Headline : Streamer’s apology for racist rant exposes the rot in streaming culture

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By Ash Parrish, a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and writing about the intersection of video games and sex.

Last week, top Twitch streamer Zach Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, went on a racist rant against Palestinians, expressing apathy for the relentless military campaign against them that has claimed over 40,000 lives, many of them children. “I don’t give a fuck,” he said. “They’re terrible people.”

Hoyt is known for his incendiary language, but reactions to this recent outburst were enough to give him pause. Shortly after the stream, Hoyt posted an apology, saying, “Looking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing. My bad.” Twitch suspended his channel for 14 days, and Hoyt said that he would be stepping away from leadership duties at his media company, OTK, and its subsidiaries. In a video posted to YouTube, Hoyt said streaming has had a negative impact on his personality and that over the last two years, he’s been, “slowly devolving into the most mean-spirited ... rude, nasty, callous, psychopathic version of myself.”

Hoyt’s video has unintentionally shed light on a major reason that being online can feel so miserable. It’s one of the rare instances of a person with such a huge following — 1.8 million followers on Twitch alone — has acknowledged that the rise of reckless, racist, homophobic, and misogynistic behavior stems from streaming culture itself. 

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