Today, Twitch suspended Riemer’s channel, and the esports organization he was part of, SoaR Gaming, dropped him.

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“We do not condone the actions on livestream by Carl last night,” SoaR wrote on Twitter. “He has been removed from the SoaR Gaming roster effective immediately.”

In separate videos on Twitter and YouTube, Riemer addressed the situation. (He has not yet responded to requests for comment from Kotaku.)

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“I made my biggest mistake of my entire life last night, and it could ruin my life,” he said in the Twitter video. “I could have hurt somebody. I could have hurt myself. I could have hurt one of my animals. And that’s unforgivable... I’ve had that gun for two years, and all it takes is two seconds of stupid to ruin everything. To ruin somebody else, to ruin yourself. Don’t do what I did.”

On YouTube, he said that he was “clearly intoxicated” when it happened. He then proceeded to show viewers a metal cup that he said the round passed through en route to a monitor on the desk next to him, which he said was also broken as a result. He went on to say that he’s not sure how long his Twitch suspension will last yet, but that if it’s permanent, his bank account is going to be hurting: While he has over 800,000 YouTube subscribers, he said he “stopped making enough from YouTube to pay the bills a while ago.”

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He also thanked SoaR for doing “what they needed to do” in dropping him and apologized profusely.

“I just made such a stupid, stupid, stupid mistake,” he said. “All I can say is that I’m sorry, and I deserve everything. Every bit of backlash.”

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