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UK streamer Ali ‘Gross Gore’ Larsen says he has started legal action against Behemeth, an Old School RuneScape news and highlights YouTube channel.
Behemeth, which has 121,000 subscribers on YouTube, posted a video on March 3rd 2025 titled ‘This is bad…’
This video started by covering Ali’s reaction to Twitch streamer Whale, who made a tier list of streamers and put Ali in a category at the bottom, with the section title, ‘why are you even here you n*nce’.
Gross Gore then posted a video hitting back at Whale, before posting another video saying he is pushing legal action against Behemeth.
Ali said that since Behemeth posted the video, he’s had people coming up to him in-game calling him a n*nce and that it’s negatively affected his viewership numbers on stream.
“This Behemeth drama is not funny at all,” he said. “I’m taking this very seriously. We’re going down a legal route – it’s already started. This is not a joke.
“Since [Behemeth posted the video], I’ve had so much headache. People attacking me. It’s been a whole disruption to my mental health. It’s taken a hit to my viewership. People are choosing not to watch me anymore.”
Four years ago, Gross Gore was banned by Twitch for ‘sharing sexually suggestive or explicit content without permission from the person depicted, such as revenge porn’, and says he was at the receiving end of a campaign to cancel him.
Seven years ago, Gross Gore was banned from RuneFest for ‘inappropriate or offensive behaviour’, which breached Jagex’s code of conduct.
A year ago, Gross Gore returned to full-time streaming, on Kick.com, and built a following playing Old School RuneScape again, with viewers recently around the 400 to 500 mark.
While some have accused him of harassing behaviour in the past, this is the first time Gross Gore has taken legal action against anyone.
‘I’ve always let this slide [in the past], but this is Behemeth, this is the face of the RuneScape community. This isn’t just an individual like sicknerd calling me a n*nce and saying allegedly this is serious. This is them inciting that I am one. All on their channel, all in their comments, even today they’re talking about it. This is not funny and this is very serious in the eyes of the law.’
Gross Gore
“You can’t just stage things like that and think you can get away with it and let that go under the rug.”
Ali has said Behemeth has 14 days to respond to him, otherwise they will be receiving legal letters.
“This is not a joke, this is happening, I’ve got money now – you can’t just pull my name through the dirt and make up accusations. I’ve never sat inside a courtroom, I’ve never been arrested by the police, I’m 33 years old, I will not be taking this lightly and you’ll be receiving a letter if you don’t comply with me and [respond] to my direct message,” he said.
Individuals involved with Behemeth have since blocked Ali on Twitter and untagged themselves from his posts.
Esports News UK has reached out to Behemeth for comment, and will update this article should we receive one.
Ali has also told Esports News UK he is currently not taking legal action against Whale, because “he’s a nobody”.
Update: Ali has made another post saying proceedings will start.
The news comes after RuneFest 2025 took place in Birmingham, the first RuneFest in six years.
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.
