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[SURGEdude]

Creating fake hardware to scam viewers into donating is crazy unethical.

 

[Tom Nook Sawyer]

Creating fake hardware to scam viewers into donating is crazy unethical.

Nah, it's cool because he's Etika

 

[BumperLips]

Creating fake hardware to scam viewers into donating is crazy unethical.

Just to let you know that was created by a fan, he didn't launch the donation page himself.

Might want to read up more before accusing him of stuff like this.

Also holy shit great job kankki! Didn't know you were here as well lol

 

[Nightbird]

Creating fake hardware to scam viewers into donating is crazy unethical.

But he didn't?

After that crazy Live Stream there were two days of complete radio silence (YouTube and Twitter), until the parody video where he clarified that it was a fake.

 

[MarkMclovin]

That's a lot of effort put into a pretty poor hoax.

Saying that, the making of video was cool. Better than the hoax itself actually.

 

[BumblebeeCody]

Isn't Etika himself 3D printed and textured by the Unreal Engine 4?

 

[kankki]

just a quick question, why did you make it for him?

Etika contacted us and we made it for him

 

[gingerbeardman]

Nice work!

 

[Shoyz]

Such a shame they didn't just buy replacement WiiU gamepad buttons, they look identical to the Switch's. Such an easy fix to the otherwise huge giveaway.

 

[Dacvak]

Etika contacted us and we made it for him

That was an unbelievably beautiful fake. I have so, so much respect for you and your team. Seriously dude.

 

[DigtialT]

Creating fake hardware to scam viewers into donating is crazy unethical.

He didn't, a fan made it.

 

[Tom Nook Sawyer]

He didn't, a fan made it.

Uhh, no. He paid the person who made the controller leak to make it for him

 

[MogCakes]

kankki strikes again! Next time I expect you to one-up this by putting electronics in your mockup.

 

[DigtialT]

Uhh, no. He paid the person who made the controller leak to make it for him

A fan made the gofundme, not the controller.

 

[Tom Nook Sawyer]

A fan made the gofundme, not the controller.

I don't think that's what the person you were responding to was talking about though--Etika gets donations during his streams, and he showed the fake controller on a stream, which caused a wave of donations to come in.

 

[DigtialT]

I don't think that's what the person you were responding to was talking about though--Etika gets donations during his streams, and he showed the fake controller on a stream, which caused a wave of donations to come in.

Those donations come in anyway no matter what, his streams are very donation heavy. And doubt he paid those people to make that fake just to get some $5 donations.

 

[Tom Nook Sawyer]

Those donations come in anyway no matter what, his streams are very donation heavy. And doubt he paid those people to make that fake just to get some $5 donations.

Of course he did; why else would he pretend it's real? Or rather, I'm not arguing it was even for those specific donations (even though he got some for way more than just $5), but he'll profit out of this one way or another. It got him a wave of publicity, growing his audience, thereby increasing his revenue. The fact we're still talking about this stuff shows how damn effective it was at outreach!

 

[NoFaceNico]

I was born like 20 years too early. I used to act like that in my bedroom for free.

Be glad you did that for free. Some people act like that on YouTube right now at the cost of their dignity.

 

[MCN]

Once the real Switch comes out, I'd be really interested to see a direct comparison, to see how the fake compares to it.