AMERICAN YouTuber IShowSpeed has been accused of sexism yet again, this time over his reaction to opening an unexpected player in his first EA FC 24 stream.
The online streamer, whose real name is Darren Jason Watkins Jr, is one of the biggest on YouTube.
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While on a live stream playing the new EA FC 24 game, Watkins was shocked to find that female football players are now included in the Ultimate Team.
When Manchester United‘s Hannah Blundell was revealed as the footballer he had won, Watkins said: “Girls? Chat, am I tweaking? Is that a girl?”
Hannah Blundell won the Players’ Player of the Year in May.
Onlookers were not impressed by Watkins’ reaction.
“I’m starting to gather that he doesn’t like girls,” one wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Another tweeted: “Does he know that there are girls plays football too? Also basket ball, ice hockey and baseball. Some other sports too. Not just males.”
“He’s acting like he’s never interacted with a woman before,” a third onlooker wrote.
“Kinda makes me remember that one time that he got into a controversy dissing a women in game,” a fourth tweeted.
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“I see that nothing has changed.”
Last year, Watkins – who has 20.3million subscribers on YouTube – was permanently banned from playing all Riot Games titles after a sexist rant while playing Valorant went viral.
In response to Watkins’ behaviour on popular streaming title Valorant, fellow YouTuber Jake Lucky tweeted: “I now understand why Valorant queues are so unbelievably toxic.
“You got one of the most popular streamers on YouTube IShowSpeed saying crap like this and getting nothing but praise and laughs.”
In 2021, Watkins was banned from Twitch for breaking the site’s ‘sexual coercion or intimidation’ policy.
A fifth onlooker tweeted: “The amount of misogyny this guy is creating in the next generation is absolutely insane.”
Others agreed with Waktins’ reaction, saying they felt bad for him.
Although some commentators simply wanted to peddle sexist rhetoric about how “nobody wants to see women playing football.”
“Imagine u spend real life $ in hopes to get Messi and boom ur stuck with a random female,” one person commented.
Another tweeted: “Ngl tho girls in Ultimate Team is probably one of the worst EA ideas in a while.”
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