Yeah, he was such a nuisance to Valve and their employees that Valve made a public statement on their twitter calling him out by name to “remind” the public that he had no exclusive insider information and was just a “passionate gamer”.

Tyler got so butthurt that he changed his entire branding away from Valve News Network, swore he’d never cover Valve games again (that didn’t last very long), and to this very day closes his videos with a signoff of “Tyler McVicker, passionate gamer”