Members of the Twitch community accuse livestreamer Jason 'JasonR' Ruchelski of faking stream crashes in order to avoid playing Valorant with women.
Popular Twitch streamers often find themselves embroiled in controversy as their audience calls them out on content they don't enjoy, drama between streamers, or specific decisions made live on stream. One Twitch content creator is currently being accused of faking stream crashes in order to avoid playing Valorant with women for mysterious reasons.
Twitch streamer Jason "JasonR" Ruchelski used to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensiveprofessionally but has since moved to Valorant for competitive play. JasonR is known for playing Valorant on Twitch to a large community, but fellow Valorant fan and Twitch ambassador Annie Dro has taken to Twitter to express frustration with his choices. According to Dro, JasonR has avoided over fifty women by pretending his stream keeps crashing and instead of addressing the controversy, he continues to make excuses.
JasonR has repeatedly stated live on stream that he didn't hear anyone in the lobbies he entered before being booted from the game, inferring that he was unaware of who was in the lobbies prior to his regular crashes. "It's true, my game crashed, my internet crashed, my stream crashed," said JasonR amid several expletives during a recent Twitch stream. He continued to express that he didn't hear a woman in the lobby and suggested that his downtime is unrelated to Valorant, CS: GO, or Overwatch team composition.
According to several female Valorant players, JasonR will mute them the times that he doesn't disconnect to avoid playing with them, suggesting that he's trying to avoid the gender altogether while livestreaming. JasonR maintains a Twitch following of around 900,000 fans and some have noticed the Valorant player leaving lobbies with women or muting them since 2018. Back then, JasonR and his girlfriend allegedly banned subscribers with obviously female Twitch names, though these claims remain heavily disputed by the livestreamer.
Multiple clips have recently arisen that seem to show JasonR faking stream crashes to dodge female Valorant players, while some other excuses from the livestreamer fall even flatter. One JasonR fan has pointed out that he was enthusiastically doing Valorant 10-man matches with fellow Twitch streamer Tarik until Stefanie from Dignitas showed up. At this point, JasonR apparently left the match and claimed that 10-man games are dumb and that ranked ladders in Valorant are better and more entertaining, to the chagrin of some fans enjoying the 10-man content.
Ninja is one of the initial viral Twitch streamers as he's broken some records in his time on the platform, and he has also gone on the record to discuss his unwillingness to play games with women on stream. Rather than making excuses for his Twitch audience, Ninja has explained how prioritizing male teammates is in an effort to avoid any assumptions fans may have about him and other female streamers. It remains unclear if JasonR is dodging female Valorant players to avoid similar Twitch drama because he's happy with his girlfriend or if his intentions are more nefarious, as he hasn't addressed allegations made against him.
