Fedmyster

**Federico Michael Gaytan**, better known by his alias **FEDMYSTER**, is an American former Twitch streamer and YouTube personality. Gaytan was best known for his live streams on the Twitch platform, where he streamed his gaming experiences, most notably with League of Legends, Fortnite and Apex Legends. In June 2020, Fed was kicked out of OfflineTV after sexual misconduct accusations. Gaytan returned to streaming in June of 2021, though his return was short-lived.

On September 8, 2022, Fedmyster announced his transition to gambling and online casions content.

## Biography

Gaytan was born in 1995 to Mexican American parents and was raised with his brother in the United States. He dropped out of the University of California, Santa Cruz in order to support his mother and brothers due to the death of his father. In a few streams, he stated how much he used to despise his parents and how his father's passing made him heavily regret his past choices. These regrets were indirectly brought out on stream on more than one occasion. Gaytan once ending his stream with the following message.

> *Guys...remember to hug your parents and say you love them because sometimes you don't get the chance to do so*.
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On another stream, he replied to the TTS question, "*If you were to reinvent your life, how would you do it?"* He replied, *"I think I would be more loving to my dad."*

Gaytan got the opportunity to be a full-time video editor before joining OfflineTV, for content creator Christian "IWDominate" Rivera, a former semi-pro player for Team Liquid, but he stopped editing for Rivera as he was invited to join the group OfflineTV, as an editor in June 2017. On July 8, 2017, Gaytan published his first YouTube video with the group, where he was formally introduced as the group's editor. After this, he went on to make many videos with them, garnering millions of views for the channel. Eventually, Gaytan grew popular among the fanbase and was officially named as part of talent in January 2018.

On several occasions, he was praised by his roommates for his on and off-stream personality. Scarra stated *"The thing that Fed does, which I really like, is him being our anchor. Fed anchors a lot of people in the house. I feel like Fed is the only person that is close to a lot of people in the house."* He was also close to Pokimane. When she reached a million followers on Twitch, Gaytan gifted her a large bouquet of flowers to celebrate her milestone.. When Gaytan traveled to Japan in March 2019, she stated on a live stream that she had been missing her *"best friend and buddy,"* as she didn't have anyone to talk and joke around with at the house due to the others having busy, long stream schedules.

## Twitch streaming career

Gaytan began his streaming career in early January 2018, after transitioning from being the editor for OfflineTV. He would further reap successes from this transition, as in the same year, his Twitch emote called “Fed7” had been used a reported 431 million times in three months, making it the most popular emote on the site at that time, and making it one of the major milestones of his career.
Directly after the incident, he was also accused of photoshopping inappropriate pictures of his roommates Pokimane and LilyPichu. It was not taken in any bad views by the two, Lily rather complimented him on his efforts and abilities to photoshop. However, the act went against the Twitch terms of service and resulted in a 24-hour ban.

After transitioning to a full-time content creator, Gaytan was banned once again, but this time around it wasn't completely his fault, he was banned because a Racist Text to Speech (TTS) Donation, submitted by a donator, slipped through his moderation and it was read aloud on stream. It bypassed his moderators as they were unable to screen each donation in time, the derogatory term readout was the N-word. Gaytan also celebrated each time the word was read aloud which shocked viewers. The ban was a period of 7 days and it was given to him as he did not attempt to stop the donation from being read out. This decision by Twitch was controversial, as Gaytan had no warning about the TTS because he was staring at a painting and wasn't at his traditional Desktop setup, which would usually show him what the incoming donation contained seconds before reading it out, thus giving him enough time to decline the option of it being read out.

Gaytan created another Twitch account on 24th of February 2019, by the name FEDMYSTER2, where he plays mainly gaming content and transferred his original account FEDMYSTER to more IRL streams, as a requisition from his fans. On 01 April 2019, he was banned for a 3rd time and for a period of 14 days due to the destruction of property, while intoxicated on a live stream in Japan, he accepted his fate, took full responsibility for his actions and apologized. His ban was lifted on the 14th of April.

## YouTube

In addition to streaming on the Twitch platform, Gaytan also has an active YouTube channel: Fedmyster run by him and his editor Indra. The channel mainly includes clips or highlights of his live streams, gaming content, and vlogs. He has uploaded 92 videos so far which includes segments featuring fellow streamers at his house, Pokimane, Disguised Toast, LilyPichu, Scarra, and others. These videos have been viewed the least amount of times and as a result, Gaytan was removed as an editor and moved to a cast role.

## Sexual misconduct accusations & Departure from OfflineTV

On June 27, 2020, Offline TV members Yvonne "Yvonnie" Ng and |Lily "LilyPichu" Ki released statements regarding sexual harassment and misconduct Gaytan had directed towards them. The official statements noted that a meeting was called to discuss the situation with Fedmyster, in which it was determined that Yvonne & Lily were not the only ones affected by sexual harassment within the house. Imane "Pokimane" Anys also released a statement on how Fed was manipulative to her. Many other streamers, including Yassuo and Angel's Kimi all released their own statements.

The official OfflineTV Twitter released a statement on June 27, 2020 at 10 PM CT stating that Gaytan has been removed from the OfflineTV roster, effectively removing him from the group's house.

## References

1. ↑ Tolkin, Alex (2018-03-11). I’m Watching the Future of Reality TV.
2. ↑ MEET THE OFFLINE TV HOUSE [SEASON 1]. OfflineTV (2017-07-08).
3. ↑ Hong,, James "Bick"; David "Viion" Jang (2018-09-25). [A Deep Discussion With Scarra Scarra Reveals His Thoughts On DL vs qt, Harry Potter, and OfflineTV].
4. ↑ Popular streamer Pokimane had an incredibly emotional response to hitting one million followers on Twitch and receiving a gift from her housemate. Dexerto (2018-03-28). Archived from the original on 2019-04-28.
5. ↑ FEDMYSTER BANNED ON TWITCH?? ft. Offline TV. Fedmyster (2017-12-04).
6. ↑ Patterson, Calum (2018-07-22). Twitch Streamer Fedmyster Banned After Racist Text to Speech Donation Slipped Through Filter.
TWITCH BANNED ME (again). Fedmyster (2018-07-23).
8. ↑ Porter, Matt (2019-04-02). Why is Fedmyster banned from Twitch? IRL streamer apologizes for vandalism.
9. ↑ Liao, Shannon (2020-06-30). Gaming world faces one of its biggest #MeToo moments yet as Fedmyster is removed from OfflineTV.
Koepp, Meg Bethany (2020-06-28). Fedmyster removed from OfflineTV following sexual misconduct allegations.
Ousley, Parkes (2020-06-27). Fed removed from OfflineTV after sexual harassment accusations.
Tweet. OfflineTV (2020-06-27).