Popular Twitch streamer Zack “Asmongold” offered his opinion on the latest incident involving Nicholas “Nickmercs,” a co-owner of the FaZe Clan.
For those who don’t know, the latter recently gained popularity after sharing his opinions on a California incident in which anti-LGBTQIA+ protesters attacked marchers. In response to the drama, Asmongold stated that the problem lay more with the setting than with “what was said.” The Texan observed that some of his audience members were standing next to Nickmercs and said: “‘I stand with Nick.’ No, I think a lot of people do. I’ve looked at… I’ve paid attention to a lot of… the conversations around it. And, I would say, like, in every neutral platform, people are, like, vastly in support of Nick. Like, I would say, like, 70-80% of people are on Nick’s side. If not more!”
On June 12, at 05:40 in the show, Asmongold was asked about the Nickmercs dispute by viewers. The Twitch personality replied, saying: “I mean, I already talked about it, like, earlier today. I mean, it’s not really a lot to say. I feel like a lot of people wouldn’t have reacted to this badly if he didn’t make a comment under a tweet that, like, was about people attacking LGBT activists. Like, it’s not even about, like… what was said. It is more about, like, the context.”
Twitch chat claimed that people were trying to “trap” the One True King (OTK) co-founder into saying anything dubious after asserting that Nickmercs had the support of “70 to 80%” online users. According to Asmongold; “‘They want to trap you into saying something.’ Who are you talking to? Like, who’s, ‘They?’ Why would I be afraid of talking about something? People are going to get mad at me?”
Asmongold continued, asserting that he had the “correct opinions”: “Here’s my position on this, right? It’s like, I know that I have the right opinions. And, like, I know, like, what I think isn’t wrong. So, why would I be upset if I express how I think? Because I’m not wrong. So, that’s all there is to it!”
Asmongold then asserted that larger content producers were not supporting Nickmecs because they ran the danger of losing their sponsorships: “The reason why you don’t see other content creators not supporting him is because you can lose sponsors for it. So, because it’s not, like, profitable and people don’t support them publicly, the main reason for that is, they’re just afraid of losing money. If money wasn’t involved in content creation, you’d see a lot more content creators speaking up and defending him.”
He thought that people were keeping their ideas to themselves because they didn’t want to face the repercussions of doing so: “But because people can lose sponsorships and partnerships, it creates, like, a chilling effect where nobody wants to defend Nick or Tim, or anybody like that because they’re worried about just, even defending what this person saying, getting you labeled as, like, a homophobe, who wants to, like, kill gay people. Or something like that. And then, you have a bunch of psychos on Twitter that will take what you say and then turn it into something different. And then, go to your sponsors and f**king cry about it and get your partnership removed.”
