The gaming world has changed entirely. There are thousands of games, consoles, and other tech available to the everyday gamer, a near endless amount of options to pick from. Gaming has even become somewhat glamorous. Gone are the days when gaming seemed geeky. YouTube has made some gamers millions, and now everyone wants a piece of the action. So it comes as no surprise that a few people behind the scenes are willing to cut corners to try and be the best.

Hackers are everywhere. And they’re constantly finding new ways to gain an advantage over other players, which you can understand would be highly annoying for anyone trying to play by the rules. You can, of course, report these players on the games themselves, but it often takes multiple reports for players to get banned. These hackers know this, and they usually have multiple accounts running at once anyway.

Sometimes, you just have to take matters into your own hands and give those hackers what’s coming to them. Here are ten times gamers got sweet, sweet revenge on hackers.

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10 Killed By a Helicopter

When you’re taken out randomly in a game without any other player’s insight, it makes you question a thing or two.

During this game of Warzone, a single-player killed this group of friends one by one in rather impossible and unlikely ways, so they quickly clicked on to the fact that their killer was hacking the game.

They decide to get their own back by adding him as a friend and getting him in a game with them so they could get their revenge. The hacker doesn’t speak much English, but luckily they have a friend over the headset that can translate.

The plan was on: get him into a game and make sure he loses. All of the friends do whatever they can to make this game a difficult one for this hacker—they steal all the loot and keep alerting opponents to his location to get him killed.

One kill down, and the friends haven’t had enough with him. They entice him onto a helicopter, only to jump out at the last minute and send the helicopter crashing into the ground. Revenge, Warzone style.

9 Spectating the Kill

A group of friends playing a live game of “Call of Duty, Rebirth Island” saw two players hacking during the same game. The hackers took out all of them, who then got to spectate for the remainder of the game.

They all watched on as the hackers continued to cheat in multiple different ways throughout the game. They weren’t trying to be subtle at all, but revenge came quickly when the remaining players took them out.

You can see the satisfaction from the friends as they all cheered when the hacker was taken down.

8 Killed and Banned in the Same Game

This hacker got what he deserved while he was playing Fortnite. He was using a hack to allow him to go on a killing spree, defeating all of his opponents even if he couldn’t see them, but it didn’t take long for another player to realize what he was doing and take him out.

The hacker’s opponent killed him, taking him out of the game. When you cheat and still end up being killed, that’s embarrassing enough, but the player also reported the hacker for cheating and got him banned at the same time.

That kill has got to sting, but hey, victory for the good guys!

7 I Can Play Better Than You

This hacker came to a hilarious end when the guy he was playing against just happened to be better than even his hack. He got a rude awakening that cheating, unfortunately, only gets you so far and that some people are skilled and don’t need to cheat to take you out.

The cheater was using a speed hack to run around the game at a million miles an hour so that nobody could kill him, but he didn’t realize that, with this opponent, that wouldn’t exactly work out.

All the players gathered in the game and stood waiting for the hacker to take the bait. The player shot him dead in front of everyone when he ran past—public humiliation at its finest.

6 A Six-Year-Old Gets His Revenge

This hacker was attacked by what I can only imagine is the youngest player he has come across yet. Six-year-old Rogan has been named a Warzone prodigy and played with his dad and some friends when they came across a hacker.

The little boy knew so much about the game that he could spot when something wasn’t right.

The young player already knows how annoying it is when someone isn’t playing by the rules, so he goes in for the kill, telling the others in the game that he’s going to try and beat the hacker up, and he nails it. He jumped through a window and attacked this hacker from behind. The hacker was killed and taken out of the game so the rest could play on even ground with the remaining opponents.

Not bad for a six-year-old.

5 A Patient Killer

YouTuber JackSucksAtStuff decided to make it a game to get revenge on hackers on Minecraft. He walked around the world, observing the player’s behavior and seeing if he could spot anyone cheating.

When he found a hacker, the game began. The game aimed to continuously kill the cheat until they became that sick and tired of it and quit the server altogether, meaning they couldn’t come back and continue cheating. He even had a counter on the screen showing how many times he killed them.

It was quite a fun game for the player, and eventually, his targets did quit, so mission accomplished. He still enjoyed playing his game, and he got revenge on hackers. Win-win (for the gamer) if you ask me.

4 An Underwater End

Another video by JackSucksatStuff shows him creating a new way of getting rid of these annoying hackers. This challenge is an enjoyable pastime for this young YouTuber, and he takes great pleasure in making sure hackers get exactly what is coming to them.

This time, Jack has decided on some good old public humiliation. He goes about the server, finding hackers, bringing them to an area of water, and drowning them in front of anyone else in the game who would like to watch.

He’s saving the Minecraft world, one hacker at a time.

3 He Put Effort into This One!

This gamer put his all into this revenge. He noticed a Twitch streamer hacking while playing Minecraft and decided that he would get the player banned.

The first ban didn’t last long because, after only a few months, the hacker was back at it again, obviously having not learned his lesson the first time. This gamer wasn’t having it. This time he was getting him banned for good, and he was willing to put in the work. Slow and steady, he played with the hacker every day for months to gain his trust so that when the time was right, he could get him banned. That is exactly what he did. He not only got the account banned but also the VPN he played from, meaning that if he wanted to play again, he would have to move.

Brutal, but that is what you get for cheating!

2 Exposing the Hacker

This gamer took a different route to take down this hacker.

The player encountered a hacker during a game of Fortnite. He was killed and then decided to spectate the player for the remainder of the game.

He confronted the hacker by adding him into a game and speaking to him directly. The boy immediately admitted to cheating which he seemed almost proud of, boasting about his different hacks and his YouTube channel showing others how to hack the games. The video that exposes this hacker with his YouTube channel and account now has nearly three million views. So the likelihood that his account will be banned is huge. Even without the ban, it’s unlikely people will want to play against this blatant cheater.

1 Fake Hacker Software

This gamer was sick of hackers and online cheaters and wanted to get his own back, so he spent $600 developing and distributing fake cheaters software to teach hackers a lesson. On the surface, the software appeared like it could help people cheat the game and help them win, but in fact, it had some pretty funny results.

The software ruined the game for those who downloaded it and made it very obvious to anyone playing that they had tried to hack the game, and it had backfired. He programmed the software to do things when the cheaters tried to do something. For example, if they tried to throw a grenade, the software would drop it underneath them, and they would blow themselves up.

It also would record the screens of those who downloaded the software so he could make videos of people using this fake hacker software and watch them spectacularly fail. This gamer didn’t get revenge on just one hacker, but many more.

Most of the time, when somebody upsets us, we attempt to stay calm, offer our forgiveness, try to be the bigger person, and move on. However, in some scenarios, we just cannot suppress the urge to seek some sort of revenge. And some people out there have resorted to some wacky and hilarious revenge-seeking methods! Try not to get any ideas as we list 10 of these clever and funny—and hopefully harmless—acts of revenge.

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10 The Lone Tattoo

Whenever somebody discovers that their other half has been cheating on them, their initial reaction is usually to confront the cheater to express their fiery emotions. However, this was not the case for one Twitter user, who managed to remain calm and devise a simple but genius revenge plan.

“My boyfriend cheated on me, so I convinced him to get matching tattoos…he went first, and I went home.” Cheating usually results in a lot of consequences, but an ironic tattoo isn’t usually one of them. What an incredibly effective way to teach a lesson because now the man has been left with a constant reminder of his mistake, permanently engraved on his skin!^[1]

9 The Big Rock

Newly divorced couples are often filled with the feeling of wanting vengeance. This was particularly the case for Dany Larivière, the mayor of a small Canadian town. He felt so much bitterness when he and his wife got divorced that he decided to finally give his wife the big rock she had been asking for.

Obviously, she had been talking about a big, sparkly diamond ring, but he took it to the next level. He took her words quite literally, leaving a 20-ton boulder in her front lawn on her birthday! He even spray-painted the message “Happy Birthday” over the rock. Unfortunately for Larivière, after undergoing an investigation, he actually faced charges for his petty act. As a result, some might say that he hit rock bottom.^[2]

8 Dance, Thief, Dance!

Getting your possessions stolen sucks! Especially when there is nothing you can do about it and have no way to get them back. However, sometimes with the use of some creativity, instead of resorting to the police, we can take matters into our own hands. A man from Massachusetts once had his laptop stolen, so he decided the best way to retrieve it was to remotely hack into his own laptop. Upon doing so, he hit the jackpot and found a super embarrassing video that the thief had recorded.

The thief had filmed a 12-minute-long video practicing dance moves in front of the webcam. When the man discovered this footage, he posted the video to YouTube, entitling it “Don’t steal computers from people who know how to use computers.” The video reached the thief’s attention, and sure enough, he returned the laptop to the man, begging for him to take the video down in return. The man got his laptop back as well as his revenge—because he never took the video down!^[3]

7 A Song About Luggage

Some airlines do a terrible job at keeping passengers’ luggage safe. On many occasions, people’s luggage gets damaged or even lost. Whenever this happens, many people don’t know what to do. Canadian musician Dave Carroll knew exactly what to do about it.

He decided to make a song about his experience and how his guitar got damaged by the airline. The best part is that the song became so popular that the value of the company dropped by 10% within about four weeks of YouTube’s video release of the song, as reported by the BBC. This devastating loss would have bought Carroll more than 51,000 replacement guitars.^[4]

6 Don’t Eat My Food

Some people say that revenge tastes sweet. However, this isn’t the case whenever revenge contains large servings of mustard. Having communal fridges and cupboards is often a recipe for disaster because it often sparks intense debates in the workplace over who ate what.

According to a Reddit story, a man from Leeds, who was fed up with his colleagues eating his doughnuts, decided to take matters into his own hands. He brought a fresh packet of doughnuts into work one day and, using a syringe, injected large dollops of English mustard inside each of them. He then resealed the packet. It was safe to say that none of his colleagues dared to steal another doughnut again after receiving a mouthful of mustard.^[5]

5 Got Change?

In 2009, a college student named Jordan Renken took pettiness to a new level whenever he emerged from a bar and discovered his car had been towed. He needed $88 to pay for the release of his impounded car, and the ordeal resulted in him having to face a 15-mile walk home.

Jordan decided to pay his fine while also seeking revenge on the towing company in the process—he delivered the fine in the form of 8,800 pennies! Initially, the cashier refused to take the payment and thought he was out of his mind, but Recken had done his research beforehand and knew they were required to accept the money as long as it was legal tender. He was so stubborn and refused to back down to the point where the woman called the police, who arrived and found the situation hilarious. After almost an hour of debate, Recken actually managed to retrieve his car while also giving the employee the worst day she’s ever had.^[6]

4 Drive-Thru Trickery

Big displays of public aggression can be overrated. Sometimes the most satisfying types of revenge are the sneaky, passive-aggressive ones. This was the case for a McDonald’s drive-thru customer in August 2019, who placed an order for revenge as well as an order for food.

While placing his order, an impatient woman behind him started beeping her horn and cursing the man for taking too long. Then, in an unexpected twist, he kindly paid for the woman’s food as well as his own. The woman saw this and began rethinking and regretting her actions. However, when he proceeded to the pickup window, he showed the receipt for each of the two orders, collected both of them, and then smugly drove off with the woman’s food!^[7]

We don’t have a name on this one, and it seems to have become somewhat of an urban legend. But it can still act as a cautionary tale—hence it remaining on the list—as nothing in the drive-thru is that important!

3 The Shopping List

In March 2019, a blogger by the name of Baby Sideburns thought of a hilarious way to get revenge on her husband and to take out all her frustration over his laziness. Karen Alpert was getting fed up with her husband lying on the couch while she got stuck with the housework, so she thought of a cunning plan.

She comprised a long shopping list containing numerous items, gave it to her husband, and sent him out to the supermarket. However, the items she wrote down didn’t exist. So Karen turned her phone on silent while her naive husband cluelessly searched for unsour cream, seedless strawberries, and diet diet coke—it’s new—among other wacky items!^[8]

2 Airport Arrest

Londoner Angel Exford got the ultimate revenge on her boyfriend in 2018 after realizing he was nothing but a scammer. She started noticing red flags when he posted pictures with expensive cars on Instagram, despite the lack of money he had available in real life. On their first date, after claiming that he had lost his wallet, they were forced to use Angel’s card to pay for the meal.

Turns out the man had actually stolen her card details on the date and had been using the information to purchase Instagram followers as well as stuff for another girlfriend! She exposed his fraudulent behavior on social media platforms, which went viral with thousands of likes and reposts. However, she was not content with this. After discovering that he was planning a getaway with his other girlfriend, she got her ultimate revenge and had him publicly arrested at the airport before he could head away on his romantic holiday—that was funded with Angel’s money!^[9]

1 The Airport (Doggy) Mess

Revenge can often benefit more than just one person; sometimes, it can even benefit a plane full of people. This was the case for stand-up comedian Steve Hofstetter when he encountered an incredibly obnoxious woman in an airport in 2017. The woman was talking loudly on the phone and was oblivious to her dog, who had defecated beside her. Many witnesses were appalled and asked the woman, “Aren’t you going to clean that up?” To Steve’s astonishment, the woman replied, “They have people for that.”

Everybody sat as far away from the woman as possible in the boarding area, but Steve sat down beside her and politely asked where she was going. “I’m going to Tokyo,” she responded gruffly. Steve then responded, “Oh, then you better hurry. That flight got moved to gate 53C. This is the flight to London.” In a panic, the woman rushed to the other side of the airport, and by the time she realized that she had been fooled, she had missed her flight! Steve didn’t actually mean for this to happen; his intention was to only give her a moment of panic!^[10]