“Maybe because we were the most vocal about it and we’re the ones getting the most traffic?” Meriweather told Motherboard. “Not sure—but the video isn’t monetized and his reasoning for getting it taken down was pathetic.” Choe did not respond to Motherboard’s requests for comment.Following the podcast episode’s release, on April 18, 2014, as reported by Buzzfeed, Choe wrote an announcement post on the DVDASA website titled “I never thought I’d wake up one late afternoon and hear myself called a rapist. It sucks. Especially because I am not one.” In the full announcement, he claims that his story about the masseuse wasn’t “a representation of my reality:”
“I am not a rapist. I hate rapists, I think rapists should be raped and murdered. I am an artist and a storyteller and I view my show DVDASA as a complete extension of my art. If I am guilty of anything, it’s bad storytelling in the style of douche. Just like many of my paintings are often misinterpreted, the same goes with my show. The main objective of all of my podcasts is to challenge and provoke my friends and the co-stars on the show. We fuck with each other, entertain ourselves and laugh at each other, It’s a dark, tasteless, completely irreverent show where we fuck with everyone listening, but mostly ourselves. We create stories and tell tales. It’s not a news show. It’s not a representation of my reality. It’s not the place to come for reliable information about me or my life. It’s my version of reality, it’s art that sometimes offends people. I’m sorry if anyone believed that the stories were fact. They were not! In a world full of horrible people, thank god for us.”