A group of live streamers were kicked off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship this week for two different incidents caused onboard.
The group of live streamers call themselves the "Cx group" and they are lead by streamer Ice Poseidon, and their approach is to broadcast on Kick.com nearly everything they do.
During the course of their 7-night western Caribbean cruise, a number of incidents lead up to most of the group being kicked off the ship.
Clips of the group doing various things started circulating online, including one member getting into a verbal argument with a passenger because he was standing up and recording the show.
Dave Willis was recording when another passenger wanted him to sit down because it was blocking their view. He then berated the family and used profanity and slurs to get his point across.
In another clip, the group (including Ice Poseidon) went door to door around the ship looking for upside down pineapple magnets on guest doors.
Upside down pineapples are known for being a symbol of couples that engage in swinging. When they found one, they knocked on the door and asked the passenger if that was indeed what they were interested in.
This all lead up to incidents that caused the ship's Captain to get involved and request the group go home early.
What got them kicked off the ship
According to Cx group leader Ice Poseidon, there were two different incidents that got the 7 members kicked off the ship.
The first incident was a fight on the pool deck between two members, David Ryan and Dave Willis.
Evidently the two started fighting over a joke that kept escalating, but it erupted into punches and tackling each other.
The fight was live streamed and a clip of it was widely circulated, which got the two of them immediately detained and kicked off thee ship in the next port of call, which is Roatan, Honduras.
The rest of the group seemed to be okay until the next morning when the ship's staff contacted five other members early in the morning to ask to leave too.
According to Ice Poseidon, a total of five group members were called down to the ship's security and interviewed before being asked to leave the ship.
He said their removal stemmed from a combination of harassing other passengers in an elevator while live recording and subsequent complaints from cruise ship passengers.
Not only were they kicked off the ship, but Royal Caribbean forced the group to pay a $800 taxi ride to get them to the nearest airport in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
He later said the issue was guests complaining about them recording, ""[A woman] said, 'I didn't like the camera,' and that was it."
"Literally, the sight of a camera will get you kicked off of the boat now."
Each of them had to secure their own flights home at their own expense.
Three other members of the Cx group not directly involved in the incidents were allowed to stay on the ship.
"I didn't do anything that would be a nuisance"
Upon reaching his hotel, Ice Poseidon live streamed his thoughts in a 2 and a half hour video laced with profanity.
"I didn't do anything that would be a nuisance on that boat, except for the first day asking for swingers, but that's not big of a deal," he explained.
He said he stopped immediately once being told that was not acceptable by the ship's staff.
He then later questioned why he was kicked off when others were the ones that were the instigators of the group, "Why am I getting the blame?"
The ship's security team told him guests went to Guest Services to complain. Specifically an incident in an elevator where the other passengers felt "intimidated".
He then downplayed his filming on the ship after the first day.
Later in the video, he claims he received a call from the ship's security to check on their progress and let them know they're welcome to cruise again with the line. This confused him given he was just removed from the ship.
He says he's going to try to get a refund for the rest of the sailing.
