UPDATED: The Pot Is Stirred - The Nickmercs vs Huskerrs Beef Continues
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The pot has been stirred between Nickmercs and Huskerrs, two of the most watched Warzone streamers on Twitch.
Before we get into the mud, let's take a step back and talk about Huskerrs. If you want a lil more backstory on Nick, you can read this blog here.
Many people know Nickmercs and the MFAM (the MFAM is community he's built - think of Lady Gaga's monsters but on steroids), but Huskerrs has been growing on Twitch rapidly since Warzone became popular. Huskerrs has been around the competitive gaming scene for a while. Prior to Warzone, he was a professional Apex Legends player for Rogue Gaming. On April 9th, 2020, he decided to pursue streaming full-time and with that, Warzone.
According to esportsearnings.com, Huskerrs is the 2nd highest earning Warzone player with $145,150.01 earned from competing in tournaments.
How the Beef Started
This was the early Warzone days, I'm talking like April - May of 2020. Both Nickmercs and Swagg were competing in a tournament (Swagg was on a PS4) against Symfuhny and Huskerrs who were on PC. The format was 2v2, therefore, whichever duo had more kills after two games would advance in the tournament. Even then, there was a massive hacker issue with Warzone (not much has changed clearly). So, Nick asked Huskerrs if Swagg could host the match to try and avoid hackers as much as possible. There are much fewer hackers on PS4 than PC and Nick thought this was reduce the squad's chances of running into hackers. In reality it probably would not have, but that's using hindsight. Back then, no one knew how matchmaking worked in Warzone.
Huskerrs left Nick on read #PainU, which Nick obviously didn't like. Even then, Nick was THE GUY on Twitch and Huskerrs was an up and coming streamer - maybe around 1k-2k viewers at this time, while Nick had 40k+.
This was the root of all the animosity. Hear Huskerrs' POV.
From this point on, Nick made some jokes about Huskerrs looking like an accountant (which he isn't wrong…). Nothing crazy, but this began to heat up the fire.
It wasn't until Huskerrs opened up on stream and began talking about how much he does dislike Nick. During this same timeline, Huskerrs stream significantly grew and he currently averages roughly 10k live viewers on Twitch. With the rise in viewers, came the rise in confidence and thus, Huskerrs went at Nick more and more.
Today on stream, Nickmercs really made a call to the MFAM to tighten up their actions. After Huskerrs posted the picture of himself and his girl (shown below), some Nickmercs stans took it way too far by attacking Huskerrs' girl on Twitter. Nick made the right move and opened his stream by talking about why that has to stop and to never attack anyone that isn't involved in the drama between Nick and Huskerrs.
Kudos to Nick, we'll see if Huskerrs appreciates this gesture. However, I do not expect these guys to get along any time soon.
UPDATED
This is straight from Huskerrs' as of 3:27pm EST Today
"Before I get into what happened yesterday and today, I want to give everyone a complete rundown of how this entire situation began months and months ago for full transparency and because there is still A LOT of misinformation floating around. I also want to mention I’ve been ignoring everything negative concerning Nick and have been trying to move on for months.
Several months ago, Symfuhny and I played against Nickmercs and Swagg in a Warzone duos killrace tournament. The way these tournaments worked is that one team would host the first map, and the other team would host the second map; Swagg hosted the first map. After the first map was over, Symfuhny and I went to take host, and we ran into streamsnipers and cheaters several times, which forced us to restart the map a couple times. Nick then asked me to let Swagg host to reduce the risk of cheaters since he was on PS4 at the time, but I refused because we deserved to get host like the rules said. He asked me why I wouldn’t let them host, but all I’d say was that we were allowed to host the second map per the rules. The reasoning was that since Sym and I were on MKB on PC, the lobbies would most likely be sweatier on our host, and we knew that we would play better than Nick and Swagg against sweaty players. Because of this, Nick began to hate me and refused to play with me ever again. Initially this didn’t bother me because Nick can of course like and dislike whoever he wants, but over the next month or two there were multiple times where I’d ask my other Warzone friends like Cloak or Tim to game, but I’d hardly get a chance to game with them because Nick would be in the group and say stuff like “Nah I don’t fuck with that dude.” I also then started getting tons of messages in my chat every day asking me “HusKerrs why do you and Nickmercs never play together anymore?” which I always ignored.
Fast forward a couple months—Nick hits me with the unfollow on Twitter, which in my eyes is a “fuck you” to fellow streamers, and that same day some dude in my chat asked me the same question. Annoyed about the entire situation and the unfollow, I told my chat that Nick was being petty about the tournament and acted like a manbaby. I also said “I’ll say it to his face, bring him in a discord,” which was my way of saying I had no problem calling him out directly instead of saying it behind his back. For some reason tons of people, Nick included, interpreted this as me saying I’d literally go up to him in-person and say it to his face in a threatening manner, which is silly because why would I fly to meet someone in-person and get physical over a Warzone disagreement? Nick catches wind of this from someone sending him a clip of my stream and then goes on his stream the next day to call me a 5’7 fruitcake, weirdo, loser, couple other names, and says I should watch what I say about saying it to his face because look what happened to the blue haired dude (referencing an encounter with him and Ninja in-person? I don’t even know what happened). A couple days after that, Aydan makes a Warzone tier list, which I had a watch party for on my stream. When he gets to Nickmercs, I tell my stream that Nick is dogshit at Warzone and has the reaction time of a dead walrus. Fast forward a couple more days, and Nick gets another clip sent to him of my stream from months prior, BEFORE this entire shitshow even started. The clip was me being in a pre-game lobby, opening up Twitch on my second monitor to see Nick in the fitness category while he’s doing a workout stream, and me saying “How are there 30k people watching someone work out I don’t get it.” This was me joking with my chat and making a generic statement. The next day, Nick takes this extremely personal, goes on his stream and gives a 10 minute speech about how I’m an extremely jealous, toxic person trying to belittle the work that he has done to build his community, and that I’ll never get to anywhere near his level and viewership for various reasons, mentioning things like how his YouTube shorts channel is doing better than my main channel, and so on. From this point on, I stop saying anything at all concerning Nick.
For the last 3 months, I’ve had to put my chat in sub-only mode for long periods because of people from Nick’s community constantly coming over and spreading hate and toxicity. There is also multiple comments from his community on many of my tweets, IG posts, YouTube videos, and TikToks. I understand Nick has a huge platform with thousands and thousands of fans that he can’t directly control, but the fact that his community has continued to do this for months after the arguments ended baffles me.
The most upsetting part of this all and what ultimately caused me to speak up about this publicly was what transpired yesterday and this morning. Yesterday, I posted a selfie with someone on Twitter, and within hours I had at least one of Nick’s twitch mods, his own graphic artist that works for him, and people that Nick follows harassing both me and the other person in the picture. This morning Nick responded on his stream. You can listen to his response here:
https://youtu.be/zCGE-zJPC7I
If you listen to the video, Nick speaks for 7 minutes about how he believes in “You reap what you sow” and that I deserve everything that has happened to me, once again bringing up the tournament from several months ago.
I don’t hate Nick and I never have. I’m not out to get him. There is literally no good reason for me to have bad blood with him. I was very frustrated with how things happened and spoke up about it. We both could’ve handled it differently, but at the end of the day this needs to be squashed because I’m tired of constantly dealing with hatred and toxicity. I’d be more than happy to speak with Nick privately to end this, but I felt it necessary to inform people of everything that happened so they have a better understanding."
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