as someone who was around when that drama was going on, my impression is that the snake solutions team you reference was harassed by an unguided mob of twitter and 4chan users who did not care for their personalities or direction that homestuck 2 was going on (yiffany being introduced in particular made a lot of people angry), and Gio had little do with it. nor does it make much sense that Gio would be the reason for this harassment when most of those people had never worked on Hiveswap during the time period gios article focuses on.