Gamers Caught Cheating – Part 5

– [Narrator] Here’s a question, what percentage of gamers do you think use cheats? Now really think about it, how many are using them to catch every Pokemon, spawn any “Minecraft” item, or lock onto their enemies in “Call of Duty”? Maybe 25%, 30%? Well, according to a survey from trainer software provider, Plitch,

A staggering 57% of gamers admitted to using cheats anonymously, obviously. While using cheats privately in single player games doesn’t really negatively affect anyone, streaming with them on, using them to publicly break world records, or playing with them in mass multiplayer games and even tournaments, is a huge problem.

The need to cheat for the sake of clout has gotten out of control, but not everyone gets away with it. With that, let’s take a look at even more gamers who got caught cheating. MINGOSTYLE. Tom Tommey Trewren is a veteran “Call of Duty” player who, since 2010, has been part of professional teams that have won more than 70 tournament matches. It’s fair to say Tommey knows this game well. So, when he was pitted against streamer MINGOSTYLE in the quarterfinals of the “2v2 Warzone Checkmate”

Gaming tournament back in 2020, who had a weirdly high kill-to-death ratio of 5.2, Tommey was suspicious. He and his partner Almxnd called Mingostyle’s gameplay into question and asked him to set up a monitor cam so they could be sure he wasn’t using cheats. MINGOSTYLE obliged. But then, in a move of pure idiocy,

He exposed himself for the world to see. – [Speaker 1] (coughs) Locked in mate? When did I say that? (graphics whooshing) – [Speaker 2] You didn’t. You didn’t, all right. (person laughs) – [Narrator] Did you see it? Let’s run it back. (graphics whooshing) Watch his monitor cam footage here and there it is. We’ve covered it enough times in previous parts of this series to know that little gray pop-up box is our old pal Engine Owning. This is a cheat software that offers everything from aimbots, which allow players to lock onto their opponents to wall hacks giving them the unfair advantage

Of seeing through walls, terrain, and objects. Tommey’s followers quickly alerted him to MINGOSTYLE’s slip up and Tommey rightfully crucified him but MINGOSTYLE had an excuse. – [Tommey] Go Ben, back out. – [Speaker 3] Bro, what the (duck quacks). – Okey dokey. – He put his sheets up. Everyone clip it quick – [MINGOSTYLE] Bro, I’m messing around. Get a grip. – There’s no (duck quacks) way. Getting banned. – Oh, mate, I’m (duck quacks) around mate.

– Hell, yeah, bait. – I just got a picture. – [Narrator] Just a picture that you decided in your infinite wisdom to flash up mid tournament. Now that’s some real smooth brain logic but MINGOSTYLE was adamant it was the truth, going as far as to claim it was just

A picture on Twitter and that it was all just a joke. Unwilling to let the matter go. Tommey asked MINGOSTYLE to send him the supposed picture he’d flashed up and that’s when Tommey buried him – This image. Look at that. He said it’s that image. He’s not the smartest bloke.

I told you cheaters are stupid as (duck quacks). They are stupid as (duck quacks). He said that image is that? He hasn’t even got the same dimensions. – [Narrator] (scoffs) Dimensions. Man, I love the British, but accents aside, it was clear MINGOSTYLE had sent a completely different picture.

Checkmate Gaming ignored his lies and banned him which streaming site Twitch also did shortly after. (hammer thuds) He stayed active on socials though eventually admitting to using cheats while pointing the finger at other potential cheaters which gained him no attention whatsoever. If only he’d provided some proof they were cheating

By using, I don’t know a picture. MrSlazy. The only thing more frustrating than seeing someone blatantly cheating is watching the stream themselves while blatantly cheating. You know the ones I’m talking about usually “Call of Duty” streamers whose gameplay has red and yellow boxes around all their opponents. They know that with their chronic lack of talent

The only way to get noticed as a streamer is to openly use these hacks, otherwise no one would pay attention to them. That’s what a Facebook Gaming streamer by the name of MrSlazy or Dad Shark Gaming is all too happy to do. So sad, so very sad.

Well, back in 2021, MrSlazy was running his usual gambit of streaming himself ruining games for other people just to boost his super fragile ego. When he took out the wrong player, it was someone, many of you are probably familiar with. Vikkstar123, or Vik for short. Part of the famous YouTube collective Sidemen.

He was playing “Call of Duty: Warzone” with a few pals when he noticed MrSlazy’s God-like aim. And when the team looked him up they all found his tiny streaming channel. – [Speaker 4] Is he streaming? He’s actually streaming. Unbelievable – He is live. – [Speaker 4] And he’s cheating, bro. He’s got boxes around them. – You you’re kidding. (laughs) Tell me you’re kidding. – [Narrator] So, Vic decided to give him the attention he was so desperately craving by spectating MrSlazy stream for his millions of subscribers to see. – He’s up of my screen now. – There’s no shot.

– This is unreal. (people laughs) Yeah, this, Warzone needs, that’s it and he’s done. It’s done, it’s done, oh, my, it’s done. Oh, my, this is what it’s like. – [Speaker 5] Oh, my God. – This is what we’re going up against every lobby. Bro, he’s not even trying to hide it.

He’s live and he’s got his name in his thing. – [Speaker 5] How is this fun? – [Narrator] Vic and co continued to mock MrSlazy encouraging people in game to report him while laughing at his terrible gameplay and calling out the game developer, Activision, for such a blatant lack of cheat control.

– [Speaker 6] Dude shooting golfers out here. – Oh, my God. (Vik laughs) – This is disgusting. – Wait, I’ve told you why – I actually feel sick. – don’t they have- – I actually feel sick. Activision, you have failed everyone. You have failed everyone that plays your game.

– [Narrator] And then finally, MrSlazy got exactly what he deserved. – [Speaker 7] Stay behind. – Oh my, and he still loses. – How do you lose? – He still loses. (laughs) – He’s so dumb though. – How? – [Speaker 6] And he’s got nothing, bro. (Vik laughs) – Unbelievable.

– [Narrator] All those hacks and he still lose? What a sad little life, Mr. Sleazy. Sorry, MrSlazy after being put on blast by Vik, MrSlazy soon nuked his Facebook Gaming account. What? Was that too much attention? PYPY_PK. It’s not just mainstream games that people cheat on, as players of “Krunker” know all too well. This free-to-play game is a first person shooter like “Call of Duty”, but with a “Roblox” aesthetic, baby’s first person shooter, if you will. And it’s not always adults who use cheats

As player and Twitch streamer, PYPY_PK proved all too well. Back in 2018, this kid had the bright idea to stream himself hacking “Krunker” with an aim bot and wall hacks to all of about three people. – Oh, come on. – [Narrator] Yeah, even with the hacks he still wasn’t very good. Which is something the small “Krunker” community soon picked up on. Footage of PYPY_PK, streaming his cheats was posted to “Krunker” subreddit where he was lambasted by the community. Eventually someone hunted down his profile page

And lobbied the game’s mod team to ban him. It wasn’t long before the account had the word, ‘HACKER’ branded over it and PYPY_PK quickly disappeared from both “Krunker” and Twitch. Well, kid, maybe try this gaming thing again when you hit puberty at least then you’ll have hit something.

Well, hopefully, even if you’re as skill-less as PYPY_PK, you can still hit those liken subscribe buttons down below. All done? Great, who have we got next? TheAustinUS. Back in 2022, TheAustinUS decided to try his hand at streaming “Call of Duty” on Twitch. It’s a very competitive scene, but his aim was impeccable And his instinct regarding his opponent’s locations was incredibly accurate. It was this God-like skill that got a few people interested and not in a good way. It wasn’t long before they accused him of cheating and after enough people began calling him out. He was quick to confess to using an aimbot,

But that wasn’t the best part of catching him out. Several months before the accusations, TheAustinUS was midstream and apparently forgot that the world could see his setup either oblivious to the ramifications or just straight up dumb. He proceeded to stream himself visiting the cheat site Phantom Overlay.

He went to log in, which filled in his details automatically showing he already had an account with them before exposing a neat little list of all his previous cheat orders, which totaled some 195 Euro, about 200 bucks. Most of these were for “Call of Duty: Vanguard”

The game he was playing at the time. Certainly explains that 4.8 kill to death ratio. But really, why would you waste that much money on cheats? If you wanna beat someone that badly, why not use that money to buy an easier game that even kids can play? Might I suggest “Krunker”. FlowBee. Random Seed “Minecraft” Speed Running is a very particular type of speed running. Unlike most games which require muscle memory and refined techniques to get a good time. Random Seed “Minecraft” runs require sound logic and an acute mathematical ability because the map you spawn into is different every time.

These are what’s known as blind runs. And back in 2021, speedrunner FlowBee or ToxicFlow who’d been speed running “Minecraft” for a few months, suddenly uploaded a video of a blind run with a time of 11 minutes, 37 seconds. At the time this placed FlowBee’s run in the top 10 fastest of all time. – [FlowBee] (duck quacks) Guys. Oh, my God. Oh, I’m shaking. – [Speaker 8] Oh, my God, let’s go. – [FlowBee] Oh my God. – Oh, my God. – Oh, I’m shaking. – [Narrator] Less than two months later they uploaded three runs that were all under 15 minutes. Which is pretty wild for someone

As new to speedrunning as FlowBee was. This caught the attention of several “Minecraft” veterans, one of which, EleventyBillion, broke down each of FlowBee’s runs and came to one damning conclusion, they had to be cheating. Why? Because FlowBee’s luck was either off the scale or they already knew the locations

Of several key elements across the map and were working to a predetermined plan over a landscape they knew, not a random map. For example, at this point in the the run any speedrunner worth their salt would be looking around for a fortress. But FlowBee makes a beeline

In a random direction without looking around or behind them even once. Here, lava housing can be seen which takes precious time to get rid off. Most speed Runners would’ve just reset the game at this point. But FlowBee persevered, because as EleventyBillion pointed out FlowBee wasn’t improvising.

He was working to a plan for a map he’d already run several times. But that wasn’t the only way he was caught out. When you reset in “Minecraft”, you have to select several options to create your new world. To speed this process up, a macro was built that sped through the process

And the click sound effects generates are compressed into this. Short but distinctive. However, veteran “Minecraft” player Ninjabrain noticed the same macro FlowBee used on their run sounded like this. That’s two extra clicks, but the macro worked the same. Ninjabrain realized that clicks could only have occurred if FlowBee’s macro included two extra steps, selecting more world options, then pasting in a specific seed. They then removed the selection, showing the more world options screen to make the seed look random,

Even though it was one they knew and had practiced. Their mistake was leaving in those two extra clicks. They later apologized to the community and revealed that all but one of their recent runs had been faked. After that, they deleted their YouTube channel, changed all their socials and disappeared.

Well, with analysts as thorough as Ninjabrain and EleventyBillion. I pity anyone else who thinks about trying to get away with cheating on a “Minecraft” speedrun. ShivGTK. To prove they’re not cheating, some streamers will set up a monitor cam so that their audience can see their setup and check that there isn’t another hidden screen that they’re using with the cheats on. This is exactly what popular “Call of Duty” player, ShivGTK,

Did when he competed in a 2021 Vanguard tournament with a $7,000 prize pool. Both his monitors looked clean with no obvious hacking menus or red boxes to be seen. But when his team went on to beat professional eSports team Optic, everyone began to look at the monitor cam a little more carefully.

As they picked apart some suspicious gameplay where Shiv was setting a bomb, they noticed that on the monitor cam an incredibly tiny white dot could be seen shooting across the screen. – [ShivGTK] Plant this. – Setting a bomb. – I’m planting this. – [Narrator] Did you see it? Hang on, let me zoom in. Right about here. Did you see that? Well, that white dot just so happens to coincide with an enemy player appearing around the corner and that’s a wall hack. One with the settings altered so that the enemy locations are barely visible

To the monitor cam, but a wall hack nonetheless. Shiv was swiftly disqualified from the tournament, but he didn’t take his punishment well. Instead of silently deleting all his social media and streaming profiles like any other exposed cheater, Shiv set one last bomb before disappearing.

He sent out a tweet naming a long list of other players who he claimed had been cheating too. Talk about going full scorched earth Koswy. Now I need your help with this next one because I can’t tell if it’s a setup or just plain stupid. An anonymous viewer sent me a clip of an unnamed Twitch streamer who had his Discord chat application opened. Nicknamed ‘Kos’, the Discord user is chatting DaBaby.

Seems legit, while his desktop boasts a couple of questionable apps including the aptly named Cheat Engine and WeMod. These are well known Hacklications, if you will. With each one, enabling users to install mods and cheats for different games. And in this discord call, Kos, sends DaBaby a WeMod file

Before heading into a game of “NBA 2K21”. DaBaby is also streaming “NBA 2K21”. So it appears both of them are using or planning to use WeMod to access cheats in a game. A little look at the game Kos is playing brings up a character called twitch.tv/koswy.

Surely, this guy isn’t dumb enough to have streamed himself sharing cheats with someone else who was also streaming himself, receiving those same cheats. If so, is this really the streamer Koswy or someone trying to set him up? Because this is a level of dumb that’s so dumb it’s a little difficult to comprehend.

Well, Koswy’s Twitch channel does boast a few videos where he claims he was permanently banned from the game “Roblox”. It’s not a good look, but that’s not exactly incriminating. So, what do you think? Is this streamer actually Koswy or was someone setting him up? Let me know down in the comments below. XHADE. Back in 2021, India’s The Esports Club Invitational welcomed teams to play “Valorant” for a prize pool of 300,000 rupees, some $4,000 at the time. It attracted teams from all over the nation with more than 6,000 fans watching the stream at its peak. However, after the first round of quarterfinals,

A hammer was brought down on Team Paratroopers. One of their players, XHADE, had suddenly received a permanent ban (hammer thuds) from “Valorant”. – [Speaker 9] Pressing to using hacks while playing “Valorant”. – Level three. – Permanent ban, boys. Permanent. I mean eSports (indistinct) Spike planted. – [Narrator] Initially, XHADE claimed this must have been a mistake. That it must just be a glitch. Fans supported him. His team reached out to “Valorant’s” developer, Riot Games, for clarification, and paratroopers were allowed to continue competing in the tournament with a substitute, although they lost their very next match. Talk about foreshadowing.

XHADE continued to deny all cheating allegations, but then on a streamed discord call with the Paratroopers team lead, Binks, he said this. So, he hadn’t been using hacks in the tournament but he had been using them before because he desperately wanted to get to a higher level in game. Not exactly the endearing defense, he seems to think it is. It wasn’t long before Riot Games released a statement revealing XHADE had been using prohibited

Third party software, a fancy way of saying cheats, which they’d detected and so had banned his account permanently. With the confession and the perma ban, XHADE, deleted his YouTube account and disappeared for just a month. Despite the ban, he was back playing on a new account and for a new team soon after.

(sighs) Well, I guess once a cheater, always a cheater. JamarFromAfar_. You don’t need thousands of followers to expose cheaters these days. All you really need is a streaming account of your own, a little patience and the hope that eventually the cheater you’re spectating will slip up. Which is exactly what Poet_TTV, or Sagepoet managed to do.

He was streaming himself to a small audience as he spectated a “Minecraft Hypixel” streamer called JamarFromAfar_ and another streamer called HwithoutS. He figured they were probably using cheats and so sat in wait, trying to catch one of them in the act and as he was something sketchy, flashed up on the left

Right in the middle of JamarFromAfar_’s screen. – Hacking ESP and all. And then he tagged me over half an hour (indistinct). – [Narrator] Did you see that? Computer rewind and enhance? (audio scratching) Ah, yes, a “Minecraft” cheat software menu, with with PlayerESP, AKA wall hacks selected while in a public server.

Well, JamarFromAfar_’s account on YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok appeared to be linked to another account called techpandagaming. Now, techpanda seems to be banned (hammer thuds) on Twitch but techpandagaming’s YouTube account is still live. It hosts videos with long rambling descriptions where they claim they’re banned from playing in certain “Minecraft” servers like “Hypixel”,

And that the anti-cheat is broken. Hmm, clearly not as broken as you seem to think my banned for cheating friend. Mekarazium. The more speedrunning I watch, the more respect I have for it. It takes hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours to memorize an entire game and get the button presses and timings just right. All to complete it in the fastest time possible. Events like “Games Done Quick” showcase some of the best players

In their game categories. Inviting them to show off their skills in front of huge live and online audiences. It’s a lot of pressure for speedrunners which some just can’t handle. Speedrunner Mekarazium, for example, was invited to the “2022 Summer Games Done Quick” event. Speedrunning “Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance” remotely.

The run itself seemed legitimate but after a charity donation goal was met, he asked to play through the game’s Blade Wolf DLC as well. But that’s when Mekarazium raised some red flags. – It’s actually pretty hard to get past this grad because he has an eyes on his leg.

– [Narrator] Did you notice anything wrong with that clip? No? Now let’s rewind and take a look at what he’s doing with his hands here. So, he’s playing on a PC with his mouse in his right hand If that’s so, how does his avatar move around, a mouse controlled action,

While his right hand is in the air? Well, he claims he moved the mouse with his left hand. That’s one heck of an odd choice, especially at a timed event. Spectators also noticed an audible lack of keyboard noises in the blade wolf segment. So, when he broke the record for the run

By a whole 25 seconds not everyone was convinced it was legit. Then in July he came clean to one of SGDQ’s enforcement heads. As they suspected, the run had been prerecorded and spliced to perfection. It was an ideal run, just not one he’d performed live having switched out the save files

After he’d finished the main run. But he didn’t hide behind any lame excuses. He apologized profusely, acknowledged that he’d acted selfishly and said he didn’t want the run considered for any leaderboards as it would be unfair to the rest of the community. “Games Done Quick” banned him (hammer thuds)

From attending any future events and scrubbed his records from their YouTube archive. Well, ironically, it looks like this one’s going to take time to move on from. NADIA. When it comes to being accused of cheating. No one has more fingers pointed at ’em than “Call of Duty: Warzone” player and streamer, NADIA. She began streaming back in January, 2021 and her Warzone gameplay attracted an audience of over 900,000 Twitch followers. But as her fans grew in number,

So did the people who doubted her skill and they began to pick apart every second of her gameplay. It seems like every guy with facial hair and access to the “Fortnite” font has made a video about the undeniable proof they have about NADIA cheating, lying, or being exposed.

Some are creepily obsessed, but they have picked up on some questionable clips, like here. – What? (objects thudding) – Yeah, shooting a wall in the same place someone is standing behind his pretty sus. It could indicate that she’s using wall hacks. However, others have pointed out that an ammo crate was dropped from that direction. So, she heard someone there, she just didn’t know where. Well, that’s reasonable, but what about here,

Where she was “Shadowbanned” a protocol, Activision enacts when it suspects a player of cheating and places them in special lobbies that are full of other suspected cheaters. – Warzone and now I’m shadowbanned. Uh-oh. Chat, I’m shadowbanned. – [Narrator] Hacker hunters were quick to claim this was more undeniable proof she was cheating. However, others argued that she’d been playing from a few different locations in the days prior mimicking the effects of a VPN, which might have triggered the ban. Whatever the case, she was unshadowedbanned

By the developer’s Activision, shortly after Another point at a live “Call of Duty” event, she was apparently kicked out for cheating while on stream but the footage supposedly showing her being kicked out by the mods for cheating shows she was actually just having tech issues and needed help.

They weren’t asking her to leave. – [Speaker 10] Switching up. – Yeah, that’s good. (gunshot booming) Thank you. Okay, yeah, that’s fine. Okay. All right. Stream, I’ll be right back. I’m in trouble. – [Narrator] Some have gone one step further, like Rara, who released leaked messages supposedly from NADIA to some unknown person claiming she had someone unlocked camo skins for her guns on her account. Anyone who watched part four of this series might remember

That’s the same excuse Vanguard’s number two player, Plehxify, used after he was caught wall hacking. The two elements are linked, that’s for sure, but without wall hack’s slipping through onto NADIA’s stream it’s not conclusive and a lot of others seem to agree. Renowned to streamer and gamer xQx

Reviewed some of these clips and determined. – Guys, if you could tell people who are cheating, okay, do it the right way. Okay. I think these clips are (duck quacks). They’re just (duck quacks). – [Narrator] The accusations are endless and all supposed proof of her cheating is far from airtight.

This would be enough to chase almost anyone off but not NADIA. Instead, she’s cleverly leaned right into it uploading videos titled, “I’m Banned from Warzone”, and “I Got Kicked Out for Cheating”. She constantly eludes to cheating, never giving in to offered PC scans, posting fake confessions, layered in sarcasm,

And the hacker hunters have lapped it up, fueling her growth and theirs. Many hacker hunter channels’ most popular and profitable videos revolve around NADIA, so everyone wins. If these channels really wanted to take her down they’d just stop making videos about her every moment,

Wait for a real slip up and then go for her. But then what would they make content about? Classic Catch 22 there. So, until we see wall hacks on her stream or she receives a permanent ban from Activision NADIA will be busy making everyone money. But do you think NADIA is cheating?

Well, let me know down in the comments below. EXONIZ. Cheating for clout is one thing but cheating to get your hands on prize money is another level of low. One that Turkish player and professional Twitch streamer, EXONIZ, was willing to sync to back in December, 2022. Competing in “Call of Duty: Warzone World Classic” with a $100,000 prize pool up for grabs.

Suspicions about EXONIZ were raised, a few days before the event took place. He appeared to be aiming at opponents through walls. A tell-tale sign, he probably had a wall hack active. During the tournament, viewers asked him to address these cheating allegations by proving he didn’t have a secret monitor displaying all these hacks.

Getting cocky, he opened up his display settings to prove he was only using two monitors but a third was detected in his setup. He tried to explain it as a glitch and so set up a monitor camera, which is where it all came crumbling down. During the tournament, he moved one

Of his monitors when an unusual looking menu popped up. Initially, he tried to claim it was a display menu. Better excuse than pretending he’d flashed a picture, that’s for sure. But the court of public opinion swiftly decided it was more likely cheat software. Activision was lambasted for not thoroughly vetting the player. And EXONIZ guiltily deleted all his social media and streaming accounts.

Oh, how tragic. Alexa play, “Another One Bites the Dust”. Know any more gamers who’ve been caught cheating that you didn’t see in this video or in the other videos in this series? Let me know down below. And as always, thanks for watching.