read the blockchain data. check out the blockheights and time stamps. check out luke jr's code.

but naw. you dont think thats "techy" do you?
instead you think quoting human social drama is "techy"
(facepalm)

luke JR wanted a soft fork with his november 2016 release hoping for a christmas 2016 activation.
but even by spring 2017 it sat at only 35% flag...
so luke went on his mandatory controversial fork attempt which he mislead by pretending it was a softfork.
gmax happily calls it a bilateral split. and theres enough quotes on this forum that shows gmax loves thee buzzword 'bilateral'

but the funny part. luke wants to deny anything happened on august 1st.. truly funny.

it gets very obvious who the ones are that prefer to hug a dev, rather than think about code/features of a network