The content creator “twomad” has reached one million subscribers on YouTube, but showed himself to be quite careless when he presented the reward code live on Twitch. It was quickly gone: A viewer had redeemed it. YouTube was urgently contacted to resolve the issue.
What was stolen from him? The YouTuber twomad had the code for his YouTube plaque stolen, which he would have received for a million subscribers.
When a YouTube channel reaches a certain milestone, YouTube provides a reward. They send a plaque that the YouTuber can then hang on the wall at home:
- At 100,000 subscribers, you receive the Silver Creator Award
- At 1,000,000 subscribers, the Gold Creator Award
- At 10,000,000 subscribers, the Diamond Creator Award is delivered to your house
- The YouTuber PewDiePie even reached 100,000,000 subscribers in August 2019 – he received the “Ruby Award”. That was a big deal back then
In order to receive one of these rewards, you also need to be on good terms with YouTube.
Whoever reaches the milestone receives a personal code from YouTube digitally, which they must redeem and confirm their identity by simply typing in the channel name.
Then they can provide the address to which the plaque should be sent.
Give it back, you damn people!
Here’s how it went down: The YouTuber was in a Twitch stream. There, he accidentally displayed the message from YouTube that he had received the prize and should redeem the code now. This code was visible to viewers of the Twitch stream.
The streamer laughs and jokingly says, “Oh no, please don’t use the code.” Seconds later, he realizes that exactly that had happened: Someone had redeemed his code. His good mood quickly fades.
twomad switches between astonished, angry, and desperate within a short time, like an emotional chameleon, while the chat surely has a great time.
At the end of the clip, the Twitch streamer shouts quite desperately: “Give it back! What the hell are you doing? Give it back, you damn people!”.
YouTube acts generously and quickly
This is how it ended: The streamer pleaded with YouTube on Twitter, showed the clip of how he was stolen, and was able to resolve the issue within a short time. YouTube contacted him, and he is now receiving his plaque after all.
This is a lesson that every live streamer must learn: Be careful not to have any codes visible. The viewers are like vultures and will redeem them. You can be pretty sure of that.
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