year's Day 2025, I deleted my account and left Discord for good.
It was until June 22nd, 2026 (last week from the writing and recording of this video), that I discovered a video Hill made on April 30th, where he revealed a very critically dark and dirty truth about himself.
So there you have it. My fears were confirmed. Connor hates Generative AI. He is took weak to handle the extremely transformative nature GAI software (at least on the art side) has graced us all! He did not join GAI out of love and passion for it as I have, he only joined because he felt he is forced to adapt by circumstance. He is just an unwilling slave of time and circumstance.
What does this mean for me? Under normal circumstances, while I still might criticize him for being a grifter (albeit out of disappointment and concern rather than disgust) and would usually just question why he bothers to work on a server he does not care for nor enjoy, and just try to find something else that makes him happy instead, I would still ultimately not give a damn and just tolerate his presence - provided I avoid to fund him any money or even time. I do not want to service grifters of GAI - they are essentially or effective no better than Neo-Luddites; they are the very ones trying to commercially and greedily exploit the GAI scene for massive money - which Bluedrake ironically had been warning us about during the tutorial program initiation/application phase.
EXCEPT HE is also part of that cabal with his GAI education subscription service! To think his 'solution' to help us learn GAI on our own so we will never have to rely on pre-made online services is to also, IRONICALLY pay him some money on a monthly (or yearly) basis?!?
He played all of the GAI fans who were lured into his program for fools; he played me for a fool! He lied to us all! He deceived us and has been trying to manipulate us into profiting from his stupid online subscription service! He does not truly care about us at all! He just wants to use us to monetize his tutor scam.
So now upset and disgusted at this, I scoured and hasted faster to find a way just to contact this man and convince him to remove me from the Steamworks Partnership organization he invited me into - for my company account is trapped inside. I was already trying to do that since I left Discord in 2025. His original email was apparently lost or never actually worked. Up until Jan 22nd, I have tried other means to reach him via email and other social media that I can possibly reach - to no avail.
Then later on the same day, I later tried that sponsor email that exists on his current YouTube profile. I was running out of patience and tolerance for his man, so I just went and posted my response. It was critical of him and his dishonest and disingenuous actions, but it was still fair and somewhat respectful - at least much more than how I would normally respond to grifters and scammers.
At an unusual miracle, Connor finally responded.
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It was not a good one.
Honestly, I doubt it would even matter if I was kissing his ass and begging for him to remove me from the Partnership organization. If there was major rumor I have read and heard about it is that Connor Hill HATES criticism. He hates being called out for committing bad or evil acts. He hates confrontation for his own mistakes. He hates people being vocal about it, and later I got to learn the hard way just how evil and scummy this creep can be - even if it comes to his own detriment more than it does my own. He has also hidden me from his YouTube channel (formerly known as blocking someone; YouTube replaced that later in June 2023).
So, I had to find another alternative way to convince Valve (via Steam Support), to remove me from the Steamworks partnership Bluedrake willingly entrapped me with. I did contact them before about it, but they required that I talked to him about freeing me first or provide with evidence that he refuses to set me free. That nasty email from Bluedrake provided sufficient evidence for the latter.
It took nearly a week, but I finally got a response from Steam Support, and they had finally removed me from Connor Hill's organization. Now I can finally operate solely under my own Partnership organization and not deal with a confusing clusterfuck mess (or worse)!
I honestly didn't want to make a video about this ordeal. I just wanted him to remove me from the partnership so I can move on with my life. I hate this gaming industry and most of the 'people' within it - especially these so-called 'industry professionals'. Connor Hill is by far the MOST UNPROFESSIONAL, HYPOCRITICAL, ASSHAT I've ever associated with.
Connor, if you are reading this - FUCK YOU.
You "definitely agree that accepting my application was a mistake"? Good.
I definitely agree that the very fact I ever filed an application for you in the first place was a terrible mistake. It was the worst mistake I've ever made in my entire life - short of the disasterous incident that nearly destroyed my life since Fall 2016. In fact, you remind me a lot about that crazy, deranged, dox-happy thot bitch who even basically tried to fucking MURDER ME BY PROXY!!! You are BARELY any better than she is.
I wouldn't put it behind me if you tried to swat someone at the very first opportunity. You are crazy enough to jeopardize another game developer's business account over ethical criticism, AND you have already tried to abuse the law to silence those who spoke ill of your game projects and company prior, even at the cost of betraying one or more of your close friends - fortunately to no success far as I discovered. I don't trust you at all anymore. You are a snake Connor Hill. I want NOTHING MORE to do with you or your business establishment again.
I would strongly advise and encourage anyone in the GAI community to do the same. Avoid this man at all costs. He does not truly support GAI in the way we do. His video proved that he is just another grifter who HATES GAI and is trying to exploit and toy with us for some 'quick-money' scam and he definitely tried that with his select few participants for his program (myself included). Don't let this creep sucker you all. What I hate more than zealous Neo-Luddites are the Anti-GAI impostors who infiltrate and manipulate pro-GAI spaces to manipulate, defraud, and abuse us.
You will thank me later.