Watch the video to learn about these Streamers That Took Months To Admit Their Guilt!
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00:00Just like every other celebrity, streamers have seen their fair share of scandals,
00:04accusations, and lies in the community that have made for some juicy drama.
00:09These streamers took months to own up to what they did wrong, and it cost some of them.
00:14In 2020, streamer Dream took his speedrunning skills to Minecraft.
00:18His speedrun clocked in at around 19 minutes and 24 seconds,
00:22which would have earned him fifth place for the specific speedrun he did, according to Polygon.
00:28However, the officials at speedrun.com denied the speedrun, and said that it would be a 1
00:33in 177 billion chance that it was even possible to work the way it did without any cheats.
00:39This sparked a lot of drama, and Dream aggressively denied all cheating accusations.
00:45In May 2021, Dream finally admitted that he did use cheats during the infamous Minecraft speedrun.
00:51However, he said that he did so without realizing as he had been working with a developer
00:56to create mods for streaming. When version 1.16 of the game was released,
01:00one of those mods remained, resulting in increased item drop rates through parts of the game.
01:06In a lengthy text document shared on Pastebin, Dream explained what was going on in his head
01:10throughout the entire situation. He admitted to feeling scared, angry, and stressed about
01:15the entire debacle, which led to some regretful words and actions on his part. Ultimately,
01:21Dream apologized and owned up for what he said and did in reaction to the situation.
01:26ZillionOP is one of the most recognizable names on the internet when it comes to streamers getting
01:31caught lying. If you don't recognize his name, you might remember the story. ZillionOP was mainly a
01:37World of Warcraft streamer who had a health problem that required him to use a wheelchair.
01:42However, in 2013, he stood up from his wheelchair after thinking that he turned his camera off.
01:47Viewers were immediately outraged, and ZillionOP said nothing about the situation.
01:53He seemed to drop off the internet. However, it wasn't all a lie.
01:56ZillionOP finally told more of his story and apologized, seven years after everything
02:02unfolded. Fast forward to 2020. After trying to stream again, ZillionOP gave his side of the story
02:09in an interview with WavyWebSurf. He explained that he was in a wheelchair for years,
02:13and provided pretty clear evidence of this. However, he spent years in physical therapy
02:18and was capable of standing at the time of the incident.
02:21My whole stream knew that I was going through physical therapy.
02:24No one knew the extent of my recovery."
02:26In a chat that was shared during the interview, ZillionOP wrote that he, quote,
02:31"...apologized for not giving clarity regarding getting better and being in physical therapy."
02:36While he wasn't faking his struggles, he also didn't take the time to clear the air or explain
02:41his situation, either before people donated out of sympathy or before his infamous final stream.
02:47Either way, he apologized for the misunderstandings.
02:51Getting caught cheating on stream is a disaster. But what happens when you get caught cheating in
02:56a professional eSports tournament? Counter-Strike Global Offensive player Forsaken can answer that
03:01question. In October 2018, Forsaken was caught using an aimbot hack during a tournament,
03:06and even tried to delete it once he was caught. According to a statement from the eSports
03:11Integrity Coalition to Polygon, Forsaken kept these cheats on an SSD card, which was apparently
03:17used in previous tournaments that same year. The senseless cheating led to him receiving a
03:22five-year ban. Shortly after the incident, Forsaken admitted to what he had done and
03:27apologized in an interview with AFK Gaming. He said he felt guilty for stealing away the
03:32opportunity of a $100,000 tournament win from his teammates, and apologized for the work they
03:37wasted in getting there. He also mentioned that he regrets ever playing CSGO, stating, quote,
03:43Nothing good has happened to him since the day he started playing.
03:46In the same interview, he also admitted to using the cheat in earlier events that year,
03:50specifically the OpTic India boot camp. While it took several months for him to get caught,
03:55he apologized quickly and did not attempt to deny prior exploits.
04:00This video is to address recent comments and criticisms that I've received.
04:06I know this video is long overdue."
04:09Pokimane has been a victim of toxic Twitch messages in the past,
04:12but she's also perpetrated a few misdeeds herself. After taking a short break from
04:17streaming in 2020, Pokimane reappeared in an unexpected way. She claimed she
04:22needed to apologize for her past misdeeds — all of them.
04:26It shouldn't have taken me this long to come to a proper understanding
04:30of how to handle these situations and how to apologize for that."
04:35Throughout the apology video, Pokimane detailed several transgressions,
04:39including some of her many feuds. She discussed a 2018 controversy involving Keemstar,
04:44which ended up with videos belonging to other creators being taken down.
04:48In her long-overdue apology video in 2020, Pokimane provided more context for the situation,
04:54noting that she was a young streamer at the time and didn't understand how the
04:58internet would perceive her request for videos to be taken down.
05:01Similarly, Pokimane pursued reuploaded videos of herself from other creators
05:06that had inappropriate or oversexualized titles. At the time, Pokimane saw these videos as
05:11misleading, but she believed that she wouldn't go after small creators now.
05:15Pokimane said that her copyright claims led people online to believe that she wants to censor
05:20anyone that doesn't agree with her, or that she goes after trolls by erasing their content from
05:24the internet. Poki made it clear that this was not her intention, and that she wants to support
05:29small creators who create transformative content, not silence them.
05:34Carl Jacobs has introduced Corpse Husband to Dream's Minecraft world
05:38and streamed with Lil Nas X, but that doesn't mean he's free of all drama. In early 2021,
05:44Jacobs released an apology video addressing his past association with Ice Poseidon,
05:49who frequently used racial slurs in his Twitch streams. Jacobs explained,
05:53So there's a thread going around that I have supported bad people,
05:59right? In the past, I've supported bad people."
06:01He claimed that he wanted to clear the air with an apology. Jacobs admitted that although he was,
06:05quote, never a massive fan of them, he did support, quote,
06:09bad content creators in the past. Jacobs also said that in the past when he used the tryhard
06:14emote — which, as reported by Kotaku, is sometimes associated with racist and toxic
06:19chat behavior — he did not intend to use it in an offensive way. For his part, Ice Poseidon
06:24rejected Jacobs' apology, saying that Jacobs was sending out a witch hunt after him for things
06:30he did years ago. Of course, fans have also asked Ice Poseidon to issue an apology for his hurtful
06:35words. Ice Poseidon has been the victim before, often being the target of traumatic swatting
06:40incidents from the darkest corners of Twitch. Unfortunately, Ice Poseidon's response to the
06:45swatting may have resulted in his permanent ban from Twitch. As Kotaku explained, the true reason
06:51for Ice Poseidon's ban is a little murky. He'd previously gotten in trouble for using a text-to-
06:56speech program on his stream, which viewers tricked into saying racial slurs. He exploded
07:01on air, yelling at viewers that they were going to get him banned. Later, after telling viewers
07:06his location, Ice Poseidon was swatted while trying to board a plane. Someone watching his
07:10stream actually called in a bomb threat to the airline and framed Ice Poseidon as the perpetrator.
07:16"...I felt really bad for everybody on the plane because they just had to sit there because of
07:20this guy who called. Like, he called in and said that I had a bomb."
07:23Again, he yelled at fans for ruining his plans. It's seen that Twitch banned Ice
07:27Poseidon for the real-life chaos that was causing connection with its platform.
07:31Three years later, Ice Poseidon issued a statement on his Twitter account
07:35explaining why he thinks the permanent Twitch ban was unjust. In his open letter to Twitch,
07:40Ice Poseidon explained that he was afraid of losing his viewership, so he kept upping the
07:44ante and creating more dangerous situations for himself and others in order to attract fans.
07:49Ice Poseidon also explained that his actions had damaged his real-life relationships,
07:54and that he now sees these decisions as mistakes that he has served time for.
07:59UK Dead by Daylight streamer Aaron had to say he was sorry for an embarrassing video
08:04that began circulating in 2019. In the clip, Aaron used a racial slur while playing Dead
08:09by Daylight, then clarified that he has the N-word pass and can say the slur freely.
08:14Aaron issued an apology on Twitter much later, posting a written message in the
08:18Notes app to convey his feelings beyond Twitter's character limit. In the apology,
08:22Aaron said he was profoundly ashamed of his behavior in the video,
08:26and that he's, quote, "...done a lot of growing up since then."
08:28However, Aaron also took the time to explain that he doesn't believe that his slur hurt anyone
08:33directly, as it wasn't said in malice towards another person. Followers on Twitter mostly
08:38disagreed with this caveat, though a number of fans thanked the streamer for his apology.
08:43"...Valka, where is everybody? They couldn't be there. I'm gonna go give them a kiss real quick."
08:51Corpse Husband launched his career by reading scary stories on YouTube.
08:54In 2021, fans began urging Corpse Husband to make a statement
08:58regarding his use of the R-slur in a four-year-old video.
09:02While fans didn't think Corpse would approve of the word in the present,
09:05they still wanted to hear it from him, in order to absolve their favorite streamer of any
09:09controversy. Corpse responded soon after fans brought the issue to his attention, saying,
09:14"...a little over four years ago when I was 19, I said the R-word in a video I was featured in.
09:19I was reading off of a script that I did not write. However,
09:22I will take full accountability and say that I chose to read it."
09:26Corpse took responsibility for his actions and explained that he didn't understand the
09:30severity of the word at the time and promised to get the video taken down.
09:34For once, an internet darling remained somewhat unproblematic,
09:38and Corpse Husband proved that he's not too famous to say he's sorry.