jkaem claimed accountability and apologized to everybody concerned within the pores and skin fiasco.
Counter-Strike 2 skilled participant Joakim “jkaem” Myrbostad admitted his fault and vowed to repay the owed skins after a thread on X uncovered him. Learn in regards to the jkaem incident, and his response, right here.
jkaem owes over USD$11,000 in skins
The thread that uncovered jkaem was posted by X person @erlsan. In accordance with him, he lent the professional participant skins final yr throughout the Paris Main. “After a yr of excuses, lies and deceits i’ve no selection left however to go public with this,” he wrote. erlsan claimed that jkaem gambled the skins away.
jkaem within the Paris Main 2023 EU RMR (Photograph through VaKarM)
The skins he lent included a Welcome to the Jungle M4A1-S and a Wild Lotus AK-47. These skins at the moment price USD$11,000, says erlsan.
The thread included screenshots of his DMs with the professional participant. “I’ve so a lot of different chatlogs with him, being ghosted for weeks and months at a time and lied, stalled, and so forth again and again.”
Within the screenshot proven dated July 25, 2023, the skilled participant informed erlsan that he re-bought the skins in higher situation. The M4A1-S in Manufacturing unit New and the AK-47 in Minimal Put on. These skins collectively go for about USD$14,000 within the market, in accordance with erlsan.
Translated Discord DMs between erlsan and jkaem (Picture through @erlsan/X)
After threatening to go public, he paid erlsan USD$1,000. A distinguished title within the Counter-Strike pores and skin neighborhood, Oliver “zipeL” Behrensdorff was additionally talked about.
In January [2025], zipel requested [jkaem] to repay me and I believed he would, however I’m carried out ready.
He by no means appeared to care in regards to the stress he triggered me, solely when his model was in danger. So I’ve determined to tweet this even when it means he wont pay me.
@erlsan on X
zipeL responded to erlsan’s submit, saying that “the truth that [jkaem] solely paid a small quantity again after a threat of it going public speaks for itself, appears as if he’s tousled in much more than simply this.”
zipeL’s response to the preliminary thread
jkaem responds: “I used to be an fool.”
Plainly erlsan was not the one celebration that he owed cash or skins to. On the posts on this thread, he says that he’s working with his present org, BC.GAME, to assist him repair the harm.
“I need to make an apology to everybody that I’ve taken benefit of. I’m 100% within the fallacious right here and I’ve to face in my very own mess,” he wrote.
He additionally confirmed the explanation for his misconducts. “The useless trustworthy reply is playing dependancy, I’ve had that because the day I turned 18. I’ve searched assist a number of instances however by no means succeeded.” He then clarified that this isn’t meant to be an excuse, however fairly a show of honesty as he strives to “make it proper.”
