Nadia Amine Call of Duty: Warzone Cheating Allegations

Overview

Nadia Amine Call of Duty: Warzone Cheating Allegations refers to accusations that Call of Duty streamer Nadia Amine cheats at Call of Duty: Warzone by using aimbots. The accusations, which Nadia denies, began in August 2022 and were popularized by YouTuber Call of Shame shortly after Nadia allegedly broke a world record for total kills on the Warzone map "Fortune's Keep" by a female. The accusations inspired hate towards the streamer as users across social media shared clips where she can allegedly be seen cheating. Some professional gamers, content creators and streamers, including Ninja and Shroud, defended Nadia by claiming there is not enough proof to definitively say she's cheating, also mentioning that she uses a controller to play, which automatically enables a level of aim assist.

History

Background

Nadia Amine began streaming Call of Duty: Warzone on Twitch on June 28th, 2021,^[1] the same date she uploaded her first YouTube^[2] video, a cut of her stream titled, "Female Warzone WORLD RECORD| 44 KILLS." That December, she took part in the $5,000 "Women Of Verdansk" Warzone tournament, ultimately taking home a first place prize.^[3] She started to see a significant increase in followers in July 2022 according to StreamCharts,^[4] rising from roughly 63,000 followers to 600,000 followers between July 14th and October 10th, 2022. Nadia streams on multiple platforms when she goes live on Twitch, including TikTok, where she shows an angle of herself and the game through a mirror on her desk.

On July 30th, 2022, she posted a video titled "FEMALE WORLD RECORD 45 KILLS FORTUNE'S KEEP," where she gets 45 kills on the map "Fortune's Keep," garnering over 42,200 views in three months (shown below). The number of kills she gets during the round, 45, allegedly breaks the previous world record for kills on the map, which is 44.^[5]

2022 Cheating Accusations

On June 21st, 2022, a video (shown below) was posted by TikToker^[6] @aemerchandise that allegedly provides evidence of Nadia cheating during a game of Warzone. The video shows her multi-streaming the game via TikTok Live, the gameplay shown in the reflection of a mirror on her desk. In the video, the uploader claims that the way her eyes consistently flick to the left as she plays is evidence of her looking at a secondary monitor while playing, claiming the secondary monitor has her cheat software on it. The video claims she is trying to pass the eye movement off as her checking her mini-map, which is in the top-left of the screen. The mirror does not show a mini-map.

On August 2nd, YouTuber^[7] Call of Shame posted a video where he accuses Nadia of cheating. First, he brings up her follower and viewer counts, claiming she started to inflate them in July by buying followers and viewers. Then he uses the mirror video as evidence that she is cheating, claiming she is using another monitor to cheat. He then shows several more clips from her streams claiming they provide evidence of her using aim-assist bots. In one video, her reticle seemingly follows a player without being aimed down the sights, evidencing the use of aimbots. He also shows her early gameplay footage, claiming her eyes don't dart around as much. The video (shown below) gained over 272,000 views in two months.

Call of Shame uploaded 20 more videos on Nadia over the course of the two months as TikTokers also uploaded videos of her allegedly cheating. As the videos continued to go viral, people in Nadia's chat began asking her to show her hands as she streams. On August 5th, Call of Shame uploaded a video to YouTube (shown below, left) where he shows Nadia thanking people for spamming "show hands," saying it gets her on the For Your Page more and gets her more exposure. She also tells her mods to ban people who spam asking her to show hands. On September 2nd, he uploaded a Short to YouTube showing further evidence of her cheating, garnering over 1.1 million views in a month (shown below, right).

On September 16th, TikToker^[8] @teszro posted a video where Nadia reacts to some of the most popular videos allegedly showing evidence of her cheating, including clips where her aim seemingly snaps to players unnaturally, garnering over 2.6 million views in a month (shown below). She denies cheating in all the clips. On September 17th, Call of Shame uploaded another video to YouTube^[9] on Nadia where he includes a clip of an official at a Warzone tournament checking her setup for cheating devices, after which she blames her chatters for bringing it on.

Alleged Shadowban

In late September and early October 2022, Nadia started streaming some Warzone games from FaZe Swagg's setup to prove she's not cheating. On October 4th, Twitter^[10] user and e-sports commentator @JakeSucky shared a clip where Nadia claims she's been "shadowbanned" from Warzone, garnering over 9,600 likes in six days, writing, "The shadow ban could be because she’s been streaming from 4-5 locations the last few days. Including TSM, FaZe Facility and Nuke Squad house, and the NRG Castle" (shown below). He later followed up, writing, "Update: Nadia now says she doesn’t think it was a shadow ban, certainly not helping with the confusion now 😂" Call of Shame uploaded a video about this to YouTube^[11] that day, garnering over 124,000 views in the same span of time.

Call of Shame Quits Nadia Videos

On October 8th, Nadia posted an ironic video to TikTok^[15] where she says she turned off the aimbot for one day to show that she's still the best Warzone player without it, garnering over 770,000 views in two days. On October 9th, Call of Shame made a YouTube community post^[16] where he announces he is done posting videos about Nadia. In the post, he asserts that she is cheating and claims she isn't banned yet "because she is a female and Activision have just lost a huge court case for degrading women in the workplace and this would look terrible" and doesn't want to give her any more exposure (shown below).

Online Reactions

Reactions to Nadia's cheating scandal, particularly in the Call of Duty scene, have been largely negative, with many accusing her of cheating. The accusations inspired numerous users on TikTok and YouTube to post videos on her, offering further clips to try and prove she's cheating (examples shown below).

Nadia's Response

Nadia has consistently denied all accusations of cheating since the scandal began and using it to try and drive traffic to her page through memes referencing it. Since the scandal began, she has posted numerous memes ironically referring to herself as a cheater. She has also made numerous attempts to prove she's not cheating, such as streaming with a controller cam on August 25th, 2022 (shown below). On September 27th, she posted to Twitter,^[12] "me coming back home from twitch con," along with the Welcome Home Cheater banner meme, garnering over 7,800 likes in two weeks.

Defending Nadia

Some people, including other gaming streamers and pro players, have defended Nadia from the cheating accusations. On September 20th, 2022, Ninja tweeted,^[13] "I’ve been around gaming a long time, my 2 cents on any cheating drama with video games is without concrete hard proof or evidence I.E you LITERALLY see the hacks on the PC or the devs take action, accusations do nothing but hurt people, and cause divide in the community," garnering over 16,000 likes in three weeks.

On October 5th, Twitter^[14] user @fullsquadgaming posted a video of streamer Shroud defending her, saying "you're never going to figure it out" and "controller's aim assist is pretty much the same thing as cheating," garnering over 4,000 likes in five days (shown below).

On October 7th, the H3 Podcast reacted to the accusations during an episode, largely defending Nadia while saying some clips looked suspicious in an episode garnering over 860,000 views in three days (shown below).

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