Twitch has banned “Call of Duty” streamer and trick shooter Carl Riemer. He streamed while intoxicated and fired a pistol at his desk. He now says the mistake has ruined his perfect life.
This is why the streamer was banned: Carl Riemer was joking around in his Twitch stream. He picked up a pistol, a Glock, and casually unholstered it. Later he explained: he had been intoxicated.
He then pretended that someone had insulted him and accused him of having no money. He shouted: “Bitch, say again that I don’t have money. Say that I don’t have money!”
While doing so, Riemer pulled the slide of the weapon back and it was seen that a bullet fell out of the Glock. He then shot at a can of G-Fuel next to him. He was visibly shocked when a bullet actually fired from the weapon and hit the can with the energy drink.
The streamer exclaimed: “Goddamn. What the hell? I swear to God, I emptied the magazine beforehand.”
This is what happened next: The streamer was banned by Twitch.
Additionally, his eSport organization SoaR has kicked him out. Such behavior is not tolerated.
Ruined everything with one mistake
This is what the streamer says: Riemer has addressed the issue in a video and said: “Don’t do what I did.”
Everything had literally been going perfectly in his life, but one mistake has now ruined everything he had built up over the last year. He can’t even express how sorry he is and how dangerous what he did that night was.
Moreover, Carl Riemer says that he started off intoxicated. Nevertheless, weapons are not toys and should not be treated as such. It was a dumb mistake, but one that could have cost someone their life.
Riemer understands that his eSport organization has fired him. He then questions himself: “Why the hell did I pull a Glock on stream?” A finger gun would have sufficed.
It is unclear when Carl Riemer’s ban from Twitch will end and whether he can return to the platform.
Who is the streamer? Carl Riemer has 108,000 followers on Twitch. On YouTube, he has 852,000 subscribers. He mainly plays Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and is known as a trick shooter.
Apparently, he has better control over his weapon in games than in real life.
- The ban from Twitch seems undisputed. More trouble for Twitch arose because they banned a Overwatch player who smashed a keyboard over his head.
- The developers of Escape from Tarkov were banned on Twitch because one of the developers used a finger gun to simulate a suicide.
