The Steam Hack
November 2011 — when fkn0wned defaced the Steam forums and hit mainstream tech news.
Quick Notice About the Steam Forums Incident
A random kid threatens fkn0wned with 'Anonymous' — the whole forum just laughs him out of the thread.
Started by founder f0wh, this Site News thread addressed some incident involving the Steam forums that fkn0wned was apparently linked to (details left vague, with Baz coyly refusing to confirm or deny involvement). The real action comes from a member, WIN7GT, who shows up claiming Anonymous would 'punish' the forum for it, triggering a wave of mockery from regulars. Darkness delivers a long, oddly earnest breakdown of how Anonymous actually operates to shoot down the threat, while others just clown on the kid with sarcasm about Obama's cousin and DDoS non-events. Classic small-forum bravado: nothing was ever proven, nobody was scared, and the thread ends in general derision.
Drama & Beef
Callouts, bans, scams exposed, staff wars, inter-forum rivalry — the fireworks.
Do Your Best on r0ss: The Staff-Organized Harassment Contest
A founder posted a stranger's home address, bank details and phone number as the prize pool for whoever could 'best attack' him.
A staff-organized contest thread where founder TuxifieD posted personal information belonging to someone named 'r0ss' and offered lifetime VIP, staff status, and a donated Steam account to whoever pulled off the best prank/attack against him. Members eagerly piled in with schemes ranging from email bombing and prank calls to sending unwanted mail and DNA test kits, treating it as a group game with screenshots as 'proof'. The thread is a stark, unfiltered snapshot of the forum's harassment-as-entertainment culture, with admins and longtime members (ap3x, NIX, ZoaQ) actively encouraging and judging the 'attacks'.
The c0ke Callout: Leaked Exposé on tux and fkn0wned's Founding Drama
A simple 'where do I download CS:S' thread turns into a leaked exposé on fkn0wned's own founder
This long-running thread started as a routine request/share thread for a non-Steam version of Counter-Strike: Source, with members trading quick thanks and one-liners as pages rolled by. By page 8 it derails hard when banned user |-noodle-| reposts a lengthy callout post, originally written by former fkn0wned head admin 'c0ke,' accusing site owner 'tux' of years of unpaid promises, skimmed VIP money, fake contests, and betrayal of the admins who helped build the site. The post airs a lot of internal site drama — money disputes, a database backup used as leverage, and fallout among former staff — giving a rare inside look at how the forum's leadership actually operated behind the scenes.
How Can We Save Fkn0wned? (The thec0re.net Raid Thread)
A member begged the admins to save the dying forum — then a rival spammed the thread into oblivion promoting thec0re.net instead.
Long-running (10-page) thread in the Suggestions + Feedback section where a member named abstract1337 pleaded with staff and founders to revive the declining fkn0wned.com community, offering to help however he could. The thread's later pages descended into pure raid/spam territory, with a user called 'usafa' flooding dozens of consecutive posts mocking the site as a 'failure' and repeatedly plugging a rival forum, thec0re.net, while another member (bunbuidoi) also chimed in promoting the same site. The thread stands as a visible marker of fkn0wned's decline and the migration of its userbase toward thec0re.net.
Real Life Items (Worldwide Shipping) — Venomz1337's Sale That Turned Out to Be a Scam
An 'oldie' member ran a whole electronics store on skins — then vanished with the goods.
Venomz1337, described as a trusted long-time member, ran a marketplace thread selling real-life electronics (phones, laptops, GPUs, gaming peripherals) exclusively for CS:GO skins, claiming discounted shipping through his dad's job at a courier company. Members lined up to buy, offered 'vouches', and some items were marked sold, but the thread was ultimately retitled and closed by staff as a scam after Venomz1337 was banned. The owner TuxifieD repeatedly reminded people to use a middleman for big purchases — advice that, in hindsight, this thread became the cautionary example for.
ZaksterNZ gets his MSN, Hotmail, and Bebo jacked by NutterNZ
"i done it" — the confession that turned a betrayal into forum legend
A member going by ZaksterNZ posted a farewell/venting thread claiming his MSN account was stolen and sold to a stranger who used it to show off on webcam, saying he'd lost faith in the site and expected to be banned. The post included a pasted MSN chat log where he directly confronted fellow member Nutter, who casually admitted to hacking him over an unpaid 5 million RuneScape gold debt, walking through how he used a phishing site to also grab his Hotmail, WoW, and Bebo logins. The reveal that Nutter did it 'for the funds' owed, plus his blunt cyber-sass, made this an instant comedy/drama thread, with staff and members piling on to mock ZaksterNZ for getting outplayed.
The niwa-online Raid: 'Help Me Fuck These Bitches Up'
A member cracks a rival forum wide open, posts the loot, and the site goes dark by page two.
User l3m0nz shows up bragging about having broken into another gaming forum (niwa-online.com), having posted spam/offensive content there and gotten banned, then dumps session/account data and a step-by-step cookie-editing method so other members could log in as hijacked accounts. Regulars pile on approvingly, someone confirms they 'did their bit,' and within a day the target forum is reported offline entirely, which the thread treats as a trophy. Staff member HaSh chimes in casually endorsing browser cookie-editing as a go-to move for 'xploitable' sites, giving a glimpse of how normalized this kind of raiding was on the board.
r0ss's cell phone
Someone pissed off the wrong forum, so his phone number went up for the whole board to dial
Founder TuxifieD posted a member named r0ss's mobile number as payback for him 'running his mouth,' and the thread quickly turned into a pile-on: members traded dialing codes for calling from abroad, bragged about SMS-bombing him, prank calls, and posting to 4chan, while one poster escalated by asking for his 'credit card dox.' By the next day r0ss had apparently stopped answering calls once people mentioned the site's name, and posters were reveling in the chaos as a highlight of the forum. It's a blunt snapshot of the site's harassment-as-entertainment culture, dressed up as internal drama/revenge rather than a technical thread.
"Do not fuck with us." — c0ke's VIP Warning Shot
Staff drops a warning shot at the VIP crowd — four pages of fallout ensued.
A News + Updates post from founding staff member c0ke, dated May 2007, opens with a blunt warning aimed at VIP members, kicking off a thread that ran four pages long. The tone is confrontational, suggesting some kind of internal beef between site staff and the VIP tier of the community. As one of the earliest posts (Member No. 1), it captures the site's brash, no-nonsense early culture typical of mid-2000s cheat-scene forums.
r0ss's Real Info, From Nix
Fkn0wned crew doxxes a rival forum owner mid-MSN chat and turns it into a public victory lap
This is a classic rivalry-fueled doxx thread from a beef between the Fkn0wned/[FkN] crew and a competing site called nubsite.com, run by a member referred to as r0ss (and associated with 'kirby'). NIX posts personal details allegedly pulled from r0ss's PayPal/accounts along with an MSN conversation log where NIX, TuxifieD, and others mock r0ss and his site, pass his info around to other members as a joke ('send him love letters'), and needle 'kirby' about nubsite's PayPal use and coding claims. The thread devolves into celebratory trash talk, inside jokes, and crew members (PopTart, Kimmi, ap3x, KZA) piling on with 'sweet revenge' commentary — framed explicitly as retaliation after a year of inter-site tension.
NuTech Defaces Sythe.org, Brags in Off-Topic
One member claims he rooted a rival forum and screenshotted the wreckage for the boys
In this Off-Topic thread from October 2008, member NuTech claimed to have gained admin access to the large gaming/RWT forum Sythe.org and defaced it, posting a screenshot as proof and mentioning he'd also dropped an advertisement post there. The thread is short and celebratory, with fellow members and staff (including founder TuxifieD and smod Afteryou) chiming in with approval and jokes rather than skepticism. It's a classic snapshot of the era's forum rivalry and bragging-rights culture, where site defacements were treated as entertainment and clout.
Nerf's Farewell Thread: "I Quit"
A staffer says he got trojaned, robbed, and DDoS'd off the vent server — then writes the community a goodbye letter, shoutouts and all.
Longtime member and staffer Nerf posted a dramatic resignation thread in March 2008, saying he'd been trojaned, had credit card info stolen, and was tired of dealing with mass Ventrilo bans and DDoS attacks tied to the site. He asked to be demoted from staff, announced he'd change all his contact info, and gave a long list of personal shoutouts thanking (and ribbing) various members. The thread fills up with the community's reaction — a mix of genuine sadness, jokes, disbelief that he'd really stay gone, and a couple of people needling him for being left off the shoutout list. It's a classic 'drama exit' thread typical of small hack-scene forums of the era, capturing both the site's tight-knit vibe and its rough security reputation.
9/10 Top Posters Are Banned... (fkn0wned vs thec0re Flare-Up)
A thread cataloguing the site's own purge turns into a full-blown tC vs Fkn0wned rivalry flare-up.
A general discussion thread pointing out that most of the forum's top posters had been banned spirals into a rehash of old beef between Fkn0wned and a rival community called thec0re (tC). A veteran uploader chimes in dismissively, while a low-post-count account claiming to represent tC leadership shows up to declare the 'war' long over and disavow any current tC members stirring drama on Fkn0wned. The tone is classic mid-2000s forum turf-war posturing, laced with insults and bravado.
SCAM ALERT: Misterfopje Banned Over PayPal Scam
The day a live-support staffer got caught scamming a member out of $100 — and fkn0wned's founder had to publicly clean it up.
Founder TuxifieD posted a public warning that a member/staffer going by Misterfopje (real name given as John Fopj) had scammed at least one member out of $100 USD via PayPal through the site's live support channel. Anyone who'd sent money to him or his email was told to come forward for a refund, and the community was reassured that only Jason A. should be trusted for non-CCBill payments going forward. The thread closes with an update that the funds were fully recovered, a small win for site trust in the cheat-scene marketplace era. Smod ZoaQ chimed in shortly after, showing staff closing ranks quickly on the issue.
Venomz1337 Scam Callout Turns Into Doxing/DDoS Mob
A trusted VIP allegedly scammed the community for over $1000 in items — and the thread that followed turned into a doxing-and-DDoS revenge mob in real time.
InfectedKush accused fellow member Venomz1337 of scamming multiple users out of high-value items (one member, alexexit, claims to have lost $1200) and rallied the forum to retaliate with IP lookups and DDoS threats. Venomz1337 showed up mid-thread to taunt the community, deny wrongdoing, and frame it as long-simmering revenge against owner TuxifieD over a falling-out years prior. The thread spirals into doxing attempts — posted alleged name, age, location, email — plus talk of police reports and Steam Support, while owner TuxifieD and other members pile on with mockery. It's a messy, dramatic microcosm of the forum's scam/callout culture near its twilight.
"Ex Girlfriend's Facebook" — Revenge Thread
A breakup went nuclear when one member turned to the forum crew to help trash his ex's Facebook and email — and the crowd cheered him on.
This was a 'Raging' section thread where a longtime member (vermiLLion) vented about a breakup and revealed he'd gained access to his ex's email and Facebook accounts, asking the community for ideas on what to do with it. Other regulars piled on with encouragement, jokes, and increasingly ugly suggestions, and personal details were posted openly in the thread before a moderator (NIX) eventually locked it. It's a stark, unfiltered snapshot of the forum's darker 'raging' culture — equal parts dark humor, community bonding, and casual harassment that was treated as entertainment at the time.
Staff Nudes Leaked in VIP
The thread title alone probably got half the forum clicking before mods could blink.
A General Discussion thread on Fkn0wned Forum with a title claiming leaked nudes of staff members had appeared in the VIP section, promising 'informations inside.' Only the site chrome and navigation survive in this archive; the actual thread content, replies, and any staff response are lost. Threads like this were typical of the forum's chaotic mix of drama, VIP-section gossip, and clickbait-style titles designed to stir controversy.
Jonesyyf's Account Recovery & Account Dump Drama
A VIP gets his account hacked, gets it back, then celebrates by dropping a huge dump of stolen accounts for the whole board to pick over.
Longtime VIP member Jonesyyf returns to announce his account had been hijacked by an ex-member named Junyerr, who reportedly impersonated him and caused trouble before getting 'busted.' To mark his return he dumped a large batch of login credentials for others to grab, then followed up with a second haul found on his web host. The thread quickly turns into members bickering over who 'greedily' took too many accounts, with admins and mods ribbing thejah for allegedly hoarding, plus some cheap shots at the hacker Junyerr.
Hacked? — The Great rsforum.net Raid Plot
Fkn0wned wasn't hacked, it was just spammed — so naturally the crew planned to go do it to the other guys instead
A short-lived scare thread from October 2008: the site went down briefly and Insanityrains assumed a hack, but staff (Penguin, TuxifieD) clarified it was just a spam flood that got cleaned up in seconds. The conversation quickly pivoted into members organizing a coordinated spam raid against a rival forum, rsforum.net, with several members volunteering to help via MSN messenger (spam only, not DDoS, per a couple of members' stated ethics). Classic mid-2000s forum-war energy — mods downplaying the incident while the userbase got hyped to retaliate.
TuxifieD's Guide to Getting Bigger Muscles Like Big Boys
Founder posts a bro-science bulking guide, gets called steroid FAIL, then wages a multi-page war over HIT vs. rest days.
Site founder TuxifieD dropped a bulking guide covering supplements (test boosters, creatine, N.O. products, whey), a High Intensity Training split, and the classic bulk-then-cut philosophy. It got instant ribbing as basically a steroid pitch, but a few members chimed in with genuine diet tips. The thread's real legacy is the slugfest between Tux and member Fataldelay, who clashed hard over rest days, HIT methodology, and what actually builds mass, with Tux repeatedly and colorfully trashing Fataldelay's credentials and physique.
Internet Filth - Expose
c0ke drops a site-wide 'expose' thread and the drama floodgates open.
A News + Updates thread started by longtime staffer c0ke (member #1, 'FkN Retired Staff') titled 'Internet Filth - Expose,' teasing some kind of callout or drama post aimed at other members or rival community figures. The thread ran to at least three pages, suggesting it stirred up a decent back-and-forth among the regulars. Typical of the site's mid-2000s cheat-scene culture, it mixed forum drama with the community's usual irreverent tone.
The 'Holzed CSS Hack' Trojan Scare
A trojan panic, a false positive, and a shot fired at rival crew MPC — all over one Counter-Strike: Source hack.
An admin post announces that a widely-downloaded Counter-Strike: Source cheat called 'Holzed' had been flagged as potentially containing a trojan, only for the site to walk it back as a false positive after further inspection. The post apologizes to the cheat's author 'holz' for the scare, but takes a swing at rival community MPC ('Multiple Pussy Community') and a user named patrick for allegedly not helping resolve the confusion. It's a snapshot of the messy, trust-nobody atmosphere of the mid-2000s cheat scene, where false alarms about infected downloads and inter-forum rivalries were routine drama.
I buy MSX and this shit happens! - MSXSecurity Complaint Thread
Paid $100 for 'undetected' MSX cheats, got VAC banned, and the drama that followed
Member xJumper recounts paying $100 to MSXSecurity for a paid Battlefield/CS:S 'Mist system' cheat, only to get VAC banned shortly after, then getting banned from MSX's own forums after questioning them and getting a PayPal refund. The thread doubles as a promo moment for rival seller SourceIndustries.Net, which forum regular mr.N0Nam3 vouches for as being run by Fkn0wned's own site owner (tuxified). It's a classic cheat-scene consumer-drama post: buyer's remorse, accusations of shady reselling practices, and community members steering business toward the 'trusted' in-house vendor.
[fkn]Converter — the file conversion tool that phoned home
User posts a 'converter' tool, nobody can figure out what it converts, turns out it was quietly dialing a remote server — thread locked within days.
A member named saz shared a small utility called '[fkn]Converter' in the Programming subforum, but nobody could pin down what it actually converted files to. Staff and regulars grew suspicious of the vague description, and after a VirusTotal check and further scrutiny, a moderator confirmed the file was backdoored and tried connecting to an outside IP. The download link was pulled and the thread locked, with a standing warning that Fkn0wned staff hadn't vetted the file before it went up.
The Godfather in One Minute
A harmless YouTube link thread gets derailed by a banned user's vile attack on a member's dead friend.
Member -Darkness- shared a short comedic YouTube video condensing 'The Godfather' into one minute, name-dropping an inside joke with another user (miLLer) about a past thread. The thread quickly turned ugly when a user named acv1released (already marked as Banned in the archive) posted a disgusting, racist attack referencing -Darkness-'s deceased friend, prompting shock from valucard and a furious, pained response from -Darkness- defending his friend's memory. It's a stark example of the toxic underbelly that could erupt even in a lighthearted humor thread on this forum.
I have a stolen CPL account.
A guy openly asks the forum how to best exploit a stolen CPL pro's Steam account — VAC ban it for the lulz, or sell it back?
In this 2007 General Discussion thread, user !nv!s!on announces he's obtained the login credentials for a Steam account belonging to a CPL (Cyberathlete Professional League) player, taken without consent, and asks the forum whether he should get it VAC banned, sell it back, or both. The thread splits into a debate: some members (laptops, HaSh, c0ke, conTagious, Shifty) argue against ruining an innocent player's competitive reputation or warn !nv!s!on is untrustworthy, while others (PaRaNoID, Visual0n!, sorbazz) egg him on purely for the 'rage' factor of watching a legit player get banned. The thread ends ambiguously with Janza revealing he'd privately advised !nv!s!on off the idea. A fairly raw, ethics-optional snapshot of the era's account theft and 'raging' culture on the forum.
One of the Accounts You Hacked!
A first-time poster wanders into fkn0wned asking for his stolen account back — and gets laughed out of the thread.
A newcomer named bahaha posts asking for his hacked account to be returned, explaining he'd been sent a fake 'movie' file (actually a keylogger) after a member called Whitey/'The Puppet Master' got compromised. Established members respond with blunt indifference and dark humor, framing account theft and reselling as just business as usual on the site. Regulars speculate the culprit was 'Vexed'/VexD, described jokingly as a steam account vendor, while others needle the newcomer for expecting sympathy on his first post.
Shinobix's Shop — The MW2 Key Scam That Got Its Title Rewritten by a Mod
A CD-key shop thread that started with 'add me on MSN' and ended with three separate buyers saying they never got what they paid for.
This was a Market Place vendor thread where member Shinobix advertised game keys and accounts (MW2, CoD4, StarCraft 2 beta keys, Steam/CSS accounts) for sale, with interested buyers dropping their MSN addresses to negotiate deals privately. Early replies look like normal trading chatter, but the thread sours fast: multiple buyers (Seramal, zuppy, Gramdtante) report paying for MW2 keys and never receiving them, and Gramdtante flags Shinobix as 'very likely a scammer.' The topic's own title was later edited by a moderator (lam3r) to brand the original poster a scammer impersonating staff, and the thread was locked. Even a site Founder (TuxifieD) had popped in earlier asking to buy a beta key, unaware of what was coming.
The $1.60 Scam: leon123's Shoutbox Meltdown
A dollar-sixty scam, a shoutbox meltdown, and a ban — classic Fkn0wned dispute thread.
Member Mickey filed a dispute claiming user leon123 scammed him out of roughly $1.60 in a Steam trade gone wrong, providing screenshots as proof. The thread quickly turned memorable when leon123, anticipating a ban, started spamming the shoutbox with inflammatory religious rhetoric before being muted and eventually suspended by staff. Other members piled on with a mix of amusement at the tiny scam amount and disapproval of his behavior, and staff (Fopje, TripleD, Nick, PopTart) handled the report through PM warnings, a grace period, and ultimately a ban. The thread was closed after resolution, standing as a small but colorful piece of forum lore about petty scams and shoutbox drama.
Anybody wanna bomb this girls facebook?
Sylox asked fkn0wned to mass-harass some girl's Facebook — nearly a year later, she showed up in the thread herself to tell him off
Sylox opened a thread asking members to 'bomb' a named girl's Facebook and posted her phone number over some unspecified drama about her 'getting involved' in his business. The community's response was mostly mockery rather than support — other members told him this wasn't 4chan, that the forum wasn't his 'personal army,' and pointed out the irony that she hadn't actually targeted the forum, he had targeted her. Nearly ten months later the thread got a second life when the girl herself (posting as a guest) found it and posted an angry rebuttal, which drew a bit of amusement before staff locked the topic for violating the 'not your personal army' rule.
Using Stolen Credit Card Online
A member casually asks the forum how to use a stolen credit card without getting caught — the replies did not go well for him.
Posted in General Discussion in December 2007, a member named Enigma asked whether a proxy would help reduce the risk of using a stolen credit card online. The thread quickly turned into a pile-on, with regulars and staff warning him about fraud charges, mocking the idea, and telling him to just earn money legitimately. A side sub-thread saw member jcomp6 joking about library computers and 'finding' cards in the street, prompting more ridicule, while others drew a line insisting the community were 'scammers, not thieves.'
Sorry Kid. - The Junnyerr/Xenozer Account Sting
A member baited a 13-year-old into humiliating photos just to get his own account back — the thread's still arguing over whether that's funny or foul.
Junnyerr posted a chat log showing him impersonating 'Campil' to trick a younger user (Xenozer/Roy) into revealing account credentials and then forced him to hold up embarrassing signs/photos referencing the forum and its off-site domain before 'returning' the account. Reactions split between members laughing it up as a classic troll and others, notably silentrock, calling it a genuinely mean move against a kid. Junnyerr clapped back dismissively at the criticism, and the thread trails off with a few more members weighing in, some just calling it old news by the time they saw it.
Scammer Callout: parkie's 5-Account CSS Deal Gone Wrong
A 5-account CS deal goes sideways, and parkie gets dragged through the mud with the receipts to prove it.
In this Market Place User Review thread, member 1up publicly called out 'parkie' for scamming him on a promised deal of 2 CSS accounts for 5 GBP, posting the full MSN chat log as evidence after only receiving one fake account named 'thefakeone667'. Parkie showed up to deny it and demand better proof, other members piled on (including xsoccerpunk claiming a separate CoD4 scam), and deX- called out parkie's cocky denials as basically an admission of guilt. The thread went cold for three months until a random bump in February 2010 got it instantly locked by a Smod for necroposting.
Personal Scamming Tutorial on CS:GO Skin Scamming (in depth)
A guy tried to sell a paid 'scamming lessons' package in the Top Sellers District — and the thread ate itself.
User Mit advertised paid one-on-one coaching in CS:GO skin/knife scamming methods, charging via PayPal with a strict no-refunds policy. The thread quickly turned uneasy: one member admitted his own knife had been scammed away during a personal hardship and said he disliked scamming but'd wait for vouches anyway, prompting some blunt community pushback and mockery ('go f yourself, Maple... you fat fuck') alongside members guessing at the actual scam method being sold. A staffer warned about leaving scam proof screenshots exposed publicly, and the topic was eventually closed by a moderator years later 'via request.'
chaser123 Asks for a Free Phish (and Immediately Gets Owned)
Kid begs for a phished Steam account, gets 'helped,' then locks himself out of everything — instant classic.
A member named chaser123 posted in the Steam Client subforum asking someone to phish him a Steam account since he couldn't manage it himself, and even pushed for others to just hand him login info directly. Shortly after supposedly receiving 'help,' he came back panicking that he could no longer log into any of his own Steam accounts, prompting laughter and mockery from the regulars rather than sympathy. The thread turned into a pile-on with members like __yess__, jacal, necroviz, and DOMINATER razzing him, with the general consensus being it was his own fault for trusting a rando phish job. A short, petty, very-2007 cautionary tale about scene naivety and getting clowned for it.
SubZr0's 'This Site Is Dead, Unless I Fix It' Ultimatum
A banned noob declares himself the site's savior and demands an admin promotion — the forum was not impressed.
A newly banned, low-post-count member named SubZr0 posted a grandiose ultimatum claiming he was one of the most influential people in keeping Fkn0wned alive, and that his two-week ban proved the site was 'dying.' He called out several staff/members by name (Shifty, Niggorex, Jaska), demanded to be made an admin, and threatened vague consequences if the community didn't rally behind him. Established members Arcade and HaSh quickly pushed back, questioning what he had actually contributed and mocking the timing and tone of his post. The thread reads as a classic overblown forum-drama self-promotion attempt that gets deflated almost immediately by regulars.
Someone Sort 'Jube' Out
A member accuses a self-styled 'coder' of dumping a trojan-laced hack on the forum and demands a ban — chaos follows.
In this Rants and Raves thread, member nightshadefc calls out a user named 'Jube' for releasing 'Jube Hack V1.0/V1.1', a CS:S cheat allegedly flagged by antivirus software as containing multiple trojans. The OP demands Jube be banned and his threads purged so newer members don't download the infected files. Jube shows up to dismiss the antivirus flags as false positives and cryptically notes the admins/mods had abandoned the forum with no report button left, while other members pile on calling him a scammer whose uploads never worked.
The $1000 187ci Bribe That Wasn't
A rival cheat site offered FkN's own designer $1000 to jump ship — he turned it down flat, on the record.
A short News + Updates post from Head Admin Bisdale calls out '187ci' for allegedly offering FkN graphics guy memOrex $1000 USD to build them a website. memOrex backs it up by pasting his own chat log refusing the offer, dismissing 187ci with a curt 'GG NO RE.' The tone is pure early-2000s scene bravado — loyalty flex dressed up as a public burn on a competing cheat site.
Scammed by Adri9102 - Disputes and Reports
A trusted trader with a wall of vouches gets accused of selling a public config as private goods — and staff step in with a 48-hour ultimatum.
A dispute thread from Fkn0wned's Disputes and Reports section where a user accused trader Adri9102 of selling a config that turned out to be publicly leaked elsewhere. Adri9102 pushed back, denying it was a scam and pointing to his long vouch history and shop reputation, while other members chimed in confirming they'd also been burned. A VIP moderator (rLx) stepped in with a firm 48-hour deadline for refunds, threatening a ban if Adri9102 didn't comply, showing how the community's informal vouch-based trust system could break down and get enforced by staff.
AuraStomper Crypter 0/24 100% FUD (by IDONTuseLOTION)
A '100% undetected' crypter release that aged into a full-detect trojan drop right in front of everyone — thread locked with a 'DO NOT DOWNLOAD!'
In the Programming subforum, a low-post-count member named IDONTuseLOTION released a crypter tool called 'AuraStomper,' claiming a clean 0/24 scan result and instructing readers to only verify it on one specific scanning site. A crew member immediately called out the suspicious post-count and site-specific scan advice as a red flag. Weeks later another member re-scanned the file and posted a fresh multi-engine report showing it now flagged widely as a trojan dropper/backdoor, confirming the original suspicion. A moderator ('Speedo') closed the thread with a blunt warning not to download it, making this a small but clear-cut case study in the forum's crypter/FUD-scene skepticism and self-policing.
Tutorials & Releases
The how-tos, cheat guides, coding lessons, and tool releases that made the place useful.
[C++] Basic Wall Hack Tutorial - irishash
A 16-page, year-and-a-half-long chain of 'unhide plz' just to peek at one guy's D3D wallhack code.
irishash posted a spoiler-tagged, step-by-step D3D9 tutorial for coding a basic Counter-Strike: Source wallhack (with bonus snippets for fullbright, wireframe, transparency, and fog removal), crediting 'Azorbix and g-d' for the base kit it built on. The thread became a running joke of the fkn0wned Programming subforum: hundreds of members replying with nothing but 'unhide', 'thx', or one-word bumps just to reveal the hidden code, stretching from mid-2008 all the way into December 2009. It's less a technical discussion and more a monument to forum ritual — a classic 'hidden content' tutorial thread that ballooned to 16 pages almost entirely from unhide requests. One member (CratycloS) actually reported using it to build a working wall/nosmoke hack for CSS.
Shifty's Hack FAQ
The pinned 'everything you ever wanted to know about cheating' thread that doubled as Fkn0wned's welcome mat.
Co-Manager Shifty posted a sprawling, staff-sanctioned FAQ laying out the basics of the site's whole reason for existing: wallhacks, aimbots, ESP, anti-recoil, material hacks, VAC/PunkBuster, and how to avoid looking too obvious while using them. It reads as a beginner's onboarding doc for the cheat scene, complete with a plug for the site's 'closest affiliate' private-hack seller. Pyeman's one-line reply ('now i actually know what ESP stands for') sums up the thread's low-key, helpful-big-brother vibe rather than any real drama — this was reference material, not a flashpoint.
Mugen's MacBook Pro Warranty Fraud Guide
A 318-reply how-to on scamming Apple replacements that basically became the board's most 'liked' thread of 2013.
Started by longtime member Mugen on 31 May 2013, this thread laid out a detailed social-engineering scheme for tricking Apple support into issuing free replacement MacBook Pros via fraudulent warranty claims and cross-shipping tricks. It ran to at least 13 pages, but the replies overwhelmingly consist of one- or two-word 'ty'/'thanks' posts from dozens of members, showing how popular and widely farmed the guide was rather than sparking real discussion. It's a good snapshot of the Social Engineering subforum's culture: a mix of respected veteran posters dropping 'gold' guides and a swarm of low-effort members bumping and thanking for reputation or just to read the hidden content.
Scripting Index (CS 1.6 Scripting Subforum)
The master directory of every config, script pack, and weapon-action hack the Scripting board ever produced.
A pinned index thread for the Counter-Strike 1.6 Scripting section, compiling links to script packs and individual scripts (nade timing, silent run, long jump, aim helpers, silent defuse, no-flash, and more) organized by category. Christ (aka DigitalEDD), a [Coder] group member, maintained it as the go-to reference for the forum's scripting community, crediting various contributors like smirnoff1, lea0001, timmeh, ELX[Draco], and Fatalis/Q-bA11. It's a snapshot of the era's DIY scripting scene around CS 1.6, where members built and shared custom binds and exploits rather than full cheats.
Guide for New Hackers (the classic noob-onboarding sticky)
The sticky every fresh CS:S cheater got pointed to — steps, an FAQ, and a skins tutorial all rolled into one
A member named alex_nj_reyes posted a beginner's walkthrough for setting up cheats in Counter-Strike: Source, covering folder organization, loading hacks, and vague warnings about VAC detection, and it got stickied in the CS:S General section. Longtime staffer/regular Malware followed up with an extensive FAQ clarifying forum rules and answering common technical questions, plus a separate tutorial on installing custom skins and ragdolls. The thread ran for over a year (2006–2008), collecting a long tail of low-effort 'thanks'/'lol' replies from a parade of one-off accounts, which was pretty typical for a reference sticky like this on a cheat-scene board.
SneekerN's Guide To Phishing (Steam Accounts)
The Tutorials board's most infamous how-to: a step-by-step Steam account phishing guide, complete with free hosting and a .tk domain trick.
Posted in June 2009 by longtime member SneekerN, this was a widely-referenced tutorial in the Tutorials section explaining how to set up a fake login page using a free host and a .tk redirect to steal Steam credentials. It drew a steady stream of thanks and follow-up questions over several days, with members asking about spreading methods, hiding their tracks, and troubleshooting broken links. The thread captures the casual, transactional culture of the site's 'cheat scene' era, where phishing guides sat alongside gaming tutorials and were treated as just another useful skill to share.
FkNCrypter Public — inSpired's FUD Crypter Release Thread
A member releases his own crypter to earn a spot on the security team, and the whole forum shows up to test it live.
In this Server & Computer Security thread, member inSpired released 'FkNCrypter,' a homemade file-crypting tool, partly as an informal audition for the site's Security Crew. Founder TuxifieD reopened the thread and vouched for it publicly while inviting members to debug/scan it, sparking a back-and-forth of virus-scan reports, sandbox results, and reassurances about whether the tool was safe or backdoored. The thread shows the classic 'cheat scene' crypter-release ritual: version updates, changelogs, credit lists, and community members testing detection rates against 2009-era antivirus engines. It's a good time capsule of the site's tech/security subculture and the trust dynamics around homemade tools.
Amazon Refund Method [Detailed and Revamped]
295 replies of 'ty' under the forum's go-to Amazon scam script — one of Fkn0wned's most-liked guides ever.
Started by AnonymousAIM in August 2014, this thread laid out a step-by-step social engineering script for falsely claiming missing items from Amazon orders to obtain refunds. It quickly became one of the more popular posts in the Social Engineering section, running to 12 pages, with the vast majority of replies being one-word thanks ('ty') rather than discussion. A few users noted it stopped working, hinting at the cat-and-mouse nature of these methods as Amazon tightened its policies over time.
Getting Portal for Free: The 3-Month 'UNHIDE' Meme Thread
The tutorial where half the forum just showed up to yell 'UNHIDE' for three months straight
Captin_55 posted a tutorial in late 2007 claiming to let members play Portal single-player for free, right when the game was fresh off its Half-Life 2: Episode Two / Orange Box release and hype was sky-high. The thread became a running gag as it stretched from November 2007 into February 2008, with a huge parade of members chiming in mostly just to beg the mods to 'unhide' the hidden content rather than discuss it. It's less notable for the actual tutorial and more as a snapshot of forum culture — a single popular post generating dozens of low-effort 'unhide/ty/gimme' replies for weeks on end.
Fast Sniper - CS:S Auto-Switch Scripting Thread
A humble sniper-quickswitch config that kept scoutzknivez kids coming back for 5 pages and two years straight.
A member named Darkness posted a simple CS:Source config script in July 2006 that automated the classic 'quickscope'-style knife-switch trick for sniper rifles, popular on scoutzknivez-type maps. The thread went on to have remarkably long legs, still pulling one-word 'thanks'/'ty'/'nice' replies and script requests well into 2008, making it one of the more enduring low-key threads in the Scripting subforum. It's less a story of drama and more a monument to a small utility script that a huge cross-section of the community quietly used for years.
Keylogging/stealing info (cjainy tutorial thread)
The infamous IStealer thread — reply to unhide, then everyone just says 'unhide' for two pages straight
A 2009 Tutorials-forum post by cjainy laying out a keylogging method for grabbing Steam accounts, rapidshare logins, and porn site passes, gated behind a 'reply to unhide' spoiler wall. The thread mostly fills up with members posting 'unhide' or brief thanks to unlock the hidden content, a VIP member plugging a paid upgrade (IStealer 4.0), and one poster grousing that antivirus flagged the tool. It's a classic snapshot of the forum's cheat/warez culture and its reply-to-unlock economy, plus a running giveaway banner touting stolen Steam accounts worth $400+.
How to Use SCDS — TuxifieD's Step-by-Step Guide (and the 'where is the hack?' Post of the Year Nominee)
Founder posts a 'simple 5-step guide,' immediately gets buried in confused newbies and one legendary post-of-the-year nomination.
Site founder TuxifieD posted a quick walkthrough for launching SCDS, Fkn0wned's loader tool used to run their Combat Arms cheat client, after apparently getting tired of people saying it was too confusing. The reply chain is a classic tech-support pile-on: newbies reporting authentication errors, missing DLLs, stuck progress bars, and game crashes, with veteran members and mods chiming in with fixes and increasingly dry sarcasm. It ends on a high note when a member asks 'where is the hack?' directly under the guide explaining exactly that, prompting a mod to nominate it as post of the year.
CS 1.6 Hacking FAQ (Pinned by c0ke, Member No. 1)
The pinned FAQ that every new fkn0wned member had to read before touching a CS 1.6 cheat.
A Support-forum sticky in the Counter-Strike 1.6 section laying out a basic FAQ for installing and running hacks, posted by early member/staffer c0ke. As Member No. 1 and part of the [FkN] Retired Staff, c0ke's post reads like foundational housekeeping for the community — the kind of thread that quietly anchored the whole board's support section for years. The page itself is mostly forum scaffolding (nav links to other game sections, IRC invite, sponsor plug) around a single legacy post.
All Hacking Definitions (MapleStory Glossary by SNK)
The MapleStory hacking scene's entire glossary, pinned by a legendary smod — vacs, bots, godmodes and bypasses all defined in one post.
A locked, stickied reference thread posted by longtime [FkN] Super Moderator SNK back in December 2009, laying out an exhaustive glossary of MapleStory-era hacking terminology. It catalogs named cheat engines, GameGuard bypasses, botting terms, vac types, godmode variants, movement hacks, CPU register flags, and common abbreviations used across the scene. This wasn't a discussion so much as a community dictionary — the kind of foundational post new members would get linked to constantly to understand the lingo flying around the rest of the board.
The 'Hack Pack' Mega-Thread
24+ pages of 'thanks bro' — the compiled-tools thread that never died and outlived Gametration itself.
A member named HaSh kicked off a 'mega-thread' in the Red Light District's Software subforum, bundling together various tools scraped from other posts in the section into one convenient pack, crediting the original posters (Afteryou, Shifty, Prinz, Millerlite, Kiingy). The thread became a long-running community staple, ballooning to over 20 pages as new members trickled in for years just to say thanks. The page captured here shows the tail end of its life, spanning a rebrand from Gametration.com to Fkn0wned.com, with dozens of low-effort 'thanks'/'ty'/'big thx' replies from mostly low-post-count members — a classic bump-thread that became a rite of passage for newcomers.
DCLXVI's CS:S Tutorials and FAQ Compilation
The pinned reference guide every CS:S cheat-scene lurker bookmarked — aimbot glossary, VAC ban rules, and how to out-fox an admin who nuked your config.
A long-running reference thread by forum regular DCLXVI compiling a set of Counter-Strike: Source guides: a glossary of hack features (aimbot, ESP, wallhacks, etc.), how to install/uninstall material skins, fixing DLL errors, what actually gets you VAC banned, making custom sprays, and a detailed writeup (with reghar) on locking down your config.cfg to stop server admins from messing with your name, keybinds, and settings. It reads as a classic 2008-era 'cheat scene' knowledge base, written matter-of-factly rather than as drama, and stuck around long enough to collect a few late replies and thanks well into 2009. The final reply is just gibberish keyboard-mashing, a fittingly mundane way for the thread to fizzle out.
How to Hack Windows XP User Log-In
The tutorial that basically every fkn0wned member 'unhid' at least once.
A long-running Random Tuts thread started by Sceptis back in March 2007, walking through a method for bypassing/hacking Windows XP login accounts. It became one of those classic forum staples where hundreds of members bumped in over the following year just to reply 'unhide,' 'thanks,' or 'ty' to reveal the hidden tutorial content, padding the thread out to multiple pages with minimal actual discussion. The vibe is pure late-2000s tutorial-hoarding culture — low-effort bumps, drive-by gratitude, and a handful of jokes mixed in among the noise.
D3D Starter-kit v3.0b
A 2007 Direct3D hooking framework drop that had half the Programming board saying thanks in unison.
This is a release thread in Fkn0wned's Technology > Programming section for 'D3D Starter-kit v3.0b,' a Direct3D 8/9 interfacing framework credited to Azorbix with a long list of contributors. The opening post details version history, bugfixes, and setup requirements (Visual C++, DirectX9 SDK) for building either an injected hook or a standalone wrapper DLL. The replies are mostly short, appreciative posts from members thanking the author and reporting basic issues, giving it that classic era-appropriate 'cheat scene' toolkit-release vibe rather than any real discussion or drama.
How to Hack Servers & Websites from Scratch (Classic 'Unhide and Thanks' Thread)
The classic 'unhide and thanks' thread — one of thec0re's most-replied hack tutorials, buried behind a wall of one-word gratitude posts.
A 2009 tutorial thread posted by user jbfkenpwns in the Tutorials board, offering a step-by-step guide framed as teaching beginners to 'hack servers and websites from scratch.' The actual content was hidden behind a reply-to-unlock wall, a very common mechanic on this forum, so the entire visible thread is just page after page of members posting single words like 'unhide', 'ty', and 'nice' to unlock the guide. It captures the classic low-effort bump culture of cheat/hack forums of the era, where the value was rarely in the responses but in farming replies to access hidden content.
Scripting Unknowns: CS 1.6 Cvar & Config Compendium
The go-to CS 1.6 config thread where coders traded cvar secrets, loop tricks, and console arcana nobody else bothered to document.
A reference thread in the Counter-Strike 1.6 Scripting subforum started by Christ (AKA DigitalEDD, a member of the site's Coders group), offering to explain cvars and commands on request. The post itself is a running, editable compendium of scripting knowledge: single-action commands, misc client-side exploits, toggle/loop alias structures, autobuy and rebuy loops, m_pitch tricks, cvar-locking methods, and a rundown of server/rcon console commands. It reads as a community knowledge-base/cheat-sheet thread meant to be expanded by other members over time, typical of the config-and-scripting culture around competitive CS 1.6 servers of that era.
[Week 2] Coding Contest — Exe Packer/Cryptor Challenge
Fkn0wned launches its first-ever coding contest: build an undetectable exe cryptor, win a Steam account and elite forum status.
Founder TuxifieD kicked off a planned weekly coding contest series on the Tech & Security > Programming board, with Week 1's challenge being to write an exe packer/cryptor capable of making files (tested against the Poison Ivy trojan) undetectable by antivirus scanners on Windows XP. Prizes included a Steam account for first place and 'Affiliate Coder' status granting access to a private section with past winners' source code. The thread turned into a running technical discussion, with members like SuperNovaAO and moron posting progress updates, screenshots, and AV-scan results as they iterated on their crypters, debating heuristics, sandboxing, and obfuscation tricks along the way.
Basic wall hack tut
A 2006 D3D9 wallhack tutorial thread — half coding lesson, half community time capsule
Dragon13 posts a step-by-step Direct3D9 tutorial for building a basic wallhack using AZorbix's d3d starter kit, covering stream source hooking, DrawIndexedPrimitive, and bonus render-state tricks (transparency, wireframe, fullbright, fog disable) credited to ASUS, Azorbix, and g-d. The reply section is a classic mixed-skill forum moment: a low-post newbie admits she can't code but offers to help with the website, a longtime member jokes about how overcomplicated it all looks, and a staff member drops in without much comment. A later edit by moderator ho0k- in 2007 fixes a dead download link, showing the thread stayed referenced long after its original post.
Hacking FAQ (by Kimmi, Fkn0wned staff)
The stickied 'how to hack CS' 101 guide every newbie on the forum got linked to.
A locked, stickied FAQ thread posted by senior moderator Kimmi ('King of Random') walking new members through the basics of getting a Counter-Strike cheat running, from requirements and downloads to launching it in-game. It reads as classic early cheat-scene community scaffolding — the kind of thread every forum in this niche had to stop the same ten questions from flooding General. The tone is dry, instructional, and very 2009, complete with disclaimers that the staff took no responsibility for what people clicked.
How to Crash Someone's MSN! (WPE Pro Tutorial)
The classic 2007 'how to crash MSN' tut that got 60+ replies of pure 'unhide'
A member named Huffy778 posted a tutorial in the Random Tuts section claiming to show how to flood someone's MSN Messenger with packets using WPE Pro, potentially freezing their PC. The thread blew up not for its content but for its comment spam — dozens of members posting nothing but 'unhide', 'thanks', or one-word reactions to bump the hidden text into view, a classic forum ritual of the era. A handful of posters questioned whether it even worked, with at least one member reporting repeated failures and their antivirus flagging WPE Pro as a backdoor.
Blind SQL Injection Tutorial (lulraep)
A vintage blind SQLi walkthrough that a member swore he'd been writing since 2007 — and half the thread just wanted to know if it'd get you caught.
Long-time member lulraep posted a detailed blind SQL injection tutorial in the Server & Computer Security subforum, walking through finding vulnerable sites via Google dorking, testing for injection, enumerating columns and tables, and pulling admin credentials from a real (already-defaced) live example site. The thread has the classic early-2010s cheat-forum tone: casual profanity, 'educational purposes only' disclaimers, and a mix of gratitude, minor accusations of leeching content from other hack forums, and a technical rebuttal from conTagious about proper input sanitization. A side discussion touches on operational security (using proxies, worrying about IP exposure) and the tutorial evidently circulated for years, with replies trickling in as late as February 2010.
Amazon Receipt Generator v2
687 posts of "ty" for a tool that mostly didn't work — classic fkn0wned energy.
A February 2012 thread in the Social Engineering section where user BlackHawk shared a download for an 'Amazon Receipt Generator v2' tool. The thread ran for 28 pages, dominated by short one-word 'thanks' replies from members racking up post counts, with a handful of users reporting the download didn't work and BlackHawk insisting it did. It's a good snapshot of the low-effort bump culture around tool-sharing threads on the forum.
Valve & VAC2 Overview
The old 'so you got VAC banned' explainer thread — straight from the horse's mouth, Fkn0wned-style.
A pinned-style overview thread from Fkn0wned's Counter-Strike: Source section breaking down how VAC2 detection worked and what the site's hack-status labels (VAC2 Proof, VAC2 Detected, VAC2 Unknown) meant for users browsing their cheat database. It also covers the reality of getting permanently banned, the futility of appealing to Valve, and workarounds like unsecured/LAN servers. Posted by co-manager 'Shifty', it reads as a mix of community PSA and cheat-database user guide, capturing the site's role as a hub for the mid-2000s CS:S cheating scene.
SNK's CS:S Coding Megathread
The dump-all thread where fkn0wned's coders traded raw Counter-Strike: Source hack source — ESP, bone aim, speedhacks, the works.
Forum smod SNK posted a big compilation of Counter-Strike: Source cheat-development snippets for other coders — things like sound/health/name ESP, bone and hitbox aimbot code, speedhacks, a command menu, and engine hooking tricks — all gated behind reply-to-unlock spoilers. The replies are almost entirely one-word 'unhide'/'thanks' posts from members farming access to the hidden content, typical of Downloads/code threads on the board. One old-timer, A-Nihilist, breaks the pattern with a nostalgic aside about having coded CS mods himself back in the day.
Christ Script Pack (CS)
A coder called Christ dumps his all-in-one CS 1.6 script pack — and offers to patch bugs on request.
In the Scripting subforum of Counter-Strike 1.6, a member going by Christ (AKA DigitalEDD, listed as a Coder) posted a personal script pack for CS 1.6 bundling things like config resets, tracers, buy scripts, bhop and lastinv-bhop variants, an auto-pistol script, spam scripts, white walls/full bright combos, a name changer, and some server-side novelty tools. He openly noted a couple of the scripts were likely detectable by anti-cheat, and invited others to report bugs so he could patch and re-upload. The thread ran long (13 pages), suggesting it became a go-to reference/download thread in the scripting community for a while.
Social Engineering For Beginners [Tutorial, Tools and Practice Links]
The old 'how to trick people' 101 thread that ran 14 pages deep in the Security & Hacking corner.
A pinned-style tutorial thread in the Security & Hacking section introducing newcomers to social engineering concepts, with linked tools and 'practice' resources. It spawned over a dozen pages of replies, typical of the site's tutorial culture where members traded techniques and discussed the ethics/legality loosely alongside gaming cheats and leeching content. Part of Fkn0wned's broader ecosystem that also hosted cheat databases for CS 1.6, CoD, and other early-2010s multiplayer games.
iStealer V5 - Cleaned and Pictured Tutorial
The pinned tut that taught a generation of fkn0wned members how to set up a password stealer, screenshots included.
VIP member XpliciteR posted a step-by-step, screenshot-heavy guide for configuring 'iStealer V5', explicitly framed as clearer and cleaner than the existing V4 tutorial by Jamiee. The thread got instant praise, a sticky/pin request that was granted by a Retired-and-Respected staffer (ZoaQ), and a stream of members thanking the OP, reporting setup issues (missing logs, database privilege steps), and getting troubleshooting help in reply. It's a solid time capsule of the 'cheat scene' tutorial culture on the board — quick community validation, minor image-hosting hiccups, and casual offers to help via MSN.
The WoW Private Server Connection Tutorial (2007-2008)
The one thread everyone visited to jump ship from retail WoW to a private server — and to farm rep with a lazy 'unhide'.
Started by member Pwnography in April 2007, this was a step-by-step guide for connecting to a World of Warcraft private server, posted behind hidden-content tags typical of the forum's 'reply for the reward' culture. The thread stayed active for nearly a year, drawing hundreds of low-effort 'unhide'/'thanks' replies alongside genuine questions about server versions, Mac compatibility, and whether accounts needed retail copies. It captures the era's private-server boom and the forum's core mechanic of gating guides behind forced engagement, with the OP repeatedly scolding people for posting just 'unhide' instead of real feedback.
The GFX Scene
Signatures, banners, Sig of the Week, and the graphics battles.
Submit your logo designs for fkn0wned!
The old skull logo's getting axed — members were invited to design its replacement.
A founder-led contest thread in the GFX Basement calling on members to submit fresh logo designs ahead of an IPB 3.0 forum upgrade, explicitly retiring the old skull logo. Submissions were open-ended on color and theme, with an emphasis on effort and quality over quantity. Early replies show the usual mix of enthusiasm and self-deprecating humor about design skills.
Fkn0wned Apparel — Designing the Crew's Own Merch
The day fkn0wned tried to become a streetwear brand: all-black hoodies, skull logos, and one guy who thought flat brims were gay.
Site admin TuxifieD opens a call for community-made designs for official fkn0wned merch — an all-black t-shirt, cap, hoody, and watch — meant to be ordered as samples and eventually sold to members. Graphics crew members like SNK, pheonixinwater, and Gio pitch skull and logo concepts, while others (thejah, f0wh, vermiLLion, trinetyface) debate colors, placement, and whether the plain logo or full 'fkn0wned' text looks better on a shirt. A minor derail happens when shwager complains about hat brim shapes, leading to some ribbing. Overall it's a good-natured, collaborative branding thread showing the crew's pride in their site identity.
The Cheat Scene
CS 1.6/Source, MapleStory, VAC-proof hacks, trading — the core hobby.
VAC Detected Hacks Report: The Casualty List (CS:S)
The community-run VAC 'body count' list — page after page of once-untouchable cheats getting crossed off as banned.
This is the tail end of a long-running community-maintained tracking thread in the CS:Source VAC Proof Releases subforum, where members logged which cheats had been flagged as 'Detected' by Valve Anti-Cheat versus still 'Unknown.' By late 2007/early 2008 the mood had shifted from bragging to caution, with several posters reporting they'd gotten VAC banned testing various releases and warning others off specific hacks like JAvHAX, HackVision, and Fkn0wned's own Simplicity tool. The thread doubles as an informal casualty report and a running obituary for the site's own in-house 'FkN' cheat releases as Valve's detection caught up with them.
wrynx Hacks kellyclarkson.com, Redirects Traffic to fkn0wned
wrynx found a way into kellyclarkson.com and the whole forum egged him on to deface it — then bragged about crashing the site's traffic instead
In this 'Raging' board thread from November 2009, member wrynx teased having some kind of access to kellyclarkson.com and asked if he should mess with it. A chorus of regulars (thejah, TuxifieD, fridsade, Kimmi, lulraep, PopTart) egged him on with peer pressure and suggestions to brand it with fkn0wned, while Photofinish was the lone voice of restraint calling it morally wrong. wrynx ultimately pivoted to boasting that he'd used the access to redirect traffic to the forum itself, spiking active users from 187 to 518 in ten minutes — a stat PopTart cited as an all-time online record. The thread got gravedug over a month later in January 2010 by reflexez, drawing a scolding from S3RK and smod Kimmi for necroposting.
ICE}'s Everything Explained: The MapleStory Cheating Bible
A 2006 megathread where a Database Admin laid out the entire MapleStory cheat scene lexicon — dEMI, dEM VAC, Dupex, godmode, and all — in one glorious wall of text.
Started by forum admin ICE} in the Maple Story sub-board, this thread is a sprawling 'getting started' tutorial covering the terminology and tool ecosystem of the mid-2000s MapleStory cheating scene: various cheat-engine forks, GameGuard bypass tools, botting software, and the folklore behind named exploits like dEMI, dEM VAC, Item VAC, Dupex, and dREAPER, several credited (rightly or wrongly) to scene names like dLICIOUS, Exidus, and KittenKicker. The tone is equal parts instructional guide and scene history lesson, with ICE} correcting community misconceptions about who actually created what. It closes with a member reply that captures the everyday confusion of newer forum users trying to parse all the jargon.
nK Hack 5.8 Release Thread
The 'best public hack in a long time' drops — and the reply section instantly floods with noobs begging for download links.
This is an archived announcement thread from Fkn0wned.com's News and Announcements board, where user sYntax released version 5.8 of the site's long-running 'nK' Counter-Strike 1.6 cheat, framed as a rebranded/re-vac'd continuation of a hack originally from Source Industries under the shared 'Deception Network' umbrella. The post lists an extensive feature set typical of era cheats (aimbot, wallhack, ESP, radar, speedhack, etc.) and credits several contributors and the core Fkn0wned crew. The replies are the classic mid-2000s cheat-forum pile-on: one-line praise, a couple of technical hiccups (injection failures), a warning about VAC bans, and multiple brand-new one-post accounts begging for private access or download help.
f0wh's VAC-Proof CS 1.6 Hackpack
The legendary 17-page cheat drop that promised VAC couldn't touch it
In October 2009, veteran uploader f0wh posted a bundled collection of Counter-Strike 1.6 cheats in the Undetected Hacks subforum, pitching it as 'fully VAC-proof and virus-free' with a lengthy disclaimer explaining VAC detection quirks and false-positive antivirus flags. The thread exploded into a classic hidden-content leech fest, running 17 pages of members posting 'unhide'/'ty' just to unlock the download link, with mods and long-time regulars mixing in gratitude and jokes. It's a solid snapshot of the site's cheat-sharing culture and the community banter that surrounded it, right down to a nervous newbie asking if he'd get banned using it on a VAC-secured server.
The Dictionary: A Glossary of CS Raging Slang
Ever wonder what a 'forced teaparty' or getting 'HBAR'd' actually meant? Here's the OG glossary.
A member named Phantom laid out a glossary of Counter-Strike raging slang for the forum's Raging and Advertising section — terms like teaparty, TK, lolman, raged, crashed, and HBAR, explaining the culture of deliberately annoying other players in-game through spam, teamkilling, voice annoys, and light cheat use. It's less a thread and more a reference post, capturing the community's own homegrown vocabulary for its favorite pastime: griefing servers for laughs. Fellow members Dragon and Rockforce got shoutouts for contributing terms.
TCHook v1.2.1 Release — Shifty's VAC2 Undetected CS 1.6 Cheat
The site founder himself drops a 'VAC2 Undetected' CS 1.6 cheat — and someone in the replies swears their name got changed to a public confession
Founder member Shifty posted the v1.2.1 update of TCHook, a Counter-Strike 1.6 cheat tool billed as undetected by VAC2, listing features like a wallhack, anti-recoil, wireframe mode and a menu, with credits going to the site's coders and staff. Replies are mostly quick thanks and CS:S players asking to be included in future releases, but one newbie reports their in-game name mysteriously changed to something like 'Ive_been_HACKING.I_got_caught' and asks for help, hinting at anti-cheat consequences. A coder also chimes in to note this was actually the official v1.2 release, pointing to a PM for clarification.
Overtake RCON from Servers Mega-Thread
A 28-page tutorial thread that took over servers and half the forum's attention for months.
A sprawling, long-running tutorial thread on Gametration.com (later archived under Fkn0wned.com) titled 'Overtake RCON from Servers,' originally posted by DCLXVI (aka Cheesus) in May 2007 with a download, tutorial, and screenshots for taking control of Counter-Strike server RCON. The thread ballooned to 28+ pages over many months, with hundreds of members dropping in just to say thanks, ask if it still worked, or brag about pranking server admins by messing with settings like lighting guns on fire. It's a classic artifact of the 'cheat scene' hype-thread era: low signal-to-noise, mostly one-word replies and 'unhide' requests, but a genuine community touchstone that people kept bumping and quoting for months.
Fkn0wned.com CSS Public Hack v1 — Official Release Thread
The day pikachu dropped a 'VAC proof' Counter-Strike: Source cheat and the whole crew showed up to co-sign it
This is the official release thread for a Counter-Strike: Source cheat ('Fkn0wned.com CSS Public Hack v1') coded by forum member pikachu, posted June 2010 in the Minor Updates section. The post lists the tool's aimbot/ESP/extras feature set, a download link, MD5 hash, and a virus-scan link, framed as a proud community contribution rather than a random leak. Replies are mostly congratulations, '+rep', and testing confirmations from regulars, plus some in-jokes about promoting it on rival sites while keeping the fkn0wned name out of it, and pikachu getting recognized with a 'Coder' group tag for the release. It's a snapshot of the site's cheat-development culture and the small, familiar cast of members who ran and populated it.
FREE PRIVATE HACK's! (the classic ZoaQ bait thread)
A 17-page troll thread where the 'free hack' was just a lecture on why free hacks are scams — and everyone begged to unhide it anyway.
ZoaQ posted a hidden-content trap in the Counter-Strike: Source discussion board, ostensibly offering a 'free private hack' but actually using the forum's reply-to-unlock mechanic to bait members into revealing themselves as the type of person who downloads sketchy 'free' cheats and generators. The thread exploded to 17 pages, mostly filled with members demanding 'unhide' or 'unhide plz' without realizing they'd been had. A handful of regulars caught on quickly and mocked the ones falling for it, giving the thread a classic forum-troll energy typical of the era's cheat scene.
The VAC2 Bypasser Thread (Later Marked [NOTWORKING])
The tool half the forum thanked c0ke for — before it stopped working and half the forum got banned.
A long-running thread on Gametration.com / Fkn0wned.com's Steam Client subforum where founding member c0ke (Member No. 1) posted a tool claiming to block or bypass Valve's VAC2 anti-cheat system. The thread ran at least 11 pages of replies, mostly quick 'thanks'/'unhide' posts from members trying it out, before eventually being retagged [NOTWORKING] in the title. Later replies show users reporting bans and warning others the tool was now flagged as detectable, capturing the classic cat-and-mouse cycle of cheat-scene tool releases going stale. The page also preserves the site's rebrand mid-thread from Gametration.com to Fkn0wned.com, with matching nav/breadcrumb changes.
nK Hack 5.9 Released (Recoded by Jimster480)
The July 2007 CS 1.6 cheat drop that turned into a credits war and a virus-scare thread for the next month straight
This is the official 2007 release thread for 'nK Hack' v5.9, a Counter-Strike 1.6 multi-feature cheat posted by forum figure c0ke with a long credits list crediting the Fkn0wned crew and coder Jimster480. The thread quickly spiraled beyond the release itself into a messy back-and-forth over who actually deserved credit for the code (accusations of ripping from other cheat groups like OGC), plus dozens of replies over the following weeks with users reporting bugs, asking for settings help, and worrying about viruses and VAC bans. It's a pretty representative snapshot of the site's cheat-release culture — equal parts hype, tech support, and scene drama.
CS 1.6 Hack Released! - V.I.P. Fkn0wned.Com
The launch announcement for fkn0wned's flagship CS 1.6 VIP hack — one-time fee, and one guy's ESEA ban to prove it worked (or that he was bad at hiding it).
This is the original News-board announcement from site founder sYntax debuting fkn0wned.com's first VIP product: a paid Counter-Strike 1.6 cheat pitched as VAC2 and ESEA proof, sold as a one-time $50 purchase rather than a subscription. The replies are classic early-VIP-shop hype — members cheering the sales pitch and promising to buy in — until a user claims he got banned from ESEA after one scrim using it, sparking a short back-and-forth about whether the hack failed or he just got careless. It's a small but telling snapshot of the site's business model and community tone in its earliest days (Feb 2007, member numbers still in single/double digits).
c0ke's Steam Account Shop
The guy openly admitted he stole Steam accounts for a living — then got banned as a scammer while the orders kept rolling in.
A trading-subforum thread where user c0ke ran an unapologetic storefront selling stolen Steam accounts (CS 1.6, CSS, DOD, rare titles like TF2/Portal) with a price list and a 'guarantee', and even offered to teach buyers how to steal accounts themselves for extra cash. A steady stream of members lined up requesting cheap low-digit or unbanned accounts, one poster tried to undercut with his own stolen-account listing and got called out as untrustworthy, and another flagged rule violations. The thread ends anticlimactically with the shop's own customers realizing c0ke had already been banned site-wide as a confirmed scammer, and the thread was closed by staff for that reason.
[VAC2PROOF] Blackk Public v1 Release Thread
A 14-page release thread from the peak CS:S cheat-scene era, kicked off by an FkN admin.
This was the release thread for a Counter-Strike: Source cheat called 'Blackk public v1', posted in the Releases subforum by longtime FkN staff member Malware. The thread ran to 14 pages, suggesting heavy community engagement typical of a hyped public release. It captures the era's cheat-scene culture, complete with the site's own IRC channel, points system, and 'Sig Of The Week' community features. The archived text here only preserves the opening post header and forum furniture, not the substantive discussion that followed.
Bypass VAC2, Play Banned (2007 Gametration Thread)
The post that promised banned players a way back onto secure servers — and got quoted for years after.
A 2007 thread from Gametration.com (a precursor community to fkn0wned/thec0re) started by admin KingDavid, cross-posting a VAC2-bypass method that had been circulating on other forums like MPCforums. It reads as a classic early cheat-scene 'community knowledge sharing' post — long technical steps, screenshots hosted on Imageshack, credit given to the original source site. The replies are short, appreciative, and mostly from members who admit they don't actually have banned accounts to test it on. The page also preserves site-history noise: an admin announcement about the forum's IPB 3.0 upgrade, plus mentions of later Fkn0wned releases (a Modern Warfare 2 pub hack, a Combat Arms hack), showing this thread sat right at the hinge between the old Gametration branding and the fkn0wned era.
Halloween Rage: Goron's Stolen-Account Rage Video
Goron_Elder_Chris drops the rage video of the month — then casually admits he was playing on stolen Steam accounts the whole time.
A member named Goron_Elder_Chris posted a YouTube 'rage' video (Halloween-themed, from a stolen Steam account by his own admission) to the Counter-Strike Rages subforum in late October 2007, and it became one of the board's more memorable clips, drawing over two dozen replies of praise, lulz, and running jokes about his 'GoronCity' bit. A side conversation breaks out about attempted account-stealing / phishing attempts going around Steam Friends at the time, with Legit_Hacks admitting he tried (and failed) to steal a 'Lord Rager' account, and Goron admitting he was behind an IRC-based attempt too — all treated as a joke rather than a scandal. The thread trails off into a string of short 'lol' and 'nice one' replies over the following weeks, capped by a second page of latecomers still hyping up the video into December.
A Noob's First Look at Minecraft, December 2009
A forum noob spots Minecraft in December 2009 and immediately starts musing about hacking it
A brand-new member named Meuze posts about stumbling across a then-obscure block-building game called Minecraft, linking to minecraft.net and noting how little anti-cheat protection it seemed to have. He mentions tinkering with some hacks himself but doubts they'll amount to much, and throws out an open challenge to anyone else interested. The thread is a single lonely post with no replies, a tiny time capsule from when Minecraft was still a niche curiosity rather than a phenomenon.
Charlie's Fake-Hack GUI Service: Building YouTube Clout Interfaces on Demand
The thread where Charlie moonlighted as an on-demand fake-hack GUI designer for the forum's YouTube fame chasers.
This was a 'services' thread run by Charlie, a VIP member, offering to build fake program interfaces (convincing-looking but non-functional 'hack' GUIs) that members could bind to real payloads or just use for YouTube clout videos. sto0ka requested a fake CoD speed-hack GUI and a fake key generator skin, while Baz requested an elaborate fake 'Marvel War of Heroes' mobile hack interface complete with custom dropdown menus and branding for his YouTube channel. Charlie delivered each request promptly, bumping the thread after each completion, and the tone throughout was casual and collaborative — regulars praising his turnaround speed and design work. It's a good snapshot of the forum's fake-hack/YouTube-view economy: less about real cheats, more about performing them convincingly on camera.
Eventscripts Server Crash Script
Guy gets petty revenge on a 'douche' server owner with a script that nuked the server's ping instead of hijacking rcon — and the thread lived on for 8+ pages and 200+ 'unhide thx' replies.
In the Counter-Strike: Source Materials/Scripts section, member lightsora posted a hidden Eventscripts snippet originally meant to hack a rival server's rcon password out of spite, which instead spiked ping and crashed the server for over 14 minutes. The actual code sat behind a spoiler tag, so the thread's real content quickly became hundreds of one-word replies over many months (mid-2009 into 2010) with members just saying 'unhide', 'thx', or 'ty' to reveal the hidden script. It's a classic example of a hide-tag bump thread — low substance, extremely long lifespan, and a good snapshot of the CSS 'skid' scene's casual attitude toward messing with servers.
CoconuT-2.7.3-CE release thread
The coconut hack that ran for 14 pages of 'thnx' and 'unhide plz'
A release-board post by member PaRaNoID shared 'CoconuT-2.7.3-CE', a Counter-Strike: Source consistency/radar-hack tool billed as VAC2-proof as of late November 2007, complete with a full antivirus scan rundown. The thread ballooned to at least 14 pages, mostly one-line replies from Noob-ranked members thanking the poster and asking to 'unhide' the download link — a classic fkn0wned release-thread pattern. Little actual discussion beyond gratitude and one member (Devlin1991) asking whether it was basically a glorified wallhack via radar. Banned user 'jacal' (tagged 'Pro Spammer') also appears in the thread list, hinting at the forum's looser moderation of spam accounts.
Fire Rates - The Legendary CS:S Scripting Thread
A humble dual-pistols fire-rate script that somehow ran for 13 pages and over 240 replies until the forum's dying days.
Started by member Darkness in July 2006, this Counter-Strike: Source scripting thread shared a simple bind script letting players cycle fire modes (auto, single, semi, burst) via mousewheel-click, notably turning dual pistols into makeshift machine guns. What began as a one-post tutorial snowballed into one of the board's longest-running threads, still getting bumped by new members well into 2008. By its later pages the thread had mostly devolved into low-effort 'thanks', one-word bumps, and drive-by posts from brand-new accounts rather than actual discussion.
l3m0nz's 'Steam Support' Password Jacking Log
The classic 'I am Steam Support' scam script, preserved in full — right down to the victim's meltdown.
A member named l3m0nz posted a log documenting two social-engineering encounters where someone impersonated an 'Automated Messaging System' claiming to be Steam Support, convincing two users (ilovebarbie and luc) to hand over their account credentials under the guise of an urgent security check. The thread was posted in the Counter-Strike Rages subforum, though other members quickly pointed out it wasn't really a 'rage' since nobody actually got visibly angry until the very end, when the reveal hits and the victim explodes in furious, garbled all-caps reaction. It's a time-capsule example of the account-jacking social engineering scripts that circulated in that era's cheat/gaming scene, shared here more as trophy/bragging content than as a cautionary tale.
SNK's Super Script Pack for Counter-Strike: Source
The bhop/autofire script bundle that had half the CS:S subforum begging to 'unhide'
A [FkN] moderator known as SNK posted a bundled CS:S script pack combining bunnyhop, autofire, burstfire, crosshair customization, and Half-Life DJ support, hosted on Rapidshare with the classic reply-to-unlock hidden content trick. The thread quickly filled with the forum's signature one-word 'thanks'/'unhide' replies from a mix of regular members, VIPs, security crew, and even banned users still posting. It's a small but perfect time capsule of the era's script-sharing culture, download-limit gripes, and forum camaraderie.
COD4 VIP Cheat Release (2009) - fkn0wned's Paid Hack Era
The day fkn0wned rolled out its paid COD4 cheat — chams, aimbot, 'PB Undetected' and all.
An official announcement from site founder TuxifieD introducing a new paid VIP cheat for Call of Duty 4, sold through CCBill since PayPal wasn't an option. The post laid out a long feature list (ESP, aimbot, no-recoil, menu customization) and claimed Punkbuster-proof status at the time. A moderator, ZoaQ, replied shortly after, likely to acknowledge or bump the release. It's a good snapshot of fkn0wned's commercial cheat-selling era and how these releases were marketed to the community.
Epic Lite Public v1 — The 31-Page Unhide Megathread
31 pages of 'unhide plz', 'ty', and one truly unhinged grandma insult — the megathread that never died.
This was a long-running release thread in the Counter-Strike: Source 'VAC Proof Releases' subforum for a cheat called 'Epic Lite Public v1'. Like most threads of its kind, the actual content sat behind hidden/spoiler tags, so page after page filled up with members posting 'unhide', 'thanks', or 'ty' just to reveal the download — a ritual that stretched the topic out to 31 pages over months. The vibe is classic low-effort bump culture: mostly one-line noob posts, a few Xfire handles dropped for street cred, and at least one bizarre flame-war insult copy-pasted verbatim by two different users. Nothing dramatic happened here beyond the grind of the unhide economy, but it's a perfect time capsule of how these cheat-release threads actually functioned day to day.
ap3x's $20 iStealer Log-Collection Job Posting
An admin openly hires forum members to build malware droppers for cash — filled within four days.
In the Black Market subforum, [FkN] Admin ap3x posted a paid gig looking for someone experienced with iStealer and crypting to generate stolen-data logs on his behalf, offering $20 for the first batch and another $20 once a higher log count was hit, payable only via PayPal after work was completed. A few members haggled over crypter requirements and expressed interest, including lam3r, NIX, and ColdHer0, but ap3x closed the thread within days after the position was filled. The exchange is a small, matter-of-fact snapshot of the forum's black-market culture, where staff and regulars openly brokered shady freelance work.
Valve/VAC2 Overview
The sticky that explained VAC bans, 'VAC proof' labels, and why crying on the Steam forums never worked.
A pinned explainer post from the 'VAC Proof Releases' subforum breaking down Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC2) terminology used across the site's cheat listings — 'VAC2 Proof', 'VAC2 Detected', and 'VAC2 Unknown' — and warning that detection status could change as Valve updated. It also covers the harsh reality of permanent, unappealable Steam bans, workarounds like unsecured/LAN servers, and a nod toward 'safer' texture hacks from the site's database. Classic cheat-forum public-service post: equal parts FAQ, liability disclaimer, and community folklore about getting banned.
f0wh's Ultimate CS:S/1.6 Hack-Pack (New Year's 2009, Later VAC2 Detected)
A New Year's Day hack-pack drop that racked up 25 pages of 'unhide' replies before VAC caught up with it
Posted January 1, 2009 by veteran member f0wh in the Detected Hacks subforum of Counter-Strike: Source, this thread bundled together a compilation of then-undetected cheats for CS:S and CS 1.6/CZ, hidden behind the classic 'reply to unlock' mechanism. The thread exploded with dozens of one-word 'unhide' and thank-you replies typical of the era, plus password confusion and at least one user reporting antivirus flagging a trojan in one of the included tools, prompting a defensive reply from staffer vermiLLion. The [VAC2DETECTED] tag in the title marks its eventual fate: like most public hack releases, it was later flagged and detected by Valve Anti-Cheat, landing it in the graveyard forum for outed cheats.
Fkn0wned Simplicity Release Thread
A 22-page cheat release thread where half the replies are just people begging to unlock the download link
This is the release thread for 'Fkn0wned Simplicity,' a Counter-Strike: Source cheat (ESP, wallhack, chams, and various movement/utility tricks) posted by member Us^T and billed as VAC-undetected at time of release. Like many cheat-release threads on this board, the early replies are dominated by broken/hidden download links, users posting 'unhide' or 'show thanks' to reveal content, and a scramble of low-post-count accounts chiming in just to get access. Regulars like cedars and blacknight00 show up with quick thanks and banter, giving it that typical fast-moving, low-effort forum energy of the era.</br>The thread ran to 22 pages, suggesting the release stayed popular/relevant for a good while despite (or because of) VAC-detection uncertainty.
demonicxkid12's Steam Account Store (saving up for SAT books)
A user sells a stack of Steam accounts to fund his SAT prep books — 2010s internet in one thread.
A Market Place listing where user demonicxkid12 offered several Steam/CS accounts for sale via PayPal, openly noting they were 'stolen, but had for over a week,' with prices ranging from $2-$6. The thread is a small time-capsule of the forum's account-trading culture, complete with scam-avoidance rules, VAC-clean claims, and the classic disclaimer language buyers had to paste into PayPal notes. One reply from adriandvinsk shows a buyer following up over MSN/PM. The 'gotta pay for SAT books' aside gives it an oddly wholesome, very-2009 teenager vibe.
[HS] Private Hack Leaked! (CS:S Releases, Dec 2007)
A paid-for private CS:S cheat gets 'ripped' and dumped free — cue a page of noobs screaming thanks and racing to download it.
Longtime member 'laptops' posted a leaked copy of a previously-paid private Counter-Strike: Source hack, claiming it was VAC2-proof and backing that up with a full multi-scanner virus scan showing clean results. The thread exploded into the classic leak-release pattern: dozens of low-post-count members chiming in with one-word 'thanks', 'unhide', and hype replies just to grab the download. It ran 13 pages deep, making it one of the more popular Releases threads on the board, and captures the site's core cheat-leaking culture at its height.
SavagePrawnBot 1.3 Release Thread
A CS 1.6 aimbot release that immediately triggered a multi-AV false-positive-or-trojan debate — then got someone VAC banned anyway.
User savageprawnboy released version 1.3 of his 'SavagePrawnBot' cheat for Counter-Strike 1.6, insisting detections by antivirus software were false positives. A poster ran a full VirusTotal-style multi-engine scan showing several AVs flagging the file as a trojan/injector, prompting forum regular TuxifieD to confirm it was 'clean' but was in fact an injector. The thread has the classic era vibe of cheat-scene skepticism, dead download links needing mod fixes, rival-hack trash talk (comparisons to 'Gp 1.0'), and a running joke from smod Kimmi mocking the comparison with an enormous wall of 'Hahaha'. It ends on a sour note with a user claiming the hack got him VAC banned after a second use.
The VAC/VAC2 & Hacking Information (Sticky FAQ by f0wh)
The pinned 'read this before you get banned' thread every fkn0wned cheater eventually ran into.
A locked, informational sticky posted by longtime member f0wh explaining how Valve's VAC and VAC2 anti-cheat systems worked, the difference between the two, and general myths around 'bypasses' and 'disablers.' It's framed as a public service FAQ rather than a cheat-sharing thread, warning users that most so-called VAC2 fixes were fake and that bans were permanent. The thread doubles as a bit of site lore, name-dropping trusted community figures and rival/partner sites of the era's cheat scene.
Skelletor Material Hack — CS:S Wallhack Release Thread
A 15-page "VAC PROOF" CSS wallhack drop that had the whole materials subforum begging for the unhide
A CS:S materials-based wallhack (transparent walls, team-colored models, wireframe boxes, no smoke) posted by user Hatred! and credited to 'skelletor', pitched as undetectable since it just swaps skin files rather than injecting code. The thread quickly filled with the classic forum ritual of members posting 'unhide'/'ty' just to unlock the hidden download link, plus a few nervous questions about whether it could still trigger a VAC ban. Hatred! reassured everyone repeatedly that skin-based hacks were safe from VAC, at most risking a server-side ban if used too obviously. Runs 15 pages long, showing this was a popular, well-trafficked release in its day.
myg0t Rage Sounds Pack (215 MB, RapidShare)
A 215MB grab-bag of myg0t rage sound clips, shared in two RapidShare links back in '07.
A member known as LoRd Ragealot uploaded a large compilation of 'rage sounds' associated with the infamous myg0t group and shared it via two RapidShare links for other CS ragers to use. The thread sits in the Raging and Advertising > Counter-Strike Rages section, a hub for the community's trolling/raging culture, and quickly drew replies and reputation from members looking for the download. It ran to 12 pages, suggesting it was a popular, long-lived resource thread in its day.
MW2 VIP Cheat Launch — TuxifieD & xTriplex's Paid Subscription Debut
TuxifieD drops the paywalled MW2 cheat, and within a day the buyers are already stuck on install errors.
This is the official announcement thread from founder TuxifieD launching a paid 'MW2 VIP' subscription cheat for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, priced at $12.50/month with activation handled manually by coder xTriplex via PayPal transaction IDs. The replies are a mix of hype from VIP/staff members congratulating xTriplex, a few members grumbling about having to pay extra despite already owning lifetime VIP, and early buyers running into activation delays and injector errors ('SCDS Init FAILURE') that xTriplex promises to look into. It's a good snapshot of the site's cheat-selling business model and support culture in December 2009 — casual, a little chaotic, buyers troubleshooting in the open thread.
Basic Bunnyhop Script — the 13-page 'unhide/thx/ty' thread
One bhop script, 13 pages of 'unhide', 'thx', and 'ty'.
A member named goofu dropped a basic Counter-Strike bunnyhop script in the Scripting subforum back in December 2007, and it turned into a long-running reply-to-unlock thread that stretched to at least 13 pages over several months. Most replies are one-word 'unhide', 'thx', or 'ty' posts from newcomers just trying to grab the script, with the occasional aside about whether it could get you banned (goofu insisted scripts were always safe). It's a perfect time capsule of mid-2000s CS 1.6/CS:S script-sharing culture and the forum's reply-gated download etiquette.
[C] CS:S Hack Sources by w0lf
One member dumped a stash of Counter-Strike: Source hack source code — and the thread ran eleven pages of pure 'unhide' spam.
In this Programming subforum thread from late 2008, a member named w0lf shared several old CS:S cheat source code archives (with names like Epic Xtreme, Nk 5.0, and VacSuxPrivSrcRelease) for others to study, noting they were VAC-detected and not his own leak. The thread quickly turned into the classic forum ritual of members replying with little more than 'unhide,' 'ty,' and gratitude to reveal the hidden download links. Moderator IrishAsh pinned the topic for visibility, and it clearly struck a chord — running to 11 pages of replies over following weeks, a sign of how prized cheat source dumps were in the community at the time.
Fkn0wned VIP Hack Release (CS:S)
The day fkn0wned rolled out its paid VIP aimbot/ESP package for Counter-Strike: Source — undetected, of course.
A May 2009 announcement thread from site founder TuxifieD unveiling the site's premium 'VIP' cheat for Counter-Strike: Source, sold via CCBill or PayPal. The post is a full feature rundown — aimbot options, ESP, wallhack-style extras, and misc tricks like bunnyhop and spinbot — framed as VAC2 undetected at the time. It's classic cheat-scene marketing copy: bold claims, a screenshot, and a hard sales pitch, with a promo tie-in offering a free Steam account for lifetime buyers that week. Staff admin Fkn0wnedWasHere chimes in right after, suggesting the announcement got quick attention from the community.
HypnotickHook v1.0 Release Thread
A 12-page classic CS 1.6 cheat release that ran from mid-2007 well into the fall — until VAC caught up with it.
This was a Releases-board thread for 'HypnotickHook v1.0,' a Counter-Strike 1.6 cheat by 'Hypnotick' billed as an all-in-one aimbot/ESP/visuals package with claimed VAC2-evasion features, originally posted by moderator DCLXVI (quoting user Cheesus's release template). By the time of this archived page (page 12), the thread title had been updated to '[VAC2DETECTED]' — marking the cheat as busted by Valve Anti-Cheat — but new members were still trickling in months later to thank the uploader, ask if the file was safe, and confirm mirrors worked. It's a good snapshot of the era's release-thread ritual: feature list, changelog, install/troubleshooting steps, a Jotti antivirus scan for 'legitimacy,' and a wall of one-line noob replies.
Valve & VAC2 Overview
The old 'know your enemy' guide to VAC2 — status labels, ban myths, and the classic 'zomg I got banned' pep talk.
A pinned-style explainer thread in the CS 1.6 General section breaking down how the site classified cheats relative to Valve Anti-Cheat 2: VAC2 Proof, VAC2 Detected, and VAC2 Unknown. It also covers the community folklore around VAC bans being permanent and account-wide, how to find unsecured/LAN servers to keep playing after a ban, and a warning to previously-banned users about not getting a fresh account banned again. Posted by longtime member Shifty (r3birth?), it reads as one of the site's staple 'orientation' threads for newcomers to the cheat scene.
What is a Rage? — The 2007 Rage Manifesto
A myg0t-style breakdown of 'real' raging vs. fake aimbot posturing, straight from the Fkn0wned rage subforum's glory days.
In this July 2007 post, member nerfmagez lays out a definition of 'raging' in the Counter-Strike server-hacking prank culture, distinguishing it from simply running an aimbot. The post argues that true rages require piling on extras like blaring music, offensive sprays, macro-spammed chat, and team-flashing, backed up by screenshots as examples. It's framed as a mini-manifesto against people who 'fake rage' to look cool, with Fluffman of the [FkN] Crew staff co-signing in the sole reply.
Nova's Super Material Pack — the CS:S Wallhack That Broke the Forum
The wallhack release that made half the forum lose its mind over a guy named Nova
A release thread in the Counter-Strike: Source Materials subforum where user 'Nova' dropped his widely-hyped 'Super Material Pack,' a texture/material-based wallhack for CS:S promising transparent models, colored players/weapons, and customizable VGUI options. The thread is mostly gushing praise and forum banter rather than technical discussion, with the download gated behind a reply-to-unlock system typical of the era. A few users report bugs and ask for fixes, and the download link eventually breaks, as later replies note it's missing.
The CS:S Buffer Overflow Tutorial Thread
A 24-page tutorial on flooding CS:S servers offline that turned into 100+ people saying 'unhide' just to see the code.
A member named zubetube posted a step-by-step tutorial explaining a simple buffer-overflow trick to overwhelm Counter-Strike: Source servers using the Mani Admin Plugin's nextmap/timeleft commands, kicking every player off. The thread ballooned to at least 24 pages over months (March through May 2008) mostly filled with one-word replies like 'unhide', 'ty', and 'pwned' as members tried to reveal the hidden code snippet, plus a few testimonials from people claiming it actually crashed servers. It's a classic snapshot of the fkn0wned 'cheat scene' culture — low-effort bump culture, hidden-content gatekeeping, and casual server-griefing shared as a badge of pride.
BlowItOutYourAss Crew Leaks G9 Hacks — Paysite Drama Erupts
A crew calling themselves BlowItOutYourAss leaked a rival paysite's Battlefield 2 hack — and the rival showed up to argue about it
In March 2008 a Battlefield 2 sub-forum post announced a leaked, reverse-engineered version of the paid 'G9-hacks' aimbot/ESP suite, released free by a group calling itself the BlowItOutYourAss Crew. The thread quickly turned into a spat between the leakers and apparent G9 affiliates (smokey2412, RecoileZ) trading insults about file size, hack quality, and who 'got owned', with other members piling on to mock G9's engine work. It's a classic snapshot of the era's cheat-scene rivalry: paysite drama, leak culture, and forum trash talk all in one place.
PRIVATE BF2 HACK HERE WITH AIMBOT!!!
A 2007 owner post pitching a Battlefield 2 aimbot VIP sub — and members actually bought it.
In this Battlefield: 2 subforum thread from July 2007, [FkN] Owner TuxifieD advertised a 'private' BF2 hack with an aimbot, tied to a VIP subscription on the Source Industries site that funded the wider Deception Network (which included Fkn0wned itself). Replies range from curious ('how much money are you guys pulling in') to eager beggars wanting free access, to a couple of members proudly confirming they bought subs — one even got a friend to sign up too. It's a classic slice of the site's business model: staff-run cheat sales advertised right in the game forums, with regular members treating VIP purchases as a way to 'give back' to the community.
My FPS boosting autoexec (Got low fps? Take a look)
One laptop kid's autoexec.cfg turned into a 16-page, 200-post ritual of 'unhide/ty/gief' that ran for months.
User rnie posted a homemade autoexec.cfg for Counter-Strike: Source, claiming it boosted their laptop's framerate from 15 to 70-100 fps in full servers by combining several other configs. The thread became a long-running staple of the Scripting subforum, with dozens of members replying mostly just to unlock the hidden download link, often with one-word posts like 'ty', 'unhide', or 'thx'. It's less a technical discussion and more a snapshot of the forum's reply-to-unlock culture, stretching across 16 pages and into 2008 with a steady trickle of low-post-count members and a few banned accounts.
[VAC2 PROOF] blackk-public-v1.1b — 19 Pages Later, VAC Says Otherwise
The multihack that swore it was 'VAC2 Proof' — 19 pages later, VAC said otherwise.
A release thread in the Counter-Strike: Source Releases subforum for 'blackk-public-v1.1b,' a multihack by 'sevenJ' advertised as an aimbot/ESP package with recoil and spread removals plus various bypasses. The thread ran to 19 pages of downloads, thanks, and requests for links before staff member PaRaNoID closed it in November 2007 after users started reporting VAC bans, marking the tool officially 'detected.' It's a classic snapshot of the era's cheat-release cycle: bold claims of undetectability followed inevitably by the ban wave and thread closure.
Community Moments
Milestones, intros, reunions, in-jokes — the human side of the forum.
Jhurl's TestoPRO Sponsored Log
The time a cheat-scene gaming forum got sponsored by a testosterone-booster company and a founder logged his gains for everyone
Founder member jhurl started a daily log tracking his diet, workouts, and body stats while trialing 'TestoPRO', a testosterone-boosting supplement, as part of a sponsorship deal with supplement company Anabolic Innovations. The brand's rep 'TwinTowers' (Joe) and fellow rep 'donoh' showed up in the thread to promote the product, offer a member discount code, and cheer jhurl on, while regulars like TuxifieD, ap3x, ZoaQ, and Kimmi joked about the pill packaging and floated giving the AI reps a special forum rank. It's a snapshot of an early-2010s gaming/cheat forum branching out into bodybuilding-supplement sponsorship as a site monetization/partnership experiment.
Ex Wife Is In My City... What Do?
Founder gets drunk-texts the forum for life advice on his ex-wife showing up in town — chaos ensues.
Site founder TuxifieD posted a slightly tipsy late-night thread from his phone asking the forum how to handle his ex-wife visiting his hometown while he was there for doctor visits. Replies ranged from earnest 'move on, don't meet up' advice to gleefully unhinged suggestions (keying cars, slashing tires, NIX's infamous penguin-related joke), with a side argument breaking out between SoCalGhost and bLunts/vermiLLion over whether the advice being given was reckless. Classic fkn0wned General Discussion energy: half genuine support, half trolling, zero filter.
Count up to 20,000!
One rule: don't double-post. 653 pages later, they were still counting.
A classic forum time-waster thread started by Kimmi in August 2010, with the simple goal of counting sequentially from 1 to 20,000 without double-posting. It ballooned into a marathon community effort spanning 653 pages and over 16,000 posts, becoming one of the site's longest-running low-stakes group activities. Regulars like TripleD, BONxFIRE, Kimmi, mystical, aXXo, and RandyCandy kept it alive through repetitive number-posting and the occasional joke aside.
All Time Greatest FkN Quotes
Members dug up the forum's funniest, dumbest, and most cringe-worthy one-liners for posterity
A nostalgia thread in Off-Topic/General Discussion where members collected and re-posted memorable quotes from the FkN0wned community — shoutbox one-liners, IM logs, and forum zingers. The tone is casual and joke-heavy, heavy on early-2010s internet forum humor including some crude and offensive jokes typical of the era. A few posts also touch on site drama, like someone calling out another site for stealing an FkN image.
Oslo/Utøya attacks, 22 July 2011
Founder f0wh's news post turned personal when he revealed he knew victims at Utøya.
A World News thread started by forum founder f0wh reporting the July 22, 2011 Oslo bombing and Utøya youth camp shooting in Norway, linking news coverage as events unfolded. Members reacted with shock and disbelief at the death toll and age of victims, and the tone shifted when f0wh disclosed he personally knew several people at the camp, some missing and feared dead. Other members, including a Swedish VIP member, chimed in with regional news reactions and condolences, making the thread a small but genuine moment of real-world grief breaking into the community.
jChase's 'Hackers Manifesto'
An admin's stream-of-consciousness essay on why he cheats, dropped straight into General Discussion.
jChase, an FkN admin, posted a personal essay explaining his path from a bored teenager who found purpose in Counter-Strike to co-founding a hacking site (ehcrew.com) with a friend. He reflects on how being labeled a 'hacker' erased memory of his legit skill, and ends on the defiant line that he cheats simply 'because I can.' He notes he wrote it in minutes as a reaction to another thread and planned to revise it later; the second post shows a Smod reply beginning to roll in.
Army vs School: The Forum Talks a 15-Year-Old Off the Enlistment Ledge
A 15-year-old asks a cheat forum whether to drop out and enlist — and the whole board actually shows up to talk him down.
In the Serious Discussion sub-forum, a young member named masoncoles opened up about a genuinely rough home life — an alcoholic mother, a brother with severe developmental issues, another brother who had died young — and floated the idea of leaving school early to join the army. What followed was a surprisingly earnest, multi-page back-and-forth: some members (vermiLLion, Agility, KZA, mutantcookie) firmly told him to stay in school and not romanticize the military, while an actual enlisted soldier, retsnomlc, pushed back with detailed first-hand info about enlistment requirements, MOS choices, bonuses, and the GI Bill. The thread is a good example of the forum's 'Serious Discussion' section living up to its name — jokes and trolling mostly held back — and it ends on a warm note with masoncoles deciding to stay in school after weighing everyone's input.
[Fkn0wned.net Exclusive] DayZ StandAlone Beta Download
40 pages of 'ty' for a DayZ SA beta 'leak' that definitely wasn't a real beta
PopTart posted a hyped 'exclusive leak' offering a DayZ Standalone Beta download, gated behind forced registration and a reply-to-unlock link setup, complete with mega.co.nz mirrors and a fake torrent/keyword-stuffed description. The thread exploded to 990 posts over 40 pages, mostly one-word 'ty'/'nice!'/'thanks' replies from members racking up post counts, a classic bait-thread pattern typical of the forum's download and hype culture. It's a good snapshot of Fkn0wned's community dynamics: reply-to-download bait, VIP/1K Club badges, and members grinding activity in a gaming discussion thread.
Aviation Pictures by d3r_bLuB
A member climbs into a Diamond Katana over the Alps and just... shares the view — turns out fkn0wned had a soft side.
In the Photography subforum, member d3r_bLuB (a real pilot flying with an Austrian flying club) posted a growing series of high-resolution aerial and airport photos taken over the Alps, Innsbruck, and Augsburg, along with cockpit shots and plane-spotting pics from his local airfield. The thread is a rare, wholesome detour from the site's usual gaming/warez fare, with regulars and even a banned member praising the photo quality and asking about the planes. It ended up pinned by a moderator ('the unnamed') as a standout community post.
Post Your Pic: The Legendary Megathread
The classic 'put a face to the handle' megathread — 23 pages of webcam shots, roasting, and Xfire handles.
A long-running General Discussion staple where members posted photos of themselves, sparking friendly (and not-so-friendly) roasting, flirting, and off-topic banter typical of mid-2000s gaming forums. Started by founding admin c0ke in 2006 after the original thread was lost, it ran for over 20 pages and years, becoming one of the site's enduring social rituals. By late 2007 the thread had devolved into its usual mix of appearance-based jokes, one-liners, and members defending themselves against 'weird kid' and 'fat' accusations.
Fkn0wned.Com Hacking Montage - Best of the Best Hackers
The site's own highlight reel of its top hackers, kicked off by founding member c0ke
A pinned News + Updates thread from May 2007 announcing a community montage video showcasing top 'hackers' from the Fkn0wned.Com scene, essentially a highlight reel celebrating the site's most notable players/cheat users. Started by c0ke, a founding-era member (Member No. 1, Retired Staff), the thread ran to at least four pages, suggesting it became a long-running community showcase/discussion piece. It captures the site's CS 1.6-centric cheat community culture and its self-mythologizing 'best of' era.
30,000 Members and 700,000 Posts!!
The day fkn0wned hit 30K members and 700K posts — and everyone showed up to say 'long live fkn0wned'
A celebratory Site News thread marking fkn0wned forum's milestone of 30,000 members and 700,000 posts. Regulars, VIPs, and crew members dropped in to congratulate the site, share inside jokes about rep numbers and post-count goals, and generally bask in community pride. The thread doubles as a snapshot of forum culture at the time — signature shops, vouch threads, graphics crews, and the usual mix of banter between members with wildly different post counts (from a few hundred to 19,000+).
The "Official" Story of Spam
The mock-epic origin myth of Fkn0wned.com — TuxifieD, the Great Spammer Wars, and the legendary U.S.P.S.
A staff member named Industry posted a tongue-in-cheek mythologized history of the site, framing founder TuxifieD and moderator Shifty as heroes battling a fictional spammer faction dubbed 'U.S.P.S' (United Spammers Posting Shit). The tale humorously covers the founding of the Super Moderator and Admin ranks as defenses against spam floods, name-dropping Malware as a respected former Smod/Admin. The post ends with a practical checklist of questions members should ask themselves before starting a new thread, aimed at curbing low-effort posting. It's part joke, part community lore, part rules reminder — clearly intended as a sticky.
Ragers Needed
The staff-recruitment thread where thec0re handed out 'Rager' badges to whoever could best brag about spamming CS:S servers with hacks
This is a March 2008 staff recruitment thread on thec0re.net where founder Shifty and the admin team fielded applications for Super Moderator, Crew, and 'Rager' positions — the latter being members tasked with publicly showing off cheats in-game and on YouTube to draw attention (and new users) to the site. Applicants pitched themselves with earnest, often comically over-the-top self-promotion, citing rage videos, defacing sites, activity levels, and loyalty, while staff shot down or approved candidates in real time. There's some minor drama over a previous staff purge ('You didn't get booted. I removed everyone'), a disgruntled ex-staffer venting about the application process being pointless, and a side plot involving a banned user posting from an alt account to apply for a spot. Classic late-2000s cheat-forum culture: cocky teenagers, Xfire handles, and rank badges as currency.
1 Million Posts - Minor Updates Thread
The night Fkn0wned hit a million posts and everyone piled in to take credit for the spam
A celebratory thread marking the forum crossing the 1,000,000 post milestone, sitting in the site's minor updates/general area. Long-time VIPs and staff-adjacent regulars (Fobia, Puree, DarkRood, Panda, BU12TRAS, Kudi) dropped in with quick congratulatory one-liners, birthday wishes, and inside jokes referencing the old '1k club.' The tone is casual and jokey rather than substantive, capturing the community's shoutbox-style banter and the pride members took in the site's post count as a badge of activity.
FkN members, mods, staff etc... — the 'name as many as you remember' thread
Someone dared the forum to name every mod and legend off the top of their head — and the old names started flooding back.
A nostalgia-bait thread in General Discussion where Famousss challenges members to list as many FkN staff, mods, and notable members as they can recall from memory, framed as an informal popularity/memory test. Long-time members like waLLa, Shifty., sorbazz, mr.N0Nam3, Peski-Ruski, and Bucketface (a Staff Member from Dublin) chime in with reminiscing and rattled-off handle lists, including a callout wondering what happened to old-timer c0ke. The tone is casual and affectionate, more about collective memory of the community's cast of characters than any real competition.
The Night the Forum Showed Up: Tobbo's Cry for Help
A teenager's cry for help lands in the Debating forum — and the regulars actually show up for it.
In August 2007, a member called Tobbo opened a thread in the Debating subforum asking about painless ways to die, describing a messy breakup and family fallout. Staff moved it from general Off-Topic into Debating, and responses ranged from blunt dismissal to genuine, if roughly-worded, concern from moderators and members. The thread runs six pages, reflecting how a throwaway-looking title actually drew real engagement from the community rather than being ignored.
TuxifieD's ex-wife thread
The site founder asks the forum for relationship advice on his newly-single ex-wife — chaos ensues
Site founder TuxifieD opens a General Discussion thread asking what to do now that his ex-wife is single again (and apparently was 'supposedly engaged'). Instead of real advice, regulars pile on with escalating dark-comedy one-liners, mock-serious suggestions, and roasting of the ex, treating it more as a bit than genuine relationship counseling. It's a snapshot of the forum's crude, joke-first culture and the casual way even the founder got clowned on by his own members.
Holy Shit, Must Read This! — S3RK's Friendship Drama Confession
A teen soap opera of betrayal, a broken bromance, and a $700 formal-night limo snub — all laid bare in Serious Discussion.
VIP member S3RK opened up in the Serious Discussion subforum with a sprawling personal confessional about a love-triangle-ish falling out with his best friend over two girls, ending in social exile, a canceled school formal, and having to dig holes for a week to repay his mom $700 for a suit. The thread is a snapshot of the forum's 'real life drama' side rather than gaming or hacking content, with a handful of members offering sympathy, blunt commentary, and some ribbing. It's a good example of how these old gaming/cheat forums doubled as teenage venting grounds, with replies trickling in over months (December 2009 to March 2010).
100,000 Posts! (2007 Milestone Thread)
The day fkn0wned hit six figures in posts — and the founder himself popped in to say so.
A short celebratory thread marking the forum crossing the 100,000-post milestone, posted by c0ke, a founding/early member (Member No. 1) holding retired staff rank. It's a simple site-news announcement typical of forum culture at the time — a community pat-on-the-back moment rather than any real discussion. The thread ran at least two pages, suggesting members piled in with congratulations and nostalgia of their own.
Good-Bye NIX
A veteran member calls it quits, and the whole crew shows up to say goodbye (and pretend it's not real)
A farewell thread posted in Site News marking the departure of a longtime member known as NIX. Regulars from the community — including crew and VIP members — dropped in with disbelief, jokes, and genuine well-wishes, reflecting the tight-knit, banter-heavy culture of the forum. The thread captures a small but characteristic moment of community life on Fkn0wned: a respected figure leaving and everyone reacting in real time.
Recruit fkn0wned Ladies (2008 Promo Stunt)
The founder's big plan to grow the site's female membership: forehead marker stunts, free swag, and a promo video.
A December 2008 announcement thread started by site founder TuxifieD proposing a lighthearted recruitment gimmick: get women to write 'fkn0wned' on their foreheads, post proof, and receive free fkn0wned-branded shirts/clothing as an incentive to join. A promo photo and an upcoming YouTube video were teased to help spread the word. Longtime super moderator Kimmi replied quickly, reflecting how active and tight-knit the site's staff presence was at the time. It's a snapshot of the site's early, informal promo culture and its casual attitude toward site growth stunts.
This or That? — the 39-page pinned game
39 pages deep, still going: the never-ending 'this or that' thread that Nerf finally made official by pinning it.
A long-running Off-Topic game thread where members traded rapid-fire either/or questions, ranging from shoe brands to gross bodily-function trivia. By page 38 it had racked up enough activity that staff member Nerf pinned it, cementing its status as a community fixture. Regulars like dainbramaged and Paws kept the chain of questions rolling, with the tone staying light, silly, and a little gross-out.
The Hot Girl Sign Competition
Founder TuxifieD launches a 'get a girl to hold our sign' contest with lifetime VIP as the prize — chaos ensues.
An announcement thread from site founder TuxifieD launching a member photo contest: get a woman to pose holding a sign with the site's slogan, with the top two photos winning lifetime VIP membership (and its associated perks). The rules were blunt and juvenile, reflecting the site's early-2010s edgy forum culture, and required at least 10 entries with visible faces. Early replies are jokey and dismissive, with one member quipping about asking his mom before backing out.
100,000 Members
The night Fkn0wned crossed six figures in members — a small, proud milestone post from a staffer.
A short celebratory thread started by staff member HaSh (aka DrPookie) in November 2007, announcing that Fkn0wned.com had surpassed 100,000 registered members. It's a brief, low-key milestone post rather than a big event thread, but it captures a snapshot of the site at what was clearly a high point in its membership growth.
Founding the Fkn0wned Rage Team
The internet challenged fkn0wned to a fight, so the founder proposed forming an official 'ragers group' — and half the 1K Club signed up on the spot.
Founder TuxifieD kicks off this thread declaring 'the internet wants to face us' and pitches forming a dedicated rager/spam squad. A parade of veteran members (CandleJack, xxChrisxx, Subgraf, Mystik, f0wh, Skippy, vermiLLion) pile in enthusiastically, volunteering as screamers, spammers, and Ventrilo/forum raiders, with talk of spreading into WoW-specific raging and cross-linking to a formal recruitment thread. It's a lighthearted, chaotic call-to-arms moment capturing the community's identifiably early-2010s troll/rager subculture rather than any real conflict.
TuxifieD's "I am back" thread
The forum founder resurfaces after a quiet spell — and the whole crew shows up to welcome him home.
Founder TuxifieD posted a short return-to-the-forums update after being away for personal reasons, mentioning it doubled as a belated birthday post. The thread quickly turned into a flood of welcome-backs and birthday wishes from regulars and staff, laced with inside jokes, jabs about member 'deX-' having supposedly 'evolved,' and the usual crude, jokey banter typical of the community. It's a low-stakes, warm nostalgia thread rather than anything dramatic — mostly old members checking in and ribbing each other.
What Are Your Guys' Future Plans
College dropouts, VIP crew, and one guy prepping for the alien takeover all weigh in on life after fkn0wned
A Serious Discussion thread where forum regulars traded genuine, low-key plans for their lives outside the site: repair businesses, teaching careers, finishing school, getting in shape, and even survivalist prepping. It's a rare glimpse of the real people behind the handles, mixing forum banter (a jab about VIP pricing) with sincere hopes like teaching, space research, and paying off loans. The vibe is warm and reflective, showing the community had a genuine human side beyond cheats and market trading.
All 50 States Must Now Allow Same-Sex Marriage
The Fkn0wned crew gets 'serious' for once — SCOTUS marriage ruling sparks a surprisingly civil debate.
A rare 'Serious Discussion' thread from June 2015, started right after the US Supreme Court's nationwide same-sex marriage ruling. Member Usurp, who identified as gay, asked the forum for genuine reactions, and the thread drew a mix of supportive, indifferent, and dissenting replies from regulars and staff alike. Despite the site's usual cheat-scene/gaming focus, the discussion stayed relatively measured, with members like the forum owner TuxifieD voicing support and others like Stewart and InfectedKush pushing back or being dismissive.
200,000 Members! (Fkn0wned Milestone Thread)
Fkn0wned hits 200k members, staff throw a party, and someone drops a free account right in the announcement post.
Staff member Skippy announced Fkn0wned had crossed 200,000 registered members, listing stats on posts, topics, and downloads, and promising a round of 200 giveaways plus a new banner to mark the occasion. The 200,000th member, x1Shot1Kill, got an exclusive forum tag as a reward. The thread is mostly celebratory replies from members and staff (including admin ZoaQ joking he was responsible), with a bit of banter about whether the count was really accurate due to deleted accounts, and someone else piling on with a bonus account giveaway.
Stories/Experiences - Fkn0wned.Com
A note-passing prank war with a teacher named Anderson turns into an epic tale of forged messages, a dean showdown, and an accidental coming-out — kicking off a whole thread of school and work chaos.
A General Discussion thread where member Astrea kicked things off with a long, detailed story about a running feud with a high school English teacher, involving forged administrative notes, a messenger student, an interception gone wrong, a principal's office interrogation, and an unintended outing to their parents. The post clearly resonated, with other members (laptops, Peski-Ruski, Shifty., bobbafett07, Industry, mako_x23, and more) piling in with their own school and workplace stories, ranging from petty pranks to more personal anecdotes. The vibe is classic mid-2000s forum storytime: long-form personal confessions, joking replies, some ribbing over thread-derailing tangents, and a real sense of community swapping 'you won't believe this happened to me' tales.
The 'Now Playing' Thread
A decade-plus of fkn0wned members airing their music taste — and, within five replies, calling each other cunts over Tupac.
A classic long-running 'what are you listening to' thread in the Off-Topic > General Discussion board, kicked off by Supervisor Shifty. in June 2007 with a simple rule: post your song, don't spam. True to forum form, it took only a few replies before a lighthearted music-sharing thread devolved into a mini flame war between G4ngOfLA, ballistic, and exon over a Tupac post, with doobie5 stepping in to beg people not to turn it into 'another flame thread.' The rest of the visible page is filled with era-appropriate mid-2000s picks — Arctic Monkeys, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Wolfmother, Godsmack — a nice time capsule of what CS 1.6/Source kids were bumping back then.
Fkn0wned.com "Best of" — Community Awards Thread
Members hand out mock superlatives — and half of them are just excuses to throw shade at each other's staff.
A December 2007 General Discussion thread where a member ('Industry') started a fill-in-the-blank template for community superlatives — categories like Most 1337, Funniest, Stupidest, Best Manager, and Warez Master. Regulars and staff (including Co-Manager Shifty) chimed in with their own picks, and it quickly doubled as a low-key venue for ribbing mods and supervisors over how they ran things. Typical fkn0wned energy: half nostalgia-bait, half in-joke roasting of the site's own staff hierarchy.
A Quiet Check-In: Familiar Faces, Emptier Forum
An old member pops back in just to say hi, and the forum's own decline becomes the real topic.
A returning member named nullvoid drops a low-key 'hey, haven't been around' post after a long absence, mostly just checking on the state of the forum. A handful of members, including staff, reply with friendly greetings, but the thread quietly doubles as evidence of the community thinning out, with a mod openly admitting they need more active members. It's a small, unremarkable thread on its face, but it captures that late-era forum feeling of familiar faces trickling back to find the place emptier than they left it.
Fkn0wned Shop: TuxifieD's Fundraiser Auction
The founder auctioned off his own account stash just to keep the site's lights on.
In the Market Place section, forum founder TuxifieD opened an official 'shop' thread with a monthly fundraising goal to cover site hosting bills, kicking things off by offering up an old 6-digit Steam account bundled with a handful of classic Half-Life-era games. He invited members to make offers or donate rare items (old file-host accounts, low-digit Steam accounts, etc.) via PM. It's a small, quiet thread — one lone reply wishing him luck — but it captures the scrappy, keep-the-lights-on spirit of running a mid-sized gaming/cheat forum on member goodwill.
A Reason You <3 Fkn0wned.com
One rule: drop one line on why you love this dump — 'string beans are teh shit' sets the bar
A simple chain-post thread started by staff member Industry, asking members to each add a numbered reason they loved Fkn0wned.com, building off his opening line about the community and entertainment value. It's a lighthearted, community-affirming thread typical of forum culture at the time, meant to rack up nostalgic and joke answers post by post. The page also preserves a curious artifact: the same thread appears mirrored under a 'Gametration.com' skin/chrome, with Industry's account there marked 'Banned' and re-titled 'Expect Us', hinting at some later site rebrand or drama around his account.
Shall PaperPistols Make His Triumphant Return?
A retired forum legend asks the old-timers if he should come back — and everyone loses it in nostalgia.
PaperPistols, a former member known for making and sharing content packs, posted asking whether he should return to fkn0wned after time away, noting he'd rather be recognized for more than just his old packs. A wave of veteran members and staff (including two Smods) responded enthusiastically, reminiscing about his past packs and urging him to come back. The thread is a short, warm nostalgia-driven exchange rather than any drama — just old community members welcoming back a familiar face.
Fortune Teller: Ghost Stories on Serious Discussion
A CS cheat forum's 'serious discussion' board goes full ghost story with séances, dead relatives, and a table that chased someone down a hallway.
In the Serious Discussion sub-forum, member triplem opens with a family story about an aunt who's a fortune teller, recounting two eerily accurate predictions of death and disaster. The thread turns into a genuine, mostly civil back-and-forth about belief in psychics, fate, and the paranormal, with several members sharing their own family ghost stories and near-death predictions. It's a rare glimpse of sincere, off-topic vulnerability on a forum otherwise built around game cheats and warez, capped by a strict 'no cool story bro / no flaming' rule for the board.
Fkn0wned is dead... YEAH RIGHT! (400,000 Posts)
The day fkn0wned hit 400K posts and told the 'it's dead' rumor-mongers to sit down
A News and Announcements thread from founder c0ke celebrating the forum crossing 400,000 posts, posted partly as a rebuttal to rumors that fkn0wned was dying out. Members flooded in with congrats, but the thread also caught a bit of real drama when a member publicly announced he was jumping ship to a rival site, Crazy-Coderz, over its team-joining features and bigger member count. Overall a snapshot of forum pride mixed with the low-level rivalry between cheat/gaming communities of the era.
The Never-Ending '3 Word Story' Thread
One word (well, three) at a time, this thread quietly grew to 30 pages of forum nonsense.
A long-running collaborative 'add three words to the story' game buried deep in General Discussion, by this snapshot already up to page 29-30 and post #500+. Regulars like LoRd Ragealot, wirmware, dainbramaged, minitureman, and Traitor kept the absurd never-ending sentence alive with silly, half-coherent contributions. It's a classic low-stakes time-killer thread that shows the community's casual, joke-around side rather than anything cheat or drama related.
10,000 Members Milestone Thread
The day Fkn0wned hit five figures — and everyone knew 50k was next.
A short celebratory announcement thread from Fkn0wned's early days, marking the community reaching 10,000 members. Admin [FkN] tKeR praised the site's activity and posting culture, setting sights on the next milestone of 50,000. Member WicK3d chimed in with hyped, all-caps enthusiasm, half-joking about making a post for every 1000-member milestone going forward.
a girl (slingblade's teenage heartbreak thread)
A 17-year-old's first breakup spirals into a locker-note ultimatum and a forum full of dating advice.
Long-time member slingblade opened up in Serious Discussion about the end of his first relationship — a long-distance-by-school-hallway romance that ended with a vague 'i just wanna be friends' note. Regretting a harsh locker note telling her to pretend he didn't exist, he agonized over how to get closure without breaking his own promise to cut contact. The thread is a classic slice of early-forum-era teen drama, with regulars like thejah, Emrys, majrbrawl and others weighing in with earnest, typo-riddled relationship advice over several months, ending with a bump from Sleeping Forest almost three months later.
Off-Topic Gold
Random links, humor, memes, and the general chatter.
How to Make Bombs (a.k.a. the 'Laptops is God' thread)
A thread titled 'How to Make Bombs' that was actually just 20 posts of everyone arguing whether laptops is God.
Despite the ominous title, this Random Tuts thread from September 2007 never delivered any actual content — it immediately derailed into member 'laptops' declaring himself a deity and the rest of the board either mocking or half-agreeing with him for four pages. It's a classic case of a forum tutorial section being hijacked into pure off-topic nonsense, complete with running gags, in-jokes about laptops' yellow butt, and general late-2000s CS community banter. No hazardous info was ever posted; it was a bait title turned meme thread.
BitCoin Vs LiteCoin; Growth is on the Horizon?
The thread where fkn0wned members casually admit to losing thousands in bitcoins and shrug it off
A December 2013 Serious Discussion thread where members debated whether Litecoin might repeat Bitcoin's recent price surge, with the general consensus being skeptical about both currencies' long-term stability. The thread is most memorable for members' offhand confessions of blowing or losing significant early bitcoin holdings (one member claimed 77 BTC lost to a forgotten wallet, another had 2 BTC from the ~$27 era), met with disbelief and dark humor from others once the dollar value was pointed out. A snapshot of how casually crypto was treated on gaming forums right before its major price runs.
The 68-Page 'ty' Thread: Kendra Wilkinson Leak Unlock
A leaked celebrity tape, a 'thank you to unlock' gate, and 68 pages of dudes saying 'ty' — peak 2010 forum culture in one thread.
Founder TuxifieD posted a thread claiming to share the Kendra Wilkinson celebrity sex tape via a Rapidshare link, gated behind the classic forum trick of requiring registration and a reply before the hidden content would show. The thread exploded into a wall of one-line 'thanks'/'ty' replies from members and guests alike, many of them brand new accounts joining just for this post. It's a pure snapshot of the site's low-effort content-unlock culture and the porn/warez-adjacent 'Red Light District' side of the forum, more notable for its sheer reply volume (68 pages) than for any real discussion.
Inspiring Piece: The Underbelly of the Internet Manifesto
A Don Ruski copypasta manifesto about the 'underbelly of the internet' — years before Anonymous made it famous.
Don Ruski reposted a piece he'd dug up from an old closed FkN thread (originally from ShoutWire), a grandiose manifesto-style copypasta about internet outlaws, freedom, and a coming 'war fought online.' It reads today as an eerily early echo of the rhetoric that would later surround Anonymous and similar movements. Another member, jcomp6, immediately clocked it as a thread necro/repost with a joking 'nice grave digg.' Short thread, mostly just the one big post getting shared and acknowledged.
LoG1c's shitty fucking day
A monitor got turned upside down and somehow this thread became forum legend.
A rant thread in the Rants and Raves subforum where a member named LoG1c vented about a bad day, prompting other regulars to pile on with jokes and exaggerated riffs rather than sympathy. The standout moment is a fully fictional skit posted by wirmware imagining LoG1c's 'crime' of flipping a monitor upside-down escalating into a fake 911 call and a SWAT-style takedown by a joke cop character. It's a small, silly two-page thread that captures the forum's dark-comedy, roast-your-friends off-topic culture rather than any real drama.
The 'Leaked JWoww Nudes' Reply-to-Unhide Thread
21 pages of guys typing 'unhide' for a Jersey Shore pic that was never actually there to see.
A classic forum bait thread from January 2011: [RnR] TuxifieD posted a supposed leaked nude of Jersey Shore's Jenni 'JWoww' Farley behind a reply-gated 'Hidden Content' spoiler, a well-worn trick to farm registrations and post counts. Dozens of brand-new accounts (many one-post wonders who signed up that same day) piled in with one-word replies like 'unhide' and 'lemme see it,' while a few regulars stopped by for the joke. It ran to 21 pages, making it one of the forum's classic engagement-bait threads rather than an actual nude leak.
Mega-Thread: Adobe Products (the 11-page warez sticky that outlived a rebrand)
The legendary 11-page Adobe warez mega-thread that outlived two forum rebrands
A long-running 'Red Light District > Software' sticky where members posted links and installers for Adobe Photoshop CS2, Photoshop Elements, Bridge, and Stock Photos updates, complete with activation instructions. The thread is notable mostly for its longevity — it started in mid-2006 under the Gametration.com name and was still being bumped years later after the site had rebranded to Fkn0wned.com, with new noobs still saying thanks and asking for reups on page 10. It's a good snapshot of the site's warez/cheat-scene culture and its slow drift and eventual rebrand over the years.
Count to 1,000,000
158 pages of fkn0wned trying (and immediately failing) to count to a million.
A classic forum time-waster started by lam3r on December 30, 2009: a simple challenge to see if the community could count sequentially to one million without messing up. Predictably, it derailed almost instantly, with f0wh botching the count within the first page and getting called out for it, while regulars like kubaxplx, Numi, PopTart, and KZA piled in just to bump numbers. The thread ballooned to 158 pages, a running joke of low-effort posting and mod/VIP participation that captures the goofy, low-stakes side of the forum's culture.
DCL's 10,000 Full Programs and Cracks Mega-Thread
A 17-page monument to warez culture — one guy, ten thousand cracked programs, and hundreds of 'ty' replies keeping it bumped for months.
This was a long-running mega-thread in the Red Light District > Software section of Gametration.com (later rebranded Fkn0wned.com), where user DCLXVI posted a massive compiled collection of cracked/full software. The thread spans well over a hundred pages of replies, mostly members thanking the OP, requesting reuploads/unhides, or dropping one-line hype. It's less a discussion than a running tally of gratitude and low-effort bumps that kept the thread alive across late 2007 and into 2008, spanning the site's transition between its two names.
SKRILLEX - If you haven't listened. Do it now.
The day Fkn0wned put you onto Skrillex before your friends did.
A March 2011 thread in Entertainment Discussion where member Riggex put fellow forum-goers onto the then-rising dubstep/techno artist Skrillex, urging everyone to give him a listen (bong optional). The thread turned into a friendly little fan club, with members swapping favorite tracks, discovering his backstory as former From First to Last frontman Sonny Moore, and generally hyping him up as an early adopter's badge of honor before he blew up mainstream. Low drama, high nostalgia — just a bunch of early-2010s forum kids bonding over a soon-to-be-huge artist.
The Forum Itself
Rules, announcements, the Rebirth, site news — threads about fkn0wned itself.
TuxifieD Returns: The Overlord Comes Back
The site owner vanishes for four years, then just... comes back — and the whole forum loses its mind.
Site owner TuxifieD returned after roughly four years away and posted an announcement thread promising to revive fkn0wned, move back to the .com domain, overhaul VIP perks, and bring back longtime staffer KZA as a moderator. The thread quickly filled with old members expressing genuine surprise and nostalgia, welcoming Tux and KZA back and reminiscing about 'the good old days.' It's a warm, chaotic reunion moment with plenty of inside jokes, emoticon spam, and old-school forum camaraderie.
Staff Recruitment Post: 'Looking for Skilled Phishers'
The site's staff openly recruited a phishing crew to keep VIP accounts flowing — a rare, blunt look at how the site really worked.
A staff/admin-level account named Skippy posted an official recruitment call in the Updates and Announcements board, asking members to apply to become a 'Fisher' — a designated role supplying stolen accounts (Steam, Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc.) on a weekly quota for VIP and General Giveaways use. Applicants had to PM a structured application listing their member group, experience, and weekly account output, with no tolerance for people wanting to 'learn.' It's a striking artifact of the site's internal culture, showing an official, formalized system built around account theft as a site service. The thread is locked, consistent with an announcement rather than a discussion.
Rebirth of Fkn0wned (2010 Forum Reset)
The day admin TuxifieD nuked the whole forum and told the oldfags their post counts meant nothing anymore.
In August 2010, founder TuxifieD announced a full wipe of the Fkn0wned forums — fresh install, fresh server, everyone starting at zero posts — framed as a way to kill off 'oldfag' status-hoarders and let the community rebuild its reputation from scratch. The reaction from regulars was mostly hype and nostalgia mixed with mild panic over losing old posts and VIP status, with admins reassuring members that VIP/perks were still being sorted out. It's a classic community-reset thread: excitement, a little chaos, some inside jokes, and everyone jockeying for early post numbers in the new era.
Amateur VIP Porn Section Reopens: jhurl's Blunt Rebrand Admission
The infamous 'renamed jailbait section' announcement that says a lot about how fkn0wned actually ran.
A Minor Updates post from founder jhurl announces the reopening of the site's 'Amateur VIP Porn Section,' bluntly describing it as a rebrand of a previous section to dodge scrutiny, bundled into a $20 VIP membership sold alongside cheat access. Admin Skippy replies shortly after. The thread is short but stands as a stark, unfiltered artifact of the forum's more troubling side and how casually paid 'VIP' access mixed hacking tools with adult content.
Fkn0wned Hack Policy (Founding Manifesto, 2006)
The site's official 'we owe you nothing' manifesto — posted by the policy author himself back in July 2006.
A pinned policy post laying out Fkn0wned's ground rules as a Counter-Strike hacking/cheat community: don't come here to flame hacking since that's the whole point of the site, staff try to keep the VAC2 detected/undetected cheat database accurate but make no guarantees, the site is run by volunteer gamers rather than professionals, and Fkn0wned takes no responsibility for any VAC bans users incur. It closes with the site's trademark cocky sign-off about getting 'Fkn0wned' in-game. This is a foundational, tone-setting document for the whole forum rather than a discussion thread.
Update of the Month — October 2008: Staff Purge, New Hack Release, and Jailbait Section Reopened
The founder cleans house, opens the gallery, drops a TF2/DoDS hack, and casually announces a paid 'jailbait' section — peak fkn0wned chaos in one post.
A founder-authored 'state of the site' announcement from TuxifieD laying out a batch of changes: staff recruitment now goes solely through him after issues with 'untrustworthy' staff, talk of an h4cky0u affiliation, a new security team, a released DoDS/TF2 hack link for members to promote, a reopened gallery, and a reopened (partly paywalled) jailbait subforum. It's a snapshot of the site's loose, ad-hoc management style and the disturbing mix of cheat-scene hosting with exploitative content sections that was common on shady forums of that era. The thread drew at least one reply before continuing across multiple pages.
The Cheatground/fkn0wned Merger Announcement
The day two rival cheat-scene camps called a truce and merged back into one fkn0wned
Founder TuxifieD posts a state-of-the-union style announcement declaring that Cheatground and fkn0wned.com are merging, framing it as a homecoming for members who'd splintered off to run their own sites over the years. He calls for old grudges between the two camps to be set aside, name-drops the upcoming 'fkn0wned.com v3' relaunch, and welcomes back Shifty and the old TC (Cheatground) crew to help lead the community forward. Shifty replies right after confirming he's glad to be back, marking a symbolic reunification of the site's leadership after apparent past splits.
Fkn0wned Donation Drive!
The site founder went broke keeping fkn0wned alive — and asked the community to bail it out
In December 2007, site owner TuxifieD (posting under that handle and later cross-posted under 'KingDavid' on a mirrored Gametration.com copy) announced personal financial trouble and appealed to the community to help cover hosting costs for fkn0wned and the wider 'Deception Network' of sites. Members were invited to donate cash via PayPal or Western Union, or donate sellable digital goods like Rapidshare/Steam accounts, with the biggest donor promised a staff position and special account award. The thread ran at least four pages, reflecting how much the community rallied (or argued) around keeping the site afloat.
Fkn0wned Hack Policy: 'You got Fkn0wned!'
The site rules post that basically said: yes, we're a hacking site, deal with it.
A pinned-style policy post from 2007 laying out Fkn0wned's stance as a Counter-Strike hacking/cheat community, explaining that the site was run by volunteer gamers rather than professionals, that the staff tried to keep the cheat database labeled for VAC2 detection status but couldn't guarantee accuracy, and that the site bore no responsibility for bans resulting from cheat use. It also pushed back preemptively on anti-cheating visitors, telling them plainly this wasn't the place for that attitude. The tone was unapologetic and a bit cocky, closing with the site's signature 'You got Fkn0wned!' line.
Official Fkn0wned Rules (Global) — the 'Safe for Work' Announcement
The day Fkn0wned went 'safe for work' and half the forum mourned their warez sections like a death in the family.
Founder TuxifieD posted a locked, global rules announcement declaring Fkn0wned a 'completely safe for work' site, banning adult content, warez/copyrighted material, hacking discussion, and anti-government talk — largely to stay compliant with PayPal's acceptable use policy and keep payment processing options open. The reply thread is a mix of mock-mourning from members who used the porn/warez boards to pad post counts, some genuine pushback questioning the legal necessity of the change, and Tux firing back irritably at people complaining about losing access to freebies. Staff members chime in half-jokingly about the forum being 'clean' now, and the thread captures a real inflection point in the site's identity, even though the forum's own board index still listed a 'Red Light District' and 'Porn Paradise' section underneath it.
Jailbait VIP Section Launch (2009 Monetization Time Capsule)
A 2009 'VIP section' launch post that's basically a time capsule of everything wrong with the era's forum economy.
A Minor Updates announcement from founder TuxifieD advertising a new paid VIP section on Fkn0wned.com, sold through CCBill/PayPal links bundled with the site's '1k club'. The name of the section leaned on shock-value branding, with a disclaimer insisting all content was of legal-age amateurs, and the post also put out a call for 'phishers' and 'cappers' to join the crew. It's a stark, unfiltered snapshot of the shadier commercial side of late-2000s cheat/gaming forums, where site monetization blurred into recruiting for other shady internet hustles. Replies were short — one member said they'd buy in, another (Kimmi) just reacted with a bored one-word dismissal.
Donation Needed By Monday or Bye Bye :(
The day fkn0wned put out a tin cup because PayPal was holding its money hostage for six months.
Founder TuxifieD posted an urgent plea in General Discussion warning that the site would be shut down by Monday unless two $149 hosting invoices got paid. The catch: fkn0wned's PayPal account had been frozen/closed, with funds held for six months, leaving the crew unable to pay online bills normally. Member Ap3x quickly stepped up and covered one of the two invoices, and Tuxified offered 'recognition' to anyone else willing to help cover the rest. A classic small-forum survival moment — the site literally kept alive by member donations.
The Founding of the Insiders Group
The post where FknOwned's head admin laid out how you actually earned your way into the inner circle.
This is the founding announcement for FknOwned's 'Insiders' group, posted by head admin [FkN] Bisdale (aka CoKe AddiKt) back in July 2006. It explains the rationale for a private tier above regular membership: dedicated, mature contributors who consistently helped others would get access to private hacks, tools, and resources before the general public, with new hacks released to Insiders first. Entry was earned through sustained contribution (or, half-jokingly, a $500 donation toward server costs), reflecting the site's early culture of building loyalty and hierarchy among its most active members. A member named Darkness quickly chimed in with approval, capturing the small, tight-knit vibe of the community at the time.
Meet the Staff (2010 Roster & Origin Stories)
The FkN0wned staff roster, in their own words — founders, mods, and GFX crew laying out who ran the cheat scene's biggest free hack site.
A pinned, locked introduction thread where Fkn0wned's staff team introduced themselves with short bios covering how they found the site, why they stayed, how they got promoted, and their hobbies. It includes founder TuxifieD's origin story of splitting from the original site's creator (syntax), starting a rival site, and eventually taking over Fkn0wned to make it one of the biggest free cheat sites in the scene. The rest of the roster (admins, super moderators, crew, database admin, and GFX team) filled in the same Q&A format, giving a snapshot of the community's structure and personalities circa 2010, with later replies logging staff roster updates.
Hacking Policy and Guidelines
The staff post that laid down fkn0wned's whole 'we're a hacking site, deal with it' philosophy — pinned and locked for the ages.
A pinned, locked staff announcement from senior mod Kimmi ('King of Random') spelling out fkn0wned's official stance on the hack downloads it hosted: this was a hacking site by design, staff tried to keep hacks tagged as VAC2-detected or undetected but couldn't guarantee accuracy, and any bans from use were entirely on the user. It reads as part disclaimer, part community mission statement, closing with the forum's signature 'You got Fkn0wned!' tagline. Credited to member KZA, it captures the site's unapologetic, volunteer-run, gamers-not-suits attitude toward the cheat scene it built its name on.
Unfortunate Circumstances - Staff Shakeup Announcement
A staff feud blew up behind the scenes and fkn0wned suddenly needed a whole new crew.
A February 2008 announcement from an fkn0wned administrator reveals that a weekend dispute between staff and the site owner led to unspecified 'action' being taken against several members who allegedly threatened the community's stability. Details were deliberately withheld out of privacy, but the fallout left multiple staff positions (graphics designers, media crew, supervisors, misc. staff) suddenly vacant, prompting an open call for volunteers to apply via resume post. The tone is calm and diplomatic on the surface, but clearly papering over some real internal drama.
Welcome Back to Fkn0wned.Com (2006 Relaunch)
The site that got hacked and rose again — this is the post where fkn0wned came back for good.
This is the founding/relaunch announcement thread for the Fkn0wned forum, posted by Head Admin [FkN] Bisdale, marking the site's return after prior corruption and hacking incidents. It's essentially the ground-zero post of the community's News + Updates section, calling for staff volunteers to help rebuild. A returning member, Rockforce, chimes in with a genuine welcome-back sentiment, capturing the small, fresh-start energy of the relaunched site.
Hacks And Services We Offer! - VIP Fkn0wned.com Launch Announcement
The day fkn0wned laid out its VIP price list — while openly admitting the site was funding a legal defense fund
This was the founding announcement post for fkn0wned's VIP membership program, posted by admin Bisdale in January 2007, listing the perks (Counter-Strike hacks, premium file host accounts, giveaways, beta access) and pricing tiers. The thread is notable mostly for its candor: the post explicitly frames VIP purchases as helping 'keep Fkn0wned alive and its owners out of jail' amid mounting legal/court costs. Early replies show a mix of goodwill, confusion over conflicting 'lifetime' pricing on the payment page versus the forum post, some biting spam/opinion drama between members, and general community support during what members understood to be a rocky legal period for the site's owners.
Fkn0wned Goes 'Safe For Work' — RIP the Adult Section
The day fkn0wned killed its jailbait/porn sections and half the forum threw a funeral for it
Founder TuxifieD announced that Fkn0wned was officially going 'Safe For Work,' scrapping its adult/XXX sections to look more legitimate for advertisers, framing it as a necessary move for the site's future as a gaming/cheating/tech community. The reaction split between mock outrage and jokes, with members lamenting the loss of the jailbait and VIP porn sections and joking about the site's questionable legality around cheats and modded game files instead. It's a small but telling snapshot of the forum's culture shift, as members debated what actually counted as 'illegal' versus just against the rules, all in classic mid-2000s edgy forum humor.
New Postings and VIP Sections (2008 Announcement)
The post where fkn0wned announced its VIP tiers, staff recruitment drive, and a warez section — early foundational site business.
An April 2008 announcement thread from a brand-new founder account rolling out paid VIP sections and calling for volunteer staff to help run them. The post bundled several separate content categories together as launch promos, and closed by pitching recruitment for a 'cracking' team to keep new content flowing. It's a snapshot of the site's earliest, most freewheeling days before any real moderation structure existed, with a single reply from a long-time member (1000+ posts) shortly after.
150,000 Posts and 70,000 Members Milestone Announcement
The day Fkn0wned.Com (Gametration) bragged about becoming one of the biggest cheat scene sites around
A staff milestone post from July 2007 announcing that the site had crossed 150,000 forum posts, 70,000 registered members, and roughly 250,000 logged downloads, framing the site as rapidly overtaking older, more established Counter-Strike cheat scene forums. The founder/admin explains that the real post count was actually higher since hidden or deleted posts weren't counted, and that the download counter had been reset a few months earlier. A couple of early members chime in with congratulations, giving a glimpse of the site's community pride in its own growth.
Nov 24th Newsletter
The week Fkn0wned hit 100,000 members, crowned a new Super Moderator, and told everyone to 'be scared'
A weekly staff newsletter posted by manager tKeR recapping site happenings: a drawing contest moving into its voting phase, the launch of a 'Poll of The Day' feature in the debating forums, the promotion of Janza to Super Moderator, several new section moderators appointed (Arcade and RockForce for Red Light District, PaRaNoID for General), a new community-run news section, a bookmarking mod added to threads, and the milestone announcement that the site had reached 100,000 members. Replies are short, congratulatory, and enthusiastic, with one member already pitching ideas for a second drawing contest.
Site Updates: Skill Recruitment, Verified Sellers, and the Jimy-as-Crew Controversy
Tuxified drops a big roadmap post — new hacks, a Verified Sellers group, and a surprise crew promotion that half the VIPs immediately side-eyed.
Owner TuxifieD posted a major site-news update announcing the domain moving back to fkn0wned.com, upcoming public and VIP CS:GO hacks, the end of lifetime VIP pricing, a new paid 'Verified Sellers Group' for the marketplace, and an open call for members with useful skills to join staff. The thread's real drama came from the announcement that member Jimy had been promoted to Crew — several longtime VIPs (Bergii, Gloxiak) openly questioned the choice, calling him out for offensive comments rather than contributions, while Tuxified firmly defended the decision. Regulars like PotatoRain, HateNN, xVENdEr, Fopje, and Squab chimed in with congrats, jokes, and general forum banter typical of the site's community culture.
VIP Pre-Registration & PayPal Donations Announcement
Only 100 spots, $50 for two months, and PayPal for two weeks only — fkn0wned's big VIP launch pitch.
This was the official announcement from site founder TuxifieD opening pre-registration for a new, exclusive VIP tier, capped at 100 members and set to close February 1st. The pitch promised private undetected cheats across a wide spread of games (BF2, BF2142, Crysis, CoD4, TF2, CS 1.6/Source), early access to a new 'fkn0wned Beta Client', and bonus '1k club' access in the meantime. Payment was pitched as a one-time $50 fee for two months, with PayPal temporarily accepted as a limited-time option. Co-Manager Shifty chimed in early, and the thread ran three pages long as members reacted to the VIP push.
VIP & 1K Club Information
The pinned post that explained how to buy your way (or post your way) into Fkn0wned's inner circle
An admin-posted sticky laying out the perks of paid Lifetime VIP membership versus the free 1K Club (earned by hitting 1000 posts), covering access to private hack sections, giveaways, cracked content boards, tutorials, and auto-unhide privileges. The thread mostly stayed on-topic with members clarifying the differences between VIP and 1K, referral shortcuts, and payment logistics, with a bit of the community's trademark irreverent humor mixed in. It's a solid snapshot of how the site funded itself and gated its 'exclusive' content behind money or grinding.
Recruiting the FkN Spam Crew
The day fkn0wned tried to build an army of forum spammers to boost its google rank
Head admin [FkN]Bisdale posted a recruitment call for a dedicated 'Spam Crew' — members willing to spend an hour or more a day posting on other forums to spread the Fkn0wned name and drive traffic. It framed spamming as a competitive, rewarded role with community recognition for top performers, and threatened bans for time-wasters or anyone spamming the thread itself. A quick reply from 'CounterSpray' shows at least one member eager to volunteer, offering 2-2.5 hours a day.
Growing Pains: DoubleVision's Plea for More Posts
670 members, barely 1,000 posts — the founder begs the community to actually show up
A short, early administrative post from FknOwned founder DoubleVision in the site's News + Updates section, dated July 2006. He points out that the forum has racked up 670 members but only around 1,000 posts, calling that ratio disappointing, and urges members to get active and encourage referrals to actually participate rather than just lurk. It's a small snapshot of the site in its infancy, part of the larger 'Deception Network' of cheat/hack forums covering BF2, BF2142, and Counter-Strike.
Rules of The Hall Of Shame
The rulepost that turned defacing websites into a fkn0wned bragging contest
Site owner TuxifieD lays out the ground rules for the 'Hall Of Shame' subforum, a space where members posted screenshots of website and social media accounts they'd broken into, provided they plugged fkn0wned.com in the attack itself. He teases prizes and possible staff recruitment ('Rage team') for the best defacements or big database hauls. The reply chain is short and nostalgic rather than active — older members reminisce about doing 'this stuff back in the day' rather than posting new exploits.
TuxifieD's 2006 Welcome/Pitch Post for fkn0wned
The founder's own pitch for fkn0wned, laid out for newcomers back in 2006.
This is a promotional welcome post from December 2006, made by TuxifieD (site founder/CEO, member #3) in the 'Boots Keys' subforum under Site Related. It's essentially an advertisement blurb rattling off what the site offered at the time: Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source content, Battlefield 2 and the then-new Battlefield 2142, plus other games. The page itself is mostly forum navigation chrome (cheat database categories, forum sections like Off-Topic, Trading, GFX Basement, Red Light District) wrapped around one short hype post — a snapshot of the site in its early, ambitious days.
New Skin: GetLikeFkN
The day fkn0wned's forum got its most hyped-up facelift ever, and the whole crew lost their minds over it
Site manager ZoaQ announces a from-scratch forum skin overhaul ('GetLikeFkN'), touting a lighter theme, CSS3/HTML5 effects, new dropdown menus, updated graphics, and cross-browser support after months of work. The reply thread is pure hype and gratitude from staff and members, with several old-timers reminiscing fondly about the original dark fkn0wned look while praising the new one for feeling faster and more polished. It's a lighthearted, community-morale-boosting moment rather than any drama — just members cheering on a well-liked admin's redesign work.
Launch of the Fkn0wned Currency System ("fokens")
The day Fkn0wned rolled out its own virtual economy — meet the foken.
Founder tKeR announced the launch of Fkn0wned's new site-wide currency system, called 'fokens,' meant to reward posting, helping other members, contests, referrals, and donations. The points could be used for cosmetic name effects, virtual goods, raffles, and as tokens of appreciation, but explicitly not for trading real money or physical items. tKeR also referenced a past point system that failed due to inflation and staff abuse, promising tighter controls this time. Early replies were positive, with members like karpaltunnal calling it a promising feature.
Business Expansion: TuxifieD's Investor Pitch Meets Casual Steam Phishing Brags
Fkn0wned's founder pitches investors and coders on going global — while a random reply casually brags about phishing 13 Steam accounts that week
Founder TuxifieD posted a December 2009 announcement seeking outside investors (offering a 50% stake) and cheat/hack coders to help Fkn0wned expand beyond its North American base, name-checking the site's Combat Arms EU hack launch as a growth lever. The replies are classic community banter: jokes about whether the site is 'clean' now, mild admin sarcasm about never answering PMs, and a member reassuring everyone Fkn0wned wouldn't 'sell out' after 3+ years running. The thread's vibe curdles a bit when one member casually mentions phishing Steam accounts as evidence of 'learning so much' from the site, undercutting the buttoned-up business talk.
April 2015 Recruiting Specialized Staff
Fkn0wned puts out the call for graphics, database, and dev staff — and gets a lukewarm response that says a lot about where the site was headed.
Owner TuxifieD posted a recruitment drive looking for Graphics Staff, a Database Admin, and Designers to help revive traffic on the forum, with a possible future commission-based sales role tied to CheatsInc. Applications were to be sent via PM rather than posted publicly. Only a couple members responded on-thread, and one long-time member, aabee, openly remarked on the site's 'decreasing activity,' capturing the tail-end mood of the community.
FknBank & Fpoints Market Value Thread
The day fkn0wned tried to invent its own stock market for forum points
A Site Related thread from the old Fkn0wned.com forum tracking the exchange rate of the site's virtual currency, 'fpoints,' against real USD, run through something called FknBank. An admin posted daily market value updates for about a week in August 2008, with the rate fluctuating between roughly $9 and $13.50 per 1000 fpoints. A few regulars chimed in just asking for the numbers to be updated, giving a glimpse of the site's now-defunct internal economy system.
The VIP Board's First Bug Report: Fkn0wned at 7 Members
Member Number 7 hits a CAPTCHA glitch on day one of Fkn0wned's brand-new VIP board — and gets a peek at just how tiny the crew still was.
One of the earliest threads on the freshly-launched Fkn0wned V.I.P. subforum, from February 2007, where a registration/CAPTCHA display glitch gets reported and quickly patched by a root admin. The chat drifts into small-talk about the site still being 'unfinalized,' the tiny early member count (only 7 members, 3 staff), hopes for site founder bisdale to get out of legal trouble, and anticipation of upcoming CSS/DoD:S cheats from a member known as s0beit. It's a snapshot of the community in its infancy — informal, sparse, and hopeful about what VIP membership would bring.
Post Reviews of Users — Trust/Reputation System Thread
The rules post that built fkn0wned's whole trust-and-scammer economy.
Founder TuxifieD lays out a simple reputation system for the Market Place: members make a topic named after themselves so others could post trade reviews, and anyone scammed could call it out or start a '[Scammer]USERNAME' thread to warn the community. Skippy chimes in suggesting screenshots be required to back up accusations and prevent false claims. It's a short, foundational housekeeping post rather than a big drama thread, but it set the standard for how trust and callouts worked on the forum's trading scene.
Site Changes: Skippy Takes Over as Head Admin, Jailbait Section Removed
TuxifieD vanishes, Skippy grabs the keys, and the Jailbait section quietly disappears for 'legal issues'
An official announcement from Skippy explaining a leadership shakeup on Fkn0wned: founder TuxifieD stepped away indefinitely, jhurl was promoted to Founder to handle VIP/1K subscriptions, and Skippy himself became head Admin with full site access. The post also confirms the controversial 'Jailbait' forum section was removed over legal concerns, with an open question about whether it'd return. The thread is a mix of congratulations, inside jokes about color/name changes, a VIP member complaining about an unfulfilled lifetime subscription, and one blatantly racist outburst that got called out by another member.
Private Hacks Up For Sale
The day Fkn0wned put a price tag on 'undetected' — VIP cheats, $20 a month, right in the announcements forum.
A founder-posted announcement advertising paid 'VIP' private cheats for Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 5, Counter-Strike: Source, and Crysis, priced at $20/month through a site payment panel. It reads as an official site update rather than a member ad, marking a point where Fkn0wned formalized monetizing its cheat offerings. The thread is short and businesslike, inviting questions rather than sparking much back-and-forth.