xQc, HasanAbi and other Twitch streamers find their names in a lawsuit against Yuga Labs

May 2024 · 3 minute read

In a surprising turn of events, Twitch’s big names such as Felix ‘xQc‘ Lengyel, Hasan ‘HasanAbi’ Piker and others such as MoistCr1TiKaL’s names have been found in a lawsuit that will be filed in the court against Bored Ape NFT, as these streamers expressed their protest against this platform.

Yuga Labs, the owner of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) had filed a lawsuit against two individuals- Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen on the basis of false marketing, copyright infringement and more. These two individuals have now given a counter claim against the NFT platform, where they decided to name some big streamers that are equally critical of BAYC NFT.

However, it is important to note here that the counter lawsuit filed by the individuals might not drag these streamers into court as their names have just been used as references, rather as parties in the case. Some of the streamers have already reacted on this development such as HasanAbi who is wondering if he needs to visit the court.

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HasanAbi stunned to find his name in the lawsuit

On his latest Twitch livestream, the streamer addressed this issue after the checking the tweet made by Jeremy Cahen, who goes by the name Pauly on Twitter. He was stunned to see his name being used as a reference to stage a protest against Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT.

The report filed by the individuals states that-

"The public protest against Yuga led to the #BURNBAYC movement (spearheaded by the popular YouTuber Philion, but also covered by xQc, h3h3, MoistCr1TiKaL, Vaush, Hasan Piker). Social media influencers and celebrity YouTubers have been using the #BURNBAYC hashtag, which began trending the same week the RR/BAYC collection sold out." 

After reading this, the streamer exclaimed, “What’s happening? What’s happening? Am I going to court? What the f**k?“, which was evident to show that the most watched US streamer on Twitch was stupefied at the whole situation.

Other streamers such as xQc and MoistCr1TiKaL have also reacted on this issue but they are yet to take an official step on this. Fans are also eager to know whether their names will be involved further in this case or not.

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Redditors react to the lawsuit

This news was shared by a Reddit user in the subreddit r/livestreamfails, and as an obvious fact, it followed with several reactions from the fans. One of the users gave out a hilarious reply that all of the streamers should go as their GTA RP characters and do IRL court stream.

The lawsuit might take an interesting turn as the two individuals decided to take the names of some high profile Twitch streamers, it will be intriguing to see how further the case goes.

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