Zachariah "Zack" Hoyt (born 1990),[1] better known as Asmongold, is an American YouTuber, content creator, online streamer, and political commentator. His content was primarily focused on World of Warcraft,[2][3] but he now covers politics as well as video games and topics related to gaming culture. He was a co-founder and co-owner of the streaming, gaming, and content creation organization One True King (OTK), based in Austin, Texas.[4] He was also a co-owner of Starforge Systems, a computer company specializing in selling prebuilt gaming PCs.[5] He stepped down from leadership positions at both OTK and Starforge after facing backlash over anti-Palestinian comments he made on a Twitch stream.[6][7]
Zack Hoyt was born in 1990 in Florida and raised in Austin, Texas.[8][9] He quickly became captivated by World of Warcraft and began playing it extensively.[10]
Career
With the release of World of Warcraft Classic in 2019, Hoyt's popularity surged, and he became one of the platform's most prominent streamers in that year.[11][12] He remained one of Twitch's most popular World of Warcraft streamers during the Shadowlands launch in 2020.[13] On July 3, 2021, he played Final Fantasy XIV for the first time before hundreds of thousands of viewers.[14]
After Elon Musk was accused in January 2025 of paying third parties to boost his Path of Exile 2 account, Hoyt challenged Musk to prove that he himself had leveled a character to 97 in hardcore mode, after which Musk unfollowed Hoyt on X, removed his verification check, and posted a screenshot of their private messages. A community note under the post stated that leaking private messages without permission generally violated X's guidelines.[15][16] Musk later deleted his tweets and the two have subsequently interacted with each other on X about other topics.[17]
In November 2025, Hoyt was named in a lawsuit filed by the streamer Mizkif as a defendant alongside fellow streamer Emiru, OTK Media Inc., Mythic Talent Management Inc., and King Gaming Labs Inc. for reputational harm, lost earnings, and emotional distress.[1] The lawsuit came after Emiru accused Mizkif of "psychological and domestic abuse, stalking, harassment, sexual assault, and threats of blackmail", which was then amplified by Hoyt during his livestreams.[18]
In October 2020, Hoyt co-founded One True King (OTK), a streaming and content creation organization, with other content creators, including Mizkif and Sodapoppin. In August 2022, he announced OTK's new PC building company, Starforge Systems, in collaboration with fellow content creator Cr1TiKaL.[19] The company received backlash over the high prices of their products, to which they responded by reducing their prices by $100.[20] In February 2023, Hoyt cofounded the talent agency Mythic Talent alongside fellow OTK member TipsOut, serving in an advisory capacity.[21][22] On February 21, 2025, Hoyt announced that he had stepped away from his leadership roles within the organization.[23]
In a Twitch stream on October 14, 2024, Hoyt called Palestinians "terrible people" from "an inferior culture" that "kills people for their identity" and "is directly antithetical to everything Western values stand for."[26][7][27] He also said that they "have genocide built into Sharia law right now, so, no, I'm not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that's baked into their laws are getting genocided". This statement was later called a "racist tirade".[28] His ZackRawrr account on Twitch was banned for 14 days due to violating the platform's hateful conduct policy.[6] Hoyt initially made a brief apology on Twitter which was criticized by PC Gamer, stating "that quite a few people don't consider "my bad" a sufficient expression of contrition and reconsideration for espousing grossly racist attitudes".[28] Hoyt later released a more extensive apology stating he had "slowly devolving into the most mean-spirited, rude, nasty, callous, psychopathic version of [him]self" and he would take a break from streaming. He would also step down from his leadership positions in OTK and Starforge Systems.[27][29]
He is noted for his extensive use of the pejorative slur "retards".[30]
By 2025, political commentary had become a major component of Hoyt's streams. On one occasion, he mocked Democratic Congressman Al Green's disruption of President Donald Trump's 2025 Congressional Address, stating that Green's actions make "people think [he's] a fucking retard." Hoyt has also expressed support for universal basic income and a constitutional right to abortion. He has said that he places no weight on "principles or morality", describing such views as "top-down ideas that are given to you by the elites."[30] As part of his political commentary, Hoyt claimed that "every trans kid is a victim of a parent with mental illness".[31] Despite Hoyt's claims that trans children have been "groomed" into being trans, he has said he would respect the pronoun choices of his own children.[32]
↑Ålander, Juhani (2021). Katsojainteraktiiviset pelit ja niiden historia[Viewer Interactive games and their history] (Thesis) (in Finnish). Kajaani University of Applied Sciences.
↑Houle, Kamran (2024). "The Paranoid Style of Internet Politics: Gamer Backlashes and 'Politics' as Imposition". POLIS: Sociology & Anthropology Undergraduate Journal. 1.
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