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Overwatch League’s Florida Mayhem is facing another backlash, this time after the team revealed the identity of the accuser while publishing their statement over the sexual misconduct involving a now-former employee of the organization.

The ex-employee in question, Anthony “antwn” Salzarulo was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at the Overwatch League Grand Finals in 2019.

Anthony used to work as a social media manager and graphic designer for Mayhem and Misfits Gaming until he was suspended without pay in June 2020 after Misfits president John Kracum released a statement regarding the sexual misconduct allegation and assuring of a proper investigation.

Recently, Florida Mayhem published a statement where they informed about the completion of the 6-months old sexual misconduct investigation and finding no evidence of wrongful conduct by Anthony. The organization also mutually parted ways with Anthony. If you are living in Florida and want to launch your own business with your own business idea, registering a Florida LLC is a great way to get started.

Florida Mayhem face backlash over including Victim’s Twitter

The thing that initially upset the Overwatch community was that the team had included the accuser’s Twitter handle in their statement, which could lead to her receiving vitriol filled threats and messages.

The community immediately blasted the official Twitter of the Florida Mayhem for their decision of naming the victim in the announcement.

Hours after the former Houston Outlaws DPS and current Overwatch League caster, Jake Lyon tweeted “It’s not acceptable to name the victim in a public forum. Should delete this right now.”, the team deleted the initial announcement and republished it after hiding the name of the victim. 

They shared the exact same statement without an apology towards the victim. But again they were hit by a backlash, this time from people close to the victim.

People close to the victim shared that in six months since the investigation initiation, no one from the Mayhem organization had contacted the victim or close friends beyond the initial messages they received on the day after Misfits president John Kracum’s statement. 

Following this, people started to doubt the investigation and criticized the organization for not contacting the victim regarding the investigation and still publicly releasing her identity on Twitter without any warning.

A Twitter user Aerin, tweeted out a picture parodying Mayhem’s original statement saying that they “conducted a thorough investigation in 6 months despite never having contacted the victim or her acquaintances who were present or nearby when the allegations took place beyond from a couple of messages the day the allegations were brought to light.”

As of now, Florida Mayhem or even their owner Misfits Gaming has yet to issue a follow-up statement to the acquisitions about the genuinity of the investigation. 

The biggest streamer on Twitch, Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins is a household name at this point, even if you aren’t aware of him be rest assured most of the kids are. This exact popularity has helped him land deals across different brands and he takes it a step up by potentially landing a leading role on an upcoming show.

Given his following on the internet, his involvement is enough to bring great exposure to anything, which is inevitable for the upcoming show. Now that Ninja has teased his lead role, the show TRP is bound to blow up.

However, this is not his first foray outside gaming, we have seen him on bigger screens previously which tells us that he can hold himself up in front of an audience that is far from the one he presents himself to over at Twitch.

“I actually recorded my first voice over for a main role in a tv show today. Although I can’t share more yet, the voice acting is so fun. A huge passion of mine that I’m starting to get to live out” read Ninja’s tweet. It is safe to assume that the upcoming show is most likely an animated series. His contract with the producers keeps him from sharing any further information but the way his involvement is publicized, more teasers are to follow suit.

In his Tweet, Ninja describes voice acting as “A huge passion” of his that he is starting to get to live. His life is nothing short of a dream which he built off the back of years of struggle.

Ninja’s involvement in Hollywood is increasing as time passes by, this marks his second foray after lading a place in the upcoming Ryan Reynolds movie Free Guy besides other internet personalities like Pokiamne and Jacksepticeye.

HasanAbi involvement in politics has earned him a quite an audience on Twitch; with concurrent viewers peaking at 200K viewers on 6 January, his stream has been abruptly taken down twice, thus making him furious.

Hasan peaking 223,000 viewers on January 6 had his stream taken down when he was sharing his views on the violence and protesting witnessed at Capitol Hill.

The first takedown is what seemed to be an technical error, as his streaming software in OBS crashed an abruptly forcing him to reboot everything and take a fresh start. Having restarted the stream, the broadcast hit the ground running but was soon followed by another bizarre error.

After restarting his stream, he found it to be taken down yet again due to a mismatch of stream key between Twitch and OBS.

There is no way the stream key could have been altered unless he did it himself, or someone else have access to his account, with the later being the least likely.

Such was event will naturally shift the suspicion towards hackers but Hasan himself questioned their objective behind changing just the stream key.

“Changing my stream key is something that someone who does not have direct access to my account would be able to do if they were an admin over at Twitch,” “But if they had direct access to my account, they can literally do whatever the f**k they want.” said Hassan. He was clearly furious when saying “someone over at Twitch keeps changing my stream key.”

After all the struggle, he wasn’t able to track down what caused the issue, but he did raise his suspicion that some at Twitch is behind this. If that’s the case, it becomes all the more infuriating for him as Twitch will most likely deny any claims of their involvement.

The highly anticipated ‘R6 Share’ esports team skins have finally hit the live Rainbow Six Siege servers.

The series of skins are from the second tier of the program, which means that teams from the second tier if R6 esports get unique skin and a charm each.

The second tier teams that get a skin include Disrupt Gaming, Cloud9, Team Empire, DarkZero, Black Dragons, MiBR, Pittsburgh Knights, Team Secret, Virtus Pro, INTZ, BDS Esport, and Giants Gaming.

The tier one skins have already hit the servers previously. The cosmetics include operator skins, weapon skins, and charms for first-tier teams namely FaZe Clan, Team Vitality, Rogue, Fnatic, G2 Esports, Natus Vincere, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Spacestation Gaming, Team Liquid, and TSM.

For the unaware, ‘R6 Share’ is a revenue-sharing program where a portion of the money players uses to buy skins from ‘R6 Share’ directly goes to the organizations.

Unlike some other titles, if a player chooses to buy a skin from a certain team, the revenue is shared evenly between all the teams involved.

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