Twitter Bans "George Floyd Gaming" Channel After Massive Backlash

YouTube has banned a channel called "George Floyd Gaming" after significant community backlash to its existence.

The channel appeared to be going for shock humor, using an image of the late George Floyd, the black man whose death at the hands of Minnesota police kickstarted a summer of racial protests over footage of games like Fortnite.

YouTuber Kavos discovered the channel on Saturday, tweeting a screenshot of its videos to his 99,000 Twitter followers.

What the fuck is this channel pic.twitter.com/upKCdCvAGM

— Kavos (@KavosYT) November 15, 2020

Other YouTubers quickly followed suit, posting videos about the channel and questioning its existence. One YouTuber, Brizan, put in a little more work and discovered the Discord server where the channel's creators talked about the sort of shocking/dark humor content they could make on YouTube, floating ideas like "Pedophile Gaming" alongside "George Floyd Gaming."

It seems the Discord also coordinated a mass comment response to videos criticizing their channel, as each critical video is flooded with downvotes and comments reading, "Harassing a YouTuber because he's BLACK is NOT OKAY."

The creator appears to have created a new channel, addressing viewers with a George Floyd facemorph.

The channel recalls several problematic social media trends capitalizing off George Floyd's death. In May and June of 2020, a George Floyd Challenge found people kneeling on their friends' necks in pictures, recalling how Floyd died. A line of George Floyd Toys also drew widespread condemnation from social media for being incredibly tone-deaf in June.