Update (July 2022): Gross Gore says he doesn’t work for a company that “hates” him – Twitch – and would rather continue streaming on YouTube and being himself rather than a “PG Andy” on Twitch.
He said Twitch incorrectly believed everyone who cancelled him and that Twitch cares about women, not men.
As of July 22nd 2022, Gross Gore is back playing League of Legends on stream again:
Original article:
British streamer Ali ‘Gross Gore’ Larsen, known for his League of Legends content and kitchen streams, is planning to appeal to Twitch over his ban.
Gross Gore was indefinitely banned from Twitch in March 2021 for ‘adult sexual exploitation’ following a string of allegations made towards him about his past, including grooming, harassing women and sending adult imagery of an ex-girlfriend Celestia Vega to her mother.
He denied most of the the allegations again this evening on stream as ‘hearsay, drama and crap’ and said he was jealous that Celestia Vega was hanging around with streamer Ice Poseidon after she split up with him, and that’s why he sent the pictures.
Some allegations were originally made on the r/RoastMe subreddit in response to a post Ali made, while others surfaced in a pastepin and on Twitter.
Gross Gore said he was a ‘victim of cancel culture and Twitch giving in to cancel culture’. Now Ali says he’s going to appeal to Twitch, after setting himself a challenge of streaming on YouTube every day for three months. He later failed the challenge, and said he’s considering quitting streaming (see more at the bottom of this article for that update).
“Twitch has given me the option to appeal and I haven’t done it yet,” he said in the below video. “It’s been well over a year. I haven’t done it yet because I feel like I haven’t worked hard.
“As for content, I don’t want to stream League of Legends, I just want to chat to my viewers for five hours every day, from 3pm to 8pm.”
Ali has made a number of changes over the past year. Gross Gore rebranded to ‘Woken Wolf’ for a stint, before adopting the Gross Gore name. Ali also returned to League of Legends earlier this year.
Ali said if he gets back on Twitch, he will give away £20 League of Legends RP cards via channel point challenges.
He also added on tonight’s stream: “There are some positives for going from famous to irrelevant, there are changes you notice. One – when you get donated money you really appreciate it cos it’s life-changing, and two, when you’re irrelevant, you don’t get harassed.”
He said when he was popular on Twitch in early 2021, some people wanted to see him cancelled.
“People love attention and they love views,” he said, before getting drunk on stream and admitting he’s broke. “They’ll do anything for money. It’s survival.”
“My mantra nowadays is to hope for the best and expect the worst. I’m expecting to stay banned on Twitch. But if you expect the worst, you can never get hurt.”
Gross Gore
Last year was not the first time Ali received a Twitch ban.
In 2016, Gross Gore was first banned by Twitch after he made accusatory comments about former League of Legends player and caster Krepo sleeping with someone underage. Gross Gore was unbanned by Twitch in 2017 but later banned for one month after incidents of harassment at RuneFest. He was also banned from attending future RuneFest events.
Update (June 3rd 2022): Gross Gore said he will be doing work experience selling property in London and is excited to try something different. He also spoke about quitting streaming full-time and not having much money, and being thousands of pounds in debt. But said selling his Toyota Supra would be worse than the situation he’s in now.
“I want to sell property to people, I want to make families happy,” he said. “I’ve got the gift of the gab and I want to make something of my life. I want to work a normal job. I don’t want to be roasted for a living on stream, it’s a sad lifestyle.
“I can’t sell my Supra, it’s my pride and it won’t solve anything. In the UK you’re not living, you’re surviving.”
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
