Recently, the biggest drama in the Valorant community has been surrounded by popular streamer JasonR, who often queues with pros and is well-known in the community for his skill. However, over the past month, he has been getting much backlash because there are clips of his stream in which he purposely dodges the game if he hears a woman talk on his team, claiming his PC crashes or his internet went out. Also, if the woman does not talk until the game has already started, he either mutes her or leaves the game altogether. There are also previous clips from years ago where he called all women on Twitch “hoes” and other words. Him and his wife also banned women from his Twitch chat if they found out they were women.
This drama got much bigger last week, when he got matched with his good friend Tarik in his Valorant game. Then, Jason started yelling at Tarik during the game and called him a bad friend because Tarik would not speak about the drama on his Twitch channel and rather avoided the topic completely. Tarik banned his name in his chat and only stated that he disagreed with Jason’s actions, not continuing any further.
After they lost the game, Tarik wanted an explanation of why Jason was so angry at him during the game, and over 35,000 viewers started watching their argument unfold during their streams. This argument was about an hour long, so I’ll summarize the jist of the argument.
Basically, Jason was upset that Tarik did not tell everyone that he was not this misogynistic, woman-hater that everyone was labeling him as. He thought that Tarik’s place as a good friend of his and someone who has met him and his wife and hung out with both of them, he would be able to convince people that Jason is not misogynistic.
Tarik stood his ground and reasoned as to why he should not defend Jason if he does not affect the obvious misogynistic behavior that he does on his stream all the time. Just because they’re friends, does not mean he always has to agree with Jason and defend him. Tarik’s main analogy he was trying to make Jason understand was — If you hung out with someone, and they were completely fine in person and a normal human being, but they go home on their stream and start acting racist, and there are many racist clips of him circling around, doesn’t that make him racist?
This was a perfect analogy to describe Jason’s behavior with women in his games, however, Jason completely missed the point every time he tried to bring it up, and the entire argument was a complete failure as nothing was done. Every time Jason spoke, I swear those lines could be studied as an example of gaslighting and manipulation. He kept repeating the point that Tarik had met him and his wife in person and they were not misogynistic, but he could not get through to his head that Tarik was saying that his actions on stream had heavily implied that he hates women and is uncomfortable being around them.
Also, perhaps the funniest part of the argument, where Jason was exclaiming frustration about how other big streamers reached out to him and told him he doesn’t deserve the hate, but he said Tarik was “being a girl about it” and didn’t say anything to him…lol.
Tarik ended his stream after this argument out of anger, so I went and watched Jason’s stream. Jason eventually deleted the video of the stream after it ended, so no one can take clips of what he said after the argument was over. Basically, I gathered that he was not apologetic for anything and he did not understand how anyone could imagine his actions to be misogynistic. Also, he said that his reason for dodging women was out of respect for his wife so she would not be uncomfortable with women in his games and his chat being weird.
Either way, this guy is a fool. If this is the case, this relationship is extremely toxic and he keeps blaming everything on his wife’s insecurities instead of taking accountability for making the women in his games uncomfortable. The day after the drama, he posted a TwitLonger in hopes to save his failing career, but the TwitLonger was not sincere at all and basically mentioned his wife again. He streamed the next days with the title “THEY LOVE TO HATE ME” and made a pro streamer ShahZam and his girlfriend, Joona, uncomfortable in their games by talking to ShahZam and saying “Oh, you’re with your girl?? Her dream has come true! Oh my God!”
Overall, many people hate JasonR even more after this argument with Tarik, and Tarik has gotten much support by not falling into Jason’s manipulation and standing his ground that he thinks Jason’s actions are wrong. I still see braindead comments and replies to tweets where they think that Jason doesn’t have to play with women if he doesn’t want to, and how all the women in his rank are boosted anyway.
I hated Jason the second I heard about the drama, and I watch Tarik much more now. I also loved scrolling on Twitter after the drama and every pro streamer was tweeting about it and posting memes and videos. I also remember when I was watching this argument live, tons of really popular Valorant streamers started typing in Twitch chat and in Tarik’s Valorant chat, people like Kyedae, Asuna, Pokimane, and many others.
— LG mada (@madafps) March 27, 2022
This type of thing also doesn’t happen that often, but I really like listening to drama so it was fun to digest. 🙂