“Irish Demon Behind November Hack of DeleteLawZ”
The headline shouldn’t surprise anyone, we’ve been “nice” about it in the past and we’ve called it Demon hacking a “YouTube personality” to somehow protect everyone from the mess that’s going to follow, but we knew we’d eventually write the story as he was so sloppy about it to begin with.
In late November, Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s main Delete LawZ YouTube channel was hacked, with the hackers running three attacks on a Friday night into a Saturday morning filled with men-on-men erotica.
From what we’ve been told and what makes the most sense, the hackers used an old Streamyard back end to access DeCastro’s channel. That is why the erotica only appeared on his main channel and not the two other YouTube channels, his Twitter/X account and his Facebook account. The Streamyard access was so old, that it was from a time where DeCastro wasn’t streaming from those accounts as of yet.
The Streamyard access had apparently been floating around for some time. Christopher “Direct D” Ruff had mentioned it on a livestream. There were rumors that Demon had been approached and rumors that Demon would conduct some sort of attack with it in the last week of November.
Irish Demon livestreamed during these attacks. It was highly unusual of him to stream at the time (well into mid-morning in Ireland), and his mockery of DeCastro prompted his followers, who weren’t known to attend any of the previous thousands of DeCastro livestreams, to attend the erotica sessions to mock DeCastro.
Demon would then do a livestream celebrating all the times he had pulled pranks on Chille DeCastro over the years. In the self-serving livestream, he would all but admit that he pulled the “prank” and essentially got credit for the “prank” without actually admitting said prank.
Word from those in the know eventually leaked that Demon got cold feet about admitting the prank because he was afraid that there would be ramifications from YouTube from his actions. Loose lips sink ships, and in his quest for credit without admission, Demon may have sunk said ship.
DeCastro would briefly lose his main Delete LawZ channel over the incident as YouTube terminated the channel. This was the apocalyptic scenario that DeCastro had attempted to train his followers for, and a potential windfall as DeCastro’s finances were a mess as his attempts to rebrand and to leave for other platforms had all failed in the same month.
Unfortunately for DeCastro, in the aftermath of the hack and the channel loss, his fans didn’t flock to support him on Twitter/X, his other YouTube channels or his new TeamDLZ website. Some of the hardcores were unhappy, but no one was really out for blood and vengeance in the name of Chille DeCastro.
Our estimation was that DeCastro would have lost between $4,000.00 and $6,000.00 in monthly revenue due to YouTube confiscating his AdSense revenue for November. Industry tools aren’t as accurate as we’d like, but between superchats and ad revenue, he was right in that range.
DeCastro announced the layoffs of all of his editors, and now the “harmless prank” had real life consequences as several people lost major portions of their income right before the holiday season.
YouTube would eventually restore DeCastro’s channel. According to DeCastro’s public statement, they confirmed his statement that an outside party accessed his account and performed the attacks. He presumably had his AdSense revenue restored, and has struggled greatly to get back on his feet since the hack.
Demon’s camp went silent.
Eventually the rumor began to circulate that DeCastro was so financially distraught that he faked the hack on his own as a publicity stunt after his move to paid Patreon failed, his move to Twitter/X failed, his own Team DLZ failed and his attempted rebrand to “First Amendment Auditor” failed all in the weeks leading up to the attacks.
It was a stretch at best, but as we noted, it was the current rumor in our reporting when we previously covered Irish Demon’s ongoing controversies. We also noted that listeners of Demon’s livestream about his previous “pranks” on DeCastro were 99.5% to the point of believing that Demon was responsible for the hack based on his own statements.
The missing .5% was filled in on Thursday afternoon.
We received the following message from YouTube personality Shizz on Team Skeptic’s “Cool Shit Here” forum.
Shizz ♡ — Yesterday at 5:14 PM
@Jim Finch.
Current rumor is the subject of the hack did it to himself in a desperate attempt to revive his channel.
^ Demon admitted to the porn bomb in my VC in front of about +/- 20 people, and later sent me screenshots of him receiving the login and password
While this will eventually be read on the Auditing Insanity newscast by AI persona “Yvette Peterson,” who reads all of the DeCastro news, the very real human being writing the newscast, Jim Finch has a long history with Shizz as both friends and adversaries.
She doesn’t condone us; we don’t condone her. There’s been a chosen separation between our two camps that’s probably for the best. She has her major highway in the community, we have our one lane backroad. Things are fine the way they are.
Due to the animosity between the camps, communication wouldn’t have normally happened and now that it has, in the most public of forums. The communication wouldn’t have happened unless she had the screen shots of the event and proof that the events happened.
Her statement backs up the accounts we’ve been told about, and again, fills in the missing .5% of the story. Irish Demon hacked Chille DeCastro.
So now what?
Irish Demon is in the process of losing his fandom. His own controversies are about to get major exposure as Shizz has an exposé planned featuring the people he directly hurt through his non-DeCastro related actions.
His camp, or a handful of accounts with “Irish” in their YouTube names, went on a brief counterattack yesterday, hitting our channel with negative comments on previous coverage of Demon. But it may be too late, the damage he inflicted to his own reputation is permanent to many former fans.
There are also the legal ramifications of his actions. His “prank” was hardly a harmless thing. It resulted in the temporary layoffs of DeCastro’s handful of editors and inflicted financial hardship on DeCastro’s brand.
It remains to be seen what will happen next, but we’ll be here to report on events as they happen.
