92BOB - The Mysterious Rank 1 Trackmania Player 

its me real

me

me

riolu

me :)

Not illegal. Name a law even in the US that prevents you from collecting user data like country/IP information.

The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act@@chedisLoL

@@chedisLoL some of his attempts would have qualified as identity theft if it had worked

@@chedisLoL There are countries in this world which arent glorified shiatwholes like the US with an intact law-system lol

​@chedisLoL it isn't illegal to dox someone through OSINT, but the moment you go to the length of using links to obtain otherwise NOT public info, you're literally defining phishing. It's a gray area. Either way you won't be punished for it.

Agreed, even if it is him without definitive prrof blackq and even this video will start a witchhunt for a potentially innocent person. Nadaeo talked to them and said it's fine. That is where this should have all ended.

trying to steal the account was extremely creepy. he knew it wouldn't work too, based on having nothing besides claiming it was his, so he just wanted everyone to see he was trying to do it. very odd behavior

@@cavauro People do very strange things when they think they are right.

Yeah its so weird, like this one guy went to far, calling it clever is a bit weird. The TM community doesnt approve thats for sure.

Nah he didn't, that's like highschool type attempts. Game being that old, Im willing to bet there has to be some security exploits that would allow to get a hold of some data related to bobs account. But we will probably never know

Might even be illegal in some countries.

I agree. Phishing like that just because you are curious is not ok.

Yeah, what he did was completely unethical. Like Wirt said, don't become a monster trying to take down a monster. We all know Riolu cheated and has been totally unapologetic about it, but trying to doxx and phish someone is crossing a line. I think Nadeo's statement that they confirmed who it was and that "banned players are free to make a new account," along with all of the playstyle similarities and the timing of the account make it pretty obvious that it's Riolu, but we aren't entitled to know who it is. I do wish Nadeo would've permanently banned him, though. If he refuses to even admit he was cheating, much less apologize, that's not someone who should be allowed to exist in the community.

If he didnt do it on his main account then who cares; clearly nadeo doesnt

unethical maybe but where is sending a hyperlink illegal?

Wirtual casually endorsing phishing and doxxing

Leaving out tons of relevant context while trying to prove a point. Yikes

@@ramensales3967Phishing for other's information is enough context. Don't do that.

@@PumkinVideoslike yeah sure Riolu isn’t a great person and it does seem a little scummy to ban evade but phishing his IP??? And what if Bob is just some dude…

@@aykrackenThen you just doxxed someone that did nothing wrong

i would be in shambles if i were bob seeing this video :( poor guy ngl

Blackq is a massive loser.

​@@slobodanmedadadonevic5723exactly, all the unjustified hate he could get from this vid is insane.

@@keyboardwarrior7538Judging from the comments, I dont think theyre getting much hate lol

IP addresses are public information so it wasn't an attempt to violate BOB's privacy.

Yeah, was probably good at the game back in the day, then was reminded of it because of the surge in popularity

Could be Pablo gd

Omg Bob being just an old wholesome grandpa and being an absolute menace at the game sounds so freaking wholesome amd funny lol

​@@Elamado97yeah that's not it, pablo's spanish and he only played stadium

I'm assuming that they're born in 1992 (hence *92*bob)

Right?????? All I'm thinking is just what if this is just some person who got back into the game because of the publicity of the cheating scandal and now he's getting his account, personal information, and legitimate records messed with all because people think he's a smurf cheater

It's like the salem witch hunt but for trackmania at this rate

Kinda scary that nobody stopped to think if this is okay...

Right ? I was waiting for the moment where Wirtual says it's actually an impostor... but they don't know ? Wth is that thumbnail ? The man has 1M subscribers and he's flagging a potentially innocent person in his thumbnail.

Agree. This video comes off as extremely petty.

Exactly.

Kinda ignoring the part where he cheated for 10ish years and refused to admit to it. Just about every other cheater came clean, moved on with their lives, and are in a better place. It was his choice to cheat. It was his choice to lie about cheating. Phishing attempts, etc. are of course still wrong and unacceptable. If blackq faces repercussions, good, that's absolutely valid. But don't say riolu is just "some guy who enjoyed the game". And if he's competing at the top of the leaderboard, he's either still cheating, or at best works a job and spends all of his free time on trackmania. Either way, Wirtual's description might not be fair, but it certainly wouldn't be far from the truth.

riolu said multiple times he hates grinding tmuf world records (which is why he cheated in the first place), saying its a game he loves is a stretch

@@DaTimmeh You guys need to relax, thats all im gonna say. Cheers

idk if getting someone's IP is considered doxxing, but I understand the sentiment

​@@BlueHawkPictures17getting the ip address was just the first step to finding out who bob is imo

@@monkeybrains it was a step to check if bob was riolu, not just dox the mf

IP addresses only give out a general location like a country and usually very little else information. That link was probably the least bad method he tried. Matching the country to a confirmed cheater was probably the best bet. He might get banned for trying to say he owned the account but probably not.

@@George_vvIP addresses show a whole lot more than country lmfao, what a reach to justify it

Yeah when they hunt for records its fine, when 92bob does it it's haunting

so haunting. someone sitting in an appartment playing games. extremely haunting

bros monitor turned off and he saw himself kekw

Facts

Wirtual didn't condone anything blackq did, and in fact has stated that he specifically does not condone what he did and that it was a monstrous act.

@@dathaniel9403 I do like Wirtual but cmonn, even you surely dont believe what you just wrote. In the video itself he literally callled what blackq did "smart and sneaky". That's called complimenting it. And the comment is literally edited to it, he didnt condone it it in any way at first, just after he realised he may have crossed the line.

@@cmdrHeliaxxjust because he called it smart and sneaky doesn’t mean he condones it..

@@BomptonBillions999 Well, I don't know about you, but if I thought something was unethical/illegal to do, I probably wouldn't go out of my way quite literally complimenting it without even noting that it's something I don't support.

Aware

i want you to know he probably recorded the line like 6 months ago when it was 2 years old

This was supposed to be his last 2023 video, but it ended up being his last 2024 video

nahhh@@Nikke-nn5mn ☠

​@@Nikke-nn5mnlast 2024 😢

yeah, someone should tell wirtual to upload at least four videos this year

He said it's the "year of the main channel" so let's see

He recently said he was working on another script. Said he got a lot of creativity back during his break and wrote 4,000 words for it. So maybe we'll get a 2nd vid this year

he also said that last year during kacky@@derickd6150

he said on stream he had 1 or 2 moer vieos in the works rn

Everyone is focusing on blackq's actions completely ignoring wirtual's witchhunt video. His channel with 1m subs is way more damaging than blackq trynna dox bob imo

@@jefferson2214 which part of this video is witch-hunting? No personal information was given and no calls for harassment or violence were made.

​@@jefferson2214waffler

@@jefferson2214 ah yes, consistent cheating until you get caught and have to address the 9501828937179366189761 words of backlash + wirtual's video = witch hunt LOLOL

⁠@@CharmingCactusWhile Wirtual may have covered his ass with the edit to his pinned comment, prior to that, his tone of voice when recounting blackq’s actions could most certainly have been interpreted as tacit and implied encouragement of such behavior. That, in turn, sparked a lot of pushback and criticism from his YT community (no word on what the Trackmania players think, though; I’m not a part of that tribe). Even with the edit to his pinned comment, it could still be reasonably interpreted as him giving a green light or dog whistling for this to happen due to this video still being live and not unlisted for a newer, less endorsing version of blackq’s actions. Thus, in turn, it is reasonable to assume that this video (as it stands now) is part of a potential targeted campaign of harassment and bullying, or at least calling for the support of one.

blackq got "banned" by the united community itself so he just dissapeared for a while, now I do not know where he went

Nah the riolu theory makes very very little sense when you actually think about it. It's super dumb

@@gauthzu5359 enlighten us, great thinker. Points @ 14:35 make a lot of sense actually.

​@@gauthzu5359wirtual has basically caused cyber bullying against Bob.

​@@keyboardwarrior7538How has wirtual done that? He just made a video saying that people think it's Riolu. Nothing in this video incites cyber bullying.

i thought he was sneaky and clever. ah the plot twist

Yeah and Wirtual is no better either. It was a real shame to watch this whole video. Extremely petty.

@@loczek25853yeah.

@@hussssshie If I sent a message to your boss and pretended it was you and got you fired, would that be villainous, or "sneaky and clever" ?

@@Reelix i was being sarcastic. both blackq and wirtual need therapy.

Yeah, pretty uncalled for personal attack...I'm guessing Wirtual feels immensely betrayed by Riolu on a personal level, considering it seems like he respected Riolu and viewed him as a friend. I get how having someone like that turn out to be a cheater would suck, especially a cheater who tried to gaslight his way out of the accusations and then expressed zero remorse or contrition for cheating after finally being exposed in a way he couldn't continue to lie his way out of. I get that. But Wirtual needs to let it go, it's long past time to move on here.

​@@upliftstvIn all likelihood if it is riolu then this statement is atleast somewhat accurate. Idk how you interpreted this as a personal attack

Isn’t this exactly what wirtual does? Sits in a room all day staring at a computer 😂 he’s so incredibly elitest and hypocritical

​@@upliftstv the people who riolu hurt (including wirtual e.g. the cheating and lying, and calling him terrible names on his last livestream) never even have an apology that they can accept, because he never apologised and never admitted. if he doesn't admit and apologise for what he did, no one has to move on imo

e.g. riolu calling wirtual a f*ckt*rd is way worse than wirtual's light jabs in this video, and lying and cheating for over a decade is wild

Fair take, but man it IS an interesting story lol. Perhaps not an honorable one. But very interesting.

​@@reed6514 it sure is interesting. also shows that not all disgusting people in trackmania are cheaters. some people in this bubble need to calm down a lot.

The story is interesting, but it does feel like a personal vendetta

After losing his twitch income, Riolu is probably quite happy to be able to live rent free in Wirtual's head to save some money

​@@riceycakezzYes, at least partially. Especially the bit about _"if_ it is Riolu just imagine him sitting in his basement lonely" is inappropriate. There is no proof that it's him, and that's all that matters. Wirtual did draw a direct connection and attacked him personally based on speculation. Despite him possibly not having anything to do with any of this, which is a no-go. Thinking about it, I don't believe that part adds anything to the story whatsoever and should have been left out even if we knew for sure it was Riolu.

Would you have known about it if not from Wirtual making this video? Wirtual did his part, it is to the viewers to make their own decisions with that information.

pinned comment

​@@alexandrel4569 youre suggesting wirtual simply reported pure facts to his viewers and didnt add his own opinion to them

maybe he condones it :P

Why does it need to explicitly condemn it if its so obviously bad only a moron could mistake this for supporting blackq?

You got a like for that mayonnaise part.

This shit was so funny

I mean, Riolu didn't really do himself any favors. He denied everything, lied numerous times, was belligerent towards his accusers, and then when he was finally proven to be cheating beyond any doubt, he just vanished and said nothing. No apology, no contrition, no admission that what he did or said was wrong in any way, nothing. I'm not of the opinion that Riolu should be excommunicated permanently, but I mean, Riolu also handled the leadup to his exit about as badly as he possibly could, and has made no statement since then that could help him begin to be welcomed back.

@@upliftstv "I mean, Riolu didn't really do himself any favors. He denied everything, lied numerous times, was belligerent towards his accusers, and then when he was finally proven to be cheating beyond any doubt, he just vanished and said nothing. No apology, no contrition, no admission that what he did or said was wrong in any way, nothing." get a life bud, no one who has a life actually gives a shit about "riolu this, riolu that" wah wah wah wah wah wah wah, holy shit pull your head out of your ass.

Don't forget covid.

LOL true

so so true

so many languages in the world but you chose to speak facts

What are you trying to say?

pretty weird to defend a cheater ngl

yeah after this video may be theres a reason he doesnt want to...

Exactly. Literal invisible witch hunt. Curiosity has its limits and it's getting morbid. Documentary are supposed to be completely neutral but he's throwing salt on a closed wound for no hecking reason.

Call a spade a spade, Wirtual is a drama farming salty b*tch

It's not that Wirtual is even salty, I feel like it's moreso that he's arrogant about being right that Riolu was cheating. He's been milking the joke ever since then which just isn't something you do as someone who was supposedly "really close friends" with that person. Whatever the case, Wirtual doesn't seem to be the patron saint everyone makes him out to be.

For real. I feel bad even for the cheaters with this insane witch hunting. What makes it truly disturbing is the way it's presented in a documentary-like form. Wirtual really believes himself to be the rightful one here, and that, my friends, is literally HAUNTING.

100% agree, it's sickening

I mean its one weird guy honesly. Everyone kinda moved on, but not some one guy.

@@Arcsinx One weird guy.... and the biggest TrackMania channel on RU-vid

Being able to compete is a privilege, one that should've been revoked for Riolus behaviour, that being said that blacq guy or whatever his name was is a massive creep and definitely crossed a lot of lines

​@@DoctorHerbstein I think he is talking about blacq

nice try riolu

I agree, we should just forget what happened its already been 2 years since then

Normally love all of wirtuals stuff but I've got an odd feeling from his more recent content. Not sure I like where we are heading

Yeah Wirtuals development is concerning

chill.

So he's engaging in a hobby/sport where he'd have to dedicate most of his free time to it, playing for a few hours almost every single day, for atleast 3-4 years to be as good as he is, minimum. And he wants no recognition for this? He's just dedicating most of his life for years to playing a game and never once thinks "hey maybe I should briefly connect with the community, you know, say hi, see what they think of my amazing accomplishments in this highly competitive environment". No. It's Riolu. There is a 0% chance it's an offline player. You can't get that good by accident. It requires Trackmania to become the thing you dedicate the most time too in your life. It requires Trackmania to be at minimum your 2nd highest priority out of everything in life, for years. There's no way someone that involved with the game literally never makes a single post anywhere about it and never connects with any other part of the community.

@@CharlesFreck you are that guy who explains jokes when nobody asks for 💀💀💀

@@wat5384 cry more

​@@CharlesFreck I agree, theres just so many coincidences, it's really likely it's Riolu, the tracks bob plays, his playstyle, the fact Riolu is still seen online in trackmania, and him only appearing after Riolu left. The only mystery is how he got access to an account created in 2008. My guess is that it was a back-up account in case he got banned or something

And not a genius like wirtual made it seem like. In the video he's basically endorsing the criminals behavior and then thinks a comment saying I don't endorse it is enough (after he received multiple criticism.) Whyyyyyyyy did he make this video? ¿ He ended up with 0 concrete evidence

Malicious links should violate some Nadeo terms of service no?

​@@keyboardwarrior7538Where did he endorse phishing? I watched the video too, and all I saw was a coverage of real events that happened in the TM community. You know it's possible to talk about something without endorsing it, right?

@@Kwauhn. 13:24 is where he talks about how clever and sneaky it is to try phishing with the fake link.

@@andreasberthou1 I would hardly call those adjectives endorsement.

seriously bro, the guy is throwing a tantrum like an autistic kid thinking "nooooo riolu shouldn't be allowed to play :(((" even though he never even competed with riolu, he doesn't even set world records anymore so i don't get why he's holding a grudge.

@@qoxx I don't know if I agree with that or not (not relevant to this reply), but I'm curious what you mean by "throwing a tantrum like an autistic kid". To be clear I'm not offended by it, I'm just curious what you were trying to compare to. (context - I'm autistic, so I both have trouble understanding this kind of statement, and also have the curiosity to want to understand it)

​@@circuitgamer7759In the older days of gaming, kids that didn't get enough attention from their parents called other kids autistic or retarded whenever they disagreed with them. Unfortunately, many of those kids grew up physically, but not really mentally, so they still think it's an extremely funny word to use.

​@@circuitgamer7759i have an autistic brother and i kinda understand what they are talking about when they say this. If my brother sets his mind to something then there is no convincing him. He only says "no" but cannot give anyone any reason why he does that. He just set his mind and there's nothing we as family can do. Maybe they mean that Wirtual is the same. He set his mind on Riolu being evil and so there's no convincing and Riolu will always be evil in Wirtual's mind.

preach

probably so that the people watching cant easily use it themselves in a malicious way

@@SCTrooper17 would you click on an obvious rickroll link

@@VMan_2002 no, i meant so that if the real link was shown in the video - and not the rickroll link- it could be used for malicious purposes

​@@SCTrooper17$l[a link goes here]man i wonder how you can type links in trackmania$l

​@@SCTrooper17 links are not implied by just writing them (you use $L to define a link)

Total 180. This is hypocrisy arc for Wirtual.

Also Wirtual: "I'll use macros to cheat and then use my popularity to get out of trouble, all while crucifying all other cheaters"

​@@Dalroche do what? Rly

You missed the difference. Because cheating is tied to the account instead of the player, there is no history of cheating that exists, according to the policy. So there is no reason a cheater can’t make a new account and continue to cheat. There is no accountability. That is what’s dumb about the policy. That cheaters can continue WITHOUT changing their ways.

@@Dalroc If he wanted to use macros to cheat, why would he make videos publicly calling attention to them, then stop using them?

he is

@@MizuTM Has he not just made another account?

Yeah, I mean he certainly shouldn't be harassed. Still pretty gross how Riolu cheated and lied for years, was belligerent towards his accusers, and then just ran when the evidence was too much for him to gaslight his way out of. The fact that Wirt's video is in poor taste, and the fact that BlackQ is an insane person, does not change the facts about Riolu's behavior lol.

Lmfao, any website can see and does see your IP. There is nothing illegal about it.

From what I understand blackq's actions were public knowledge, and he's gotten a lot of backlash prior to this video from people in the community over it, but it was already publicly known blackq did this because blackq posted about it, it's not like it was private info. Wirtual is making a report of what has happened from that point in time, he's well within rights to discuss those events are they did happen. What Wirtual should not have done was call them "clever and sneaky" when talking about creepy, stalker behaviour and possibly ToS breaking actions. While Wirtual didn't participate in the attempt to dox 92BOB he seemed to support or at least be okay with it.

​ @evoo8214 he literally lied in an email saying it was him and wanted every record deleted. without any definitive proof of who 92bob is. for all we know it could be an innocent guy who's just very talented. and regardless of who he is, since every record is legit, then who cares?

@@evoo8214 yeah it is probably not illegal, very odd though. But the email thing, that is illegal. Attempting to assume someone's identity

@@derickd6150 Of fucking course this is illegal! Damn. Yes, websites do have the IP address of people. But they have that for the given reason. And they are not allowed to share it to anyone. blackq does not have a legitimate interest and certainly not the consent of the person concerned.

Yes, how IS 92bob?

this is the question that truly needed to be answered

He probably had suicidal thoughts when that video came out about him in 2021.

@@voltsiano116good ty

we don't care how he is. He trolls and cheat the community

Literally a witch-hunt

Him being the one who exposed them makes this all make sense

Most people don't know that Wirtual was stirring up drama and purposely being inflammatory towards Riolu on twitter the week leading up to the report dropping. If he'd just limited contact and waited for the report to come out, he would have came across much better than he did. Him being petty here absolutely reflects his actions back then. If 92BOB is Riolu, then at least Riolu has actually grown as a person lmao

Have to agree here, regardless of 92BOB is riolu some of the things blackq attempted to do are very borderlining on breaking ToS, and are highly questionable from a moral standpoint.

at this point blackq is dirtier than riolu

Agree, this should be a ban and not only the account. Nadeo shouldn't let this one slide.

The false RU-vid link is dusgusting and should have consequences. Nice rickroll though.

@@Vindisify you want to punish someone who tried one phishing attack (against a cheater almost for sure) more, tan you would like to punish a person who cheated in a pro scene for years. You are delusional

That’s why he left the pinned comment…

@@aureouss2823 lmao if you think that a pinned comment is enough - why not give it the same exposure by explicitly not condoning it in the video itself? To me it just seems like an obvious attempt from Wirtual at damage control; you'll see that the pinned comment is edited as well.

He's not encouraging the Behavior

@@Max-prime1212 He definitively is, his narrative is "stalking is fine if it is for the pursuit of truth"

@@maxchess6734 no he isn't. He is simply telling a story of what actually happened.

This is a good point, but there is also an option that this account was just bought in 2021 for few dollars by some new non-French user.

Hi, i am French and i live in Bas-Rhin (67) 🤣

I'm 92bob I just don't tell anyone because I'm also selling 92tons of crystal meth every week

I thought other users changed their names to some version of Number+Bob?

A few years ago it globally broke with MeToo where just claiming you were mistreated led to you losing your job.

I think claiming it was the entire community is incorrect. especially the more serious actions, were done by a single player who people don't agree with.

Innocence presume only works against real crimes

There were some bad actors, but the community as a whole was justified in their discomfort with the situation. The Trackmania community is very close knit and the top players respect each other very much and enjoy getting to have a sense of camaraderie and/or rivalry with others. It’s strange and unsettling to have someone come out of nowhere, set a bunch of records, and refuse to join the community and interact with everyone. Yeah, I could think of many good reasons why someone wouldn’t want to interact with the Trackmania community, but I think it’s reasonable to be upset that someone doesn’t want to interact with others.

since 2021

*arrested* and the video edited to remove anything about him. He's basically endorsing the act as clever in the video but hidden in the comments says I don't endorse it. Is it a coincidence that comment happened after the other comments? ¿

Blackq probably wasn't even the only one doing this. People like to gang up and start witchhunts. At this point wirtual is basicly endorcing internet bullying while being the main party benefiting from it. No idea why he posted this video.

@@keyboardwarrior7538 Thank god the comments are against BlackQ lmao idk how anyone could hear him do some dumb shit like that and not think that's weird

blackq is banned from the united community. The united community doesnt want him associated with them

@@keyboardwarrior7538 Because trying to erase the fact that Blackq did that is somehow better? It happened, and so deserves to be known.

correction - wirt made riolu, specifically riolu IF HE is the "unknown player" seem like a sad loner. i know it's hard to watch with your eyes and listen to the words at the same time, but if you really try to pay attention, you might catch what actually happens in the video

@@okkon8106a petty youtube video warrants obnoxious comments I guess

​@@okkon8106No matter who it is, someone quietly enjoying a game alone is not haunting 😂. It is how a lot of players play games

Exactly this. Riolu's records were all scrubbed and his streaming career ended as a result of the cheating scandal, the dude got his just desserts already. Assuming 92Bob is him (and even if it isn't), then it's really cool that someone achieved that and it has been confirmed as legitimate.

@@midastheunwise2423exactly, and however wrong he was in the way he originally dealt with the whole drama, going and taking first place back anonymously seems almost poetic to me (if this is indeed riolu)… just the way this video is structured gives strange vibes, like wirtual is still salty about the whole drama and wants to get rid of riolu again. We should just give the guy a second chance

the picture he tried to paint of riolu/any random person sitting in a dark room was rather disgusting aswell. Just let the people play games they enjoy, thats what games are for. And yes, I 100% agree that this video is nothing more than a witchhunt that might get others in trouble... not up to the standards of what we are used to from this channel.

@@bestphileu1240 Oh yea, that felt really petty and kinda made me physically cringe

Exactly

It’s just odd that some one is no.1 and no one know who. Which actually set a #0 place as it could be cheated or faked in any way. So leaderboard at this point is false and 2nd place is 1st 3rd is 2nd and so on. And what blackq did is something unrelatable to it. Ofc he did something bad, but if that prov that it was Riolu then it would be a huge mess. After all bob was top 1 player, who dosen’t want own legacy as no.1

@@Fyuri Why is it odd? Why does every username have to be connected to someone well known? Maybe it's a smurf account of a pro player. Maybe it's just some person who likes playing TM in their spare time. Some people play games to have fun. Not everyone wants to be in the spotlight.

@@iamme625 nope, this is not how this work. Also I never said that he have to be connected to someone, did I? The grind is not spare time with just liking tm. It's not something you do by accident, and with mind set of "well, it just happen that i did it and i dont care". there is no player in the world that have top in any competetive game and have so few information. so yeah, it is odd. That's what "odd" stands for actually. And just to prove point, we just have to wait until bob leak himself or he get caught cheating or smth else.

@@Fyuri I still don't think this is correct. There are plenty of people in the world who are really passionate about a thing and yet go to great lengths to avoid the spotlight related to the thing. There are many highly skilled musicians, professional e-sports players, and other passionate competitive people who anonymize themselves to avoid this kind of attention. I'm not saying I think 92BOB is one of these people (I would believe it's just riolu) but having the kind of mentality that leads to confidently claiming "no one will ever do this thing" is just foolish

​@@FyuriNot everyone is as self absorbed as you to want to be in the spotlight just bc ur good at something. There are plenty of gamers, athletes, engineers, scientists, etc. who's names you will never know simply bc they're not so self absorbed they can't see past the reward that is accomplishing something great in the first place. They're not such attention whores that they want everyone to look at them when they accomplish said great thing, they are just happy with what is.

yea he should really be ashamed of himself for still having this video public. as of writing this, he's currently livestreaming about how he won the speedrunner award _(an award he btw shouldn't have won since he's not a speedrunner)_ while showing pictures from the event. really awkward vibe in the chat, and there're countless of people asking for him to explain himself while he's smiling and laughing...

@@louisBrother1988 Well I'm watching his stream atm and it doesn't feel awkward to me at all. I think he probably could/should have made a video on this channel about how he doesn't condone it etc, but saying he's worse than blackq is kind of a crazy take in my opinion lol. I still enjoy the rest of his content and everything, just didn't like this video is all ^^.

Because Wirtual is a morally corrupt cheater himself maybe?

@@louisBrother1988Wirt is a speed runner. He has records for beating the game blindfolded and many other variations of TMNF. Not to mention trackmania is purely a time trial game in nature, it would be fair to consider it a “speedrunning game.” It’s a game that involves players attempting to shave time off of records that have been previously set by themselves and/or others, the literal definition of speedrunning. With his morals under the microscope, I feel it is fitting to add my opinion on the topics at hand. The video format is meant to be purely a record of events, and not to share an opinion on the topics at hand. He can choose whether or whether not he can use his right to share his opinion since he is a prominent figure in the scene, and is an active player that was effected by the events. All that being said, he has confirmed that he wasn’t supporting the actions of the said player, noting that, “One should not become a monster trying to stop a monster.” I really hope this community would lay off hyperbolic criticism and opinions that leave little room for discussion, as it is an improper and unfair way of getting your ideas out there. I’m sure Wirt doesn’t want to start a war in the trackmania community over his video, and simply tries to get information out to a wide audience. If he truly wanted to support the actions of the problematic user, he would avoid getting the information out to the public. A large majority of his audience don’t even play trackmania, and even those who do aren’t in the loop with a lot of the information that goes out (that would be me 😊). I understand trying to make sure a prominent figure in the community isn’t trying to support actions of a violent nature, but making negative comments strictly off of perceived character comes off as projection, and straight up framing.

@@falcon1378 that's a fair take. we all have different opinions, and we clearly don't agree, which is okay. I just wrote what my take on the situation was, as did you, and I personally couldn't disagree more.

Bruh he barely did anything. He just wanted to confirm the country. Literally nothing bad would have happened if it worked

​@@talosgak1236 "He would only get all his information what bad could it be" Bro are you serious or are you the USA government's president. Either way privacy should be respected and phishing is illegal in many countries so I would not recommend doing it.

@@mantaminer6669 Just to clarify, an IP address doesnt really help you get any information beyond what city/ region I'm connecting to the internet in, and maybe identify which internet service provider I'm using. Seriously, its not that deep. Certainly not doxxing or geting any personal information. impersonating 92BOB to get nadeo to remove all his records however, that was a dick move.

He literally tried to impersonate him bro wtf are you on? Then tries to dox him@@talosgak1236

He never doxxed the guy btw. You can argue he may have if he had the chance, but you need to actually get personal information to reveal it.

Hes just explaining what he did

wasnt a promotion. it played a part in the story and he was explaining it.

Promotion where? He is stating it happened. Would you rather he pretend it didn't happen?

Guys calling his methods “clever and sneaky” is clearly not talking down on what he did (13:25). When you call something clever, that’s CLEARLY PRAISE

​@@sevargan2415 I disagree. Being "clever and sneaky" can be easily applied to many evil people and their actions; both fictional and real life. Although a characteristic of "clever and sneaky" might have a more positive tone, it doesn't automatically promote or advocate any of these actions Real life example: Many corrupt politicians were clever. Their actions of hiding it were definitely sneaky and creative. Even when you discover truth about their evil actions you can still say "wow, that was a clever move, I could never think of something like that. It's absolutely horrible, but god damn was it clever "

Exactly, the trackmania community comes off as completely elitist. No one we don't know can be as good as us old guys. And going as far as doxxing and phishing someone online. Imagine its a teenager playing on his older sibling's account and the community of the game he is good at is trying to actively witch hunt him

Bob?

@@gabeschoenfeld317 Wade?

Cheaters have to deal with the consequences. Especially since Riolu purposefuly lied to the entire community. Or do you want Wirtual to praise him for what he did? In OTB chess, if you get caught cheating, your career is completely over. Should be the same in Trackmania, since it ruins the leaderboard integrity, also it influences honest players' status, viewership and finiancial profits.

@@adomaskuzinas2137sorry this is idiotic. He did very much pay for the cheating. He‘s an outcast, his reputation in shambles. that is punishment enough

​@@adomaskuzinas2137 Then make a video about that. Make a video about Nadeo policy. That is absolutely fine. But thats not what Wirual has done here. This is not a video about policy or rules. This is a video that seemingly starts out with the question "The mystery of 92Bob", and end with the conclusion "Riolu is an asshole". The video achieves nothing outside of being a distasteful bashing of Riolu. There is no qualitative content in here. There is no conclusion or call to action. This video is essentially a hate mail to Riolu. Nothing else.

I dont get how you find this “vengefull”. Wirtual didnt really say subjective things apart from 14:58 around-ish. It was a video about the mystery and theory about riolu being that mysterious player. 14:58 was what he thinks about Riolu, which is fair and he hasnt gone too far with the things he said. I would say that Riolu has gone too far lying to everyone and being a jerk to Wirtual even tough he tried to stay civil during the scandal. I have to say i agree with @adomaskuzinas2137

I agree, feels like this is just a spiteful hit at riolu, with absolutely no evidence. Whether it is his or not, why’s it anyone else’s business. Wirtual seems a bit insecure about the whole riolu thing, like riolu owes him something. Just comes across very toxic and out of nature. Big thumbs down for wirtual on this one

Lambe bolas

It was clever. It was also creepy and unethical.

@snakesnoteyes sure it's a smart move considering what he wanted. i still don't think wirtual should've said it in an encouraging manner, like he agreed with him. Videogames aren't that serious.

also, i just realized how creepy the TM community is. - a new player comes out of nowhere - becomes a complete pro at the game - "there's no way a noob is better than me" the whole community thinks - "let's find out who he is using any means necessary"

@@qoxxit was an individual, not the actions of the whole community. That’s so insanely obvious that it’s weird to even say it.

​@samkeen 7:45 "the *_community_* wanted answers from the developers"

You cannot put the blame on the entire community for the actions of a single individual, that's ridiculuos. In reality, while some members of the community were indeed curious as to who 92BOB actually is, it was only one individual (blackq) who crossed the line in trying to determine the answer to that question. For that matter, the TMUF community was shocked to learn of what blackq did and, as a response, he was rightfully outcasted from the community and all his records were also removed by the TM Exchange moderators, while also receiving a perma-ban. Every single community will eventually have some bad apples, though it is important to make the distinction between the majority good apples of the community and the few bad apples giving it a bad name

And they are. Are u stupid?

I mean i gues?? Sometimes they have clever and sneaky ways to get away with it. The way they said it though ..

Riolu lives in Wirtuals head rent free

Fr. Wirtual is incredibly salty in this video. I feel like the community needs to ban him from participating in events for a while just so he could gain a little empathy.

that last part showing riolu alone in his room grinding world records was completely unnecessary. also this is basically a 17 minute click bait video that could have been 3 seconds long saying: "We don't know"...

So true, he needs to see this.

I agree other then the conquered point. It's completely fine to "conquer" a cheater. Life isn't so soft that we need to respect cheaters

Well he takes the prestigeous number one spot fron all the legit people who deserve it

@@Bankmumric If he is first and drove legit runs, he deserve it. Don't get emotional 🤣

@@tarpeg We dont know if hes legit, all we know is that hes a no namer and the anti cheat didnt detect him cheating. That doesnt mean hes not cheating.

@@Bankmumric Is there a rule that says you have to introduce yourself to the whole community, otherwise you're a cheater? You are exaggerating.

Exactly, first time disliking Wirtual's video as this is just failed attempt to DOX someone. Blackq is an absolute crybaby who isn't able to legitimately achieve better times so he must takedown someone's else time. I really didn't enjoy this video. Even if the account is indeed owned by Riolu, I don't think anything in this video was morally ok. I do not support Riolu's cheating, but enough is enough.

average TMUF player is 35

@@TheoriaTM still doesnt justify the doxxing attempt

So technically infeasible that every other game already does it...

​@@potatosordfighter666 namely...? because most games with an antimod only recognizes how the computer handles the game, and even then they're already invasive as they are running on ring-0 (kernel level, forcefully controlling your physical hardware just to run the game).

​@@potatosordfighter666i mean, most other games just block you either based on your Email address (which can be easily avoided for obvious reasons) or based on your ip address, but that would mean, that anyone, who uses the same address (be it for example someone in the same household or a bunch of households behind the same CGNAT address) would also be blocked

@@Wilker_uwu Uhh, ban evasion is a bannable offense in and of itself in the vast majority of multiplayer games, even if it isn't easy to detect. Read the TOS of every other multiplayer game you play.

and IP is completely irrelevant as nearly every end user has a dynamic ip@@p3chv0gel22

Just re-runs now 🤣

Come home from working at uncle's Anatolian kebab shop > sit down at PC > cat on lap > time to game TrackMania for six hours > go to bed > wake up ready to go to work > repeat. Sounds like a comfy life to be sure

​@@hairy_putinwhat the fuck did I just read and how is that important

If you don't wash you hands before the night time routine, the process of orienting and creating the perfect recipe of school time weed and scissors is getting wildly out of hands. So you better clean them!

who is Mufat? (go on, hit me)

@@sunofabeach9424 uhm... *bashes your face in* what an odd request

Exactly.

That’s a really fucking weird take. These guys cheated for years and pushed legitimate records from the top, reaping the rewards and praise. You’re damn right people should be suspicious of any future records. And if someone wants to be part of a community, there’s nothing unreasonable in expecting contrition after cheating and lying like that. I think your creepy opinion that people should feel obliged to warmly welcome back someone without expecting some sense of repentance and change in behaviour is the toxic one.

@@samkeen well bobs records are not cheated, so is that change in behavior?

@@samkeen Riolu would have to apologize and make amends if he wanted to get back into the Trackmania Community, it is also fine and respectable for him to go his own way in exile and start a new account. The real problem is that people in the Trackmania Community don't even want Riolu to play the game if he really is 92BOB. 92BOB has not sought any praise or privilege for his demonstrated success, so he is causing no problem. This is a perfectly fine outcome for a cheater that all parties should agree to.

For all we know, the cheating is just more sophisticated now. Perhaps there’s a way to play in slow motion and still take advantage of improved reaction times, but it’s possible to spoof the controller inputs so that they behave as if being played at normal speed. If (big if) Bob is Riolu, the fact that he’s back at the top in suspicious circumstances is sketchy. I think people deserve a second chance, but also deserve to be treated with a little wariness. But for all I know, Bob is just a random talented player who’d prefer to remain anon. The point I was making is that it’s not unreasonable for the community to expect someone who has cheated to show some respect and pay their dues before being welcomed back. Accusing the community of being toxic for not blindly welcoming cheaters back just creates a place where cheaters will thrive.

​@@samkeenbut obviously Bob doesn't want do be part of the community. Dudes just playing the game. It IS unreasonable by the community to except that everyone has to be part of the community. And if you don't want to be part of the community they will start a which hunt.

yea he should really be ashamed of himself for still having this video public. as of writing this, he's currently livestreaming about how he won the speedrunner award _(an award he btw shouldn't have won since he's not a speedrunner)_ while showing pictures from the event. really awkward vibe in the chat, and there're countless of people asking for him to explain himself...

if you don't want to be banished from a community, don't violate its rules. if you do, the community might kick you out and not let you back

@@sunofabeach9424 Yeah but this isn't the community, it's the game. The TM speedrun community doesn't own trackmania. It's completely legit for someone to play trackmania and ignore the community, as long as they stick to the rules of the game.

​@@toboterxp8155 in a perfect world, yes. But sometimes the community takes action. And sometimes, even if this action isn't justified or seems illegal, a company should listen to the community and try to deescalate the situation instead of giving a default company response and turning a blind eye to the issue. It is completely legit by company's rules to cheat for a decade, deny all accusations, get caught in the end, then without so much as an apology just create another account and keep playing. And it is completely understandable that the community disagrees. Keep in mind that cheaters exposure in 2021 was pulled off by the community. The difference is that in 2021 the community succeded. If these accusations weren't true, it would be called a witchhunt and an angry mob would demand an apology from Wirtual personally

@@toboterxp8155weird how everyone is ignoring the fact nadeo, the creators of the game, are fine with this player.

@@sunofabeach9424 He has been banished from the community, he should still be allowed to play the game by himself without all the witchhunting

you can manually pick the region you want, + the current player on 92BOB account isnt the original owner

it's not only unlikely but also incredibly dumb

​@@MizuTMThank you for your answer. I don’t understand from the video what proves that the current owner of the account is not the original one. I haven’t played TMNF in forever so I don’t remember how the account system works; can just anyone reclaim an inactive account?

@@mx-futhark I made research back when BOB appeard and I found the original owner of the account, a random casual player, then it was transfered to Vince from airven team, so imo no link to riolu

@@mx-futhark Back then in the ladder community people would give each other access to each other's accounts all the time. Whoever is playing on 92bob account now almost certainly isn't the one who originally made it.

No, he didnt as he just vanished and lied to everyone else when the drama boomed. If he would said "yes, i cheated" and then do that sheeesh on Bobs account, he literally would became even stronger person in TM world than he ever was. But he just lied to everyone that he is innocent. Its so freakin dissapointing and he shouldnt be praised or anything like that. Just look what Neko did - he admitted immediately, and with time flying he proved to everyone else - even prove to himself that he is capable to be the rank 1 without the cheats.

@@TheRonaldo985 I didn't said that he did something good, obviously cheating and not being responsible of his acts was a pure a-hole move, especially because he was part of the community and built a career out of it, but if he is 92bob and if he didn't cheated, that is still impressive to be in the top spot. Tbh I'd love if 92Bob was just a random guy enjoying the game.

​@@francoisleboiswhether he admitted to cheating or not, he was still punished for it. All his runs made while cheating were removed and his account was banned. He had to start back at square one just like everyone else. The fact that he is doing it honestly this time proves that he saw error in his ways and has made an effort to change and is just too ashamed and/or prideful to face the community.

who would want to be a part of a community like this tho?

@@TheRonaldo985 wah wah wah. no one cares.

BlackQ is a prick, so I'm not trying to defend them at all - but most competitive games would consider the permaban to be against the person, not the account. That is a valid complaint.

@@Lukeno52 There seems to be no evidence what so ever that 92BOB is cheating, so why would, or should, it matter if someone who previously cheated might be playing on that account?

@@Soonjai I'm not saying 92BOB should be removed - that's not the point I was making. The point I was making is that Nadeo's policy is the opposite one to that used by most competitive games, nothing more than that.

@@Lukeno52 arguing that Nadeo's policy should be the opposite is arguing that it matters that the person is banned in addition to the account. nothing less than that, because that is the policy of said other games you are comparing against..

@@Lukeno52 Which competitive games permaban players rather than accounts?

Even worse. This video is actively endorsing this behavior.

​@@Jehty21Read the pinned comment

@@VitaeLibra quite a few don't read comments and he could have easily said that in the video it self, but he didn't.

@@Jehty21 Endorsing how, exactly?

@@AfonsoCL not sure I agree completely with the person you asked the question to, but it's probably because he called "clever" the guy who tried identity theft with random dude playing a racing video game