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The original was posted on /r/2007scape by /u/NobodyElseButMingus on 2025-06-11 17:04:02+00:00.

Per Joshua Wolens at PC Gamer:

At a Q&A session with staff held the following week, Bellamy apologised for his initial communication but didn’t relent, noting that the world “is getting stranger, more troubling, less moral, I would argue. Games and studios are being cancelled because of content that is perceived to be ‘woke’ or representative. The pendulum is swinging back in a way we didn’t expect.”

Perhaps paradoxically, Bellamy acknowledged that RuneScape and OSRS’ status as safe spaces for the queer community were—in a time of reactionary backlash—more important than ever, and pitched the rollback of Pride events as a way of preserving that.

Bellamy argued that his role was to “ensure the business is protected against those that would wish us harm,” and that Pride content was “now controversial in a way it didn’t used to be and that controversy now brings more risk than it did previously, risk that I’m personally responsible to protect against.”