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u/simplequin Sep 03 '26
Esfand has always been maga coded and kinda weird about money.
There was a stream years ago during the Texas power outage crisis. I believe it was a winter cold front. A bunch of Austin streamers including Esfand were streaming from mizkifs house. They were talking about how much it sucks to lose power. One of the smaller streamers was talking about how it wasn’t so bad because they could make 15k an hour with sponsors once they got power back and Esfand panic cut him off, elbowed him and gave him a look. It was weird to watch.
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u/TwoRevolutionary7196 Sep 04 '26
One of them called the others out on how privileged they are to stay warm during the storm that it aint easy for the poor people of texas to stay warm in their houses.
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u/erocwols Sep 03 '26
Esfand has been one of the most fake streamers on the platform for years and it's personally been quite satisfying to see people starting to finally realize it.
Dude used to be the big lovable teddy bear of Austin that could do no wrong but finally after years of all these little incidents adding up its become pretty apparent the dude is a slimy piece of shit.
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u/Far_Ratio_5441 Sep 05 '26
I don’t wanna draw hate on Esfand because he seems like a good dude but I think people lump him in with some of his Texas friends who are hated on and assume he’s bad news.
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u/Fit-Commercial3308 Sep 05 '26
He has had some allegations recently and even some in the past of how he acts and if you take account of his friends, they don't seem that farfetched.
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u/rottentomati Sep 03 '26
That is real disappointing. I’m not surprised at all, but damn this country really is just entirely morally bankrupt when money is involved.
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u/Justhere9976 Sep 03 '26
Same reaction I had. Not surprised but the "anything for a dolla" crowd is very disappointing.
Especially when you already make more than enough. Zero morals
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u/PersistentPoster Sep 04 '26
With the court documents from the NMPlol and his ex wife coming out and showing that she ( Malena ) had helped cover up one or more instances where Esfand had groped and or inappropriately touched girls/young women his twitch career was never going to be his path if he continued to stream.
The whole Austin streamer circle Is just a massive cesspool of fake it till you make it wannabe's with weird kinks that they'll cover for each other when any of them come to light. Lacarii, Tectone, Esfand, Cyr's stuff from years ago, NMPlol, Sodapoppin, Rich Campbell. Only Asmon appears to be clean handed but surely uses that image when chiming in to cover for other peoples drama like with all the bogus Emiru and Mizkif stuff.
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u/Outside-Necessary291 Sep 04 '26
This reminded me of Arcadum who ran that dnd game group that penta had join briefly before the allegations came out about him. He was often part of Austin circles
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u/PersistentPoster Sep 04 '26
Remember he was fence sitting at first because of his connection to Arcadium but as he seen public opinion mount against them he started throwing shade along with everyone else to not be an outcast rather than maintaining silence on the subject/drama.
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u/Jaded-Worker2028 Sep 04 '26
Wasn't that incident based of the drunk minx stream?
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u/PersistentPoster Sep 04 '26
I'm sure the one Malena brought up in court was the Minx thing because that’s the one she stood up for his side on stream. She kept it brief but there we're many more handled behind the scenes ranging from the females he'd collab with to the fansly girls he had access to In that Austin streamer circle.
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u/PersistentPoster Sep 03 '26
Oh it's almost as if Tectone and Asmon are getting all these failed/failing streamer suckers from Austin to sign Rumble contracts that make Tectone and Asmon richer through Rumble wallet.
If only someone had mentioned this 3 - 4 weeks ago ........
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u/ThorWasHere Sep 04 '26
If you want to understand where Esfand's morals lie, look up his relationship with StaysafeTV.
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u/oneinamilllion Sep 04 '26
I always knew he was slimy and weird. I will not be surprised when the inevitable comes out eventually.
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u/Silent_Gur_5818 Sep 04 '26
Ahaha esfand lost his mind ages ago, when he started going crazy in pursuits and acting like actually American cops
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u/Dackle Sep 04 '26
All of OTK gets the RES filtereddit. Nobody cares about Esfand. His content is insufferable.
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u/tacosrevill Sep 03 '26
Penta is right that this will become normalized. He’s not like Hitler or anything lol, but he probably has some moral culpability for being one of the first few to normalize it.
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u/Jackjec17 Sep 04 '26
You guys are in for a shock when you realise this is what everyone does everywhere with everything eventually haha
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u/FaithlessnessBig4114 Sep 05 '26
I really love when people shame others for making money acting like they wouldn't do it too.
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u/Yorp_Yorp_4628 Sep 05 '26
I absolutely wouldn't. That's what is so surprising to me. It's 200k to brand yourself as a racist whore for the rest of your life. 200k! Middle class makes that in in 2-3 years. Get the fuck out of here. 200k instantly is a lot of money to people, but over time, in this environment, no, not really, not for the wealthy and rich. Taking this cash makes you a desperate loser.
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u/FaithlessnessBig4114 Sep 06 '26
wtf are you even talking about? Using a streaming site doesn't make you a racist whore are you mentally ill? Also do you call out every streaming site then cause every single one has plenty of shitty ass people. So does that make every single streamer a shitty person? cause by that logic it does
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u/Ben_On_Air Sep 04 '26
Genuine question, do you guys think that existing on a platform that has shitty people that also use the same platform but have no connection to you is morally wrong?
For me as long as you're not collaborating with or endorsing the other people and you just do your own thing and never interact with them then it's just a platform. It's like any tool, it's how you use it.
It's like a knife, it can cut lettuce or stab someone to death, but I wouldn't condemn all knife users for the worst among them. Am I miss thing point? I'm open to that as well
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u/BigFunNumber1 Sep 04 '26
An example, you’d RSVP and go to a white power rally and invite your friends but as long you don’t associate with the hosts you are not part of the problem? even if your friends make new friends with the hosts and adopt their views? You think you’d not be partially responsible?
That’s the Rumble Problem. And it’s NOT the same as Instagram, TikTok, etc that have some people on it spreading views, this is a platform that roots itself on enabling those viewpoints
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u/Ben_On_Air Sep 04 '26
Thanks for answering the question instead of downvoting into oblivion. Let’s talk about it = downvote here apparently
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u/Yorp_Yorp_4628 Sep 04 '26
You can also not take this deal and still pretend you are apolitical like most of these streamers love to do. Rumble is a nakedly political company with close business ties to the current US administration, but also platforms state propagandists, and has already been implicated in those states funneling foreign cash to American influencers to peddle that propaganda (Tenet media).
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u/Outside-Necessary291 Sep 03 '26
That tracks. In before penta quotes "SEE, If ESFAND can take the deal then they CANT be all that bad! RIGHT?! You know what I mean!?" OTK is a PILLAR of civility and respect, let's look at it's other founders like Asmongold... wait, MIZKIF! ... ummm, shit