I'm not that sad.
Not to seem rude or anything, but that kinda makes you seem like a heartless person, even though you aren't heartless.
It's just that to me, he is overrated, since I see everyone the same way, whenever or not they accomplish great things (ie, I see him as another person, not as another god as what many South Africans and other people idolizes).
We don't have proof that it was coordinated by TED, so we can't say so.
Who's TED?
The Eternal Darkness.
For a few years, Shane was impersinated by a fraudster who wants to ruin Shane's reputation.
Whenever he succeeded into doing that, however, depends on who you ask. (He did make great mods, even though he wasn't intending anything benevolently from it to Shane.)
He's the one whom made all of Shane's forums and most of his mods, before Shane reclaimed his identity. (In defeat, TED gave Shane the rights to the stuff he done under his name.)
It came to the shock of everyone, with some people even thinking that he's faking it (again, due to so-called "incidents" that make it seem like Shane's hacked often).