Jonas Kaerlev: The MechaPost
This is a collection of information I found relating to Jonas.
TLDR: Maybe don't support Gears for Breakfast or A Hat in Time, due to Jonas being a sociopathic teenager at heart
who's blackmailed and doxxed people for the pettiest reasons.
I also have not found any evidence that he's changed since then.
MaxofS2D's story.
Updated on April 3rd, 2012 to add back evidence that Mecha got taken down around the web.
I’m writing this blog post to serve as a summary of the story that’s happened between me and this guy during the past two months.
Despite me having done everything that he had asked at the beginning, giving him two “chances” after he had dug himself deep into a hole,
even after I made an apology that went much further than it should have been given the consequences…
he still refused to let this blow over. I’d like to repeat it for yet another time: I don’t condone harassment or attacks.
I only want our story to be out there — what me and Rebb had to go through — you can draw your own conclusions from it.
But let it be known: I’m not a doormat, and I have no intentions to be one. Actions have consequences.
Here’s a quick summary of the whole story. On January 16th 2012,
Rebbacus and I got fed up of how Jonas “Mecha the Slag” Kaerlev, the owner of SLAG Gaming, was treating us in regards to our input to his network.
Among many things, I think what took the cake was his complete lack of concern for his players getting what they bought by donating. So we decided to leave,
and we also asked for our content to be pulled off his servers. Mecha the Slag promised that he would do it, if that’s “what we wanted”. That promise would then be repeated another two times.
To this day, it still hasn’t been honored. But then, he said it would be after I explained my actions in a public statement on his forums, and Facepunch.
Keep that in mind, now — Mecha the Slag is the one who made this go public. *HE* started this by not removing *OUR* content when we simply asked for it.
I first posted my public statement on his forums. The thing is… nearly everyone was in support of me and Rebbacus. Posts were deleted, then the thread was closed and trashed, and my account banned (and eventually permabanned).
So I posted it on Facepunch.com… and well, it went pretty much the same way. But it got pretty funny, because Mecha wasn’t a moderator there. Read the thread yourselves if you want a laugh.
After Mecha the Slag pretended he didn’t know who Rebbacus was (despite him selling a donation-only skin that she had made on his server store!),
tried to get an inflammatory reaction by putting a video (which used my face) he knew I wasn’t comfortable with back up, and many other things you can see in the Facepunch thread… until he “went to sleep”…
Eventually, I got IP-banned from his forums. Previously, only my account was banned, which means I could log out to still look at posts.
By using a proxy, I spotted this thread, in which Mecha said that he would look into an idea that would… well… involve re-using our content. Which he had just promised, for a third time, that he would wipe off his network.
Right after IP-banning me. I’m sure you can agree that this is pretty shady. I knew he was never going to do it, so I sent a DMCA takedown request. The DMCA is a law that makes stuff like this much more manageable.
However, Mecha the Slag lied under the law, under the penalty of perjury, to claim intellectual property / copyright over my work and the work of Rebbacus. You can read more about it here, or in the 22mn long YouTube video further down this post.
This is why the Parkour Fortress content we made still isn’t off his servers — but at this point, we don’t care about that point anymore. Fast forward to February 3rd. I receive about ten DMCA e-mails from Tumblr.com…
like this one: So Mecha the Slag is claiming that I’m violating his copyright with Tumblr posts… like this one, or that one. This is just text. This is a support message from someone.
Yet Jonas “Mecha the Slag” Kaerlev claims that it violates his copyright. Another low-blow… not surprising. Quite interestingly, the day before, Mecha the Slag got a part about blackmailing removed from his user article over at Mario Fan Games Galaxy.
Blackmailing, yes. Best part: he admitted to it. Following this, I made a 22mn long exposé on his actions and the whole story up to February 6th.
Mecha the Slag filed a privacy complaint on YouTube to get it, like my other videos, taken down (which is very hypocritical, as you’ll see in a few seconds).
It’s outdated on several points, so there isn’t really any interest in keeping it up any longer anyway. He then responded to it.
His video was however deleted by YouTube for violation of their terms of service. It’s not like anything valuable was lost; one argument that had been proven wrong already,
the rest being personal attacks which went as far as saying my parents were “going through a divorce”, and that it “explained my anger problems”.
He later re-uploaded this video on Metacafe, which took the video down for the same reasons as YouTube. That’s Jonas’s style: no arguments? Attack the other person’s family. Classy.
I replied to it in this video. Now, here’s where the fun begins, and the summary of the situation ends. On February 17th, I received a Google Alert for a new result on my name.
Kind of creepy. An empty page titled “Maxime Lebled portfolio”, with my address, my phone numbers… the WHOIS registrant information was sadly protected, and contacting the host (SiteGround) yielded no replies.
The domain was bought on February 7th… the day Mecha the Slag uploaded his video reply. Despite this, I didn’t think he was behind the website at first. After all, he had his back against the wall, an absolutely enormous,
to say the least, history of low-blows and debunked lies… So yeah. At first, I thought “404”, the owner of two TF2 servers named “UNF Gaming”, had done it. Why? One, because the domain name company was in the same country as him,
Canada, and he had, the day before, posted this announcement. 404 had a grudge against me and Rebbacus, ever since we refused to collaborate with him after he got himself instantly permabanned from Facepunch in a single post.
day after, MaxOfS2D.com turned into a full-fledged page with photoshopped screenshots and forum posts as evidence that I’m a crazy person or something along those lines. Here’s the video on this exact subject,
and a MP4 download of it. The following text explains things a little bit better, so it’s what I would recommend looking at :)
Evidence #1: EXIF metadata
EXIF metadata is information stored in pictures. Stuff like exposure value, camera model, etc. but some software can leave other footprints, like e-mail address, GPS data… In this case, here’s the thing that tipped me off in the first place, and incited me to look further.
Let’s look at the YouTube screenshot of me “going mental in YouTube”: 1) the metadata says this image was saved at 10.44 p.m. 2) the gmail notification shows this comment was made at 10.13 p.m. 3)
the timestamp on the screenshot itself says 25 minutes ago. that leaves us with 10.38 p.m., add a few minutes for photoshopping a few sentences out.
Therefore, it is someone in the same timezone as me. And here’s the juicy bits. In all of the JPG images at MaxOfS2D.com, there is a string, a footprint. A reference to some deskjet printer.
Not all EXIF metadata viewers will display the string, I used this Firefox addon. You can go check by yourself; the footprint isn’t going away unless all images on both websites are cleaned of their metadata,
and re-uploaded. If you don’t feel like checking yourself, visual proof of this footprint existing is available in the video at the very top of this post, around the 8mn30 mark.
%20Deskjet%201000%20J110%20series8BIM%04%3B%01%B2%10%01%12p
All the JPG images at MechaTheSlag.net and MaxOfS2D.com have this footprint. (furthermore, they’re also all saved using 80% quality, using Photoshop CS5 on Windows)
This is an undeniable link, especially considering how scrambled the footprint is. Even in the worst of cases — assuming Mecha the Slag isn’t the author — it would still mean he has made all the images hosted on there,
and that he knows the author… unlike what he says here.
Evidence #2: video encoding settings
There are two video files, one on MechaTheSlag.net, and the other only on MaxOfS2D.com. The first is Mecha’s reply to my 22mn long exposé, since it got taken down by YouTube and Metacafe,
and the second is an excerpt of a video by 69starmix96 about me.
Both files were encoded using the same settings. 59.94 fps, Main 3.2 profile, 1600kbps VBR video, 128kbps audio… things that are too similar — maybe a coincidence, but if it’s just one, it’s starting to be a lot of them.
Evidence #3: whereabouts of Mecha’s IP
Mecha the Slag’s IP address accessed a Tumblr post that was screenshotted and uploaded onto MaxOfS2D.com, only four minutes before it was saved.
Where did I get the IPs from?
1) Facepunch.com’s logs, thanks to Garry and another moderator, Daimao.
2) The SLAG Gaming forums! I linked to this screenshot further above — this was when I still had access to the Snowman event account, since it had admin rights.
3) And finally, Tumblr. Not directly Tumblr, however, but logs from the servers on which files embedded on my Tumblr are hosted. In this case,
audio.maxofs2d.net and img.maxofs2d.net. Here are the two entries:
87.57.14.106 - - [01/Mar/2012:17:57:56 -0600] "GET /jukebox/xspf/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=http://audio.maxofs2d.net/jukebox/xspf/playlist.xspf&volume_btn=off&bg_color=EEEEEE&button_color=6088AA
8&txt_color=424242&blend=1&album=off&bottom_controls=off&autoload=1 &autoplay=0&shuffle=1&start_track=1 HTTP/1.1" 304 -
8"http://tumblr.maxofs2d.net/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko)
8Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11" 87.57.14.106 - -
8[01/Mar/2012:17:57:57 -0600] "GET /website/homeportal_background_wildlife_white.jpg HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://tumblr.maxofs2d.net/"
8"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11"
Keep in mind that my server is in the US. 17:57:57 (5:58 p.m) shifted to my timezone, gives 58 minutes past midnight.
That’s only 3mn31 before the screenshot of my Tumblr was saved… 87.57.14.106 and 87.57.14.55, despite being dynamic IPs… …
both match to an ISP upnode that is only 8 kilometers away from where Mecha the Slag lives. Note that, while MechaTheSlag.net was registered in a city that is at the extreme west of Denmark,
Esbjerg (the Facepunch registration IP matchesto there!), he does indeed live as a student in Aalborg nowadays.
(and before you say I’m violating his privacy by revealing those two cities, keep in mind that
1) they’re pretty big,
2) I’m not posting his street address, and
3) they’re here to support the fact of dynamic IPs matching)
Conclusion
So there you go. Solid links that prove, at the very least — even if you were to be giving him the benefit of the doubt — a connection with whoever made MaxOfS2D.com.
But when you take into account Mecha the Slag’s past of low-blows and lying… Yeah, this is childish at best. But not completely unexpected from you, Mecha.
Every time you replied to any of my points, you’d construct a straw man out of one or two of my sentences, then destroy it with a fallacy.
You can’t confront the evidence head on (I still haven’t seen you justify the Tumblr DMCAs), because you know you’re in the wrong. And what was your reply to this? Bringing the video down,
saying that the EXIF metadata is based off “magical printer moondust that connects everything together”, and that I “didn’t give the source of the IPs”. That’s pathetic.
I am, however, very flattered that you would spend money on a domain name and WHOIS privacy just in an attempt to spite me. Anyone with half a brain cell wouldn’t take your website seriously anyway —
especially with a counter that claims that I visited over 25k times. I do also hope that you realize none of this would have happened if you had kept your promise to remove our content in the first place;
a promise that you made not only once, not only twice, but three times. You’ve been digging your own hole ever since, and while the metaphors on the subject are not in short supply, there’s one in particular I find most appropriate:
on January 16th, you were doing it with a shovel, and today, it’s with an industrial-grade grill. You know, I haven’t had the chance to actually attack you, the person behind this,
yet — after all, all I’ve done until this very sentence was merely exposing facts — so I’ll make up for that now. You present all the symptoms of anti-social personality disorder.
“A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15”, “callous unconcern for the feelings of others”,
“lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another”, and last but not least,
“deception, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure”. (That’s spot-on, don’t you think? Thanks, Wikipedia!)
Please get a grip on the real world, and realize that your actions have consequences. Sincerely, ~ that dude you made a slanderous website on
P.S.: another one for the road?
Images related to the archive.
"An empty page titled “Maxime Lebled portfolio”,
with my address, my phone numbers…"
"especially with a counter that claims that I visited over 25k times."
Jonas being Jonas.
SLAG Gaming's word filter including MaxofS2D
Jonas doesn't seem very bright.
After 2012
Jonas likely kept fighting with Max during AHIT's Kickstarter
Jonas apparently hired Hat Kid as Gears For Breakfast's
Social Media Manager in 2018
(This tweet and all tweets before Oct 11 2018 were deleted.)
Gears For Breakfast being really pecking late on Kickstarter rewards in 2018
(it would proceed to not be implemented until 6 months after release)
along with Co-op mode and New Game+, being implemented in the Seal the Deal DLC release, 11 months after the game initally released.
New Game+ (Death Wish) is also locked behind the Seal the Deal DLC.
Jonas attempted to scrub any link between MechaBowser (MFGG username),
Mecha the Slag, and AHIT on the wiki from 2014 to 2019
for a whole lot of reasons that I'll describe in the next chapter.
Gears For Breakfast accidentally publishing internal files multiple times.
On December 11 2017, Jonas published an internal debug build of A Hat In Time onto a (now deleted)
public branch named "debug" which contained a really unfinished version of Death Wish.
On May 28 2018, Jonas published a build that contained all of The Arctic Cruise, minus textures.
Jonas was in a very strong panic to remove the maps.
On September 29 2018, Jonas published a build that contained what was completed of Nyakuza Metro.
On April 2 2019, Jonas published an internal "Final Release" build of Nyakuza Metro onto a (now deleted) public branch named "gfb_tortoise".
Almost identical to the final version with the exception of more trans flags than the final version and a Vinesauce mural that was removed.
From June 20 2022 to December 2022, Jonas published PDB files for the main EXE of the game, including the engine-side implementation of Online Party...
MechaBowser (WIP)
(I'm still looking into this, so information might be a bit shaky)
The whole blackmail thing Max was talking about.
On March 24 2007 in the Mario Fan Games Galaxy forums,
it was revealed that Jonas got a hold of the personal information of a MFGG member who
was actively calling out his behavor and used it to blackmail them.
Archived chat logs:
(14:52) MechaBowser: Gotta talk to you.
(14:52) MechaSonic: sure
(14:52) MechaBowser: It's important.
(14:52) MechaSonic: but pls without insulting me this time
(14:52) MechaBowser: Whatever.
(14:53) MechaSonic: good.
(14:57) MechaBowser: Your name is Mauer, you live on ***, ***. Your phone number is ***** and your birthday is 14/10, 1990 in ***.
(14:57) MechaSonic: ?
(14:57) MechaSonic: what?
(14:57) MechaSonic: Lol my name is not "Mauer"
(14:57) MechaSonic: my name is "Manuel"
(14:57) MechaSonic: well.. why do you want to know that
(14:57) MechaSonic: and from where do you know that
(14:58) MechaBowser: I don't want to know stuff I already know.
(14:58) MechaSonic: yes
(14:58) MechaSonic: but from where do you know that
(14:58) MechaBowser: Nowhere.
(14:58) MechaBowser: But my point is
(14:58) MechaBowser: Stay away from me.
(14:58) MechaSonic: I stay away from you
(14:58) MechaSonic: ok
(14:58) MechaSonic: but
(14:58) MechaSonic: tell me.. why do you still hate me?
(14:59) MechaSonic: I have enough 'real live' problems
(14:59) MechaBowser: I don't "hate" you. But I'm constantly pissed at you keeping to reply at anything I'm saying, quoting me, and had me banned several times.
(14:59) MechaSonic: hey... you were only banned because of that in the general chat
(14:59) MechaSonic: because of me*
(14:59) MechaBowser: No, you reported me several times.
(14:59) MechaBowser: In the art board, too.
(15:00) MechaSonic: oh yea.... right
(15:00) MechaBowser: Now I hope you'll take this warning serious. Because I could come up with something if you don't.
(15:00) MechaSonic: ...
(15:01) MechaSonic: okay, thats a word. I stay away from you and you stay away from me
(15:01) MechaBowser: And that includes everything I host, post or any topic I'll ever make.
(15:02) MechaSonic: but then dont post anything related to me again, ok?
(15:02) MechaSonic: I will never talk to you, talk over you or point to you again
(15:02) MechaSonic: and you stay away from me, too
(15:02) MechaBowser: K, deal.
(15:03) MechaSonic: k.
(15:03) MechaSonic: I really have enough problems in my real live. I don't want to have problems in the net, too
(15:03) MechaBowser: But I'll abuse these information if you break any of these rules.
(15:03) MechaSonic: ok. but you stop talking about me, too. okay?
(15:04) MechaBowser: Depends on how "talking about you" is.
(15:04) MechaBowser: If you mean official topics, then okay, sure.
(15:04) MechaSonic: I mean on the net
(15:04) MechaBowser: But I'll gossip around as I feel like.
(15:04) MechaSonic: but I have a last question. from where do you know those informations? and please answer that.
(15:05) MechaBowser: Oh you'd like to know, wouldn't you+
(15:05) MechaBowser: *?
(15:05) MechaSonic: yea... if its just from a website then you don't need to say it. I just want to know it.
(15:05) MechaBowser: It's not from a website or anything.
(15:05) MechaSonic: my sister.....
(15:05) MechaBowser: Your sister blocked me alright.
(15:05) MechaSonic: oh
(15:06) MechaBowser: So yeah, sure, I lied when I said she helped me, she had blocked me ages ago anyways.
(15:06) MechaSonic: thanks for saying me that.
(15:06) MechaSonic: ok.. now we have a deal. I stay away from you
(15:06) MechaBowser: Fine.
(15:07) MechaSonic: oh and a last thing. please don't release those infos
(15:07) MechaBowser: But if I catch you, in ANY way, bothering me, and especially PMGO
(since you emailed loads of members from that forum) these informations ain't safe at all.
(15:07) MechaSonic: I only talked with T-man
(15:07) MechaSonic: anyways.. we have a deal now
(15:08) MechaBowser: And Spy Guy.
(15:08) MechaBowser: Yes, sure.
(15:08) MechaSonic: oh that was ages ago
(15:08) MechaBowser: Well who cares, you did it.
(15:08) MechaSonic: yes...
(15:08) MechaBowser: Deal. Now let's end this conversation so I can finally get to play my Wii.
(15:09) MechaSonic: you have a wii? (anyways. okay. deal!.)
(15:09) MechaBowser: Yes, I bothered stand in line for 10 hours. It was well worth it.
(15:09) MechaSonic: lol >.< My grandma bought mine. But I must wait till christmas....
(15:09) MechaBowser: TEHEHE.
(15:10) MechaBowser: Now bye.
(15:10) MechaSonic: okay. bye
Later...
(14:52) MechaSonic: Sorry for disturbing you again but I have another deal-idea. Maybe you accept it.
I request a Permaban at MFGG so you never can see me again and you
delete that adress thing and never release it. okay?
(14:52) MechaBowser: Sure thing.
(14:52) MechaBowser: Go for it.
(14:52) MechaSonic: ok
(14:53) MechaSonic: can I make a good bye topic. I dont post any things related to you or other things
(14:53) MechaSonic: just say good bye
(14:53) MechaSonic: just to say*
(14:53) MechaBowser: Actually, since it's a goodbye topic, you get to write stuff about me. Only this once, though.
(14:54) MechaSonic: I only write: Hello MFGGers. It was a nice time here at MFGG. I enjoyed making Fangames and playing fangames.
But now it's time to say goodbye. I request a Permaban. Hope you don't forget me.
(14:55) MechaBowser: Well do as you feel.
(14:55) MechaBowser: Write at your hearts desire.
(14:55) MechaSonic: but please promise me that you never release that adress thing
(14:55) MechaBowser: Sure, alright.
(14:55) MechaSonic: good
(14:55) MechaSonic: thats a deal
(14:55) MechaBowser: Yup.
(14:56) MechaBowser: Now BRB.
(14:56) MechaSonic: k
DarkKiller.
DarkKiller is Jonas' brother, Mathias Kaerlev.
He was a bit toxic:
(original quotes are censored, restored it based on context)
DarkKiller says: Really, it's better then making some fucking kid game about a fucking mouse going on a crappy quest with some really crappy engine.
No wonder why your game has almost got no respone. That is why MFGG Ware is so much better. Because kids can't do better, simply.
DarkKiller says:
Fuck some girls, get a life
Flametale says:
What am i doing now? it's called Living.
I go out, i play sports, i come home, i talk on MSN, i go out more, i go get drunk on the odd occasion.
DarkKiller says:
Fuck it
DarkKiller says:
I don't give fuck
DarkKiller says:
Play sports?
Flametale says:
Yes, sports.
DarkKiller says:
Haha, fucking sports kid. Sports with the girls? Fun playing with, hnm?
DarkKiller says:
Feeling the excitement of your small penis going in and out of their pussy
