Streamer Thaqil, a Rainbow Six Siege participant who publishers Ubisoft in some unspecified time in the future deemed vital sufficient to commemorate with an in-game merchandise, has been dumped by the corporate after making a collection of racist jokes on TikTok.
As NME report, in a collection of movies posted on the positioning—since deleted—Thaqil made numerous feedback about Citadel, a black character within the sport:
In a single video, Thaqil listed Citadel as a Siege operator whose identify started with N. In a second, the content material creator stated he would “keep away from” Citadel in a “Kiss, Marry Keep away from” sport, and claimed “I believe it’s fairly apparent, it’s as a result of he’s black”.
One other video confirmed the streamer posing with a banana beneath Citadel’s Siege icon.
He additionally made a video referencing Citadel and the N-word, which Thaqil defined as “a tiktok problem the place I needed to identify an operator as rapidly as attainable based mostly on the random letter that appeared on display. ie. L for Lion or Lesion and many others. The letter N appeared on display and I acknowledged ‘Citadel’”.
After his feedback were picked up on social media Ubisoft have been fast to behave, saying “Thaqil’s current posts on social media are in breach of Ubisoft’s Code of Conduct” and that “Because of this, Thaqil will not be a part of our content material creators program and his allure can be faraway from Rainbow Six Siege”.
Thaqil responded to his dismissal by posting a message on Twitter, during which he explains every try at a “joke” intimately earlier than admitting:
I can be trustworthy, I knew what I used to be doing when it got here to these challenges and knew the joke that I used to be about to make.
My intent was to by no means be taken actually or promote racism in anyway however now wanting again, that’s kinda what I did so I apologise. My essential goal was to be edgy and make folks snigger however I now realise that my try on humour could come throughout as insensitive and offensive, for that I’m really sorry.
