Twitch streamer and famous YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt has had his zackrawrr account banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. “My bad,” he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. “Looking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing.” His other Twitch channel, Asmongold, remains up.
In addition to playing games, Hoyt frequently livestreams extended chat sessions where he comments on other people’s YouTube videos or whatever topics are gaining traction on his dedicated subreddit. In the midst of a recent livestream, he began talking about Israel’s war on Gaza, which the Gaza Health Ministry says has killed over 40,000 Palestinians since it began just over a year ago following the October 7 attack by Hamas.
“If you want to consider a genocide as a systematic killing of a group of people they have genocide built into Sharia law right now so no I’m not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that’s baked into their laws are getting genocided,” Hoyt said during a portion of the stream that was clipped and shared on social media (the original VOD doesn’t appear to be online). “I don’t give a fuck. They’re terrible people. It’s not even a question. It’s crazy people don’t see it that way. They’d be doing the same thing.”
Well, you could argue the opportunity to ban all his channels and the opportunity to ban him for more than 14 days were both lost here.
coughs
It’s a temporary ban. That is less of a consequence than what you’d face for airing a little too much copyrighted content or something, except for saying shit that could have come from Hitler’s mouth.
Hitler probably would not have supported a Jewish ethnostate
I stand corrected
You’re probably not realizing how anti-semitic the formation of Israel was. Look at it this way: the colonial powers that won WW2 decided it was better to steal land and push their Jewish populations there, rather than offer their Jewish populations protection domestically.
With that in mind, its not much of a surprise that Hitler was also for the expulsion of Jewish people from Europe.
That’s true, I was in fact wholly unaware. Human history just gets worse the more you learn, huh?
Let’s not pretend he wouldn’t have let them do their own purges and destabilize the region before coming to dismantle them.
Or maybe the meth would fuel more bad decisions…
Actually, temp bans on twitch are deadly to streamers. With the way discovery on twitch works, it rewards consistency. If you have a week off, you can lose like 20% of your subscriptions. It’s insane how quickly this can kill popular channels. After a month you’re starting from scratch.
For established streamers like him though? Probably slap on the wrist
Surprised it took this long, he’s been saying this same shit on Twitch for years now.
Surprised it took this long
Thing is, he’s usually right
What’s the purpose of your post? It comes off as agreement with his message at worst, and an irrelevant non sequitor at best.
I mean that being right makes him a valuable addition to the general community. This is the reason he has a massive following in the first place
That doesn’t make any sense. He’s a valuable addition to… What general community, humanity? I mean, I’m not disputing that he has a following, I just don’t see how that has anything to do with the discussion around his self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions about the lives of other humans.
self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions
He’s harsh, but his opinions are rarely dogshit. He has followers, who value them
could you give an example of some of his valuable opinions?
In the context of the morbid obesity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTdqryVOZg
Harsh, but 100% accurate. Obesity hellishly shortens your life.
I guess I just don’t understand the relevance of his other opinions to the discussion about the specific ones we’re talking about.
“I was served a plate of raw chicken tenders” “The chef usually makes Michelin quality meals”
It just doesn’t advance the actual discussion.
Most of his followers are probably terrible people too.
So does kamala and trump… What’s your point?
Wasn’t he also amplifying the torches and pitchforks around Sweet Baby?
Wasn’t sweet baby, like, racist and discriminatory?
You can make out of context things sound like a controversy when you’ve got an angry influencer and a large audience. Then people start making up conspiracy theories about turning characters black.
I like watching his gaming stuff didnt know he thinks Palestinians are bellow him. There are plenty of other streamers to watch. See ya racist fuck!
I like watching his reviews of new mmos and games, usually mine and his taste in gaming align, but I have known for a long time he is an asshole. But this one was a new public low for him (don’t doubt he has said way worse shit in private though).
called it a while ago actually:
People still read Kotaku?
I wonder what would happen if he questioned the Holocaust…
To ask…
…where are you going with this.
Difference in treatment for the two genocides
Are you saying he would get a harsher treatment if he denied the Holocaust? Genocide denial of any kind should result in a ban.
I mean not much lost. It’s was his alt account.
EDIT Even after he bent the knee and apologized, it still isn’t enough. Lesson here is never apologize to them. It never going to be enough for them.
It is actually enough to twitch, as the ban supposedly only lasts 14 days. In my opinion that’s just not enough though. Genocide can never under any circumstances be justified. Every human is the same. I cannot compromise on that. Influencers like him have a responsibility to society equal to their reach and “influence” (and they truly do influence some people), and any vile comment from him is going to get many more followers than a vile comment from you. Even if he believes that genocide can be justified and that a people can be concentrated and murdered for decades and that’s okay, he should never be allowed to say it and get away with that. That’s a permanent infraction.
Wtf are you talking?
Mods can I please insult this guy
Wtf are you talking?
He apologized for his shit take and they still banned him. So why apologize? That was my point.
A weak ass “my bad” is not an apology.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
My partner and I had a roommate whose “apology” was always “my bad”
Fucking infuriating insincere bullshit
“I’m sorry you found my actions hurtful.”
Have you never learned the words “remorse” or “repentance”? These are not mutually exclusive with consequences.
Also he didn’t even apologise. Wtf is “my bad”?
