"Well shit, man, youre gonna admit to all that!? Even though it kinda helps just showing where and how bad our security is!? YEAH we can get you a poster!! Hey, donnie! Go get one of the GOOD ones, yeah the new ones in the tubes!"
@@berisha10 pretty sure they use blender, its a free program. Their other channel hoog made a community post a lil bit ago looking for blender artists.
The problem with doing white collar crimes with nerds is that if one of them gets pinched they’re going to cripple under the pressure of interrogation and rat out the entire group.
That's what happens if you try to weasel your way out. Cops put you in their pocket then hold the crap over your head then if your unlucky when they're done with you they still hit you with whatever they can.
The sad thing about these stories is that if they are being told is bc they got caught, unfortunately, we'll never know the greatest hackers ever bc they'll probably never get cought
@Kyle-it2kq he was describing the thinking of the police. According to him, his mom had nothing to do with it, so I'd like to see what evidence the courts had to convict his mom.
The second I saw it go from 2-3 people to 6 I knew where this was going. The fact that 6 people who have never met eachother in person trusted eachother not to talk boggles my mind.
The kid applying for a Microsoft job, breaking into Microsoft, then getting the job and immediately losing it because of the break-in is an 'instant karma' moment for the ages.
I believe the person who hacked valve and leaked half-life 2 also asked Val for a job after he explained how the outlook exploit worked. Valve agreed.. The police were waiting for the person at the airport before he caught on what was going to happen and ran
It's kinda wild how in the U.S. your career is usually trashed if you ever pick up charges, let alone federal ones. But if your charges were from hacking and you happened to get recognizably far with it, it can easily end up launching you into a successful career in cybersecurity.
Well, former thieves know best how to prevent thievery. Wasn't there a counterfeit money genius in the 70s or 80s that worked for the FBI after he got caught to help with counterfeit cases or so? Basically the same thing
Nations especially big ones are at war since 90s at cyberspace, these teenagers could be classified as soldiers and that defend their home nation. these cyber companies have backdoor for intelligence agencies and this is what they have agreed to remove jail terms.
27:00 “it’s a harsh reality someone’s gotta go down” so that’s this punks justification for allowing his mom to do time for him? Anyone with the tiniest bit of integrity would immediately turn themselves in hoping it would free their mother.
It is not. I took it as his explanation of how the system operates. If he truly believed what he said there he wouldn't even have tried to claim that she was innocent. Use your brain. He was clearly saying that the system is flawed. Turning himself in would not change absolutely anything. It's not like they have his mother hostage, they have her in jail for different charges that won't go away even if he turns himself in. Are you dumb?
@ she was jailed for aiding his criminal activity his selfishness and self interest allowed him to use his mother despite the risks he was putting her in. He has zero integrity his actions caused his mom to be caged he used the love any mother would have for their child as a manipulative tool to get her to help him despite the risks. If your only choices are NOT running or using your mother to aid your criminal activities/ behavior you take option 1 and take whatever consequences come your way rather than getting your mother involved. That’s me using my head as a 36 year old man who turned 17 & 18 behind bars for my own stupid decisions. I got out of jail as a legal adult and completely changed my life because I wanted to start a family and refused to allow my wife/children or my parents to see me in jail or to be put through any of the drama that inevitably comes with living a life on the wrong side of the law. I was an alcoholic in my late teens and early adult years using alcohol to self medicate the PTSD I had from the violence I experienced in my life, when I met my wife who already had a child at the time I knew she was who I wanted to start a family with an I knew I didn’t want her child or our future children to grow up watching me spend all my personal time drinking as much alcohol as I could just like I didn’t want them to see me in and out of jail or see any of the other bad behavior so I did what I had to do as a man who can put the needs of others before his own and I gave up alcohol before making the step to move my wife and her child into my home. That was many many many many years ago I’ve kept my promise and they have NEVER seen me consume alcohol or break any laws or go to jail, not because I’ve hid it from them either they don’t see it because I did what I had to do to make it non existent in my life. Men do man stuff while little boys get their mommies locked up
This video has me hooked from start to finish. Probably one of the best I’ve watched on UA-cam for as long as I can remember. Editing is phenomenal. Story telling was perfect.
Yeah, that’s crazy. I like thought about that. Just imagine opening that trashcan and seeing that I mean most people wouldn’t even know what they’re looking at.
@@drinkwater5762A modified console having tools to develop games for the console. Game developers use it to make games, which is not possible with normal consoles
its almost like i HAVE to comment on every single time how much the production quality on the videos are improving each time fern uploades. i have been following since the 3rd video on this channel and content has only gotten better consistently. thank you fern.
@@fern-tv This may be my favorite video yall have done, I love a longer one & having been a distrupt(tv) fan I have a soft spot for hacking-related content lol
Taxes pay for public infrastructure, corporations lose profit One’s the government, the other are private entities. Are you saying corporate profits are more important than taxes lmao
It sucks that the most cautious out of the group get harrassed into addiction and suicide, while the most heinous member, besides the snitch basically gets away with it and throws his own mother under the bus.
Yeah he’s the real biggest scumbag out of them all, even worse than the snitch. Pled not guilty when he obviously was, then fled his country and had his mum do a jail sentence instead of him. Terrible person.
Ive heard this story so many times, that being said the visuals and your way of explaining things had me hooked like i had never heard of the situation. Dope video man.
This will sound crazy but around 2008 give or take a year or two, the FBI knocked i on our door in the middle of the night wanting to speak with my 15 year old son. It turns out one of his friends was doing the exact same thing - his name was also David (the friend) and they wanted to ask my son if he could give them information about where he was working on this stuff. We were so confused and my son was like "I thought he was just modding controllers so you could get cheat codes". The kid was a minor, but he didn't return to school. I had no idea until I just saw this video that it was this big!
This is awesome. I did notice one small mistake though! You initially said that one of the hackers is from Wilmington, North Carolina but he’s from Wilmington, Delaware
I was wondering about that when he said Wilmington was about 8hrs from Canada. I live about 45 mins from Wilmington NC and it's waaay further than 8 hrs. Lol
fern, bro. as a passionate dev and underground enthusiast of this topic, having listened carefully to Jack Rhysider's podcast and MVG's many videos about all things Xbox... it's a delight to see your visual storytelling to condense this, into a -30min~ video. nice work my g.
He got temporary freedom while the others were suffering with their consequences, now 1 of them is passed away, the others are living normal lives, and Justin may is in prison till this year or 2029
@@jamiesherrill1590 LMAO brother cops are never your friends. They will do everything they can do put you behind bars, they can lie and make fake promises and still put you in jail
All to unlock a bunch of sh*t in a video game that doesn't matter in real life and honestly won't even matter in a year or 2 when nobody is even playing that game because they've moved onto the next one 😐
2 years is a little much, but to be fair you can't expect to try to escape probation and law enforcement by escaping the country, trying to resist arrest and then threaten to harm yourself, all while getting off scot free
Did you forget about the fact that they cut off their ankle monitor, tried to flee the country, and then fled police on foot lmao? They're lucky 2 years was the sentence after all that.
You've probably seen 100 comments saying the same thing, but my god the editing and quality on your videos are incredible. I legitimately feel like I'm watching something on Netflix, you're one of the only channels on UA-cam I'm genuinely excited towards seeing the upcoming video. Keep it up man, you deserve all your success!
and then fr said "im not hiding i did nothing wrong" he committed crimes and let his mum go to jail instead of saving her and turning himself in????????? fucking delusional or manipulative or both
O feel so bad for holly, she clearly felt so trapped and dispite being the least involved she got the second highest ammount of jail time, especially considering she was a minor when most of it happened
Amazing storytelling - both in narration and in visual animations! Keep it up! It always baffles me how almost every hacker in your videos gets caught because of horrible OpSec and/or too big of an ego.
Yeah, I was surprised to see this, normally their editing is top-notch. For a second I thought maybe it was a weird orientation or something, I trust Fern more than my own instincts!
I started learning about cyber security and it's getting intense these days with A.I., Machine Learning, and faster computing. I'm just wow'd at what those guys did as kids back in the day but also flabbergasted at how those companies didn't stop suspicious activity on their networks immediately. It looks like they investigated them for a long time and finally got them. Sad that one dude committed suicide 😢
my man. you put up the ad notice in the top corner so anyone can skip past if they want and put a short but sweet ad in thats related to the actual content of the video so its way bearable and not terribly out of place. bravo sir.
Holly’s story makes me really sad. Like I know fuck around and find out, but regardless, the combination of anxiety and dysphoria is all too familiar and unless you experience it yourself, it’s hard to grasp how damaging it is to one’s psyche.
The intro of this video was amazing. Straight out of a movie. The editing of Fern get's better and better. Wonder which 3D artist did this or if Fern creates it himself?
That was the best summary of the whole story that can be put into 27 minutes and uploaded as a video to UA-cam, but I still recommend to listen to the multiple Darkness Diaries podcast episodes because there are so many crazy details and background stories that didn't fit into this 27 minutes long video
I still remember the first time your video popped in my youtube recommendations. I watched it, loved it because of the story telling and very good animation. I clicked on your channel to see more but there were no other videos. I could not believe a channel of this quality had so few subscribers with only 1 video. Now here we are a year later, almost 2 million subscribers and it seems your quality of videos are only getting better and better. Keep up the amazing work friend.
Also, they mentioned that they don't ship to Canada but if he's gonna drive all the way to Wilmington, North Carolina why wouldn't he just drive to the shop? That's right across the border or any dealership or body shop that's closer.?
The early Xbox days are still some of the greatest memories I have. Soft-modding Halo 2 maps... Paying people with 1-months to boost... Figuring out new ways to get out of maps... People playing other console games on a modded Xbox. Some of the most creative and freeing times for us, no doubt.
That's how they do you. They get you to rat, make it seem like your Scott free. Then nab you down the road on everything and more. Cuz nobody likes a rat. Even the ones being ratted to.
Sanad , the sonic guy, hasn't really turned a new leaf since he's been harassing a youtuber for posting the story of the whole xbox underground, sending him copyright strikes and threats...
Easily one of the best half hour crime docs I've seen in a long time. Great story that doesn't lag, the animation is on point, and the narration rivals that of the great Morgan Freeman. A++
@fern you are out of this world with this content! your videos are keep getting better and better while you have set the bar so high with your previous work! keep it up, man! love your narrative speech and editing!
Love all the credits with full names and then: "Art Direction: Paul" :D Well done, Paul, well done! :D And also: Love it less and less how more and more channels from everywhere steal this smart way of rendering/visually telling a story with simple geometry you guys started doing (fern and simply). Gute Arbeit, guuute Arbeit :)
This was incredibly well-made and highly entertaining. I have no idea how you get the budget and time to do all of these 3-D animations. Must have taken a year time. The lighting alone is incredible and all of the completely accurate renditions of tech hardware. all of these made from scratch?
Its pretty sad that a kid, who did something stupid became so scared that she ended her own life. They likely would have gotten a much lesser sentence without trying to run.
Lgbt is a eugenics program and homie got indocrinated in prison by thug hunters. I hope you find Christ and make a change before you meet the same fate. ✝🙏
Considering three out of four of them got together during the Xbox days and the Xbox days haven't been around for 15 years clearly you're not good at math and they were definitely well into their 30s
I always find out other friends are into Fern and Hoog when 'the channels with those super clean videos' comes up in conversation. Massive props to you guys, top tier content always. Proficiat!
A moment of cockiness will destroy the entire reputation of an organisation. If that phone call was never made by Dylan, all this would have never happened. Unlucky buddy but this is a lesson to learn for other hackers.
They did an impressive job. Until they decided to try to be physical and be in places in person without hiding their identity. Your mouth and face will get you in more trouble than anything as they say.
That intro graphic alone shows you have earned your 2+ million subs. BTW for those who don't know crossing the US/Canada border is no joke. They know everything.
Awesome video! Sorry to be annoying, but in the first minute of the video you talk about the route from Wilmington, DE to Ontario, and show it on a map. But on the map, you have it listed as Wilmington, NC, which is a city quite a bit further south from Wilmington, DE.
I was going to comment the same thing. He also pronounced Bowie wrong. It’s actually pronounced (Boo-E) not (Bow-E). Everything else was correct though.
This sounds like a plot of a biopic movie about hackers breaking consoles. I still won’t forget about the hacker who leaked GTA 6, which deserves a video documentary.
Calling big company you have hacked to ask for a poster and actually getting one is crazy.
a lot of companies have bug bounty programs.
Yeah, but hes only a kid. If he stopped and manages to control himself that'd be a legend
At 8:30 logging into an employee's Gmail about..... ah yeah before 2FA it was easy. lol
Have you seen the “I hacked the dutch government all I got was this lousy T-shirt”
"Well shit, man, youre gonna admit to all that!? Even though it kinda helps just showing where and how bad our security is!?
YEAH we can get you a poster!! Hey, donnie! Go get one of the GOOD ones, yeah the new ones in the tubes!"
big shoutout to the 3d artists workin on these vids, they all look fantastic and add a lot of immersion to the story !
How do they do it? Is some of this AI generated? What software do they use?
@@berisha10 pretty sure they use blender, its a free program. Their other channel hoog made a community post a lil bit ago looking for blender artists.
@@berisha10 They use 90% Blender
Especially the intro
That seems like an insult without knowing it to the editors @@berisha10
The biggest issue is people jsut can’t keep their mouth shut, it’s so incredibly tempting to share your discovery for clout
Everybody talks. It’s biology.
Perfectly illustrating the Snowflake Hacker Judische who will soon be caught be authorities
He just talks too much
It's very human ye
I feel bad for them cuz now you can do that and be 100% undercover 😂
@@reboundrides8132 That’s not true Hellen Keller was solid, she never said shit to anyone.
The problem with doing white collar crimes with nerds is that if one of them gets pinched they’re going to cripple under the pressure of interrogation and rat out the entire group.
Their first mistake was letting on a bunch of idiots.
Two men can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
Honestly any one would snitch even if they were raised like that
LMAO at this comment.
Ah, don't become a street guy you will be in for a rude awakening
One of them became a girl. 🤯
What kind of netflix budget potential have I stumbled into?
yup, one of the best :)))) it's like a friday night when they upload;
this too good for netflix
Go binge their other videos they’re awesome!
netflix would've made an entire season out of the bumper story in the beginning
these cgi graphics are why channels like this will never get a deal with netflix lmao
The editing seems to keep getting drastically better each video love it
bro you got 2 minutes into the video
Im at 21 minutes😂
This video is 2 months old already but yeah they're pretty high quality
Bro has iPhone wallpaper as his pfp💀
I really want some of these guys to get hired to do 3d animation for a film studio
Bro snitched and still got the worst sentence 💀
serves him right especially after what happened to holly
@@mtarek2005 what? it's not his fault he committed
@@sky_skipper yeah running away was a collosally bad idea but a lot of the evidence comes from him
@@sky_skipper She* like come on.
That's what happens if you try to weasel your way out. Cops put you in their pocket then hold the crap over your head then if your unlucky when they're done with you they still hit you with whatever they can.
The sad thing about these stories is that if they are being told is bc they got caught, unfortunately, we'll never know the greatest hackers ever bc they'll probably never get cought
Bingo
that is true hackers never lose
@@Laynenelson320
You can't spell worth your life
All things come to an end eventually
That dlyan dude is cold blooded, he let his mom go to jail for his bs
And then says "Somebody has to go down for something..." what a selfish human being he is.
to be fair i dont think he can get her out by turning himself in unless he cuts a deal before getting on a plane to AU
@Kyle-it2kq he was describing the thinking of the police. According to him, his mom had nothing to do with it, so I'd like to see what evidence the courts had to convict his mom.
Yo wtf u doing here bro im waiting for my mud
@@LosKoras I didn't become the most creative concrete UA-camr by only watching concrete VIDEOS! Jk appreciate ya
The second I saw it go from 2-3 people to 6 I knew where this was going. The fact that 6 people who have never met eachother in person trusted eachother not to talk boggles my mind.
Lack of social skills
Rule of large numbers - the more people involved, the greater the risk/chance of failure.
And they were very young. @@Boomhauersdad
To be fair, it was the 2nd and 3rd person who led to all this mess, and not the newer members.
🤨Yup, because if one gets caught, they’re tellin’-tellin’.🗣👮🏻♂
A channel that uploads high quality content without taking months per video is a rarity
they use old videos from simplicisimus a german channel. They are trying to go international
Please continue to take months to make quality content. There's enough garbage out there
@@X9523-z3v they dont take that long maybe 2-3 weeks
Just mention the name of "OVER SIMPLIFIED". don't go thru corners.
@@Schorsche simplicisimus still uploads like every week
18:03 no way he asked for a poster and actually got one😭
That’s kind of a baller move ngl.
That made me laugh too. These gamers are cute cunts
The kid applying for a Microsoft job, breaking into Microsoft, then getting the job and immediately losing it because of the break-in is an 'instant karma' moment for the ages.
I believe the person who hacked valve and leaked half-life 2 also asked Val for a job after he explained how the outlook exploit worked. Valve agreed.. The police were waiting for the person at the airport before he caught on what was going to happen and ran
They did that on purpose that’s not karma
This kid was an idiot
They already knew he broke in 😅
Ya I went to school with that dude, he was actually cool guy
It's kinda wild how in the U.S. your career is usually trashed if you ever pick up charges, let alone federal ones. But if your charges were from hacking and you happened to get recognizably far with it, it can easily end up launching you into a successful career in cybersecurity.
Well, former thieves know best how to prevent thievery. Wasn't there a counterfeit money genius in the 70s or 80s that worked for the FBI after he got caught to help with counterfeit cases or so? Basically the same thing
Nations especially big ones are at war since 90s at cyberspace, these teenagers could be classified as soldiers and that defend their home nation. these cyber companies have backdoor for intelligence agencies and this is what they have agreed to remove jail terms.
tbf, you would know better about cybersecurity than a cybercriminal? Some former thieves have developed businesses surrounding home security as well.
put that shit on your resume lol
i had the same observation at the end of this. pretty interesting
27:00 “it’s a harsh reality someone’s gotta go down” so that’s this punks justification for allowing his mom to do time for him?
Anyone with the tiniest bit of integrity would immediately turn themselves in hoping it would free their mother.
Absolutely Dylan is a piece of shit. Even the smarmy way he is talking about it as if it was a different person who committed the crimes.
no dumb emotional people
yes!
It is not. I took it as his explanation of how the system operates. If he truly believed what he said there he wouldn't even have tried to claim that she was innocent. Use your brain. He was clearly saying that the system is flawed. Turning himself in would not change absolutely anything. It's not like they have his mother hostage, they have her in jail for different charges that won't go away even if he turns himself in. Are you dumb?
@ she was jailed for aiding his criminal activity his selfishness and self interest allowed him to use his mother despite the risks he was putting her in. He has zero integrity his actions caused his mom to be caged he used the love any mother would have for their child as a manipulative tool to get her to help him despite the risks. If your only choices are NOT running or using your mother to aid your criminal activities/ behavior you take option 1 and take whatever consequences come your way rather than getting your mother involved.
That’s me using my head as a 36 year old man who turned 17 & 18 behind bars for my own stupid decisions. I got out of jail as a legal adult and completely changed my life because I wanted to start a family and refused to allow my wife/children or my parents to see me in jail or to be put through any of the drama that inevitably comes with living a life on the wrong side of the law. I was an alcoholic in my late teens and early adult years using alcohol to self medicate the PTSD I had from the violence I experienced in my life, when I met my wife who already had a child at the time I knew she was who I wanted to start a family with an I knew I didn’t want her child or our future children to grow up watching me spend all my personal time drinking as much alcohol as I could just like I didn’t want them to see me in and out of jail or see any of the other bad behavior so I did what I had to do as a man who can put the needs of others before his own and I gave up alcohol before making the step to move my wife and her child into my home. That was many many many many years ago I’ve kept my promise and they have NEVER seen me consume alcohol or break any laws or go to jail, not because I’ve hid it from them either they don’t see it because I did what I had to do to make it non existent in my life.
Men do man stuff while little boys get their mommies locked up
This video has me hooked from start to finish. Probably one of the best I’ve watched on UA-cam for as long as I can remember. Editing is phenomenal. Story telling was perfect.
oh my goodness imagine being that one guy who found those xbox dev kits in that dumpster, and finding out this all happened because of you. Wild.
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@@drinkwater5762Allows you to play unofficial games, aka early builds
Yeah, that’s crazy. I like thought about that. Just imagine opening that trashcan and seeing that I mean most people wouldn’t even know what they’re looking at.
@@drinkwater5762 bro slept through the video
@@drinkwater5762A modified console having tools to develop games for the console. Game developers use it to make games, which is not possible with normal consoles
its almost like i HAVE to comment on every single time how much the production quality on the videos are improving each time fern uploades. i have been following since the 3rd video on this channel and content has only gotten better consistently. thank you fern.
thank you for the consistent support! really means a lot :)
@@fern-tv ❤❤❤
I hope your ad revenues cover this video cost.@@fern-tv
@@fern-tv This may be my favorite video yall have done, I love a longer one & having been a distrupt(tv) fan I have a soft spot for hacking-related content lol
Yeah. Thank you Fern. 😀
Pro tip: If you’re applying for a dream job, break into their building so that they are guaranteed to hire you.
That zoom in to the room, then the zoom in to the keyboard model at the beginning was so unnecessary lmao! You're flexing on us for real.
It's very cool
Very Branch Education-like.
Hahaha you're right didn't even catch this
Man it’s been MONTHS since I’ve been hooked on a video like this
Frr
facts, yt is boring
wait till you try red teaming
@@MrFatFire Intriguing
10/10
Hacking dozens of Large corporations : 18 months
Tax evasion : 8 years
Average government of a "free and democratic" country.
Based? Tax evasion is stealing from the people, while hacking coropos is stealing from billionaires. Fuck the corpos.
Taxes pay for public infrastructure, corporations lose profit
One’s the government, the other are private entities. Are you saying corporate profits are more important than taxes lmao
When the corporations leak the private information of customers they sometimes get fined. If hackers have to serve time so should CEOs
Hacking dozens of Large corporations : 18 months
Tax evasion : 8 years
Geting a video made about you on youtube: Priceless.
I've never come across a UA-cam channel that tells compelling stories in such an immersive way. Keep it up!
Bro what. You guys have no clue how long these animations take. Insane amount of work in 1 video
Bro it's all Ai nowadays the animations take minutes to string together
Only to mispronounce soldering
@@graytoby1is it the same company as Fern AI?
True
@@graytoby1AI doesn’t make this a 1 min job 😂 have you ever used AI? It’s in its infancy
It sucks that the most cautious out of the group get harrassed into addiction and suicide, while the most heinous member, besides the snitch basically gets away with it and throws his own mother under the bus.
Yeah he’s the real biggest scumbag out of them all, even worse than the snitch. Pled not guilty when he obviously was, then fled his country and had his mum do a jail sentence instead of him. Terrible person.
The documentry left out that the Australian guy is still a hacker wanted for numerous crimes including being involved in a fucking bank robbery
@@karan-ns8rydid you not watch the video?
Welcome to life. It sucks most of the time and then you die.
@@Good_Ebening_ Then he realized a manifesto saying how he was "disappointed in what the Australian police state has become" lmfao
Ive heard this story so many times, that being said the visuals and your way of explaining things had me hooked like i had never heard of the situation. Dope video man.
This will sound crazy but around 2008 give or take a year or two, the FBI knocked i on our door in the middle of the night wanting to speak with my 15 year old son. It turns out one of his friends was doing the exact same thing - his name was also David (the friend) and they wanted to ask my son if he could give them information about where he was working on this stuff. We were so confused and my son was like "I thought he was just modding controllers so you could get cheat codes". The kid was a minor, but he didn't return to school. I had no idea until I just saw this video that it was this big!
This is awesome. I did notice one small mistake though! You initially said that one of the hackers is from Wilmington, North Carolina but he’s from Wilmington, Delaware
Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed!
Nuh uh
I was wondering about that when he said Wilmington was about 8hrs from Canada. I live about 45 mins from Wilmington NC and it's waaay further than 8 hrs. Lol
I've caught several mistakes in videos that make me think this is an AI channel.
@@pragmaticplatypus lol nope
fern, bro. as a passionate dev and underground enthusiast of this topic, having listened carefully to Jack Rhysider's podcast and MVG's many videos about all things Xbox... it's a delight to see your visual storytelling to condense this, into a -30min~ video. nice work my g.
justin being an informant and then later getting arrested and fined anyways is just pure karma
snitches get stitches
Fr 8 years 😭😭😭
He got temporary freedom while the others were suffering with their consequences, now 1 of them is passed away, the others are living normal lives, and Justin may is in prison till this year or 2029
honestly that doesnt even make sense. he should sue
@@jamiesherrill1590 LMAO brother cops are never your friends. They will do everything they can do put you behind bars, they can lie and make fake promises and still put you in jail
My god, this is one of the most cinematic yt vids i’ve ever seen.
6:18 $100 for 30 minutes?! Lol, hwhat?
Cheaters are just sad.
Especially considering this is like 2005-2010. lol.
fr nowadays its 30$ for a week
All to unlock a bunch of sh*t in a video game that doesn't matter in real life and honestly won't even matter in a year or 2 when nobody is even playing that game because they've moved onto the next one 😐
Dont know what funnier that or the fact they hacked all big names excluding Bethesda Skyrim
Business must’ve been booming to be charging that much
Nathan: “Your honor, I’m the least involved in hacking”
The Police: “Best we can do is over 2 years”
2 years is a little much, but to be fair you can't expect to try to escape probation and law enforcement by escaping the country, trying to resist arrest and then threaten to harm yourself, all while getting off scot free
Did you forget about the fact that they cut off their ankle monitor, tried to flee the country, and then fled police on foot lmao? They're lucky 2 years was the sentence after all that.
I mean, I suspect that the sentence was more for cutting the ankle monitor and trying to flee the country
The 2 years probably had to do with evading arrest lol
@@Clock_Man_2763 They got such a harsh sentence because they made it worse for themselves.
You've probably seen 100 comments saying the same thing, but my god the editing and quality on your videos are incredible. I legitimately feel like I'm watching something on Netflix, you're one of the only channels on UA-cam I'm genuinely excited towards seeing the upcoming video. Keep it up man, you deserve all your success!
Yeah, it can’t be said enough, every second is such well crafted, I’m glad I found this channel. They are nailing this
Netflix doesn't even come close to this quality.
The golden era of hacking and gaming together. Insane
the dedication the team behind this channel has for their videos must be insane
the editing and storytelling are just beyond me
the dedication the team behind this channel has for their videos must be insane the editing and storytelling are just beyond me
@@Theunicorn2012 wdym ?
The first video I saw from fern was the 2 hackers video, and from then, its insane how the editing has improved
Dylan fleeing to the Czech Republic and then Britain letting his mom take the fall and not getting sent back is insane
Failed as a man. Leaves his mother to reap his consequences, publicly speaks on it and says “yeah sucks”
and then fr said "im not hiding i did nothing wrong" he committed crimes and let his mum go to jail instead of saving her and turning himself in????????? fucking delusional or manipulative or both
@@ZackRossFilms😂u only got yourself in this world
Poor lady
Always knew Dylan was the little shit from the start
O feel so bad for holly, she clearly felt so trapped and dispite being the least involved she got the second highest ammount of jail time, especially considering she was a minor when most of it happened
Add a short ending sequence, everything is super high quality but it ends instantly (loved the video)
Agree. Videos that end like this always bug me.
Yeah Justin finally getting jammed up and having that be the end was kinda abrupt
Amazing storytelling - both in narration and in visual animations! Keep it up!
It always baffles me how almost every hacker in your videos gets caught because of horrible OpSec and/or too big of an ego.
The map in the beginning said Wilmington North Carolina but the map definitely wasn't even looking anywhere close to north Carolina
Then later the box is addressed to Wilmington DE
Yeah Wilmington NC to Mississauga is like 13.5 hours
Wilmington DE not North Carolina
They just mis-typed the state. Delaware was intended.
Yeah, I was surprised to see this, normally their editing is top-notch. For a second I thought maybe it was a weird orientation or something, I trust Fern more than my own instincts!
I started learning about cyber security and it's getting intense these days with A.I., Machine Learning, and faster computing. I'm just wow'd at what those guys did as kids back in the day but also flabbergasted at how those companies didn't stop suspicious activity on their networks immediately. It looks like they investigated them for a long time and finally got them.
Sad that one dude committed suicide 😢
my man. you put up the ad notice in the top corner so anyone can skip past if they want and put a short but sweet ad in thats related to the actual content of the video so its way bearable and not terribly out of place. bravo sir.
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Timestamp?
The video quality is amazing... it's even better than most documentaries
Yet i still dont know if his friend lives in Delaware or North Carolina
@@tsunami870 *Nobody is talking about where his friend lives they are talking about the video quality goofball.*
Genuinely good effort on the 3D art - very immersive and adds so much value to the context of the story. I really enjoyed it, thank you.
Holly’s story makes me really sad. Like I know fuck around and find out, but regardless, the combination of anxiety and dysphoria is all too familiar and unless you experience it yourself, it’s hard to grasp how damaging it is to one’s psyche.
ywnbaw
@@distaf2146 I hope you get better and grow as a person
@@alexrogers777 I hope you get better and gr-ACK
@@alexrogers777what does “ywnbaw” mean?
English is not my first language.
It doesn’t mean anything it’s gibberish.
Be what God made you.
NAH, THEY WAS THE ONE THAT LEAKED GEARS OF WAR 3?!! 😭
Karma was bond to get them
The animations for your videos are incredible man. I can't even begin to think how much time and work goes into these videos, thanks for blessing us!
The intro of this video was amazing. Straight out of a movie. The editing of Fern get's better and better. Wonder which 3D artist did this or if Fern creates it himself?
Bro did you watch the intro, 3d animinaters name is written in credits, fern is not just one person it's a whole team
All members of the team are shown in the intro.
Pay attention bro.
The worst part is, they all go down the same way. Never invite more or new members to the party than you already have or started with.
That was the best summary of the whole story that can be put into 27 minutes and uploaded as a video to UA-cam, but I still recommend to listen to the multiple Darkness Diaries podcast episodes because there are so many crazy details and background stories that didn't fit into this 27 minutes long video
The video, audio & Overall storytelling is top notch. So good that I'd skip movies to watch them. Beautiful work done by all involved 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I've paused my shit to watch this ay
This is way too professional for YT ❤ you deserve 100M subscribers
This is fake. Those guys have no mouths and would have died of starvation in weeks.
lmaooo
good one
how do they breathe
Cant get much by you 😂
I was thinking the same thing. Like, they think we’re stupid or something. It’s infuriating
Whoa. Stumbled across a really cool channel. Well done.
I still remember the first time your video popped in my youtube recommendations. I watched it, loved it because of the story telling and very good animation. I clicked on your channel to see more but there were no other videos. I could not believe a channel of this quality had so few subscribers with only 1 video. Now here we are a year later, almost 2 million subscribers and it seems your quality of videos are only getting better and better. Keep up the amazing work friend.
at 5:58, the small detail of making each of their rooms resemble the squares on the microsoft logo is an insane easter egg, nicely done
01:04 the bumper seems fine
Took family car listen dummy
They took the family car
Also, they mentioned that they don't ship to Canada but if he's gonna drive all the way to Wilmington, North Carolina why wouldn't he just drive to the shop? That's right across the border or any dealership or body shop that's closer.?
😂😂
The early Xbox days are still some of the greatest memories I have. Soft-modding Halo 2 maps... Paying people with 1-months to boost... Figuring out new ways to get out of maps... People playing other console games on a modded Xbox. Some of the most creative and freeing times for us, no doubt.
Damn you were apart of this nice how big would u say this Xbox modding community was back in the day cuz I started when mw3 came out
@@eugenelenskih2885it wasn’t that big. Probably just a little bigger than you’re mom.
Halo 2 was the game that changed everything for me. Super bouncing and glitching on maps to explore with friends online was so much fun
@@ChadAV69gottemmmm
the quality on these videos just get better and better each time, it’s insane that this is free to watch . incredible job as usual!
Bro was an informant, helped the authorities, and whilst everyone got 18 months or 2 years or probation... Dude gets 8 years... Why? The tax man....
That's how they do you. They get you to rat, make it seem like your Scott free. Then nab you down the road on everything and more. Cuz nobody likes a rat. Even the ones being ratted to.
i think somethings left out here. He got arrested in 2017 right after their court charges?
I've always watched you're videos, it feels like a cinematic with every single detail
Sanad , the sonic guy, hasn't really turned a new leaf since he's been harassing a youtuber for posting the story of the whole xbox underground, sending him copyright strikes and threats...
Does that mean this video will be copyright struck?
Really...
That is probably the best intro for a video EVER!
Compensates for the abrupt ending
Easily one of the best half hour crime docs I've seen in a long time. Great story that doesn't lag, the animation is on point, and the narration rivals that of the great Morgan Freeman. A++
@fern you are out of this world with this content!
your videos are keep getting better and better while you have set the bar so high with your previous work!
keep it up, man!
love your narrative speech and editing!
Love how the one who helps the police gets the worst punishment
because he didn’t stop stealing shit and committing fraud after becoming an informant lol
Snitches get stitches
Love all the credits with full names and then: "Art Direction: Paul" :D Well done, Paul, well done! :D
And also: Love it less and less how more and more channels from everywhere steal this smart way of rendering/visually telling a story with simple geometry you guys started doing (fern and simply).
Gute Arbeit, guuute Arbeit :)
The style and structure of this video is simply amazing. Im happy this was a recommendation! Definitely subscribed
The did not just call Delaware, North Carolina!
Lol! There's a Wilmington in both states, what's the harm
the nc wilm is better anyway
Yes, yes they did…somehow. I see geography is an optional elective in school these days..
@@dukemo6551that it’s a 10 hour difference his 8 hour drive would have been 18 plus to nc
Dang the animation quality keeps getting better and better. Keep up the good work
Yep, way better than before
This was incredibly well-made and highly entertaining. I have no idea how you get the budget and time to do all of these 3-D animations. Must have taken a year time. The lighting alone is incredible and all of the completely accurate renditions of tech hardware. all of these made from scratch?
My bus was late & I missed an event I was looking forward to, but Fern uploaded & made my day 🎉
sorry to hear, glad we can entertain you at least
@@fern-tv love your videos, they are sooo much better than Netflix
@@fern-tv if you aren’t already, you should be on Nebula ❤
Its pretty sad that a kid, who did something stupid became so scared that she ended her own life. They likely would have gotten a much lesser sentence without trying to run.
He had a mental illness
@@SocialMediaTragedyfuck off, that's not a justification for their death
@@SocialMediaTragedyShe*
Lgbt is a eugenics program and homie got indocrinated in prison by thug hunters.
I hope you find Christ and make a change before you meet the same fate.
✝🙏
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Poor gal....
The quality of these videos get better and better every upload. 10/10!
"They were just a bunch of teenagers"
Bros look like they're in their 30's 😭
its what happens when you live off of hotpockets
@@drunkenmaster8511 And Mtn Dew Code Zero
Every high-schooler back in the day looked like they were already 30
Considering three out of four of them got together during the Xbox days and the Xbox days haven't been around for 15 years clearly you're not good at math and they were definitely well into their 30s
@@KB-nt7eg Youre not very bright, are you?
I always find out other friends are into Fern and Hoog when 'the channels with those super clean videos' comes up in conversation.
Massive props to you guys, top tier content always. Proficiat!
A moment of cockiness will destroy the entire reputation of an organisation. If that phone call was never made by Dylan, all this would have never happened. Unlucky buddy but this is a lesson to learn for other hackers.
They did an impressive job. Until they decided to try to be physical and be in places in person without hiding their identity. Your mouth and face will get you in more trouble than anything as they say.
@@geronimo5537 Correct G
That intro graphic alone shows you have earned your 2+ million subs. BTW for those who don't know crossing the US/Canada border is no joke. They know everything.
Man your vfx and video editing in this is honestly insane. Love your guys work keep it up
The production quality of this video is on another level
Dude. This is incredible - 10/10 editing and overall production. Addicted.
Who ever does the graphic design/editing on this channel is doing a beautiful job 👏
The production value of this is absolutely incredible! Only a few minutes in but damn, just had to say how impressed I am.
Awesome video! Sorry to be annoying, but in the first minute of the video you talk about the route from Wilmington, DE to Ontario, and show it on a map. But on the map, you have it listed as Wilmington, NC, which is a city quite a bit further south from Wilmington, DE.
I was going to comment the same thing. He also pronounced Bowie wrong. It’s actually pronounced (Boo-E) not (Bow-E). Everything else was correct though.
The channel apologised to someone else in the comments about this mistake. They were referring to Wilmington, Delaware and mislabelled it on the map.
damn so not only did dude snitch on his friends but he then got the worst and most extreme punishment out of all of them lmfaooo
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I'm pretty sure the youngest kid got the worst
69th like
“No one likes a grass”… Probably didn’t have a lawyer explain you need deals in writing before you spill the beans.
@@anim8dideas849 youngest kid got off easy, but he had to run with zero plans
The production quality on these videos, spectacular!!
This sounds like a plot of a biopic movie about hackers breaking consoles. I still won’t forget about the hacker who leaked GTA 6, which deserves a video documentary.
theres already videos about him.
"the nerdy teen who wouldn't stop hacking companies" is the name
howd i get lucky seeing this upload after 34 seconds
Cause you got a UA-cam addiction like the rest of us
notis on
I saw it at 34 minutes
I've never watched this channel and just got it recommended
You’re up all night till the sun.
the way u hooked me into this documentary with that clean ass intro u deserve ah sub💪🏾
Watched almost all of the videos on the channel under a week! Love the vids! This one is especially good and interesting to me!
I really love the editing. And the storytelling is amazing!!
Heyyy I've seen this one ;)
Schön dass ihr dieses großartige Video einem größeren Publikum zugänglich macht!
Gibts den kanal ach auf deutsch oder was?😂
@@Harry_GersackYes
fern is my fav youtube channel at the moment fr
i always get goosebumps watching your videos
AWESOME work
it’s always a good day when fern uploads
Ive only just started the video, but i must say, i really like the hacker videos. They're my favourite and i hope to see more of them
A movie based on this with Martin Scorsese as the director would be crazy.
Hed be too much of a boomer to do it right
12:15 McCordsville, Indiana is mind blowing, I’m from Indianapolis and I’ve been to parties in McCordsville
22:55 it just amazes me how cringe people are when they think they are doing something so incredible.
It was pretty increíble though
Yeah the voice got me 💀 bro sounds like a gamer