I thought they died off too until this controversy and now I learn that they're basically bigger and more commercial than ever. I think Minecraft is great but its community has gained some insanity with crazy new blood retards, apparently.
The accusation video goes over the why. It quotes Karl Jobst to explain why top runners would cheat.
Something tells me you haven't been lurking for five years and that you're just another stan. Dream will never acknowledge you.
>some of these retards even put their pronouns in their name
What bothers me is that in other speedrun communities, you are usually straight up banned in the community for cheating, meaning you don't get to partake in races, or any other categories if it's that severe. Sometimes you can even get a global ban so your runs NEVER get on the board, even if you try to go clean. I have no idea how or why they didn't do something other than a suspension, other than "Dream brought in people", which is a ridiculous statement in itself. Anyone could bring in new players, runners, etc.
I 100% agree. He should have been banned from the get go. The fact Dream was able to get away with this on the grounds of "bringing in people", is absolute bullshit that shouldn't really be a justification. Upon getting caught, those Dream brought in either a.)Stepped away from him or most likely B.)Justified it at a moments notice and had their justification of cheating enabled by lack of action. Anyone could bring in people, but that makes me ask. Does anyone REALLY want teenage girls in a fad obsession who openly want to rape and gut their idol in their circle? Or is speedrunning really just that dead? (I don't keep up with it much anymore.)
5 consecutive streams, totaling over 24 hours, of statistically impossible luck.
These communities are ran by autists who lack social awareness or experience and are terminally incapable of standing up for themselves. Forcing confrontation is something they want to avoid at absolutely all costs, so they'll let cheaters go with a slap on the wrist simply because they don't have the force of personality necessary to stand up to them and tell them they can't participate anymore.
And when Dream cheats again and steals a world record, what're they going to do when the rightful record holder starts bitching at them to remove the cheater? Is it a catch 22 of autism?
It's classic avoidance mentality. It happens everywhere on the internet. Everyone knows there is a problem, but bringing it up would be too damaging to group cohesion, so it's allowed to fester and fester until it explodes. It's no different than in an RL relationship where somebody has a drug habit or other vice that the partner knows about but can't control. It changes the relationship from 'we want to be happy together' to a much more poisonous 'I want to extract as many fond memories from this as possible before it dies' status. People are weird. I've seen friends go back to terrible, failed, broken partnerships over and over again because they can get one thing they want out of it that they can't readily find elsewhere. They suffer and are miserable, but so long as they get that one thing (which can be as petty as 'they play the MMO I like') then it's alright.
Look no further than the high score community and the Billy Mitchell situation. People knew or should have known that lies were being told at a minimum, if not outright cheating, but nothing was done about it until Twin Galaxies was sold, and now the new owners are suing Billy Mitchell because part of the contract on the sell was that the database was legitimate. Billy Mitchell, who owned controlling interest in TG, knew the database had bullshit in it including some of his own records. When you say it in a legal document it's fraud. He chose to break the law rather than harm his ego.
