Young streamer tricked into destroying PC by Mr Beast imposter \u2013 Mom confirms it\u2019s real A young Twitch streamer was cruelly tricked into destroying his brand new, $1,200 PC, after someone pretending to be popular YouTuber Fortnite fan, and had been using the PC to play. However, it appears a viewer pretending to be Mr Beast convinced the child, and his mother, into completely destroying it, as \u2018sponsors\u2019 would send him a new one if he did so. Many of Mr Beast\u2019s popular videos involve him donating large sums of money to Twitch streamers, sometimes in return for completing a challenge of some kind. It has led to trolls claiming to be Mr Beast, and it appears one such troll was very successful on this occasion. After placing the PC into a bathtub and lathering it in soap, the streamer then even later retrieved a baseball bat and a machete to completely dismantle his pride and joy. Some have questioned the legitimacy of the situation, suggesting that perhaps it was all faked for the attention \u2013 especially considering how willing the parent was to allow her children to destroy an expensive item. However, the mother of rogue07 has explained on Twitter that it was not faked, and that both her and her children were acting on the promise that a new PC would indeed be rewarded for destroying the current one. As stupid as it looks to most of you- my son and his friends thought this was some guy they follow- it wasn\u2019t. We screwed up his PC- and it\u2019s up to mama to fix the situation. That\u2019s it! No need for all the videos and awful comments :smirk: \u2014 Nichole Nasiatka (@wifee88) January 31, 2019 That was a joke. A bad one, but a joke. I was \u201cok\u201d with it, because my son and his Little friends were completely sure this was a real guy they followed. Also, I told him to put the machete away, and gave him the \u201cmom look\u201d as soon as I realized he had it. Stupid. Got that.\u2014 Nichole Nasiatka (@wifee88) January 31, 2019 A Reddit user who claims to have watched the entire livestream explains that that the streamer believed he would receive a PC worth around $5,000, if he carried out the destruction of his current one. Apparently ecstatic at this proposition, the kid went through with the request. Rogue07\u2019s Twitch channel no longer exists on the website, and his Mother has explained that it was suspended and deactivated following the livestream. It looks like this young streamer just experienced a very expensive but valuable life lesson \u2013 don\u2019t believe everything you read on the internet. Josh\u2019s Twitch acct has been suspended and deactivated. The video was not uploaded by us, and has been more hassle than imaginable. Yesterday\u2019s news, time to move on\u2026 \u2014 Nichole Nasiatka (@wifee88) January 31, 2019 A re-upload of the stream has been posted to YouTube, which shows the young streamer being convinced that he is communicating with Mr Beast, before demolishing his pricey PC. Mr Beast has confirmed that while he feels sorry for the young streamer, he won\u2019t be able to replace the destroyed PC, and has explained the reasons in a statement to KEEMSTAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Young streamer tricked into destroying PC by Mr Beast imposter \u2013 Mom confirms it\u2019s real A young Twitch streamer was cruelly tricked into destroying his brand new, $1,200 PC, after someone pretending to be popular YouTuber Fortnite fan, and had been using the PC to play. However, it appears a viewer pretending to be Mr […]<\/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-65637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637","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=65637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}