Fortnite professional and YouTuber SerpentAU was accused by other players of using macros as a form of cheating while building. After some back and forth, he has now issued an apology.
Who is it about? The Fortnite professional SerpentAU is one of the most popular Fortnite players from the OCE region. On his YouTube channel, he has over 550,000 subscribers, to whom he regularly presents creative videos. On his channel, he often demonstrates how incredibly fast he can edit and build in Fortnite.
However, much of it apparently was not as legitimate as his viewers wanted to believe. He used macros to increase his speed when building and editing.
The YouTuber EJLad recently shed light on this issue in a video.
This is the accusation: EJLad showed in his video from June 5 the in-game settings of SerpentAU. He explains that he used two key bindings that helped him with his building edits. Therefore, he accuses him of “cheating.”
Here’s how it continued: On June 7, SerpentAU took a stand and attempted to clarify in a YouTube video that the cheating allegations were unjustified. However, for Fortnite giants like Tfue, this “explanation” was not enough. Tfue wrote, “Your explanation video was Dawgshit.” He challenged SerpentAU on Twitter to recreate one of his building videos while filming his hand. This would be “simple proof.”
However, such a requested video did not follow.
SerpentAU apologizes – This is what he says
The apology: On June 13, SerpentAU posted on Twitter, admitting that he was disappointed in himself. He would not advocate cheating and is disappointed to have taken that path.
“I saw an opportunity and decided to take it […],” but he did not think about the consequences.
“This is solely my fault and I will take a break for some time,” his statement reads. Money was among the influences that led him to these actions.
That’s why it’s surprising
Accusing others of cheating: For many players, the confession was surprising, knows Dexerto. In the past, SerpentAU not only drew attention with his building videos.
He investigated a player and accused him of cheating. He pointed out that the 14-year-old Kquid was using an aimbot in Fortnite. The accused player had a creative explanation for the cheating allegation.
