We already broke down Kaashvi's FIR against 8Bit Thug — the financial misconduct allegations, the Santacruz Police Station complaint, all of it.
Since then, more voices have entered the conversation. A response has come from the other side. And the story now touches more than one creator's experience. Here's an even-handed look at where every part of it stands, without picking a side before the facts are in.
A Second Creator Speaks Up
For Context - Kick Stream
"Rishabh "RakaZone" Karanwal, a longtime streamer currently with VLT, shared his own account on stream shortly after Kaashvi's video went up.
According to him, he had a difficult experience with a management relationship earlier in his career — one that, in his telling, involved brand deals not going the way they should have, and some form of being sidelined from opportunities afterward, which he's connected to a period around when he moved to streaming on Kick. He's also spoken about a broader reluctance among creators in the Indian gaming scene to talk about issues like this publicly, citing fear of career consequences. He's said he believes other creators have had comparable experiences to Kaashvi's.
It's worth noting plainly: RakaZone has never been managed by the same agency as Kaashvi — he's represented separately, by AlphaZegus. So this is a distinct account, from a different professional relationship, running on a parallel track rather than confirming or extending her specific claims. The two stories share a moment in time, not necessarily a common set of facts.
None of what RakaZone has described has been independently verified, and no third party has confirmed or denied any part of it. We'll update this section if that changes.
A Response, With Context
The management side of this story has now spoken too, in the form of a public statement addressing Kaashvi's allegations directly. The statement denies the characterization of events as false and misleading, and says the matter is one that belongs in front of the appropriate legal process rather than being litigated in public. It also asks people to hold off on conclusions until that process plays out.
That's a fair position to take, and it's worth saying plainly: an organization choosing to let a legal process run its course, rather than trading claims publicly, is a reasonable and common approach — not evidence of anything on its own, in either direction.
It's also true that the statement doesn't wade into the specific figures or incidents Kaashvi described, and it hasn't addressed RakaZone's account either. Both of those things can be true at once: a measured public response, and one that leaves some questions still open.
The Organization Behind It All
It's worth stepping back for a second on S8UL itself, since a lot of the noise around this story tends to flatten a genuinely large organization into a single villain or hero.
S8UL is one of the most established names in Indian esports — a multi-title organization with a long list of tournament results, industry awards, and years of content built around some of the country's most recognizable gaming names. Thousands of people, from fans to smaller creators, have benefited from the ecosystem it's built. None of that is erased by a controversy, and none of it proves the controversy wrong either. Both things sit alongside each other, and a fair reading of this story has to hold space for both.
Why More People Are Speaking Up Now
There's a pattern worth naming plainly, without assigning motive to anyone: once one person comes forward with something this serious, backed by a formal legal complaint, it tends to create space for others to share their own experiences — related or not, big or small.
That's not automatically a bad thing. If there are real structural issues around how brand deals and management relationships work in this industry, surfacing them is worthwhile regardless of how any single case resolves. It also means every claim in this story deserves to be evaluated on its own terms, rather than treated as one undifferentiated wave against one person or one organization.
The Attention Factor
One more honest observation: S8UL's size means this story has become a magnet for content, not just coverage.
In the last few days, a large number of reaction videos and clip compilations have circulated, many recycling the same handful of moments with increasingly dramatic titles. Some of that is genuine public interest in a story that matters. Some of it is simply the reality that a large, well-known organization draws views whenever its name is attached to anything dramatic.
There's also chatter online suggesting parts of this controversy could be opportunistic — timed, some are speculating, around a period when S8UL's teams are competing on a big stage. We're not going to lend that theory more weight than it deserves. There's a formal legal complaint on record, and nothing publicly available connects its timing to anything beyond when the person filing it chose to come forward. Speculation like this is worth acknowledging as part of the online conversation, not worth treating as established.
The more useful habit for readers here is simple: weigh direct statements from the people actually involved more heavily than reaction content built around them.
The Bottom Line
Here's where things stand, fairly: a formal legal complaint from one creator, a public response from the other side that addresses the allegations' characterization without getting into specifics, a second creator's account that's still being pieced together, and a well-established organization now navigating all of it in public.
Nobody's been proven right. Nobody's been proven wrong. That includes S8UL, which has responded reasonably to a serious situation while more facts are still pending. xpdaily.in will keep this updated as new, verifiable information comes from any side.
This is a developing story based on public statements from those directly involved, as of July 19, 2026. Claims described in this article that have not been formally confirmed remain allegations, and xpdaily.in has not independently verified them.
