"That's not something to f*****g joke about!": Valkyrae cries on stream after lashing out at chat for making fun of "Black Lives Matter"

Popular streamer and co-owner of 100 Thieves, Rachel "Valkyrae" Hofstetter, was left utterly disappointed by the actions of her chat recently, who seem to be becoming increasingly toxic with each passing day.

During a recent stream of Among Us, the 29-year-old streamer decided to make a harmless joke at the expense of fellow Twitch streamer Leslie, who was continuosly dying in-game.

With regards to this, Valkyrae decided to coin the phrase "LLM", an acronym for "Leslie's Life Matters". However, her statement was pounced upon by certain toxic elements in her chat, who took advantage of her harmless joke and proceeded to poke fun at the "Black Lives Matter" movement.

Upon seeing the distasteful remarks cropping up in her chat, Valkyrae couldn't help but reprimand them for joking about such a sensitive movement.

In the aftermath of this incident, she began to hold herself accountable and ended up breaking down on stream, much to the concern of her viewers.

"I'm really disappointed": Valkyrae earns support from fans after toxic chat's "BLM" comments

In a clip from her recent Among Us stream, Valkyrae could be seen reacting to a couple of messages from viewers, who had begun to request her to make her stream a members-only mod.

After appearing a tad confused at first, she gradually began to realize that her chat was making "BLM" jokes in the aftermath of her "LLM" comment.

In light of this, she proceeded to sternly reprimand them for their distasteful jokes:

This unpleasant experience eventually caused her to turn off her stream for a while.

When she finally returned a couple minutes later, her voice seemed to be laced with a discernible emotional tone, as she tried her best to keep her emotions in check:

In light of this incident, she recently took to Twitter to announce that she would be taking a mini break from streaming, which many perceived as a direct consequence of the unpleasant altercation with her chat recently:

Here are some of the reactions online as fans extended support to Valkyrae and defended her from the rising toxicity in chat:

In today's digital age of streaming and social media, influencers and online celebrities inadvertently end up exposing themselves to the internet's toxic side, which rears its ugly head from time to time.

However, the fact that Valkyrae took a firm stand against the distasteul remarks and trolls is further testament of her wholesome persona, which continues to invite praise and respect from all quarters online.

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Saahil is an English Literature graduate, with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism.

An entertainment journalist with a strong penchant for anything cinema, travel and the ever-expansive world of pop-culture, he has contributed to film journals and websites such as Film Companion, Film Critics Circle of India, The Telegraph and Humans of Cinema.

Apart from flitting between the works of Shakespeare and Scorsese, he is also a comic-book aficionado, an avid gamer and sports enthusiast, who dabbles between putting in hours on the PlayStation and writing about the same.

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