My favorite Sam Hyde story is the time he got owned by a bunch of bronies.
He tried to scam them into giving him a bunch of Kickstarter money for an MLP fangame he had no intention to actually produce, but he did a shit job covering his tracks and was found out almost immediately, resulting in him being publicly outed and never coming close to his fundraising goal. Since Kickstarter goals operate on an all-or-nothing basis, everyone who donated to him automatically got their money back, meaning he completely wasted the time and money he put into setting up the scam.