Overwatch streamer Fareeha responds to backlash over her comments about South American players Popular Overwatch streamer Fareeha has issued an apology after she landed herself in hot water with comments that she made about South American players on stream. \u201cI\u2019m genuinely sorry,\u201d Fareeha Andersen states at the beginning of a lengthy TwitLonger statement relating to the controversy surrounding her outburst during an Overwatch stream. \u201cI fucked up. Here\u2019s how\u2026\u201d Fareeha, a popular streamer on Twitch, had been playing with and against South Americans during her February 7 stream when things got a little out of hand and unsavory comments started flying in both directions. However, as the trash talking began to ramp up, the streamer\u2019s comments about South American players clearly struck a nerve with some viewers and fellow players. \u201cSouth America players are shit,\u201d Fareeha said. \u201cThey\u2019re actually shit, they\u2019re actually shit \u2013 I\u2019m not just saying that to be mean.\u201d The clip immediately went viral, prompting multiple Reddit threads to be created about the situation, some of which were updated with any further comments made by Fareeha during the stream despite the VOD being deleted. Ok so, apparently this girl just deleted her clips talking shit about my region, so here we go. @FareehaAndersen nice to meet u :yes: pic.twitter.com\/PodvDTKQ84 \u2014 ISG BEAST (@BeastJDL) February 7, 2019 \u201cYou guys have no fucking lives, get the fuck out of my channel,\u201d she stated when some members of her chat began to turn on her. \u201cGet the fuck out \u2013 don\u2019t need you here. That just proves my point, like, that\u2019s so fucking pathetic. They are shit though, not gonna lie, they are shit. You put a six stack from NA against a six stick from South America and you see what happens.\u201d She seemed unfazed by the response of angry viewers, stating: \u201cYou guys can shit talk me all you want, but I\u2019m the one who gets to play video games for a living. Nothing you say to me can hurt me.\u201d One of those angry members of Twitch chat has uploaded part of the VOD to YouTube, calling Fareeha a \u2018racist\u2019. Fareeha has also shared the entire VOD in an attempt to show the incident from start to finish: After the incident, Fareeha took to Twitter to apologize for her actions: \u201cRegarding my remarks about the South American and European regions on stream, I apologize for my words and the offense they may have caused. My comments were meant for entertainment, but clearly missed the mark. I will strive to think more critically about my words in the future.\u201d However, the tweet was deleted a short time after as Fareeha received more backlash for the \u2018entertainment\u2019 statement. Fareeha\u2019s more lengthy apology, posted to TwitLonger, attempts to describe things from her point of view and explain her thought processes throughout the situation. \u201cI mean no hate towards South Americans,\u201d she says, referring to her original comments about the players. \u201cThe angle I intended with that was more of a \u2018just like with EU, there\u2019s less of a playerbase, less emphasis and support for esports, therefore less cutthroat competition like you\u2019d see in KR servers for instance\u2019. \u201cSurely enough, as soon as the game came to a close, apparently the clip had already gotten around. I IMMEDIATELY got hateful comments flooding chat, saying \u2018you talk shit about SA but you\u2019re masters\u2019, \u2018go back to playing sims you\u2019re fucking boosted\u2019, \u2018go back to the kitchen, puta\u2019 and things that got progressively worse and more sexist, even homophobic, and so I do what I usually do when this happens on stream.\u201d She added: \u201cI call them out on it, I get aggressive and stand up for myself because if I don\u2019t, who will? THIS is the aggression\/anger that people might be talking about, but was honestly only in self defense.\u201d I’m genuinely sorry, I fucked up. Here’s how\u2026 Read: https:\/\/t.co\/uaW0u3hOTr \u2014 Fareeha (@FareehaAndersen) February 8, 2019 Fareeha adds: \u201cNone of this is intended as a means to excuse my behavior BUT I do want to have my side of the story out there, y\u2019know?\u201d There is no word yet if Fareeha will face, or has already faced, consequences from either Twitch or Blizzard for her comments. However, it seems likely that she will face backlash from some members of the community \u2013 especially South American players \u2013 for some time, despite her multiple apologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overwatch streamer Fareeha responds to backlash over her comments about South American players Popular Overwatch streamer Fareeha has issued an apology after she landed herself in hot water with comments that she made about South American players on stream. \u201cI\u2019m genuinely sorry,\u201d Fareeha Andersen states at the beginning of a lengthy TwitLonger statement relating to […]<\/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-57011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011","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=57011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}