SpaceUK's Impactful Cheating | My Thoughts

[@naspang459]

Him using a profile picture of "your lie in april" is the most ironic thing I've seen in my life with all of his deception collapsing onto him IN APRIL.

[@remiicatboy]

his lie that collapsed in april

[@jevilsugoma1743]

Lmaoo

[@auliaakbar4197]

Wow, that is so ironic holy shit

[@xpmyt341]

Bruhh

[@Anxmaly666]

no wonder Space changed his pfp

[@bigthunder556]

Thanks tech! There’s a lot of good points made here and I also wanted to address how unthankful a big portion of the community is for the list team. Like you said, they’re not even paid to put in the effort like they’ve been doing. I don’t think I could imagine how many hackers they’ve actually caught and prevented their fake fame in this game. It’s just so unfortunate to see that this one slip up had to be the number one player for 2 years and it’s just so sad to see the amount of stress and backlash the list team gets all the time.

[@thewierdragonbaby4843]

I get that the list team have lots of players and runs and stuff to check but for a player this big, jumping from one extreme to another in suspiciously low attempt counts suspiciously quickly, if there's one person in the community to check for hacking it would probably be him. I'm just shocked that no one thought to investigate spaceuk until now. Although you can't hate on the list team. spaceuk pretty much manipulated the entire list team into doing whatever list placement switches he wanted, but that's not them being bad people, that's just them being dumb teens/young adults and not having enough time to check everything. Although the list team should definitely take this as a lesson to be more careful to try avoid situations like this happening in the future.

[@szthng6681]

The only reason spaceuk situation got so impactful is because the list is so incompetent that can't even check a freaking watermark lmao. Whether they got paid or not doesn't mean crap if they can't do it then don't take the job in the first place instead of doing it poorly and screw over the gd competitive scene.

[@bigthunder556]

go outside oh my god

[@judahsagawa5749]

@@szthng6681if it was so easy you should sign up and do it yourself

[@vedantsridhar8378]

The most interesting short argument I've ever seen

[@wavix]

It's all just a super sad situation, so many people including myself look up to you and other top players for their outstanding accomplishments, and meanwhile some people take advantage of that and manipulate the entire community. Good to hear from you again man

[@ZMan778]

I agree with this guy

[@IamSoDeirdre]

Hi wavix

[@susybaka0148]

hi gayvix

[@jwjustjwgd]

hi baevix

[@WafflesGotW]

i agree with this girl

[@WildPoint]

It’s kinda crazy to me that space hacked. I never expected in a million years for that news to come out, and the fact that he betrayed the community and so many of his friends is so devastating.

[@Movedchanelssss]

Fr

[@ItsWebostyles]

This doesn't surprise me tbh, is kinda weird that somebody Who started to play the game beats a top 30 and a top 5 as his first demons (wasureta and the golden)

[@ballisticalrift]

@@ItsWebostyles well iirc he did beat wasureta legit, and he got 96 on The Golden

[@thenecromancer7487]

@@ballisticalrift is there any proof of him beating wasureta legitimately? I don't think space's words are good enough of a source since he did try to lie about his legitimacy numerous times even when being exposed.

[@Deicture]

​@@ballisticalrift nah someone said tht even the Wasureta completion had delayed clicks and less pixels in the end screen, sorry to break it to you but he hacked everything

[@polterghast12]

3:54 I do want to say that I am extremely worried that this is going to happen and to an extent I think it already has with how undetectable hacking is getting. (such as paqoe not being able to find hard evidence against some of ayrelia's completions) I still do need hard evidence before I want to see someone banned and for the list to take action, but I am increasingly worried about a potential future where there just isn't any evidence a hacker leaves behind. In which case top level play in GD is basically doomed. Remember there isn't any rule of the universe written that hacking has to always be detectable. two players specifically, Zoink and Wpopoff, have so much circumstantial evidence going against them they really do make me worried for the future of the game. with zoink going from having beaten bloodbath as his hardest to having beaten Firework, The golden, Sakupen circles, slaughterhouse, tartarus, Zodiac and hard machine in 5 months. and Wpopoff going from almost nothing to 25 main lists - including slaughterhouse and acheron - in around 3 months. This makes me worried we already passed this threshold a while ago, since these kinds of players never appeared in the last 8 years of GD history that I've been around. In which case GD is in very deep trouble. I really, really desperately want to be wrong. I poured my heart out into this game so many times. I'd hate nothing more than to see cheaters come and corrupt it. And I pray to god that Zoink is a legitimate player and is indeed just a prodigy. Not because I like him, but because I really want this game to have a bright future.

[@swaitis_9423]

I think the best way to prove that you're legit is streaming with handcam. It's not that hard to buy a decent camera, or, if u are really poor, you can even connect your phone to obs. I hope the list team gonna set new rule about handcam, cuz I don't see a better way to prove player's legitimacy

[@therealestspadeS]

Zoink does give me hope because he streams a ton (no handcam) but still it makes him more legit

[@ryanog419]

@@swaitis_9423space used handcam though

[@TripodV3VO]

well?

[@asswipe-fl7hq]

You're gonna be right

[@MythicalTG]

It's good that you mentioned how the demon list is run, because they really do not get paid, not just enough, but at all to deal with people's bullshit. It's easy to think it's just basic record checking for a mobile game, but on a scale as big as this, shit's bound to slip through the cracks eventually.

[@8is]

While it's entirely SpaceUk's fault for hacking, the list team knew that it was inevitable that someone would try to pull this shit. The fact is that so much have been stolen and taken away from so many of the top players because the list team failed to do what they sought out to do. SpaceUk should not have gotten away with this *for years,* and we need to make sure this never, ever happens at this sheer scale ever again.

[@MythicalTG]

@@8is Yeah, it's definitely something that shouldn't have happened. I mostly just want people to understand that the list mods are still human and that taking their anger out on them doesn't help anybody.

[@echo8210]

space was genuinely a player i looked up to and even inspired me to skip a entire difficulty from hard demon to a extreme, sad to say i was greatly disappointed when this surfaced up.

[@monote43]

worse shit is that the dude on its own could have done this but decided to fuck it up since the very begining, or even worse that began the hacking since the very very beginning, we'll never know

[@courierdubois]

@@monote43 apparently his hardest is really kenos, which is pretty impressive but he will never be what we once was

[@pixxel0001]

​@@courierdubois I mean if he is telling the truth, I guess his hardest is 96% on the Golden? He had the skill and should have just continued grinding but he got too far down the rabbit hole of cheating and big L tbh

[@masterdoge987]

good for you, insane demons are the worst difficulty (with like twenty exceptions)

[@Greeny109]

The fact that Space just kept going and stole credit that he didn't deserve is horribly disappointing. Just goes to show we can't trust everything. I'm still blown by how he got away with this and showed no signs of guilt. Truly unbelievable and disrespectful.

[@vybz987]

He even tried to quit the game (after finishing the mainlist he posted a community message for example) but he must’ve enjoyed it or some shit and carried on..

[@Gabs2345]

I agree with you and I also wanna build on your list team take, in my time being on the team back in 2018-2020 I was always so disappointed by how unfair some of the community could be, despite how committed some of its members were (not me, for what it's worth) and all the good that came out of it The amount of commitment it takes is far greater than it may seem from the outside, trust me they deserve some credit for keeping it all running. So yeah, point out the problems/mistakes but don't do it like the list team are an enemy bc they're really not, they're just players like you trying to contribute to the community voluntarily

[@mylife1221]

omg gab

[@Gabs2345]

@@mylife1221 sup

[@skzyl]

i appreciate you making this video because all of the points you made are 100% correct. most of the community doesnt realize how much effort the demon list team puts in and one slip up happened to change the games history quite literally forever. its unfortunate it happened but at least he was caught later than never. i also want to mention that your points about the playing community are also insanely correct. putting in effort for a top spot just to have you be accused of hacking is just tainting the community further, and other community members need to recognize that. with your platform i hope most of the toxicity dies down and you can influence other people correctly. thank you!!

[@Faren_]

It’s so close to the Cyclic case as well. He only admitted to hacking The Hell Zone and Sonic Wave but then confessed to hacking everything when pressed a little further.

[@chameleoncham3911]

There was that one guy like a year ago who accused Space of cheating and the Demonlist mods just dismissed it as misinformation.

[@chomp_gd]

5:15 Actually Giron was in that situation as well, with none other than Cataclysm. He was the first victor, but later Gboy got exposed

[@kerade_real]

*cyclic

[@Countcomfortable]

⁠@@kerade_realeven though there’s nothing wrong with Cyclic’s verification of Cata, everyone agrees that Giron beat Cata first because Cyclic said everything was hacked, including old Cataclysm

[@freedomutilities9240]

I'm very disappointed on spaceuk, but i respected him for his apology, i know it won't change anything, but he's absolutely not coward, he knew that he made huge mistake, and he knew that he deserves this, people like him are rare, so many people just run away, delete all their account and disappeared, i know not everyone can forgive him, so many people in the community still mad on him, and it's okay to be mad, but we can't always get controlled by our ego hating someone forever, we need to forgive him whatever how big the impact is, at the end of the day, we're just human full of mistakes, sometimes we make small mistake and people just take it easy but sometimes we made a big or even huge mistake, all we need to do is learn from them

[@julienfutbol5780]

I love this comment. I can tell that your someone with a lot of empathy and can acknowledge someone else's wrong doing from a different perspective. I quit GD when all this happened but came back a few months ago and learned all about this recently. it reminds me so much of cyclic, who was a hacker and someone that I looked up. his rivalry with riot was of that of a zoink vs spaceuk. legit player vs hacker. Despite cyclic coming out to being a hacker, I still loved him as a player and the impact he had on the community. He left us with sonic wave which in my opinion is one of, if not, the most impactful and influential level in gd history. One of my top ever favourites levels and no level today comes close to that feeling. Cyclic did come out and apologise which i have massive respect for and he even went back and beat all the levels he hacked. I don't have an ounce of hate for spaceuk or cyclic as ye, what they did wasn't good but what they left tin he community will forever be monumental (and in a good way). cyclic and riot pushed the boundaries of what was perceived at the time as impossible and so did zoink and spaceuk. however, they popularised jumping level (especially spaceuk) which inspired many people to do the same (myself included). despite all the controversy, its best to forgive, learn from this and grow from this experience. like you said, we all make mistakes but not everyone sees it that way. not everyone will forgive these hackers and thats okay. but for me personally, I' have no hate or animosity towards them. I hope their doing well in their personal life and hope that some day, the people that have hatred towards them can come to peace within themselves and forgive them like myself, yourself and others have too :)

[@DeltaHendreas]

Technical, thank you so much for this video. I agree with all of your points here, and it's really sad to see everyone's trust of others diminish because of this. I also don't blame the Pointercrate team for not catching him hacking until now, because as you said, they're only volunteering for this, and they aren't getting paid to do so, yet they're still working very hard and make a few mistakes here and there, whether major or minor. Despite the toxicity of this community or hell, any internet community in general, I really hope that we can realize this. I mean, I would blame SpaceUK for cheating and manipulating the entire community in the first place, causing all of this drama and tension in the first place. At this point, just like with NoctaFly and their situation, I've lost all of my respect for both of them, especially since I was never really interested in either player anyways. Speaking of which, I don't know why the Demonlist team never set you as the official verifier for Zodiac and put your completion video as the official verification video. I'm just gonna assume that either you didn't want them to do so, or they simply forgot about it, which is totally understandable.

[@TomGD]

Honestly, it is a really sad situation it has come out. Like I never expected Space to hack a lot of the levels, and now stealing the credits from many top players who should be the ones that deserved the spotlight. Still good explanation video Tech!

[@Apollo-sk1gx]

the stuff about the list team criticism is so true, i dont know how they are putting up with this. people need to realize they are volunteers who aren't paid...

[@zer0riftzgd515]

Thank you for your thoughts tech, hope everything is going well! 😊

[@GD-Reuploads]

-Dear Technical THIS is a actual video, just a uncommon type, btw I wanna start a community where we rerecord all verifications (list verifications mostly) and its just to keep up with any history, I just need the back of some top players and I'm good to go, I'm very glad to find your channel after my other ones got termenated (I could not find your channel just some random logic vids lol) and I'm very glad a top player like you made a video like this, I got a stretch of resons to have you as a helper of mine, and you can probably motivate doggie or Zonik to help out too. - Ethane from Gd Reuploads (I only use yt as a social media platform for storage optimization on my 64GB phone lol)

[@noloquin45]

its just absolutely sad as shit that the person that you had as an idol THE GUY THAT YOU LOVED just unexpectedly confesses that they done something real bad and yet i cant stress this enough, stop hacking levels to impress people, it just makes you the worst person at the end of the day. oh and btw props to doggie for verifying slaughterhouse legitimately

[@fizzy_blizzy]

definitely the best take on the situation imo especially with mentioning the list team and how it's run. the situation is very unfortunate and i'm glad you brought that to light

[@Electro4890]

Good that you brought this out. Not many people do this nowadays where they talk about issues like this on youtube which is the big platform and instead just keep it on Twitter just like the Guitar situation.

[@prestyy]

One thing I don’t understand is why people are saying he pushed the boundaries so far that other people would not have been able to do those things w out him. Sure we got harder levels but now newer players will be so stressed because they’ll feel they will need spaces skill to even compete or get into the community.

[@dchat_]

It’s weird when I first started watching Space play at the level he was playing at and beating levels with such speed I originally thought there’s no way this is legit. But through time and everyone else saying he was legit I just believed it. One of those situations where I hate to be the one that’s right. Hopefully GD will recover from this!

[@chickfilasaucegmd]

My thoughts exactly!! I was dogpiled and told I needed to go outside for “making a big deal out of nothing” when this has hurt many people in the community because he’s much worse than “just a hacker”.

[@srabb]

im extremely impressed how this video isnt scripted/you explained it all better than everyone else that made a video about this and because of this video i finally understood the whole situation better :)

[@cosmiciscool]

Really glad that even players who arent as active anymore realize how important this is. Really glad you helped spread recognition to players who really deserved it.

[@LucarioSunday]

its kinda surprising that not many people were suspicious of space from the beginning, If you think about it, Space came out of nowhere with beating the hardest demons, and that was how you'd get people suspicious of you back then, its sad to see he did continue this until he got exposed, which is the sad reality of video game communities.

[@Patrick61804]

Also good point regarding list staff not being professional. If they were it would probably be worse to miss it.

[@ZecroEXE]

Very good points here. It’s a scary situation for the community because everyone realizes how easy it is to simply cheat. And this is undeserving for the top players who are currently being blamed for following suit with Space and cheating their way into the demonlist. The community will hopefully make a fast recovery from this unfortunate situation. But also hey, on the bright side, I’m seeing you in the MK8DX leaderboards now. So that’s something to keep your head up about. :)

[@Gloover_]

its really sad to see that trust issues have come to a point to where you cant even trust your own friends. He lied to all of their friends in front of their faces and they didnt think much of it. never the less this was a great video as usual and a lot of good points were made. cant wait for the next one :)

[@idk-td8xj]

Nice to hear that you’re around to see and witness this. Because space fell through our fingers we now have a tainted mindset that may single out top players who actually worked for the title, and in that way our community will change a blue-whale ton.

[@testhekid]

i feel bad for the demon list team now, with controversies and topics happening around the list they're always first to blame by the community and the team happens to be a selfless volunteering BY the community itself

[@froostgmd5287]

The demon list team should’ve known from the start if they were actively checking the vods I blame them for not checking

[@travanforbes8989]

Bro was using hacks and Zoink was still better 💀

[@zjayyau]

We miss u tech pls come back. And I think this situation is a strange one but yeah can't wait to see you back

[@fearme7184]

This is a super heart breaking situation and it pisses me off the most because it hurt my friend who really looked up to space and he was the one who got my friend into trying to beat harder Demons for his skill range and he is demotivated now. And also I hate the people who blamed the list team because they blamed the team for missing the cheating but think about it, everyone missed it (except paqoue) so they can’t say anything and if they wanna say something they should go work for the list team.

[@sidr8920]

I'm honestly surprised not even one person just randomly decided to go, oh wait, space's level completion text is the wrong size. I mean, there are a lot of people in this community, and any one of them could have randomly known about the zbot thing and been randomly checking top player's footage. This isn't any hate to the list team, I'm just genuinely surprised that no one at all figured this out before. I definitely wouldn't have, I didn't even know zbot had that

[@MrPlayDay]

I was suspicious ever since he ‘verified’ slaughterhouse. Even before slaughterhouse was released I was a big fan of the level, and I would do showcases of the leaked slaughterhouse on the servers, I knew the ins and outs of the level and holy crap it’s insanely difficult, damn near impossible. Then spaceuk says he beats it in 1 week whilst he’s ill? I didn’t buy it. But after a while I stopped pursuing it and just accepted maybe he’s just insane, but I guess I was right the first time.

[@bladefox5082]

Another negative that people don’t really talk about is how many more people will start to hack completions. I’m sure people will see how long Space got away with hacking for so long with such a simple method that they’ll think they can get away with it.

[@pndaMobby]

The Guitar Hero Cheater only confessed 4 accomplishments before everything unveiled so it's pretty common for cheaters to only confess a small amount and then more attention gets drawn to their accomplishments and more stuff gets found out

[@doshbell3070]

The thing that i find unfair about the list team critism is that sure, they missed the hacking and didnt realise, but so did every other person in the world.Theres no reason for them to be attacked, when not a single person in the entire community for 3 years noticed either

[@TheGaming100]

Kolo spotted it but the list team rejected the claim, that is not “missing it” but rather covering up the evidence lol

[@Bageldamia]

I can't believe tech beat Verdant Landscape while talking about Space UK. GG

[@granda3649]

Space decided to be a loser in video games, AND in real life. The narcissism is huge with him. I'm sorry to anyone who spent so much time in this game only for this to happen. We have to do better to make sure that scandals like this don't happen again. Don't sell your soul, there are better things to do than hacking.

[@GreatestGoose]

As it says: "Something new is something forgotten old". And this is why I agree with you about this situation is kind of similar to Noctafly and about the methods of tracking the hacks. On the other hand, we have a different time, where you can have almost every single hack you want in this game, so this means that yeah, people will look at new top players more sceptical than it was before.

[@galactikhex]

I don't really know about spaceuk. But I really like how he came about apologising. The fact he really knows what he did wrong and does actually feel bad does definetly redeem himself a bit. Obviously hacking in the first place was bad but it was the best apology he could've given

[@SegundaOfficial]

he doesnt feel bad, he wouldve kept doing it forever if he wouldnt get caught

[@Blitzdo]

But can Space pull an AndromedaGMD move and re-complete everything? Unlike NoctaDead, his biggest achievement was 96% on the Golden. The hacking was the least of the problem. It was the feeling of being betrayed. Npesta had a mental breakdown and Crisis was rolling in his bed while crying. It's sad 😔

[@princenishikigoi7439]

Doggie was robbed in the GD awards 2022. This totally sucks.

[@Yoshikage-Bowie]

And Trick in 2021

[@raptorsensei74922]

Y'know it's serious when Tech makes a video on it

[@pquasar2613]

damn didnt know people still remembered the noctafly situation that shit is OG

[@HyperX755]

The fact that his jump from decode to wasureta was legit, really proves he had the chance to REALLY be a top player. But instead, he just cheated.

[@endervine3676]

Top 10 anime betrayals of all time On a serious note, SpaceUK stole so many achievements. We could've has a cool and nice top one(Firework) for more than seventeen seconds, but Slaughterhouse. He stole the verification from doggie, not to mention Crisis, Trick, and Cursed

[@endervine3676]

And ThunderBT, Jeller, Snowballerr, Varium, Wolvez holy hell he impacted a lot

[@duperderpydragon185]

funny i saw this right after watching sikkys video, this cheating scandal talk is definitely not going to fade away anytime soon

[@roazim]

I think I speak for most of us, we don’t care what kind of content you put out, we just want something. Anyways, have a good day tech :)

[@JoshuaoGD]

I thought this type of stuff was dying down but it's always going to be a thing in GD

[@maximternisien3317]

Its sad... I was one a fan of him... And in one fu*cking second broked everithing... I am sad of this scandal. Have courage

[@toky2590]

I think it's time for.... ✨*NON-HACKER TEST DELEGATION*✨

[@gpwdog]

You have a really good point about the list team. People need to get off their backs. You're right, they are ultimately just kids that volunteered. And honestly, the people that give that much hate to the list team need to check it themselves, the entire community was manipulated, they should be getting mad at themselves for not noticing space's hacking themselves. Also people that send stuff like death threats to space is an ultimate form of low. I completely understand anger. It's okay I be pissed off at this guy for cheating this entire community and making money off of it. It's completely selfish and even hurt others. But going out of your way to threaten and harass someone? No. That makes you no better than space. In fact, he actually apologized and put effort into it, whether he really meant it or not, he still didn't attempt to completely deny it and he said he'd try to give the money back.

[@dex5732]

Imagine what SEA would've thought about this situation

[@sSuperiorFlame]

3:14 a few months later that person would verify the current top 1

[@bastienmonet4841]

I see a lot of "we need to make sure this never happened" I’m not sure if this is a good idea. We are in unstable situation, before doing everything, we need to be as stable as possible, if we give too much attention to that, it can be very dangerous and players will accuse each other for nothing. I think, the best way of getting out of this is forgetting about spaceuk AND THEN be more carful in the future.

[@XxEggman_Meme_GodxX]

Bruv I can’t even beat electrodynamics and I’m just watching a super painful level being casually defeated in the background of this.

[@The_0ne_True_Kat]

Even tho i left the Geomtry Dash community years ago i still remember when Spaceuk was considered the best along with a few others in like 2020-21 to me its kinda sad mainly for other top players as Space kinda ruined the top players credibility as legit. Its sad

[@virtualashez]

I think if Space wanted to come back as fully legit, he would have to go under a new name & if found out he would have to give tons of evidence.

[@blackcloudgd]

I'm surprised that we (the community) haven't learnt since the Riot Vs. Cyclic situation. We all told ourselves that we'd be more careful, but since the entire SpaceUGay situation happened, I think we've all realised that we need to start acting more seriously and check records regardless of who they're from. I don't think (or I hope) that Space isn't a bad guy himself, but went down a slippery slope when he started hacking. This isn't an excuse and he deserves being called out on this, but good people can make bad decisions.

[@Prometheus_Alt]

The main issue is that with more hackers exposed by the demonlist we put more and more trust in them to do the detective work, and we assumed most players would be able to hack at most a few levels before we catch them, but that faith in the demonlist to save us all has been shattered. Now we will not trust the demonlist as much when it comes to finding the cheaters and it'll be easier for independent enthusiasts to accuse someone of cheating.

[@flaminfrostyt]

Man i feel betrayed and lied to, SpaceUK what have you done...

[@Patrick61804]

Aeon mentioned this too regarding Varium, Space likely robbed them of their goal for nuking Hard Machine’s placement

[@elijahjordan2334]

To think a person the community has looked up to for so long is exposed as a fraud is absolutely gut wrenching. It really makes you appreciate the people that don't cheat and the people that are legit but at the same time, now we won't know who to believe is real or not and the fact that he took away these awesome titles from these players is absolutely unforgivable.

[@The40k4kProject]

It's good he came clean. Man. If I was him, after the first level I would just confess. Instantly. I just could live with the guilt. Coming clean is the first step to learning from your mistakes. I do not forgive you for what you have done, space, but I hope that some day you will find peace, without cheating. It is a right all living being deserve to have. no mater what. (Don't take this out of context)

[@dogclan722]

Looking at it this way, he kinda came outa nowhere somehow getting popular “verifying” slaughterhouse.

[@CogMH]

If something is too good to be true, it’s probably too good to be true. 🤷

[@echo8210]

cogmh

[@hsod0]

cogmh

[@Unity811]

I love space man, hes a chill dude, who exploited the community to make a fortune, and then he walked away, what a legend

[@jaywinged]

peter griffon

[@AbysmalBen]

it sucks that he was able to get away with it for the time that he did but I guess that it's good he was caught sooner rather than later.

[@mattoucas869]

The "verifying a top 1 without realizing it" club sounds pretty amazing ngl 😂

[@youtube_name_125.]

Space got asked how he felt when hacking: And this was what he said: beastly alas uh *regret* Also he might rebeat some of his hacked demons and will take a break until he can prove himself to be not as bad as the community thinks

[@PtiruEpicGamer]

The people who attack the demonlist team for "not catching something this obvious" are actual idiots. I am POSITIVE these are the same people who made fun of kolo []'s original spaceuk exposing on his slaughterhouse 92% fail.

[@MrBuinhubinh]

Exactly

[@lonely3752]

Techs thoughts: Actually serious and insightful Me: I'm sick of this shit

[@A.I.rchist]

And another thing is when people did bring up the click delay thing previously, it was dismissed and hated on by the community. Like that isn't the list teams fault the community suppressed the evidence. It's tough, and it's hard to see this happen. But the only person to blame is Space. He's the one who cheated.

[@A.I.rchist]

Also, I feel bad for Zoink, getting bad reputation through no fault of his own. Let us analyze what he has posted, and be respectful with our concerns. Zoink isn't Space.

[@GD-Reuploads]

@@A.I.rchist yep, I agree very much so He should be more respected in this wild community , I get we can't trust anyone but I'd kill myself if I ever discover that he hacked Every Single One Of His Lvls.

[@jh2211]

This is not something I expected

[@frfbarca6]

He got all this attention from cheating. You can't do that. That's so stupid, despicable and disgusting

[@milostover6215]

Now you’re back in the top 3 players of all time LFG tech

[@erinalasacarina]

watching this video reminded me of your zodiac streams back in 2019, i really miss those days now lmao

[@Ripperin0]

Imma be real, the people ripping into the list team probably wouldn't have guessed space was hacking. There's 0 reason to shred into the list team when they got fooled by space 😭😭😭

[@floatthefolf]

Even though he was supposedly "legit" at the time, the attempt count and extreme jumps were a massive red flag and should've at least warranted an investigation. I'm pretty sure most of the community just believed that the list moderators and other top players at the time would have found out if he was cheating and most of the time cheaters don't have a large following and typically have bad ratios on their videos

[@Brandone-ni7km]

This was 5 months ago? Still feels like yesterday

[@fw_rel7727]

i lowkey called it when i heard that he verified slaughterhouse, it just didnt seem that easy

[@dingle37]

I didn’t trust much people in the community with how easy it was to hack, and right at then he got big. I kinda saw it coming

[@basilplayz941]

He was my favorite GD player ever since slaughterhouse

[@Countcomfortable]

5:16 Honorary members include Riot for verifying ICDX, and Cyclic/Giron(Depends on when you believe cyclic began hacking) for verifying old Cataclysm

[@phewiss3066]

He feels like an actual psychopath. He lied to hundreds of thousands of people, made peoples lives harder and took credit for things he didn't do, only apologized when he was caught, instantly deleted all of his socials, and was completely fine with the whole thing.

[@jonathanfoll3953]

I wonder what the chances are that a current completion on of the top 10 demons was done not legitimately. I feel like the chances are very high.

[@rookie5026]

I am too lazy to comment another full paragraph to explain my thoughts, In summery: He pretty much committed a crime by steeling money of others (if he lives up to his words then it's fine) but other than that this situation does not need to last longer than 3 days since it is pretty much only up from here

[@Dubauabud]

This is infinently worse then the noctafly situation a few years back, Space “was the” top player and the whole community loved him, now the past few years we’ve been praising a cheater unknowingly. Shit sucks man.

[@imbadatnames1326]

Now that spaceuk was caught that makes you the greatest to ever play the game technical is the goat

[@daneli4414]

very wise statements Tech! Well said : D

[@Beasitor]

Tech was actually my favorite top players back then. I was waiting if somehow he goes beating the mainlist again. He is the best player before curse, doggie and trick appears.

[@Call_Me_Cuda]

Man this sucks. A bunch of top players got robbed of things they should've achieved. Heck, it made some of them quit the game entirely. While he may just be another of GD's many hackers, i personally believe that his situation was much worse because of all the players that were affected. The demonlist mods rrally need to be more careful with how they run it, the gd awards shouldve done more background checks before giving the best player awards, and a bunch of other stuff that cold have prevented this from happening. If we as a community don't try to prevent hackers from manipulating us into believing they're legit or so much better than they actually are, they will just keep coming back qnd become harder and harder to expose. Hopefully we all learned a thing or two about stuff like this and hopefully we can prevent it in the future.

[@chrism869]

yeah that sucks, unforntunatelly theres no saving it ,its just how it is. the damage is done, and it wont be forgetful easily. this reminds me when cyclic hacked sonic wave

[@GhandiOnCurry]

at this point it would have been better for him to just say “i dont give a fuck that i cheated” than to apologize

[@MaoZedongGaming_]

yeah he should just rip the band-aid off instead of being a pussy and trying to dodge repercussions

[@degastar]

6:55 I think a lot of what's directed towards the list is deserved. Yeah they're teenagers and they missed it. FOR TWO YEARS.

[@Elkay26]

Being a geometry dash list mod especially as a teen has to be the saddest thing ever lmfao