Streamers getting swatted.
(Police Noises)
For most viewers watching their favorite streamers
it’s no surprise that every once in a while
that they will see their favorite streamers being swatted.
It’s been going on for almost a decade with some involved in it
resulting in death.
And it seems to only get worse… But why is this happening more than ever it seems?
In 2022 notable streamers like Kai Cenat, iShowSpeed and Adin
Ross have all been swatted But with Adin Ross, it’s a totally different story.
Adin has been swatted the most this year it seems like.
As he has not been swatted once.
He has been targeted multiple times this year.
And it’s no coincidence.
These are definitely planned and it’s allegedly from one group.
Monkey Mafia.
Monkey Mafia is allegedly run by some young British teens and adults.
But we are going to take a deeper look into them in a moment.
But first, Let’s quickly go over what it means to be swatted.
Being ‘swatted’ first requires a troll to find a streamer’s address or location.
Either through streamers accidentally leaking their location
or just plain hacking.
In order to start an armed response, they make a hoax call to the police
claiming the creator’s house is infested with extreme violence. As a result,
a streamer can suddenly find their home being raided by police officers
carrying guns, often believing
they are about to find a
horrible crime scene, but instead find a streamer playing games.
The trolls target the Twitch streamers seemingly
because they can watch the action live on stream
and it’s funny and satisfying to them, Unfortunately.
Recent footage of the streamers being handcuffed shows that this is no joke.
It's obviously dangerous and scary. I mean, look at speed.
The controversial YouTuber,
you know, him as is helpless in handcuffs, sitting alone in a car for nothing.
When speed was arrested in August of 2022, the trolls called the police operator
pretending to be speed by saying that he wanted to hurt his family.
During the same week, Adin was also swatted and that led many
to believe that a person or a team had something to do with both incidents.
Many pointed to the group Monkey Mafia I mentioned earlier, and it's
hard to tell if they're legit or not.
They have a Twitter account with a bio reading...
“There is more than one.”
Their pinned tweet explains that the purpose of what they are doing
is to show that, quote, “social media superstars aren't untouchable.”
Then it reads, “Please do not doubt our abilities.
You are not untouchable.” The group is run by Berlin, x86,
Silly Scarly, Toxic J, TerryCDN, and many more.
They have a link that takes you to their Telegram chat.
In this I found that the 8000 random people who subscribe to
them are all like minded in the way monkey mafia members act.
These guys are beyond crazy.
The things that they type out, along with voice recordings
and explicit photos of mainly black people are flat out disturbing.
Let's just say it's beyond free speech platform on the telegram chat
and I should have known better just by their name.
Adin actually talked to an alleged Monkey Mafia member on stream who swatted him.
But this was to thousands of viewers
which was giving them the attention they wanted.
And this is the last thing that you would want to do as a streamer
who relentlessly gets swatted every other week
because this would encourage others to do so.
But this got me thinking, why is Adin giving them attention in the first place?
So I started doing some thinking and digging on the internet
and eventually came across this thread on Twitter.
“Not sure,
but I think Adin is trying to bait them in so the FBI can gather more info.”
This could be true and it has worked in some instances
with fellow YouTuber Roman Atwood being a prime example.
The problem is how do we know for certain that who Adin was talking
to was a real Monkey Mafia member?
And not a random Adin Ross fan.
Berlin the real monkey member tweeted out that the guy Adin Ross was talking
to was a fake member.
And then foreshadowed what would happen the next time Adin goes on stream.
A couple of days after that, Adin went on another stream
and was notified by a guy from the Monkey Mafia crew that until he stopped
having black people in his stream, they would continue to swat him.
Adin said he would continue to have black people on his stream.
And then shortly after this, Adin was swatted...
and it was from, you guessed it, monkey mafia.
And this kind of answers the Title of the video.
“Why Streamers Keep Getting Swatted” and the answer is simple.
The more attention you give them the more likely they will keep doing it.
Even if Adin is working with the FBI, Which could be true or not.
But as he gives them more attention it has been getting notably more
threatening with the swattings as Adin’s parents were swatted off stream.
Which was confirmed by Adin on his burner account.
So why doesn’t Adin whitelist or set something up with the local
PD to prevent this?
Well, he can but in some areas,
police are still required to show up regardless of working with PD or not.
However, Adin working with them can lessen
the number of police that shows up at his place
because it can be viewed as not a real concern.
You could call me a Fed or not.
I don't care.
But I wanted more info on Monkey Mafia to see if they're actually legit
at swatting.
On November 30th, I went into the Telegram group at the right time
as I witnessed a meeting planning on calling the SWAT on the AMP group.
They then posted an image of the AMP location for everyone to see in.
Then, after 30 minutes of waiting.
One of the monkey mafia members pinned a comment saying watch Fanum stream.
Fanum is a part of AMP.
And he was the only AMP member live on Twitch that day.
The comment was posted at 7:31 p.m..
10 minutes later, Fanum was celebrating a milestone of hitting
11,000 subscribers on Twitch until this happened.
Police: Hey, this is Officer Blah Blah Blah TTS: Show love to the DMV.
Fanum: Yo give me one second.
I'm sorry. Yo, that's crazy.
Fanum: Yo!
Fanum: Its police
outside!
This basically certified that these trolls were legit.
But I still wasn’t satisfied.
So I really wanted to confirm if they were real or not.
So I joined their discord
and there I saw the two members of Monkey Mafia, Berlin and x86.
They were hosting a Q&A with an audience of 100 people.
Berlin and x86
then randomly picked people from the audience
and they wasted no time with the questions.
With one asking why are they swatting streamers.
x86: We do it
because, you know, I do it because, you know, people say they're untouchable.
I would like to spread more awareness of the fact that nobody is untouchable.
Officially Ronny: After that,
another person was dragged in and started accusing x86
and the other members of “Larping” and wanted definitive proof
that they have the ability to get the swat to show up anywhere
or even a couple of cops to show up.
CJ: I think you guys are Larping.
x86: I mean, you just said that you were fine someone- CJ:
Oh, my God, bro these kids are larping man.
Larping means the guy they’re accusing is a fraud or a liar.
Minutes later x86 then somehow manages to get the police
to show up and close part of the road in Downtown Philadelphia.
x86: Also, if you take a look at it,
there's not that many people where that cop car is all
looks like they're getting out of that area.
Random: I think they’re all evacuating...
x86: Yeah, that was it!
Time to drag more people...
So they are legit.
And they have no intentions to stop swatting Adin Ross and
whoever streamer they feel like swatting next.
No matter how big the consequences are.
But It’s only a matter of time until they get caught.
But you have to point out that Adin Ross is known for scripting
and faking some of his videos and streams for more views.
I mean this is the same guy
that put his sister and his friend Zias as lovebirds on his stream
and all Adin did was put a “horrible act surprised face”
Adin: Zias dude!
What are you doing.
That situation was clearly fake but this situation is different
and something is telling me that the swatting is pretty real.
I don’t think Adin would do something terrible like that for views.
Even though he has done some questionable things in the past.
Plus, that would take a lot of effort to plan out a fake swatting on yourself.
But who knows at this point?
What we do know is that this isn’t on the positive side for Adin Ross.