A Twitch viewer who attended TheNicoleT’s meet-and-greet at TwitchCon was embarrassed after learning the account he was talking to on X wasn’t actually her.
Fake accounts are an unfortunate reality that the Internet has caused problems over the years, and one fan found that out the hard way while at TwitchCon.
Like many streamers, TheNicoleT hosted a meet and greet at the Las Vegas event to give fans a chance to meet in person and ask questions that may never have been answered. on stream.
During the event, a viewer approached and hugged TheNicoleT before asking about their conversation with X and was devastated to receive some unfortunate news.
Streamer reveals viewers were scammed by fake accounts at TwitchCon
After the two hugged and the streamer acknowledged the fan’s username “ringed a bell,” the fan jumped in to ask about some of their private conversations.
“We’ve had some conversations here over Twitter and I’m a little paranoid, because maybe that’s not who you really are,” he said while displaying the conversation on his tablet. me. “But I think this is who you really are.”
TheNicoleT had to dash his dreams by revealing that the person he was talking to was a catfish when she checked the account in question.
“No, it’s not that,” Nicole said, shocking viewers as his mouth fell open in disbelief.
Luckily, the man insisted he didn’t say anything too bad while talking to the catfish, but the VOD has been deleted and it’s unclear how the rest of their live chat went.
Unfortunately, fake accounts are only expected to get worse with advances in AI technology. In an interview with Dexerto, Catfish’s Nev Schulman warned that deepfakes would allow nefarious users to “create a human being.”
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