I don’t closely follow the competitive scene for any one game, instead relying on the expertise of others to guide me through this rapidly changing world. This means I follow dozens of reporters embedded in esports, and took note when I saw them chattering about recent tweets by one person, longtime Counter-Strike: Global Offensive analyst Duncan “Thorin” Shields.

“Some recent tweets” undersells what Thorin was saying: a full-throated defense of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who’s spent years peddling, among other things, a lie that 2012’s Sandy Hook mass shooting, where 20 children between the ages of six and seven years old were gunned down, was an elaborate false flag operation by the government, and the grieving parents were crisis actors.

Thorin did not respond to two separate requests for comment via tweet and a message sent to his Facebook fan page.

We’re not just talking about a handful of edgelord-y comments about Jones, either. This hole always goes deeper. After tweeting about Thorin, I was flooded with people pointing out how these types of antics were nothing new, and if anything, represented a less extreme version of himself. So, I went looking.

It didn’t take much sleuthing to find what people were talking about, as it was sitting in the open. Like the time he affirmed the hurtful stereotype comparing black people to monkeys:

This is far from the only racist commentary by Thorin, either. In response to a joking tweet where someone asked “who let the monkeys in the studio,” Thorin dropped this comment:

Luminosity is a multi-game esports organization with a Brazilian Counter-Strike team, and “monkey” is a known racial slur for dark-skinned Brazilians. The reaction to Thorin’s tweet was swift, with people labeling the tweets as racist. Thorin later issued an apology, saying his “joke” was “too much,” and he didn’t want to “encourage community hate” for Luminosity.