A player hits a clip. It's genuinely incredible — a flick shot that lands frame-perfect, a read so precise it looks like information they shouldn't have had, a sequence of kills that makes the lobby fall silent. They've been building to this for years. Thousands of hours of practice. Hundreds of ranked sessions grinding out the muscle memory that makes a moment like this possible.

Someone posts it to a forum. The title is a question — "Is this legit?" — but the tone is an accusation. The comments fill up fast. Inhuman. Impossible. Aimbot. Walls. No way. A few people push back, but the skeptics are louder, and doubt is stickier than defense.

The player is clean. They've never touched a cheat in…