Mark Gerhard, the co-CEO of MindsEye developer Construct a Rocket Boy, has issued a “formal stop and desist demand” towards YouTuber Cyber Boi within the official MindsEye Discord server, accusing him of “media manipulation, espionage, [and] sabotage,” and of “interference focusing on” Construct a Rocket Boy.
Gerhard’s message was posted in Discord roughly 18 minutes after Cyber Boi launched a video titled “Leslie Benzies is within the Epstein Recordsdata,” which the YouTuber says he later eliminated over the specter of “escalated authorized motion.” Previous to directing MindsEye, Benzies was a longtime producer at Rockstar Video games on the Grand Theft Auto collection, in the end leaving in 2016 after twenty years on the firm.
On January 30, the Division of Justice launched greater than 3 million new recordsdata associated to convicted little one intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. The newly launched recordsdata contained a number of revelations, equivalent to the truth that Epstein emailed 4chan hyperlinks containing 5 Nights at Freddy’s porn to his ex-girlfriend and that he was banned from Xbox Reside.
As reported by Insider Gaming, the brand new batch of Epstein recordsdata additionally included a reference to Leslie Benzies, founder and co-CEO of Construct a Rocket Boy and former president of Rockstar North.
On January 31 at 8:44 a.m. ET, Grand Theft Auto and MindsEye content material creator Cyber Boi launched a video discussing the main points of an Epstein sufferer’s alleged encounter with Benzies. On the identical day, at 9:02 a.m. ET, Mark Gerhard, co-CEO of Construct a Rocket Boy, issued this “stop and desist” discover within the official MindsEye Discord server, and tagged Cyber Boi’s official Discord account within the message.
Customers on Cyber Boi’s official Discord server seen that the video in query had disappeared at roughly 9:37 a.m. ET. As Cyber Boi later clarified, “I took it down, they threatened authorized motion. Can’t be arsed with the drama of all of it.” A number of of Cyber Boi’s different movies have been additionally taken down from his channel, together with one through which he interviewed a disgruntled former member of Construct a Rocket Boy’s improvement staff.Mark Gerhard was additionally on the middle of one other MindsEye Discord server drama again in Could 2025, when he said that there was a “concerted effort” by some unknown determine to unfold adverse rumours concerning the sport, and that he believed “there are bot farms posting adverse feedback and dislikes.”
Gerhard and Benzies didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
