Activision Removes Nickmercs' Call of Duty Skin Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Comments.

Call of Duty has removed the branded Operator skin of high-profile streamer Nickmercs from its store after he made comments in a thread posted by MLG’s Chris Puckett showing an attack by an anti-LGBTQ group on pro-LGBTQ group during Pride. Nickmercs’ tweet, which has now been viewed 11.3 million times by Twitter metrics, says to “leave little children alone. That’s the real issue.” Activision cited their own celebration of Pride as the reason for removing the skin, indicating Nickmercs’ comments were not something they wanted to be officially associated with via a top creator partnership.