So does anyone want to place bets on how long it will take for the harasser's Uplay accounts to disappear.
Yeah this is why my wife doesn't like to use voicechat in public games. She doesn't mind if its a small group of people in discord or teamspeak though.
Can't be quick enough. This harassment makes me sick. What compels a person to act like this towards another?
Annemunition is one my favorite streamers on twitch.
Well, I'm not surprised she's getting harassed in R6, the game went toxic since it became popular.
I do despise that we've basically come to accept that you can throw whatever insult you want at people in games, without any consequences whatsoever. Whenever I discuss this with people they usually said that the problem is inherent in competitive games, and I should deal with it or just not play competitive games. Would be nice if we could just have some mutual respect for one another.
"All I did was exist."
That hits me hard. So glad the harassers got exposed, but I wish this sort of behavior was better policed by the community. This is why I hide my own voice everywhere on the internet.
So far,one of the harasser's twitter accounts disappeared.
https://twitter.com/hjtbox/status/999422859033300992
After Annemunition posted the video, one of the players who’d given her gallons of shit tried to apologize. In a sense. “I am extremely sorry for the way you feel, ” he wrote in a tweet from an account that’s since been deleted. “[K]now that the words I used were meaningless and have no substance.”
Every fucking time.
Ehh, I remember the first time I entered her stream, she was playing Rocket League. Someone in the chat asked her why she was allowed to curse when it was against chat rules and she told him she could do what she wanted. Then banned him. That really rubbed me the wrong way so I promptly left.
Although, this was probably around 2 years ago so maybe I'll have to check her out again.
most streamers do that except Jerma blessed be he
It mattered a lot less when everyone didn't gang up against one single other person.
I remember the good ol' days of TF2. Nobody took it seriously except for a handful of try-hards. Then I tried competitive TF2 (before it was an official thing) and suddenly the toxicity came out.
In regular TF2 games, simple mistakes were an invitation for laughter from everyone involved. In competitive, simple mistakes seemed to be grounds for public flogging.
i wasnt aware kotaku was a site that could be posted now. isnt it biased toward the extreme leftwing?
It's because you're expected to perform and if you don't then people will not be nice about calling you out on it. Would you prefer a competitive scene where people would not be competitive ? You can see it in every single sport not just video games. You should expect harsh things said and so long they're based on the truth it's not an issue.
Blatantly being a toxic turd when there's no real competition going and it's a casual game I will never understand. The gaming scene becomes a lot less toxic once you realize it's just words and they can't really hurt you because it's probably some smelly 14 year old kid who hasn't showered in 2 months saying those things.
The comp. TF2 matches I were in weren't even for anything serious, it was just practice. They were still toxic as hell regardless.
In OW, even if you're in QP or Arcade, people are still toxic as hell.
I definitely haven't experienced this at all. OW is like, barely toxic whatsoever. Some comp matches can be, but nearly everyone tells the toxic players to fuck off.
Lucky you. What rank are you in, out of curiosity? Because the highest I've been is mid-gold, but I've been to low-silver before and I've noticed that it seemed the lower you go, the worse it gets.
When did that happen because I don't remember a time when it wasn't the norm
Does it even matter in this specific context?
i think it does because i feel that this doesnt warrant an entire article written. its only because kotaku knows that his panders to their demographic.
Diamond.
It is super toxic at that rank, sorry about that.
Overwatch is super toxic at every rank. That and the constant pressure to specialize in a role (COUGHTANKCOUGHEALER) and never change is immense and there's no real way to switch that role without compromising yourself or your team.
A study a while back found that the type of people who perpetuate this behavior fall into specific groups. It found that gamers kind of put themselves into a hierarchy. Players that considered themselves less skilled were likely to show respect to a superior player they viewed as male. However if they thought the skilled player was female they tended to denigrate them. I'll link it in the bottom of my post.
What i personally find interesting is how personal these games are to a certain type of person. They place a lot of social value on how skilled they appear to be in these games.
Insights into Sexism
So does Rainbow Six Siege not have a mute button?
This seems like the exact type of situation that mute buttons were made for.
I'm glad you're the final arbiter on what is and isn't news.
What the hell is extreme left wing to you? Have you not like, heard of anarchists?
This is SH, not Polidicks.
Still shouldn't be OK to post trash journalism.
Can we get an alternative source?
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