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  • Twitch streamer 4Conner is no longer on Twitter after chat logs showing him using racist language leaked online.
  • In an apology stream, 4Conner admitted the messages were real and said “that’s not who I am, it is who I was.”
  • Other streamers who interacted with him were quick to call out his behavior.  
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Twitch streamer 4Conner has left social media after chat logs showing him using racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic language leaked online. The Discord chat app messages, from between 2018 to 2020, contain multiple uses of the n-word and selfies in front of either the Confederate flag or the Novorossiya flag, known as a symbol of the pro-Russia movement in occupied Crimea. 

The logs contain statements posted throughout 2018 and 2019, such as “I just dont think women are funny and that they are only good for procreation.” His most recent message in the logs is from June 2020, writing “I can’t imagine being openly racist, like what benefit does it have.”

 

Rising to notoriety in 2018 after beating League of Legends personality Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp in a duel, 4Conner grew in popularity. Throughout 2020, he streamed Among Us with other top Twitch personalities like Félix Lengyel, known as XQC, and Jaryd Lazar, known as Summit1G. He’s since gained 44,000 followers on Twitch and posts compilations on his own YouTube channel. Hanging around the OTK, or One True King collective of streamers living in Texas, he appeared on camera, building up a small but dedicated fan base. This scandal threatens his chances of collaborating or connecting with other content creators to continue to grow his brand. 

 

 

Over the past week, 4Conner had been visiting the home of streamer Mizkif, who had offered him a place to stay after last week's massive Texas winter storm. During a stream on Wednesday at Mizkif's home with members of the One True King gaming collective, streamers Tyler Niknam, known as TrainWrecksTV, and Esfand, debated the merits of being a successful streamer. When the topic of survival in the snowstorm came up, 4Conner shared his thoughts. 

"We didn't have blankets, I could survive weeks with the blanket that I have now," 4Conner said in the clip. "Without power, a house is equal to another house."

The clip immediately gained traction on the subreddit LiveStreamFails, pulling in over 27,000 upvotes with 4Conner receiving a new level of criticism and scrutiny, with some calling his statements "ignorant." 

On Saturday, 4Conner's Discord logs were leaked on LiveStreamFails, pulling in 22,000 upvotes. Comments on both these posts were swarmed with references to blankets, mocking 4Conner for his previous statement.

That same day, Mizkif was quick to go live on Twitch and share his thoughts on the situation. 

"Conner is no longer allowed at my house ever again," Mizkif says. "There is being edgy, I was an edgy person and I will never deny that, and you can learn from it. "But, some of these logs are recent, just under a year old, it's not just a little bit, it's a lot." 

In the same leak, Discord messages that appear to show Mizkif saying the n-word were released, but he did not directly address the topic on the stream. (Insider reached out to Mizkif who did not respond to comment before publication). 

4Conner then went on to stream for 15-minutes, apologizing and confirming the validity of the messages in the leaks pertaining to himself.

 

"That's not who I am, it is who I was, I was never racist, I was never transphobic, I was never homophobic," he said. "In my head it was all jokes, I never meant anybody any serious harm to anybody's mental."

Other streamers who had interacted with 4Conner over the years came forward to share their statements. Niknam wrote in a now-deleted tweet, "if you find yourself happy when someone else fails or gets destroyed, even if they deserve it, that says more about you than it does about them and that's facts." Streamer Nick Polom echoed Niknam's sentiments in his own tweet but later clarified on his stream, saying "I don't even know 4Conner, why would I defend someone like that?" 

 

Streamer and girlfriend of Tyler 1, Macaiyla posted a Twitlonger about the situation. In the leak, you can see a conversation she had with 4Conner where he says the n-word and she acknowledges that she was "wrong not to speak up" and she was edgy at that time" but does "not act like that now." 

 

4Conner did not respond to a request for comment by publication time. 

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