Chocolate Rain star under fire after reporting wrong Overwatch player for \u2018n-word\u2019 slur L: Blizzard. R: Tay Zonday – YouTubeTay Zonday, YouTuber and singer of the viral \u2018Chocolate Rain\u2019 song, wrongly accused an Overwatch player of uttering a racial slur on his stream. The singer, whose iconic Chocolate Rain video has racked up over 120 million views since being uploaded in 2007, has been using Twitch to stream on an on-and-off again basis \u2013 sticking to Overwatch. While he does not have the most regular of streaming schedules, that doesn\u2019t stop others trying their best to troll him or his stream \u2013 including some who go to the depths of uttering racial slurs like the \u2018n-word\u2019 in a bid to draw a reaction. What happened on Tay Zonday\u2019s stream? During his April 28 stream, after finishing up a game on Blizzard World, the YouTuber had been watching the Play of the Game highlight when a racial slur of the \u2018n-word\u2019 was uttered before a number of players quickly dropped out of the lobby. \u201cWho was that? Who said that unnecessarily rude \u2026 I didn\u2019t even hear who that was,\u201d stated TayZonday. After checking who left the game, the singer noted a player named \u2018Spawn\u2019 had left first. \u201cI\u2019m going to assume it was Spawn,\u201d he said, before moving to report the player for \u2018abusive chat.\u2019 One member of his chat backed up his assumption, however, a rewind of the moment would show that the username \u2018cr3ativeM1nd\u2019 appeared in the top-left hand corner as the only person to speak during the slur. Tay Zonday continued on with his stream for a few more games of Overwatch, with one viewer continuing to back up him on the assumption that it wasn\u2019t Spawn who uttered the slur \u2013 despite others disagreeing and telling him to review the footage. \u201cIt seemed like Spawn,\u201d added the YouTuber, while staring directly into his camera. \u201cThat [the slur] wasn\u2019t necessary.\u201d Clips of the incident were also posted to the LivestreamFails subreddit, where Redditors immediately tried to break down just how the wrong person had been accused of making the racial slur. \u201cRecords everything, there is a clip functionality, probably has chat that could do it and he still reports the wrong person,\u201d posted Rasalas8910, puzzled by how \u2018Spawn\u2019 could be accused when there was evidence to suggest otherwise. Read More: Top 20 most liked YouTube Videos – Twitch users even re-clipped the moment of the accusation with titles such as \u2018check your facts, you reported the wrong player,\u2019 hoping to draw attention to their evidence. Has Tay Zonday responded? While, of course, there is no need for any sort of racism in or out of games, TayZonday didn\u2019t address what had happened before ending his stream, nor has he used any other of his social media accounts to speak on the issue. It remains to be seen if any sort of fallout proceeds to come from the interaction \u2013 including whether or not the wrongly accused player will suffer any consequences, which could lead to a possible ban from Overwatch, for what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chocolate Rain star under fire after reporting wrong Overwatch player for \u2018n-word\u2019 slur L: Blizzard. R: Tay Zonday – YouTubeTay Zonday, YouTuber and singer of the viral \u2018Chocolate Rain\u2019 song, wrongly accused an Overwatch player of uttering a racial slur on his stream. The singer, whose iconic Chocolate Rain video has racked up over 120 […]<\/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-45957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45957","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=45957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}