About

The Author Behind the Playback Series

My name is Calvin-Lee Hardie.

I live in Inverness.

And I’m the person they tried to write out of his own name.

You probably don’t know the real version of me.

That’s by design.

By the time people heard my name — Calvin Hardie, or Calvin-Lee Hardie, or “that guy from Inverness” — it was already being carried by other people’s stories. Shared without context. Whispered without consequence. Reduced to a smear that was more convenient to believe than question.

But this archive isn’t for them.

It’s for the record.

Because while they were posting, deleting, muting, and distancing themselves from what they created, I was documenting what they left behind.

🧾 Why This Exists

I didn’t write Playback to react.

I wrote it because I refused to be erased.

This is what happens when you survive a smear campaign designed to make you silent.

Not dramatic.

Not public.

Strategic.

It wasn’t just one video.

It wasn’t just one post.

It was a pattern — of harm, platform complicity, social media silence, and people who knew better… but stayed quiet anyway.

I didn’t disappear.

I rebuilt.

And I turned everything they hoped would vanish into something no one can scroll past now without knowing the full truth.

🔍 What This Is

Playback is not a blog. It’s an evidential series.

It was written during and after a coordinated digital defamation attempt that used emotional manipulation, character distortion, and platform-based attacks to collapse my public image — while hiding behind legal vagueness and algorithmic distance.

What you’re reading is not speculation.

It’s a 20-part response.

Not reactive. Not impulsive.

But structured.

Deliberate.

And permanent.

There are no screenshots here. No private evidence. No names exposed.

Just truth — archived in a way they never planned for.

⚖️ The Legal Weight

I’ve already taken this further than a post.

Formal legal notices have been issued.

Evidence has been gathered.

Companies, platforms, and individuals have been named in legal correspondence.

The Playback series is not submitted as evidence itself — but it exists alongside it, as public confirmation that I will not let silence carry more weight than what happened.

This is my record.

This is my timeline.

And this is where they lost control of the story.

🧭 Where This Leads

If you’ve read one post, you’ve already seen the cracks.

If you’ve read more, you know: this wasn’t isolated.

The damage went deeper.

The silence spoke louder.

And what they didn’t say confirmed more than what they ever posted.

But here’s the part they forgot:

I survived.

And I documented every step of what they tried to make unsearchable.