{"id":184941,"date":"2025-12-14T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/184941\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:54:08","slug":"streamer-sued-for-assaulting-gay-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/184941\/","title":{"rendered":"Streamer Sued for Assaulting Gay Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, a cowboy hat-toting bipedal robot dubbed \u201cJake the Rizzbot\u201d burst onto the scene, baffling residents in Austin, Texas, with its flashy cowboy hat, chain necklace \u2014 and strong preference for gen alpha slang<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just weeks later, the four-foot-tall Unitree G1 robot moved to California and seemingly came out as gay, appearing on the streets of West Hollywood decked out in gaudy rainbow attire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Jake the Rizzbot has run into trouble. As Complex reports<\/a>, the robot was allegedly assaulted and permanently damaged by streamer Darren Jason Watkins Jr., better known online under the moniker IShowSpeed.<\/p>\n

The robot\u2019s developer, Social Robotics, has now filed a lawsuit against Watkins Jr. for a whopping $1 million in monetary relief. According to the complaint, Watkins Jr. became \u201cangry and agitated\u201d and eventually \u201cintentionally assaulted\u201d the robot.<\/p>\n

Footage circulating online<\/a> shows the streamer getting into a verbal altercation with the robot, before sucker-punching it, putting it into a chokehold, and shoving it onto a sofa in anger.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think I\u2019m playing, bro?\u201d Watkins Jr. shouts in the clip.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a baffling situation, especially considering the streamer was presumably acting out a fit of anger to gain notoriety and attract more viewers. We\u2019re struggling to believe that Watkins Jr. was actually angry at the robot.<\/p>\n

Yet the streamer\u2019s theatrics appear to have gone too far, regardless of his intentions. According to the lawsuit, Rizzbot turned out to be a total loss, forcing its owner to cancel a co-hosting opportunity with Jimmy \u201cMrBeast\u201d Donaldson and an appearance on the NFL Today Show on CBS, per Complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is no doubt a monumental setback for the RizzBot in terms of viral momentum and financial gain from the exposure,\u201d the lawsuit reads. \u201cBeing in a MrBeast production is akin to being in a Super Bowl commercial.\u201d<\/p>\n

TechCrunch obtained a police report<\/a> filed by the Austin Police Department, with an officer who was called to the scene noting that Rizzbot was damaged without the owner\u2019s \u201cimplied consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making legal proceedings even stranger is the fact that Watkins Jr. livestreamed the entire altercation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an event that was livestreamed so there\u2019s not a ton of discrepancy as to the facts,\u201d Social Robotics\u2019 lawyer Joel Levine told TechCrunch. \u201cWhat we\u2019re looking for is some accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The robot lamented to TechCrunch that it had to get a \u201cwhole new body\u201d since the streamer \u201cwrecked\u201d its last one.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything\u2019s brand new except my Nike kicks and cowboy hat,\u201d the robot added. \u201cNow I\u2019m back online, and I feel like I\u2019ve mastered the rizz game, and next I\u2019ll be working on complex movements with my legs, like twerking \u2014 hopefully you\u2019ll see my gyrating hips on some new TV appearances shortly \u2014 stay tuned, fam.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Rizzbot: Jake the Rizzbot Moves to California, Comes Out as Gay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year, a cowboy hat-toting bipedal robot dubbed \u201cJake the Rizzbot\u201d burst onto the scene, baffling residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-184941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}