YouTuber exposed as 'The Real Insider' behind major Assassin's Creed leak and others
YouTuber Dan Allen has apologized for breaking multiple NDAs and revealing information on games in development after being revealed as the person behind the popular leaks account The Real Insider.
The Dan Allen Gaming YouTube channel is a general-interest channel featuring guides, walkthroughs, reactions, and other game-related information—all very innocuous. The Real Insider, on the other hand, seemed to have more behind-the-scenes access: Since being activated earlier this year, the account has revealed information about numerous upcoming games and events(opens in new tab), most recently Ubisoft's big Assassin's Creed presentation, which the account leaked almost in its entirety.
But things went sideways earlier this week thanks to a classic social media blunder: In response to a Twitter inquiry aimed at The Real Insider, Allen replied from the wrong account. He quickly deleted the tweet, but of course it was caught and shared. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier also posted a series of tweets noting links and similarities between the two accounts: Nothing fully definitive, but «quite a coincidence,» as he put it. Those tweets have since been deleted but were also saved for posterity by RhasegonVT.
Faced with all that, Allen quickly copped to being The Real Insider and apologized for his behavior in a now-deleted tweet. «I'm sorry to everyone for my actions,» he wrote. «I'm ashamed and disappointed in myself. I'll be taking some time to reflect on my poor decisions, which will never occur again. To everyone that has supported me over the years, I'm truly sorry I let you down.»
Many followers responding to his apology said they hope he'll bounce back from this «mistake» and resume his streaming career; others expressed
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