Fakeone

Fakeone emerged during an incident where an account impersonating keone appeared on twitter and began following people from the Monad Discord. Community members began reading through his prior tweets and found some interesting discoveries among them.

History

On December 28th 2023 sailornini posted the following request on the Monad discord:

The account mentioned was impersonating Keone Hon, CEO of Monad Labs. Sailornini also noted the following:

some funny tweets if you scroll back before all the reposts of keones tweets

—sailornini

This quickly resulted in a change in sentiment as people began reviewing the fake keone's tweets:

UNDO REPORTS FOR FAKE KEONE HE MAKES HITTAS

—East

fake keone should start running monad socials

—bill monday

Users then began searching back through the Fake Keone's posting history to find the best ones:

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True Identity Revealed

One particular tweet linked to a mixtape:

This lead to the discovery of Fakeone's identity as the hiphop artist young stress:

Doctor Preballin made contact with Young Stress later that day:

'He doesn’t have discord, he’s not into crypto, but he wants to join and said he’s gonna come to my studio and see what’s up next time he sees his baby momma out by me lmao'

—sailornini