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Richard Lewis calls out Polygon, Waypoint and Kotaku live on stage during speech (eSports Awards 2019)
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You should consider going down the rabbit hole that is that article. It's basically him going off on Victoria (she is literally the only journalist he has something against, yet bases the entire rant on being targeted by lots of them). He has link after link to show how terrible a person she is, then he tries to paint himself as a saint who tried to warn people of Riot's sexism problem. He forgets to mention that the reason he believes she is "blackmailing" him is not because she hates him, but because she is being harassed by him and his followers.
He says he's been vocal about Riot sexism for YEARS, and yet, the one article he links, is from when Kotaku ran their piece, and he goes on and on about how "it was not his place to talk about it". Apparently, he knew about all that, and In the same article, he talks about not believing in conspiracy theories, yet he defends Gamergate in a round about way: "There wasn't even a single tweet from their editor Ben Kuchera, patient zero for the epidemic of goony beard men in games journalism, who usually wastes no time in publicly condemning anything problematic coming from gaming culture." He then goes on to remind the readers that, despite Cecilia being a good writer, she still makes mistakes and isn't a fan of cis white men, so beware.
What the fuck is this gamer gate spewing bullshit about replacing esport celebs with journalist cronies? Are you fucking kidding? What a fucking dipshit.
Fuck anyone who gave this moron a standing ovation and fuck this industry for awarding a shit stain an award and giving him a platform to moan about this.
Fuck anyone who gave this moron a standing ovation and fuck this industry for awarding a shit stain an award and giving him a platform to moan about this.
Fucking Hell. What a piece of shit.
Richard Lewis said:
Oh hey. He can project too.
Leave it to the game industry to reward carny scumbags like Lewis.
This reads so closely to how right wing assholes go about when they describe immigrants and the supposed double standards at play. It's no wonder some people are so happy to plant their flag with this guy so readily. Telling it like it is, amirite?
I guess I'm old as it's new to me but I like the whole "carny" thing. Video games in general are very "carny."
That said, please stop writing "eSports."
Sincerely,
Mr. esports
That said, please stop writing "eSports."
Sincerely,
Mr. esports
Esports easily a billion dollar industry, I don't understand why you'd think having an award event is something funny.- eSports Awards
- Richard Lewis (an esports journalist and former journalist at Breitbart...
- Unsurpisingly you can see DrDisrespect giving him a standing ovation during the speech.
Cool. Hopefully the gaming press and industry will now take a stand and ignore those "E Sports Awards" organizers from now until eternity, whoever they are, 'cause I sure as fuck never heard of them.
Will they though? I'm not sure.
Will they though? I'm not sure.
billion dollar industry with a ton of hard working people.
Wish people would stop using "eSports" though.
Odd that Lewis isn't in Era's good books considering he's done great things for the LGBTQ community. Not that it matters but you'd imagine the man has scored some karma points in that regard.
Not saying this would excuse any bad behaviour otherwise of course but as someone who has followed him for quite a few years now: he's alright.
Not saying this would excuse any bad behaviour otherwise of course but as someone who has followed him for quite a few years now: he's alright.
Is he though?
Edit: seems like he might have deleted the tweet about how great of a guy Milo is, here's his Breitbart work
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If only we had a 7 page thread of pointing out how Lewis is a piece of shit with bigoted views...
Just out of curiosity, what do you think he's done for the LGBTQ community?
Lol, I was thinking the same thing.
We might be getting old.
It's really weird how this thread starts with the OP saying that the guy wrote for a site for far right whackjob assholes, everyone else said "oh he wrote for a website for far right whackjob assholes", and now everyone's shocked to discover that he's a far right whackjob asshole.
it was an example, people generally call out places like Kotaku & others because they put a spotlight on shit behaviour from streamers/e-sports players etc.
I'm glad we went through the "we need more nuanced conversation about this person who wrote for breitbart" only to waste time digging up all the alt right bullshit that obviously comes from being a writer at breitbart, just so we can arrive back at the place we started of saying fuck this guy.
Those outlets do have some shitty/clickbaity takes on esports sometimes, but I guess work is work.
Not just esports, but for example like Kotaku using peoples quotes out of context in an article about how Smash players smell bad (they asked a player if they're ok with them being quoted that way, they said no, they did it anyway). Or when they thought the lyrics from the Persona DLC was a slur...or the woman who posted that questionable porn article. There's a lot that just seems to go up that's either wrong, dishonest or just incomprehensible designed to generate clicks.
Ok but you just gave 0 examples of bad takes on Esports, which is what this thread is about.
The first example is explicitly about the tournament scene, and intentional misrepresentation to generate an article. The guy in the OP seems like a pretty terrible spokesperson either way going by what people are saying.
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Maybe one day it will actually conduct itself like a billion dollar industry too. And cut down a bit on treating women like shit and general toxicity. Or give awards to people who very much embody those things.
I have about as much faith in that happening as I do, say, in the US becoming a socialist utopia, but hey, it's good to have dreams.
Because people who spell it that way indicate they don't know very much about esports. It's a weird mainstream media way of spelling when the rest of everyone who covers esports consistently spells it like a normal word.
Call out Kotaku and polygon, whatever, but I can't let him talk shit about my man Austin Walker. Fuck this dude. Whatever his contributions to real journalism, he just sounds like another bitter baby tossing red meat to right wing losers.
So you just want them to spell esports differently, not stop using it?
I mean, I was prepared to change my mind in the unlikely event that his articles on Breitbart weren't full of content one would expect of Breitbart but it's good to have empirical evidence, I suppose.
Depressingly ugly empirical evidence.
He got a standing ovation from that speech at the awards ceremony too. I guess it's a common sentiment in eSports.
Check out what websites and influencers aren't allowed to be given attention on Era, and you're already off to a good start. Breitbart is a given, since it's a shithole. Then it's just a matter of asking around when an abhorrent person like Dr. Disrespect or Destiny (the streamer, not the game) is the topic of conversation. You'll pretty quickly figure out who is and isn't worth paying attention to in the industry.
Yeah.. this guy deserves a standing ovation... Dr. Disrespect is human excrement so everything adds up here for these morons.
Unless I'm mistaken the player you're talking about, they
reached out for comment, the player refused and also suggested they kill the story. The story was about the increasing amount of tournament organizers tweeting out reminders to clean themselves and likely signal boosting that message. I dont see the hit piece.