Mizkif issues statement as OTK investigation begins: \u201cI made bad judgment calls\u201d YouTube: MizkifOTK co-owner and Twitch star \u2018Mizkif\u2019 has issued a statement after stepping down from \u201corganizational duties\u201d on September 20. A third-party investigation into his conduct, including downplaying \u201csexual harassment\u201d and \u201creprehensible\u201d comments, was opened following multiple claims the previous day. Mizkif has been in the headlines across the last 48 hours after the Twitch star was outspoken against gambling streamer Tyler \u2018Trainwreck\u2019 Niknam and his place on the platform. However, it soon backfired on Mizkif after leaked DMs between him and his former colleague Ice Poseidon were made public, including racist and homophobic remarks. This was compounded as Adrianna Lee came forward with sexual harassment claims against CrazySlick \u2014 one of Mizkif\u2019s roommates. Now stood down pending an investigation from his organization OTK, the Twitch star has issued a statement apologizing for his \u201cbad judgment calls\u201d on September 20. He opened by addressing the Crazyslick situation, saying he \u201chas been told to vacate our house as soon as possible\u201d while supporting those \u201cwho were brave enough to come forward with their stories about his behavior.\u201d Mizkif himself wasn\u2019t immune from the controversy though after comments of him initially downplaying the accusations came to light. He apologized for those, blaming a poor choice of wording while on stream. \u201cSexual harassment, regardless of degree, can never be considered \u2018small\u2019, and while my intention was to clarify a misleading chat message, I chose my words poorly and my response came off as downplaying what should never be downplayed.\u201d The Twitch star also made reference to the leaked DMs, which included him using homophobic and racist slurs back in 2018. He admitted what was said was \u201creprehensible\u201d, but he has also \u201cgrown\u201d a lot in the years since. \u201cI was a dumb, edgy guy who said a lot of stupid things to my friends to try and come off as funny and cool,\u201d Mizkif continued. \u201cI can\u2019t change what I\u2019ve said, but I can change who I am and how I conduct myself.\u201d He concluded with an unreserved apology to OTK, sponsors, and his viewers \u201cwho put their trust in me every day to represent our organization in the best way I can.\u201d Mizkif also confirmed OTK\u2019s earlier statement of a third-party investigation into his behavior, and that he will take \u201ca leave of absence and step away from organizational duties. \u201cThank you to everyone who has supported me throughout the past 4 years of streaming. Knowing that there are people who still look up to me after everything is both a blessing and a responsibility I know I need to do a better job upholding. I have to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mizkif issues statement as OTK investigation begins: \u201cI made bad judgment calls\u201d YouTube: MizkifOTK co-owner and Twitch star \u2018Mizkif\u2019 has issued a statement after stepping down from \u201corganizational duties\u201d on September 20. A third-party investigation into his conduct, including downplaying \u201csexual harassment\u201d and \u201creprehensible\u201d comments, was opened following multiple claims the previous day. Mizkif has […]<\/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-55381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55381","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=55381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}