The US streamer Matthew “Mizkif” Rinaudo (28) stumbled upon a joke: At the Christmas party of the streamer organization One True King (WoW), he laughed heartily at his own joke. But the gag became true.
That was the gag: At the Christmas party of One True King, the organizers were just fooling around.
One said in high spirits: “We are now making an official announcement on behalf of the company and handing the microphone to Mizkif.”
Twitch streamer Mizkif held the phone in his hand and pretended to read: “The following people are fired” – big laughter.
“A lot of people were let go”
This is the problem: On December 20, streamer Sodapoppin explained that, in fact, some employees had to be let go before Christmas. The organization OTK had to let go of 8 employees, as became known through posts on social media.
The reason cited is a financial crunch.
According to Sodapoppin, the layoffs caused unrest in the company, and now events have to be canceled as well. However, he didn’t know any details, as he’s currently just been playing WoW all the time, in the Hardcore Onlyfangs.
What impact on Mizkif? On reddit, there is now discussion that Mizkif looks bad making a joke when the layoffs occur.
He must have known that the layoffs were coming in a few days. Thus, it is a very tasteless joke at the expense of the people who have to worry about their livelihood before Christmas. The insiders
must have laughed cruelly.
Others say: Mizkif isn’t that bad. He surely didn’t know. The man wasn’t involved in such decisions.
In any case, that was really poor timing.
Gaming and e-sports in a globally difficult situation
What’s behind it. Gaming is currently in a difficult situation because the overall economic tension is lowering advertising revenues. Furthermore, the e-sports did not turn out to be the “next poker” that some investors had hoped for.
Therefore, all areas, in gaming and in e-sports, are currently saving and cutting jobs. Even growing organizations like One True King have their problems. Recently, their biggest draw, Asmongold, had somewhat withdrawn: Asmongold is banned from Twitch, loses partners and his companies – Explains how it will continue and sounds like a new person
