Twitch streamer Lacy, on his recent stream, took on a job as a DoorDash delivery driver. The 23-year-old borrowed a viewer’s DoorDash account, went out, and actually delivered a McDonald’s order. He earned $4.08 after spending close to 30 minutes on the whole thing, and told his chat he was done.
Right after that, he pulled up what appeared to be a suspension notice on his phone, making it seem like the account had been banned. The clip spread fast, and DoorDash itself ended up responding to it on Twitter.
Lacy Revealed The Whole Stream Was A Skit And The Ban Was Fake
Once the stream blew up, Lacy came out clean and revealed it was all staged. He told fans he paid the viewer $500 for the account and that it was never actually banned. The notification he showed on camera was not from DoorDash at all.
It was an Uber Eats screenshot. According to him, that was supposed to be the dead giveaway that none of it was real. On X, he wrote, “My streams are for entertainment, not everything needs to be taken so seriously.”
Related: MrBeast Addresses Why He Avoids Politics To Protect His Philanthropy
A lot of people were not buying it, though. They argued that no one is sitting there pausing a live stream and zooming in to check which app a notification belongs to. Some viewers also raised the question of where the Uber Eats ban screenshot even came from, and if it was legitimate or just something he grabbed off the internet.
A large chunk of the backlash came from people saying it was messed up to joke about getting someone’s delivery account banned when gig work is how many people actually pay their rent. Lacy eventually responded and said the only reason he even addressed any of it was that he started receiving threats over the whole thing, and he called it “so sad” that he had to explain himself at all.
DoorDash Responds With A ‘GTA 6’ Joke
DoorDash took the whole thing in stride. They replied on X, saying, “We got streamers being fake dashers for clout before GTA 6,” which is a reference to the viral meme about everything somehow happening before GTA 6 drops.
But here’s the thing. Using another person’s DoorDash account and delivering orders under their name breaks the platform’s terms of service. If Lacy was not doing a bit and had actually been operating off a real active account, DoorDash could have gone after the actual account holder, and that person would have been the one dealing with the fallout.
In Case You Missed: Nintendo Sues U.S. Government For Tariff Refunds After Supreme Court Ruling
This is basically what Lacy does for a living at this point. Five bans from Twitch, a reputation built entirely around stunts and chaos, and streams that are meant to blow up online. The DoorDash thing did exactly that. Even DoorDash walked away with a viral tweet, so in the end, everyone got what they wanted out of it.
