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The streamer’s inclusion in Fortnite has been met with backlash from fans, with several sharing the Tarkov clip from last year with Epic Games employees. Though, as you can probably expect, there are plenty of people downplaying the controversy and deploying the “Call of Duty lobby” justification, often used to excuse the use of slurs and inappropriate language in online games by asserting that they’re a sort of “anything goes” space.
“I genuinely don’t understand how this happened,” a ResetEra user said in a thread on the matter. “Did no one even bother to do a background check here?”
In the past, TheBurntPeanut has told viewers that inappropriate language may be incoming while playing games like Arc Raiders, where proximity chat means that the comments of other players, which could potentially include offensive language, may be heard as you approach them, and he’s even apologized to viewers who have heard other players use it during his streams, but it’s clear that his own use of derogatory language is still fresh in some Fortnite fans’ minds.
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Despite the slur-dropping controversy, TheBurntPeanut has been part of promotional deals with games like Marathon, and won the Best VTuber award at the Streamer Awards in December. So it’s unclear whether this is a case of Epic Games not being aware of this, or simply not caring because of his massive following. We’ve reached out to the company for comment on the situation and will update the story if we hear back.