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Twitch Scammers Tried to Bribe Me refers to a copypasta inadvertently started by Twitch streamer Shaperka after she posted a picture of her nipple to Twitter in an effort to thwart a scammer impersonating her on Twitch who threatened to release her nudes. Her tweet became a copypasta in which people posted humorous photos of themselves.

Origin

Twitch streamer Shaperka plays Runescape on the platform. In the spring of 2019, she and other streamers began being harassed by someone who was making fake accounts impersonating popular Runescape streamers in an effort to phish personal information from viewers. On March 29th, 2019, Shaperka made a video about the scam (shown below).

On April 1st, she posted screenshots of the type of harassment she was receiving as a result of her calling attention to the scams.^[1] On April 21st, 2019, she reported that the harasser was threatening to leak nude pictures of her. She then posted a picture of her nipple onto Twitter with the caption:^[2]

The Twitch scammers first tried to BRIBE me, now they decided to BLACKMAIL me. 'If I don't delete my tweets and videos about them, they will leak my nudes.'
Here's my nipple, like I give a shit. I'm not going to step down to these evil people. sorry mom

The tweet gained over 100 retweets and 2,000 likes (censored version shown below).

Spread

The tweet inspired a copypasta in which other users on the platform posted humorous photos with the caption. Examples include a tweet by fellow Old School RuneScape streamer Soup,^[3] who gained over 360 likes (shown below, left) and a tweet by streamer Toucann, gaining over 80 likes (shown below, right).

Other popular examples include tweets by @TheMuOfficial,^[5] who gained over 580 likes (shown below, left) and @Sick_Nerd,^[6] who gained over 640 likes (shown below, right).

The copypasta was inquired about in a post on /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[4] gaining over 3,100 points.

Various Examples

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