Kick streamers Michael "HeelMike," Adrian "SweaterGXD," Cuffem, and Citrus have gone viral after they recently got embroiled in a physical fight. It all happened on HeelMike's IRL livestream on October 23, 2023, when he hosted a house party. Tensions rose when Adin Ross' associates Citrus, Cuffem, and SweaterGXD confronted the host's group.
The situation quickly escalated when SweaterGXD punched HeelMike, resulting in a verbal brawl between the two streamer groups. HeelMike later took to Instagram to address the situation and wrote:
"Adin Ross boys jumped me and I still won, and knocked out two of them. Iron Heel Mike, haha, chin on steel."
On October 24, 2023, X user @scubaryan_ claimed that HeelMike and SweaterGXD had been suspended. They attached screenshots of both content creators' channels and wrote:
"After fighting on stream, Kick as officially banned HeelMike and SweaterGXD from their platform."
"Weird high school drama fight content is kind of lame" - Fans react to Kick streamers HeelMike and SweaterGXD's ban from the platform
The Kick streamers' ban from the platform has elicited quite a lot of traction, garnering over 291k impressions and hundreds of comments. One fan wondered why SweaterGXD had been suspended:
In response, @Yoboiben10 accused SweaterGXD of instigating the physical altercation:
One community member believed streamers have been "doing too much recently":
Meanwhile, another netizen claimed that the Kick streamers did not deserve to be banned because they "didn't do anything":
X user @THOUGHTFVL agreed with the Stake-backed livestreaming platform's decision, commenting:
"Good, this weird high school drama fight content is kind of lame."
Some of the more pertinent reactions were along these lines:
At the time of writing, the following message appears when accessing both HeelMike and SweaterGXD's channels:
"404. Oops, something went wrong. We can't find the page you're looking for."
HeelMike updated the community on X later that day, confirming that he was serving a one-day suspension in the aftermath of the controversy.