The US Navy is back at streaming video games on Twitch once again, and this time, their stream features indirect references to the World War II bombing on Nagasaki and racial slurs.
The streamer, who was playing ‘Among Us’ – the newest trend in the world of online games, was in a Discord call with a person who was moderating the stream’s chat.
Among Us is an online or local party game with upto ten players. The game lets players choose their nicknames and outfits before the start of a match, a feature which ignited quite a controversy towards the US Navy stream.
While some other players in the streamer’s lobby picked harmless names in an attempt to mock the streamer, the nicknames on a few other players weren’t so innocent. The players which caused an outburst in the Twitch chat throughout the stream had names like “Nagasaki” and “Japan 1945”, both of which are references to the atomic bombing in World War II. One of the players named themselves as “gamer word”, a refer to a racial slur, and wore a black outfit.
The streamer played the game in the same lobby as these three players for about an hour before creating a separate lobby. While both the streamer and the moderator refrained from directly addressing the offensive names, at one point one of the streamer’s friends claimed to the Twitch chat that the controversial names were pumping the viewer counts up. “See chat, one thing you don’t understand is this is a numbers game and you guys are just helping us with the numbers,” he said.
When the chat continued to point towards the names, the streamer made a separate lobby. The names in the new lobby had been changed to not include any offensive names, and the streamer claimed to have kicked off those members. “The last two guys have been deleted, everyone. Shush,” the moderator said to the chat.
