| Vexxed | |
| Birth Name: | Patrick Rea |
| Channel Direct Url: | Vexxed |
| Years Active: | 2016–2018 |
| Subscribers: | 475,000 |
| Views: | 43.7 million |
| Silver Year: | 2016 |
| Stats Update: | 2 May 2023 |
Patrick Rea, 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.[1]
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.[2] [3]
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.[4] [5]
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,[6] describing the experience as 'salt in the wound'.[7]