User blog comment:Shadowshroom/Character:Mike/@comment-5221692-20151228012534/@comment-4393544-20160103093653

"I was being comically petty"

Silly me, I thought you were being serious (some fangirls actually hate Max because he's not as attractive as past Total Drama Villains)

Fresh TV was trying to make an epic ending, they didn't know that it would be seen as problematic/stupid/anticlimactic by the older fandom (they leaped before they looked)

The only thing Fresh TV learnt from this debacle is that they'll never touch mental disorders and Mike ever again (which is fine with them, Mike's story is over and they make cartoons, not PSAs on mental disorders)