Deadmau5 shares lengthy apology after Twitch ban controversy deadmau5Joel Thomas Zimmerman, who many people will know as deadmau5, admits that he\u2019s ashamed of trying to justify the use of homophobic slur by suggesting it is part of \u201cgaming culture.\u201d The DJ had his Twitch channel permanently banned on February 13, after referring to a stream sniper on PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds as a \u201ccock-sucking stream sniper f*g\u201d during a livestream. Zimmerman then publicly criticised the Amazon-owned streaming platform \u2013 with what he described as a non-apology \u2013 accusing them of censorship and double standards, claiming that his comments were merely some \u201charmless shit.\u201d He has since revealed, though, that he was wrong to react in the way that he did \u2013 posting another lengthy apology to Reddit. \u201cI know what I said was wrong,\u201d deadmau5 admitted. \u201cMy hastily composed non-apology was an insult to injury. I realize that trying to somewhat dismiss it as \u2018gamer culture\u2019 was even worse. \u201cAs for Twitch, they had every right to ban me for that,\u201d he added. \u201cWhat I said was incredibly stupid and I don\u2019t actually hold those beliefs at all. I let some gamer get the best of me and in that moment I lost control.\u201d Deadmau5 says that he was advised not to come out with another official statement, following on from his non-apology, but decided to anyway. Whether or not this apology will be treated as genuine by the public remains to be seen, but having seen Zimmerman come out with this type of response in the past, industry insider Rod Breslau seems to be giving him the benefit of the doubt. i know joel has made apologies before for similar comments he made last year, but i will give him the benefit of the doubt that this is a sincere apology. for those unaware this is the statement from yesterday https:\/\/t.co\/Rxman6rQwy \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 14, 2019 While deadmau5 won\u2019t be on Twitch anytime soon, he\u2019s a known avid gamer and it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to see him show up on another streaming platform in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deadmau5 shares lengthy apology after Twitch ban controversy deadmau5Joel Thomas Zimmerman, who many people will know as deadmau5, admits that he\u2019s ashamed of trying to justify the use of homophobic slur by suggesting it is part of \u201cgaming culture.\u201d The DJ had his Twitch channel permanently banned on February 13, after referring to a stream […]<\/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-86877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86877","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=86877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}