I haven't watched the video yet, but I read the post and the comments. As you may know SWC was part of the incubated communities in OCD at one time following @guiltyparties' request they'd be added there. Over time, though, we started noticing some things that seemed off and then discussed things both with curators within OCD and some people outside about the community and the person running it. Unfortunately it seemed that there were a lot of holes in certain places which left a lot of leeway for abuse as we couldn't verify things like if these authors really are posting by themselves or if there's a format they're following to make the posts look similar, on top of that it also opened up suspicions if the athletes owned their accounts or if they'd been given keys after someone had created the accounts for them which is a giant vector of potential abuse in the future as we saw with another community we had to remove from the incubation recently. (Basically a community leader who had given a lot of accounts to people was waiting for them to go afk to start unstaking their hive and taking them for themselves)

There were a lot of other rumors at the time, some that may not necessarily mean the leader of SWC was a bad actor (being in debt) but with all the uncertainties above could trigger some attack in the future that we felt we didn't want to fuel. There were also a lot of other, let's say wrong intention actions one could spot where community leaders & curators would never engage or comment within the community and the athletes, leaving engagement go empty or only applying to the athletes which we had to often point to that it felt wrong, especially since through ocd they were also earning to moderate, curate and grow the community through compilation posts.

Anyway, while we don't have any actual proof, there were a lot of warnings along the road to justify removing the community from the incubation. While we regret the effects this may have had on the actual ahtheletes and their rewards, we'd prefer to support communities with less controversy and suspicions in leadership positions. As you mention lack of transparency is often a big abuse vector in this space.

If the athletes themselves would like to create a new community for this activity to be in charge of and potentially share ownership of the community account, we'd welcome you back in the incubation.