Dangerous Incident Forces Popular PC Maker PowerGPU to Halt Massive Charity Twitch Stream

PowerGPU is a popular custom gaming PC maker operating from North Carolina. Very recently, their team managed to attract a lot of attention owing to their ‘Operation GiveBack’ charity event. However, things took an unfortunate turn yesterday at the event when a SWAT team arrived at the scene. How a charity event got into this mess has baffled a lot of people who witnessed this on a Twitch live stream!

PowerGPU was always quite popular among the streamers. Many streamers and content creators have uploaded unboxing videos of the custom builds they got from PowerGPU. Moreover, the PC building company has managed to garner a lot of positive feedback from its customers. In fact, PowerGPU’s ‘Operation GiveBack’ is for an extremely noble cause.  

As it happens, a once-popular PC maker, Artesian Builds, declared bankruptcy and closed its operations, leading to a lot of customers losing out on their hard-earned money. Artesian Builds was first outed by a small Twitch streamer who was denied a giveaway from the company based on the number of followers she had. Following that, many Twitch streamers made the community aware of their questionable giveaway events.

Even after shutting down, the company had promised to process refunds for the orders they couldn’t fulfill. However, many have reported that Artesian Builds is way behind on keeping its promise.

PowerGPU gets ‘swatted’ at their charity event

PowerGPU decided to organize a charity event for those who were affected by the ‘Artesian Builds’ course of events. The charity event, called ‘GiveBack’, reportedly started on April 22 and was scheduled to end on May 31. PowerGPU’s pledge to donate 50 PCs to those affected by Artesian’s downfall garnered a lot of support. In fact, PowerGPU had collaborated with some of its PC-part manufacturer partners to organize this event. 

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However, things went out of control last day when a SWAT team showed up at the event’s premise. Turns out that someone had ‘swatted’ them out! The entire event was live streamed on Twitch. After the incident, PowerGPU obviously had to halt their event.  

PowerGPU has updated its fans regarding the situation. According to Jake Lucky at FullSquadGaming, they are currently working with an official to track down the alleged person who disrupted the event. 

If you want to contribute towards PowerGPU’s cause and be a part of their charity event, you can do so from their official ‘Operation GiveBack’ page.

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