March 5-6, 2026
Invisible Narratives posted a statement on the @SkibidiOfficial Twitter account that became one of the most discussed moments of the entire controversy. The full text of the statement read:
The statement was received negatively by much of the Skibidi Toilet community. The core problem the community immediately identified was the framing: Inviz was presenting themselves as willing to be transparent, but had structured the offer in a way that placed the burden entirely on Alexey. If the contract never got released, Inviz could point to Alexey’s lack of written consent as the reason for all of this, while critics argued that Alexey, allegedly restricted by confidentiality obligations and limited account access, may not have been in a position to freely consent.
The replies to the statement were overwhelmingly hostile. @Plunger_Woman asked Inviz whether they would also reveal all the behind-the-scenes negotiations and conversations between Adam and Boom showing how Boom ended up in the agreement in the first place, noting that in messages Boom had said he felt scammed and taken advantage of by the people he works with, and that the community needed the full story, not just a contract. The @SkibidiOfficial account replied to this with a single thumbs up emoji. They gave the same thumbs up response to @ParrotKing831, who had written that words weren’t enough, they needed proof with Boom’s own words alongside it.
@Santosrrrs argued that Invisible Narratives had taken control away from the creator community, that the entire situation could have been avoided if they had simply let Boom keep animating and running his franchise, that they got too greedy, kicked him out, and were now facing the consequences and specifically called out the fact that they had tried replacing Boom with “Strider,” someone with a worse upload schedule, as proof of how disconnected from reality the company was.
Later the skibidi toilet account posted another tweet saying:
One of the most concrete examples of Inviz’s escalating behavior involved Iron Cameraman’s YouTube videos. Invisible Narratives had Iron Cameraman’s video about the Skibidi Toilet movie in which he gave his opinion on the Michael Bay-linked film project taken down using policy strikes that Iron and his supporters described as false or abusive. Iron and his supporters argued that the video contained no illegal content; it talked about the short teaser that Iron was shown to him when he visited their headquarters, using AI images to try and depict what he saw. That was not the only removal.
Iron Cameraman later posted on X that Adam Goodman had already taken down his third video, writing: “The fragile ego of the former Paramount Pictures president clearly cannot tolerate criticism, so he continues using takedowns to silence content that challenges him.” Separately, Invisible Narratives sent Iron Cameraman a cease and desist letter threatening a lawsuit over his video about the movie in which he expressed his honest opinion on the situation. You can read a thread he made here to understand more, since his videos are being taken down:
More videos criticizing Inviz were being removed with privacy-related justifications that creators and supporters argued did not reflect genuine privacy concerns, in some cases, the only thing flagged was the CEO’s face (sometimes even David LB), despite Adam Goodman and David LB being public figures. Here is a post by Iron Cameraman that goes in a little more into how they do it, this one regarding David LB:
During all of this, a Reddit post titled “IMPORTANT: Inviz might try to ruin Boom’s reputation” was published in r/skibiditoilet by user Cool Cat.
The post laid out a detailed argument based on public events, screenshots, and fan interpretation. She noted that Inviz had been shifting their PR strategy from total silence, to claiming everything was fine, to suggesting in their contract statement that if Alexey didn’t consent to sharing his contract, then he didn’t “share the same goal of transparency.” The post predicted that the next move would be Inviz releasing selectively chosen messages to make Alexey look complicit about the corporate direction of the series and possibly trying to paint him as a troll who had been messing with fans the whole time.
When the controversy first broke, Inviz tried to claim Alexey worked with them nearly every day and that his silence was simply him enjoying a vacation. When the silence stretched through December, they pivoted to saying his silence was “his own” and that they couldn’t control what he did. Then in February 2026, Alexey started communicating again. He posted the “mad Skibidi” image on the Skibidi Toilet anniversary, which publicly humiliated Inviz by showing his real feelings about the series without saying anything Inviz could legally punish. He started answering emails and posting on his DoorCloser channel. The post argued that Inviz, sensing Alexey was no longer going to stay completely quiet, decided they needed to get ahead of it which is why Adam Goodman gave the interview with journalist Steven Asarch at Aftermath.
The post speculated that Adam may not have expected Alexey to speak with Steven the next day, and theorized that Adam may have reacted negatively behind the scenes. The post pointed to Alexey’s “me and bro 2” video on DoorCloser as possible evidence, if the fan interpretation was accurate, that Alexey may have been threatened after that conversation and gone quiet again. In the post’s reading, if the community’s theories about that video were correct, Adam had effectively told Alexey “you will regret this.”
The post also identified what Strider’s role had become in all this. Strider had previously functioned as something of a double agent working within the Inviz ecosystem while quietly passing information to the BringBoomBack community. But by the time the post was written, Strider appeared to shift publicly toward a more pro-Inviz or sceptical interpretation.
Inviz had shown him private messages between themselves and Alexey, and Strider had come out claiming those messages proved Alexey was willing to put “corporate slop” on his channel and was therefore a willing participant. The post cautioned against taking that framing at face value, pointing out that messages can be taken out of context and do not tell the full story.
The post also cited screenshots shared by Ibio75 to support her argument. On July 10, 2025, Alexey had told a creator in Discord: “I honestly have no idea when episode will come out. This is very confidential. But the way things are going… I’m unable to work on it the way I wanted to. The mood is not good, in particular related to work on skibidi toilet. All of that has came to me were not foreseen before, when I made promises. Some things are happening just now, and yet I can’t even tell under real circumstances what is happening. When the whole future of ST, my future, all of that at stake. It’s the most serious it ever was.” He added: “It’s awful seeing that I can’t share reasons and that people going mad and disappointed. I have insane amount of urge to tell and I stop myself every time. This has to be the way it is now.”
In a separate February 22, 2025 Discord exchange, when asked Alexey if he was okay, he responded: “Nothing is ok. I’m just this close to crash out.” He then explained: “Problem is not with people wanting episodes and the mf that striked. That’s all not things that just weight down. Problem is people who I work with and who they are. I’m feeling like I’m being scammed, lied to, paranoid. All the time. It’s the way they talk, the way they treat things, their prices, their actual means and possibilities. I feel trapped, and I hate that feeling. And people I looked up to in the past are actually people I don’t want to work with. It’s the closest people in business and around that affect the most, not enemies, not fans who’s patience is incredible.” He added: “It’s not like I never had these convos with them. It’s like talking to a wall – absolutely useless. Just no hope with them.”
One of the most striking reactions captured in the screenshots came from the @SkibidiOfficial account itself. When community members replied to Inviz’s tweets expressing concern or pushing back, the official Skibidi account liked replies that said things like “I’m excited to see what comes next, whether it’s bad or good, as long as it’s the truth” and “Cooperation is the key. Mistakes can still be fixed, please lets fix everything and bring this series to new peaks.”
This was Inviz’ own official Skibidi Toilet account, not Alexey’s, which meant a corporate account was sitting and quietly liking messages that implied everything could still be fixed, while creators were also accusing Invisible Narratives of threatening lawsuits and removing videos.
The Reddit post concluded with a measured warning: whatever evidence Inviz planned to release should be taken seriously and not immediately dismissed as fake, they wouldn’t be this confident releasing fabricated material. But real evidence can still be incomplete evidence. Inviz would likely share messages that were real but stripped of the context that explained why Alexey said what he said. Later events appeared to line up with several parts of the post’s warning.
LAter, in April, about a month after the original theory post, Cool Cat returned to r/skibiditoilet with a follow-up titled “We were right… Inviz DID try to ruin Boom’s reputation.”
The first thing she clarified was something that recontextualized the original post entirely. She later claimed the post had been based on information from a source rather than pure speculation, with direct contacts inside Invisible Narratives. That person had told her what Inviz was planning but asked her not to share it publicly so she had published it framed as speculation to warn the community without directly exposing her source. In her own words: “They didn’t want me to share the information to the public, but said it was ok if I shared it as a ‘theory’ lol. I wanted to warn everyone.”
She later claimed that the creator meeting she had warned about did happen, and that she was personally present. Inviz had gathered creators and shown them private messages between themselves and Boom, exactly as the original post warned they would. More than that, she revealed she had seen the leaked Boom messages a full week before they were made public. Inviz had shown those present even more messages than what they eventually shared with the wider community.
She was clear about what seeing those messages felt like initially: “I was in the same position as what a lot of people are feeling right now – confused.” The implication was that the messages, presented without context, were genuinely disorienting; they appeared to show Boom in a way that contradicted the image the community had built of him as a victim with no agency in the situation.
But she had since learned more, and she came back specifically to offer reassurance to anyone who was shocked or disappointed by what Inviz had released. Her conclusion was direct: “Boom’s leaked messages are not the full story. I’m confident that the public is missing chunks of context, and I hope the full story comes out one day.”
Alexey sends email regarding Strider and Invisible Narratives
On March 15th, Alexey sent a fan an email in which he clarifies he can’t comment on any projects related to Invisible Narratives and that he and Strider are not collaborating and had not been in contact in some time.
