Top 10 Times Video Game Streamers Got What They Deserved

In March of 2020, professional “Call of Duty” player Carl Reimer was streaming a few of his favorite games while drinking. However, he got a little too overzealous with his antics. After pausing the game, Reimer would brandish a pistol for a joke only to end up accidentally firing it. Luckily, nobody was hurt as the bullet ricocheted off a metal cup and into one of his monitors. Not only did he get suspended from Twitch, but eSports team SoaR would drop him from their roster and a brief statement disapproving of his actions.

Felix Lengyel had a slightly troubled history in the Overwatch League, and that’s putting it gently. He had already faced one suspension after throwing insults towards casters, which made the second suspension even more insufferable. In March 2018, Lengyel put on a display of bad sportsmanship by uttering homophobic slurs targeted towards a player. It wasn’t long before Dallas Fuel would release him from the team while the Overwatch League slapped on a four-game suspension as well as a hefty fine of four thousand dollars. There’s just no room for toxic behavior in professional gaming.

Raids on Twitch are usually a great feature used by bigger name streamers to help increase the audience of smaller channels at the end of their own stream. However in early 2021, Twitch streamer “T-TIME” decided to take advantage of this with incredibly bad intentions when he asked his viewers to find a stream with “barely any viewers”. After deciding to target a female streamer, he would then tell his viewers to spam expletives, and claimed he would reward anyone with a sub if they got banned. Following an outcry, T-Time was seemingly banned and would later apologize.

LegendaryLea has seen herself in trouble a handful of times. From flashing her viewers to insensitive language, she has yet to be given what some would call “real punishments.” Her most offensive moment, however, comes from one of her handfuls of seemingly drunk rants in April 2016 where she went into a full-blown tirade about kids with cancer. “Children that have cancer are going to die, and they’re meant to die.” Several folks in her chat tried to get her to stop, but to no avail. Shortly after, Lea would apologize and announce she’d be donating to a fund.

One thing a streamer should never do is guilt trip their audience into spending money on them. That is precisely what InvaderVie did in April 2020 just as the pandemic was storming the world. During a stream, Vie had made comments towards her viewers, calling the ones who couldn’t afford a subscription “irresponsible” and even double-downing on her statements when her chat called her out. Let’s just say the internet was not having it, and Vie would face heavy criticism across social media and news outlets. She would later apologize on stream, but the damage had already been done. The lesson here, kids? Be respectful and understanding of others’ financial situations.

You may know HasanAbi as Hasan Piker of The Young Turks YouTube channel. Others might know him under an entirely different light after what went down in August 2019. During a stream, Piker had mocked U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw for his missing eye before making some pretty harrowing statements in regards to September 11th. In addition to a suspension from Twitch, Piker was widely criticized by politicians and the media. A few days after the stream, Piker would realize his hurtful remarks and apologize, deeming his behavior as “inappropriate.”

Unfortunately, xQc wasn’t the only toxic player within the Overwatch League. A year before xQc would land in hot water, Matt Vaughn (aka “Dellor”) would put on a spectacle of offensive language. The eSports player was not having a good streak one night and had already shown toxic behavior. However, when a teammate called him out, Vaughn went into a screaming frenzy, dropping a racial slur well over sixty consecutive times. The story was reported by just about every gaming outlet, and Toronto eSports fired him from the team almost immediately.

This was one moment the internet will never forget. ZilianOP was once a respectable streamer, sharing his love for “World of Warcraft” while being the voice of a community of disabled gamers. That was until he had accidentally exposed himself on stream. In a stream with his girlfriend and friends, Zilian had forgotten to change cameras before getting up from his wheelchair. Yep, the man had faked being handicapped, and his girlfriend attempted to distract the audience with a story about her and a dog. But it was too late. Zilian would return to streaming in April 2020 - almost a decade since the incident, claiming he was a victim of cancel culture.

This has to be one of the world’s dumbest heists. In 2015, a streamer named Mithprod had attempted to steal a quarter of a million dollars from his viewers by staging a hack. Viewers were expecting him to gamble the money so that he may return a portion of the winnings back to them, something he had done several times in previous streams. However, this bet was too good to pass up for Mithprod. So, how did he get caught? In the most humiliating way possible - he displayed the chatbox where had been conversing with his cohorts. Following the outrage, Mithprod would be banned from both Twitch… AND “RuneScape”.

Remember the whole thing with TmarTn and his “Counter-Strike” gambling site with ProSyndicate? You know, the two YouTubers who promoted a site they owned without disclosing that information? Well, PhantomL0rd went through a similar and equally shady moment. In 2016, the streamer had promoted a CSGO gambling site and did not disclose his ownership of the site, on top of rigging winnings in his favor. Twitch would quickly ban Phantom for lying to viewers, and this would spark a heated legal fight between the two, with the streamer suing for thirty-five million dollars. At the time of this recording, the lawsuit is still going on.