On April 10, Jimmy Fallon hosted a Twitch stream with popular streamers Valkyrae, Sykkuno and Corpse Husband and “Stranger Things” stars Noah Schnapp and Gaten Matarazzo. The stream involved the group playing the murder mystery game Among Us.
The three streamers, Valkyrae, Sykkuno and Corpse Husband, are part of a group called Amigops with a fourth streamer, Disguised Toast. However, Disguised Toast was not included in this Among Us stream that Fallon put together. Why is that?
The fact that Disguised Toast was not present disappointed not only him, but his fans as well, considering that he was one of the streamers that helped Among Us blow up in the first place,
“I was big when Among Us first started, but I’m not as big as the others anymore. It just doesn’t make sense from a marketing perspective for Among Us or Jimmy Fallon to have me on instead of the others,” Disguised Toast said on a recent stream of his on Facebook Gaming, in response to his being left out of Fallon’s stream.
Disguised Toast went on in the stream to explain that his brand is not very marketable.
“Even when I was on Twitch, I wasn’t part of their marketing, or anything. Like, almost everyone in my circle were. At TwitchCon, I remember seeing the banners of a lot of my friends.
“It doesn’t matter how many viewers I get, doesn’t matter how much I have an impact on the scene, it’s just always going to be someone better to promote. Is it a race thing? Is it a gender thing? This is reaching dangerous territory.
“I think, from a marketing perspective, there’s no reason why I stand out. Because if you look at me, look at my content for a little bit, there’s nothing there.”
Disguised Toast only streams his gaming content on Facebook now instead of Twitch, signing a deal with Facebook Gaming in November of 2019, though he will occasionally host a Just Chatting livestream on Twitch. Even though he has a significantly smaller audience than that of if he streamed on YouTube or Twitch, he is still very popular.
Disguised Toast also doesn’t believe he is getting treated like this because of his decision to leave Twitch. By reading his comments, anyone can see that he was getting treated like this even before he left Twitch to stream on Facebook.
Disguised Toast hosted his own separate stream on the same date as Fallon’s Among Us stream, where he unboxed packages and talked in chat. As he opened up an Among Us keyboard keycap, he threw shade at Fallon for not being included in the stream.
“I’m kind of known as the Among Us guy; just ask anyone…except Jimmy Fallon,” he said.
His fans got a kick out of it, spamming the chat with comments, laughs and emojis as he continued to unbox.
While the lack of Toast’s presence in the Among Us stream may have seemed like drama at first, Disguised Toast seems to have calmed down from the exclusion. He even seems to the point where he can have fun with and laugh about the situation now.
Disguised Toast has even gained support and backing from Valkyrae, who said she would invite him to anything and everything she could moving forward.
Photo by Jamia Johnson
