It really really bothers me when people think they know people because they watch their streams. In this case it's even worse because he self admits to playing a character on his stream!
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dr disrespect banned from Twitch (update: now back)
- Thread starter Lashley
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It really really bothers me when people think they know people because they watch their streams. In this case it's even worse because he self admits to playing a character on his stream!
That comment was dumb, yes, but it's also true that DrDisrespect hates what he does and is burned out from streaming, you can find in multiple streams where he clearly shows that he miss his old job of multiplayer level designer, so i think this ban may help him somehow.
You obviously don't watch him, if you consider what I'm saying improbable.
Burnout, and mental health are real things that lead to these types of situations.
He's out if character enough to get an idea of when he's sincerely sick of streaming.
I'll remember the next time I do something shitty to say I'm burnt out so strangers on the internet will come to my rescue.
Most likely won't be, he's too big on that platform, I guess they will lift the ban once some dust has settled.
That said, it's beyond stupidity do live stream in that kind of way, he isn't even allowed to film anyone without their consent and filming a public toilet is completely out of the picture, that guy has no tact.
Nah. Pretty sure that committing a real-world crime in order to take some time off from your very lucrative, relatively low-effort job (that you apparently can't otherwise just.. stop doing?) is pretty dumb.
I could really use a break from this thread, brb filming a minor in a bathroom. What could go wrong!
Yeah, so do millions of people working their 9 to 5 jobs, do you see them live streaming from public toilets? That idiot should just take a break, but I guess all the $$$ he would miss out on from children using their parents prime membership is just too much to bear?
Make sure to put a wig on first, so it's your character doing it, and not you.
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I need a break from work.
I need a break from work.
Ha. No kidding. There's needing to take a break, and there's stupidity.
Look, I'm just trying to bring another perspective. You all do a good enough job shitting on people here at Era. So that's perspective is more than taken care of.
He's not using it as an excuse. We haven't even heard from him since the issue, as far as I know. And most people that have lapses of judgment due to mental health, yes, including burnout aren't running around proclaiming it was the mental illness.
Whether mental health is a factor or not, I have no clue. I'm just saying based off his streams where he's miserable as fuck, talking about how hes feeling towards streaming, the boredom, missing the old work he did and now this stuff he pulled, sounds like mental health.
But you all want to laugh at the idea that someone could be suffering. Doesn't excuse what he did, but it never does for anyone that suffers and makes bad choices. But usually you all have more sympathy for those people as long as their not in the spotlight. Maybe it would take suicide for you all to realize the desperation of some people's actions.
However, I'm getting way ahead of myself. Just trying to throw this out there for people to chew on. Take what you want from it.
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I'm really positive that my comment doesn't endorse any of his actions, i'm just stating a fact.
I clarified that in another post. I didn't mean the actual law breaking, I meant the plan to get off twitch for a bit. So that was my bad.
People do desperate things in crisis. Doesn't excuse it, but people should consider it an issue that's happened.
User banned (5 days): misrepresenting people’s arguments, modwhining, accumulated infractions
Some people here are super easy and early on calling all kinds of people a POS.
Moderation seems to be totally fine with that toxic behavior. I don't know why.
My main takeaway from this, then, is that it's a win-win for everyone if he's permed.
I've watched Doc plenty. I don't think the average person deals with the issues you're mentioning by propagating racist stereotypes and committing felonies.
Anyone in this thread making statements about viewers of DrDisrespect being pathetic losers, despicable, needing to find something better to do with their time or assuming they are children, is stereotyping viewers of a particular stream. The examples are on every single page of this thread.
I think it's awfully hypocritical to stereotype twitch viewers as a particular type of person while also attacking posters in this thread for rationalizing racism or defending DrDisrespect. I'm just commenting on a pattern I see a lot in threads like these where the ban hammer comes down on individuals making questionable comments about what is or isn't racist but the ban hammer doesn't come down on people posting non-racial based stereotypes about a particular group of people.
I don't think it's wrong or misguided to say something like "I hope the Twitch ban is permanent" in this case because, hey, that's your opinion. But I do think it's wrong for people to say that DrDisrespect's viewers are human trash.
This thread keeps delivering. The show of support logic pretzels are Escheresque. Keep on contorting beyond the legally allowed limits.
Saying something negative about people who choose to watch a racist streamer is not the same thing as defending a racist streamer.
You should rethink how you are looking at this situation.
I would still like multiple examples of what you're referring to, by the way.
Dr disrespect's viewers are not a monolith, so grouping them and criticizing them as a whole is juvenile. But the viewers who excuse what he did by any specific reasons, hes playing 4dchess with twitch, there wasnt a minor, etc, these are the subgroup within his viewership who deserves criticism, as they either dont get the point or are choosing to ignore it because they lost (temporarely it seems unfortunately) their favorite guy who streams games.
You might want to ask his cameraman about that:
I'm not normalising anything, particularly as an asian myself.
I know you are already banned but seriously you need to take a step back and listen to what you are saying. My wife is asian and my kids are half asian and I can assure you that they would not be OK with this even if the hired cameraman is OK with the things his employer is saying.
What this man does is disgusting and the fact that his audience contains many impressionable kids who might in turn harass MY kids with the "ching chong" fake accent makes it doubly disgusting. You may not be offended by him but I am. And I will tell you as the father of 4, if it had been me and my son in that bathroom a ban from Twitch would be the least of his worries. If your ban in not permanent and you do return here, please take a moment to consider the feelings of other people before posting.
Yeah kinda. Like always angry at everything, over the top rages and stuff. Must be exhausting.
It's un-watchable to me.
Seems to be a shitheel like most of these popular streamers. Nothing of value lost. Moving on!
Seems like a shtick that would grow old pretty quickly, if it is ever even good in the first place.
-Imitating chinese accent and chinese "ching chong" speech
-Cheating on his wife
-Filming a minor in a bathroom as a IRL "prank" (even without being a minor you dont just go to a toilet where people are taking a piss)
Not a POS.
People calling a streamer out and might call him "bad names": The real toxic ones.
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He hates streaming on twitch and playing the games he's playing. He doesn't hate streaming. If he missed being a level designer, he'd go back to it. Plenty of studios would hire him.
So his viewers that don't defend him are ok? they are still ok watching a casual racist and I feel no need to separate them into sub groups due to this fact.
Best I can find, there's no actual updates from anyone other than his E3 badge getting revoked.
-Imitating chinese accent and chinese "ching chong" speech
-Cheating on his wife
-Filming a minor in a bathroom as a IRL "prank" (even without being a minor you dont just go to a toilet where people are taking a piss)
Not a POS.
People calling a streamer out and might call him "bad names": The real toxic ones.
Using this Shaq meme may not be the best idea....lol. He is notorious for doing offensive voices.
Also, what a dumbass. His streams are entertaining, but cmon man. Also, I thought he went in the bathroom to film a minor based on some of these posts. I am glad it wasn't that, still a big fuck up.
Would they though? They guy is a millionaire who probably doesn't need to work, and he's also a somewhat famous person. I mean I guess there might be a place that would take a chance. But I see companies being hesitant.
I make fun of my canadian cousins accents all the time. And they make fun of how I say bagel among other words. Race has nothing to do with it for us, so I dont know how it would automatically indicate racism. Doing it around people you dont know would certainly make you an asshole however.
Who are you referring to? What are you talking about? Give examples.
Making fun of how you say the word "bagel" is not the same thing as what he has done on Twitch multiple times.
How are you people typing these ridiculous false equivalences and not immediately hitting the backspace button?
I love how anytime someone posting on Era disagrees with someone on Era, or a group of people on Era, this somehow makes them not part of Era.
You sure seem weirdly dead-set on using it as an excuse, though.
- A guy who "plays a character" that is themed around "disrespect" thinks livestreaming from a public washroom is entertaining and doesn't consider other people or the ramifications of his actions.
- An anguished man, tortured by his inability to escape his success, discovers that filming people in bathrooms is illegal in California. He then concocts a plan to go to E3 specifically to stream from the washrooms, saving himself from the job he doesn't want to do anymore.
This sounds like stuff you're pulling out of your butt in a tortured effort to excuse the guy.
I'm all for mental health, but I have much less sympathy for millionaires who can easily voluntarily escape their situation at any time.
Also, total class on your part for just weirdly invoking suicide.
The dude did some comedy bits from a bathroom. This isn't some Machiavellian cry for help.
That wasn't even chewy. It was just Jello.
If he hates streaming then quit. Refund the remaining subs and move on with your life. The guy is rich beyond his means, would likely never have to work another day in his life again, but people are in here justifying his behaviors as if he's some tortured artistic soul.
He is in the top 5 (probably top 3) of Twitch's earners. He could hump a corpse while yelling racial slurs and it still wouldn't be a perma ban. Rules are different for these guys.
And if you think that is depressing, here is some else. When he comes back, he is gonna make crazy bank in the first stream he does. Like insane numbers. Guaranteed.
Entirety of Twitch decision making management and a large chunk of the watching population are absolute garbage.
Nope, seen it myself on clips of his streams. Another poster on here mentioned it too.
User Banned (permanent): Excusing racist behavior with inflammatory false equivalencies over over multiple posts in this thread; previous severe infractions
And chinese isnt really a language, theres mandarin cantonese, hakka etc.. Language isnt race. Theres plenty of white people born in china who speak mandarin etc. Is it racist to mock the way they speak?
You are literally saying over 3 million people know he made those videos making fun of asians. You really dont think most of these people are casual viewers or people that subscribe and barely watch him?
Any controversy like that when it happens either on twitch or youtube usually follows with thousands or miliions or people unsibscribing. These are people who had no idea that person was racist or homophobic or a general POS and after learning it, they dont follow them anymore. I judge the people who know and defend these terrible actions, but I am unwilling to group 3 million people together in one box without context.
I am glad he is out of twitch. I hope its permanent. But I agree with the sentiment that it will be temporary, unfortunatey he will be back in some form or another.
Wat?
So if me, out of malicous intent, mock how I perceive black people talk or how I perceive Aborigines talk, its not racist, because "language isnt a race"?