Italian Streamer Says “Amiga” to Fans in Tokyo, Random Black-American Guy Thinks He Heard a Slur and Things Get Real Awkward Real Fast

There are awkward misunderstandings… and then there are international, multilingual, livestreamed misunderstandings that spiral into near street confrontations.

This one checks every box.

Back in October 2025, an Italian streamer named Meo De Sigli was out filming content in Tokyo when he ran into a situation that basically turned into a real-life game of broken telephone between three different cultures.

In a clip that’s now floating all over the internet, De Sigli is greeting fans and casually says “amiga,” the Spanish word for “friend” (specifically a female friend).

Normal. Harmless. The kind of word millions of people say every day.

Except a passerby — reportedly an American visiting Japan — thought he heard something very different.

Instead of hearing “amiga,” the guy apparently believed the streamer said the N-word and immediately got confrontational.

The video shows him walking up and telling the streamer:

“You have five seconds to apologize before I slap you.”

Which is an absolutely wild escalation considering the guy he’s confronting is a confused Italian content creator who looks like he just accidentally triggered an international incident.

And the funniest/most awkward part of the whole exchange is that De Sigli clearly has no idea what is happening.

He’s standing there looking around like someone just accused him of breaking a rule in a sport he doesn’t even play.

Because from his perspective, he literally just said “amiga.”

This is where language gets messy.

Phonetically, sure, “amiga” can sound vaguely similar to other words if you hear it quickly in a noisy street. But the difference between a normal misunderstanding and a viral confrontation is whether someone stops to think for two seconds before exploding.

That pause didn’t happen here.

Instead, the guy went from zero to “apologize in five seconds or I’m slapping you,” while the streamer stands there looking like he just walked into the world’s weirdest pop quiz.

To De Sigli’s credit, he handled it about as well as you could. He apologizes repeatedly, not because he actually did anything wrong, but because he’s trying to calm down a guy who is clearly already halfway to a meltdown.

Which honestly might be the most impressive part of the whole clip.

Because if you’re a streamer filming in a foreign country and a random stranger suddenly starts threatening you over a word you didn’t say, there’s a very real chance things could spiral quickly.

Instead, it ends up being a perfect snapshot of how things go wrong when people decide they want to be offended before they even know what happened.

A simple “What did you say?” would’ve solved the entire situation in about three seconds.

But that wouldn’t have been nearly as dramatic.

And if there’s one thing the internet has proven over the last decade, it’s that some people would rather win an argument that never existed than admit they might’ve misheard something.