I, Fujiwara no Mokou, did not use any cheating software.
A meme about an infamous Chinese internet drama over whether famous streamer Lu Benwei, formerly known as White (stylized as Wh1t3zZ) for his professional LOL career, cheated in his PUBG streams.
After the LOL S3 Global Championship, where Royal Gaming lost to SKT in the final, Lu announced his retirement from professional LOL gaming and started his streaming career. Lu had quite a few fans before, and most of them followed to his live streams; they boosted his popularity and quickly made him a contract-bonded professional streamer. Life was good for Lu, but not always quiet, for he had been involved in various internet dramas before his ultimate downfall: the PUBG incident.
Lu was allegedly caught cheating in a PUBG live stream in late 2017. His streamed PUBG games often yielded great results, peaked with a victorious 29 kills match. Internet celebrity Squirrel accused him of cheating with a damning frame-by-frame analysis of his streaming, and it was quite convincing for many common viewers. Furthermore, Lu somehow mistook a combination of backpack and magazine for a pan in one of his streams, and this also led to suspicion of him using some kind of cheating software.
Lu denied everything in Squirrel's video, but his steam account was banned for cheating in PUBG on Oct. 3. Lu claimed that it was because "a friend was showing him what a cheating software can do on that account," and further announced that he'd pay ￥5 million (Roughly $700,000) to all his viewers if he actually used cheating software. Despite his attempts, the debate of whether he cheated still went on, increasing in both scale and intensity.
On Dec. 2, 2017, Lu held a fan meeting and asked his loyal fans to verbally denounce all those who accused him of cheating on camera, resulting in a profanity- and obscene gesture-riddled video that quickly went viral online. Lu apologized for making this video on Dec. 8 and decided to stop streaming for a while as self-punishment, but the harm was already done, and he was fined for ￥1 million (Roughly $140,000) with a temporary suspension of his streaming service on Jan. 17. 2018.
Things didn't just get swept under the rug like Lu wished, for he'd already got himself caught in government legislation. On Feb. 12, 2018, China Central TV's famous Focus Report picked up the subject of "how unregulated internet celebrities are influencing underaged viewers negatively," and Lu's repugnant fan meeting video was featured as one of the prime examples. Lu was since banned from all Chinese streaming sites on the basis of "instigating public indecent behavior of minors," and he was allegedly moved to Twitch.tv after he recovered from losing basically everything.
Lu is gone, but the debate never died with his departure. For years, flame wars between those who are still loyal to Lu and those who firmly believed in his misconducts ignited countless times under videos and articles about this drama. Nobody truly knows whether Lu actually cheated in his live stream, and since Squirrel later deleted his damning video due to months of harassment and death threats from Lu's loyal fans, the truth is now more obscured than ever.
