deadmau5 Issues Apology Following Twitch Ban Response
By Nicholas Barth ·
Following the controversy surrounding his response to being banned on Twitch, deadmau5 has issued an apology.
Popular Electronic Dance Music artist Joel "deadmau5" Zimmerman has seen himself at the center of a controversy recently regarding his response to being banned from the streaming platform of Twitch following deadmau5 calling a stream sniper who had been targeting deadmau5 during a streaming session of Player Unknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG, a homophobic slur. Following his response to his Twitch ban that was received extremely negatively by the public, the musician has issued a public apology addressing his controversial response to being banned from Twitch.
Taking to the official deadmau5 subreddit, the artist explained that he understood that what he said was wrong and that dismissing the issue as "gamer culture" was his "worst moment".
"I don't know why I did that," said deadmau5. "But I do know it was stupid and insensitive, and I feel even more ashamed."
After explaining in his initial response to his ban from Twitch that he would no longer be working with the company due to its "double standard when it comes to censorship", deadmau5 went on to state in his apology that Twitch had every right to have him banned for the comments that were at the center of the controversy.
You can find the full apology made by the artist addressing his response to being banned below.
It remains to be seen if the EDM personality will return to the streaming platform when his ban is lifted or if this controversy has finalized the exit of the EDM musician from the streaming platform for good, despite his change of attitude towards Twitch regarding the situation that led to deadmau5 being banned in the first place.
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