Zack “Asmongold” is facing intense scrutiny after comments from his August 3, 2026, livestream became the center of a wider controversy. During the broadcast, he was watching Nick Shirley’s YouTube video about Moroccan migrants in Spain when the discussion moved toward immigration. Asmongold said he had “no sympathy” for immigrants and then made a much more extreme statement about how he would respond to people crossing a border with their children. The 36-year-old streamer did not walk back the remark when a viewer later challenged him about it. Instead, he confirmed that he had meant what he said. The controversy comes as Asmongold has also been banned from Twitch, although the supplied information does not state that the ban was specifically caused by these comments.
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What Asmongold actually said during the August 3 livestream
The comments came while Asmongold was reacting to Nick Shirley’s video titled “Ceuta Spain Was Invaded... Spain Falls to Moroccan Migrants.” At around the 4-hour-51-minute mark, he discussed people bringing children across borders.
His argument was that people should not bring their children if they believe they could be shot. He then took the statement further, saying, “I’d shoot whoever,” and specifically included “kids, women, men, anybody.”
Asmongold said he believed this would stop people from continuing to cross the border. He also described the situation as a wider “Western problem.”
