"You're neck is red?": Dispelling rumors of self-harm, Asmongold explains why his neck has red marks

sportskeeda.com:

With his massive audience, Zack "Asmongold" is a veritable giant on Twitch. With 3.3 million followers on his main account and almost 900k on his alternative, the OTK founder is a massive celebrity in MMO circles. With stardom, however, comes constant scrutiny as fans noticed he has red marks on his neck while streaming World of Warcraft yesterday.

As he was waiting in the lobby to enter the Classic Wrath of the Lich King servers, a person in his audience asked the question and the streamer promptly answered that it was because he had recently shaved.

But the innocuous question reminded him of a particular post on his subreddit, and the conversation suddenly took a dark turn.

As a highly popular MMO player who has been streaming World of Warcraft since its inception, Zack was understandably waiting to get onto the servers of the updated Wratch of the Lich King expansion. Owing to its large popularity, however, he had to wait a long time in the queue, giving his audience a chance to ask him personal questions.

Amongst all content creation, streaming is arguably the only medium where the creator has to constantly show themselves to the audience and is expected to withstand a lot of scrutiny about their appearance via their webcam.

Answering personal questions about their looks are part and parcel of the streaming community, Asmongold quickly obliged, divulging that the red marks were because he had shaved in the recent past.

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However, sometimes fans do come up with their own theories about certain things and in this case, someone had probably joked about how the Austin-native was committing self harm as a way to explain the red marks. This is him paraphrasing the comment:

Asmongold took it as a joke and made light