TikTok Star Tamo Helps Get Man Discharged From Navy Over Racial Slurs

'There’s nothing you can do to stop me,' Tamo said.

TikTok Star Tamo Gets Man Discharged from the Navy for Hurling Slurs
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TikTok star Tamo turned an ugly livestream interruption into a viral lesson on accountability—one that ultimately cost a man his Navy career.

According to Black Enterprise, the gaming creator, who often spends his streams chatting casually about Pokémon cards and video games, was blindsided when a man jumped into his live and began spitting out the N-word over and over again.

The troll assumed he’d get away with it. What he didn’t realize: the person on the other end wasn’t just a random streamer, but someone with over 180,000 TikTok followers, plus a growing presence on YouTube and Twitch.

Instead of ignoring it, Tamo made the heckler the subject of his next viral video. Over the instrumental of Kendrick Lamar’s “Meet the Grahams,” he calmly dismantled the man’s entire life in front of millions.

“Guess what? You’re going to get kicked out of the United States Navy,” he said. “You know how they tell us that we should be careful what we do on social media, because there could be real-life consequences. Hi, my name is real life consequence.”

Then came the receipts. Tamo explained that he had already done his homework—tracking down the man’s identity, disciplinary history, phone number, even family details.

He pointed out the hypocrisy of someone who would harass him online one night and then preach about God and the Bible the next. “Turns out I am gonna do something,” he told viewers. “I have all the screenshots, I have all of the recordings.”

Tamo laid out exactly how it would end: forwarding the evidence to the Naval Inspector General, sending clips to Black sailors on the same ship, and ensuring there was no path back for the troll’s military career.

“There’s nothing you can do to stop me,” he said. “There is no apology I will accept. There is no excuse I will listen to. There is no money you could offer me. You’re getting fired.”

The video has since drawn millions of views, and turned the TikTok star into a household name and a viral internet hero.

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