The Biggest Scam On Steam Right Now... 

I feel like this game was more or less designed to prove how willing people are to exploit the marketplace. Every Steam game that uses steam’s inventory system is infested with bots for the sake of selling the items, TF2 included.

Like they do in Wall Street?

People when money: 🤑🤑🤑

It's NFTs all over again. Artists were mocked when AI got popular because a guy taped a banana to a wall, but it's apparently ok when the banana doesn't exist in the first place.

I dont see this any worse than cs

People like bananas more than oranges

@@RrraverCrow People like oranges more than pandering garbage.

@@RrraverCrow i care alot about the fact that you mentioned this kind of, bananas are probably way more popular than oranges. some mightve drank some orange juice but to eat the fruit itself is just far more inferior than a banana you just peel and eat. also if orange is so good, why is there a banana milkshake but not- okay so there is a orange milkshake but that doesnt sound nearly as good as banana. also banana combines much better with other desserts such as chocolate or vanilla. team banana for me i dont dislike oranges, i can eat them, but banana is just something i would gravitate towards far more, a orange i'd eat if i were to lack my vitamins also the color of a banana, yellow and can have those funky black spots on them, its more appealing than that orange asteroid looking thing that houses stringy fruit. bananas can have like strings to them too, but like i find the ones on the orange much more jarring. the banana ones are imo easier to remove than the orange ones. also bananas can be funny, oranges just kinda exist.

@@citizenofhyruleyou literally peel oranges too

@@citizenofhyrulethere a reason why Orange,grape, and apple juice exists. No banana juice.

Monke

Real

It's like World Record Egg on Twitter. People think its cute to be stupid.

@@Makeshift_Mulderor it’s just fun being silly every once in a while. More so referring to the egg thing. Banana is legitimately just brain rot stonk bros

It should have some human music.

Pretty much

Hey, its always a market, but if folks can profit, folks can profit.

For years I have been trying to get this out my mind and u remind me 😢

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Funny you should mention that; most of this game's player base are idle bots.

And Minions!

@@ThunderDragonRandy BANANA!

Tech bros when artists want protection against AI: Adapt or die dude, you don't got a leg to stand on when a guy can get rich by taping a banana on a wall. Tech bros when this game dropped: *Ayo bananas are made of internet gold!*

its THE game for every average CDawgVA viewer

Well, there goes the government.

Yep. It all started with TF2 hats and just spiraled from there. It's amazing how much of a pass people seem to give Valve considering they're the mainstream origin point for both microtransactions _and_ NFTs. Just about any other game company would have been raked through the coals.

@@MisterVercetti if you think like this, then you should consider naming roblox, wow or runescape instead. if you think its about that a trend impacted it, then you should name csgo instead.

@@realmcafeeeveryone knows nfts started on imvu😂

of course it is, tf2 and csgo are the only stable versions of NFT's that only work due to the regulations (users arent able to add their own items by free will, cannot change market cap, etc, they can only create design and hope for approval) which cause praisal towards valve

W comment

Bed banana

Soggy Banana

Bad banana.

Stinky Banana.

It's not even as well made as Cookie Clicker though. It's trash.

cookie clicker has progression.

that's an insult to idle games

most come from their discord. fans can make the skins. and if they like it they release it. and the guy that makes em gets a few hundred of em. and they are limited mostly to a few thousand. they only drop for a week or less. so each person can farm like 5-7 of the rare ones. as a rare drops daily. and a common drops every 8 hours i believe.

That's also an insult to Omega Mart products. Their lemons are top tier.

Sometimes you just can't fix stupid no matter how much duct tape you have 🤣

i feel like anyone "falling" for it are also in on it. Except a few creators or streamers who might have bought some just for content in the past week or so

Why wouldn't u accept free money?

​@@mitaskeledzija6269 because there's always a catch, especially when money is involved

@@mitaskeledzija6269 It's not free -- it comes at a cost of supporting and encouraging this sort of thing on Steam.

I still don’t understand that, this game made me $22. While I play Xbox my autoclicker plays the banana game. I’m not how or why I’m making money selling images of bananas in Steam, but free money is free money.

​​​​@@Unchainedful You essentially made money because someone else believes they can make more money than they paid to acquire it. Bigger fools scam. Little more than a chain of human biases and propped up by a seemingly cheap buy-in where the only guaranteed "winner" is the person that started the market.

Now comes in Lite!

But is it low fat?

Steam is NFT marketplace in disguise

This has more worth than an nft tbh.

BELIEVE IT!

THe cat version? there is also the egg version one

When you're losing money. You'll definitely feel psychologically horrified, and financially as well.

Those are tags applied by other people

I was attacked by wild banana as a child. This game scares me.

@@WalterHWhite-ri7pn ohhh didn't know that! Makes it even more disturbing 😅.

it's a community tag tag placed by the community

I understand this reference. 😅

Nor can we throw it down the stairs. I am disappoint.

CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED

Detroit

Or Chasing Teddy Bears.

@@frightfactoryYTmost people just get lucky once and from there it’s a snowball effect.

Just add rare drops to it on the market and your game will blow up, it's a cheat code now, don't you see?

Interesting... Do you mind send the title of the video?

I'd like to know as well

​​@@qwertaman2009 Jauwn is who op is referencing, he made a video about Banana recently as well.

@@qwertaman2009 yeah sure I need to look through my watch history

@@qwertaman2009 it’s a video from jauwn called banana the 4th most popular game on steam please don’t play this

Boo get off the stage.

I'd have done it if you didn't

@@Whipcream133🤓

@@alenmack3471 Don’t lie to yourself. This guy is RUINING comedian night. We need a new comedy up the stage.

He split.

lmao, I didn't watch the end of the video until I commented.

Yeah I dont get why everyone is calling this a scam when there are CS skins that cost literal thousands of dollars, where the game drops cases, where theres other games that have done similar shit to this for years and no one has said anything or at least been this vocal about it. Its literally just a meme trend collection game these content creators are blowing out of proportion. Tell me who is getting scammed from this?

​@@Demolition91heck, even Roblox which a literal children's platform, which has been in a lot of how water over gambling and what not does this. The amount of games on that platform that _allegedly_ have serious scams going on (I remember one from when I was probably 10, called vehicle simulator, that has loot drops, which you can buy for in-game currency, which can be bought for roblox money) and that, I would argue is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

@@Demolition91 That might be why Valve doesn't do anything about it, they aren't technically doing anything different.

But most of those companies at least make actual games. They scam you but you at least get a game. I have a hard time calling this a game

@@seanpoulton2446 Well its a free game so you cant really complain

I think it's time for you to split.

You guys are a bunch of scammers!

I respect the hustle my brothers a banana too

Hmm.... is it considered "Banana Trafficking?"

This comment section has lost its a peel.

ring ring ring ring ring ring

banana phone

Banana Bus

even worse LOL

facts

Bananas are so cool. Why this game gotta smear the good name 😭

I farted

But if you do a little shopping, you can find some good deals on banana pics. Limit yourself to something reasonable like a $1000 budget for banana pics. 🍌

My joke reply that basically said you should spend money to get them was blocked by youtube's nannybot. I can't remember what wording I used so I have no idea what exactly got it blocked.

@@Dethmeister bro. I got warned for HATE SPEECH for commenting that a cat is chonky. Moderation in this media makes no sense.

The nannybot really has it out for me. If I ever use the word that you used before "bananas" or the word you used before "spending", my comment would be blocked.

@@OctyabrAprelya I agree.

And cost less than maintaining NFT blockchain.

​@@rashidiswalbeit still paying for pixels :^)

I can't believe we've found something more useless than nfts

@@iziah2161 yeah like cosmetics. or did you meant something else?

Money laundering using lootboxes on a DRM platform. And somehow gamers love it.

alright, let's see if anybody in the comments has it figured out.. *ctrl+f: Money L*- yep, this is it.

But you lose 30% to market. You can do better

People forget that criminals also play games 😂

​@@bouncedayBetter then 51% to the casino

that was already proven by Vampire Survivors

Skins dropped hard in value when they allowed you to customize your own guns. Not sure about the legendaries

@@UmiZoomR They already dropped hard in value prior - you know, when they started just dropping instead of requiring a 2.50€ key to be unboxed.

No

Yes ​@@stealthysaucepan2016

Right click and save as. Ad infinitum

We did it boys. World has been freed from capitalism

Good that they dont. Or else steam would be just as regulated, slow and lifeless as console platform storefronts. I switched from ps5 to pc. I dont want to be in such a closed marketplace again. I will gladly take some minor annoyances like bot games.

@@cirescythe I'm a tf2 player, so I see it as more than a bit minor

The ones worth anything don't even drop. They had been limited drops during events or used to be sold on the store, are people seriously playing it without ever checking things out prior?

Easy. You buy something useless for a hundred dollars hoping that another schmuck will take it from you for 150. Hoping, also, you're not the last schmuck that spent a hundred dollars on something useless.

Critical talked about it yesterday too

wait a min... 00:20 muta said its a game where you literally "look" at a banana, i think alot of people took this a bit too literal 🤭

I am pretty sure the game only popular due to bots farming items and sell it to thousand dollars, which take about 2/3 of playercount and most people think it's just glorified banana themed click counter with item drops, graphic setting and discord link rather than a game.

@@michaeljonathan9715 nah bro me and my 78 alternate personalities love playing banana. So much so that we all play on different accounts. We just got 3 rare bananas and we're selling them for 1700$ each if you want one.

@@michaeljonathan9715 they're 100% not selling it for a thousand/thousands of dollars. just checked the marketplace and everything that's worth anything was either given out for a limited time in a really limited quantity or had been bought in between on the store and aren't sold anymore. And the few who buy those are people who for some reason think that in a year or so those bananas are worth double to triple the amount of money. Kind of like people who buy CS cases for 3 cents as they rise in price over the next few years - except that CS got an actual game and a community behind it so obviously cases that no longer drop at some point get more expensive while the bananas will disappear into wasted money.

Gen Zs

Money laundery

Its stolen money getting washed like g2a

People who're dumb enough to believe that they'll rise in price over the next years. Don't even know why there's so many people talking about money laundering, the steam marketplace is one of the worst methods to launder any sort of money on any realistic timescale.

It’s not even that. It’s like digital card collection and you don’t even do anything with them

Except you'd loose 30% in steam fees and probably around 20% in taxes and other fees by the time it goes into your account.

@@justtus It's someone else's money anyway, so you're not losing funds by selling items on the Steam marketplace & buying your own title while getting the money taxed for what amounts to a legal laundering fee.

Yep

When it makes them money... why would they?

@@monobrow538 Because it hurts their brand and eventually causes business losses.

Plot twist: you can't even use the skin for the bananas

@@sh0ker The fact that you can't even have the banana displayed in games just strengthens the metaphor for NFTs. You own the receipt of the banana not the actual banana.

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