A legal dispute between a Destiny 2 streamer, another streamer, a former NFL pro, and a seemingly defunct esports organization has somehow gotten even weirder than you might expect, as a third streamer has jumped in to give the first streamer $180,000 so he can continue pursuing a judgment he actually already won. Got it?
Trust me: you don't got it.
The whole thing began in 2022 when Jake Strauss, who streams as GernaderJake, loaned $100,000 to Evolve PCs, a boutique PC maker owned at the time by Destiny 2 streamer Ari "TripleWreck" Smith, so the business could continue operations while waiting for an investment to come in.
Smith failed to repay the loan by the January 1, 2023 deadline, according to Strauss, and then later in 2023 Evolve PCs was acquired by Gamers First (G1), the esports organization founded by former NFL safety Kenny Vaccaro. Because of that acquisition, G1 assumed responsibility for repaying the loan, and Strauss said he was assured multiple times by Vaccaro that he would be repaid. Smith remained the guarantor on the loan—essentially, if G1 failed to pay, he'd be on the hook.
A new deadline also passed without repayment, however, and Strauss said that...
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