Midway through a concert in Holmdel, New Jersey, Breaking Benjamin frontman Benjamin Burnley stopped the music entirely — not for a technical problem or an emotional speech, but to spend five minutes asking the crowd to download his Fallout 4 mod and, in his words, “destroy” a rival modder who had been unkind about it.
The moment, filmed by a fan and posted to Reddit under the username “im_all_ears,” spread quickly across social media over the weekend. It is, in fairness, a difficult clip to look away from.
The Mod at the Centre of It All
Burnley — who turns out to be an amateur modder in his spare time — announced on stage that he creates mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4. His latest creation is called True First Person Mod, and it does what it says: when players switch to first-person view in Fallout 4, the mod keeps them there. Their character’s body stays visible at all times, including inside workshop build areas where the base game would normally cut away to a third-person perspective. Third-person mode still works as normal.
He had uploaded the mod to Nexus Mods under the username “killemloud,” and as Burnley spoke, venue staff helpfully put both the mod name and username on the big screen behind him — because of course they did.
“I just made a mod that makes it so that when you’re in first-person, you stay in first-person. You see your body in first-person. You go to your workshop area in first-person. So I want you to go and download that f**kin’ mod.” — Benjamin Burnley, Holmdel, New Jersey
The Feud That Started It
The mod itself was not the whole story. Burnley explained that a fellow modder in what he described as a “clique” within the modding community had been dismissive of his work from the moment he posted it.
“There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me and bullying me,” Burnley said. “He was saying, ‘Oh, your mod is sh*t, you don’t know what you’re doing.’ So I’m doing this every f**king night, and blowing his f**king downloads out of the water. Please help me destroy this f**kin’ jerk.”
He declined to name the modder in question but made his feelings about the situation quite plain. His pitch extended to the non-gamers in the crowd: even if you have never touched Fallout, go to Nexus Mods and download it anyway. He said he would be making the same request every night of the tour.
The Crowd’s Reaction
Reactions inside the venue were mixed in the most entertaining possible way. A portion of the audience, apparently gamers themselves, found the whole thing delightful. Others were rather less patient — at least one or two fans could be heard shouting at Burnley to just play some music rather than continue explaining his Update 1.2 plans.
He did not let that deter him. The full rant ran close to five minutes.
“When you post a mod, you’re supposed to be able to grow and learn and make it better,” Burnley said. “And right off the bat, this f**king a**hole was sh**ing on my mod, and he ain’t letting me update it. So that’s what happened.”
Find it yourself: True First Person Mod by killemloud is available on Nexus Mods for Fallout 4. Downloads are, presumably, climbing.
Why This Went Viral
Beyond the obvious comedy value of a touring rock musician recruiting a live crowd as his personal mod-download army, the clip touches on something real about modding communities. They can be welcoming, collaborative spaces — and they can also be intensely territorial, with established creators protective of their patch and quick to dismiss newcomers.
That the newcomer in this case happens to front a band with two decades of albums behind him adds an extra layer. Burnley’s frustration is the same frustration thousands of amateur modders experience in any given week; he is simply doing something about it in front of a sold-out venue rather than on a forum thread.
The clip will keep circulating. Whether the rival modder downloads his own response is, at this point, the only remaining question.
