Vexxed
Patrick Rea in Vietnam
Personal information
Born
Patrick Rea

(1996-10-17)17 October 1996
Donegal, Ireland
Died3 October 2023(2023-10-03) (aged 26)
Bangkok, Thailand
Occupations
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016–2018
Genres
Subscribers475,000[1]
Total views43.7 million[1]
100,000 subscribers2016
Last updated: 2 May 2023

Patrick Rea (born 17 October 1996 – 3 October 2023), better known online as Vexxed, was an Irish YouTube personality. He is known for his vlogs and videos about other YouTube creators, especially his 2018 documentary about his own visit to North Korea. He maintained the YouTube channel Vexxed along with his series Exposed Youtubers. As of February 2022, he had 484,000 subscribers.[2]

Career

Around March 2017, Rea visited North Korea's main square, filming a video. He took photos and videos of the main square and its environs, restricted for foreign visitors. Although asked to delete it by his tour guide, he refused, with media deeming the act risky.[3][4]

His Exposing Youtubers series consisted of commenting on the actions of other YouTube personalities, such as alleged defrauding of their viewers. One of Rea's videos discussed Trap Nation, a popular music YouTuber which he alleged was hacking, buying malware and spreading Trojan viruses using his YouTube channel. The video was disliked by bots sent out from members of Hack Forums. In addition, Rea was offered up to 10,000 USD to take the video down by Trap Nation and Kareem, a hacker cooperating with Trap Nation. However, he refused and the video remained.[5][6]

In early 2018, Rea was banned on Twitch. Twitch stated that he was banned for violating their policy against on-stream nudity. He later claimed that he was changing with underwear on without knowing he was on-stream. Later in October, an email advertising Twitch was sent to him. He posted it on his Twitter account,[7] describing the experience as 'salt in the wound'.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Vexxed". YouTube.
  2. ↑ "Vexxed's Real-Time Subscriber Count - Social Blade YouTube Stats | YouTube Statistics". socialblade.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  3. ↑ "YouTuber Records Vlogs From Inside North Korea". Trill! Magazine. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  4. ↑ Nachrichten, n-tv. "Mann filmt sich beim Handstand in Pjöngjang". n-tv.de (in German). Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  5. ↑ Rubinstein, Peter (24 January 2017). "Trap Nation CEO Responds To Allegations of Hacking & Lizard Squad Connections". Your EDM. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Major Dance Music YouTube Channel Exposed As Hacker". Stoney Roads. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  7. ↑ Vexxed (4 October 2018). "Just got an email from Twitch offering me partnership. I don't think they realize I'm banned. This has to be the most ironic email I've ever received(sic).pic.twitter.com/MApGmoIMaW". @vexxedb4c. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  8. ↑ "Twitch attempt to recruit YouTube Live streamer, forgetting they'd previously banned him". Dexerto. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
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