On the role-playing server “NoPixel” in GTA 5, home life is askew. The Twitch streamer Penta bids farewell to the server and takes a swipe at the operators.
What kind of server is this? Role-playing in GTA 5 Online is huge on Twitch and a career springboard for many streamers. The German streamer Real_Bazzi reached over 34,000 viewers in six months because he modeled his RP character after MontanaBlack.
The most successful of these role-playing servers in the English-speaking area is called “NoPixel”, an exclusive server where big streamers like xQc gather. One of the biggest Twitch streamers for GTA 5 is “Penta,” who has already logged over 11,000 hours in the game.
After a conflict with the NoPixel operator Koil, Penta has now announced that he will be leaving the server and once again launched a fierce critique against his old RP home.
Server operator goes too far
What’s going on at NoPixel? Penta’s decision comes a month after the banning of streamer RatedEpicz from NoPixel. He was said to have behaved emotionally abusively towards his then-girlfriend. Later, more and more women raised allegations against RatedEpicz.
Why is Penta leaving NoPixel? The streamer justifies his decision by stating that NoPixel operator Koil seemed to equate the behavior of RatedEpicz with Penta’s role-playing scenes.
Koil apparently compared the intrusive messages that RatedEpicz wrote to women on the server with the fact that Penta eventually told a judge that he could shove it, questioning whether that was also role-playing. For Penta, this comparison went too far; in a stream on May 1st, he said:
I’m sorry, but that has crossed a hard line for me, and I think that’s understandable. […] I mean, how can I still play when someone’s boyfriend is outed as an abuser and his response is: “What about Penta?” How can I participate? How can I be associated with something like this? So I’m out, I think I’m out for good.
Penta hopes other streamers will follow him
What’s next for Penta? He apparently remains loyal to GTA-RP and has switched to the new server IgniteRP, which, unlike many modern role-playing servers, has an 80s theme. In a stream on May 2nd, however, Penta addressed the situation with NoPixel again.
Penta accuses Koil and his “gang,” the content group “Chang Gang,” of “verbal abuse.” He says there is a lot of abuse on NoPixel that is not necessarily sexual in nature, but still needs to be addressed.
He hopes to inspire some people to turn their backs on the server and thanked all the women who had spoken out about the conditions on NoPixel; that was very important. Furthermore, Penta addressed the server admins who tolerate the abusive behavior:
To the admins: I know some of you are too deep in it, but I sincerely hope that you wake up and realize what you are enabling. Because you are.
Finally, Penta commented once again on Koil as a person: he is such a jerk, his streams consist only of gambling in CS:GO and trashing him, Penta. His entire existence is pathetic.
A return of Penta to NoPixel now seems to be excluded.
What does this mean for NoPixel? That remains to be seen. In the streaming subreddit “LivestreamFail” there are already 3 threads about excerpts from Penta’s streams, each with between 1,600 and 3,800 upvotes and hundreds of comments. The topic is thus a big deal there.
In the comments, Reddit users compare Penta’s sweeping remarks to someone who has worked in a toxic environment for years and leaves a pile on the desk of the former boss after resignation. Some speculate that Penta has voiced what other members of the server have probably wanted to say for years.
Some viewers even hope that this current drama heralds what they see as the overdue end of NoPixel and clears the way for new role-playing servers.
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