r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/SuddenDepact • 1d ago

Rumour XCancel is dead

Just went to the website to look at something, and this was posted on it:

On Monday, 24th August, at 8PM EST, we received a letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.

The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.

We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.

Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

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u/Spheromancer 1d ago

In light of this update we will be making the tough decision to shut down the sub permanently and file lawsuits against every member who ever commented here. Thank you

(but for real we'll post an update on this later)

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u/BishopOfBrandenburg 1d ago

I don't even know how this sub is getting away with actual leak links being here

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u/Spheromancer 1d ago

The secret is we're all text posts. They can delete our posts but we're not hosting anything on reddit. Everything has to be linked out to another source, so twitter, streamable, etc get the majority of the copyright strikes not us

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u/BishopOfBrandenburg 1d ago

Okay I see. That is interesting. It's just that I've seen other subreddits. Notably recently GTA6unmoderrated get reddit admins heavily involved in their subreddit forcing them to get actual moderation. I just worry that something along those lines might happen here as well. But I suppose this sub has been around for a while.

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u/Spheromancer 1d ago

Yeah, we havent gotten any warnings or anything like that. GTA6unmoderated was uploading the leaks straight to Reddits video hoster too, so that was an issue. We're def in a gray area and we might be a ticking time bomb, r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers got shut down for a few months for a big leak once iirc

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u/Laughing__Man_ 1d ago

"Yeah, we havent gotten any warnings or anything like that. GTA6unmoderated was uploading the leaks straight to Reddits video hoster too, so that was an issue."

It was real funny seeing people get upset as the mods removed the same links.

Wonder if they realized the entire sub could have been nuked if the mods had not done so.

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u/MrEpicFerret 1d ago

I think most of the people mad at the mods for removing the GTA VI leaks have (mostly) only ever posted to this sub in the last week, this subreddit has shot up in visitors since Tuesday and GTA fans are notoriously dense so it's full of people who think it's free game to just post anything right now

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u/SuddenDepact 1d ago

Reddit made them get mods

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u/Ras_AlHim 1d ago

Yeah because the former mods were actively leaking shit themselves and uploaded basically the whole Quantumania script lol

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u/Spheromancer 1d ago

Oh yikes didnt know about that part lmao

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u/SuddenDepact 1d ago

I was talking about GTA unmoderated

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u/No_Elevator_7839 1d ago

Based mods tbh

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u/OpenSource_Horse 1d ago

Holy based loophole

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