Twitch Streamer Speaks In CS:GO Voice Chat, Gets Kicked Out Immediately – Team Asks “Is That A Girl?”

The 19-year-old Twitch streamer Scarlett alias “xoQueenScar” shows Counter Strike: Global Offensive on her channel. She is also active on TikTok and posts short clips from her streams there. Now one of the videos has gone viral, in which she was kicked out of the game by her teammates, apparently because of her gender.

This is the situation:

• With just over 1000 followers, Scarlett is one of the smaller streamers on Twitch
• On TikTok she posts excerpts from her streams and short clips for her more than 6000 followers
• It is always about alleged experiences that she makes online as a woman
• Now a clip went viral in which she is supposedly thrown out of a game in CS:GO because of her gender

Streamers often make “clips” on Twitch: short shots that are often taken out of context. Here is the most popular clip on Twitch:

Team kicks streamer after she speaks up

This can be seen in the clip: In the short excerpt, the streamer shows how her teammates voted her out of the game during a match. This happens immediately after she says something in voice chat.

One of her teammates responded to her voice by repeatedly asking “Did I hear a girl there?” Another says to get her out of “his” game. Scarlett therefore relates the sacking to her gender.

The German streamer and DJane “Sinitica” is also trying to assert itself in a male-dominated scene. She recently revealed the disgusting messages she gets from guys.

It’s not the first time: Scarlett posted the clip titled “Why csgo isn’t for women part 3”. In other videos, she had shown similar events. These are apparently not limited to Counter-Strike. (via tik tok)

The clip goes viral: Four days after Scarlett posted the video on TikTok, it already has 2.2 million views (as of 07/25/2022). For comparison: Your videos usually reach several hundred to several thousand viewers.

On 07/24 the clip will also be in the CS:GO subreddit posted and reached almost 30,000 upvotes there (as of 07/25/2022). The comments are full of discussions about the content. The video has also appeared on other subreddits.

Players report on their own experiences

These are the reactions: The video has thousands of comments on TikTok and Reddit. Many just seem to find the behavior of their teammates funny or even support it.

Sad everyday life: Others see nothing special in it. That’s just an average CS:GO lobby. Some find the team even comparatively nice. The shooter has long had the reputation of having a particularly toxic community Reddit, tik tok)

What other women say: Female gamers in particular seem to recognize themselves in the clip. They report on their own experiences. Sometimes, like Scarlett, you would be thrown straight out. In the other case, the other players would keep you in the team, but would encroach on you in voice chat.

Some even say they never use a game’s voice chat or even play online for these reasons. They also express their frustration that such behavior rarely has consequences for their fellow players. (via Reddit)

The short clip does not reveal whether the recordings were staged or whether there were other reasons for the ejection. However, the comments reveal that he struck a chord.

The voting system is also criticized in this context. This means that players can be thrown out of the match by a simple vote – as is the case here for no apparent reason. Other games have already done away with it for this reason. It remains to be seen whether CS:GO will draw conclusions from this and similar incidents.

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