Call Of Duty Removes recently Added Nickmercs’ Operator bundle following creator’s controversial LGBTQ+ comments, Fans React

NICKMERCS creator bundle has been removed by Call of Duty recently giving creators controversial comments

Call Of Duty Removes recently Added Nickmercs’ Operator bundle following creator’s controversial LGBTQ+ comments, Fans React

Last month, Call of Duty introduced operator bundles based on Call of Duty content creators. Popular creators Nickmercs and TimTheTatman became the first to have the honor of having skin in the game. This would have been a new change that the game stepped towards. But things did not go the way they would have thought. Nick Kolcheff, aka Nickmercs’ newest Call of Duty operator bundle, got removed given his controversial Pride Month comment. It wasn’t until later on that it went viral, and there was an outburst on the internet regarding the same.

The incident took place on June 8th when Nick shared a comment regarding Pride Month. The Creator claimed that children in school should be “left alone” and not be involved in LGBTQIA+ topics. And that was enough to light up the entire internet which later rallied against his comments. Considering the backlash and uproar on the internet Call Of Duty developers were quick to get their hands on the situation.

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Nick faces backlash amidst his controversial LGBTQIA+ comment

Call Of Duty Removes recently Added Nickmercs' Operator bundle following creator's controversial LGBTQ+ comments, Fans React
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After the whole controversy, Nick during his stream said that he still does stand by his comments and defended himself by saying,

“I didn’t mean to hurt anybody” and went on to continue expressing his views that, school is not a place to speak about things like that. It’s not that I think it shouldn’t be spoken about. If that’s what you got from that tweet, then you’re just wrong.”

In his defense, Nick said, “So, the video bothered me. I just don’t think it’s any place for a teacher or a school, I don’t think it’s the place to speak about things like that. And it’s not that I think it shouldn’t be spoken about. If that’s what you got from that Tweet, you’re just wrong. I don’t have any quarrels with anybody here, I don’t have any quarrel with people on the internet.”

Fans have been in splits after Nick commented on this topic bundle. Some are obviously against what Nick has said.

However, a huge amount of his audience and fans have come in support of Nick. The #IStandWithNickMercs has been trending on Twitter.


Later, Call Of Duty Removed Nickmerc’s Operator bundle, ‘NICKMERCS.” Activision has played its hand to steer clear of any backlash that might be its way to them. A rather political move by the gaming giant.

This is not the first time that the developers of a gaming company have pulled the plug on such creators. Previously, Activision Blizzard Entertainment took out the “Sinatraa” skin from the Overwatch league. The skin was added for the MVP standout honor. And then they took out the skin from the store and offered a refund to players who had bought it earlier after some serious allegations against Sinatraa stirred some controversy online. It is still unclear if the NICKMERCS skin will ever be back since Activision has yet to clear the air surrounding it.

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