RiceGum hits back at Pokimane for bringing up assault joke he made \u201cfive years ago\u201d Twitch: Pokimane\/Instagram: @RiceGumYouTuber and Twitch streamer RiceGum has accused Pokimane of using his past against him, claiming that people change and learn from their mistakes. Despite taking a long break from YouTube, RiceGum remains one of the most recognizable faces on the platform and has recently begun streaming regularly on Twitch. With an average of 17,000 viewers and over 4,000 loyal subscribers, Rice has a passionate and dedicated fanbase. However, despite being successful on the platform, he\u2019s got himself into some drama, and this time it involves Pokimane. It all began after Pokimane reacted to a clip of Rice and brought up an insensitive comment he\u2019d made in the past regarding sexual assault. This spurred Rice to respond to her, claiming five-year-old mistakes don\u2019t portray the person someone is today. RiceGum claims Pokimane is using the past against him During his July 6 stream, RiceGum reacted to a clip of Pokimane where she claims that because he\u2019s made insensitive statements regarding sexual assault in the past, he shouldn\u2019t be able to comment about it now. This spurred RiceGum to respond, arguing that mistakes from the past don\u2019t portray someone\u2019s character today. He even brought up a controversial clip from Pokimane\u2019s past, voicing she\u2019s grown as a person since then, and so has he. \u201cSo because I made a joke like five years ago, I can\u2019t defend myself\u2026 there\u2019s clips of Pokimane saying the N-word a long time ago, but she\u2019s a changed person, she\u2019s not the same person she was a long time ago.\u201d Shortly after this clip was made, Pokimane reacted to it after finding it on the LivestreamFail subreddit. While she maintained that people should be aware of the mistakes they\u2019ve made in the past when they comment on sensitive issues, she agreed with Rice that people can change. \u201cNo Rice, I\u2019m not saying you haven\u2019t changed\u2026 I\u2019m saying that if you are cognizant of the mistake you\u2019ve made in the past, maybe you shouldn\u2019t say other people are making that mistake too\u201d. Topic starts at 0:28 For now, it looks like the situation has been diffused after both of them have responded and made their statements. Overall, it looked like it was more of a misunderstanding based on the short clips each of them had seen, as in the end, both agreed people can change and learn from their mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RiceGum hits back at Pokimane for bringing up assault joke he made \u201cfive years ago\u201d Twitch: Pokimane\/Instagram: @RiceGumYouTuber and Twitch streamer RiceGum has accused Pokimane of using his past against him, claiming that people change and learn from their mistakes. Despite taking a long break from YouTube, RiceGum remains one of the most recognizable faces […]<\/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-58439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58439","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=58439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}