Tell Apple and Google: Ban misogynyistic racist Kick app from your store

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I am writing to express my deep concern about an app called Kick that has been recently added to the Apple and Google app stores. In just a few months since launching, the new social media streaming site Kick has already streamed porn, gambling, racist chanting, and Nazi imagery to children.

All of this content plus the fact that Kick illegally live-streamed the Superbowl is clearly a violation of the terms of service of your app stores and Kick should be immediately banned.

Kick was intentionally created to be a livestreaming site without rules. And even though the site has only been live for a couple of months the results have already been disastrous. One popular streamer broadcasted a video of himself receiving oral sex to 25,000 live viewers, including children, and was banned from the site for only a day just to return again. Is this really something you want to be available in your app stores?

One of the worst offenders is popular social media star Adin Ross who has tens of millions of followers, mostly young men and boys, and is known for posting hate-fueled rants. He has asked his viewers to chant racial slurs with him, asked his followers to “act Black,” made jokes about LGBTQ+ people, made fun of sexual assault survivors, and said grossly misogynistic things about women.

Ross’s content is already inspiring others to engage in hateful behavior: In one of his recent livestreams, his fans filled the chat with Nazi imagery and language. Ross also played porn videos on his page for boys as young as seven years old and when he was asked why he did that he said it was just to "flex" and show off; that he could do it without being held accountable.

The toxic streamers who use Kick to promote misogyny, racism, and anti-LGBTQ hate shouldn’t be granted access to the Google and Apple app stores where they could reach millions of impressionable young men and boys and potentially expose children to porn and hateful ideology.

I urge you to take immediate action to block the racist, misogynistic app Kick from your app stores now.

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Tell Apple and Google: Ban misogynyistic racist Kick app from your store

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Why is this important?

In just a few months since launching, the new social media streaming site Kick has already streamed porn, gambling, racist content, and Nazi imagery to children.¹

This new streaming site is popular in the Google and Apple app stores where any child with a tablet or smartphone can download and immediately have access to misogynist and racist content.

One of the worst offenders is the popular video game player Adin Ross, who just streamed a bunch of porn and a video of his friend flashing his genitals to Ross's young followers. Ross is infamous for posting hate-fueled rants. He has asked his viewers to chant racial slurs with him, asked his followers to "act Black," made jokes about LGBTQ+ people, told another streamer to kill himself, made fun of sexual assault survivors, and said grossly misogynistic things about women. ^2,3,4,5,6

All of this content is against the Google and Apple app stores' terms of service companies are required to follow.

So while the new app is still garnering the attention of the media and young boys, we have a limited opportunity to put a stop to the spread of its glorification of racist, misogynist content to children. We need to act fast to get the Kick app and its dangerous sexist influencers booted from the app stores.

Kick was intentionally created to be a live-streaming site without rules. And even though the site has only been live for a couple of months, the results have already been disastrous.

Ross is the site's biggest content creator, responsible for 12% of the site's traffic and Kick has a major contract with him worth $180 million.^7,8 So Kick isn't about to remove Ross from their site. But his content is already inspiring others to engage in hateful behavior: In one of his live streams, his fans filled the chat with Nazi imagery and language.⁹ Ross also played porn videos on his page for boys as young as seven years old and when he was asked why he did that he said it was just to show off; that he could do it without being held accountable.^10,11

Kick may not have rules but the app stores for Google and Apple phones do have rules that apps are required to follow and we can use that to hold Kick and content creators like Adin Ross accountable by taking away access to huge audiences in the app stores.

Add your name now to send a message to Google and Apple: Remove the misogynistic app "Kick" from your app stores.

Sources:

1. New streaming platform features white nationalist/extremist content Los Angeles Blade, April 14, 2023

2. Adin Ross forced to apologize after "transphobic rant," Dexerto, April 1, 2023

3. Adin Ross under fire for begging Hasan to "kill himself," Dexerto, June 7, 2023

4. Adin Ross Asking People To "Act Black" In Latest Example Of Streamers Being Awful The Gamer, February 17, 2023

5. Adin Ross: From Andrew Tate to Platforming White Supremacists, Rolling Stone, April 3, 2023

6. Adin Ross accounts for 12% of Kick's hours watched in April, VentureBeat, May 25, 2023

7. Fan jokes about Adin Ross' $180 million contract being terminated to scare the streamer into streaming more on Kick, The SportsRush, July 24, 2023

8. Adin Ross demands more money from Kick to go full-time, ONE Esports, February 17, 2023

9. PayMoneyWubby slams Kick for making "transphobic" Adin Ross their biggest star, Dexerto, August 23, 2023

10. Twitch Star Adin Ross Banned After Streaming Porn, Now Lashing Out Kotaku, February 27, 2023