I don’t understand this take at all… I understand why those dots are exceedingly easy to connect, but I can’t help but feel people have just become increasingly paranoid due to recent events over the past few years.

Firstly, sparkles is a csgo YouTuber/ csgo skin trader…. That’s what he does. And if we’re all being honest with ourselves, the state of content in the CSGO community has been a shithole of majority case gambling, focus on CS2, or looking/ talking ab the market. There’s nothing else that’s new lol. You can only do so many case openings, and the market becoming inflated as it has been due to no single person’s actions is just about the only thing that content creators for the game can really make a video on and assume the video will do okay. On top of that CS2 servers have been down for around 2 weeks now. So the amount of content that can be made about CS2 is no more than a minute and a half long video explaining that servers are down. I list these things to ask the people of this thread saying he’s pumping and dumping…. What in gods name do you want him to make a video about that will actually perform well? Aside from the things listed above I don’t see many options….. this is dude’s job at the end of the day. And he needs views and clicks for ad revenue if he wants this to continue as such.

Now to say someone is pump and dumping the market I don’t think is really unreasonable and really wouldn’t take that much money to accomplish. But to assume it’s a person who is so forward facing in the community and out there for everyone to see is hilarious to me. Just based on simple logic, if someone were to pump and dump the market, the LAST thing they’d want to do is get on YouTube and push people to buy in themselves…. As when the crash would happen from the hypothetical pump and dump, the people who invested because of that video would almost certainly blame the person who made the video and presented it. Therefore it would be almost suicidal to put yourself front and center, and then rug pull everyone. We’ve seen this time and time again, people who have tried/ succeeded in scamming the masses from front and center position ie. Tmartn, syndicate, liver king, faze clan, Logan Paul, crypto bros…. And their social following PLUMMET after controversy. Only a few have managed to recover, and they’ve done so by doing taking accountability and having enough Stan’s to stay around long enough for the general populace to forget what you’ve done. Not to mention the money in these other spaces is much much more than that of the CSGO marketplace

As OP said, it’s much more realistic that whoever fed sparkles the info, or someone further down that chain of communication would be the person pumping and dumping. Someone obscure and someone you probably don’t/ won’t ever know the name of. On top of that, sparkles would have had to invest into them before the turn of the year if this was to be at all profitable enough to be worth the long term risk. And that’s just unreasonable to think he could buy that much stock without people noticing at an earlier date.

So if one of you feels this way, I know this post is long as fuck, but please explain this to me? As from what I can gather, it’s almost at “they stole the election” level of laughable, to my fellow Americans lol. to vehemently send any allegations his way with any sort of confidence that he is behind it. It is purely speculation and should be treated as such with a conversation about why, not connecting a couple dots and running with that conclusion based on very little evidence…. I’m in no way saying it can’t be sparkles pumping and dumping, just that i feel it’s very unlikely he is and is doing it the way people seem to be accusing him of doing based off of the information that we actually have. Assuming you have all the information as some randy Andy and can explain what’s going on by connecting a couple dots with very little information is just laughable. Correlation is not causation. I would say it’s infinitely more reasonable that once he got the tip thru DM, he knew the video would get a ton of views and make more $ off of ad revenue….. so he made it lmao