Doug “Censor” Martin was a successful professional player in the Call of Duty: League. After his playing career, he is now focusing on a career as a content creator and recently made headlines with an action. However, this has consequences: He claims to have been excluded from a major tournament in CoD: Warzone – due to harassment.
This is what has happened so far:
- Nadia Amine streams as “Nadia” on Twitch and is the most successful female streamer of Call of Duty: Warzone. In terms of “Watch Time,” she currently ranks 2nd among all Warzone streamers (via sullygnome.com).
- The streamer has been facing a modern-day witch hunt for some time. Other content creators accuse her of cheating, and many users on Twitter support the theory that she could be cheating. She says herself: ‘Accept that a woman is better’.
- The former CoD pro Doug “Censor” Martin then announced a video to reveal the “truth about Nadia.” Many users thought it was about the cheating allegations against Nadia. However, the video featured, among other things, a marriage proposal to Nadia.
MeinMMO shows you how the story continues and what Censor says about the entire action. This all happens just before the release of the new Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0. We include a trailer for you here:
Censor is disliked by many users, now also by CoD
What happened after the marriage proposal? The video about the “truth about Nadia” attracted a lot of attention around Censor.
Especially for users who agree with the hacking allegations against prominent Twitch streamers like Nadia, Censor became a sort of hero – the ex-pro who is cleaning up in the scene. After the video, the tide turned accordingly. In this part of the community, he attracted a lot of hate.
But even in other parts of the community, his action did not find much favor. Censor has always been seen as a poser. With the Nadia video including the marriage proposal, he may have gone too far and made it clear that it was only about clicks, about attention.
The people responsible at CoD publisher Activision seem to be taking it a step further. Censor stated on Twitter that he was not allowed to participate in a $100,000 tournament due to harassment. The tweet was deleted but saved:
Tweet translation: “Activision has excluded me from the $100,000 tournament on Fortune’s Keep because Nadia is playing too. They said I would ‘harass’ her. I found that a bit hysterical, to be honest.”
How does Censor explain himself? In a podcast, he explained the background of his action (via youtube.com). For him, it is all entertainment, as is for Nadia.
Censor says: “Nadia’s gimmick right now is that people want to see her get caught cheating. That makes her unique at the moment. Plus, she is pretty and really good at Call of Duty. When you combine all that, it makes sense that she is growing so much [as a streamer] right now.”
She is great and smart to profit from this situation. Censor saw it as an opportunity and wanted to use the attention around Nadia for himself.
I love the attention and the clout yes. But I delivered in what I said I was going to deliver, internet played themselves.
— Doug (@Censor) October 17, 2022
Censor: “She trolls the internet every day,” plays with the accusations and does not let herself be beaten. He finds that fantastic and wanted to join in a little. He had already explained before the “truth about Nadia” video that he could not expose Nadia, even if she was cheating.
The ex-pro says that the internet made it look like he was proving that Nadia cheats with his dangerous half-knowledge. For him, it was nothing more than a PR stunt, where people on the internet twisted the facts so that he looked like a liar.
He has always clearly communicated that he could only expose cheaters in ranked mode of CoD Vanguard – not in Warzone.
Censor says he knew all the time what he was doing and he doesn’t care what people say about him now. Nadia gained many Twitter followers from the action, and his channel has also grown. They depend on each other in the scene to grow.
Censor saw the opportunity to grow and seized it.
Leave your opinion on the topic. Do you find the ban justified? What do you think of Censor? Is he overdoing it with his craving for attention? Leave a comment.
If you want to read more about the new Warzone 2.0, you can find all the important information here: CoD Warzone 2.0 will be a whole new Battle Royale – Release, Map and DMZ mode
