Famous streamer and times of humiliation for being exposed to lying

As more and more people want to engage in karma streamer, attracting the attention of the audience is even more difficult. Even big names like Ninja have to work hard to maintain viewership and still risk losing thousands of followers every day without new content. Every streamer has its own strategy to attract and retain fans, some are legitimate while some are just gimmicks to promote themselves, even to scam the audience. Here are the classic lies in the streamer world.

The truth behind Pewdiepie being banned in China
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In the “Meme Review” video posted in October 2019, Pewdiepie shared an image comparing President Xi Jinping with the cartoon character Winnie the Pooh. A few days later, the male streamer informed fans that he had been banned in China for not being able to search his name on the country’s search engines: “It’s funny but I knew this would happen.” .

However, after Pewdiepie’s statement, BBC News said that actually, the male streamer does not face any ban because when typing his name on Yahoo (Chinese search engine similar to Google) still returns more than 8 million results. On Weibo, too, one can still find a lot of Pewdiepie videos edited by fans. According to BBC News, the reason China has not bothered to ban Pewdiepie is because his name is practically not well known in the country. Chinese people have not used Youtube since 2009, so male streamers do not have many fans here.

Impersonating a girl to join the semi-professional Overwatch team
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In early 2019, a player named “Ellie” joined the semi-professional Overwatch team Second Wind. She immediately attracted the attention of the community and like many female gamers, she often faced harassment issues. Things came to an end, Ellie was forced to leave Second Wind, the announcement was posted on the group’s Twitter. Thought the story ended there but no. According to Business Insider, it turned out that Ellie was just a “fake”. After conducting an investigation, they discovered that Ellie is actually “Punisher” – one of Overwatch’s top players and is a NAM. Some people think that the reason Punisher does this is to highlight sexism in the gaming industry, but deceiving people in this way is really not cool.

RealMKTomBrady and the story of cheating viewers
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In December 2019, the Youtube channel theScore esports posted a video exposing Tom Brady – a professional gamer for defrauding fan donations. Specifically in one session live stream Mortal Kombat on Twitch, Tom Brady asked the audience to donate to him so he could have money to go to a tournament. The male streamer is said to have made around $600 from spectators eager to see him compete, but the truth is that he was not present at the tournament in Philadelphia.

Of course, fans were outraged and demanded their money back. After going around fighting, this gamer finally admitted that he had cheated everyone, but he had already spent all that money, so he was unable to refund the gullible viewers who donated to him. he.

Fortnite player and bragging about being a young prodigy
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Japanese professional gamer “RizArt” successfully attracted international media attention in November 2018 after setting a new record in Fortnite. His number of subscribers on Youtube quickly doubled at that point. According to RizArt, he was only 12 years old when he achieved that great achievement, but his real age is 16. Because of his youthful appearance compared to his age, he took advantage of that to deceive the audience with the intention of think a 12-year-old gaming prodigy would be appreciated.

However, lying made RizArt extremely insecure and he finally chose to reveal the truth: “I’m really ashamed of my lie”. To regain the trust of fans, gamers have decided to donate 3 months of income from Youtube to charity. Hit the runaway, but no one hit the run, so most of the audience accepted his apology.

Pretending to be disabled to raise money
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Back in 2013, “zilianOP” – the Diablo and World of Warcraft streamer that was quite popular on Twitch at the time, was exposed that he had for years pretended to be disabled to fool the audience. The streamer will occasionally ask people to donate to help him cover “wheelchair-related expenses” because the audience has long been familiar with the image of him having to use a wheelchair to play the game.

However, the incident came during a livestream when he suddenly got up from his wheelchair while his girlfriend yelled, “Oh my god!” because the unfortunate truth has been revealed. The audience, especially the donors, were extremely angry: “It’s sad that anyone can pretend to be disabled to make a profit.” Twitch then blocked the streamer’s channel for fraud.​