Asmongold Responds to “R Word” Backlash

One of the biggest world of warcraft streamers, Asmongold, has been criticized by his chat by using the R word but quickly responded to the backlash stating that he will keep saying the word. During Asmongold’s April 10th live broadcast, he was just talking to his viewers about the difficulty he has when learning new games. Upon explaining, Asmongold referred to himself as a ‘retard’ and because of this, some people on his chat criticized the streamer for saying the R word even though he was referring to himself.

Asmongold stated; “If you guys have ever watched me play a new game that has any sort of complexities to it, you’d see that I’m like a retard or something”. Asmongold received a lot of criticism from his chat and viewers for his choice of words. Asmongold seemed to notice the criticism that he’s getting from chat as he hit back claiming people who got mad about it were just “stupid.” Then he further stated that if Twitch told him to stop using the word or risk a ban, he wouldn’t say it anymore, but for now he has no issue at all. Asmongold mentioned that there’s nothing specifically in the Twitch TOS regarding saying the r word, and as such, nothing preventing him from saying it.

Here his full statement during the stream; “Come on no ‘R word? Listen, I think there’s nothing wrong with saying the word retarded, and I think the people that get mad about it are just fucking stupid, I’m going to keep saying it until they tell me if I say it they’ll ban me, alright? I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, and I think the people getting mad about it are just stupid. So I’m not going to kowtow to that. I don’t care, it’s just stupid.” He continued; “I’ll only stop saying it if they threaten to ban me, that’s it.”