set seed that he's already scouted this amongst other perplexing decisions and the amazing pace drew large amounts of skepticism from the minecraft speedrun community including mods a member of the community named eleventy billion took a look at his video analyzing the behavior ultimately coming to the conclusion that this run amongst others was not a random seed run as floby claimed and that he was a cheater after some pressure from the minecraft community floby finally came clean on twitter and admitted the cases of his cheated speedruns amongst other controversies he revealed the reason for uploading the fake random seed run to impress a girl in the minecraft community named crystal with his speedrunning skills unfortunately the run was revealed to be cheated tarnishing his reputation and the girl was in a relationship yeah a fail all around so cheating and speed running is nothing new and it seems new cheating scandals come up all the time however one of the most notorious cases of what people to believe to be blatant cheating was by a mario NUMBER_TOKEN speedrunner named super fast jellyfish super fast jellyfish was a relatively unknown speedrunner up until he did a blindfolded mario NUMBER_TOKEN run that went viral for the wrong reasons blindfolded speedrunning is as hardcore as it sounds you are tasked with beating the game with zero visual information and have to play on sound clues alone this requires extensive and deep knowledge of the game and being blindfolded on super mario NUMBER_TOKEN requires some of the most precise and memory intensive setups and tricks to beat needless to say becoming a great blindfolded mario NUMBER_TOKEN speedrunner requires a lot of practice and memorization super fast jellyfish on the other hand was oddly talented at speedrunning via a blindfold despite immediately being new to it during one of his runs he was performing tricks and movements that were either extremely hard or straight up impossible to perform while blindfolded all the while insisting to his viewers that he was doing it just for muscle memory a youtuber named charliebrownNUMBER_TOKEN made a video analyzing the run and pointing out a lot of discrepancies between jellyfish's run and what a legitimate blindfolded speedrun would look like this became one of the biggest videos about speedrunning ever made garnering NUMBER_TOKEN million views to this day what's more shocking is that right after this scandal jellyfish admitted he cheated in an apology video and that he was only cheating as a joke what you may not know is that that speed run was purposely fake it was purposely fake prior to doing the stream i decided to do this run as a way to joke around and have fun with my community this apology didn't go down well as the consensus of the speedrunning community was basically just that he was trying to save face saying that he was cheating as a joke only because he got caught if it was a joke as he claims you think he would drop the act after the speed run and laugh about it after a stream but that wasn't the case for this reason he became one of the most infamous people in the speed running community speed running and streaming on twitch are pretty interchangeable as a way to interact with their fans and monetize their content through subscriptions and fans tipping them during their streams the exchange is pretty simple the
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