I am now convinced that “female” Duty streamer” is the hardest job in the world. Nadia Amine is one of the fastest growing Call of Duty: Warzone streamers on Twitch, and there has been a lot of controversy on social media about her meteoric rise. If you search for her name on YouTube or Tiktok, the videos are full of allegations of cheating against her. Seemingly joining the train last week, Duty professional Doug “Censor” Martin, who is the number one in the ranking Forefront player in the world right now, tweeted that he was going to expose cheaters in the popular shooter. Immediately the eyes turned to Amine.
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Prior to the most recent events, people mainly accused Amine of participating in easier matches by artificially matching “bot” players, or somehow designing matches so that they onlysin easier lobbies. Some motherfuckers even have parodied her TikTok videos by making it look like she’s doing the dishes or making a sandwich.
Martin claimed that he had somehow gotten a list of people who had “downloaded cheats in the past year” and that he was going to “expose” them. he then claimed that the list of names was “huge” and that he was willing to look up names for people who had messaged him.
This is where it gets complicated. Five days ago he demonstrated his… method to get names on a live Twitch stream and continued with to blame a player with the handle Tylerish to cheat Forefront. He also claims that a player named “Tea” had appeared on the cheater list, and he contacted her boyfriend about this (yes, I think that’s weird too). While Kotaku cannot confirm the truth of these allegations, they are relevant to how Martin turned to Amine.
Martin posted a screenshot of Amine reach out to him, because Tea, the person Martin claims to have exposed as an impostor, had apparently contacted her and warned Amine that Doug would “frame me”. Martin later tweeted that he wanted to “talk about Nadia” to his fans, behaved furiously because she wanted to contact in the first place, and that he wanted to “expose cheaters.” The internet started eating it up and it seemed like everyone was watching with bated breath. Content creator Dr. Disrespect, for example, didn’t think that he was bluffing, but other people in space advised caution. “Unless you have real evidence, I’d be careful. Women already have a terrible time navigating a gaming career,” said Adam Apicella, founder of the esports company. “Why make it harder unless you have something irrefutable?” Kotaku contacted Martin but received no response at the time of publication.
He finally dropped the video two days later. And it’s by far the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
In the video, Martin explained that he had a friend who had a method of catching cheaters in the… Call of Duty: Vanguard ranked play system. “This started when I wanted to do the right thing, find cheaters and catch them,” said Martin. He explained that people were beginning to “turn” his crusade into pursuing Amine’s charges of cheating.
“I’ve publicly told Nadia that I don’t care about her. My video will be unbiased. I don’t need money [and] I don’t need influence,” Martin said. And then it started to get really weird. The rest of the video turns into a funny marriage proposal, with Martin getting down on one knee and offering a wedding ring. “I’m so glad I love women,” Nadia tweeted on the day the video was uploaded.
I have sympathy for Martin getting caught up in batshit Duty drama, but it kind of sucks that he had to make a wedding parody about someone who didn’t seem to agree. Kotaku contacted Amine for comment, but received no response at the time of publication.
Martin doesn’t seem to regret his weekend stunt. In a tearful “apologies” video, he said, “I’m just going to step back, do the right thing and apologize… to absolutely no one.”
The competitive esports community was unimpressed. “I hope you finally see he’s a joke,” tweeted Dante Rene Santana of the FaZe clan on the day the video was posted (Santana previously criticized to be plan to “unmask” cheaters.”[Censor] flowed, tried to propose to her and embarrassed herself, ” tweeted Duty news website Charlie Intel. The video’s number one comment, meanwhile, reads: “Damn it, as someone who doesn’t play COD anymore, I truly believed that Censor was a legit, credible man. This is just… The exact opposite. Why waste your reputation for nothing? sacrifice?’
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