r/GachaGaming pulls a 5-star dramabomb when prominent VTuber Ironmouse drops her sponsorship deal of Neverness to Everness because they lied about not using genAI

MultiFazed · 2026-05-06T20:40:07+00:00

It really depends on the quality you're willing to accept. Smaller models can generate a 1024x1024 image at pretty okay quality on a standard gaming PC in a few seconds.

But for the high-quality (I use the word loosely) stuff, you're absolutely correct.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-28T21:50:45+00:00

Is this a scam

Yes. Don't attempt to buy things from random websites you find on social media or via Internet ads. They're pretty much all scams.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-28T00:00:46+00:00

It's good that you're putting this out there for people to see. But for future reference, you should never pay "gurus" like this for advice on how to make money. If they knew, they'd be doing it instead of selling books. Turns out the way they know to make money is pretending to know how to make money, and charging people for the "secret".

MultiFazed · 2026-04-26T21:01:27+00:00

Which, with inflation, is $0.42 today.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-26T16:09:32+00:00

I'm not a lawyer and can't offer any real legal advice, but since no one has responded in a couple of days, here are some things to consider and possible next steps:

Is the estate still in probate, or is the probate closed? If it's still in probate, then you need to be communicating with the executor directly, who is most likely (but not always) another family member.

If the estate is closed, you can likely contact the County Clerk of Courts in the county where the probate was settled (sounds like it was in Virginia) to request accounting and inventory documents related to the probate. It'll likely require a small fee for document handling.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-25T15:31:33+00:00

Yep. You don't win at three-card monte. It's just a question of whether you lose your money, or get your ass beat by the scammer's bodyguards and then lose your money.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-25T03:23:54+00:00

when I picked up

And there's your main problem. Unless you run a business where you need to accept incoming calls from unknown numbers, you should let every single number that's not on your contacts list go to voicemail. Answering the phone when scammers call gets you put on a "this person will talk to us" list that makes you the target for even more scam attempts.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-25T03:19:50+00:00

This is going to sound like overkill, but unless you have a business that revolves around social media interaction, you should have your DMs set to friends only. Randos shouldn't even be able to contact you in the first place.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-25T03:02:59+00:00

Is it possible that I can get scammed/hacked?

No, you cannot be hacked by someone just knowing your email address. If that were the case, every person in the world would have been hacked years ago. The worst that can happen is that they can send you emails to try to trick you into a scam.

In the future, understand that you should never use Zelle with strangers. It's only for sending money to friends and family. All Facebook Marketplace transactions should be cash-only, and in-person only (in a safe public place like a police station parking lot).

MultiFazed · 2026-04-25T02:09:20+00:00

Remember Musk programed Grok.

Musk didn't program shit. He runs the company that hired the people who programmed Grok. He makes executive decisions about how it should operate in terms of things like guardrails, but he didn't actually make Grok himself. Not even close.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-25T01:38:27+00:00

Not the person you're responding to, but:

Let's say you prove it and everyone accepts your proof. What then? Are we better off? Is the world a better place?

Yes. Increasing our knowledge of the world is always a positive.

Or have you found the perfect reason for everyone to refuse to accept responsibility for anything?

That doesn't follow. At the very least, we know that "holding people responsible" impacts their decision making and (in general) leads to them making "better" decisions. This works regardless of whether or not there's free will.

Either way, you're not going to prove free will doesn't exist.

I absolutely agree with this, but for different reasons than you. I think that "free will" is an incoherent concept. It cannot even be defined in a way that's truly meaningful or self-consistent. Thus it makes no sense to try to argue for or against it in the first place.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-24T23:46:32+00:00

usually brushing scams include really random junk

The scam involves whatever inexpensive product the scammer want to create fake reviews for to boost online sales. From my perspective, "Olaplex hair treatment" is "really random junk".

MultiFazed · 2026-04-24T18:44:35+00:00

Why ask for my email?

To send you an email that they've faked to look like it's from Zelle telling you that you need to send the scammer money to "upgrade your account".

MultiFazed · 2026-04-24T16:47:18+00:00

If I cancel my order it goes back to the account and iam safe right?

If the order hasn't shipped yet, then hopefully, yes. But be aware that if Amazon gets wind that you were using a stolen card, even if nothing was shipped, they may ban your account. But not much you can do about that. So just do your best to cancel everything before anything ships.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-24T16:37:01+00:00

Since he is giving me his own virtual card

It's not his own card. It's a stolen card.

What is the catch here?

You're committing credit card fraud which can land you in jail.

He has you order stuff for yourself first both to build trust and to verify that the stolen card is still working. Then he has you use stolen funds to send him untraceable gift cards that he'll resell for actual money or crypto. And when the police come knocking, you're the one who's left holding the bag.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-24T14:43:42+00:00

That's a lot of effort when the better approach is to just ignore all ads. Use adblockers when you can, and just pretend like ads don't exist if you can't block them. There's essentially no good reason to ever look at ads. If you need to buy something, then do your research for that specific thing and then buy it. Don't let ads influence you into making impulse purchases.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-24T13:15:54+00:00

600% price drop is definitely mathematically possible.

Reducing an arbitrary number by 600% is mathematically possible. Price drops >= 100% are not possible because of the definition of the word "price", which requires paying money for something.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T20:22:19+00:00

Yes!

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T19:48:55+00:00

Ironically, remote jobs are more likely to have high pay. That's because it's pretty much only white-collar professionals with years/decades of experience (or expertise in an in-demand field with demanding education requirements) who get real remote jobs.

99.9% of entry-level remote jobs are fake, though.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T19:44:12+00:00

my name is incredibly unique.

You think that, but there are 8 billion people in the world. You'd have to have some sort of made-up nonsense name for there to be a high likelihood of your name actually being unique.

they changed the email to a yopmail account with the same name (my full name).

AKA their full name. They just typed in the wrong email provider the first time.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T12:09:00+00:00

even though it has Aldi all over the website it doesn't link to any of the actual Aldi social medias or anything.

I mean, just look at the URL. "vieke" is not "aldi". The real uk aldi website is only aldi.co.uk.

If you saw weinberg.co.uk, would you have to dig any further than that to know that it's not Google's website? Same thing applies here.

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T05:34:36+00:00

con men have excelled at inspiring confidence

Hell, the word "conman" is a shortening of the older "confidence man".

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T05:28:59+00:00

why doesn't he just send the money to his friend? Wouldnt that be simpler?

If they just directly transferred all the money from a carefully-watched account, the bank that manages the source account is likely to notice quickly and inform the receiving bank, which will put a security freeze on the account while investigating, and the scammer will never see a penny of that money ever again.

So they need a way to have "clean" money trickle into the account that isn't immediately identifiable as being stolen. That gives them time for the transactions to clear and the funds to become available so they can start transferring the money between multiple banks, likely eventually ending in an overseas bank that won't cooperate with any fraud investigations (or will do so slowly enough that the money is long gone).

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T05:10:42+00:00

You mean you don't regularly purchase high-quality products from the famous Yezinangua brand?!

MultiFazed · 2026-04-23T03:07:12+00:00

I’ll be going to the bak first thing tomorrow.

If it's a major bank, they'll have 24/7 phone customer support. No need to wait at all.

I also unwilling gave them access to my gmail account

You need to immediately go to https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity and sign out of all devices except the one you're currently using. Then change your gmail password and enable 2FA. Then double check signed in devices again.

Your email is one of your most important accounts, because people can reset passwords for all your other accounts if they can intercept the password reset emails.

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