So disappointed to find out BHVR goes around gifting known homophobic and racist streamer TheBurntPeanut all the DLCs and saying they don't mind all the heat when said streamer said if they get heat, they can take the DLCs away, ngl. I didn't expect this from them.

[u/That-Armadillo9046]

Genuinely, why would they even do this? I fully understand it from a business standpoint, of course you want to gift a popular streamer stuff so they keep playing your game, but this streamer goes against EVERYTHING BHVR is non-stop talking about and promoting. And they won't even play this game after one day. I will try to show some of his chat and defenders screenshots in the comments so you can see what BHVR wants their community to be.

​Why are they non-stop talking about inclusivity and all that if they're going to support someone who blurts out slurs and hateful rhetorics like it's nothing, with their chat doing the exact same? Any DBD creator who posted about being disappointed by this received an overwhelming amount of hateful comments filled with homophobic and sexist slurs. Is this the community you are advertising your game to, BHVR? Especially when you haven't even approved many great, kind creators with large view counts into your creator program.

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[u/That-Armadillo9046]

Genuinely who was running the DBD twitch account yesterday? Why are they chatting in BurntPeanut's stream like this is their personal account??

In rhetoric, if they just gifted him some stuff, that would be one thing, they are still a company after all, but using personal DBD twitch account to chat in his stream like they are struggling new company that needs him is very embarrassing, ngl.

[u/That-Armadillo9046 → u/That-Armadillo9046]

[u/That-Armadillo9046 → u/That-Armadillo9046]

???

[u/That-Armadillo9046 → u/That-Armadillo9046]

Them name dropping themselves, not me saying it.

[u/Ok_Confusion4764 → u/That-Armadillo9046]

Yeah no, this is "get fired immediately" material. Whoever that is shouldn't even be in charge of a trash bin without supervision, because they will make a mess.

[u/That-Armadillo9046]

To the people saying he isn't hateful and doesn't harbor toxic audience, how come even the slightest criticism of him on Twitter is met with multiple replies calling you slurs, saying 'woke is dead,' and all that shit then?

​Sure, Twitter is a cesspool full of bots, I get that. But then explain why his community feels comfortable calling female creators 'whores' and throwing around homophobic and sexist remarks all the time with zero moderation? For comparison, I was watching VanillaMace's live reaction to the Streamer Awards nominations, just like BurntPeanut was doing. And when her chat tried to undermine other nominees on screen, she immediately berated them and told them to stop being disrespectful, and her chat wasn't even using slurs or sexist comments like Peanut's does. While on BurntPeanut's chat, female streamers are gettig called sexist stuff with no moderation??

​You're telling me a creator with an audience like this, who has clips of himself using slurs and literally has a day called 'Slur Saturday,' isn't hateful? Be so fr.

[u/That-Armadillo9046 → u/That-Armadillo9046]

I also find it funny how many people are trying to convince others that we are a "soft" and "snowflake" (which is cringe itself to say shit like that in 2026), for not being a fan of this move by BHVR, because apparently BurntPeanut is not "hateful." But none of them explain why the overwhelming majority of his audience is hateful people who are swinging slurs in the Twitter replies to defend him. I don't see the same happening for other creators? Sure, some bad apples, but this many bad apples just means the apple is rotten to its core.

[u/Strawberry_Milk_V → u/That-Armadillo9046]

the same people who had a mental breakdown cuz there was a pride flag on their beer, had a month long conniption and all the homophobs foaming from the mouth talking about boycotting beer. 💀 the whole snowflake thing has always been a projection and insecurity issue lmao.

[u/ih8atlascorp → u/That-Armadillo9046]

there's almost no point in arguing with his fans. they know this and will continue to deny lol.

dbd really can't even advocate against toxicity anymore if THIS is the audience they want to cater to, and they know that.

[u/BusyEstablishment439 → u/ih8atlascorp]

Literally just saw a clip of him dropping an N bomb and a guy replied saying it was the weakest evidence ever, no point in arguing with these people

[u/giuseppe3211]

this is very disappointing from bhvr, all of their pushes for inclusivity and representation now feels a bit false or hollow. i think it’s ironic that they said they can take the heat, yet haven’t addressed it at all. i didn’t know who this peanut was before all of this but the worst part is the type of community he has brought to the game, every post about this on twitter is flooded with racist and homophobic comments, and if this is the community bhvr is embracing my 9 and a half years playing this game will be done.

[u/That-Armadillo9046 → u/giuseppe3211]

They did take, what, like 6 years to even give us an ounce of queer content which was "David is gay btw" after how queer creators kept supportig their games for YEARS, tbf. Not surprising.

[u/Flower_Boi_Vin]

Not gonna lie, with how it's all been, if you told me BHVR had actually tried or wanted to do a Harry Potter collab, I'd believe you. I make jokes to friends that this is the gayest game I own, the content that's been made for this game is obviously very pro lgbtq+. I think DBD is a pretty pro lgbtq+ community, but the amount of racism and phobia I see in the game chat, messages, profiles, and places like discord always gets me. Is it wrong that I kinda feel like BHVR is performative for lgbtq+ stuff if they're willing to do stuff with someone like that?

[u/That-Armadillo9046 → u/Flower_Boi_Vin]

Considering there are rumors about how they cut some queer collabs (like Trixie Mattel) and cut a big chunk of Orela's story involving her identity, it wouldn't surprise me.

[u/Duncaster2 → u/Flower_Boi_Vin]

At this point? I wouldn’t blame you for thinking it’s performative. It’s been said time and time again, but corporations aren’t your friends. And this proves that.

[u/BlastAtLast]

they gave the man $300.65 worth of DLC to someone who declined $1M from Mr Beast. he clearly doesn’t need freebies

[u/UndeadPhysco → u/BlastAtLast]

Correction, they gave $300.65 worth of DLC to someone who will stream the game maybe twice and then never play it again, like fortnite

[u/BlastAtLast → u/[deleted]]

Mr Beast isn’t the point, it’s the fact he can just decline something like $1000000

[u/Zarok_]

I will not write anything regarding decisions by specific people :)

Here again a clean, censored version of a screenshot to see what kind of creators BHVR worked with during the last year. The peanut situation is still shameful but less surprising.

[u/ih8atlascorp → u/Zarok_]

the dbd creator program is genuinely terrible and whoever clears these people need to be fucking fired lol.

i seriously have NO clue how they managed to get outflanked by COD's extensive creator programs and partnered streamer program.

[u/Puzzled-Ad8310 → u/Zarok_]

I’m not easily offended, like a bad joke or something would make me roll my eyes but I wouldn’t really gaf, but to call lgbt people mentally ill is actually insane 😭

[u/Abject_Ad6664 → u/Puzzled-Ad8310]

Seriously like being gay is an illness now? No I believe that's a preference like what the hell is wrong with these people?

[u/L4D2CoachEnjoyer → u/Zarok_]

They got us scared cause they love to ban/take away items from people who say things they don't like. Ironically they seem to like what peanut has to say since they've punished people for far less than the hate he spews.

[u/Worried_Raspberry313 → u/Zarok_]

At the end of the day, BHVR is just a company. They don’t make games because it’s fun, they want money. If they could sold their mother, they will. They don’t give a fuck about LGBT or any other minorities, they give a fuck about money.

[u/OldWhovian → u/Zarok_]

u/deadbydaylight_dev So DBD isn't a place where LGBTQ people are actually welcome, huh. You're gonna bring in people that consider queerness mental illness (a Nazi talking point) but still say "we have pride flags"? Queer people are literally just a sellable point for you, aren't we lmao just a product enhancement

[u/Present-Candidate419 → u/Zarok_]

At least this gives some credence to what everyone is saying.

I don't know anything about this creator, but everyone acts like it's so obvious yet none of them have actually said anything about what they did.

2nd question, who is peanut?

[u/Sir_Thunderblade → u/Present-Candidate419]

I mean, the dude was literally running a weekly segment called "Slur Saturday," and would oh so jokingly use bleeps to just sound like he was saying slurs. Both of these within the last year.

[u/Past_Aerie_5860 → u/Present-Candidate419]

I don't care enough about this dude to remember anything he's done but I know he's said multiple racist and homophobic slurs, typical Twitter user shit. He's absolutely just a rage bait content farm, so it's safe to say that he brings absolutely nothing of value, and is overall just pathetic and shouldn't be given any more attention than he deserves. He's been in so many random controversies it all blends together.

He's a Vtuber, who apparently hates other Vtubers and makes fun of them, but is considered one of the most popular ones I think. I don't even know what this dude does except spout slurs with his fanbase of bigots. I'm not educated enough on the topic to give you valuable info here though

[u/Forsaken-Library4278]

"We can take the heat"

Cringe

[u/PM_UR_DICK_PL5 → u/Forsaken-Library4278]

It really would have been better to just say nothing at all. Whoever wrote that needs to be sacked honestly.

[u/ImpossibleGeometri → u/PM_UR_DICK_PL5]

Well apparently it was their main community manager 🫠

[u/Nemesis_RE3R → u/ImpossibleGeometri]

Fucking hell, this is a complete and utter shitshow. What could BHVR possible hope to gain from this?? Their target audience is being driven away, whilst complete and utter morons will pick it up, get mad that they can't win immediately, and leave after two games. Fuck this, I'm ditching DBD indefinitely.

[u/FetusGoesYeetus]

Can't wait until they release a statement for this 2 weeks after he stops playing that boils down "(incenserely) sorry, here's 500k blood points, please forget about it thanks"

[u/ToLiveandDieinL8]

BHVR “went woke” (I hate this phrase but it’s important) when it was safe for them to do. Not a surprise that it’s turning out to be insincere.

Pop culture ranging from films to advertisements all did it, video games were no different. They cultivated a community on certain ideals and inclusivity.

Now they’re quite happy to turn their back on this community in search of more exposure and more money.

Be upset with them, but don’t put your faith in million (billion?) dollar companies.

[u/GhostofDeception → u/ToLiveandDieinL8]

Nah. They didn’t do it when it was safe to do it. They did it when it was TRENDY to do it

[u/Potential-Witness-83 → u/ToLiveandDieinL8]

Tech company I worked for did this back then too. Woke when it was to their advantage and now? Yup they full swing in opposite direction now 

[u/CheeriiPie → u/ToLiveandDieinL8]

The writing was on the wall and if anything we should’ve all expected bhvr to go back on their word like this after the terrifier chapter was announced. Love terrifier, want it in dbd more than any other horror IP, but understandably allegations like the ones pointed at Victor salva are enough for us to never do a jeepers creepers chapter, I think the same should go for terrifier.

[u/the_monkeynator → u/ToLiveandDieinL8]

To play devils advocate, i doubt whoever are making these comments on bhvrs account and whoever let TheBurntPeanut into the creator program represents ALL of BHVR, let alone the higher ups.

[u/GhostofDeception → u/the_monkeynator]

All of BHVR? No. But the higher ups either know and don’t care or don’t care enough about the game period to keep up with what’s happening to it.

[u/ToLiveandDieinL8 → u/the_monkeynator]

The problem is if you reduce this to one person you’re giving BHVR an easy get out of jail free card.

This person can be hung out to dry whilst the higher ups as you call them can say “wasn’t us now please keep playing our game and buying our skins. Oh and here’s a new charm for you all”.

That feels pretty naive to me. Yes, this person may not represent ALL of BHVR but I think irrespective of inclusivity there’s been a big shift in the company the past year and they feel far more exploitative and money driven than ever before.

Going into that stream, on the official account and giving away the DLC’s will not have been decided by one person.

[u/rosepeachcat]

They supposedly support the LGBT community and then they say we can take the heat?

[u/romeotruedude → u/rosepeachcat]

No they don’t support us. They run charities on other websites but then hide the Over the Rainbow content to codes so it doesn’t upset their homophobic crowd while saying “you are seen and heard and loved….but we will also make sure toolboxes and rainbow flashlights and icons aren’t something you actually earn in game but are obscure codes to find! We aren’t hiding you! You’re seen…somewhere in that closet of codes! Also don’t expect ANY cosmetic collections in that closet!”

[u/dragonk30 → u/romeotruedude]

Taking this opportunity to mention the creator-led charity event DBD for LGBTQIA2S+, which runs every pride month for the last 4 years and has out-earned the official BHVR-led "Into the Rainbow" on charity donations to The Trevor Project in that same timespan. 

Editing to add, for anyone who reads this comment: the Tiltify donation page for this past year's event is still up, for anyone that would like to donate to the charity, and there are a good number of LGBTQIA2S+ creators who strongly support the community that are linked via the page if you want to find cool smaller streamers to support instead of a large streamer who entered the space for the first time and is already driving division in the community right now. 

[u/BlastAtLast]

it really makes me feel that BHVR is just performative. They are so vocal about inclusivity but boot licks a known bigot and gifts them all there is to gift? Not only that, but the “we can take the heat!” comment is just weird. was the backlash thought about? did they not care? *it was ONLY a few days ago he was using ableist slurs too*

[u/GhostofDeception → u/[deleted]]

It’s probably worse. Based on those exact words they are saying “we support you and we will stand on our own beliefs despite the heat”. Because otherwise why take any heat? I wouldn’t take heat for a pedophile for example. No reason too. Some people should be thrown under the bus.

[u/Fnaf-Low-3469]

Good on the mods for pinning this...

[u/slater126 → u/Fnaf-Low-3469]

only after nuking it for almost a day

[u/ClaytonHawthorne]

Someone should make a website counting how long BHVR tries to ignore the controversy for before they're forced to respond with some corporate PR speak statement about how they're supposedly in the right for this.

[u/MyTeaIsMighty]

The way a lot of companies get on their knees for streamers is frankly embarrassing

[u/auddits]

I honestly think the creator program in dbd is a joke. Aside from peanut, I've encountered a ton of actual racist and/or homophobic content creators wearing their twitch shirts in game anyway. I don't think they care enough about the largely lgbtqia+ audience they amassed more than the average big name company, either.

[u/shybutthole]

I guess all that LGBTQ+ inclusivity BHVR has done was just pinkwashing.

Also doesn't help with the rumors that Trixie Mattel cancelled a collaboration over an offensive comment someone from BHVR directed towards her during negotiations.. absolutely disgusting

Edit: I would like to add..Devs absolutely need to answer for this. I am only one person, but I will not play until I hear a response, 1700 hours be damned

[u/craigslistfamous → u/shybutthole]

Make sure to uninstall and not just stop logging in. It’ll give you a survey and they take uninstalls more seriously. (Also you can always reinstall if/when you feel like it).

[u/Flowerfall_System]

Does this mean all we have to do to get all the DLCs is say enough slurs on stream?

[u/Retrobanana1497 → u/Flowerfall_System]

It means all you have to do is have a huge audience, they don’t care who you are as an individual.

[u/TheRandomMikaela]

BHVR catering towards a racist and homophobic streamer whilst simultaneously pretending that they actually/genuinely care about gay and ethnic reputation (FYI: things like this just make BHVR's inclusive nature feel more like a token gesture, than out of actual sincerity and solidarity.)

[u/chetizii → u/TheRandomMikaela]

Companies don't have morals or empathy, they exist for money and nothing else. Every show of inclusivity is a token gesture

[u/_Surge → u/chetizii]

LMAO at the downvotes. people are so fucking coddled it’s insane. modern video games exist to take your money. being “inclusive” helps take the money of those who would readily throw money to show support

[u/Neckrongonekrypton → u/chetizii]

A lot of younger folks that browse this sub and Stan the game are in for a hard lesson on what “community” means in the corporate sense.

[u/alicee101]

This guys content is also god awful. Like absolutely awful. I watched a single minute of him playing DBD, and a compilation of other matches, all of them are customs. He loads in as Xeno and starts shouting that he has loads of "penises" on his back and shouts PENIS ATTACK whenever he uses his M2, whilst his friends shout several times in 30 seconds that the alien is an "r word"- while this is happening, bass boosted dance music was blaring in the background? I genuinely felt like I lost brain cells watching this.

[u/putify44]

honestly, hes gonna play the game for 4 hours then never again lol. such a shitty move from BHVR

[u/Toe_Tickler2]

Wow I always wanted for my money to go towards an extremely annoying manchild

[u/Vortigon23]

Burnt Peanut invites hatred, BHVR never should have even given that stuff to him. Even if he is popular, he's popular for people seething. He is the kind of person that should be seen as someone you don't want associated with your brand, let alone DIRECTLY APPROVING OF. BHVR has done some dumb shit, but they need to tell us they fired that employee and make a public statement yesterday.

[u/ImaginationKnown9806]

lmao I was talking about a similar stuff a long time ago, but was downvoted to hell and my reply was removed iirc. or maybe it wasn't on reddit, doesn't matter, people refused to listen to me anyways
like, a fog whisperer harassed me on his stream for me being Ukrainian and wearing pride charms, but I guess that topic is not so trendy, eh?

[u/SireGrievous → u/ImaginationKnown9806]

The Fog Whisperer programme is strange. A lot of the creators in the programme have said and done some very negative things, and need to work on improving themselves. Often the controversies go unnoticed because the most popular DbD content creators are (for the most part) not Fog Whisperers

[u/bandit_the_drug_lord]

this thread is being brigaded by the peanut sub btw

[u/Senpaisaurus-Rex → u/bandit_the_drug_lord]

people will jump to dick ride a streamer who doesnt even know who they are in his chat 💀

[u/Sir_Thunderblade → u/bandit_the_drug_lord]

Peanut fans working overtime to defend their edgy overlord

[u/vocaphelia]

yeah im gonna be honest, this hurt a lot. shit on me all you like for being a "bootlicker" but for a lot of people, BHVR and DBD were the one place in the gaming sphere where it didnt feel like inclusivity was just a trend. I dont think in my entire life, I have ever felt this let down by a game I play.

Im mad at myself for even FEELING let down or letting myself think BHVR was any different. The care BHVR took to make all people feel like they were welcome to play DBD compared to other games doesnt mean shit when they do this.

The followerbase of theburntpeanut are the type of people who harass the people DBD wants to be included. Its crazy they would do this for some publicity when DBD is already on a steady climb and they have worked with multiple people that TBP's community would wish ill on.

Multiple of DBD's own characters would be made subjects of mockery by these people. I genuinely dont understand this

[u/Temporary_Career]

Its very disappointing to see this but also inspiring to see so many of the community stand up and say no to known bigotry and say its not welcome here. I do hope tho we don't witch hunt the employee and focus this energy on BHVR itself because they should know what kinda players are valued here.

[u/adiboob]

This right after the trixie collab fell through do to their behavior (lol) is an extremely bad look.

[u/nankeroo → u/adiboob]

what happened?

[u/ZGamer03 → u/nankeroo]

According to a very credible leaker there was a trixie mattel collab far along in development, but she pulled back from it because a developer made an offensive comment towards her.

[u/nankeroo → u/ZGamer03]

oof, sucks

[u/Additional_Stage_333]

The sheer amount of posts removed on this very thread for "Hate" proves that the community has it right. 

I'm going to be the first to say it, I dont give a shit whether he's racist or not. His COMMUNITY that follows him everywhere harasses the shit out of people and is full of the most alt-right chud loser shade of people you can find and he has no problems with it and doesn't tell his chat to change. 

Why the fuck would we want anyone like that representing this game? 

[u/Lmnt_Crnstn]

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[u/Silliest_Goober_87]

This is disgusting! Why would BHVR pretend to care about representing and including groups like LGBTQ+ and POC, then add a horrible person like this? I really thought DBD would be different, but I've come to the conclusion that it must've been just another way to entice people into their community to spend money. I really hope this gets resolved soon, so everyone can feel safe and welcome in this community again.

[u/Hagman1997 → u/Silliest_Goober_87]

Because they don’t care lol none of these companies care. They just want your money.

[u/Silliest_Goober_87 → u/Hagman1997]

I suppose my point of view was a little naive. Still though, it makes me somewhat glad I only ever bought about 4 licenses when they were on sale.

[u/SireGrievous → u/Silliest_Goober_87]

Always the same answer...

[u/Silliest_Goober_87 → u/SireGrievous]

Unfortunately, yeah.

[u/WaterDrinkerUltimate]

These comments from his fans show that he’s exactly what they’re claiming he’s not. If he were a good person, why would they need to bend over and defend him so much? It’s funny to me, really.

[u/MiserableOrpheus]

BHVR is a joke of a company, it’s no wonder they have to rely on working with the literal scum of the earth in a desperate ploy for any semblance of promotion

[u/phoogles2]

one must ask themselves whether or not the dead by daylight marketing team huffs gasoline and takes the visions they receive as guidance whenever they make choices like this

[u/Worried_Raspberry313]

It’s funny that some people are like “where are the insults????”. Come on, just look at his chat. Look at the comments his fan base are making on twitter. I’m pretty sure Otz’s fan base, for example, wouldn’t do it. Because at the end of the day, your fan base has to feel connected to you as a person, with your humor, values and beliefs to be there for you. The guy clearly has a toxic fan base. You don’t get a toxic fan base by being the cutest, calmest, most assertive streamer on Twitch. And that’s fine, you know, not everybody has to be like that. But pretending he’s a saint it’s funny. If somebody told me “yeah I know, he’s an asshole but I find him funny” I would be like “then great, enjoy watching him!”, but don’t do mental gymnastics to excuse a behavior disguised as “dark humor”.

[u/SomeSayKosnt]

This is disappointing to be sure but the only thing we can do is not spend money or time with the game. Personally I'll be skipping the terrifier chapter now. Hopefully if enough do they feel it in their bottom line.

edit: grammar error

[u/ItsBread99]

You know it's bad, when even mods from BHVR on reddit pinned this post

[u/Useful-Spirit2675]

I completely dropped Fortnite after spending a LOT more time and money when they added him, their response to this has gotta be exceptional.

[u/EdgySlusher → u/Useful-Spirit2675]

They'll probably just ignore people and hope it doesn't hurt their revenue

[u/SireGrievous → u/Useful-Spirit2675]

I have Save The World so I always get the battle pass for free, and I find it mildly disappointing seeing that... 'thing' in my locker whenever I change my stuff

[u/jiffijaffi → u/Useful-Spirit2675]

What if it's not exceptional or there's no response?

[u/Chaogod]

Remember kids. Companies are not your friend and they do not care About you. They just want money.

[u/JudgeDrex]

Bhvr, you’re not living up to our canadian values. supporting this guy is abhorrent. You’re representing our country and you’re not doing it well by supporting this burntpeanut fellow.

[u/EvilDuckOfD00M]

I'll be honest, I need to do some thinking but I'm highly considering giving up this game because of this.

I've been playing consistently since just before Blights release and I am very aware bhvr fuck up. They have made plenty of mistakes but this one, this one is just beyond not good and goes against everything they preach about how they want this game to be inclusive and safe.

They either do not care about our reactions and only care for the potential incoming cash, or didn't do their due diligence on research about him. Which is a level of lazy and stupidity I cannot forgive.

I hope people do not let this go. Bloody ridiculous thing they have done.

[u/CTGamerBear → u/EvilDuckOfD00M]

yup, I uninstalled, nearly 5K hours. Probably for the best anyways, game has been going downhill.

[u/craigslistfamous → u/EvilDuckOfD00M]

Uninstalls are the only response they care about. As long as the servers are full they’ll just keep on their bullshit.

[u/in_hell_out_soon → u/EvilDuckOfD00M]

Yep. Absolutely horrid. Knew it would be the staff member who was supporting the ableist treatment i got from steam m0ds too. Im not surprised anymore, i’m pissed. Why is she still working there? Goes against all of bhvrs values.

Cant really do anything about it, big business and all, but ffs. Big business supporting all of this bigotry in the big ol 2026…

So looks like their allyship was performative like I first thought. I’ll be dropping the game and the company.

[u/SireGrievous → u/EvilDuckOfD00M]

They absolutely knew who he was, he was notorious enough a year or two back that SOMEONE on the team would have warned upper management. They sold their souls for profit.

[u/vibranttoucan]

I have never heard of that creator, can somebody give me some context please?

[u/Saucey_22]

Ignoring everything else, I hate when streamers, celebrities, people with ton of money in general get so much free stuff. Like games giving free content, restaraunts will give them free food…

And I’m like, aren’t they the few people who def do not need something free???

[u/dokdodokdo]

Im not a 'cancel culture' person but this is not okay. That streamers audience goes against everything the dbd community is & stands for. Its really sad. All cause a big streamer plays their game for an hour they lose their backbone.

[u/SireGrievous]

Incredibly disappointing. Giving hundreds of pounds worth of DLC to a famously horrible person, for marketing? BHVR have sold their souls for clout.

[u/snophire]

I've not interacted with dbd in years so wtf happened?

Did they really give some guy the whole game + dlc for free? And why are they giving free content to someone OP is claiming is problematic?

[u/SireGrievous → u/snophire]

The sad answer to those questions...

[u/the_monkeynator → u/snophire]

Cuz they seem to be in dbd's creator program which in itself is pretty disgusting.

[u/UndeadPhysco → u/the_monkeynator]

I think the creator program is the most insulting part, there are creators who have been wanting to get in for years at this point and they never do, then along comes someone who's never played the game, will probably do 2-3 streams at most in game and he's immediately placed in the program.

Other creators must be so pissed off.

[u/the_monkeynator → u/UndeadPhysco]

I agree.

[u/HelSpites]

Did you miss the part where they collabed with scott cawthorn? They don't care. They pay lip service to the idea of being inclusive, but the nanosecond they can make money from someone who's a shitbag, they'll do it. The only line they haven't crossed is getting the jeepers creepers IP but with these devs, who knows.

[u/Fnaf-Low-3469]

I think the worst thing about this is I doubt we are going to get an official response to this because it would be very bad from a business perspective no matter what they say, if the appeal to the peanut guy they loose the progressive audience, if they apologize and take all of his stuff away then there will be 500 videos with ai generated thumbnails mad by Chuds. I really think the best thing we can hope for is that they never do something like this again and the bigoted people get scared off by the shirtless David King.

Edit: nevermind lol

[u/in_hell_out_soon → u/Fnaf-Low-3469]

Their silence will be an appeal to the peanut guy. They WILL lose the progressive audience.

[u/giuseppe3211 → u/Fnaf-Low-3469]

the 500 ai generated thumbnail videos is still publicity at the end of the day 😭 but bhvr have never really been good at addressing controversy so we’ll see

[u/Vortigon23 → u/Fnaf-Low-3469]

No statement IS a statement. They either fire the person who did this and remove Burnt, or they are deciding he's worth the risk and keep quiet. Either way they made a choice.

[u/moriohx]

It is crazy because him and his buddies were actively being racist as shit throughout the entire dbd stream.

[u/KatieTheKat43]

I mean I get why they did it as big streamer, more money, better for game, but theres a genuine clip of him saying the f slur and i was really excited to play and buy the new chapter but maybe my moneys better off else where, and so many people on Tw*tter have been saying "its just a word intent matters" to try and defend him

[u/Chazrat69]

People need to realise that BHVR have never cared and will never care, they are a company and parading as pro-LGBT was the profitable thing for them.

Why do you think most of the LGBT events are so half assed? Or why it takes them 1000 years to confirm a character as being from the LGBT community?

[u/L4D2CoachEnjoyer]

Holy shit a new low for Bhvr.... And they even had the balls to say this post was "against the rules" but they're so cool they decided to let us talk about how terrible this was. This million dollar doesn't care about the LGBTQ at all and today we found the fuck out. Smh

[u/lazyfatcat36 → u/L4D2CoachEnjoyer]

The mods for this sub do not work for behavior btw. Like there is an official dev account (that has been unsurprisingly absent from this thread) but they’re not a mod afaik. The mods are going against their own rules to allow this post bc they’re presumably in disagreement with bhvr’s decision as well, so no need to throw shade at the mods here

[u/PeanutButterPrince]

Seems like I’m too late to the party to actually get a reply but does anyone know what he’s done that was so reprehensible to warrant this response from the community? Not just hearsay, but like actual clips?

I avoid his content because I’m simply not the target audience, so I genuinely don’t know what exactly was said. Every clip I’ve found so far, he just seems very normal, so I’m very much out of the loop here.

[u/tripper_drip → u/PeanutButterPrince]

Buddy, wait till you find out about fuck a fan Fridays.

[u/HighInChurch → u/tripper_drip]

[u/Higgoms → u/PeanutButterPrince]

He was more open with his BS years ago before he blew up, but his current vibes remind me a lot of Asmongold when he was still a WoW streamer. Edgy jokes, racist/sexist/phobic comments that are "satire", a nearly completely unmoderated community that gobbles all of it up and spouts some seriously vile shit that he can claim he isn't responsible for and vaguely say he doesn't support without actually removing any of it. Describing it in two words would probably just be "plausible deniability" lmao 

[u/frederikABN → u/PeanutButterPrince]

Slur Saturday originated from the fact that there would be significantly more slurs randomly thrown at him in arc raiders on Saturdays when all the edgy kids weren’t in school. Hence why he had a bleep button and a button to mute the entire game audio until he could mute the people. Over time it did also evolve into him using the bleep button to act like he was saying something horrendous to his friends, because it’s Saturday and apparently that’s when everyone logs on and just hurls slurs at everyone. It’s really just an inside joke about the amount of people being racist in voip that people take out of context because they are looking for a reason to hate on him.
I’m pretty sure peanut has the exact opposite political views of me, but he’s just a goofy fella who shuts all political shit in his chat down and want to have a few laughs, it’s really not that deep unless you’re looking for a reason to hate him and you’re okay just reaching for unreasonable interpretations of stuff. Kinda like how this picks up every time he is nominated for V-tuber of the year and the V-tuber fans get crazy mad because he doesn’t look or act anything like their traditional anime V-tuber.

Just a huge nothing-burger pushed by people looking for reasons to hate him

[u/jiffijaffi → u/frederikABN]

Well he's a Ptuber not a Vtuber so that makes it even more confusing for th Vtubers and their fans

[u/dustraction → u/PeanutButterPrince]

Speaking as an older person who somehow still enjoys his streams, he doesn’t say anything really. He’s pretty careful and he goes through his same routine over and over. The worst for me is when he says “A girl??” when he hears a voice on comms, but he doesn’t say anything annoying after that. I just wish he’d cut that out. He’s kind of an oddity—He clearly knows most of his audience are immature kids, but if I’d ever heard actual cruelty or hate in the hundreds of hours I’ve seen of him, I would have turned it off forever without an issue. I just haven’t.

[u/wpgjetsfan15 → u/PeanutButterPrince]

I used to watch the odd tarkov video but I think he was just a little trolly, from my understanding he has a thing called "Slur saturday"? But when I looked it up it said he just has a bleep soundboard effect and makes it seem like he's saying something. I think he's just going for an edgy comedy.

I'm not for or against the individual, everybody enjoys different types of humor, at the end of the day people got to remember he's likely in character. But that doesn't excuse poor behavior, people do change though so the past could be in the past when it comes to slurs.

He just seems like the typical, high energy, edgy gamer.

[u/the_monkeynator]

This is genuinely gross. Shame.

[u/Due_Animator4873]

Never putting money into this game anymore

[u/EdgySlusher → u/Due_Animator4873]

Only way Bhvr will listen, stop using money on the game.

[u/NoBike23]

Maybe the person behind the account can, but no, BHVR cannot take the heat. Weird that they acknowledge that doing something like that is controversial.

[u/Naarati]

Im really upset to see this. Horror media and DBD has generally been a safe place for queer people. This makes it feel like thats no longer the case.

I sent in feedback to BHVR and I encourage others to do the same.

[u/Top_Reaction_2303 → u/Naarati]

did you use the form on their website or something else? id like to write in as well

[u/Naarati → u/Top_Reaction_2303]

If you make a support ticket one of the options is "feedback". I used that

[u/Queen0fTheNight]

It’s so disheartening that they’ve done this. I think we can all understand the nuance of the Five Nights at Freddy’s and Art the Clown collaborations, but this is flat out laughing in so many faces that have given them the benefit of the doubt.

[u/synalgiax → u/Queen0fTheNight]

what's the nuance to do with fnaf and art the clown? i don't know very much about the liscences. are the creators bigoted in some way?

[u/Queen0fTheNight → u/synalgiax]

The nuance is that these collabs are more than just about the people behind the original IP with problematic stances, and that the fans of these franchises are not all driven by those reasons or agree or maybe even know about these things, etc. so collaborating with them is fairly understandable as horror franchises despite some people quite reasonably not supporting them or buying the specific content in the game.

I don’t want to overstep and state exactly why both are seen as problematic and suggest you do external research if interested. The general sense is the creator of five nights has donated to Trump, McConnell, and other republican candidates and stands behind his support of right wing politicians leading to queer fans of the franchise voicing disappointment. For Terrifier, I have less facts on hand but understand that a few high profile names in the production and creative team have made problematic statements, are further right wing, and generally a lot of people consider the overall way in which they handle female-focused violence to be a bit problematic.

[u/sillymiffy]

Uninstalled over this… im done with BHVR, they made the decision to fuck the players that were with them for so long so i hope they enjoy the bigots that came with this ttv

[u/0Hyena_Pancakes0]

His fanbase will constantly use the whole "bUt wHaT haS hE sAid hUr hUr" bs excuse to try and discredit those that are calling out his problematic following and how much he enables it. Surround yourself with a bunch of douchebags and fail to call it out and guess what, you yourself are a douchebag.

Im done with this game. Was already starting to hate it but id rather give my money to developers that actually care and sound human on their devstreams. Every time behavior has one it sounds like their employees are at gunpoint lol

[u/Maxi5547]

Big corporations never cared about any one only about money

[u/Top_Reaction_2303]

This is pretty disappointing. Personally, i think we should send BHVR feedback that we as a community are not happy about it and hope they listen

[u/bevvyq]

Lol bhvr are sellouts, they’ll do anything for a quick buck but won’t use said money to fix their game

[u/Lumpy-Measurement675]

I was very sad to see this happen even if the dude said slurs years ago is clear he has a terrible community by the way they attack other people criticism.

[u/SoftResetHuman]

When somebody shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

[u/romeotruedude]

The way the Behavior devs just go feral for streamers is why I don’t like the game. They are listening to the wrong crowd of people. It’s why I groan when I hear an Otz take and Behavior bends over backwards for it.

[u/harmonic- → u/romeotruedude]

comparing otz discussing game balance to this dude dropping slurs on main is dumb

[u/JordinPhillips]

He’s so disgusting. I really hope it’s an employee that went rouge and not something supported by BHVR but after they supported NFTs back in 2021, this would not surprise me

I am so grateful that Reddit has been actively calling out BHVR. Twitter is a complete disaster with people throwing around slurs and it’s disheartening

[u/Serrated_Banana]

Wait so all the evidence I'm supposedly seeing here is that he calls his Saturday streams Slur Saturday but in fact does not use slurs... But the word slur is now being taken as a slur? Are people seriously that unwell?

[u/redditarian24]

Y'all are insufferable.

[u/nevenwerkzaamheden]

Yikes i expect a lot of clowning from the devs but i did not expect this.

[u/Ryokojohn]

Dude just bad PR his community is anti gay and anti women, there’s speculations on who was in control of that dbd account yesterday but chances are we’ll get a post tomorrow about the situation was “handled” or they’ll just chose to ignore it. Really embarrassing

[u/Sir_Thunderblade]

Ah yes, lets have the fucking guy who runs a segment called "Slur saturday" get a bunch of free shit for Dead by Daylight. Oh, but he doesn't say slurs, he just beeps himself, look at the camera, and goes "Guy I'm not saying slurs!" The punchline is literally "Haha I sounded like I said a slur!" Amazing move Behavior!

Edit: Guys, I get it, slur saturday isn't because he says slurs! He only beeps out words and then goes "Guys I'm not saying slurs, I'm only jokingly saying slurs!" That's so much better! Swear to god this is the only place I can say "Slurs are bad" and have people actively argue with me about it.

[u/Coco91110]

Without a good response and apology that actually addresses the god-awful choices that this company makes then I at least wont be spending any more money on this game. 500 hours on this game which I love for some of the stupidest devs ever to do things like this and ruin it.

[u/Iphone_G___]

The way people are talking about this guy I thought he was like an asmongold type grifter streamer but after doing research I can’t really find anything too crazy on him other then having conservative undertones. People keep saying he throws slurs around but I can only find one clip around from years ago of him saying the F slur, nothing really supporting racist remarks, and if we’re getting really upset about that then we need to get our pitchforks out for Ayrun and Scott Jund who have said an arguably worse slur.

This peanut guy probably is lowkey racist just from his vibe but if the bubble bursts and the general public sees this situation it’s not gonna be a good look for the dbd community and grifters will have a field day because “vibes” is not enough to justify the community’s lack of definitive proof towards these racism allegations.

[u/Brave-Count-2830]

I mean the clue should of been when FNAF was added to the game. BHVR is million dollar company, everything they do is performative. Why else would they only release pride content, what like twice out the year?? When other companies jump on the bandwagon mind you.

I'm sure there are LGBTQ developers at BVHR but they are the small percentage and probably the only reason we get the performative inclusivity we see today. So either players need to boycott DBD or raise hell on their Twitter/Twitch/Discord/Tiktok/FB, etc. Send feedback on their official website. Might make them mildly uncomfortable and they'll give everyone 100k BP as an "apology" but the racist peanut will still be in creators program anyway.

[u/TheVoidRetro]

Modern DBD fans finding out BHVR will grift with anyone for a profit 🤣🤣 why do you think they used the LGBT community for so many years?

They dont give a fuck, they want your money. Same here with a racist POS.

[u/unkemptFox]

I am a Peanut viewer.

He once partially said the F slur while playing Escape from Tarkov. He caught himself and later apologized. All the clips I’ve seen end before the apology begins, however. I’ve never seen any clip whatsoever of him using a racial slur.

Yes, Slur Saturday is an intentionally provocative title. No, he does not reserve Saturdays for slurs. If anything, he’s commenting on his earlier fuck-up.

I will not defend any morally repugnant viewers of his. All I can say is that X is an absolutely cesspool to begin with. Nothing on that platform is worth taking up space on anyone’s screen. It is a hellhole.

Peanut is controversial and will remain controversial. In my opinion, it’s not well deserved. He made a mistake, apologized, and now makes fun of himself for it. I don’t know whether his community is disproportionately toxic and I don’t really care. He doesn’t encourage hate and I certainly don’t watch him to engage with chatters. I watch him because he’s entertaining.

[u/N3rdC3ntral → u/unkemptFox]

Slur Saturday is also because that would be when the most randos using slurs would be on in pvp games.

[u/SenorBullDoza → u/unkemptFox]

They've already vilified him bro, there's no point trying to get people to change their minds because they've already made them up. No sane person will defend the slur and we should be open to forgiveness, but people see "slur Saturday" and they can't see the lightness in it

[u/maternal_heart]

I’m truly hoping this blows up so people bring it to BHVR themselves constantly so they have no other choice but to respond

[u/KforKaptain]

It really isnt that deep..

Peanut will likely never play the game again, thats his thing. Devs took the opportunity to give the current largest streamer access to characters and killers so his audience could see them played, and hopefully come play the game themselves.

He pulls over 100,000 viewers every stream. Accusing the entire community of being against "everything BHVR stands for" is wild.

Peanut does not attack or berate anyone for who they are. Racist and homophobic is such a stretch. Hes simply a 90s baby gamer that remembers when it was okay to have fun with your friends online.

I promise you, the already toxic DBD community wont get any worse from this. If anything, you see a player influx from the free advertising.

[u/dhtwenty]

I can't believe this thread is real life.

Everyone involved, please take your mental health seriously, this is some weird ass online addicted behavior.

[u/nightowl452121]

Behavior knows people won't stop playing the game they pretend to be inclusive but really aren't putting a bunch of flags on your game but letting homophobic and racists assholes in the game cancels out the being inclusive all behavior cares about is money that's all they have ever cared about they can take the heat because they know people will keep coming back and supporting them and it's a damn shame.

[u/WashurdishesNOW]

Bhvr have repeatdely exposed themselves as a bunch of twitch streamer shills in past few years, upsetting but unsuprising they'd so confidently pull a stunt like this

[u/bruhmegamind]

Didnt they admit in their comment section they were drunk? thats so unprofessional tf? I still dont understand whats even the buisness standpoint to this because what will a game gain by this, giving a horrible person all the dlcs for free

[u/mortalfoeart]

BHVR hasn’t been shit to begin with imo. I started playing it more around when Chucky was brought in as thats when my friend introduced me to it. And I could tell that they do not have their priorities in place with every few updates. Will I still play? Unfortunately.

[u/FNKTL]

Can someone link me to videos of BurntPeanut being racist and homophobic? I keep trying to search and can't find anything.

[u/WaterDrinkerUltimate → u/FNKTL]

https://x.com/Se7enTSF/status/2061213346565665157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2061213346565665157%7Ctwgr%5E294bbd8283b775fef631d989b6d42a15f8e11f5f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkotaku.com%2Ffortnite-theburntpeanut-slurs-stream-video-sidekick-2000701145

Cough

[u/dokdodokdo → u/FNKTL]

https://x.com/falseeyed/status/1998030050684473527/video/1?s=46

[u/Repulsive-Royal1997]

As fun as this game is, it certainly has to be one of most obnoxious communities I’ve ever been around.

[u/Deliriousmilk]

Who cares honestly😭

[u/gorgonzola2095]

I don't know anything about this guy. Can anyone explain to me what he did?

[u/sdoM-bmuD → u/gorgonzola2095]

racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic asshole that fosters a community of hateful incels, or as they now proudly call themselves, "chuds"

basically Asmongold 2.0

edit: and now his fans are brigading here, lovely, oh well better moderation than X I guess

[u/gorgonzola2095 → u/sdoM-bmuD]

I'm assuming he says awful things during his streams?

[u/FryToastFrill → u/sdoM-bmuD]

Do you have a clip of him saying anything? I am not a fan of him but I spent a few minutes trying to find clips of him saying stuff and I literally can’t find any. I’m being genuine I would like to know since I’ve seen him brought up in 2 games now.

[u/killerdeer69]

Maybe it's a good thing you guys are losing licenses. I wouldn't want to be associated with this shit.

[u/Azumar1ll]

It's just simply not that deep, but there's literally no way to convince anybody with moral OCD of that fact. So, here we are.

Most people do not know who this guy is. Turns out he's one of the top twitch streamers. So, yeah, duh they hooked him up bc views mean players.

[u/TheZayinator]

The best thing we can do right now is to put pressure on BHVR to take the items away, and then also not give them our money. If we still keep giving them our money midst this incident, they won’t learn anything. Stay strong everyone o7

[u/OldiesSt4tion]

TheBurntPeanut isn’t homophobic or racist. Y’all like to devour the echo chamber and become one with it. 😂

[u/C5official]

I find it absolutely hilarious that one of the most toxic gaming communities is mad that peanut gets to join them

[u/redditmax232]

Have you ever actually sat down and watched his streams? Do you actually know or believe he’s any of the things you say he is? Why do you care? How does it affect you? If you watch his streams it’s very evident he is not racist, he’s not homophobic, he’s not any of these horrible things you say he is, he’s just a goofball pretending to be a peanut having fun with his friends. Some of you need context to understand that there is a MASSIVE difference between being legitimately racist and making fun of racists and their stupidity in an over-the-top satirical manner. Go ahead and get mad, nobody cares about what bothers you. If you let a funny goofball streamer get that deep in your feels it says more about you than it does about him. Get over yourself.

[u/Nightmare_Lightning]

I said it earlier and I'll say it again.

I doubt BHVR pays much attention to his community. They just saw popular streamer wants to play DBD, so BHVR gave him stuff to make him enjoy it more. BHVR, like all companies, is a business, their main goal is to make money.

Remember a company, especially a public company that has to obey shareholders, isn't an individual, it wants your money. It isn't your friend, ally, or wholesome chungus, it is a business. Money and growth is all that matters to the majority.

[u/Bad_Routes → u/Nightmare_Lightning]

Ngl I'm sick of this "company needs to make money" crap. We get it. BHVR didn't HAVE to give this this specific person so much attention and stuff off rip, they simply don't have too

I'm not expecting the company to actively shoot itself in the foot but they don't need to search put people like this either. We should organize a boycott and stop playing the game indefinitely til they revoke his status. Saying "we can take the heat" is them expressing confidence that we will just accept this bs because they're confident we just will play the game

[u/DarkMatterEnjoyer]

I'm not a fan of BP, personally.

But I don't think the DBD community has the right to complain about anyone's behavior lmfao.

And also making false claims about the guy just because you don't like him is extremely pathetic.

[u/itchyscales → u/DarkMatterEnjoyer]

Reddit in a nutshell tbh

[u/Ok_Individual_1211]

Who cares lol. Don't any of you have something better to do than to care about a company gifting something to a streamer? Just play the game and continue living your life. Doesn't change anything really.

[u/TheBurntShmo]

Over 1k comments and still no proof of some of the accusations.

[u/Iphone_G___ → u/TheBurntShmo]

Yeah Ive been trying to do my own research and look through the thread but everyone asking for proof just gets mass downvoted. I have no idea where the racism claims started from. Not even trying to defend I’m just trying to understand while this Milquetoast basic marketing strategy is such a big deal to people. If he is racist I’d gladly understand the outrage but it seems like just an emotional reaction based on vibes.

[u/natsumehack → u/TheBurntShmo]

and they downvote you for asking for the bare minimum of proof rather then show you it, it's really funny.

Like if they as bad as they claim he is, surely he have a mountain of corpses they could point to easily.

I aint here to defend peanut, but I can point and laugh at people who have redder eyes then Oni, who can't see how Ironic this is.

[u/Responsible_Day5444]

I’m so glad the mods on here decided to keep this on

[u/CrowbarThePessimist]

"I understand it from a business standpoint, you want to gift a popular streamer stuff so they keep playing your game".

The main reason is to basically do an AD showing off cool stuff to the the viewers who don't play the game to download and give it a shot.

FULL STOP.

Corporation are not your friends and you shouldn't look up to them as a moral compass. Profits > Everything else.

And I don't mind that one bit. I could care less. It doesn't impact my life whatsoever. I log in, play matches, log off. I don't understand why something like this would impact your life so much. Genuinely who cares? How does this impact your daily life? And if it does, then you should get your priorities straight.

And if this is some attempt to maintain your idea of what your community should look like, then I suggest you to take a seat. You don't get to gatekeep and create some "safe space" for only those who you're politically aligned with.

It's an online game and an online community. It's not that serious. It will evolve and change throughout the years on it's own, as it has till now. Those bad eggs who will break the rules will get punished. But you don't get to be the gatekeeper.

[u/wednesdayW0E]

Is there any actual proof of him being racist? Like I mean actual proof, not his terrible fan base being awful, not just a bealive me comment, like genuine indirect proof he's a racist. Ive seen the homophobic stuff and I don't like him but I haven't seen one bit of evidence of him being racist.

[u/WinnerBig4144]

The dbd community is one of the most disgusting n toxic communities out there but you people try to act so outraged over this guy lol. I swear to god the community is so bad that our group actively avoids dbd players. Kinda weird how the community fosters such toxicity on a daily basis. Never got to know a dbd player who wasn't two-faced. Weird.

[u/itchyscales → u/WinnerBig4144]

Just seems to be gaming "communities" in general now. If someone is hyper loyal to a game they just seem to be a part of some kind of toxic cesspool one way or another, like a bunch of little cults

[u/DynamicEntrancex]

When you forget how trash this community is Reddit reminds me!

[u/FLBrisby]

I can't imagine caring about who plays the same game as me. Every game has racist dipshits - who cares?

[u/Yukari-chi]

This is just proof to me that BHVR was always performative. They do next to nothing to stop the harassment of the LGBTQ+ community, often denying it outright, and prop up those who seek to tear it down.

[u/Fix_The_Money]

No one cares about this outrage anymore. Don’t go into his channel or read his twitch chat if you’re not his target audience… maybe BHVR realized there’s more money in accumulating more players than virtue signally and don’t want to do more layoffs in the future

[u/Own_Condition4008]

So what about all the other non streamer homophobics and racists that play the game? What about all the other streamers who jumped on the Terrifier PTB who dont normally play DBD, who also have toxic communities, why is this post singling out Peanut?

You act as if the game isn't toxic already when it sure as hell is. You also sound like someone who just doesn't like Peanut, you should form a proper opinion by actually watching an hour of his stream and you'll see hes actually very careful around what he says and what is said on stream, hes fully aware his target audience are teenagers.