They did in fact say “It’s a feature not a bug” and left it in game :(

It’s been in the game for 17 years, might as well just call it a feature xd /s

One must imagine TF2 fans & Valve happy

Understandable, its often times the “gray zone” in between the extremes where drama tends to happen, as it is hard to tell what is acceptable and what’s not. Sometimes nintendo cracks down hard on these stuff and sometimes they don’t (they didn’t crack down on gmod for the entire existence of it) which many people like me find annoying, as one day what you’re doing is okay and the next it’s not.

sorry, my comment isn’t phrased very well. What I’m trying to say is that they shouldn’t be that harsh on their fans, and even if they technically have the copyright, they should still have some sort of fair use policy for their fans so they can easily make fan content without having to worry about trouble. However, I am aware that this subject is a very debatable subject and I’m no lawyer and I’m also slightly inclined towards fan content, so take my words with a grain of salt.

Only steam workshop is getting wiped, other sites like gamebanana, nexus will not be affected and fortunately, people are already reuploading to these sites and internet archive. Tbh i feel like nintendo is abusing copyright protect so much that it is actively hindering creativity, which was supposed to be the one thing copyright protects. They are just using it because they can and they hate their customers or something smh