Popular YouTuber RiceGum hosted a Twitch livestream that seemingly got him banned for nudity and called out by his ex-girlfriend
- RiceGum is famous for stirring the pot among other creators. Now, he's banned from streaming on Twitch after seemingly allowing partial nudity on his channel and shading his ex-girlfriend.
"I'm gonna take this time to reflect on mistakes," he said in a tweet on Wednesday, April 8.
- The 23-year-old, whose real name is Bryan Le, has faced a fair share of controversy in the five years since he started vlogging.
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RiceGum, the popular YouTuber and video game streamer, is a man of many trades. With 10.6 million subscribers, he makes music videos, video game streams, vlogs, a popular series making fun of TikTok stars, and diss tracks.
The YouTuber, whose real name is Bryan Le, has also faced a fair share of controversy in the five years since he started vlogging — viewers even compared an offensive video he filmed in Hong Kong to Logan Paul's infamously problematic Japan vlog.
Now, Le says he's been banned from using Twitch, the video game streaming platform he previously frequented. "I'm gonna take this time to reflect on mistakes," he said in a tweet on Wednesday, April 8.
As of Thursday afternoon, Le's Twitch channel remained inactive. Twitch did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.
He was seemingly banned from Twitch for showing nudity during one of his streams
According to Dexerto.com, the ban happened soon after RiceGum streamed with two women. At one point in the stream, one of the women appeared to show her butt on-camera.
Le quickly took down the stream of the women, apologizing to fans, but then instructed fans to continue watching them on his Instagram Live stream.
TikTok star Daisy Keech posted a Story calling out RiceGum for bad-mouthing his ex, Abby Rao
In the same stream that seemingly got him banned, Le spoke about why he and his ex-girlfriend, influencer Abby Rao, broke up. "The main thing is like, she just didn't support me," he said, adding some expletives, also calling her, "clingy."
Rao responded on her Instagram Story on Wednesday. "I just want to start crying honestly," she said. "I've tried to be nice, I've tried. He made me not want to be with him anymore."
Daisy Keech, the TikTok star who recently made waves for leaving the Hype House, posted a scathing Story on Wednesday defending Rao, a close friend of hers. "She is the most supportive friend I have ever had in my entire life, and I know for a fact she was like that with Bryan as well," Keech said.
RiceGum is a popular YouTuber known for his controversial diss tracks — and he even made the Billboard Hot 100 for a song about Jake Paul
The 23-year-old's rise to YouTube stardom can largely be attributed to his other controversies, including his diss tracks. Perhaps the most famous one was "Its EveryNight Sis," a parody of Jake Paul's song, "It's Every Day Bro," which has amassed 180 million views on YouTube since its June 2017 release.
The video featured Alissa Violet, Paul's ex-girlfriend. "Stop bragging, just accept nobody knows your Disney show," Le raps on the diss track, referring to Paul's role on Disney Channel's "Bizaardvark." The rap goes into more curse-laden lines about Paul allegedly cheating on his girlfriend and bullying kids in high school.
The song made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 in 2017.
His latest release, "DaAdult," appears to make fun of rapper DaBaby.
Le was in the news with Paul again in 2019, after both YouTubers promoted a company called Mystery Brand that appeared to encourage gambling-style activities to their young followers.
RiceGum has been compared to Jake Paul's older brother, Logan
Despite Le's beef with the younger Paul, he's been compared to Jake Paul's older brother, Logan. The elder Paul received widespread backlash in January 2018 for posting a YouTube video from Japan's so-called "suicide forest," actually named the Aokigahara forest, after discovering a dead body. Paul blurred out the individual's face, but showed their dead body on-camera. He soon deleted the video and issued an apology.
In June 2018, viewers compared a new RiceGum video to Paul's misstep, as the YouTuber approached locals in Hong Kong and asked where he could procure "dog meat" to eat. "In China there's always jokes about, like, Asians eating cats and dogs and, like, I'm in China and I've been kind of looking for the past hour, and I haven't seen a restaurant or anything serving that," he said in the video.
That video is especially poignant now, as the spread of the novel coronavirus has quickly led to racism and xenophobia towards Asians worldwide and their eating habits, as Eater reported.
Le apologized for his behavior in a subsequent video. "White people make white jokes and hispanic people make hispanic jokes, and I thought because I'm Asian, I was allowed to make these Asian stereotype jokes," he said.
Actor and YouTube cooking show host Jimmy Wong criticized the apology. "Who you become as RiceGum in your videos is disrespectful, ignorant, borderline racist, & shameful to all creators, especially Asians," he said in a tweet.
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