Bill Clinton

Clinton plays his saxophone in the White House music room during his *Sounds of America* MTV special

## 40th Governor of Arkansas

### Head of Government

Jimmy Carter 77-81Ronald Reagan 81-89

Michael Dukakis 89-97

## Personal Information

### **Born**

August 19, 1946 (age 71)Hope, Arkansas, U.S.

### **Occupation**

PoliticianSaxophonist

Entertainer

### **Political Party**

Whig Party

> "*Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.*" - Clinton, inaugural address (1988)
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**William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (Blythe III)** is an American politician, musician, and entertainer known for his liberal views, massively successful saxophone career, and live video game commentary hosted on the popular streaming service *twitch.tv*. Though disliked by hardline Federalists, Christian Democrats, and Labor members, his political career is fondly remembered by members of all parties, and he was even nominated for the Presidential ticket at the 1992 Whig Convention despite having announced he was retiring from politics to pursue a musical career. Though he would decline the nomination and go on to become a saxophonist, he never fully withdrew from the realm of politics, maintaining ties with many long-time political allies and even speaking at multiple rallies for his close friend John Kerry during the 2004 Presidential Race. In January of 2017, six months after the death of his wife, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton announced he was retiring from politics for good to stream live video game commentary on the online media platform twitch.tv.

## Twitch Streaming Career

On January 8th, 2017, after a 6-month hiatus taken for the mourning of his late wife, Clinton announced on social media platform *Twitter* that he would be starting a channel on the internet streaming service *twitch.tv*, where he would play "all kinds of wacky, fun games" and "take requests for saxophone, which can be submitted through donating to my stream". He first went live on January 31st, with his stream being viewed by 121,000 viewers and garnering $65,000 in donations. The stream lasted for seven hours, with Clinton playing various songs on his saxophone.

### Controversy

Though Clinton's Twitch career has been an overall success, there have been various instances which set off waves of outrage and controversy through the Twitch community.

#### Live Breakdown and Tirade

On June 21st, 2017, Clinton streamed the 3rd person action role-playing game *Dark Souls III*, inventing a deformed witch character named Ted, presumably after the alleged killer of his wife, Ted Cruz. Two hours into the stream, with Clinton already frustrated that he had not yet beaten the tutorial boss, he was raided by internet messaging board *4chan*, who posted insensitive comments about his wife's death every time he died in the game. Finally, after being pushed off an cliff by a low-tier NPC, Clinton's game crashed. Immediately, he received a donation reading, "*His game just crashed harder than UEF 3411*". Clinton obliterated his controller against the wall and then turned to his monitor, screaming a series of homophobic, racial, and anti-semitic slurs. His tirade lasted for an entire six and a half minutes, with viewers egging him on by posting hostile chat messages, until Twitch administrators intervened and banned Clinton from the site. Clinton then made an alternate account where he streamed live video of him standing over a cliff edge, stating he was "about to suffer the fate of Ted" (in reference to his Dark Souls character) should Twitch fail to lift the ban. Twitch admins, under intense pressure from Clinton's fans, unbanned his channel and placed him on a watchlist, stating that if he ever pulled such a stunt again, his channel would "go down harder than UEF 3411".

#### Reported Harassment

Immediately after Clinton's streaming career began, several women reported to Twitch staff that they were being harassed by the former governor, and they requested he be banned from the site. However, due to lack of sufficient evidence, as well as the massive amount of revenue and popularity generated by Clinton's presence, nothing was done.

However, on August 7th, Twitch user **Britney Venti** received a donation from user *govclinton* - Bill Clinton's Twitch handle - for $600 USD with the message, "take em off and let those puppies breathe ;)"

Venti, in accordance with her character, pretended to be disgusted and perturbed, but some point out that she appeared disgusted and perturbed even outside the bounds of her normal act. Then, Clinton made a second donation for $1.92 USD with the comment "that's all I got left baby, don't let me down" with an included image link. Though Venti repeatedly stated she would not click on the link, her viewers urged her to do so, and eventually, she conceded to their demands. What was then displayed on screen was a low resolution nude of Clinton, who was using a PPsH submachine gun to cover his exposed genitals. Venti, in a fit of shock, began to cry. She then received a third donation from Clinton for two cents with the message, "aww don't cry baby :'(" with a second link to a liveleak video of a cat being run over by a bus, to which Venti shut off her stream and reported him to Twitch admins. The administrators then announced they were "looking into the matter", and the next day, Clinton's account had once more been banned.

After being banned, Clinton made a new alternate account and went live with a stream titled "Picnic on the Tracks", which featured him sobbing uncontrollably while eating biscuits and drinking tea on a train track in the middle of a forest. Clinton made repeated statements about the sadness of the fact that Venti never in fact took her top off, and users became frantic when a train began to approach from behind him while blaring its horn. At the last second, a Hillary Clinton cosplayer tackled Bill Clinton from the tracks and the stream ended.

After the happy ending, everyone began to spread wholesome messages of relief in the stream's chatroom, and the administrators even unbanned Clinton to "complete the cycle of joy". The rollercoaster of events was covered in a CNN article criticizing video games for leading people to violence; ironically, a quote supporting the claim made by none other than Hillary Clinton also appeared in the article.