A Fan Hijacked AriAtHome’s Streamer Awards Speech to Shout Out DDG — and DDG Apologized for It
AriAtHome’s biggest night got Kanye’d. The streamer had just won Best Music Streamer at the Streamer Awards on Thursday night when an unidentified man interrupted his acceptance speech with the most famous award-show routine of all time: “I’m sorry I’m going to let you finish, but DDG had the best music of all time. All time.” He doubled down: “DDG. Best music artist of all time.”
Those were the intruder’s words — not DDG’s. And DDG made sure everybody knew it, apologizing to Ari directly on X: “i do not co-sign or approve of what happened during ur award bro. ur very talented and clearly deserved it. My apologies 💯🏆”
Ari had just taken the category over DDG, PlaqueBoyMax and Bishu, per the show’s official winners page — his first win after four nominations. He kept his moment about the community: he explained he stopped making songs about famous streamers hoping to borrow their audiences, built a portable music setup and took it outside to collaborate with everyday people. “All the people nominated in this category have kept music alive on Twitch,” he said. “Music on Twitch is small and you guys are killing it.”
The hijack also poured gas on a race that was already tense. DDG had accused PlaqueBoyMax of letting his cousin Fatboydip sneak-diss him over this same Best Music Streamer fight, and DJ Akademiks had publicly sided with DDG — while saying Ari earned the win over both of them.
Seventeen years after Kanye West grabbed Taylor Swift’s moment at the VMAs, the routine is still undefeated at stealing a speech. DDG called this one foul himself. A fan doing that in YOUR name — flattering or foul? 👇
