Editing Spaceuk (section)

===Hacking allegations===
In April 2023, an unknown individual approached spaceuk and claimed to know him, stating that spaceuk knew an undetectable hacking method. This claim led paqoe, who is a head list moderator, and the Demonlist team to detect the supposed hacking method in spaceuk's recordings. However, they found no signs of this hacking method.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYGLIYH6OM&t=3331s</ref> Despite the unsatisfactory examination, during this investigation, they detected suspicious activity in at least one of spaceuk's recordings, particularly in Acheron, where the sounds of his clicks mismatch his onscreen inputs.<ref name=":1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2RTFwn_zho</ref> Initially, they removed his records, but they reinstated them hours later due to a lack of evidence.<ref name=":2">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ggq6F7vWBNsTaISNc7a4dut6uqf1jz6F_SBH-GaMVDg/</ref> However, paqoe continued investigating and found the same issues in his other recordings, like The Hallucination and [[Oblivion]]. She exposed these findings in a video titled 'Exposing SpaceUK' on 25 April 2023.<ref name=":1" /> Afterwards, spaceuk confessed via Twitter that he used zBot for every completion after Sephiroth in May 2022, stating that he wanted to see 'how far he could go' after becoming disinterested in the game.<ref name=":3">https://web.archive.org/web/20240403175757/https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss9laj</ref> He removed many hacked completions from YouTube and relabelled others as 'showcases'.

paqoe later shocked the community by revealing zBot usage in all of spaceuk's recordings, not just since May 2022, as claimed, but back to March 2021.<ref name=":2"/> After these findings emerged, spaceuk finally admitted to cheating on practically every record since The Golden.<ref name=":3"/> Usually, the Demonlist had a mechanism to identify bots such as zBot within records; however, spaceuk utilised a tactic so straightforward that it slipped past the entire team: making clicking noises over the bot. Additionally, the team found a watermark in spaceuk's completions that indicates zBot use, as the 'Level Complete' text was slightly smaller (940 pixels) than usual (1004 pixels). The watermark, known only to the creators of zBot, went completely unnoticed in spaceuk's records because of the presumption that such skilled individuals would never resort to using a bot for their records. According to [[MindCap]] and Blitzer, Kenos was spaceuk's alleged hardest level, and he only began hacking after reaching 96% on The Golden, where he used noclip to finish.<ref name=":2"/> It was later confirmed in an interview between him and Secret Way.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYGLIYH6OM&t=3216s</ref>

The community later discovered that a player named Kolo had expressed concerns about inconsistencies in spaceuk's Slaughterhouse verification video as far back as October 2021. He identified click delays and suspected video cuts in two videos he uploaded.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5DLImhaeZE</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJInicacHbg</ref> Despite his efforts, the community dismissed his findings. The Demonlist team denied his claims, citing insufficient evidence. A Demonlist moderator even explicitly told him, 'You are wrong 👍', in a Twitter message. In hindsight, the Demonlist acknowledged the validity of Kolo's observations and apologised for their initial dismissal.<ref name=":2"/>

spaceuk deleted his YouTube channel and deactivated his Twitter account after being exposed. He did, however, reactivate his Twitter account and issued the following message:<ref name=":2"/>
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I'm not making this for sympathy or pity or anything like that. I’m writing this because to clear everything up, apologize and put a conclusion to this. This will address how and why I hacked achievements, apologies to players that I’ve held back and what I’ll do moving forward. These will include only the truth, there’s no reason to lie anymore and the community deserves a response at the very least.

I started playing [[Geometry Dash]] during late March early April and beat levels such as decode, windy landscape and leyak. During the period of beating these levels I’d also gotten 77% on [[Cataclysm]] which I would drop. After this I decided on beating my first extreme which was [[Wasureta]]. My completion of Wasureta as a jump from leyak is legitimate. After this I’d set my eyes on my next extreme demon being [[The Golden]]. To this day I still have 96% on the level and haven’t finished it legitimately since. My completion of The Golden was accidentally noclipped and I hadn’t realized it was noclipped until around 20 minutes after I actually beat the level. I then decided to submit the record anyways with the mindset of “oh well if it gets caught whatever i'll just quit”. To my surprise the record was accepted and then I never looked back. My next extreme demon would end up being [[Kenos]] which is my hardest demon. I had originally gotten a 97% fail on the level with many more fails at the ending to then beat the level legitimately with an obs bug which made it so the screen was frozen. After trying to rebeat it afterwards I then hacked it for a record on the list as I already knew that it already had a good chance of passing through after a noclipped run of the golden was put on the list. How did I hack it? I bought zbot and recorded a macro and clicked over it. That's it, nothing complicated just a simple clicking over a macro. This method of hacking was used for about 90% of all my hacked completions. Everything that followed afterwards was mostly hacked with a few exceptions. Most top levels I was already good enough to play so whenever I got bored I would just pathetically hack them. I lied to all the friends I had made online and betrayed their trust. The more hacked levels the harder it was to say anything about it to the point where I just stopped caring. Just complete loser behavior. I’d then go on to hack slaughterhouse but instead of just clicking over I spent a short time terribly just aligning clicks which turned out to be terrible but uploaded it anyway. Fast forward to the recent records. They were just simply hacked by clicking over a macro but with a handcam.

I'd like to formally apologize to:<br>
[[Crisis]]<br>
[[Wolvez]]<br>
-[[Doggie]]<br>
-[[Icedcave]]<br>
-[[RG]]<br>
-Spirtex<br>
-Snowballerr<br>
-<br>
-Bigthunder<br>
-[[Zoink]]<br>
-[[Trick]]<br>
-Skzyl<br>
-Cobrablitz<br>
-[[Cursed]]<br>
All the close friends I've made online<br>
The Geometry Dash community as a whole

What does this mean for me? I want to try to still make things right even if it's only a little thing. For all the first victor titles I’ve robbed I’ll be giving the money made from the monetization from those videos back to players who actually deserve it. I know saying sorry or doing this isn't even close to making up for everything I’ve done but it's the least I can do. You can ask any questions you want on the quote tweet of this and I’ll reply to all the relevant questions for as long as I can.
 |originator = spaceuk
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