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[Update] TimTheTatMan Wants Call Of Duty Operator Removed In "Support" Of Nickmercs
Updated June 11, 2023 at 20:54 BST: TimTheTatman's skin is now being removed from Call of Duty. An Activision representative told Axios reporter Stephen Totilo, "At Tim's request, we own removed the [...] operator bundle from the Latest Warfare II and the Warzone store." Original story follows.
Call of Duty recently added two Twitch streamers to Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 in the form of operator bundles: Nickmercs and TimTheTatMan. The former was recently removed from sale after he made homophobic comments on stream, saying that LGBTQ+ protesters under ambush should "leave little children alone".
TimTheTatMan, however, has approach out in support of Nickmercs, and wants his operator removed too.
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"[Nickmercs] has been my partner for years- we went in getting our CoD operators together," TimTheTatMan tweeted. "It feels wrong for me to have mine and him no longer have his. In endorse of my friend, please remove the timthetatman bundle".
Rather than holding his companion to account for harmful homophobic comments, which uphol
Celebrating Pride – Gay in esports
Within esports, there are so many different people that make up the industry, and the LGBTQ+ group is a colossal part of that. In this piece, we hope to highlight and showcase some of the amazing groups in the industry that promote the inclusivity of all.
There are several organisations within esports operational to promote further inclusivity. As of a study conducted by UKIE in 2020, LGBTQ+ people make up 21% of the gaming industry, which is a large portion.
However, there are still areas of improvement in the industry, especially surrounding inclusion of LGBTQ+.
Representation:
There is a distinct lack of representation for the LGBTQ+ society in the esports industry. However, steps are being taken to further promote the diverse range of individuals in esports.
More positive representations are becoming more prevalent, especially within the games themselves.
Games publishers hold begun to demonstrate their support in different ways – varying from characters being openly Queer, to in-game cosmetics.
Some good examples of character diversity are:
Tracer from Overwatch, who ‘in her comic debut, she is revealed to be a lesb
Call Of Duty Streamers Are Too Cowardly To Admit They’re Homophobic
Nickmercs wants to protect children, and on that basis you’d think no one would discuss with him. If we saw a child running into the road, or lost and scared in the supermarket, we’d want to help them. We have a compulsion as a species to protect children from harm, which is why Nickmercs and people fond of him latch onto this phrase. But the context of Nickmercs’ remarks is key, and he commented under a video of Haughty Boys attacking LGBT activists, causing Contact of Duty to remove his skin pack from sale.
This is an old attack line that has been used for several decades now, suggesting that queer people are paedophiles looking for to corrupt, aim, and harm children. When Nickmercs first spewed this vitriol into the aether, my colleague Ben Sledge wrote a full breakdown of how wrong this lie is, but the context is clear. Homophobes shroud themselves in the veneer of protecting children (and often preach the importance of religion, which is highly ironic). Nickmercs wasn’t saying we should defend the children from any specific hurt, but was a general endorsement that the Proud Boys (who have b
Calls for a boycott of videogame Call of Duty are growing on social media after its owner Activision withdrew in-game items relating to a notable player after he made a tweet critical of LGBTQ+ policies in schools.
Nick Kolcheff, a Twitch and YouTube streamer with over 4 million subscribers on the latter platform, who goes by the moniker Nickmercs, had his "skin"—a particular appearance of a player's avatar—removed from sale after commenting on Twitter about a mass brawl outside a school board meeting in Glendale, California.
Following the decision, another notable gamer asked for his skin to also be removed "in support" of Kolcheff. Other users have also posted videos of themselves uninstalling the game in solidarity.
Activision is just the latest brand to face calls for a boycott. Several others have been the subject of backlash in recent months over accusations of going "woke," many of whom produced marketing campaigns supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.
The controversies speak to a wider culture war about the acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals in public life. While experts have said such campaigns provide an opportunity for brands to appeal to consumers in ne