A fifth grader has become a victim of a troll in the MMO shooter Destiny. The troll promised to show him a trick to become stronger if the boy handed over control of his account through Shareplay.
A few weeks ago, we posted the video of a man who deleted all of his exotic items: He wanted to do this when the hand cannon Thorne dropped. It dropped, and he did it.
Now there is a similar video, but it is much more brutal. An 11-year-old boy is playing Destiny when a malicious figure named “Kermit the Frog” appears, promising to show him a cheat to become stronger. This does indeed sound a bit like “Get in my car; I have candy for you.” The boy hands over his account to the stranger, steps away from the TV for a moment, and well … yes, the other one deletes two of his Guardians and his third Guardian’s exotic fusion rifle Plan C.
The video raised some doubts about whether it is really real. After all, it looks almost too brutal to be true. And what mother would upload a video of her son humiliating himself to her own YouTube channel?
There are now answers to those questions: The boy’s mother spoke with the US site GameInformer and said she only uploaded the video to her account to show it to Bugie’s support for review. Her son learned a “valuable lesson” from the events: to also protect what you have worked for. The troll had previously gained her son’s trust while playing together.
Meanwhile, the video has been noticed by Bungie and featured in the Weekly Update as an example of “Be careful out there.” Well, more than 300,000 others have seen it, too.
At the moment, some hope that Bungie will make an exception and that the boy will get his account back. Meanwhile, the fifth grader is confronted with the reality of the internet. While some empathize and cringe at the sight of the event, feeling for him, taking his side and appealing to Bungie’s leniency, he has to endure some ridicule from others, questioning how he could have been so naive. By handing control to “Kermit” in the video, believing he would gain illegal advantages, it also takes on a moral tone. The fifth grader here says he was lured into it. Before the video started, the troll convinced him to do it.
