SpeedRunner Gets Banned On Twitch For Suicide Jokes During SGDQ 2015
Posted on July 28, 2015, 12:35 am By
Crash Bandicoot 2


Summer Games Done Quick 2015 is underway, but not without a little bit of drama. The SGDQ 2015 event saw a little chaos crop up like weeds in a flower bed when one speedrunner – playing Crash Bandicoot 2 on the PSX – made a series of suicide jokes in the context of playing the game (because he actually had to kill himself on several occasions to quickly progress through the game). Those jokes ended up costing him his Twitch channel and he was escorted out of the building.

Kotaku in Action has a thread collecting a lot of the basic information about the event, but the basic gist is that GPro had his Twitch channel shutdown over the suicide jokes he made during the speedrun at SGDQ, as noted in the speedrun thread on Reddit.

The top voted comment in the speedrun thread from Seal481 stated…

“I would imagine it got mass-reported by trolls and triggered some sort of auto-ban. I’m sure he’ll get it back as soon as he gets in touch with the staff.”

Not everyone carries seal’s magnanimity when it comes to giving people the benefit of the doubt. Others feel it was the “Social Justice Warriors” and “Tumblrites” who had his channel shutdown. The evidence appears to be in the Twitter thread to Games Done Quick where a number of people complained that GPro’s jokes were “triggering”.

This resulted in Travis N., a member of the SDA and a fellow speedrunner, explaining on twitter that staff at GDQ had escorted GPro out of the building.

This was all in response to 25 accounts of phrases and comments some people deemed offensive. You can watch the 44 minute speedrun below of Crash Bandicoot 2 courtesy of YouTuber MikeySaysGo.

[Update: Youtuber Hero-Dood has a re-upload of the video]

https://youtu.be/P9Yc__2_1ag

YouTube commenter Moon Sprawl compiled the 25 comments from the 44 minute playthrough and put them all in a neat little timeline.

There were about five actual suicide comments. Most were used pertaining to the act of GPro actually having to kill Crash in the game repeatedly, and he joked about the instances where he had the character commit suicide to advance quickly through the levels.

Some people felt the punishment of having the Twitch account banned was too harsh, especially since he wasn’t actually on his account at the time when he was doing the speedrun, but he was actually participating in the SGDQ event. Basically it’s punishment by proxy.

I imagine this little incident will see new terms and conditions and rules put into place so people don’t say things in public that might “trigger” other people. The real scary thing about it is how GPro lost access to his Twitch account based on what he said in a completely separate venue. It’s like being banned from Reddit for what you say in 4chan.

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  • mbits

    OH MY GOD I WAS CONFRONTED WITH REAL LIFE (well, not really — it was still just video games) AND HAD A PANIC ATTACK! HALP!

    What the fuck is the point of escorting the dude out of the event?

    Twitch is a fucking cesspool of retardation.

    Especially since chicks can go on with cameras in their ceilings showing down their shirt at their cleavage and thighs while they play games in school girl uniforms…. and considering I just heard two guys who work at twitch (one who founded it, I think) on Kevin Perera’s show… on twitch… live… talking a few days ago about things like getting fucked with a giant black dildo and talking about how they WANT people to do new things and try different stuff on twitch, besides just speed-runs and talking to a camera while playing through the latest game.

    Guess what, idiots? Not gonna happen as long as you keep people scared to death of losing their whole fucking channel for offending someone’s great great grandmother or some precious snowflake on twitter.

  • C G Saturation

    All those fragile people have to do is step away instead of trying to turn the entire world into their personal safe haven. Selfish pricks. Nobody is forcing them to watch. You don’t see me trying to shut everyone down whenever they screw my life over. Though I’d love to.

    It’s probably somewhat equivalent to a robber trespassing into someone’s house and getting triggered by its owners telling him/her to get the hell out, and then the cops reacting by kicking the owners out of their house.

    • Marco Espim

      Oh, but we didn’t. If you were online you’d have seen that the stream lost 20000 viewers during this run.

      It went back to almost 100k after Crash 3 begun.

      But sure, continue waving that flag against “fragile people”, on an event for charity no less. Apparently empathy is dead within you internet people.

      • TheGreatGamerGod

        I suspect the channel lost streamers because he was pretty diabolically awful, the video of him playing is a complete train wreck, but he didn’t deserve the ban on his own channel for stuff he did elsewhere.

        Secondly, where is the empathy for the guy who just lost his channel for an unrelated incident?

      • ImpliedKappa

        An unrelated incident? He was a Twitch streamer, banned for things that happened while he was streaming on Twitch – and to a larger audience than he would normally have. What does it matter whether he was doing his normal stream out of his mom’s basement or at a hotel in another state? You think he didn’t know his run was being broadcast?

      • TheGreatGamerGod

        He wasn’t on his own channel. It’s like being thrown off all of Youtube for upsetting someone while on the Angry Joe Show. Ban him from the Speed Runners stuff sure, but not his own channel.

      • CXX AL

        Because they were on the same media: Twitch!
        If the next reply is me creating another account to abuse you and your mom, will anyone do anything about this account writing this?

      • TheGreatGamerGod

        That’s a bit like saying because you get banned from a restaurant due to a disagreement you should get banned from all of them worldwide.

        Second, if you insulted me the topic would likely get locked and you’d perhaps get a ban on this site, but if your entire discus account was locked and you were banned from commenting across the entire internet it would be absolutely retarded for having one incident cripple your ability to post everywhere else. That’s whats happened with the twitch guy.

      • CXX AL

        wow…. you are a total pumpkin…

      • TheGreatGamerGod

        and you are a fool

      • CXX AL

        uhuh /
        ?

      • Kiwi Jones

        What this guy did is essentially the equivalent of a local NBC anchor getting to do a 30-minute talk show on MSNBC and calling people he doesn’t agree with fags and retards, then expecting that he’s gonna go back home to his local NBC station and go back to anchoring.

        No, you do that shit, you don’t get to keep that job. You just wrecked the good standing of NBC and MSNBC with its sponsors, with the companies that fund it, with the journalism community as a whole, and with the general public. You lose your job, and you get no sympathy because you were completely unprofessional.

        If he was having a globally viewable meltdown because he wanted help, I hope he got it. But he’s tarnished Twitch’s marketability to sponsors, he’s tarnished GDQ’s marketability to sponsors, charities, and venues, and he’s tarnished the community even more than it didn’t already need. Maybe he needs a break from Twitch, and from the game. A permanent break, perhaps.

      • R.J.

        The guy was EPIC CRINGE time (I muted him and waited for the next run), but Twitch ban of his personal account? Come on.

  • His run was really tough to watch. And no I wasn’t triggered or had a panic attack. I’m just referring to how cringey it was. There’s just some things you don’t joke about in a public gathering like that. This is just common sense. I feel the kid had never seen a speed run at GDQ before in his life the way he acted. It was as if he was treating SGDQ has his own person stream. When you speed run you’re representing yourself and GDQ. I feel they would have asked him to leave even if people didn’t complain. If I was running a charity event as big as this, I wouldn’t want someone being this unprofessional.

    • TheGreatGamerGod

      I agree, it’s horribly painful to watch. He’s basically chatting the way you would with mates rather than a room filled with total strangers and 3 or 4 awkward PC people sat on the couch next to him. Absolute disaster.

      • Oh man, I’ve been watching some other SGDQ videos and oh boy do they have a lot of cringe-worthy moments. It’s… it’s embarrassing. This guy’s wasn’t even the worst by far.

  • Gamer

    Brilliant (sarcasm)! Now Twitch Trolls know exactly what to do to troll effectively.

    All they can to do is cry trigger or offensive and they’ll successfully troll a Twitch user. PLUS it doesn’t even have to have been on their Twitch channel, as evidenced by this case. It could be on social media or someone else’s stream.

    SWATing was horrible enough, this new PC troll could become more widespread since it’s easier / more accessible.

    Giving trolls tools to take down users based on a joke, disagreement, or whatever is not a good thing.

  • Grahf

    Facism is alive and well in the United State of America.

    • ImpliedKappa

      Maintaining a professional face while hosting a charity that manages to raise $1.2 million for Doctors Without Borders is basically fascism, yeah.

      • Grahf

        Thanks for the SJW perspective.

  • João Carlos Honório Pedro

    Bonus points, the @cesarosnipples account is… dead. It’s been deleted. @klaige got trolled so hard.

  • JimmyJoeJimBob

    A lot of gamers are whiney little b*tches.

  • chizwoz

    Who are all of these fuckwit oversensitive idiots who’ve worked their way into positions of power and give in to almost anything?

  • Kiwi Jones

    This whole comments section is why the gaming community is regarded as a cesspool of degenerates. Holy fuck.
    I’m gonna take it that none of you Internet tough guys stopped making fun of people with legit issues regarding somebody using suicide like a groan-worthy knock-knock joke to realize that Games Done Quick is a globally viewed charity with sponsors who, if they don’t like some psychopath rattling on about one of the top ten reasons people die in America as if he’s in a one-man avant-garde skit, THEY WILL PULL FUNDING IN FULL.
    Get a bad rep for having unhinged lunatics? VENUES WILL NOT HOST THEM.
    Find an organization has bad eggs that deliver bad press? CHARITIES WILL NOT TAKE THEIR MONEY.
    So yeah, keep mocking people who have had the sad reality of somebody killing themselves in their lives. Poke fun at people who have tried to end their lives as they twitch at this idiot’s routine. Continue being the same gaming community that continues to have problems being taken seriously because it collectively comes off as a pile of man-children living in your mother’s basement with an emotional range of a five year-old.

    When Games Done Quick is back to having no viewers, being broadcast back in Mike Uyama’s basement because nobody wants to host them, you’ll only have yourselves to blame.

    • The only thing is… the entire run was based around the in-game act of suicide. Seems like an oxymoron not to comment about that.

      • Kiwi Jones

        I’m not new. I’ve watched several of these events. Deathwarp one-liners are humorous, everybody laughs, guy jumps in pit, trick is done, next bit. Got it.
        But there’s a difference between making a joke about deathwarping (or even a few jokes about deathwarping) and silencing an entire room full of people and even causing Twitch Chat (which is usually filled with ASCII dicks, rape jokes, freakouts with girls show up, and Hitler murals) to be genuinely concerned about his well-being. This guy did the latter.
        I watched this in full, and only because it’s a charity event and I left my stream up. I laughed at his emphatic “THIS RUN IS WHERE I KILL MYSELF A LOT LOL”. at the start. A good segment of the room did, in fact. Because the dissonance between his glee and the topic of suicide was humorous, and deserved a laugh. We’ve all laughed at jokes about runs with deathwarps before.
        Flat-out suicide jokes aren’t a thing that bother me, if they’re in proper context and only done once or twice. Then I wonder why they don’t try a different joke. That was my take on it.
        He did the same bit a few more times, same amount of glee. A few less laughs. I’d like to believe he thought he was doing some edgy deathwarp routine the whole run and that it wasn’t a cry for help.
        It started to sound like a cry for help about halfway in. By that point almost nobody in the room was laughing. I was uncomfortable. Clearly other people were really bothered.
        Nobody was amused by the end. The tension in the room couldn’t have been cut by a chainsaw. How the whole marathon didn’t come to a screeching halt over what seemed like a grown man’s meltdown on a global stage is beyond me.
        I personally hope there was a psychiatrist on hand to evaluate him afterwards. It wasn’t funny anymore. Nobody found it funny anymore.
        I am fully aware, as should anybody be when they approach this topic, that the whole run was deathwarp%, but he cranked the ‘joke’ factor to 11 with a zeal of his own demise that literally silenced a room full of people.
        But that’s the hill the community wishes to crawl atop and proclaim people are being too PC, when both the audience and its staff are bothered by his actions. Okay, sure, fine.

      • I’d like to believe he thought he was doing some edgy deathwarp routine the whole run and that it wasn’t a cry for help.

        Whether it was a cry for help or not is dependent on the guy, and since we don’t have any psychological diagnosis to go by I don’t really see how that’s too relevant to the event at hand.

        However, the first part of that clause makes a lot of sense to me and seems like the general gist of his run: he was trying to be an edgelord while discussing the topic of a “deathwarp”.

        I took it that he just wasn’t articulate enough with his words to express himself around the topic in a way that others didn’t find offensive.

        It happens.

        I am fully aware, as should anybody be when they approach this topic, that the whole run was deathwarp%, but he cranked the ‘joke’ factor to 11 with a zeal of his own demise that literally silenced a room full of people.

        Watching other GDQ videos made me realize that a lot of the rooms get silent when people start doing or saying cringe-worthy things. Heck, there’s a whole section on YouTube dedicated to the cringe.

        I suppose some people were just more offended at the topic than others, which is fine. I don’t really like GDQ because it’s just embarrassing most times and cringe-worthy, with the edgelord suicide comments aside.

  • SuicidalPerson69

    Funny thing is, I’d definitely get banned from this place. I make these jokes all the time when I’m playing games for the sake of speedrunning… But please, why are there so many people upset about this? Life is a joke, death is a joke, it eventually ends and your only actual choice is to try to enjoy it or to, well, just suffer the consequences. By hiding suicide as a dirty thing, we’re making it serious and the draw to it is that it’s entirely too serious. People do it because they’ve nothing better to do than to kill themselves, so at the end of the day if we joke about it more people will stop taking it so seriously, you’ll desensitize the masses (sure) but at the same time people will think of it less as a statement and more as a “Why the fuck am I doing this?” type of thing.

    Until we take it less seriously, people are going to continue to off themselves to prove something to the world. And when they’re satisfied, other people are also going to off themselves to say “Whoa, whoa, whoa. You’re wrong, that guy who killed himself is wrong, man.”

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