Yesterday, Twitch suspended an account that belonged to streamer and famous YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt after he made racist comments about the death of Palestinians in Gaza. Now, the YouTuber has responded to the temporary ban with a surprisingly clear-eyed assessment of the controversy and what led up to it.
“I don’t really want to mince words or, ‘oh I wasn’t justifying or promoting [the genocide],’” He said during a new 20-minute long video on the subject. “I said something about it that was disgusting.”
Provided as feedback: celebrity drama is not games, plz piss off with this kind of content.
So what did he actually say
Something about not caring for the genocide of people of inferior culture
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Did he really have a change of heart just because he got in trouble with Twitch? We know how he is. It’s pretty strange to see him walk back any statements after getting backlash. As far as I know he’s always been the unapologetic, uncancellable degenerate who lives with rats rotting on the floor and his own blood staining the walls.
Streamers really do be instantly reversing years of their character development just by getting banned from an internet platform for a few weeks
He did debate with Hasan on stream for like 3 hours and I’m sure (assuming) he got a lot of texts from his business partners (one of whom I understand is Muslim) so maybe he really did take a hard look at himself.
I sure hope so because, man - what he said was ignorant AF.
Here’s a link to the whole conversation for anyone interested
Asmondgold is a co-founder of the media company One True King. Another co-founder is “TipsOut”, who is also a Muslim. He posted a very long message on Twitter about the hatred he and his family have dealt with simply because of their race and religion and called out Asmondgold for perpetuating that same hatred.
I don’t think he changed his mind because of Twitch. He changed his mind because his Muslim business partner sat him down and educated him.
literally the only apology video I’ve ever believed was an apology.
This may be too political for this sub, even though I think it deserved to be posted somewhere
Slowly? Hes been this way for as long as he’s been around
I think i need to give that guy a sub.
So your reaction to Asmon saying something kinda fuckin racist and then recanting, as opposed to just not saying the racist thing in the first place, is to give him more of your attention?
People like him get popular by manufacturing controversy.
Its not a controversy to support Israel… Its just the Twitter and lemmy leftists that think it is.
Well there’s that part about the thousand’s of children they slaughtered, but other than that little details it’s really not THAT controversial.
Your reaction to someone saying they support someone admitting to a mistake making an attempt at rehabilitation is to put them down, then insinuate that a mistake being made also makes it unforgivable?
The real question is did he do this sincerely or because it is hurting him financially. I am all up for forgiveness, etc. but only if this sudden self awareness is authentic.
Can we at least wait to see if he actually meant his apology before we put him on a pedestal?
I’m not saying he’s lying, but maybe give it a moment before rewarding someone for doing basic damage control after doing/saying something heinous. Redemption isn’t an instantaneous process.
What damage?
If you’re going to argue in bad faith, you should at the very least understand the words in the comment and how they are being used.
wait for the room cleaning stream first
