Tyller "Wheezel" Hedden · @Tywheezel
14th Oct 2022 from TwitLonger
Oh Boy. 2AM Drama.
Before going any further, I’d like to state that this is not going to be a regular “exposing 2AM” Longer. I’d like to start from the beginning.
I met Jeff in 2018, the year I decided to become a content creator. He was a high school student running a team called ULTM (sounds familiar, right?), and I was a free agent looking for a team to be apart of. When I joined ULTM, it felt like everything was falling into place.
Jeff and I had started to become closer friends day by day during my time as a creator for ULTM. We’d play fortnite day in and day out together, building chemistry for what was my biggest move in my career, PROVIDED BY JEFF. After Jeff graduated, he had a LOT of Colleges reaching out to him regarding an esports scholarship. He had been looking for a lot of different options, and as someone who was not wanting to go to college, I myself was being as supportive as possible. He then told me he wanted me to become his official Competitive Duo in Fortnite THROUGH A COLLEGE. Seeing the opportunity, I took the chance.
We eventually had a falling out as a duo and stopped talking for awhile, I chose to enroll at Bushnell University whilst Jeff kept going through the process of getting the best offer from a University. Later on down the road, I had found out he was considering enrolling at Bushnell, so being the person I am, I wanted to make my amends and try to atleast be civil and professional for the sake of both of our scholarships.
This is where the tables started taking its turn. Jeff was signed to XTRA.
He was one of the first signees and XTRA was steadily growing, I saw Jeffrey start to become attracted to number gaining methods. Because of this, the ego started to become more and more of him, even to this day.
Fast forward a year and we’re in Summer of Last Year, when Jeff came out with an SA Claim and helped cancel XTRA. He then joined a couple teams like 33 and eventually, decided to bring back ULTM.
November of 2021, so basically a year from today. As some of you may know, I am launching a project on January 1 of 2023. This project was something I had been working on during this time, when I was presented with an offer by Jeff. He told me he sees the potential I have as an owner, and wanted to give me an Owner position in ULTM.
Because I had such an emotional connection with ULTM from the past, I gave in. I had become the owner of “my” first esports organization. I was given the Twitter account info and proceeded to do my thing, whilst Jeff was abusing his numbers to find me partnerships with companies such as Goat Fuel.
Being the only owner of a team with 30+ people in different time zones with different schedules can be stressful. Doing everything yourself and trying to find time to be a human is very tough, and I had a very hard time finding a balance point. Because I was not taking care of myself IRL, I had decided to take a ONE WEEK mental break, and after that ULTM would be in full force again.
Then, 2AM launched.
Because of this launch, Jeff needed players and creators. Because I was running a team he provided me with, being the best owner I possibly could be with my limitations at the time, Jeff was able to provide a seemingly more “efficient and providable” offer to everyone on my roster, and because of the numbers difference amongst myself and Jeff as well as his promised “provided amenities”, everyone who I was working with decided to join 2AM.
Okay cool right, restart and do it again. Seems simple enough? Nah. This KILLED me on the inside. My heart was broken. Everything I worked towards, all the effort I put into getting each YouTube video up on time, the partnerships, was all for nothing. I ended operations immediately and ended my friendship with Jeff.
2AM then shut down then came back blah blah blah.
Even with there being SO MUCH MORE that I haven’t even stated, I’m not going to continue to talk about what Jeff has done. I understand what every single one of you is feeling about the way this Organization is ran, and honestly I wish I could make it better.
I am someone who has dealt the most suffering from the hands of Jeff, outside of his relationships (Im sorry you believed his lies Monica, you’re such a king person with a beautiful soul, and I wish our friendship coulda stayed strong. Because of the influential way Jeff has with words, I can see why you didn’t want to continue to be associated with me after him and I stopped talking).
As a person who has felt the most pain in the entirety of this situation, I worry for all of you who continue to try and expose. Jeff has his ways, whether we accept it or not. He was able to get his own story on Keemstar’s YouTube Channel, and it single-handedly DESTROYED one of the greatest orgs to randomly blow up like it did. Jeff is cancel culture.
For your precautions, as well as mine and many others, let’s all come together and just stop giving the org the attention they’re so deprived of. Instead of giving them something to talk about, let’s work together and make something better.
If you have been wronged by Jeff or 2AM and don’t have a place to call home, PLEASE reach out. I don’t care what the scenario is. I don’t want to hear each story as I’ve already read each and every one of them (even though I’m blocked I have my ways of seeing everything), I want to hear what you do in the comm, as well as the direction you want to head for your brand.
This project I have been working on is something bigger than any of us, I want all of you involved.
-Tyller “Wheezel” Hedden