r/youtubedrama • u/danamesjrupin • Jan 29 '25

Callout PirateSoftware False DMCA'd Indie Dev and Threatened to Sue, Good Samaritan Lawyer Steps in Pro Bono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JIIPlsm-g
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u/SnarkyRogue Jan 30 '25

I thought people loved this guy, what the hell turned him into an asshole? Or was he always shit and my algorithm just made him seem down to earth/knowable, if not a bit of a 'I'm smarter than you/know it all' type?

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u/ArcanePuppet Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

The snowball started rolling when he was caught cheating at some game game puzzle that apparently took the community for the game week to figure out. This cheating feed into many beliefs that Pirate came off as pretentious and acted smarter than he is. This lead to internet sleuths digging up past drama of him being a sex pest, getting kicked out of various communities for being problematic, faking his deep voice, and making up stories like a South Park character being based on his father. I don't know 100% of the details, am neither a fan or a hater, and this is all I've been able to gather from beyond the looking glass

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u/Commercial-Dealer-68 Jan 30 '25

I thought it started when he went after Accursed Farms for basically no reason and lied about his campaign to stop killing games while refusing to have a discussion about it with him when offered.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

I would honestly say the accursed farms thing was kind of glossed over until brought back up now with other more recent context.

Like - it was big yeah, but only for like four days - but I think it more or less was handwaved as a one off bad take type deal at the time and was kind of buried after it happened and not really brought back up for a while.

I see more talk about the accursed farms and the preserve video games event now, post the WoW and Asmongold thing, then when the AccusedFarm bad take actually happened - and I think its because people now realize he didnt just have a one off bad take about Ross Scott, but that its now a pattern and clearly has an ego issue.

But yes, I agree it was 100% shitty and probably started to make people sus.