The TruthA Statement From The Author

My name is Lord Cornelius "Void-Pointer" Flesh-Meld III — known online as youarethecarbontheywanttoreduce and as Crüe on Discord. I am the primary author of the Discord Stereo Patcher — a native Swift macOS application that removes Discord's aggressive audio filters, restores true stereo, and unlocks high-bitrate Opus.

I believe in giving credit where it is due, and I will do that plainly. The foundational offset research for the Windows platform was not mine. That groundwork was laid before me by a community of researchers, and their contributions deserve acknowledgment. Those individuals are:

The offset finder tool in its original form was created by ProdHallow. I want to be clear about that. What I then did — with the assistance of AI tools and my own sustained reverse engineering research — was adapt and rebuild that offset finder to work correctly for macOS, discovering the correct macOS-specific offsets myself. I was the first person to accomplish this. ProdHallow later made his own attempts to do the same without success, and it was I who subsequently provided him with the working scripts through our DM conversations. His own commit history and our conversation records reflect this timeline clearly.

Geeko did some early research alongside me as well, and I acknowledge that. The macOS-specific breakthroughs — the offset discovery, the krisp.node workaround, both the ARM64 and Intel x86_64 patches, and the Swift application itself — are my work, achieved through sustained personal investment in research, tooling, and development time.

I also want to be clear about this: using AI as a development tool does not strip a developer of authorship. A carpenter who uses a power saw still built the cabinet. I directed every decision, debugged every failure, and made every call. The macOS application is mine. The Codeberg organization is mine. The macOS work is mine. The record reflects this.

ProdHallow — handle prod.hallow on Discord — approached Geeko and me about joining something called the "Discord Audio Collective." He and his associate UNP Beats UK were persistent about wanting access to our work and wanting us to fold ourselves into their project.

We came to an agreement. That agreement included several specific terms, all acknowledged by all parties in a voice call: the code was not to go on GitHub — it was to remain on Codeberg only. Additionally, I was not to publish the Swift build files or make everything public until the software was polished and confirmed ready. These were not suggestions. They were agreed-upon conditions.

The v29 patcher was completed around February 19th. Within the first week or two of March — not long after those agreements were made — Geeko shared the v29 patcher in a Discord voice call side chat with another user, without asking my permission beforehand. I had explicitly stated it was not ready for distribution. It still needed work. He gave it out anyway. That was the first violation of the trust and terms we had agreed upon.

Approximately a month after those initial agreements, there was a voice call in which ProdHallow was disrespectful toward me — and not once. The context matters: he was in conversation with another user in that call about addressing an audio problem. I mentioned that a VST plugin could handle what they were describing. His response was to invoke his audio engineering degree and professional background at me — not for the first time, as I had heard it before and never forgotten it — in a way that was dismissive and condescending. I responded with measured sarcasm. I stated plainly that I too have years of experience, that having a degree in a different field does not mean I do not know what I am talking about, and that unsolicited credential-wielding directed at a collaborator is not something I will simply absorb in silence. He pivoted and proceeded to attempt to pull the ol' "comparing apples and oranges". At that point after saying a few more words, I disengaged. I did not explode. I did not rage. I walked away from a situation that was beneath me, because that was the correct and measured thing to do.

Geeko was in that call at the time of my having joined it. He left within minutes of me arriving, before any of the above transpired. He was not present for what happened between ProdHallow and I, and therefore had no direct knowledge of the specifics of that interaction.

In the days and weeks following the incident with ProdHallow, I reached out to Geeko multiple times with my concerns. I preferred voice calls — not because I was avoiding a written record, but because the volume and nuance of what I needed to express made a live conversation far more practical than trying to type it all out or wrestle with dictation corrections. We did have a voice call at one point in the guitar server. I told him directly that I was considerate of his time and his new job, and he acknowledged that plainly. I also told him that I felt there was a disconnect — that I didn't feel understood — and his response was an acknowledgement and a subject change. That stayed with me.

I removed Geeko from the Codeberg organization after I had already blocked him on Discord that day — the removal came after the blocking, not before. I am clarifying this because the sequence matters. By that point it was clear that his position was one of managed distance, and our conversation had reached its end.

I want to be fair to him on one thing: I was always more than accommodating of his pace and his priorities. Development was supposed to be relaxed. He had a new job. I held none of that against him, and I said so to his face. What I could not accommodate was silence in the face of something that directly affected me and the project we had built together — and his eventual escalation into outright attack.

After I had already blocked him, Geeko sent me the longest and most cutting message of our entire relationship — into the void, knowing I would not receive it in real time. In it he called me emotionally immature. He called me a child. He made ageist remarks. He fabricated incidents — including a claim that I had publicly ranted about Claude Opus in some embarrassing way. For the record: any frustration I have ever expressed about Claude Opus was specifically about it producing incorrect outputs in spite of carefully constructed prompts. That is a developer's legitimate technical grievance, not the erratic behavior he was implying. I also have years of programming experience and am not solely a vibecoder — that characterization is simply not accurate.

He dismissed my standing up for my own work as a "pissing match." He told me to keep my Intel patches and "my goddamned fork" — as though the Intel patches, and the ARM64 patches alongside them, were minor footnotes rather than the entire macOS foundation of this project. He told me he was "done being my therapist" — a role he invented for himself in that message and never played in reality. He ended by telling me not to call him again — directed at someone who had already blocked him. Then he told ProdHallow he was available to work on macOS patches on his schedule — using the groundwork I had laid.

ProdHallow made a public statement to his server addressed to @everyone. I am going to address it directly and completely, because it contains distortions I am not willing to let stand unchallenged.