- After shooting a pistol into his desktop during a Call of Duty stream, a professional streamer was suspended from Twitch and removed from his esports organization.
- Professional streamer Carl Reimer mistakenly fired his gun when clutching it like a joke.
- Carl assumed that cartridges had been removed from the Glock pistol, but apparently, they weren't.
What happened in the Livestream of Carl Reimer?
"Call of Duty" professional player, know better for his trick shot and former FaZe Clan member Carl Reimer pulled the gun, a Glock, during a Livestream in his home last night. "Bitch say I ain't got money he said, sarcastically, holding up the weapon. Reimer subsequently pulled the trigger and shot a round into his desktop to his shock.
"I've been obviously intoxicated, but the fact of the matter is... guns aren't a toy, they're not to be played with," he stated in a later recorded apology. Reimer is a popular figure on YouTube and Twitter, and before being suspended, he had more than 100,000 subscribers on Twitch -the live streaming network owned by Amazon.Reimer is seen playing Call of Duty in the live footage, before pausing to appear to intimidate someone with his handgun. He managed to empty the chamber but, apparently, there was still a bullet remaining. No one was injured in the event, apart from a nearby Gfuel bottle— a powdered energy drink promoted to gamers— which seems to have suffered from considerable damage.
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He admitted on YouTube that he was "clearly intoxicated," which is exciting since being a drunk moron is always a better excuse than being sober. A can of Coors Light on Reimer's desk was visible. Soon afterward Reimer's Twitch channel was suspended. His gaming squad, SoaR, tweeted it had dropped him, too.
"Last night, I made my worst mistake of my whole life and it could end my life," he said in a video on Twitter. "I could have hurt others. I just might have injured myself. I could have injured one animal of mine. And that's unforgivable... I've had that weapon for two years, and all it takes to wreck everything is two seconds of insanity. To ruin yourself, to waste someone else. Don't do what I did."
Surely! We won't mate.
Can Carl make it back to Twitch after this?
Whether the suspension of his Twitch account is permanent remains uncertain, but Reimer has more than 800,000 YouTube subscribers to rely solely on if it is. His pocket would surely suffer. He claims he "stopped making enough of YouTube to pay the bills a while ago." By dumping him, Reimer, for his part, praised SoaR for doing "what they had to do." He's sorry for the blunder.“I just made such a stupid, stupid, stupid mistake,” he said. "All I can say is I am sorry and I deserve it all. Each and every bit of a backlash."
Twitch's community guidelines state brandishing deadly weapons is a breach of "zero tolerance," though the guidelines concentrate on disruptive or threatening behavior. For a streamer's future, a termination or ban can be catastrophic in a market where daily viewing is crucial to maintaining a dedicated viewer fan base.
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