Adin Ross — one of the most popular streamers of the last year who has channels on multiple platforms — is receiving significant backlash for a comment he made yesterday, though it’s not the first time that he’s made such controversial statements.
Ross was streaming on Kick when he reacted to a video from fellow streamer Destiny, who himself was reacting to a TikTok video showing the numerous pronouns being used by multiple people in what appears to be an elementary school classroom.
Destiny — whom Ross often streams with — commented by saying he doesn’t think he would want his son to go to this school.
Adin Ross, however, showed much more frustration over it and spoke aloud to his followers, saying, “To all you guys that get to pick your pronouns, my pronouns is kill/them. Ok? Fu** all of y’all, bro. Ya’ll making the world a sh**ty place, bro.”
Ironically, Ross referred to the idea of having so many different pronouns to remember for people as “cringe,” yet doesn’t seem to realize the extreme “cringe” of his own reaction. More so, it goes beyond just cringe when the reaction is to talk about wanting to commit violence against anyone, let alone an entire community of people.
Ross continued his foolish rant, saying, “I don’t give a fu**, bro. Fu** all y’all, bro. Self-entitled pu**ies.”
Although Ross’ comments were not directly in response to Monday’s horrific mass shooting, it’s certainly possible that his anger is surfacing partly because of it, which is something that numerous people in the trans community have expressed fear over. The possibility of retaliatory actions against trans people — due to the mass shooter being trans — has many people concerned.
However, they may have identified as trans but clearly their actions do not represent the trans community. If Ross’ anger was fueled by the shooting, then saving his anger specifically for the person who murdered innocent children would be more than acceptable. Unfortunately, many people are expanding the target of their anger to include the entire trans community, which is grossly unjust.
Unfortunately for Ross, he has already been in hot water this year over the use of “hateful slurs or symbols,” proving that he lives off of controversy – which effectively got him banned from Twitch, though he claims it was “for no reason.”
Since then, he jumped to growing streaming service Kick, where he got annoyed that someone called him corny. His reaction was to directly tell that person, “Kill yourself. Please kill yourself. No, do it, bro, ‘cause let me tell you right now you’re corny and you have nothing to live for,” adding one more, “Kill yourself,” before the viewer exited the stream.
If you’re unfamiliar with Ross, you’ll likely develop an opinion based on what you read that he is a total and complete prick, and you might be right – but he does have good qualities as well.
Just one example being Ross spontaneously helping out a new Kick streamer named JakeFuture27 — who is disabled — by asking his followers to also follow him and then sending Jake $5,000. He has since streamed with Jake as well.
However, Adin is his own worst enemy. These instances showing his more esoteric side have become overshadowed by his extremely violent comments that can’t be excused.
Twitch has already banned him. Will Kick now follow? If it does, then will Adin rely on YouTube or will YouTube also decide to no longer give him a platform?
If he is banned, he only has himself to blame. If he isn’t, then he will suffer constant backlash, but he would have to change in the process otherwise more controversial comments will follow before he is finally permanently banned. In that scenario, the choice would be his.
Why would Kick not ban him? Unfortunately, Kick itself is controversial for being lenient to such behavior, but there is another reason. Adin Ross claimed in February to have signed a $150 million deal to stream on Kick, though that number has been greatly challenged. Ross has brought further attention to the streaming service but, unless Kick can contractually protect themselves in their agreement with Ross, a ban from the service seems unlikely.
In any scenario, calling for violence against a community — which certainly appears to be what Ross has done — just doesn’t deserve a platform of any kind at any time, regardless of the excuse.