Asmongold questions showing deepfakes while condemning their spread
The reaction clip centers on whether displaying blurred images can draw more attention to the abuse someone is trying to criticize.
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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 612,366 views.
Pokimane just got cancelled..
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- 0:00Asmongold opens a Reddit post about Pokimane removing a stream that displayed blurred deepfake imagery.
- 0:55Pokimane describes feeling unsafe when friends associate with someone involved in the earlier controversy.
- 1:39Destiny argues that showing the images encourages more people to search for them.
- 2:56Asmongold finds shorter clips containing blurred imagery still accessible after the full stream recording was removed.
Can condemning abusive images end up sending more people looking for them? That is the question running through Asmongold Clips' new excerpt, which has drawn roughly 610,000 views since yesterday.
The upload shows Asmongold reacting to clips of Pokimane displaying blurred, AI-generated sexual imagery of streamers while discussing an earlier deepfake controversy. These are fabricated images, not genuine photographs of the people depicted.
Pokimane describes the discomfort of seeing friends associate with someone involved in that controversy. "It sends signals to like the animal part of you that's like, 'You're not safe here,'" she says in the excerpt.
The reaction then turns from her discomfort to her decision to put the imagery on screen. "She just shows it!" Asmongold says. In another clip, Destiny argues that displaying and discussing the images encourages searches: "You are substantially increasing the amount of people that are going to search for it and find it." That is his warning about amplification, not a measured account of what viewers subsequently did.
The official highlights channel packages the discussion under the title "Pokimane just got cancelled.." Its most concrete closing detail concerns what remained available: Asmongold finds that the full stream recording had been removed, while shorter clips containing the blurred imagery were still accessible on her Twitch channel.
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- Asmongold Clips
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- Video published
- October 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 612,366 (less than a day online)
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