- Kenny promoted the YouTube on his Facebook page with broken posts that were for videos that hadn't been published yet!
- The Facebook page (listed above) had graphics for the YouTube channel a month before said channel became active!
Spelling it out: The pre-publicity for the YouTube channel puts that as his, and then the Facebook page pre-publishing the YouTube graphics a month early pushes that ownership forward.
Now evidently there is another outlet for this AI content: www.4pillargames.com
There could be someone else, in addition to Kenny, behind this site, but the heavy (I mean HEAVY) overlap of content/graphics pretty much nails it down as Kenny's work. Taking a look at the domain.....looks just like his other websites (WhoIs info):
Seriously...what are the odds of every website we have looked at recently in regards to Ken "Whit" Whitman are hosted by the exact same Registrar and Registrar Contact?!
It might take some time to figure out who actually owns the site, but right now fingers point to Kenny, and some people are not happy about it.
For those of you who have been following, or been caught up in/affected by, the Four Pillars uproar regarding the game designer biographies and company histories that have been generated by AI with not entirely accurate results, plus the responses that some designers have received back from the site that have been less than polite.
Many of the posts have also appeared, although often with slightly different wording on the Facebook group “Most Influential Tabletop Game Icons”, which is run by Ken “Whit” Whitman - who has a rather controversial background in his own right.
Metadata from the Four Pillars site show Ken Whitman also authored the content there.
The only names publicly linked with running the site were of industry veterans Don Perrin, Tony Lee and Reece Wardrip.
Tony and Don have both resigned from Four Pillars as it was not what they had planned for the site, expected, or had the chance to approve. It seems they have both been taken by surprise at the affair and it is probably safe to say that Reece is in the same situation.
It’s safe to say they sound pretty appalled about the situation and have no idea how anyone could think of getting away with doing it.
I’m sorry to have seen them get tied up in this, but glad they’ve taken immediate steps to remove themselves from the situation.
Mr. Abranson isn't the only one...
Haven't looked this young in 20 years.
• Gave no legal permission to use my likeness in this image.
• Gave no legal permission to use trademarked logos placed on incorrect product images & layouts shown here.
• Them Fate Dice are jank, yo.
• Contemplating legal action.
• Enjoy, motherfucker.
2026.05.12 Edit:
I thought this would be more appropriate as an edit/attachment vs. a separate post. The interwebs are blowing up today with reactions and you can read some of the "iconographized" personalities' commentary at other sites, so no need to document that since I doubt those sites will be scrubbed, like Kenny likes to do with sites under his control.
That's not even opinion, but experience & fact. You can see examples on some of our previous posts where we linked to Ken Whitman-controlled content that is now.....just gone.
We're even more confident that Ken "Whit" Whitman is behind the 4 Pillar Games website because of this recent Facebook post from Most Influential Tabletop Game Icons (emphasis is ours):
Over the past several Weeks, Four Pillar Games has been working to build a living historical archive celebrating the people, games, companies, artists, and creators who helped shape tabletop gaming over the last fifty-plus years.
Our goal has always been simple: to share the history, passion, creativity, and fandom of this industry with the fans and readers who love these games as much as we do.
Recently, a small number of creators and companies have expressed concerns about being included on the site because they disagree with the use of AI-assisted tools within our editorial workflow. We understand that not everyone will agree with the use of emerging technologies, and we respect that people have strong opinions on the subject.
At the same time, it is difficult for us to understand the idea that tabletop history should simply go undocumented because disagreement exists over the tools used to help organize and present that history.
From the beginning, we have explained that this project is intended to function as a living historical archive focused on publicly documented tabletop gaming history and public-facing creators within the hobby. Our intent has never been to attack, ridicule, exploit, or diminish anyone. In fact, every profile on the site was created as a celebration of the people who helped build this industry.
Many creators have responded positively to the project. Designers and industry veterans such as Lisa Stevens and Sam Lewis have publicly engaged with the site, interacted with readers, and expressed appreciation for the effort being made to preserve and celebrate tabletop gaming history.
That spirit of shared enthusiasm is what this website is ultimately about.
We love tabletop gaming. We love the people who built it. And we believe the stories, games, creators, and history of this hobby deserve to be remembered, preserved, and shared with future generations of fans.
For that reason, while we remain fully open to factual corrections, clarifications, historical additions, and respectful collaboration, we do not intend to remove publicly documented historical profiles solely because someone disagrees with the tools or methods used to help create them.
Our hope is that, over time, this project becomes something the community can help shape together — a living archive built from shared passion for the hobby we all care about.
Here we have a post on a Facebook page we've logically proven as belonging to Kenny talking about the 4 Pillar Games site and content there......stating ownership with his choice of first-person plural personal pronoun.
As an aside, he misspelled the name of his own website: classic Kenny! Also, we literally have historians writing about our hobby and they have standards, use 1st person sources, and generally know what they are doing. Your AI-driven drivel is none of that and actually detracts from "documented tabletop gaming history"
My favorite part isn't in the comments, which are overwhelmingly in favor of Kenny (no surprise there), presumably because they don't know his history and because he blocks opposition where able, but in the "share" portion for the post:
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