In an emotional statement on a Twitch stream on Monday, Katherine “LunarKats” So addressed the reasons why she was forced to part ways with TSM over the weekend. She explained that it was due to a Snapchat she did in 2019, in which she said offensive and offensive things about fast food workers.
TSM launched professional player VALORANT and streamer on Saturday, just three days after announcing her as part of their new female cast VALORANT. She was set to compete in the VCT Game Changers Series that started this week before being removed from the team.
“There is a video of a Snapchat rant I made in 2019, and it said some really painful and insensitive things,” explained Lunarkats during his stream on Monday. “I’m not trying to justify anything I said in the video. Everything I said was absolutely inexcusable and offensive … After that Snapchat speech, I stopped posting the others. Looking back now, I’m so embarrassed and very disappointed in myself I made a mistake and it was really painful. “
She clarified during the question and answer part of the video that the Snapchat in question was targeting fast-food workers, although she did not provide much detail beyond that. She explained that she did not have the video to show, as she deleted Snapchat in 2019 after feeling an initial regret 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,” she said in her apology. “I want to be a better person, and my flow and my friends have encouraged me to be a better person, and I feel really ashamed.”
In tears, LunarKats thanked the e-sports community for “holding me accountable”, expressing that it needs to be held accountable for its words. She admitted that she did not feel the repercussions of what she said at the time because she did not have many followers in 2019. Now she must “suffer the consequences”.
LunarKats also apologized to his team, who were forced to play with Aryananarchist as his last-minute replacement in this week’s games.
“Honestly, it wasn’t TSM’s fault,” she clarified in her chat in response to people saying negative things about the organization’s cut. “They approached me with the video and it was a mutual decision. They really wanted to protect me from someone who used this video against me. But honestly, no matter what I do, that person can hold this video in my head, so I I need to resolve this. It’s something I did and said. “
Based on your explanation, LunarKats was not removed due to the allegations made by Halei Raeanna, a content creator for SoaR. At Twitlonger, Raeanna accused LunarKats of harassing her in DM’s and online with accusations of view botting.
These charges were initially assumed by many to be the reason why LunarKats parted ways with TSM, but it appears that the removal from the list was due to the aforementioned Snapchat.
While many in the community were curious about LunarKats being removed from the team so early, many sports sports fans were primarily targeting TSM for seeming to break the rules of the VALORANT Game Changers tournament by getting a replacement at the last minute.