The Twitch streamer Asmongold is set to become a companion character in the new role-playing game “Dragon‘s Dogma 2“. However, this has sparked some negative comments. Asmongold talks about being “canceled” again and feeling “more hated” than ever before. But at least Elon Musk supports him.
What is triggering the conflict right now?
- The new role-playing game Dragon’s Dogma 2 published a tweet on March 15. Asmongold is set to become an “official pawn” in their game alongside many other people: these are the AI-controlled companion characters in the role-playing game.
Who had a problem with that? The discussion around the tweet mainly focuses on Asmongold. People wrote things like:
- No one should use Asmongold’s pawn.
- I will delete Asmongold from my damn game.
- Asmongold is the guy who doesn’t even know how to play the game? I need to make sure to avoid his pawn.
Asmongold himself refers to a tweet in a video that asks:
“Is Asmongold not this racist, openly misogynistic, transphobic hypocrite who doesn’t even like the game? I will laugh so hard if he responds to his cameo by criticizing the character editor of Dragon’s Dogma for being so trans-inclusive.”
Asmongold says: He is being canceled for being successful without showering
This is what Asmongold says: In a YouTube clip from one of his Twitch streams, Asmongold says he is being “canceled” and feels he has never been as hated as he is now:
I want to be honest, guys. The amount of attention I’ve been getting lately – EVERYONE is talking about me, EVERYONE is thinking about me. It’s more than ever before. […] I feel like what I’m saying isn’t that crazy.
Asmongold believes people hate him because he “does everything wrong yet is still successful.” He doesn’t shower, doesn’t want a job, is a jerk, and lives in his deceased mother’s house, yet is still extremely successful.
Asmongold as part of a hate campaign – Elon Musk supports him
What happened next? The next level of escalation reached the dispute over Dragon’s Dogma 2 when an employee of the consulting firm “Sweet Baby Inc”, Chris Kindred, commented on the subject of “Asmongold in Dragon’s Dogma 2” and said that Asmongold was an “active participant in a hate campaign.”
This led to even Elon Musk intervening in the discussion. He wrote:
Sweet Baby Inc is the evil plague of the gaming industry. Everything they do makes games worse and they try to cancel people. They cannot go bankrupt fast enough.
In response to the comment: Elon Musk surely watches Asmongold’s videos, he replied: “Funny and accurate.”
Asmongold’s opinions become more radical and intense
The background: Asmongold polarizes much more than before, although he has previously “not showered” and was “very successful”. But his content has changed significantly over the last few years: Previously, he mainly streamed WoW and criticized Blizzard.
Especially since the trial Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard, he has become a reaction streamer and opinion blogger. Recently he also realized that he becomes increasingly successful and gets more attention the more radical and intense his opinions are.
It is no longer about looking at things from two sides, but rather there is a clear pattern recognition of “good/evil” and a lot of strong criticism is directed:
- Gamers are good, intelligent, and normal – this also applies to game developers who are currently successful, such as Palworld or Helldivers 2.
- Gaming journalists, game developers, and activists are corrupt, out of touch, and ideologically blinded.
While he indeed speaks to the hearts of many gamers and his original target audience, he oversimplifies and misrepresents some connections and intensifies them significantly. For this, he is often criticized:
- He titled a video reaction to a WoW streamer “The War Within is already dead,” for which he was so heavily criticized that he had to change the title.
- The discussion about the developer who doesn’t want to hire white employees, he misrepresented and called the developer “a senior employee of EA,” which she is not.
He is therefore accused by his critics of engaging in “ragebait”, meaning addressing topics he knows will outrage his viewers and further agitating this outrage through exaggerated representation.
The explanation: “People don’t like me because I’m successful but unshowered” is therefore surely incorrect.
In the past, Asmongold has repeatedly gone through phases where he was so controversial and had to deal with so much drama that he lost interest in Twitch and withdrew. Since June 2023, he has not been streaming on his main channel “Asmongold” but on Zackrawr, because the attention as Asmongold became too much for him. Currently, he seems to be quite comfortable in his role as “the center of the gaming world that everyone is talking about.”
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