Emily “ExtraEmily” Zhang is in trouble. The Twitch streamer is facing the accusation that she let the N-word slip, and the 27-year-old simply can’t defend herself against it. It even seems that her friends are enjoying seeing her in such difficulty.
This is the streamer: ExtraEmily (27) is a successful Twitch streamer who reaches about 8,000 viewers when she goes live.
She is generally considered a harmless and nice creator, somewhat scatterbrained and off-kilter, which many find somehow cute. We previously reported on her when she let a check for almost $2,000 expire because she forgot to take it to the bank.
But now she has gotten into hot water. This time, her scatterbrained nature seems to lead to serious consequences.
Phone call with black Twitch streamer takes a strange turn
This is bothering her: ExtraEmily was on a call in the stream with ComedyRussell, an African American Twitch streamer. She asked him if he could name 3 Twitch streamers he would never stream with.
Russell named ExtraEmily three times, apparently as a joke.
ExtraEmily appeared slightly offended during the enumeration of her name, exclaiming “That’s not true” and “Bruh, Nick uh!” The English word “uh” is comparable to the German “äh”.
Then she apparently realized that this “Nick uh” sounds like a racist insult, shook her head slightly, shouted “Russell, that’s not even true” and extensively picked her nose.
Tweet goes viral, reaches 31 million people
This is the result: This passage led to a tweet that has now reached 31 million views and is titled “ExtraEmily accidentally let a word slip.”
Under the video, ExtraEmily is compared to Pokimane, a streamer with an otherwise impeccable reputation, who allegedly also had a verbal slip of this kind in the distant past. People are still upset that Pokimane never faced any repercussions for it.
But even though Emily insists under the clip that she didn’t say the word, she can’t escape the situation. People claim they heard “the N-word” and also saw ExtraEmily’s surprised face when she realized which word had slipped out.
Streamer says she mixed up her black friends
This is what the streamer herself says: ExtraEmily states that the clip gained so much attention that she felt she needed to address it. She said “Nick uh” because she called her friend by the wrong name. So she basically wanted to say “Nick, uh, Russell.”
Apparently, she confused Russell, with whom she was speaking, with another African American Twitch streamer, with whom she is friends, Nick “Nmplol” Polom. He was in the room with her at the time. This wasn’t exactly great, but it somehow fits her scatterbrained nature.
This makes it even worse: A third friend of hers, the Syrian Myth, also tweets into the flaming discussion:
Emily recently called me a “b*tch n*gga” on the phone (of course joking), but I still didn’t like it, so I’m glad to see this b*tch burn now.
For the streamer, this is apparently an extremely uncomfortable situation. She screams on X (formerly Twitter): “Help me, what do you do when the internet believes I’m a racist when I’m not? Please believe me, I said Nick as you can see. I swear, I don’t just throw around the word like that.”
This is behind it: The excuse “I mixed up my two black friends at that moment” isn’t great either. In this case, however, it seems more like an unfortunate slip of the tongue than malicious intent. Nick was in the room with her, and neither he nor Russell took the remark badly.
There are three currents in the comments:
- Some people take it very seriously and are upset that “cute streamers” like Pokimane or ExtraEmily get away with such seemingly racist outbursts, while men are banned for the N-word on Twitch
- Others seem to just enjoy making ExtraEmily sweat.
- And others defend Emily, saying the author of the tweet wants to cancel her – she should sue him for it
A streamer who lost a promising career to the “N-word” was Daniel “Dubs” Wahl. He couldn’t get out of the situation at all: Fortnite pro (16) goes racist on Twitch – clan punishes him immediately
