This story from The New York Times a week said that inflation has plunged the value of Venezuela's currency to OSRS gold half that of the dollar, effectively reducing minimum wage earnings to $5 a month.

I've been a part of this community since old-school came out and have never seen so much hate and racism," wrote Redditor glow_party (at a comment moved to the top of the thread by moderators).

"Let me tell you something, these individuals do whatever they can to survive and they have never done something wrong," glow_party proceeded . "As a Venezuelan I can tell you the hatred towards my people is miserable and something that I never expected to emerge from this community."

Another user pointed out that an earlier strategy, killing the boss called Zulrah, was netting someone $5 per day before cheap RS gold writer Jagex nerfed exactly what Zulrah dropped in response.

The more considerate anti-Venezuelan comments pointed out that gold farming was against the Runescape rules (punishable by account bans) and a few wrote off the manual for a joke. But few found it a laughing matter, especially since it assumed that anybody from Venezuela from the game was a gold farmer, getting them killed in PvP although not doing anything wrong.