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Mixer: The Black Experience

So I’ve gone back and forth with how I wanted to share this information. I’ve debated doing a video and just letting my emotions come across raw and unfiltered but I believe the best way to share is to write how I feel.

I worked at Microsoft for 2 years starting in 2017. In 2018 I relocated to Seattle to work on the Mixer team. I was beyond happy and anxious to have the ability to finally work in the gaming industry. The flip side to all of this is crazy, this experience was the worst I’ve ever had professionally and it’s all due to RACISM.

#1 - I was one of the only black people working at Mixer during my tenure. While at a conference I was pulled aside and told that the only reason I was hired is because I am “street smart”. The first thing that popped into my head at the time was affirmative action. I believed I was only hired to meet a diversity goal because I was black. Anyways I decided to brush it off and let it go.

#2 - Time goes by and we are in an internal meeting discussing projects we wanted to execute. My manager decided to give us an a***ogy, that a***ogy was “I’m in between a rock and a hard place. What I mean is all the partners are my slaves, I own their content. I control their success on our platform. For me I am the slave master, I own partners”. Immediately I got angry, pissed off and honestly I didn’t want to work at Microsoft/Mixer anymore. My manager saw my mood was not the same and decided to have a 1:1. Within that meeting I told her why I was angry and why her using that a***ogy was NOT okay. She decided to defend her statement and even had the nerve to google that a***ogy to prove why it was okay. After Google showed her it was NEVER okay to use that a***ogy, she told me I need to work on myself. If I wanted to go far in this industry I need to work on my emotions and feelings to similar comments. After this meeting I knew I was leaving.

#3 - I reported my entire experience to a skip level manager, I also included examples when my ideas in meetings were passed on. When said ideas were the exact same from my white colleagues. The skip level NEVER reported any of the slavery comments to HR. So when I spoke with HR they were surprised and said this has never been communicated. After that meeting I resigned a few weeks later.

#4 - I spoke with the legal team to start an investigation with my manager. This investigation would continue even though I decided to terminate my employment. Months go by without a verdict. One day late last year I get a call from the legal team with their final findings. That finding was not guilty! The reason my manager was not penalized and the reason she still has her job today is because she CANNOT be racist. The reason she CANNOT be racist is because she hired a black person.

This is why you haven’t seen me in any streams. These four points are the reason I do not and will not support Mixer. Now I have a lot of close friends at Mixer and I don’t want you to think they are all bad. But one of the main people calling the shots has zero respect for any partner not their platform. She believes you all are slaves and she owns your future and content. I stood up to her because I refused to let anyone be classified as such and I hope no partners feel bad I did so. I do not care about how big a company is or their market share. If we do not have the same values, if you cannot be intelligent enough to know racism isn’t tolerated then I will not work for you or your company.

All in all this was my experience!

TL;DR version: Homie was a diversity hire, his boss used a slave a***ogy, this upset him she tried to defend it, deflected said it was his problem, took legal action, quit, and legal team said it was inconclusive due to the fact she hired him so she can't be racist.

White feminism/wypipo -1

Black people - 0

"Our Blacks"

Xbox S***better have fire games or it's curtains for them

I remember when that happened, how could Phil greenlight that

their ecosystem is goat so they aren't going anywhere

i prefer them to the company making glorified miniclip games

:danylaugh:

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At this point, Mixer just gotta shut down

Small amount of users under a racist company (like the tweet above)

Ninja needs to stream on YT like Courage

Holla at me when you got Zelda, Metroid, Bayonetta, No More Heroes, Xenoblade, and Smash Bros on your movie game machine

Ninja got a Virgil million dollar deal he not leaving at all

let me check miniclip real quick

Check deez nutz nigga, I'm sick of your WINtendo slander

ARMS Smash Bros DLC tomorrow

Makes you wonder how racist that blue haired cuck who can build is

Stop being a hater bro

It’s clear Xbox has no games yet you bash other systems they do have games.

PS4 has games
Switch has games
PC has games

Xbox got nothing

Lol it's just banter between me and him, he's not serious

But he is a mufuckin hatin ass nigga doe :bari:

get your mans, nigga fuming at banter

I have a switch my self, i just don't use it that often

He not my mans, first time interacting with him

PM that Code so you can catch this ass whooping in Mario Kart

The corporations got us tapdancing

bet, let me charge my switch, haven't been on it in a month

You gotta follow me back too to PM

thot i followed you, my bad, do you see it now ?

Yeah I see it

Edit: sent