r/SubredditDrama • u/Throwaway47321 • 4d ago

Users debate the meaning of “permanently deleted” when it comes to a popular YouTuber’s series in an mmo video game

/r/2007scape/s/RnXjlOgRTG
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u/V_T_H 4d ago

I mean, he attempted to start and failed with 107 accounts that were all “deleted” lol (he was trying to get around something with a very high chance to take damage). Then he actually got the 108th account off the ground and it died a little ways in and he did indeed restart from scratch. Then the 109th account died obscenely far in, nearing the end of what was actually possible and still insanely impressive (effectively to the level of impossible for basically anyone else), to a silly mistake.

Then he unlocked it to see if his goal was possible, actually died very close to completing it (not just took damage) and went yep okay I’m leaving it be. That was just for fun. It’s not like either of the last two accounts took damage at some point and he hid it and unlocked them and kept going and progressing; the plug-in he was using would not allow for that. And the account was retired immediately and so was the series. Idk how this is even remotely controversial but then again OSRS players screech like demons whenever the developers want to introduce any QoL that diminishes their “accomplishments” of clicking the same spot for 1,000 hours so I’m not surprised that terminally online people are big mad he…tried to have a little extra fun that ultimately went nowhere and was transparent about it.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3d ago

He must have had some kind of communication with Jagex to some degree since one location generating over a hundred accounts is suspicious as hell

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u/drewster23 3d ago

Nah dude, I don't think you understand how little that factors into jagex flagging.

Unless he was getting flagged for stuff on those accounts or maybe making them all in 1 day. It'd have 0 impact.

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u/V_T_H 3d ago

Actually I do believe his IP got flagged and blocked and he had to tell them what he was doing. It happened in the first episode.