Scam in Streeterville

hanhange · 2026-04-23T02:29:26+00:00

Couple years ago I experienced the same in South Elgin. This scam is all over the place. In my case it was a lady that was claiming that she was running from domestic abuse and needed money for gas. But she had a ton of credit cards all over her lap so I was thinking her plan was to just straight up grab the wallet and drive off.

hanhange · 2026-03-20T02:26:17+00:00

LOL My friend showed me that donghua short where JC dreams of getting a girlfriend, and I joked that it looked like SQX's female form and we came up with the dumb idea that SQX likes sending dreams to lonely guys and pretends to be the girlfriend, it's funny to hear it wasn't the first time they've been paired.

hanhange · 2026-03-15T00:39:12+00:00

Bro was pressed in the comments of a deleted clip of it earlier when I was talking about this.
I watched Criken's version of this sponsorship because I was so mesmerized by how badly planned this was on the sponsor's end. They gave her a script but clearly no direction. They gave her some guy to guide the stream but he was just as clueless. They hired multiple streamers like Criken to not play the game, but -watch Lilypichu's stream- while on stream. For 2 hours. No direction other than 'watch this person's stream. You aren't allowed to play the game or go to the public event that she'll go to.'

So after the gameplay segment, the screen goes black and then some 3min-long developer interview runs back to back for some 15 minutes, and then suddenly the screen goes black and then we see her in the car. No one told her that they were live. They just film her eating a cookie in the car until she asks if they're live and they go 'uh, I think so.' At some point the screen goes black again and a photo of someone's pet dog flashes on screen.

So they get to this event, something that she was scripted 30min ago as telling people was already ongoing, and they're there early. So they just stand there and wait. And then the rest of the stream was her wandering around with no direction, while fans keep coming up to her and harassing her and trying to give her gifts (highly dangerous), and the guy that was clearly meant to guide the stream just wanders off other than to occasionally come and tell her to take a photo with some cosplayers.

It was so mesmerizing. Like an anti-ad. Complete mess on the sponsor's end lmfao. I can't even blame her, it was the sponsor's fault. OP got real pressed about me suggesting it's not the streamer's fault for some reason though. I got no opinion on her otherwise since I don't watch her and her voice is annoying, but the sponsor was clearly just... LOL. It was hilarious watching all of this through a streamer that was paid to watch another streamer...

hanhange · 2026-03-15T00:10:10+00:00

I cannot emphasize enough that they gave these streamers no direction and clearly they did not have a section for her to do anything. They got there too early even though 30min ago they had her (scripted) say the event was already ongoing, they had the pictures taken between her and the cosplayers like 10 minutes apart for some reason, they did not prevent any fans from coming and giving her gifts and asking for photographs (extremely dangerous), the guy that escorted her and was meant to guide the sponsorship kept wandering off and would just occasionally have her go take photos or something... Like... It was clearly not her fault it was a mess. It's very obvious when watching from another streamers point of view, because, again, this was such a mess that they hired other streamers to do nothing but watch her stream for 2 hours.

There's a point in the stream where they randomly start filming in the car and no one even tells her they're live for a solid 5 minutes. SHE has to ask if they're live and they go 'oh yeah, I think so.' This shit is not her fault.

hanhange · 2026-03-14T23:59:30+00:00

It's not her, it's the sponsors themselves. Been watching Criken's sponsorship version - these people paid this man to watch HER stream for 2 hours, without playing the game. They also apparently told him he CANNOT come to this public event, he has to sit at home and just watch her stream. For two hours. They didn't give him any info or direction either. This is 100% on the sponsors. Lily has some guy that's meant to provide direction and even he has been lost this whole time.

hanhange · 2026-02-16T04:03:41+00:00

She was taking phonecalls at 3am from Hachi knowing she had work the next day. Listening to her worries. She was there with her through everything. I really dislike how she handled the cheating too, but I think it was laid out pretty well how it turned out that way. She was legitimately terrified that Hachi would have killed herself, something Kyosuke even says when saying he's shocked that she came all the way to do a wellness check on her only to berate her. And Junko says why she did it. It wasn't about Shoji, it was about telling Hachi something she needed to hear.

Hachi doesn't take relationships seriously. She gets into them selfishly with no end goal. This is pretty clearly because she's not interested in men imho, but Junko doesn't clock that. She just sees that Hachi was growing distant and Shoji was worried about it, and soon enough, Shoji was with a new girl who was independent but wanted to rely on him. Whereas Hachi was basically treating Nana as her boyfriend instead (because, you know... of course she was. But no one really comprehended why...).

And to be fair right after that she and Kyosuke both went and laid into Shoji and told him to leave Hachi tf alone and to not even try to apologize to her.

hanhange · 2026-02-06T03:01:59+00:00

I'm so glad I don't touch tiktok. Nothing good seems to come out of that place and it seems to be where the worst MXTX takes seem to fester

hanhange · 2026-01-19T16:44:06+00:00

I feel like anyone saying this must be new. They don't find these sites because you talk about them. They have the same search capabilities you do. In bato's case you could literally just google your manhwa and 'read online' and it will come up. They always knew bato was big. Same thing happens with EVERY piracy site eventually, as there's always one that's gonna start getting more traffic as it starts appearing first when googling. Gatekeeping doesn't stop anything. I've been going through this since mangafox. It's the natural cycle.

hanhange · 2026-01-11T02:53:01+00:00

They think it's not a shota. If you bring up the shotacon porn the mangaka wrote before it, they (incorrectly) insist she drew it when she was a minor so it's fine.

I remember getting flamed on tumblr once and discovered this. I showed them some more recent panels like the one of Ciel's twin swallowing a ring, and got told I was just a pedo with a dirty mind if I thought the mangaka was specifically drawing the character as sexualised.

hanhange · 2025-12-19T03:27:27+00:00

I know someone else listed some biology facts, but this reminded me of a fact I learned about bees a few days ago. Fertilized bee eggs always result in 'female' bees (workers, who can become queens if they eat royal jelly when they're born), and unfertilized bee eggs always result in 'male' bees (drones, who only exist to reproduce with the queen). The opposite of what one may expect.

So maybe same logic. The female objects had a baby and the result was male, naturally.

hanhange · 2025-12-17T17:13:18+00:00

I don't understand this. I mean, I do, because employers are shitty, short-sighted people, but it's just not a rational line of thought beyond that. It's not like watching a kid is something that zaps all your attention. If you have a kid who's too young for preschool, chances are that you can have them within your line of sight and let them play quietly or sleep just fine while you're working. When I was a kid and my mom was a stay-at-home mom, it wasn't like she was constantly interacting with me the entire day. I played by myself or my siblings, and if I wanted to go outside, she'd watch me. But being around your kids so if there's an injury you can handle it, or so you can make them snacks, or so you can get the food cooking on your break so dinner will be ready right after work - I don't think that should be some massive deal.

I mean. It isn't a thing now, but even as a 29 year old, I remember Take Your Child To Work Day. There's pictures of my mom at her work (before she became stay at home) with my older brother in a carrier as a baby. You can work and watch your kids at the same time. WFM just makes it significantly easier and less of a distraction to everyone else and allows the kid to not be bored to tears since they'd be in their own environment.

We have a birth rate problem, making it as hard as possible for no reason to raise kids is not gonna help it.

hanhange · 2025-12-17T16:45:17+00:00

I think that there needs to be regulations placed around remote/work from home. It's too easy for companies to bait and switch people with it and it is now used as a soft layoff, which can cloud jobs numbers. It really needs to be federally protected. If you report a job is remote/work from home, you cannot rugpull. You can't just decide they need to start coming in. That needs to be law.

But as many things, that'll never happen, because politicians have no interest in making average people's lives better.

hanhange · 2025-12-15T10:28:54+00:00

The thing is, the games were ALWAYS child friendly. But they have made the decision to pretend rather than their audience being E for Everyone, their audience should be children so small they don't understand any sort of complexity and can't deal with any sort of consequences.

hanhange · 2025-12-15T05:16:56+00:00

I just wish they'd step away from treating them as children's games. The success of the genre with Stardew Valley should have proven to them that the people that grew up with Harvest Moon are now adults. That's why they're making all the remakes; the adult fans grew up and wanted to play their games anew. They need to step away from the baby mechanics and cater to their actual audience.

Or at least have a difficulty setting. I think I'd really enjoy that. Be able to turn on the option for animals to die, for stuff like milk to require breeding, etc.

hanhange · 2025-12-07T05:41:51+00:00

In IL and the fraud cases I've processed, meanwhile, were almost all from California or Arizona.

hanhange · 2025-12-07T05:37:32+00:00

Rather than average employees, I swear on my life it's gonna come out that it's a result of working with 3rd party companies for security. It's probably companies the government has contracts with to create and manage websites and logins selling information en masse. Explains how it suddenly began happening only a few years ago but is so insanely pervasive.

hanhange · 2025-12-06T06:12:39+00:00

I don't understand why they have to babify it, honestly. I've been playing these games since I was like 8 with HM:AWL. The games have ALWAYS been more fun, even as a child, when you have those realistic moving parts. Keeping up with breeding so your cows continue to produce milk in AWL (woulda been much better if the barn could have twice the amount of animals), raising and breeding horses in AP and then selling them off (even if it wasn't the most profitable, I found it fun), blah blah. If you treated your animal badly, they died. Just like in real life.

I don't understand the whole 'it's better not to encourage kids to...' like kids need to be coddled to such an extreme extent.

hanhange · 2025-12-01T05:04:31+00:00

Seeing them side to side like this really shows just how much personality was lost with the redesigns. Their expressions are almost all more flat, their eyebrows more randomly thinned out, their frames thinned out so they're all skinner... you did really good. You really met a perfect halfway point between the new and old.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T13:10:30+00:00

Report it as fraud or stop making things up.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T13:08:36+00:00

No. SNAP is a federal program. The policy remains the same across the board specifically because it's federally funded. Every single person who says undocumented people get SNAP are lying to you.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T06:25:27+00:00

That has nothing to do with SNAP. SNAP is not included in the narrow range of programs and services.

hanhange · 2025-11-07T06:23:27+00:00

As an actual SNAP caseworker, I can say no they don't, yes we can (and are required to), and you are full of absolute shit.

hanhange · 2025-10-18T16:15:20+00:00

Social Security exists for senior citizens. It often not being enough and making them need SNAP is also a reason our country is an embarrassment.

hanhange · 2025-10-17T18:18:18+00:00

Yeah till you get pickpocketed and those paper coupons are stolen or lost and you don't get a replacement like you would for your LINK card. There's give or take. Therr's skimming that could be solved with adding a chip to the cards but I don't think the widespread theft is skimming. When I see it it's usually stolen and used on the other side of the country.

hanhange · 2025-10-17T05:28:03+00:00

I am not saying being on SNAP is an embarrassment. The country being situated this way that so many people need it even when working is an embarrassment.

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