MultiKick rickroll incident

Screenshot of the Rickroll

The MultiKick Rickroll Incident occurred on June 5th, 2025, when MultiKick developers (unaffiliated with Kick) changed their code so that MultiKick embeds on sites other than their website, multikick.com, would display an angry message and a Rickroll meme, blocking the actual Kick stream.

Background

In early 2025, when Destiny was dual-streaming to both YouTube and Kick, Destiny enabled 4K quality for his YouTube stream at the request of his clippers, who had complained that the facecam's quality was too low when scaled up. However, for technical reasons, this resulted in YouTube's stream delay increasing substantially. Viewers realized that they could speed up the stream to catch up somewhat, but the stream was still noticeably behind the Kick stream, which had very low delay. Therefore, most chatters preferred to watch the stream on Kick, in order to remain in-sync with DGG Chat. Unfortunately, they would often complain that Kick's embed lacked volume and quality controls and chatters generally agreed that the YouTube embed was far better.

Many chatters were watching Darius' latest Xena arc (of many) at a convention in late May 2025 during a Destiny vacation. Due to the many streamers present at the event, it was usually advantageous to watch multiple streams at once. Chatters opted to use MultiKick, which is a site unaffiliated with Kick itself that enables the embedding of multiple screens on the same web page. They noticed that MultiKick's embed for individual Kick streams was better than the default Kick embed and requested the DGG developers to switch. At first, the DGG developer that investigated it was confused at how MultiKick had an improved embed, but they realized that MultiKick had created their own embed setup and decided to change Destiny.gg to use the MultiKick embed to take advantage of its improvements over the default embed. At the time, the DGG developer that made the switch was aware that the embed could be blocked in the future.

The Incident

The MultiKick developers realized that Destiny.gg was using their embed without permission and trolled DGG by making the MultiKick embeds on Destiny.gg play a Rickroll meme and show a message decrying DGG for using their embed without permission, blocking the stream they wanted to watch.

Aftermath

After a few hours, the DGG developers resolved the issue by switching the Kick embed back to the default embed provided by Kick. Despite blocking the embed, the MultiKick developers reached out to a DGG developer afterwards and agreed to provide their embeds in the future.