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.”

    • ggppjj@lemmy.world
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      What’s the purpose of your post? It comes off as agreement with his message at worst, and an irrelevant non sequitor at best.

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        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

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          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.

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            self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions

            He’s harsh, but his opinions are rarely dogshit. He has followers, who value them

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              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.

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                30 days ago

                correct, they are largely incels. I know one IRL, hes in his early 30s and only has 4 teeth left and said he admires asmon and looks up to him more than anyone else because of how he lives his life.

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          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.