Twitch bans former Dota 2 pro Mason for \u201caccidentally\u201d using homophobic slur DreamhackTwitch fans are divided over a controversial incident that saw Mason, a former professional Dota 2 player, get banned for \u201caccidentally\u201d saying a homophobic slur while streaming. Mason \u201cmason\u201d Venne has been a household name in the North American professional Dota 2 scene for a long time now. He\u2019s best known for his brief stint with Evil Geniuses that saw them finish third in The International 2014. He hasn\u2019t played professionally since 2019. Instead, he\u2019s been primarily streaming on Twitch and has developed a strong following with more than 150,000 followers and 1,500 active subscribers. In that time, he\u2019s already been banned from the platform three times. The first one was due to pervasive racism in his chat, while the reasons for his second and third ban were less clear. Now, he\u2019s been banned again for the fourth time, but this time it\u2019s for something a little more controversial than the others; it appears he may have \u2014 \u201caccidentally,\u201d he claims \u2014 said something that mainly believe was a homophobic slur. \u274c Twitch Partner “”masondota2″” (@masondota) has been banned! \u274chttps:\/\/t.co\/OKA6V5W40t#twitch #ban #fourthban #partner #twitchpartner \ud83c\udf71 \u2014 StreamerBans (@StreamerBans) April 12, 2021 The alleged slip-up happened when he was criticizing a teammate\u2019s item choice on a hero. He started things off by saying, \u201cI think the Aghs is a pretty terrible choice.\u201d For those unfamiliar with the term, it\u2019s the nickname given to Aghanim\u2019s Scepter, an item that enhances hero abilities and sometimes adds a new one. He supposedly tried to follow it up by saying he was \u201cnever a fan of the Aghs\u201d on that specific hero. But instead, he muddled the words \u2018fan\u2019 and \u2018Aghs\u2019 and said something completely different. It also happened to sound a lot like a homophobic slur. Mason immediately realized what happened and tried to clear it up. \u201cOh my god! I didn\u2019t mean to say that word\u2026 I think I just said the F word\u2026 I didn\u2019t mean to say that.\u201d However, that didn\u2019t stop him from getting slapped with a ban. Mason wrote about the situation on social media. He doubled down on his claim that it was an accident and confirmed he would appeal the ban. If he isn\u2019t successful, he\u2019ll be unable to stream for seven days, which is the same duration he served on his third ban. Appealing my ban for accidental usage of naughty word!! \ud83d\ude00 if appeal not successful, it’s a 7 day ban. So see you soon or see you in a week \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch bans former Dota 2 pro Mason for \u201caccidentally\u201d using homophobic slur DreamhackTwitch fans are divided over a controversial incident that saw Mason, a former professional Dota 2 player, get banned for \u201caccidentally\u201d saying a homophobic slur while streaming. Mason \u201cmason\u201d Venne has been a household name in the North American professional Dota 2 scene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}