This is when the fangs from the people running Toontown.co.uk start to really show. Everything before this has just been posting information and preemptive action, but now marks the point where actual attacks are made.
Things continue right from the other night. The toontown.co website, owned by no one in the toontown.co.uk operation, was sabotaged and changed to redirect to toontown.co.uk. Nat, who owned the website, changed it back and publicly shamed the people responsible on Twitter. Allegedly, more Clash raids occurred, including in-game as well.
At some point during the day, toontown.co.uk was updated again, but this time to add an image of a cease and desist that an individual named "Drew" (likely Drewcification) received from Corporate Clash in December 10th, 2018, for violating their NDA by leaking source code. The reason that it was posted was explained with the caption "Imagine sending a Cease and Desist to someone when the whole premise of your project is illegal to begin with".
Additionally, King Mickey puts out his last big public TwitLonger on the situation by denouncing what Corporate Clash did by "cherrypicking" screenshots of questionable and explicit things that have happened in the Toontown Offline mini-server and Discord server and sending them to Joey, who has no idea how Toontown Offline works. He's especially adament about how Clash only suddenly pushed this to Joey because of what happened recently and is the sole reason why Toontown Offline was banned from the Toontown subreddit. At the end of the TwitLonger, Mickey talks about how Toontown Offline was trying to improve its community and shared some discussion from the staff chats.
First of all, here's a bit of a rant. Why did this have to happen? Why did you steal a domain just to pedal Corporate Clash leaks? What did you have to gain? Was toontown.co.uk, an OFFICIAL TOONTOWN WEBSITE DOMAIN, really not enough and you had to steal another website??? Sorry about the tangent, but this is just ridiculous.
Now that I'm done with my rambling, let's speculate. If I had to guess who was responsible for changing where toontown.co redirected to, it was probably Benjamin, aka Rocky Reborn. My guess is based on the following: Benjamin was a close friend of Nat (head of /r/toontown) before this all happened; Benjamin was likely given some sort of access to the domain name since he was a contributor in trying to unite the Toontown community (ex. Toontown Offline × Corporate Clash Team Trees collaboration); Benjamin's recent involvement with this whole situation, which will be addressed when the day associated with it is published (5/30/2021). If there was anyone who could've done it, it was Benjamin.
UPDATE: It was recently brought to my attention that Benjamin actually DID change the toontown.co page to direct visitors to toontown.co.uk. What a slimy thing of him to do.
Now regarding the cease and desist that was posted onto the website. I don't see why it should be laughed at for the legality of the project. For one thing, Disney obviously doesn't care about Corporate Clash being a non-profit organization. For goodness sake, I even talked about Corporate Clash NPO in my Corporate Clash review video from 2 years ago, so this issue is old news. If Disney actually had a problem, it would've already been sorted out by now.
Besides, the legal issues with Corporate Clash NPO are an entirely separate issue compared to the violation of the NDA. I would like to remind you, Drew, that you were threatened with a civil lawsuit if you didn't comply with the cease and desist. Was your defense in court going to be that Toontown Offline was an illegal project using copyrighted assets? If so, how would that defend you from the legal claims made against you? You could probably get away with defending yourself from copyright issues, but as far as I know, that's pretty much it. Feel free to prove me wrong.
Regarding the placement of the cease and desist among the materials posted regarding Corporate Clash going after Toontown Offline, it's very out of place. In fact, it makes Toontown Offline look worse because they did the exact same thing two years prior. Below are some screenshots of two separate copyright takedowns that two videos that covered a Duck Hunt leak got. One was from a video that my friend made about the leak, and the other was from another friend that reuploaded the previous video. As evident by the email shown on the first screenshot, this takedown was filed by Benjamin, who went under the name "BelloqZafarian" in Wizard101 circles. Heck, you can even see this exact same email in the README of the Toontown Magic Word Manager repository, of which Benjamin contibuted to.
I know that I'm not entirely innocent, as I was the one that provided the friend that made the video with the Duck Hunt source, but that's something that I don't want to get into in this document. I just figured that I'd bring it up because that's a point that would definitely be used against me. I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy of Toontown Offline complaining about Corporate Clash filing a cease and desist when they've done it themselves.
Onto Mickey's TwitLonger. I wanna take a moment and clear up the misconception that Toontown Offline was banned from the Toontown subreddit because of Joey pressuring the subreddit due to what Corporate Clash sent to him. This is not the case. As Nat has told me, they instated the ban because of what they had seen from the previous day and based on what was happening with that, as well as what was being published on toontown.co.uk, they decided to put a ban on Toontown Offline discussion because it was very likely that anything posted regarding it would automatically be toxic. Toontown Offline in its entirety is the focal point of this whole drama, while with Corporate Clash you can play the game without knowing that anything was happening. At least, at this point in the story you could.
I find it particularly ridiculous that Mickey pointed out that Clash made an issue with the fact that you can say swear words in the Toontown Offline Discord, and said that it was a bad thing. There is a difference between dropping an F-bomb in a personal setting and dropping one in your own game's chat, especially for a family-friendly game. His whitelist argument is very weak too, because it shows that a whitelist should've been implemented in the first place. His evidence for proving that Clash staff swears is confusing because he doesn't clarify what Discord server the screenshots were taken in, and he also lumps this in with his "swearing in the public Discord" argument. So unless Loonatic had sworn in the public Corporate Clash text channels as staff, this argument falls flat.
Like I said in The Situation, at the end of King Mickey's TwitLonger, he talks about how Toontown Offline was trying to improve its community and shared some discussion from the staff chats (I'm in it!!!). Do keep in mind that these logs were from April, and from April until late May, nothing was done to alleviate any of the toxicity as far as I know. In fact, as discussed in my coverage of the previous day, it got worse. There was no good faith effort to quell the toxicity, and now I don't think it'll ever happen.
At this point, Toontown Offline has officially branded themselves as the bad guys. It's become clear to me that they intend on taking as much as they can down with them in their descent into obscurity. They have thus far aggravated the situation and it only gets worse from here on out.