Nick “nmplol” Polom, a well-known Twitch streamer and co-owner of OTK, has shared his opinions on Valkyrae’s apology for utilizing African-American vernacular English.
A recent apology from YouTube streamer Rachell ‘Valkyrae’ Hofstetter to her audience for utilizing African-American vernacular in her streams. The 30-year-old said during a live stream on October 13th that she won’t do so going forward after viewers and a moderator objected to her using expressions like “on a stack no cap” and that she doesn’t think non-black people should be using AAVE.
Popular Twitch streamer Nmplol has now shared his thoughts and some advise to Valkyrae, explaining that she started using the word because it was “cute”. Nmp talked about Valkyrae’s apologies during his stream on October 15th and said he had no idea what AAVE was prior to her apology.
He said; “Listen, just ignore it. The thing is, if people just ignored all this sort of stuff, it would just stop you know? Like, don’t even apologize Rae, just be like yo, what? and just move on, you know what I’m saying? It is what it is.”
The OTK co-owner took Valkyrae’s perspective into account after a spectator in chat said that Valkyrae’s apologies felt “weird, very forced, and scared.”
He added; “Yeah, she probably is just f**king afraid of canceling since the cream stuff man, like that shit like, nobody wants that to happen to them, you know? It’s horrifying.”
Nick seems to think the apology was unwarranted, despite the fact that she has said she won’t use the word any longer, like some other members of the community. On the other hand, the co-owner of 100 Thieves has received acclaim from many for her willingness to change her conduct in response to audience comments.