depends on the community
However, you definitely shouldn't have faked a speedrun at all, even as a joke. It's not funny, and you're wasting the time of the game mods who volunteer their time to protect the integrity of the leaderboard. Your runs will almost certainly be subject to closer inspection whenever you submit.
id say its fine to do what loan shark joe did imo but that's just being mean to the mods. although you can make a crappy run or a splice and just upload it to YouTube as a shitpost. maybe give it to the forums as a joke.
What Loansharkjoe did was absolutely not okay at all. He faked a speedrun for a publicity stunt, waited almost a year, and never even told the mods about what he did at all. They only found out because people kept harassing them about it. He also lied in his video, claiming that emulators aren't allowed (they are), claimed that strats he did weren't RTA viable (they were), and also claimed he wanted to help the mods (obviously not).
He found a small game with almost no community at all and abused them for views. I highly recommend reading the forum thread that resulted to actually hear another side.
He also called the mods immature when he got banned, even though the game mods had nothing to do with it (the site mods banned him). He also made two more videos milking the incident.
Also, he says his run should have been THOUROUGHLY examined because it was second place. The problem is, 2nd out of 6 runners isn't necessarily that good. His fake run was almost 2 minutes slower than wr.
If your run has yet to be reviewed, I would quickly go and delete the pending run. @legit_runner333
i'm sorry for just pointing out his name instead of knowing the full perspective of what he was up to.
Wasn't LSJ already an active runner for GnG? I hate to be hung up on a point like this but I'm pretty sure he was in the community for at least a while before the fake run incident.