Popular YouTuber Avxry hits back after being swatted Avxry\/InstagramPopular Fortnite YouTuber Avery \u2018Avxry\u2019 Lopriore Tweeted that he had been the target of a swatting attack on August 3. Swatting is when someone calls in a crime which requires the response of heavily armed police to an address of another person. It\u2019s already resulted in a few deaths so the criminal penalties for people caught swatting others are understandably steep. 600Why did Avxry get swatted? Avxry, who has over 2 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, tweeted about the swatting on Saturday, August 3. We don\u2019t know why or who orchestrated the attack on the Fortnite streamer, but with such a big online audience it\u2019s sadly not too surprising trolls set their sights on him. 600\u201cJust got Swatted. Everything is all good. The cops were super nice!\u201d The streamer posted on Twitter. \u201cTo the person that did this. Sorry you didn\u2019t get a reaction. Please do not swat guys,\u201d he asked fans. \u201cI have tons of kids that live on the block and you are jeopardizing their lives when cops come flying down the street.\u201d Avxry didn\u2019t seem deterred by the incident and said his streams would continue as planned: \u201cThe police have taken note of my address so we are all good in the future. Streams continue tomorrow.\u201d The police have taken note of my address so we are all good in the future. Streams continue tomorrow \u2014 Avery (@Avxry) August 3, 2019 Why is swatting so dangerous? On top of the fact that a lot of heavily armed police officers are showing up, they think they\u2019re responding to a potentially violent situation, so the chances of someone being hurt go way up. Earlier this year California resident Tyler Barriss, the man who has become known as the \u2018Call of Duty swatter\u2019, was formally sentenced to 20 years in prison for a swatting incident he was behind that led to the death of Andrew Finch, who wasn\u2019t even Barriss\u2019s intended victim. Luckily Avxry\u2019s swatting incident was taken care of without anyone being hurt, which sadly isn\u2019t always the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Popular YouTuber Avxry hits back after being swatted Avxry\/InstagramPopular Fortnite YouTuber Avery \u2018Avxry\u2019 Lopriore Tweeted that he had been the target of a swatting attack on August 3. Swatting is when someone calls in a crime which requires the response of heavily armed police to an address of another person. It\u2019s already resulted in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}