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Quote from Akynth

FuriousFajita, here are a few things to consider:

1. You're not that important. It's pleasant to think that you're such an important person that Sky (whose videos I've never watched, mostly because his fanboys are so annoying, but he is a big deal to many) would want to copy you -- YOU! -- but, really, I seriously doubt if he would want to copy you because of your supreme importance; it's doubtful that he even knows you exist.

2. Your name is not nearly as obscure as, say, Akynth. He could very well have come it on his own. Likely? Maybe not. But the odds are 175 million to 1 that someone will win Powerball, too ... yet people play anyway. What are the odds that this week's $400 million winner bought their ticket at somewhere I've bought gas? Slim to none? Yet they did. "Improbable" is not "impossible".

3. That Link skin is also very popular. If he was just picking a skin more or less at random, he could very easily have chosen that one. It's not like there are 175 million of them out there, like there are Powerball combinations -- and yet someone picked those, too.

Once is chance. Twice is coincidence. It takes three times for it to be enemy action -- and you only have two elements here. If you had actually talked with the guy at some point, for instance, and he knew your name and preferred skin, that might be something. But without any known connection, there is at least a reasonable doubt that he's copying you (what's in it for him?) and a decent probability that, when he picked a name and skin at random, he happened to pick one of the millions that someone has used.

The question to ask yourself in anything -- whether it's some dude making a video, or a politician making a proposal -- is this: Cui bono? Who benefits? What would be the benefit to Sky in jacking the identity of some random dude he's never met? Anything? Anything at all?

I don't watch his videos; millions of other people don't either. And of the ones who do, how many are going to remember what name and/or skin he used at some point? Your life is not ruined. Even your MC playing is not ruined. If, as has been said, Sky uses random names so that people don't know who he really is, then if someone shows up on a multiplayer server using a name he's used, anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows that practically by definition, it's not him. So you're not going to have a legion of rabid fanboys hanging on your every word.

Again, cui bono?

What's the benefit to him in impersonating you? Anything?

p.s. Your account has not been hacked. Just because someone dressed up as you -- if he even did -- does not mean he had access to your account or anything else whatsoever about you. He didn't steal your account. He didn't touch your account. Even if he really did see you somewhere and say "wow, FuriousFajita is such an awesome name, and that skin he's using is mind-blowingly wonderful, so I'm going to copy them for my next video" he still didn't steal your account. At the most, he dressed up to look like you. Period. That's a different thing entirely. Your account remains untouched.

Quote from Bumber

I don't see how this is relevant to Minecraft, seeing as how Notch doesn't work on it anymore.