Symfuhny denies using racial slur on stream: \u201cI didn\u2019t say the word!\u201d In the aftermath of a clip from his stream that appeared to show him using a racial epithet, star Twitch streamer Mason \u2018Symfuhny\u2019 Lanier has denied the allegations and explained how the situation unfolded. On February 27, popular content creator Symfuhny came under fire after a clip made the rounds on Twitter and Reddit that appeared to show him using racist language while talking to fellow creator Ali \u2018Myth\u2019 Kabbani. After the incident unfolded, several other creators came to Lanier\u2019s defense, but the Warzone streamer did not address the situation outright. A day later, Symfuhny has now taken the allegations head-on and denied using the language, while also explaining how the situation occurred. \u201cI would like to say, first of all, I didn\u2019t say it,\u201d Lanier began. \u201cA lot of people are like, \u2018It\u2019s about being accountable, just admit to it,\u2019 dude I\u2019ve literally never, I\u2019ve never had this word in my vocabulary, ever, okay? Ever, not once. \u201cThe only people I talk to [are] Matt, Jack, Crowder, Brooke, my parents, my sister, those are the only people I talk to. You can ask any of them, I never use that word ever, never have, never will. And I didn\u2019t say the word. \u201cI stutter, I talk fast. it came out, sounded like I said something I didn\u2019t. \u201cBut I mean, there\u2019s a lot of people who think I said it, so I don\u2019t really know what else I can do to defend myself but say I didn\u2019t do it. \u201cI really didn\u2019t say it, I swear. Never have, never will.\u201d The clip from his Twitch channel was later followed by a TwitLonger further explaining his side of the story. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you how to feel, but I can tell you I didn\u2019t say the word,\u201d Symfuhny stressed. \u201cI don\u2019t use the word. It\u2019s not in my vocabulary.\u201d \u201cMore than anything, I\u2019m embarrassed and mad at myself that I jumbled my words so bad that I have to write this at all.\u201d Lanier was also live on Twitch the following day, and the platform has not taken action against his channel based on those events. We will make sure to keep you updated on any further developments regarding the situation. Myth \u2014 who was directly involved in the incident \u2014 already spoke up in defense of Symfuhny: \u201cHe genuinely mumbled up some words, and it came out like that. If Symfuhny by rare chance did slip [up], I would be the first person to be having a conversation with [him] about why he cannot use that word.\u201d Others like xQc, Hasan, and sodapoppin also expressed their belief Lanier simply slipped up in his wording, and wasn\u2019t using any racist language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Symfuhny denies using racial slur on stream: \u201cI didn\u2019t say the word!\u201d In the aftermath of a clip from his stream that appeared to show him using a racial epithet, star Twitch streamer Mason \u2018Symfuhny\u2019 Lanier has denied the allegations and explained how the situation unfolded. On February 27, popular content creator Symfuhny came under […]<\/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-59852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852","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=59852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}