Streamer IShowSpeed banned from Valorant after sexist outburst goes viral YouTube: IShowSpeedYouTuber and streamer IShowSpeed has been banned by Riot Games from playing Valorant, after a clip he claims is months old resurfaced, showing him berating a female teammate. Valorant, in particular, has been criticized for having a toxic chat environment for anyone who\u2019s not a man \u2013 something developers have been keen to show strong public opposition to. Despite measures taken, there is little that can be done to prevent someone from randomly bursting into sexist ranting in game chat, even if faced with the threat of a permanent ban. The problem is of course exacerbated if streamers with large followings exemplify the very behavior that is being stamped out, as IShowSpeed was accused of after the clip went viral on Twitter on April 6. He has since apologized for his actions, saying he was totally in the wrong and could not justify his words in any way. In the clip, he calls the teammate a \u201cb*tch\u201d and instructs her to go do dishes instead of playing the game. However, his almost 7 million subscribers on YouTube are unlikely to ever see him playing Valorant again after producer Sara Dadafshar confirmed they had \u201cpermabanned this player from Valorant, as well as all other Riot Games.\u201d \u201cThis is a huge yikes and we do NOT want players like this in our community at all.\u201d This is a huge yikes and we do NOT want players like this in our community at all. I went ahead and perma banned this player from VALORANT, as well as all other Riot Games. Thanks for raising this. Please keep raising stuff like this and reporting so we can make VAL safer. \ud83d\udd28\ud83d\udd25 \u2014 \ud83c\udf31 Sara Dadafshar (@npcSara) April 7, 2022 IShowSpeed actually played Valorant on his April 6 stream, which was titled \u201cyou guys might not see me no more.\u201d However, he quit the game mid-match after asking a female player on his team if she was single, to which she responded \u201cshut up.\u201d (See 1:41:49) IShowSpeed\u2019s channel on YouTube also appears to be in danger too, though. Replying to the viral clip, YouTube\u2019s Global Head of Gaming Creators responded \u201cOn it\u201d \u2013 indicating some form of action is set to be taken against Speed. In explaining his actions in the old clip, Speed said that he had already been subjected to racist abuse from teammates, but that this did not justify his actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamer IShowSpeed banned from Valorant after sexist outburst goes viral YouTube: IShowSpeedYouTuber and streamer IShowSpeed has been banned by Riot Games from playing Valorant, after a clip he claims is months old resurfaced, showing him berating a female teammate. Valorant, in particular, has been criticized for having a toxic chat environment for anyone who\u2019s not […]<\/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-59417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417","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=59417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}