Yesterday, somebody on the Overwatch subreddit claimed to have been cheated out of a Steam reward card by the YouTuber OhNickel after successful a giveaway contest on his channel. His thread exploded, hitting the highest of r/Overwatch after which the highest of r/all too. Reddit rallied behind him, providing to pay him the cash he was purported to win (good) and bombarding OhNickel with hate (not so good). The drawback: it was all made up.
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The man who posted the thread was impersonating the true content material winner, who had actually acquired their prize manner again in March, and even tweeted to that effect. As OhNickel says in his video on the topic, you’d hope that alone would’ve quashed the thread earlier than it acquired traction, however he thinks “nobody even looked into this”. That appears possible.
Here’s the link to the original post. It’s been eliminated, however you may nonetheless see the feedback. Eventually, another post was made on the subreddit debunking the imposter’s claims, however lengthy after the hatestorm had been raging for some time. According to TheOverwatchInt, the imposter regarded for earlier winners of OhNickel’s giveaways, and when he discovered one that did not have a Reddit account (Vitalechz, on this case), impersonated him. It appears he bolstered his unique criticism with some screengrabs, however even these could possibly be seen to be photoshopped after slightly scrutiny; one was from Gleam, a giveaway platform, by which OhNickels’ title was misspelled. Users th4tgen and JoshBrodieNZ then discovered that the misspelled title hadn’t even been claimed.
The moderators of r/overwatch, not sure of the reality, took each posts down, and did some digging of their very own. They reached out to the true Vitalechz on Twitter to ask him in regards to the imposter’s put up, and he replied “that thread isn’t by me”. Vitalechz then confirmed them a screengrab of his email correspondence with OhNickel, proving he honoured the phrases of his giveaway.
It was someplace round then that OhNickel, who had been asleep this complete time, woke as much as discover a torrent of hateful feedback on his twitter and mass unsubscriptions from his channel – “probably the most amount of people I’ve had unsubscribe in such a short period of time”, he says. He made his video, by which he’s admirably eloquent and composed given the morning he should’ve had, and cites the onerous work of the mods and Redditors who proved his innocence. Deeklz posted Nickel’s video to Reddit, and that is the place now you can learn the fallout.
So, to summarise: an harmless YouTuber acquired a torrent of gross abuse, and misplaced subscribers (and, thus, earnings) as a result of a whole bunch of individuals believed the lies of 1 completely disagreeable individual – lies which collapsed after pretty minimal scrutiny.
Thanks to Corey_m_snow on Reddit and sjay1994 on NeoGAF for the breakdowns.
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