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{{Quote|These private server games are being run by people who aren't really in a position or qualified to do so. It's all good and well to have a community that you've built, but when you get to a certain size there's a point where you have to have to employ a degree of professionalism.|Simi "Tamago2474" Adeshina<ref name=":0">https://web.archive.org/web/20220824074906/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52677039</ref>}} | {{Quote|These private server games are being run by people who aren't really in a position or qualified to do so. It's all good and well to have a community that you've built, but when you get to a certain size there's a point where you have to have to employ a degree of professionalism.|Simi "Tamago2474" Adeshina<ref name=":0">https://web.archive.org/web/20220824074906/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52677039</ref>}} | ||
'''Adeyori Adebowale''', better known online as '''Riley''' or formerly, '''Anthony Falcon''' or '''Waterkid''', is a former member of the ''Club Penguin'' | '''Adeyori Adebowale''', better known online as '''Riley''' or formerly, '''Anthony Falcon''' or '''Waterkid''', is a former member of the ''Club Penguin'' Private Server community, originating from London, United Kingdom. He is best known for creating ''Club Penguin Online'',<ref name=":1">https://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/1797637.htm</ref> a delisted ''Club Penguin'' private server notorious for its criminal history, which includes incidents of hacking and child pornography. He also used to own a less popular ''CP'' private server named ''Virtual Penguin''.<ref>https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/club-penguin-shutdown-disney-copyright-arrest-child-porn-1234608046/</ref> | ||
==''Club Penguin Online'' == | ==Controversy surrounding Riley and ''Club Penguin Online'' == | ||
Starting from the discontinuation of the original ''Club Penguin'' in March 2017, countless ''CP'' private servers (''CPPS'' for short) have started to spawn in order to preserve the game. One of the examples is ''Club Penguin Online'', run by Adebowale under his username ''Riley'' and starting in January 4, 2018. The game was programmed by Timmy, who was claimed by Riley to be "the real owner of ''CPO''", | Starting from the discontinuation of the original ''Club Penguin'' in March 2017, countless ''CP'' private servers (''CPPS'' for short) have started to spawn in order to preserve the game. One of the examples is ''Club Penguin Online'', run by Adebowale under his username ''Riley'' and starting in January 4, 2018. The game was programmed by Timmy, who was claimed by Riley to be "the real owner of ''CPO''", but Riley actually only owns the game's domain and Discord server. With the Covid-19 pandemic spreading worldwide in 2020, CPO earned a sudden massive growth of the userbase, with 7 million players joining the game that year. | ||
Allegations against Riley used to do not be popular during the days of him hosting ''Virtual Penguin'' and until April of 2020. They were generally being limited to the '' | Allegations against Riley used to do not be popular during the days of him hosting ''Virtual Penguin'' and until April of 2020. They were generally being limited to the ''Club Penguin'' private server community and Reddit posts which went ignored for months, until Joey Hues posted videos about the allegations which ultimately had gone widespread and contributed to Disney taking actions against Riley and his game in short time of one month later. Those allegations included: | ||
''CPO''<nowiki/>'s main point of criticism was its lack of moderation, allowing slurs, swear words and sexual roleplaying, especially for a private server of a family-friendly game. It had also been subject of the leakages of emails, passwords and IP addresses of every account by the moderators, causing others' accounts that use the same password as their ''CPO'' account to be hacked by them in turn, which Riley denied about.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ClubPenguin/comments/gf1tz9/a_word_of_warning_cpo/</ref> | ''CPO''<nowiki/>'s main point of criticism was its lack of moderation, allowing slurs, swear words and sexual roleplaying, especially for a private server of a family-friendly game. It had also been subject of the leakages of emails, passwords and IP addresses of every account by the moderators, causing others' accounts that use the same password as their ''CPO'' account to be hacked by them in turn, which Riley denied about.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ClubPenguin/comments/gf1tz9/a_word_of_warning_cpo/</ref> | ||
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Riley allegedly groomed children online, mainly girls, with his main goals being to date and receive pictures of their nudes in order to promote them administratorship in his private server, then blackmail their families afterwards. | Riley allegedly groomed children online, mainly girls, with his main goals being to date and receive pictures of their nudes in order to promote them administratorship in his private server, then blackmail their families afterwards. | ||
As an attempt to monopolize the '' | As an attempt to monopolize the ''Club Penguin'' private server craze, he used anti-competitive tactics towards other ''Club Penguin'' private servers of which he sees them as a "threat" to his game, such as hacking, raiding or performing DDoS attacks against them. One infamous example is when he raided, doxxed and harassed the staff of a server created in 2019 and designed to be superior to ''CPO'', which led to its closure.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lpDreYXeE&t=854</ref> | ||
In May 2019, he used the ''Marvel'' items from another private server named ''Super Club Penguin'' (which he hacked two years prior) for his own game's ''Marvel party''. | In May 2019, he used the ''Marvel'' items from another private server named ''Super Club Penguin'' (which he hacked two years prior) for his own game's ''Marvel party''. | ||
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==Harassment of Joey Hues== | ==Harassment of Joey Hues== | ||
Joey Hues met Riley back in 2015, whom he used to collaborate with to moderate ''Virtual Penguin'' then '' | Joey Hues met Riley back in 2015, whom he used to collaborate with to moderate ''Virtual Penguin'' then ''Club Penguin Online''. He stated to have defended Riley against "rumors" of pedophilia as he was afraid of being slandered by Riley, until he was banned from the game, causing him to immediately turn against him. | ||
In April of 2020, he became known for exposing Riley along with his private server for his severe acts towards consumers and staff members on a | In April of 2020, he became known for exposing Riley along with his private server for his severe acts towards consumers and staff members on a YouTube video, which was then deleted by a false copyright claim from Riley himself. After the video surfaced, Riley also censored the name ''Joey Hues'' and any comment regarding the allegations from his game. He also created a petition for Disney to shut down ''Club Penguin Online'' on Change.org, which received 13,786 supporters before being concluded.<ref>https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-shut-down-club-penguin-online</ref> He also explained that Riley was unexperienced in game development, and instead advertised and marketed for the game.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lpDreYXeE&t=700</ref> | ||
From then, Riley started to attack Hues over his documents exposing his true colors, attempting to slander him by creating a Discord server full of fake evidences against him which were all invalidated by Hues himself. He then threatened him to doxx people who expressed negative opinions towards him.<ref>https://preview.redd.it/n184pg15ifu31.png?width=439&format=png&auto=webp&s=32f32e470bd83c57637b503d755ecbe899894b72</ref> Finally, he and his gang hired a hitman | From then, Riley started to attack Hues over his documents exposing his true colors, attempting to slander him by creating a Discord server full of fake evidences against him which were all invalidated by Hues himself. He then threatened him to doxx people who expressed negative opinions towards him.<ref>https://preview.redd.it/n184pg15ifu31.png?width=439&format=png&auto=webp&s=32f32e470bd83c57637b503d755ecbe899894b72</ref> Finally, he and his gang hired a hitman to attempt to murder not only Hues, but also a Twitter user named CPPSArmy, who posted tweets against ''CPO''. The murders did not occur, however.<ref>https://twitter.com/dsahjbddsa/status/1256612752673648640</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/CPPSArmy/status/1261762381962764288</ref> | ||
==Shutdown of ''Club Penguin Online'' and Arrest== | ==Shutdown of ''Club Penguin Online'' and Arrest== | ||