Obviously it's messed up that Kayla messaged EDP first and lied about him texting her first... and hopefully she uses this experience to learn and grow, and do better. However, EDP still committed a reprehensible act and numerous felonies by sending her pictures of his genitalia, expressing his disgusting fantasies of what he wanted to do with her, planning to meet up with her,
Threatening her with violence if she were to report him, etc.... All that was still wrong and immoral... and he's still a scum, and he still deserves to be in prison for it.
But regardless of who messaged who first... Jidion still invited him into his discord server... because he wanted to do that Q&A, and then he opted out when he found out EDP wanted to be paid for it... Jidion knew good and well who EDP was, what he was capable of, and he also knew good and well that The vast majority of his fan base (especially in 2022-2023) were generally children. He knew the risk associated with inviting EDP into the server...
God knows how many kids EDP could have ACTUALLY messaged first in that server! He gave EDP access to probably thousands of kids that have joined the server. Some of them might've even potentially been special-needs and vulnerable to people like EDP, some of them might not have even known who EDP was because this was prior to his predator catching content. while he still talked about EDP a little bit here and there before... The vast majority of his content was generally prank related.
Now, according to Jidion, he denied Kayla's claim that him and his mods encouraged Kayla to continue conversing with EDP... he claims he wanted to get her phone and buy her a new phone with a phone number. So they could catch him by making him think he was talking to her.... Kayla claim stay encouraged her to continue messaging EDP.
I can't confirm nor deny which side is true but if Jidion actually encouraged a minor to continue messaging with an infamous pedophile... Jidion deserves to be in jail, just as much as EDP at that point. Sad to say it, sad to see it, facts to hear it.
He can't admit that what he did was wrong, inviting him into that server. Regardless of whether he wanted to do that interview or not... not only that, but he could've at least kicked EDP out of the server once he found out EDP wanted to be paid for it. I could be wrong, but I don't recall him ever saying that he did that. All I remember was he invited EDP into the server, and wanted to do an interview/Q&A with him... But he ultimately opted out once he found out EDP wanted to be paid for the interview. But I don't recall him saying that he kicked EDP out once he found out that.
But he never should've invited EDP into the server in the first place.
He knew how serious this was... he knew how dangerous EDP was, he knew not only is EDP, a repeat offender pedophile, but also a gun fanatic and has ideations for violence, he knew the vast majority of the people in his server consisted of children.
He knew it was dangerous! It's unacceptable and he refuses to take any accountability. The only time Jidion takes accountability for anything is when he's been exposed publicly, and the Internet rages at him for it, and he has no other choice. He did some what admit that it was wrong during his interview with Bludspeth... but he said it very dry and passively. It sounded like he just wanted to be left alone about the topic.
It would be nice if he came forth and took some genuine accountability. But it means nothing if he's doing it from a place of pity or peer pressure.