To celebrate reaching 800,000 followers and the end of a 24-hour livestream, Twitch personality Trick2g faked his own Swatting when two individuals burst onto his stream. “arrested” him and hauled him away.
The streamer’s manager, Cher Gambino, confirmed that the Swatting was indeed a prank writing, “There is always someone that thinks only their sense of humor is what matters and if they don’t think it is funny then it couldn’t possibly be. That is why our Country is in the shape it is now, because we fear making light of anything that might be thought of as controversial.” Many commenters posting on social media thought the prank was in bad taste.
@ZVFavion @LolStvicious whoever that person is is stupid as fuck, how is it oversensitive when its a traumatizing experience for real swats
— Marcel Feldkamp (@MarcelFeldkamp) August 3, 2015
Apparently Twitch didn’t think the prank was funny either with Trick2G’s account being suspended following the incident. Gambino defended the prank, telling Kotaku the following:
If you saw the stream, there were theatrics the whole time. We had sailor girls, pirate girls, singing bears, singing pigs, prize wheels. His stream was from 3PM Friday to 3PM Saturday. I can’t imagine a swat team waiting for someone to finish a stream—not to mention the actors were the same people on stream the day before setting up, not to mention they were laughing. I don’t know what to tell you other than: if it offends one person it must be wrong. We have lost the right to comedy. Or we have at least lost the right to comedy if it offends one person, which means Saturday Night Live must really have to watch what they do.
What do you think?
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