Let me describe something important.

The professional e-sports scene is filthy, even at LAN competitions. People cheat in devious ways hard to even imagine. From hiding cheat codes in mouse firmware, to simple methods such as audience members communicating critical information.

It did not get this way over night, but believe me it got there. There is a pattern. Somebody discovers a lack of a check and balance where it should be. There is no reward for simply pointing it out, in fact there is the opposite, you will be laughed at for pointing it out!

So not only is there lack of positive incentive for doing "the right thing", doing the right thing has negative consequences! And even worse, doing the wrong thing has "positive incentive" in that you will be handsomely rewarded for just exploiting said lack of check and balance.

Here is the next part of the pattern. Other people start to catch on, and they are not as good at it but they are able to pull it off. Now even more people who are capable of cheating start to notice. They (correctly) determine that if they want to be winners they must cheat too.

Now the scene is so entrenched that the incompetent cheaters come along, and they decide they want a piece of the pie and they feel justified because they know other people are doing it. They do it horribly and are blatant. Now all part of the e-sports scene are privy.

What I am describing is VERY real, no tinfoil hat needed. Shroud is possibly the greatest cheater of all time, but he played it smart and got out early, Flusha marks the era of incompetent cheaters, which carries on til this day (see the recent OpTic India player caught).

Here is the kicker of my (accidental) rant. The same pattern applies to companies. Look at Google (c.f. Shroud, the GOAT cheater), etc. Now look at TikTok, they are the blatant idiot (c.f. Flusha) who sees everyone else getting away with it, so decides to go full blatant.

Last tweet in this thread, some references:
Cheats in mouse:
Flusha cheater:
Optic India cheater:

The good news is that humans, with some foresight, can design systems to account for these flaws :)