The things you do in the name of clout.
That’s what happened during this past month in the little-big corner in video game content creators on the internet.
Queen Pwnzalot – a once then small video game creator who streams majority Monster Hunter: World on Twitch, known for her killing this particularly difficult monster named Alatreon for over 4,000 times! That’s a big feat not gonna lie. But in this age, you need to do something crazy to garner attention from the internet, and oh boy she.. yikes. I can’t even begin to describe this I’m about to tell you.
So, she decided to kill Alatreon.. in a blindfolded speedrun.
Woah sounds impossible right? Why yes it is, and yet Queen Pwnzalot did it!! Amazing right!??
.. and this is just the beginning.
The video game speedrunning community is one of the most informative, competitive parts of playing video games that is anchored on integrity, dedication, and mutual respect for their fellow speedrunner. So when Queen Pwnzalot posted her blindfolded speedrun on official speedrunning rankings, people took a look into it to see if it legit.
Turns out, like most if not all f-boys, there are GLARING RED FLAGS!
The proof was on a balance of probabilities, not beyond a reasonable doubt because that’s for criminal cases – Now you know. ;)), so instead of the usual actions of a half-baked “apology” and just lie low for the meantime or even just say that she did it out of satire.. this woman, this creator decided to..
Double down (unalive on that hill, girl!)
She decided to do it again, but this time addressing the concerns of the community while doing things above what is expected, and yet… SHE STILL CHEATED!
And what I love about this proof of cheat video is that one of Queen Pwnzalot’s community moderators (more like simp really) went to Asmongold, one of the most popular streamers on the planet, to defend Pwnzalot in a way both funny and sad.
In the aftermath of the proof that is beyond a reasonable doubt (still not a criminal case but Pwnzalot doubled down and she still cheated), her X is down, her Twitch streams become subscriber-only streams and just blacked out of any other social medias trying to hide and let the backlash die down, but at this point, everyone is calling for her head.
Queen Pwnzalot is a Capcom Creator, meaning she was selected to represent Capcom like a brand ambassador and due to the backlash, everyone is requesting Capcom to remove her from this group because it will tarnish the already just recovering reputation of the long-existing company. The reputation for Capcom is a story for another day.
If only on the second time she cheated, she just said she did it out of satire, everyone wouldn’t have cared this much and moved on, but noooo~~
Dasurv in all the best and worst ways.