Electronic music live streaming outlet Boiler Room have pledged to hire people to remove “trash comments” after people dumped misogynistic comments on a stream of a female DJ.
Scottish producer Nightwave was playing in Paris and being live-streamed all around the world and while she nailed it, she was still victim to sexist comments in the chat section.
She took to Twitter following the set to call out these people saying, “Good to see all the experts in the Boiler Room chat! Thanks! Come clean my flat sometime.”
“All the haters were #Brexit and shop at Fat Face and Desigual,” she further said in a string of sassy, brilliant responses where she also clarified that she’s “not [a] female DJ just DJ”.
Good to see all the experts in the Boiler Room chat! Thanks! Come clean my flat sometime
— Nightwave (@iamnightwave) June 29, 2016
Will say a prayer with Moët for all the haters on my next tour have fun hoovering your Nan's car
— Nightwave (@iamnightwave) June 29, 2016
I'll send a sexy selfie from the Sade party to show how sad I am about the haters
— Nightwave (@iamnightwave) June 29, 2016
Her tweets prompted Boiler Room to respond with a wider statement about all “misogyny / transphobia / racism / anything else personal,” written in their chat room or comments section.
“We can’t exist without the internet & (sadly) the internet can’t seem to exist without vile cowardly dickheads, but we’re moving quickly to address this” they wrote.
While they admit they “can’t control the whole internet 24/7,” they have promised to hire people to “shut down the abuse”.
They also ran a poll on Twitter asking why people feel the need to trash talk about female DJs. “Just kind of a loser? idk,” is winning with an overwhelming majority.
Quick Q: why do you – yes, you! – feel the burning desire to slag off female DJs on chatrooms?
— BOILER ROOM (@boilerroomtv) June 29, 2016
Gabriel Szatan, host and programmer at Boiler Room, further spoke to FACTmag saying, “As the biggest live streaming company in the underground that should stand [up] for its liberal values, we know now that it’s our responsibility to lead the field.”
Since, Nightwave has called out one of the responses, posting the man’s picture on Twitter and saying, “mans mad at me coz hes got a dracula hairline and Enrique shirt”.
Read all of Boiler Room and Nightwave’s tweets below. You can also watch part of Nightwave’s Boiler Room set here.
.@iamnightwave beautifully merges footwork and ghetto-tech with Glaswegian beats https://t.co/7qOR70TFbO pic.twitter.com/on3dCtifQF
— BOILER ROOM (@boilerroomtv) June 29, 2016
hey – we hear you. it'll get better with immediate effect.
apologies pic.twitter.com/QzHsIDpTt2
— BOILER ROOM (@boilerroomtv) June 29, 2016
& obviously we're gonna keep booking people irrespective of any racegendersexbelief factor. no retreating to safe white tech house
— BOILER ROOM (@boilerroomtv) June 29, 2016
Do you think William Wallace was upset about Boiler Room hate? Nah. He put on face paint and took an eccie
— Nightwave (@iamnightwave) June 29, 2016
Nigel Farage hatin on my set coz he hates footwork sorry old deflated dick tadpole
— Nightwave (@iamnightwave) June 29, 2016
not female DJ just DJ https://t.co/lmWKBMyb41
— Nightwave (@iamnightwave) June 30, 2016
