Nickmercs has 15 million followers as a celebrity streamer.
Nickmercs has 15 million followers as a celebrity streamer.
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Boycott starts as Call of Duty removes Nickmercs skin for anti-Pride comment

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Some fans have started boycotting Call of Duty after Activision removed the virtual skin of popular streamer Nickmercs. The publisher removed his skin bundle after he tweeted about a Pride incident that was interpreted as anti-LGBTQ+.

Nickmercs, (Nick Kolcheff) a celebrity streamer with 15 million followers, got his own skin in Warzone’s Season 3.5 launch on June 1.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.