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In fairness to how retarded this hoax plot seems, getting Hector (respected in the emulation community, no reputation for lying) and Wayne (vouched for by Hector and with alleged ties to Near/Byuu) both claiming to confirm beyond a reasonable doubt to wikipedia approved "reliable sources" almost immediately that Byuu was dead and the suicide is real was the only win condition they needed for 95% of the world if Byuu never planned to resurface in a public facing community.
Anyone with half a cynical brain can see that wikipedia will print and protect lies to the bitter death even when they can be proven to be false after the fact, so long as a RS reports the "fact" initially and no RS reports a retraction later, especially for niche corners of the internet and their lore.
By the time anyone else can prove the suicide did not happen, the world will have moved on and the journalists in question will take Hector's explanation at face value when the first report after does not contain the verification, by the time the second report comes through and there's still nothing the hope is that nobody with connections to an RS will notice, or even if they do, they won't care, and even if they care, that they won't be able to pull strings to get an article contradicting the RSes that are already cited.
After all, how do you convince a journalist of newsworthiness for an 8-9 month old story that literally only hard core emulation communities, trannies, and the "evil cyber villains of the internet" care about? You won't get far using journalistic integrity or ethics as an argument that's for sure. I can think of some youtubers that might actually be interested if the second update comes through and we've still got nada, but youtubers are not "reliable sources" even if they speak 100% truth, so you're still shit out of luck.
The only reason USA today ran with it in the first place is because muh bullying and harassment angle which is popular, combined with gaming outlets gobbling Marcan's dick to provide enough evidence of "newsworthiness" for the editor to greenlight the story.
Anyone with half a cynical brain can see that wikipedia will print and protect lies to the bitter death even when they can be proven to be false after the fact, so long as a RS reports the "fact" initially and no RS reports a retraction later, especially for niche corners of the internet and their lore.
By the time anyone else can prove the suicide did not happen, the world will have moved on and the journalists in question will take Hector's explanation at face value when the first report after does not contain the verification, by the time the second report comes through and there's still nothing the hope is that nobody with connections to an RS will notice, or even if they do, they won't care, and even if they care, that they won't be able to pull strings to get an article contradicting the RSes that are already cited.
After all, how do you convince a journalist of newsworthiness for an 8-9 month old story that literally only hard core emulation communities, trannies, and the "evil cyber villains of the internet" care about? You won't get far using journalistic integrity or ethics as an argument that's for sure. I can think of some youtubers that might actually be interested if the second update comes through and we've still got nada, but youtubers are not "reliable sources" even if they speak 100% truth, so you're still shit out of luck.
The only reason USA today ran with it in the first place is because muh bullying and harassment angle which is popular, combined with gaming outlets gobbling Marcan's dick to provide enough evidence of "newsworthiness" for the editor to greenlight the story.
