Today, no recently unruly viewers who had asked her about war crimes (among other things) the U.S. Army is back on Twitch. Now a whole lot of people are asking about war crimes.
The Army’s back to Twitch after a month-long hiatus started with a different kind of stream than the standard, game-centric rate of the channel. After a brief intro about the purpose of the U.S. Army Esports Team and a speech on how war crimes are “heinous” and prosecuted as such, ” in member of the team, Chris “Goryn” Jones, sat in front of a camera, locked in a staring match with Twitch talk. Chat was quite a cascading waterfall of facts about various U.S. war crimes and criticism of the Army’s Twitch-based recruitment efforts, which Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently attempted to introduce a measure to prohibit.
Here are just a few of those Twitch chat messages:
“Do you feel good when you use predators to trick children into joining the army and throwing away their youth?” read one chat message.
“Nice fact: the U.S. military has the Lockheed U2, known for its ability to fly 70k feet off the ground, and to be one of the most caught espionage plans for violating international laws ever,” read another.
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‘Why can’t you just play WoW now? What are you waiting for? People will not stop thinking about you lol, ”read a third.
And yet Jones followed for an hour and 30 hours minutes before finally moving on to World of Warcraft. In some cases, he answered softball questions about things like his favorite army installations, his time stationed in Germany, and army rank. He also tried to make jokes about his hair. In other cases, he tried to correct viewers who criticized the army, saying the army could not recruit children because people had to be at least 17 to register. “17 is still a child,Said one person in conversation. He went on to say that people should not enroll in the Army because of video games. He also at one point accused reports that American war crimes were being “automated.” Some people in conversation found this – and the broader implication that conversation was just trolling – offensive.
‘Am I a troll, or am I someone whose friend died at the age of 6 on a hill that was abandoned the other day after I wrote letters to me about how useless things we do there, because we do nothing build, only destroy? Asked one.
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