A free-content grant, an emphatic Twitch-chat response, an apology and then a removal. Dead by Daylight's October 2026 encounter with TheBurntPeanut produced a line that became much harder to stand behind as the week went on.
October 30: the grant
During TheBurntPeanut's October 30, 2026 livestream, a member of Behaviour Interactive's team granted him Dead by Daylight content. The decision drew criticism, and the official account responded in chat after Peanut offered to return it.
PC Gamer's report documents the exchange, including the line that became the meme: “We can take the heat.”
LapisGoBlue's video is a secondary overview of the unlocks, response and backlash. It is commentary about the incident, rather than the complete original broadcast.
The apology and the later removal
The short below was published on November 2 and covers the apology. It captures the point when the studio's public response had changed direction.
By November 3, Behaviour had confirmed that the granted content had been removed. Dexerto's dated report reproduces the studio's explanation: the grant and participation in chat had bypassed its normal discussions and checks. Behaviour said it was updating its creator-interaction and approval procedures.
The change played out over several days, from the October 30 grant to the November 3 confirmation.
What happened to the Steam reviews?
After the controversy, Steam excluded an off-topic review period from the game's default score. Dexerto reported the November 1–6 window. The game's Steam page also displays an off-topic-review notice.
Exclusion from the default score is different from deleting every review. Steam's system allows those reviews to be included through the user's preferences. That distinction gets lost when the story is reduced to “the reviews were wiped.”
Why the line stuck
The confidence of the chat message and the subsequent reversal make an obvious contrast. That is the core of the meme. The line kept circulating because readers could put those two moments beside each other and see the reversal immediately.
A confident answer in chat became the phrase people returned to when the decision changed.
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