Grace Van Dien responds to Faze Rain\u2019s comments: \u201cI didn\u2019t expect hatred from inside the house\u201d Twitch: BlueFilleStranger Things actor turned FaZe Clan content creator Grace Van Dien has hit back against new comments made by FaZe Rain in regards to her signing with the organization, also calling out Rain for his attacks being a result of her being \u201ca girl.\u201d Over the last few years, many celebrities, actors and other profile stars have collaborated or linked up with esports and gaming organizations. This move being a great way to attract new eyes to the organizations as well as diversify the type of talent includes in each. FaZe Clan are arguably one of the pioneers for this moves, with the likes of Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray, rap icon Snoop Dogg, and a few others all collaborating with the org over the years. However, this change of direction has been met with controversy. Particularly from those who founded FaZe and were there through the inception of the company. FaZe Rain, whose been with the org since the early days, has been one of those criticizing the new owners and leaders. Even going so far as spoiling the announcement that Stranger Things actor Grace Van Dien would be joining the group. Rain then called the signing a \u201cpolitical\u201d move and has been critical of Van Dien ever since. However, in a recent stream, Van Dien addressed a new wave of comments made by FaZe Rain, as well as providing some context to the backlash. She prefaced to conversation by stating that it may not be an easy one to hear for some people. \u201cI just want to put a trigger warning\u2026so if you need to leave the live I understand. There might be some things that you don\u2019t want to talk about right now which is totally fair but I need to talk about.\u201d She then began talking about her journey in FaZe and why she wants to speak up against Rain and defend herself rather than letting his comments go unaddressed. \u201cEveryone keep telling me just don\u2019t respond but I grew up with a lot of obstacles and I didn\u2019t always have a lot of people defending me and so I just always want to defend myself. I joined a streaming organization. I met with them in July or August last year. I\u2019ve been telling them for a couple of days just about how excited I am to help bring in a female voice. They already have a female content creator but I wanted to be the other one and I wanted to help bring in this female energy and this female voice into an organization that is not necessarily female-friendly.\u201d Grace Van Dien responds to FaZe Rain\u2019s new criticism and sexist comments When she the revealed that \u201cone of the employees of Faze reached out to me and said Rain feels bad and would like to talk to me\u201d she then added that Rain has done no such thing and, despite being vocal about his disliking of her signing, never mentioned it prior to the initial announcement. \u201cI would have been more prepared for this bigger hatred wave. Instead, he didn\u2019t do that. I, in response to him saying they\u2019re using me as a poster child said get fucking wrecked and he didn\u2019t like that.\u201d Van Dien then went through and systematically responded to new comments Rain made about her gaming ability as well as the personal attacks he made about her. When he made fun of her for only being Gold in Valorant, she highlighted that \u201cI was hired as a content creator. I recognize that I\u2019m not the best at video games I wish I was. I grew up playing them, but didn\u2019t really improve much.\u201d She then spoke about her role in Stranger Things and pushed back against the idea that she makes her role in the show her \u201centire personality.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m really proud of Stranger Things and the impact that a role that I had less than 10 minutes playing has had. I think it\u2019s okay to be proud and talk about your achievements. Van Dien then admitted that she does not know what a Trick Shot is but also noted \u201cI know that\u2019s what you\u2019re kinda known for but I know you Rain as the person who almost overdosed on a live stream and I know that you\u2019re better now and I\u2019m really proud of you for that. I am because I grew up with a mom who was heavily into drugs.\u201d Finally, Van Dien called FaZe Rain out for calling her \u201cmid\u201d and stating that he would not let her \u201cput hands on him\u201d even if he was drunk. \u201cThat is a very classy joke considering you were in the organization at the same time as a man who is accused of sexually harassing multiple women when they are intoxicated. I stand with the woman by the way where do you stand.\u201d She then ended the conversation buy stating that she believes the reason Rain has said all these things is because she \u201cis a girl.\u201d For all the latest entertainment news and updates, be sure to check out Dexerto\u2019s full coverage here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grace Van Dien responds to Faze Rain\u2019s comments: \u201cI didn\u2019t expect hatred from inside the house\u201d Twitch: BlueFilleStranger Things actor turned FaZe Clan content creator Grace Van Dien has hit back against new comments made by FaZe Rain in regards to her signing with the organization, also calling out Rain for his attacks being a […]<\/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-49177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49177","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=49177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}