This "social experiment" was a terrible idea, just proves the trolls right and adds to the toxic environment. I dont know what the endgame was here
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Female Overwatch Contenders player steps down from team after conspiracy from male players [UP: confirmed not the one playing]
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That was not a good idea. At all.
An absolutely bizarre situation, which again furthers the need for people to stop instantly playing the blame game the second news like this breaks, and to wait for clarification first.
So at best it's incompetence, and at worst it's basically a set up to cover themselves.
So at best it's incompetence, and at worst it's basically a set up to cover themselves.
I really hope places like Kotaku print a major retraction about all this. This shit is going to cause so much damage this Punisher guy needs the book thrown at him imo. And Second Wind too if they were involved.
When people appear out of nowhere on the highest ranks of the ladder like that, something is usually up. I'm reminded of a similar situation in StarCraft 2 where the YouTuber AtheneWins hit rank 1 with like 50 games played and an undefeated record, turns out it was the best Protoss player in North America at the time playing on the account.
LOL, man that would certainly explain why SW didn't try to protect "ellie" from harrassment. They were in on it the whole time.
I'm glad people got to the bottom of this shit, a shame that harrassment came along with the investigation.
I'm glad people got to the bottom of this shit, a shame that harrassment came along with the investigation.
What were they hoping to achieve? It couldn't have been with good intent going by those quotes from the captain.
Management could be clear if the case was Haku recommended them to the org.
This is what the owner said on reddit when ellie was originally announced.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/a8gk5x/second_wind_announces_ellie/ecbq4r3/
Worse of all, is that any women that wants to join a team in the future will be hyper-scrutinized.... thanks to the social experiment of some male players. Great fucking job.
yeah i definitely thought something was up after the Twitch stream thing but was always reminded of this and the Heartstone thing
shame about this whole thing tho
If you find that more offensive than how women are treated in video games than your priorities need to change.
I don't think so.
It made people in the future who pop out of no where be burdened with proving themselves.
Not only this but it also adds fuel to the fire in a community already stained to the bone by sexism.
Nobody wins anything, it just does further damage to women. I hope there will be repercussions for this.
Did the fuckers who were in on this not realize that there's a very real possibility that Blizzard will permanantly ban them from competitive play in any Blizzard esport (hell, probably casually too) for this?
Lol are you kidding me? EVERY woman from now on is going to be called Ellie unless they have a fuckin resume.
I am amazed any of them thought it would work, or would accomplish anything. A pro player with questionable provenance is going to be scrutinized.
Way to make the road even harder for others. I hope some solid punishment is handed out for this.
Well, this became insane.
Though it obviously doesn't change a large amount of the initial reaction, which was in fact sexist. There were many trolls on Twitter and Reddit claiming the player was fake simply based on the fact that the player claimed to be a woman. And as it looks to have been a terrible reaction to a sexist on Second Wind, the whole thing is just a mess.
People obviously need to be punished for this.
Though it obviously doesn't change a large amount of the initial reaction, which was in fact sexist. There were many trolls on Twitter and Reddit claiming the player was fake simply based on the fact that the player claimed to be a woman. And as it looks to have been a terrible reaction to a sexist on Second Wind, the whole thing is just a mess.
People obviously need to be punished for this.
Holy shit, how big of a moron do you have to be to pull this shit. What a disservice to literally everyone.
One aspect of esports that is growing is the turning of esports players into something akin to celebrities. This also applies to streamers. And a lot of what celebrities is the prying and harassing eye of the public. Sorta feel like that aspect is starting to appear in esports and so these situations are gonna occur more and more simply out of curiosity.
User banned (three days): backseat moderation
The discord discussion from that one dude was fucking disgusting, and the comments from thehellofitall are sexist. Both should not be tolerated.
Maybe I'm making stuff up, but didn't something similar happen like a decade ago with a CS:S team creating a fake CAL-I team where they all pretended to be inner-city African Americans or something?
This is the biggest right swerve left turn
Remember that time I called this wild theory "wild" and it turned out to be actually wild? Same.
Remember that time I called this wild theory "wild" and it turned out to be actually wild? Same.
He never wanted to have women play "his game" anyways, so he just got what he wanted.
I hope Blizzard band his ass for eternity
But wasn't the fact that she appeared out of nowhere evidence? Keep in mind I'm saying this as someone who believed she was legitimate.
I don't think so tbh. For one, Ellie appeared out of nowhere, and people couldn't conclusively connect her real identity to her gameplay record (i.e no lan gameplay, no videos, etc)
If Ellie was well known, a active streamer, yes there who be harassment but not like this situation where basically unknown shows up to join a top tier T2 team.
In Siege no one aside from trolls questions how the sole woman pro player performs cause, one we have trusted verifications from her teammates, and two we have online and lan footage of her performing.
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