https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67CXV4o4dYM

explanation of the scam https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1qe3a5a/popular_subreddit_livestreamfail_mods_and_mythic/

archive of the reddit thread https://archive.is/Gbin2

Stale2000 aka u/tarrot_card was the top moderator of r/livestreamfail and used the subreddit to promote Destiny clips and snark posts against Hasan. The scam looks like some kind of lottery for “$20 million”. In the video, he vows to create an “alliance” of reddit moderators to take on Spez.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I dunno, but as an extremely mid-looking (at best) white guy, I feel like I should be allowed to say that this guy looks exactly like I’d expect a Destiny enjoying reddit mod to look.

      I also happen to be a reddit mod myself, so all things considered I think I have the pass.

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    Is that what a reddit moderator looks like? Frankly I imagine reddit administrators to look like that too, except in a dress shirt and tie.

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    went through his older videos and of course he’s got a bunch of v*ush/epstiny shit on there.

    i know its been said dozens of times already, but how did they get the moderator? are these guys made in a vat or something? i’ve never seen a prototype for a stereotype walking around before. this character is too on the nose for a sitcom. the big bang theory’s lost friend. the concept of awkwardness distilled into human form, and nobody told him about mirrors.

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    Has this person been doxxed now?

    Can you imagine how fucking jealous this man must be of Hasan? This guy would be someone who cares about looks and the whole manosphere. I can picture how much he must seethe that Hasan looks like a himbo

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      I don’t think he’s hiding his identity. In the video he says his name is Bryan and he lives in San Fransisco. His twitter says his name is Bryan Wade. He used to work as a developer for twitch.

      https://xcancel.com/stale2000

      https://www.linkedin.com/in/brcwade

      He’s been a harasser of Hasan for a while. His reddit created the dog shock collar conspiracy theory.

      Before destiny’s followers took over LSF, there was a rule that submitted clips could not be edited and only direct links to twitch could be submitted. He changed the subreddit rules so that people could submit edited deceptive clips of Hasan’s streams.

      Destiny’s community was also collaborating with Congressman Ritchie Torres to try to force Hasan to speak in front of congress. They wanted Congress to punish Hasan for being anti-Israel.

      There’s a video of Stale2000 saying that he’s trying to coverup Destiny’s pedophilia allegations by asking Destiny supporters to submit pro-Destiny video clips to the r/livestreamfail subreddit.

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    I know this is at least lookism-adjacent (there has to be a better word than lookism) but I find it absolutely hilarious when dudes look like their stereotypes. If I were to draw a “destiny subreddit moderator who promotes a scam” then that’s the type of guy I’d probably end up drawing.

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      If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

      A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

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        I’ve never liked that quote. I’ve plenty of friends that aren’t conventuonally attractive and I know of plenty of dickheads that are conventionally attractive. I understand what it’s trying to do, but really all it ends up doing is reinforcing “hot people = good”. It’s something J. K. Rowling would put in one of her books to explain why the bad guys are fat or something.

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            I think I do understand it. I just disagree with it. I feel as though the sentiment is cope akin to “oh well sure the people tormenting us are having a good time now, but just wait until karma comes around!” with an added dose of lookism.
            I don’t look at my friend with an acne-ridden face and suddenly find the acne endearing or like some wonderful part of my friend. Acnes nasty and it remains so, even if it’s on a wonderful person.
            Likewise I don’t look at a nice ass and suddenly find some disgusting quality with it because its owner is a zionist.

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    Someone said he had a comment criticizing Vaush’s appearance during the Vaush/Destiny beef.

    Vaush may be a piece of shit and a nonce that looks like 2012 bartender that lists himself as a “Mixologist” on Tinder and has a Mumford and Sons tattoo, but that’s still better than this dude.

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    My favorite responses from the video:

    The CIA couldn’t have gotten this out of me with a car battery.

    I swear to god we all entered in some crazy alternate universe after that fucking gorilla was shot

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      It was a week before that, a weasel climbed into the Hadrian collider when it was on. That’s where it all went wrong.

      Seriously though, this shit is all the result of a half century long conspiracy, from the 1971 business round table, the first iteration of the long game of business to undo the new deal and the political power and wealth of the working class.

      It is not long after that you can see things happen one after another. The fear of the other in the crime waves. The capture of agencies. The democrats becoming more captured by the rich, the corruption of science. The unions get infected with mobsters. The rate of inflation is changed to understate it (several times, by 2008 social security checks would be 1,300 more a month on average under the unchanged rate,) and just them attacking and undermining any sort of rival power base.

      They aren’t stronger than we are, they are organized, and we aren’t. That is all it would take, organization. Although we may be nearing the point of no return from the abyss.

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    It’s an opportunity to say it once more: how the word “influencer” is used so casually and neutrally by everyday people baffles me. How long would it take to become normal if a few cute celebrities said "Hi, I’m a manipulator! I get paid to control public opinion for companies :D "

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    I love it when pedo fascists eat absolute shit and then immediately embarrass themselves

    It was inevitable that reddit would come down on that organized harassment club when they tried to target people other than Hasan

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      The sub is moderated by Destiny-fans. They boost clips on the subreddit that support Destiny. The sub is probably also pro-Zionism. I think they probably also promoted the Hasan shock-collar conspiracy theory.

      Stale2000 was the top mod of the subreddit but I think there are other still other mods on r/livestreamfail that are Destiny-aligned.

      I have commented about it a couple times before.

      https://hexbear.net/comment/6143480

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      According to another post, this man’s rule changes include:

      Allowing edited clips to be uploaded directly to reddit (instead of off site)

      Allowing streamers to opt out of being featured on the sub

      Bringing up a user’s post history in other subs is a bannable offense (too many people were pointing out regular r/destiny or Ethan Kkklein stans were posting anti-Hasan shit)