The streamer 4Conner has ended his career on Twitch and has vanished from social media after 36 screenshots of private messages from Discord became known: He admits that in the chats he behaved racially, transphobically, homophobically, and anti-Semitically.
What kind of streamer is he? 4Conner streams on average in front of about 420 people, most of the time he is in “Just Chatting”. When he plays, he plays games like Rocket League or Teamfight Tactics. He even reached partner status on Twitch, meaning he can earn money with the platform. Basically, he is just a normal, medium-sized streamer on Twitch who streams about 3 to 4 hours a day.
However, in the last few days, his channel has come into the public eye. But not in the way 4Conner would like. Two of his clips now have 100,000 and 50,000 views, but both clips are about his departure from Twitch. And it is not pretty.
36 terrible screenshots from Discord leak
This is what leaked: Someone uploaded 36 screenshots of Discord messages to imgur on February 20. The screenshots show messages and images from 4Conner, where he posts memes, including one where Spiderman makes the Hitler salute. He poses in front of a flag of the Confederacy, which fought in the American Civil War for the preservation of slavery. He makes derogatory comments about Jews, transgender individuals, and repeatedly about Black people (via imgur):
- In one image, a sniper aims at a Black child
- In another, one can see the photo of a Black man with the text “That would be racist if Black people could read”
- In another meme, it reads: “There are 33 genders: 2 genders and 31 ways to be queer”
“In my mind, they were just jokes”
This is how 4Conner reacts: He apologized on Twitch for his behavior on Sunday. He said:
In my mind, they were all just jokes. I never wanted to hurt anyone. What I said was terrible. Ultimately, I was racist, I was transphobic, I was homophobic, I was anti-Semitic.
4Conner
4Conner then says he left the Discord server where he was writing some time ago. The group there was “too edgy” for him.
At the end of his stream, he announced that he would not stream on Twitch anymore. He also deactivated his Twitter account.
He has withdrawn from everything.
When are these screenshots from? By the way, his exit from the Discord server cannot have been long ago. Although most racist posts came from 2017 and 2018, there is still a post from July 2020: “I can’t even imagine being publicly racist – I mean, what advantages would that have?”
The decision to appear publicly as a racist has apparently been taken from him by the leaker.
After so much negative news about Twitch, one should also emphasize the positive sides of the platform. Because there is also a lot of nice things there:
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