Post by gordon on Apr 19, 2024 21:56:17 GMT
holymoly2207 (channel ID) is the Super Mario 64 speedrunner who became a victim of his own ego. He became known in 2017 for writing this bragging comment under a cheese05 speedrun:
Yeah baby. You can play like TAS. Very impressive. Back in 2004 I held the 16 Star world record for several years. Holy Moly
Not long after, his runs were discovered to be spliced. Had he swallowed his ego, he might have been caught much later, but it is likely that his cheating would eventually be discovered.
holymoly2207 was also referenced in this Summoning Salt video (at 11m 28s) (without being named, but a video titled "Super Mario 64 19:55" was shown), and in this Apollo Legend video (at 03m 07s), and in this charliebrown64 video (at 02m25s).
I went to check it out as I had never heard of this person before and to my surprise he did have 2 videos (2 part 16 star) with over 100,000 views on part 1 and over 30,000 on part 2. This run was later beaten by Myles (or not beaten because it was found to be spliced by Caivs) in 2008.
I was honestly suspicious watching this run.
You can see the run here:
Part 1
Part 2
I was honestly suspicious watching this run.
You can see the run here:
Part 1
Part 2
About 130000 views, yet none of these parts have been picked up by the Wayback Machine, not even the watch page. All captures are from after they were deleted.
His channel was only captured once in November 2009. There are two more captures around the beginning of 2015, but those are simply redirects to the mobile version (m.youtube.com/user/holymoly2207), which was not captured.
SocialBlade data shows his channel existed until 2019-12-13. Visiting his channel page today shows the generic 404 page, no reason for why it has disappeared. The likeliest cause is he deleted it out of embarrassment.
The channel @holymoly-pd2yy (displaynamed "holymoly2207") is apparently an unrelated parody channel created in 2022. It even copied the PlayStation 4 profile picture.
