00:00 for those of you who care about the
00:01 future of CS2 you'll know that valve
00:04 isn't the most consistent source of
00:05 information instead the entire fan base
00:08 relies on a single dedicated fan his
00:11 name is Gabe follower he knows the
00:13 future of CS2 and we asked him
00:22 it finally after roughly 19 days 32 if
00:27 you don't count that single line of text
00:28 we got last month CS2 got its first ever
00:32 content drop but given that time in
00:34 between and valve's seeming reluctance
00:36 to communicate with its audience God
00:38 knows when that next one will be so once
00:40 we're done chewing on this newest
00:42 offering it's back to refreshing
00:43 everyone's favorite Twitter account Gabe
00:46 follower Maxim AKA Gabe follower is the
00:48 now Infamous bellarus born content
00:50 creator who's been responsible for
00:52 diving deep into valves game codes to
00:54 uncover potential changes coming to
00:55 their different IPS now if you're
00:57 wondering why an entire fandom relies on
01:00 basically a single dude looking into his
01:02 proverbial crystal ball to get
01:03 information on Source games well it just
01:06 goes to show how brain broken this
01:08 company has made us anyway gab follower
01:10 has been putting in work for this
01:11 community and has been since 2013 on his
01:14 Russian language Channel where he made
01:16 content about DOTA to but like the smart
01:18 man he is Maxim eventually left DOTA
01:20 behind once the community and game
01:22 itself became too toxic to deal with I'm
01:25 sure plenty of you can relate to that
01:27 however this didn't mean that Max was
01:28 finished with content creation he simply
01:30 moved over to Counterstrike a game he
01:32 fell in love with and began pouring his
01:34 life and soul into discussing eventually
01:37 his Russian Channel gained a pretty damn
01:39 large following going over the game's
01:40 updates diving deeper and deeper every
01:42 time until he eventually started well
01:44 doing what I assumed was Data Mining but
01:46 when I spoke to Gabe follower himself he
01:48 made it very clear that that's not
01:50 actually what he does I think I should
01:52 mention that first of all it's not a a
01:55 real like data mining stuff that most of
01:57 the professional be would called like
02:00 data mining most of the time I'm just uh
02:03 comparing drinks from to like from older
02:06 update to a new one and that's it so
02:09 yeah no hacking or anything like that
02:10 involved he just takes two updates a new
02:12 one and an old one and Compares them to
02:14 see what's changed whether something's
02:16 been added or removed and to reiterate
02:18 what he said anyone can do this but it
02:21 sounds like a lot of tedious work
02:23 so I'm not surprised that he's the prime
02:25 one who does it but from 2015 to 2021
02:28 Max was still doing all of the this
02:30 under his Russian accounts in fact he
02:32 didn't have any English channels at this
02:34 point at all most of the time people who
02:37 speak both languages like Russian and
02:40 English they just took my uh stuff that
02:43 I like published translated it and
02:46 published on there like Twitter RIT I
02:50 know YouTube channels and I thought like
02:53 why like I I should try to take a piece
02:57 of cake here cuz I I am I am the guy who
03:00 who who finds it I spend a lot of time
03:03 doing that then I should try to expand
03:06 my audience to the international one so
03:09 once he decided he was done giving
03:10 others free content to mooch the gate
03:12 follower account we all know and love
03:14 today was born and it almost immediately
03:16 took off with his investigations into
03:18 lines of source's code but things really
03:20 started to explode for him when the
03:21 Rumblings of a Counter-Strike in Source
03:23 2 really started to kick off if everyone
03:25 remembers we all collectively lost our
03:27 minds getting any rumor and sniff we
03:29 could of a potential sequel to CSG go
03:32 and gab followers soon became the one to
03:34 go to for this news especially when he
03:36 started posting his experiments of
03:37 porting go into the source 2 engine and
03:39 again when he and another Creator
03:41 Aquarius discovered mention of CS2 an
03:43 aidia driver weeks before its official
03:46 announcement this all helped set up the
03:48 gab follower account as a legitimate
03:50 Authority on CS2 news and Maxim
03:52 continued looking into speculations
03:53 about the new game but once CS2 was
03:56 finally teased and the beta came out
03:58 things changed as we discussed earlier
04:00 valve's level of communication isn't the
04:02 best CS2 has made that clear more than
04:05 ever so Maxim sort of took on the role
04:07 of cs2s profit going deep into updates
04:10 to find out what could lie in cs2s
04:12 future but Max has always stressed one
04:14 thing since the very beginning anything
04:17 he finds is speculation until valve
04:19 announces it after all things he's
04:21 reported have already completely
04:23 disappeared from The Game's code like
04:25 those Infamous taunts he posted about
04:26 months ago I have uh a suspicion that
04:31 they saw reaction online for that uh
04:35 type of stuff that like I found and
04:37 other people found and they decided to
04:40 to cancel or like schedule it for for
04:43 the future cuz the reaction on the
04:45 internet was like dramatic it was
04:47 horrible like everyone almost everyone
04:49 hated that idea we can predict what will
04:52 come in in the future and this is pretty
04:54 respectable it's easy to clickbait and
04:56 get people's attention posting things
04:58 coming to see us to as fact but Max
05:01 chooses not to all he does is uses his
05:03 knowledge of developer behavior and
05:05 shows us what they hide behind the patch
05:07 notes what we do with that information
05:09 is up to us all right by now you might
05:11 be wondering if what Max does is
05:13 actually allowed and whether or not
05:15 valve is okay with it and the answer is
05:17 yes while they don't have a verbal
05:19 contract or anything like that they do
05:21 have a line of communication through
05:23 Twitter DMS and so long as Max respects
05:25 their boundaries they don't care there's
05:28 a funny story about it cuz at the time
05:31 it was csgo but currently it's just
05:33 Counter Strike account and the guy who
05:35 who's managing counter- strike account
05:37 is just one guy uh followed me the first
05:41 question I asked him does I bother you
05:44 can I post this kind of stuff that I
05:47 posted previously and the answer was
05:50 positive like do whatever you want with
05:52 this information if we ship that uh in a
05:56 public update you can talk about
05:58 anything you you want I'm I'm happy that
06:01 I can continue working on this kind of
06:03 stuff once again what gate follower does
06:06 isn't nefarious all he does is take
06:08 lines of code and Compares them which
06:10 anyone can do if they took the time
06:12 although remember when I talked about
06:14 that time that he ported go to Source 2
06:16 yeah valve wasn't exactly thrilled about
06:18 that one they didn't sue him or anything
06:20 but as he told me they kindly asked him
06:22 to stop with his experiment anyway this
06:25 doesn't mean that all the work he puts
06:26 into research and speculation turns out
06:28 to be false in fact much of the added
06:30 content in this recent update was once
06:33 discovered in Code by gate baller and
06:34 others like him including the CER and
06:36 the sticker positioning options now as
06:38 for what's to come well you can always
06:40 check in back with him on his account
06:42 but we still got potential clothing
06:44 options a snow covered Cobblestone and
06:46 hopefully better antiche but remember
06:48 what Gabe follower says this is all just
06:51 speculation speculation I'm very happy
06:54 to have Maxim and the others like him
06:56 are pretty much Heroes to the starved
06:58 community and what he does isn't easy
07:00 it's hard work and a few years ago all
07:02 the stress led to him getting diagnosed
07:04 with epilepsy and remember he's not
07:06 doing this to make millions of dollars
07:08 he's doing this because just like us he
07:10 truly loves this game and listen if
07:13 gabin himself won't talk to us why not
07:16 his biggest follower
07:18 instead so I just got two questions left
07:20 uh first one what you might not have an
07:23 answer for this but what is in your
07:25 opinion is the most interesting thing
07:26 you've seen uh that that may may not be
07:30 coming to the game ah so still still uh
07:36 like pets concerning me cuz I have no
07:39 idea what what they are cuz it will be
07:42 like a keychain that you'll attach on
07:44 your weapon it we have no idea it's just
07:48 it just messes with my with my mind