How a satire channel bamboozled all of us [and GradeAUnderA]

No, actually he's not even a great marketer with his videos. His videos got attention on reddit initially because he was using massive amounts of vote manipulation and sockpuppets to cheat the reddit system.

Inevitably he got busted (by me as an /r/videos mod under my previous username /u/alfalfa_as_fuck) and all his videos were banned from the subreddit and most of his usernames banned from reddit. Mumkey was also banned, though it looks like some of the banned channels have been re-added after I left the mod team, since this video made it to the front page.

When I initially banned him, he tried to sneakily get me kicked off the mod team. See, he owns the twitter account @Reddit_Videos (with 22,000 followers he would put to more use if he was a good marketer) and he tweeted some shady stuff pretending to be me, then reported those tweets to the mod team. He's actually a real asshole. It took the mods about 10 minutes to figure out what was going on.

I got pissed and called him out, discovered his real identity, and found that he does this type of sneaky bullshit all over the place, while bragging about how awesome he is. He used to guess the passwords to other Youtube accounts he didn't like and delete their videos. He seemed to think this made him some leet hacker, just like he thinks getting a video to /r/all through vote manipulation makes him a great marketer.

Anyways, I no longer mod /r/videos, but I can say that in the several years I did he was the 2nd worst person I ever encountered. The first was another mod. Your comment describes him to a T.

/u/itspranker feel free to confirm or deny any of this.

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