The year 2023 turned out to be full of surprises and events when it came to online entertainment. Streamers going overboard and trying to gain views was one of the things the streaming industry evolved into.
However, as expected, not every time went smoothly, and a few instances were not very appropriate and received a lot of negative attention. While a lot of content creators went creative with their ideas and tried to cash in on the fame, A few instances, including slips of the tongue, rogue talk, and indecent behavior, spoiled the broth they were cooking, eventually turning into full-blown controversies that took over the internet.
With that being said, let’s dive right into the five controversial streamers of 2023 and the story that made them infamous. Covering the most inflammatory situations and details related to them.
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5. Deepfake controversy
Presumably, this is among the biggest controversy to spread in the year 2023. Brandon, also known as “Atrioc,” mistakenly revealed tabs on his PC that had deepfakes of popular streamers like Pokimane, QTCinderella, and Maya Higa.
The tabs were not missed by the viewers, and he was called out by Valkyrie and HasanAbi. After the backlash that Brandon faced, he finally issued a formal apology on a live broadcast along with his wife.
4. Adin Ross getting banned from Twitch
The young streamer became the talk of the town pretty quickly after getting permanently banned from Twitch. Adin Ross subsequently joined the Kick platform and vowed to support and uplift the new platform.
Before he officially joined KICK as an exclusive broadcaster, he was caught on camera viewing p*rn on stream, asking a HasanAbi fan to “sit his throat,” and offering $200 to an Omegle user to “act black” for $200.
3. xQc breakup drama
One of the turmoils of the year 2023 surfaced when Adept, one of the streamers on Twitch, got into a long battle with the streamer after ending a relationship with the latter in late October 2022. This situation got a lot of attention from fans and across the internet.
This went far when Adept allegedly broke into xQc’s house on June 7 and stole some of his childhood pictures. This further led to xQc ceasing his stream midway, given the intrusion, which got graphic afterward.
2. Kai Cenat’s inappropriate behavior with a female visitor
Kai Cenat has been the King of Twitch and even the most followed streamer on the purple platform for the longest time. The young streamer initiated one of his popular events called MAFIATHON, where he would stream for a month.
This included discussing different issues with banned streamers, hanging out, and entertaining the audience with his talent. Everything went well during his stream that 70,000 viewers were watching until he started getting “too” comfortable with one of his visitors in his bar house.
The girl slipped her hands into the streamer’s pants, and just like that, the clip exploded on the internet, and damage control was out of the question. Either way, the drama was silenced for some time.
1. Streamers Suspendas and SlightlyHomeless arrested in Nepal
On May 18, 2023, the Nepali police authorities detained two streamers who had earlier approached two ladies in Nepal about getting married. When it was subsequently discovered that the females were just 15 years old, things started to go south. SlightlyHomeless and Suspendas were the streamers that were taken into custody. With the two teen females on the broadcast, the two streamers interacted. That’s how the event was discovered.
With that, the Top 10 most controversial streamers of the year 2023 have been concluded. With half of the year still to look forward to, there will be “more” things on the way. So keep an eye out for the same.
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