In an emotional statement on a Twitch stream the previous Monday, Katherine “LunarKats” addressed the reasons why she was forced to separate from TSM over the weekend. He explained that it was due to a Snapchat he did in 2019, in which he said offensive and hurtful things about fast food workers.
TSM launched professional player and streamer VALORANT on Saturday, just three days after it was announced as part of its new all-female VALORANT list. She was ready to compete in the VCT Game Changers Series that kicked off this week before being retired from the team.
“There’s a video of a Snapchat draft I made in 2019 and I said some really painful and insensitive things,” Lunarkats explained during his Monday. “I’m not trying to justify anything I said in the video. Everything I said was absolutely inexcusable and offensive … After that Snapchat download, I stopped posting descriptions altogether. Seeing it again now, I’m very embarrassed and very disappointed in myself. I made a mistake and it was very painful. “
He clarified during the Q&A section of the video that the Snapchat in question was aimed at fast food workers, although he did not provide many details beyond that. He explained that he did not have the video to show, as he deleted Snapchat in 2019 after initially feeling sorry for the decision to post the video.
“I’m really sorry. I don’t want this video to be a representation of who I am, because I really am not,” he said in his apology. “I want to be a better person and my transmission and my friends have pushed me to be a better person and I feel embarrassed.”
Through tears, LunarKats thanked the sports community for “making me responsible,” expressing the need to hold them accountable for their words. He admitted that he did not feel the repercussions of what he said at the time because he did not have many followers in 2019. Now he has to “suffer the consequences”.
LunarKats also apologized to his team, who were forced to play with Ariananarchist as a last-minute substitute in this week’s matches.
“Honestly, it wasn’t TSM’s fault,” she clarified in her chat in response to people saying negative things about the organization that cut her off. “They approached me with the video and it was a mutual decision. They really wanted to protect me from someone using this video against me. But honestly, whatever you do, this person can have this video in their head, so I need to address it. It’s something I did and said. “
Based on his explanation, LunarKats was not removed due to the allegations made by Halei Raeanna, a content creator for SoaR. In Twitlonger, Raeanna accused LunarKats of harassing her to DM and in line with allegations of vision bottling.
These allegations were initially presumed by many as the reason LunarKats split from TSM, but it appears that the removal from the list was due to the aforementioned Snapchat.
While many in the community were curious that LunarKats would be removed from the roster so soon, many sports fans turned primarily to TSM for appearing to bend the rules of the VALORANT Game Changers tournament by getting a supplement to the last one. moment.