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<fs smaller>**BACKLASH** YouTuber "Phoenix Party" lacerates Axanar's Alec Peters and his girlfriend, Crysstal Hubbard. [[yout>2Uyv-jaGQnQ|Click to view]] video.</fs> 

<fs x-small>MARCH 1, 2019<wrap indent> | </wrap><wrap indent> 3 MIN READ</wrap></fs>

===== Peters' YouTube Retaliation Backfires Over Mignogna Scandal =====

**//Peters deletes YouTube video after few come to his support in dispute with MechaRandom42//**

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You may never see this version of episode 8 of Alec Peters’ YouTube show, //Reel Trek//. That’s because Peters tried to use his 76,000-subscriber platform to further his vitriolic crusade against his rival, scandal-plagued //Star Trek Continues// star Vic Mignogna.

==== It Didn’t Go So Well ====

Peters and his girlfriend, Crysstal Hubbard, wanted to counter the narrative pushed by influential YouTuber [[https://youtu.be/y_0II4yk36s|MechaRandom42]] that Mignogna, a noted anime voice actor, is the victim of a witch hunt surrounding allegations of [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/one-of-anime-s-biggest-voices-accused-of-sexual-harassm-1832390505?rev=1550606147397|sexual misconduct]]. In a 30-minute rant rebutting MechaRandom’s video, Peters said:
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<WRAP>//**__« Today, this whole thing with MechaRandom blew up, and I had people coming at me left and right on Twitter, and it’s the same old crap. And you know what? It’s not about me. All right? I don’t want to make it about me. »__ **//  <wrap indent>//— Axanar producer Alec Peters//</wrap></WRAP>

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<WRAP>//**__<wrap em>Watch</wrap>__**//</WRAP>
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<fs smaller>**‘I'M DONE WITH STAR TREK FAN FILMS’** YouTuber MechaRandom42 rages against Axanar's Alec Peters after he attacks her via Instant Messenger.</fs>
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=== Peters tried to recruit for his crusade ===

MechaRandom42 was one of several people AxaMonitor found who Peters tried to enlist in publicly condemning Mignogna.

=== Pushback ===

The iconoclastic YouTuber wasn’t buying what Peters was selling. And she made sure her viewers knew it. Her video has tallied nearly 35,000 views.
  * **Video rant**: MechaRandom posted direct messages she received from Peters in which he aggressively chided her for not taking his side ("[[https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?u=2d0411ecf0787fd9d4dc8dc5c&id=a317d966e2|YouTuber Goes to War Against Peters and Axanar]]").

=== Reel Trek episode 8 ===

Peters and Hubbard recorded this episode to counter MechaRandom’s defense of Mignogna and respond to her charges against them after they confronted her on her YouTube live chat Sunday night; they were banned.

  * **Unlisted and unliked**: Peters posted a link to the Reel Trek episode on Twitter. It instantly came under fire from fans of MechaRandom and Mignogna. An hour later it was gone. Here are some clips:

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<fs smaller><wrap em>WATCH:</wrap> Alec Peters and his girlfriend appealed to Axanar's 76K subscribers to rebut a YouTuber on a topic unrelated to Axanar.</fs> <fs x-small>//Click image to view clips on YouTube.//</fs>

===== Why It Matters =====

Peters appears to have stirred a hornet’s nest of angry YouTubers he had bee courting; MechaRandom is one who hates //Star Trek: Discovery//  and CBS, especially for the studio’s 2015 [[:axanar_settles|copyright lawsuit]] against Axanar.

==== Turning on Peters ====

Some of these YouTubers were surprised by Peters’ aggressive treatment of MechaRandom and declared they were [[https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?u=2d0411ecf0787fd9d4dc8dc5c&id=a317d966e2|no longer inclined]] to support him.

===== Flatlined Patreon =====

After MechaRandom’s criticism, Peters’ effort on Patreon to get fans to pay the rent and expenses for his suburban Atlanta warehouse went into negative territory.{{page>footer}} {{tag>Patreon Ares_Studios YouTube Vic_Mignogna}}